The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of
materials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 119. F. ’08. 420w.
“His narrative is as convincing as his argument.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his answer to the question, How shall we increase our foreign trade marine?”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 81. My. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“It is a meritorious work, painstaking and unbiased, though brief and necessarily incomplete.” Royal Meeker.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 720. D. ’08. 700w.
=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day in Palestine. **$2.50. Pott.
7–38636.
“Substantially a reproduction in print of the information which the author gives to the parties whom he takes through the country, together with descriptions of the scenery and the present condition of the places visited. As the result of observations of ten journeys during the last fifteen years, he has a high opinion of the character and capabilities of the people.”—Nation.
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“His chapters are too condensed to be of great value to the student or interest to the general reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08.
“The want of an index detracts much from its usefulness as a book of reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“The necessary condensation of the subject matter, of which there is too much for the size of the book, gives it the haste generally associated with such reading matter.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Durham, Robert Lee.= Call of the south. $1.50. Page.
8–9811.
A race-problem story whose purpose “is plainly to enforce by a horrible example the argument that any attempt to give social recognition to the negro must needs result in the mingling of the races.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Durham has created a disagreeable situation, and made the most of it.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The situation ... might have been made to yield an interesting picture of human life, if there had been a more successful effort to show us the complex workings of the human mind.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“An interesting book less sensational and better written than Fraser’s ‘Red Russia’; but neither of them to be compared in permanent value with Pares’ ‘Russia and reform.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 40. F. ’08. ✠
“This book will rank as one of the most important as well as most interesting of recent accounts of conditions in Russia.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 519. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“This is a work that will interest all students of present-day conditions, and especially those who have at heart the cause of social justice and free government.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 38: 671. D. ’07. 970w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 120w.
“Mr. Durland seems to us the ideal newspaper reporter—born, not made—with an unfailing sense for the thrilling, the striking, the pathetic, the place, and the persons.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1034. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Illustrated, indexed, written carefully, each sentence judicially weighed, this is the book of the hour about Russia.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 460w.
“The best book on present-day Russia that has so far been written, for completeness, clearness, and picturesqueness of treatment.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 270w.
“Worthy of more than casual reading. Written in a graphic, nervous, journalistic style which holds the attention throughout.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 130w.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Tortoise and the geese, and other fables of Bidpai. †$1. Houghton.
8–28835.
The fables here translated into English were written about 300 B. C. They embody the moral wisdom and philosophy of Bidpai, a sage of India. Starting in Sanscrit, they have passed into Pehlevi, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and on to modern languages. They take their place beside Esop’s fables.
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“La Fontaine and Aesop drew from this Indian philosopher, and we should imagine, to judge by the present book, surpassed him in liveliness.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=Dyar, Muriel Campbell.= Davie and Elisabeth, wonderful adventures. †$1. Harper.
8–29338.
The simple happenings of a quaint, sweet spirited, contented couple who try daily to make up to each other for their childless estate.
E
=Earhart, Lida Belle.= Systematic study in the elementary schools. (Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college series, no. 18.) Teachers college.
8–22123.
A thoughtful discussion based upon long experience. The divisions of the study are as follows: The nature of logical study, Relation of logical study to the study of the text-book, The ability of children in the elementary school to study, Are pupils being taught to study systematically in the elementary schools? and Can pupils in the elementary school be taught to study systematically?
=Earp, Edwin Lee.= Social aspects of religious institutions. *75c. Meth. bk.
8–2648.
“Prepared as a syllabus for the studies of theological students in a department of thought not familiar in divinity schools. It was natural that a wide territory should be covered, as religion touches all forms of life. From the technical standpoint no one subject could be exhaustively treated in such a plan, but the young minister is brought into sight of numerous problems and stimulated to follow them under the guidance of specialists.”—Am. J. Soc.
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Reviewed by C. R. Henderson.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 858. My. ’08. 80w.
“He shows that he fails to distinguish between the duties which a man can discharge to another man and those which he can discharge only through or to a social group. It is no wonder then that this book makes little concrete contribution to the supply of the most insistent demand made upon the church.” A. T. Burns.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 667. O. ’08. 640w.
=Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The light which the author throws upon Indian motive and sentiment, for he always shows how and why the Indian’s action is reasonable, from the Indian’s point of view, makes his book very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 560w.
“For simplicity and modesty the book has a charm not found in many Caucasian authors, and Dr. Eastman’s contribution to good storytelling is conspicuous and his principles well worthy of imitation by white writers.” I. L. Bridgman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 621. F. ’08. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Eaton, John.= Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen: reminiscences of the civil war with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley, from Jan. 1862–1865; Ethel Osgood Mason, collaborator. *$2. Longmans.
7–38431.
“These reminiscences have to do chiefly with the civil war, having special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley. An interesting biographical sketch of General Eaton, prepared by Miss Ethel Osgood Mason, serves as an introduction to the volume.”—R. of Rs.
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“The memoirs are well-planned, well-written and interesting throughout. By way of introduction and setting, Miss Mason, who has shared in their preparation, adds an admirable biographical sketch and appreciation of the author.” P. S. Peirce.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 657. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“It is a distinct contribution to history and a very interesting book for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
“The most valuable part of the book is a summary of Eaton’s work among the blacks of the Mississippi valley during the war.” W. L. Fleming.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 520. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A work of much interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 226. F. 22. 850w.
“Is an interesting and valuable addition to the historical literature of the civil war period.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The book contains an unusual number of good stories of Lincoln and of Grant.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 70w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 360w.
“This book makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the actual processes of emancipation and of the two men who did most to compass it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“There is something altogether winning about the tone and temper of this book. Next to the account of the work among the freedmen, Eaton’s narrative of his intercourse with Grant is the most suggestive part of the volume.” W. A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 320. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“The story which he tells is one of great interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 231. F. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Eaton, Walter Prichard.= American stage of to-day. *$1.50. Small.
8–31171.
Contains chiefly articles which the author as dramatic critic for the New York sun has contributed to that paper. A chapter on Our infant industry (the creating of an American drama) shows that the authors who are at the fore in the movement are dramatists who connect our drama with life, who are leading our stage on toward better things by making it a vital force in the community. Informing descriptive and critical chapters follow which measure up some of the successful present-day plays.
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“If not of any importance or weight, the book is certainly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Eaton is a young man of much natural ability, fortified by extensive reading, who has a copious vocabulary, a fluent and attractive style, a pretty wit, the courage of his opinions, and a fine contempt for those who do not happen to agree with them. But he is lacking in catholicity of taste, breadth of view, and power of comparison.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 471. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The book is not quite as large as the title. It will not circulate in so many states. But it is all readable. It is a cheerful and buoyant little work, which is rare when the subject is theatrical.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 880w.
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Ganton & co.: a story of Chicago commercial and social life. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–28058.
A story built up around the indefatigable energy and industry of one Ganton of a mammoth meat-packing concern. Social and labor problems abound, with a full characterization of the self-made man of low ideals whose god is money and whose highest aim is commercial power.
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“Because the ponderous indomitable far-seeing figure of old Ganton is never out of our sight for a moment, whether he is on the scene or not; because his mood controls at all time the mood of the book; because in short the tempo of the story is so admirably sustained from first to last,—because of this the comings and goings of a little world of rather unimportant people becomes fraught with a rather vital interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 380. D. ’08. 530w.
“He has attempted only to make a study of life, customs, and character against the background of a huge business concern. On the whole, the task has been rather too large for him, but he must be credited with remarkable success in his delineation of the personality of old man Ganton.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 670w.
=Edminster, Clothier Franklin.= Structural drawing. $2.50. Pub. by the author; for sale by Williams.
7–38620.
“The book opens with the usual instructions concerning drafting materials, which are followed by a collection of geometrical problems. Simple projection such as is used in preparing working drawings is then explained, after which structural drafting is taken up in detail.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The mechanical draftsman who may have, from time to time, structural drawing to do, as well as the student and mechanic interested in structural drawing, will find this work of value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 420. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“As a portfolio of plates supplementary to oral instruction the book may have some value to a beginner, but the paucity of explanatory text deprives the drawings of much of their usefulness. The drawings themselves would be clearer if they had been drawn with a view to reproduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 120w.
“The book as a whole is an excellent outline of the somewhat special class of drafting necessary for steel.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Edwards, Alba M.= Labor legislation of Connecticut. (Publications of the American economic assn. Third ser., v. 7, no. 3.) pa. $1. Macmillan.
7–30620.
The purpose of the author is “to discuss the labor legislation of Connecticut historically and critically, and ... to trace the economic effects of the different laws.” “In scope the work covers factory legislation (including child labor), the employment contract, employers’ liability, boycotting and blacklisting, free public employment bureaus, mediation and arbitration, the union label, the barbers’ license law, and convict labor, with a separate chapter on the State bureau of labor statistics.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature of social legislation.” J. L. Barnard.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“May be placed side by side with Miss Whittlesey’s work on the labor legislation of Massachusetts. The information is valuable, and generally it is presented in a plain, straightforward manner, though at times the main points are somewhat obscured by a mass of historical detail.” J: C. Kennedy.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 120. F. ’08. 850w.
=Edwards, John Harrington.= God and music. *$1.25. Baker.
A new edition which corrects errors and eliminates the more fanciful portions. The object is still to “give reasonable proof that music, by its constitution, correlations, and effects, discloses a Supreme Being.”
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“Vague, dogmatic, diffuse, and rather tiresome.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 474. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
* =Egerton, Hakluyt.= Liberal theology and the ground of faith: essays towards a conservative re-statement of apologetic. **$1.25. Dutton.
“A contribution towards a conservative restatement of religious thought” which is directed in part against the “new theology” of Dr. Campbell. There are two essays, Liberal theology and The ground of faith. “His attitude toward science and toward the Bible is distinctively liberal. The apostolic presentation of Christian doctrine is viewed as ‘temporal,’ changeable in changed times. The conservatism he stands for is contrasted with liberalism, not as non-progressive, rather as not preoccupied with ‘novelty.’” (Outlook.)
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“Mr. Egerton has written a brilliant and valuable essay [Ground of faith]. It deserves to be published by itself, and not to be discounted by being bound up with the longer and greatly inferior treatment of ‘Liberal theology.’” E. S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 670w.
“With no unkindly words for his opponents, he reasons in a calm, irenic style against all modernists of the Ritschlian and Hegelian type.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Two gentlemen of Virginia. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–22541.
“Mr. Eggleston, scion of an excellent Virginia family, brought up in the west, and domiciled in the North these many years, writes of Virginians specifically for the New England reader—his book Virginians have the same relation to the real Virginian that the black-faced comedian in the minstrel show—of which Northern audiences are so fond—has to the real cornfield darky.... This particular story deals with a pretty girl who was saved from a convent in New Orleans, with an old gentleman of the old school, with a grand dame of the old school, and with two young men who are in love with the pretty girl.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The book fails of its purpose, because it has not enough virility to save the men of the book from mere foppishness.”
− =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“By and large Mr. Eggleston’s Virginians are fantastic figments—the delicacy of his heroines and the theatricality of his heroes is all of melodrama and none of life.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Warrens of Virginia: a novel founded on the play of William C. De Mille. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–22798.
A story based upon the play whose subject “belongs to Mr. Eggleston’s chosen field, but the spirit sought in the play was the spirit of Thomas Nelson Page—of ‘Marse Chan’ and ‘Meh Lady’—not the spirit of ‘Dorothy South.’... The love story is the old story—the story of ‘Meh Lady’—of the girl of the South and her lover of the North—of battles, scoutings, captures, life in prison, chivalrous conduct on both sides, (and the reverse,) misunderstandings, bitterness, and reconciliation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Belasco’s atmosphere is romance, his instrument illusion. Mr. Eggleston produces no illusions.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Egypt= and how to see it; il. by A. O. Lamplough. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–35364.
A handy little guide for the Egyptian tourist, whose aim is to point out the things most worth seeing, and to help the traveler to economize time, money and fatigue. “The text is written in a style considerably less impersonal than that of the out-and-out guide-book, but it is systematically arranged, and there are outlines of tours of various length, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of hotels and banks, time-tables of the Egyptian state railway, and much other useful information for travellers. And a traveller through Egypt everyone who looks at Mr. Lamplough’s pictures will long to become.” (Dial.)
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“Appears to be a practical, useful guidebook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= In the potter’s house. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–4438.
“This exhibition of shapes of clay includes the wide extremes that may be met in a Maine village untouched by modern thought. It embraces the minister who is of the oldest theological type, and the particularly unpleasant and explicit primitive man. Between these are to be found every shade of the godless and the hell-fearing; deacons and Dogberries with varyingly elastic views of theology and conduct.”—Nation.
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“While certain incidents may be classed as ‘powerful’ the really strong is outweighed by the repellant.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Though the author has failed in creating the impression he presumably intended to create, he has written with sincerity, and he succeeds in holding the reader’s interest in the thread of his story. The book is a promise rather than a performance.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“It will be admitted that there is a great deal of strength in [the book].”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Meryl. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9814.
A story of kidnapping and theft planned for the purpose of depriving a young girl of her heritage. The drama is enacted on the shores of Winnepesaukee lake, and one Bob Hernald, booked for a rest at a club house, chances all unwittingly to play into the hands of the kidnappers. Straightway he learns of his mistake, and atones for his blunder by proving most useful in solving a mystery and rounding up a villain. He does not go unrewarded by the heroine.
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− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Elgood, George S.= Italian gardens, after drawings by G: S. Elgood, R. I., with notes by the artist. *$12. Longmans.
8–14727.
The descriptive and historical bits concerning the formal, time-honored gardens of Italy here so handsomely pictured have been subordinated to the drawings. The gardens reproduced are those surrounding Roman, Florentine and Tuscan villas, villas of Frascati, Viterbo and northern Italy. Fountains, clipped trees and hedges, foliage in masses, and flowers of varied hues all test the artist’s skill for reproduction.
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“His strength lies in detail, whether it be a blaze of colour, as in the group of crimson azaleas, or some beautiful spot with an architectural feature as a centre; but the garden in its broader and serener aspects is hardly represented here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 768. Je. 20. 560w.
“A fitting companion to the delightful book on English gardens which Mr. Elgood brought out some four years ago.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 250. Ja. ’08. 360w.
“The artist has studied his subject exhaustively, but, we regret to say, prosaically, for in these water-colours the wonderful poetry and romance of the villa gardens of Italy have escaped the painter.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
* =Eliot, Charles William.= University of administration. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32425.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1908. They compass all the branches of university administration in its numerous departments of teaching, in its financial and maintenance departments, its museums, laboratories, and libraries, in its extensive grounds and numerous buildings, and in its social organization. The chapters are: University trustees; An inspecting and consenting body—alumni influence; The university faculty; The elective system; Methods of instruction; Social organization—the president—general administration.
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“We may look upon this volume as an epitome, or record, of a life devoted to the service of Harvard, and, through Harvard, of the nation and the world—a devotion and a service for which the fitting reward is the gratitude and regard of thousands of men and women and the approval of conscience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 2000w.
=Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural features, products, commerce and present conditions; with an introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
7–40116.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“There has been little attempt to go back to the original sources. Indeed the great collections of documents do not appear to have come within Mr. Elliot’s horizon. The book should really be judged simply as an entertaining handbook. From this standpoint the work has been well although rather hastily done.” Hiram Bingham.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 919. Jl. ’08. 550w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The account of economic conditions will be of greatest value to the more general reader rather than the economist.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 122. F. 29, ’08. 170w.
“The only thing that can be suggested as an improvement to this work is the addition of a smaller and more easily handled map for frequent reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 290w.
“A perusal of Mr. Elliot’s book certainly leaves the impression that it is a compilation made at home rather than a digest of data acquired personally on the spot. It is not devoid of interest and, so far as it goes, it does justice to the Chileans, but it is too deficient in selection, proportion and topical arrangement to be of much value to the public.” W: R. Shepherd.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 348. Je. ’08. 650w.
“He has produced a clear and readable narrative. Mr. Scott Elliot’s book should prove invaluable to those who want to know something about the most virile and the most law-abiding of all the South American peoples.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 103. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Fair Moon of Bath. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–8093.
Bath is the scene of this story of the times of the Jacobite uprising. The hero is an intrepid youth who readily enlists his wits and sword in the cause of romance and whose Hanovarian sympathies are never allowed to come between him and his friendship for friends pledged to the House of Stuart. The heroine, the Moon of Bath, is less exacting and more charming than the usual cloak-and-sword story heroine.
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“A light, pleasant book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“A good example of the fiction produced by the theory that its ultimate and highest function is merely to entertain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 280w.
“Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her success in dealing freshly with this well-worn theme.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 180w.
“The motive power is neither history nor human nature, and, except for a pleasant touch here and there of fancy, the story left us uninterested and unmoved. If the author would try another branch of the art the result might be very different, for the book shows dramatic power and a sense of humour.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 381. D. 13, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is an excellent specimen of its sort, light and daintily written, with verve and taste to attract any one who likes work well done, aside from the mere story interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Ellis, Havelock.= Soul of Spain. **$2. Houghton.
8–17935.
Twenty years of close study and close scrutiny lie back of Mr. Ellis’ impressions which offer a series of inductions and psychological conclusions. Some of his sixteen chapters are the Spain of old romance, The women of Spain (in which he refutes the “Carmen” idea of the woman of Spain), The art of Spain, Velasquez, Spanish dancing, Don Quixote, The gardens of Granada, Seville in spring, and Spanish ideals of to-day.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“It is unquestionably one of the best books on Spain published during the last few years. We have noted a few oversights for correction, apart from misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 820w.
“There is perhaps little that is new in the book, yet the discussion, being philosophical and suggestive, forms interesting reading.” G: G. Brownell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 113. S. 1, ’08. 400w.
“His latest book is a delightful blend of the comments of a thoroly informed and appreciative traveler and the observations of a keen student of races and social affairs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book, as a whole, both pleases and stimulates.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 480w.
“One of the best and most enlightening books on Spain and the Spaniards that have ever appeared. Mr. Ellis is that rare combination, a scientist who is also a poet, and he is sensitive of much that scientists, as such, never feel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 1070w.
“We may be grateful to him for his careful and often profound study of the character of the people.” A. J. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 500w.
“Seldom, if ever, we are persuaded has there been written a more closely woven, subtle, and fascinating analysis of a national character and type by a writer of another widely different stock than Havelock Ellis’ ‘Soul of Spain.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Arkinsaw cousins: a story of the Ozarks. †$1.50. Holt.
8–5878.
The Thornberry cousins whose “little nothingnesses” of every-day life make up this story include individuals differing in occupation and standing, but clannish in family relations and loyal to their cousinship claims. It is the homely, intimate pictures of humdrum village life, enlivened by clear cut characters that give the book a touch of realism and charm.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 600w.
“‘Arkinsaw cousins’ is striking among stories of its kind for its spontaneity, its zest born of affectionate intimacy with the subject. Consequently, though it is not without crudity of detail, the affair as a whole is unusually refreshing.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It is a sprightly narrative, told with a good deal of humor, especially in its portrayal of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Not an inviting picture. The effect of the narrative is crude, though there is good material in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Elson, Arthur.= Music club programs from all nations. $1.25. Ditson.
7–39405.
Giving an historical outline of each national school of music, with questions for study, and a series of programs for the use of clubs and other organizations. In arranging his programs, Mr. Elson offers three grades: easy, medium and difficult.
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“The selections have been made with judgment, and the whole work will prove a distinctly practical help to students of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The distinct value of this publication lies in its direct appeal to common sense and ordinary intelligence. Stripped of the mystifying ‘shibboleth’ of the average singing master, the treatise well deserves study from either professional or amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 120w.
“Undoubtedly meets a genuine need.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Such a book, undoubtedly, has been a desideratum. Excellent judgment is shown in the choice of pieces. Mr. Elson’s book might also be used as a brief sketch of the history of concert music.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Modern studies. *$2.10. Longmans.
8–5194.
These essays characterized by “their good sense and compendious material” include informing studies on Tennyson, Swinburne, George Meredith, Henry James, Living Irish literature, Recent Shakespeare criticism, The meaning of literary history, Giordano Bruno in England, Literary fame, Color and imagery in Spenser and A word on mysticism.
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“Without the vigour of poetic originality, he has the beautiful correctness of poetic sensibility. If we say, then, that his critical work is not very great work, we must add that it is very fine work—work that, in the present condition of our civilization, is becoming dangerously rare.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1000w.
“His traditions of literary criticism are the best; his appreciation of the growing importance of natural science in the literary field is significant of his keen and forward vision; his advocacy of comparative literature must win unhesitating approval; his outlook on life is clear and wide; his sympathies are at once advanced and catholic.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 206. Ap. 1, ’08. 2800w.
“Altogether this is a book of erudition and insight, although its materials are not always fused into complete uniformity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 530w.
“Is a wholly delightful book, scholarly, acute, and invariably interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“Solid and versatile attainment is the principal quality that strikes us in reading these reprinted essays. In respect of illumination their merits are patchy. Above all—to state at once the most serious defect and so have done with it—they rather lack that first of critical virtues, simplicity. To read these essays is to breathe the atmosphere of enlightened but rather thick quarterlies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 766. D. 21, ’07. 1420w.
“Each ‘study’ appears to us to be a masterpiece of compressed and accurate knowledge.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Eltzbacher, Paul.= Anarchism; tr. by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
8–5260.
“Through extracts from the writings of anarchists we have a methodical presentation of the views of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Balcuim, Kropotkin, Tucker, and Tolstoi, as well as summarizing chapters giving the opinion of the author. The translator, a follower of Tucker, adds a critical preface pointing out the strong and weak points in the book and some critical notes especially in the chapter on Tucker, which has also been augmented by him.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The book is particularly timely. The style is scientific in the extreme, heavy and uninteresting, yet to the student in search of the fundamental principles underlying the science of anarchy, the facts are presented in a masterful way, worthy of the highest commendation.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Eltzbacher deserves great credit, not only for his own fair and luminous exposition of the philosophy of anarchy, but also for the manner in which he has presented the thoughts of the greatest anarchistic masters in their own words. The work ... should find a place in the libraries of all thinkers interested in political, social and economic philosophy.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 380. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“Every public library should have for completeness’ sake some representative of this school of thought, and this small volume presents it in its most authoritative and least objectionable form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
“This translation makes available for English readers one of the most complete and concise accounts of the teachings of the leading anarchists.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 247. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The weakest part of the book is the preliminary statement of Dr. Eltzbacher’s own views on law, the state, and property—views presented with needless wordiness and repetition, difficult to grasp and made more difficult by a fondness for terms of many syllables.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“This is perhaps the handiest and most satisfactory manual on the teachings of leading anarchists. The book should be in the hands of all students of modern movements who have not time to investigate for themselves.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 558. S. ’08. 130w.
=Emerald= and ermine: a tale of the Argoat by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50. Harper.
7–33591.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Is a reversion to type, absurd because it is out of drawing with the mind of the times.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“There is a vivid quality to these pages, and the characters are drawn with an intense sympathy, a sympathy that communicates itself to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 180w.
=England, Minnie Throop.= Statistical inquiry into the influence of credit upon the level of prices. (In Nebraska. University. University studies. v. 7, no. 1.) pa. $1. Univ. of Neb.
7–19450.
“A monograph inspired by the question ‘does business create money or money create business.’ It is a statistical argument in favor of the quantity theory of money, or rather of the influence of credit on prices, in opposition to the views held by Professor Laughlin, who has maintained that this is a reversal to cause and effect. The method employed by Miss England ... consists in noting the years of lowest and highest points for prices, clearings, loans, note circulations, deposits, etc.”—Yale R.
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=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 571. N. ’07. 200w.
“The tables which Miss England has constructed are of much value and interest to the economist even though we may not all concur in some of the conclusions she draws from them. These criticisms, however, relate more to the form of the statement than to the contentions of Miss England, against whose statistics, and the general conclusions from them, we have no fundamental objections.” I. F.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 238. Ag. ’08. 640w.
=Enock, C. Reginald.= Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru. *$5. Scribner.
7–38359.
The Peru of romance gives way in this treatment to the Peru of present day practicalism. The author is a mining engineer who in the light of modern progress discusses with professional keenness the mineral wealth, the undeveloped resources of the country, the prospects of creating means of access to the interior, and the facilities of communication for commercial purposes. Good maps illustrate, and an index adds to the value of the book.
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“It should be of service to those whose interests, commercial, scientific or geographical, are concerned with that wonderful part of the world.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
“In describing the Peru of to-day, Mr. Enock is at his best. His philosophy is not deep, but his statements are often interesting. There is little that throws any light on modern Peruvian history or politics.” Hiram Bingham.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Enock’s criticism of the various institutions and his comments on South American relations are essentially different from those of a citizen of the United States, nevertheless they do not detract from the utility of the book.” H: R. Ringe.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 728. My. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock’s book presents a sufficiently graphic picture of some aspects of the country in an early transitional stage, but its treatment is too slight and unscientific to make it of much permanent value. To the general reader it may be more confidently recommended, for it contains hardly a dull page.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 679. N. 30. 1650w.
“His rovings were conducted in such a hearty spirit, with such a commendable leisure, and are written down in such a pleasing manner, that his book adds much to our rapidly accumulating library on South American affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 200w.
“It is as a scientific engineer and a mining expert that Mr. Enock is especially strong. On the subject of the church in Peru he shows he can write in a spirit of pure prejudice on a subject of which he has no first-hand knowledge.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 1150w.
“Every student of Spanish America owes him a debt of gratitude, for he has made a study of modern Peru such as no other foreigner has ever attempted.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“One of the best of recent books about South America. Mr. Enock is a good traveler, whose records of his travels is blemished only by an occasional and unsuccessful attempt at fine writing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 851. D. 21, ’07. 370w.
“Informative text.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Although Mr. Enock’s book is entertaining and in many respects instructive, it is too desultory to give the reader anything like a complete view of Peruvian conditions. As literature, its value is seriously impaired by an irresistible bent toward fine writing.” W: R. Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 349. Je. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock writes with a fullness of knowledge—and a superfluity of words—gained by much travel across the mountains into the Montana. He is but slightly historical, though he has not a little to tell of the vestiges of Inca civilisation; and the chief interest of the book lies in its graphic sketches of scenes and people.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
=Erman, Adolf.= Handbook of Egyptian religion; tr. from the original German by A. S. Griffith. *$3. Dutton.
8–35517.
A popular manual which serves as a guide to the Berlin Imperial museums. During more than thirty years the author has studied the monuments of Egyptian religion and his conclusions set down here represent the working basis of the Berlin school’s theories.
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“An excellent popular presentation by an authority on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Perhaps the greatest inversion of facts to fit the author’s theories occurs in Prof. Erman’s constant resort to punning or assonance as a link between unrelated words. The book is an excellent guide to the rich Egyptian museum of Berlin.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 117. Ag. 3. 1000w.
=Essays=, philosophical and psychological, in honor of William James, professor in Harvard university, by his colleagues at Columbia university. **$3. Longmans.
8–12972.
These nineteen essays “diverse in point of view, in subject, and in quality,” (Nation.) contributed by nineteen expounders of philosophy and psychology, treat of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, psychology, and the history of philosophy. The book is a tribute to Professor James’s work and his influence on his colleagues.
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“This sort of book is the delight of the reader and the despair of the reviewer.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 830w.
“The present papers are on a high level of excellence.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 160w.
“The book, as a whole, is easy and pleasant reading, and shows serious attempts to grapple with some of the most important problems of philosophy. The method of short essays has the drawback that no really difficult subject can be treated as fully as would be necessary for an adequate discussion; but, within the inevitable limitation, many of the essays will be found stimulating and highly suggestive.” B. Russell.
+ =Hibbert, J.= 7: 203. O. ’08. 1700w.
“For those interested in the development of philosophy in America, and qualified to do serious reading on the subject, a more excellent index to the present status could hardly be found. It is to be regretted that none of these admirers of Professor James is capable of imitating his light and lively style.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 780. O. 1, ’08. 670w.
“This beautiful volume is an honor not only to William James, but to the contributors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“It is a book whose tone is distinguished for breadth and tolerance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 422. Ag. 1, ’08. 660w.
“Apart from all personal association ... this volume has a distinctive value.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 170w.
“Remarkable volume of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Their interest is less their positive contribution to thought than the light which they cast upon the directions in which American thought is moving.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1500w.
=Eve, George W.= Heraldry as art: an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England. *$5. Scribner.
8–15734.
“A ‘trade catalogue’ of the well-known engraver of book-plates and designer of heraldic decorations whose name appears on the title-page, a considerable percentage of the large illustrations being from examples of his own works. The book contains some three hundred pages, mostly made up of the elementary chapters which appear in the work of every writer on heraldry who has not got beyond the limits of the current handbooks.”—Ath.
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“In many ways it is as good a work as any other manual at present in the field for the beginner in heraldic art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 230w.
“Will prove extremely useful to designers who have occasion to introduce heraldic symbols into their work. Mr. Eve is thoroughly at home in the subject, and his exposition of the rules governing the use of heraldic figures is both lucid and exhaustive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 70w.
“The utility of such a popular treatise as this must lie in its illustrations, unless indeed it is wrought into a rather dull book of reference, a mere glossary of technical terms.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 219. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 829. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Everts, Katherine Jewell.= Speaking voice: principles of training simplified and condensed. **$1. Harper.
A practical handbook whose aim is to furnish simple, practical instruction in the training of the speaking voice. Miss Everts demands only fifteen minutes each day for the training which will convert “our high-pitched, harsh, hard American instrument of torture into the low-toned, efficient agent of personality it was intended by nature to be.” The divisions of the study are the following: The tuning of the instrument; Learning to re-enforce the tone; The technique of the instrument; and Studies in the vocal interpretation of literature.
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“A vivacious discussion of the proper management of the voice in ordinary conversation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Miss Everts’s interesting and thoroughly usable book combines in rare degree the knowledge of the mechanism of the voice with skill in making practical suggestions for individual study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 611. N. 21, ’08. 500w.
=Everyman=: a morality play; ed. with an introduction, notes and bibliography by Montrose J. Moses. *$1. Kennerley.
8–20701.
A student’s “Everyman” furnished with an eighty-page introduction tracing the dramatic development of which it is a part; with notes; and with a bibliography of works concerning the different periods surveyed in the introduction.
=Ewald, Carl.= Old room; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–10275.
“A study of domestic tragedy, complicated by the strange moods of an abnormal man and a still more abnormal woman. Over all hovers the furtive shadow of that madness which gives to the story its dreadful climax. The old room is a secret chamber which sturdy ancestors consecrated as the altar of the family and the home.”—Bookm.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“If one is strongly addicted to Ibsen, and delights in allopathic doses of the dismal, ‘The old room’ may be very heartily endorsed. For what Carl Ewald started out to do has been very admirably done.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 350w.
“This searching allegory probes deeper than all the ‘divorce novels’ ever written. The little volume is as full of suggestive symbolism as an Ibsen play, and its simple but illusive language will be as variously interpreted by different readers.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 809. Ap. 3, ’08. 550w.
=Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. An. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as modern, as openly significant, and as puzzling and elusive in its significance as an Ibsen drama, and far more beautifully and poetically imagined and worked out. The translation seems to have preserved to a remarkable degree the unique flavor of the original. It possesses the welcome distinction of not being illustrated.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 650w.
“We do not see in it the great beauty of form or thought claimed for it by its admirers, and especially by the translator. It will appeal to readers who crave the somber excitement offered by several continental writers of dramatic fiction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Ewart, John S.= Kingdom of Canada, imperial federation, the colonial conferences, the Alaska boundary, and other essays. $2.50. Morang & co.
8–19240.
“John S. Ewart, the Canadian lawyer and publicist, has brought together in a volume of some 370 pages a number of public addresses and several essays—all devoted to the large problems of Canada’s political destiny. Independence is not the goal toward which Mr. Ewart would point the way—that is to say, not independence in the sense of political separation from the British empire.”—Nation.
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“While there may, therefore, be differences of opinion as to the correctness of all Mr. Ewart’s conclusions, his essays may be taken as representative of the views of at least one strong and growing school of thought in Canada; and to that extent they are of distinct interest and value.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 210. O. 1, ’08. 850w.
=Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
=Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Excerpta= Cypria; tr. and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham. *$6.30. Putnam.
“The book, of over 500 quarto pages, is made up of extracts in English dress concerning the character, history, and antiquities of the island, gathered from the works of eighty different travelers of varied nationality, ranging in date from Strabo to the second half of the last century. A few documents are included, and a rather full bibliography appended, including one on the not yet forgotten Cesnola controversy.”—Nation.
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“The book is eminently readable, and the translations are made in good style, and, so far as tests have been possible, with reasonable accuracy. But the compiler’s assertion that within the range of the individual excerpts nothing has been omitted which directly concerns the island is not quite true, at any rate of the quotation from Strabo.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Cyprus is a treasure island for historical research. A guide for this terra incognita has now been found in Mr. C. D. Cobham. No one could be better fitted to point out its sights.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 518. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
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=F., C. R. L.= Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, 1890. *$1. Dutton.
Simply an account of a visit which Mr. Gladstone paid to Oxford late in life as a guest of the Fellows of All Soul’s college. “Odds and ends on all sorts of subjects, history, the classics, the personal side of politics, life ‘then and now,’ art and music, are given.” (Sat. R.)
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“The little book gives glimpses of Gladstone that one is thankful not to have missed.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“If we can imagine Boswell become a self-conscious Oxford don, extremely afraid of his eminent friend and yet privately aware of being better informed than he on all topics, we should have had a document like the present instead of his master-piece.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 750w.
“The author ... has, perhaps, given us a more intimate view of the great English stateman’s recreation hours than any work of the kind previously attempted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately C. R. L. F. seems somewhat wanting in the imagination that rekindles. Let us agree that some of the scraps here given are very entertaining. It is not easy to put the book down till most of it has been read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 1050w.
“Not only a very pleasant narrative, but a real contribution to our knowledge of the man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 367. S. 12, ’08. 1500w.
=Fagan, James O.= Confessions of a railroad signalman. **$1. Houghton.
8–25159.
Mr. Fagan’s confessions are the outgrowth of his experience as a signalman during twenty years. His shrewd observations and logical deductions regarding mismanagement of railroads and incompetency of employes may well cause railroad officials disquieting moments. The book aims to stimulate reform. “He does not content himself with an idealist’s statement of what ought to be, but takes into account existing conditions in the operative departments of our great railroads, and attempts to show how with all the recognized difficulties of administration there may yet be worked out a scheme that will assure a far smaller proportion of fatalities in the running of our trains.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Clear, thoughtful papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fagan, in his present book, forcefully discusses, with more than ordinary intelligence, some of the problems in American railroading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1005. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“One cannot feel sure, after reading this book, that the case for the employee has been fully presented, or that officials have been charged with their proper share of responsibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 350w.
“His book certainly deserves the attention of railroad men of all kinds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“To the layman Mr. Fagan’s writings on the subject of railroad accidents impress themselves as singularly judicious, fair, and well considered.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 240w.
=Faguet, Emile.= Literary history of France. (Library of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–36933.
An authoritative survey of French writers and their works from the origin of French literature in the middle ages to the end of the nineteenth century. M. Faguet makes a point of the influences in French literature directly traceable to English literature.
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“Poor as his book is on the whole, and even mischievous in parts, it yet has a redeeming feature in the liberal tribute which the author pays to the greatness of England’s greatest novelist, Samuel Richardson.” Rowland Strong.
− + =Acad.= 73: 142. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“Scholarly, enthusiastic, independent in judgment, suggestive, and readable. A defect in the book is the lack of English rendering of many of the extracts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“The facts are right; and the inferences from them often right; but where are the ideas, the personal views of things, which give value to a living book?”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 435. O. 12. 1350w.
“Is not only the newest, but one of the best. What is professedly translation, the history itself, is very well done by the anonymous translator, and either for reference as to literary and biographical facts, or for critical disquisitions on the work of particular authors, the English reader may go with complete satisfaction to the history of M. Faguet.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
“After the publication of such a volume as this, ignorance or neglect is indeed without excuse. It is literally crammed with information; every page is interesting and valuable. We must, however, express our regret that the translation is hardly on so high a level.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground. (Univ. of Michigan studies. Humanistic ser., v. 6.) *$4. Macmillan.
8–852.
“The white Athenian lekythoi, or oil-jugs form a distinct class in the history of Greek vase-painting. The two large classes into which the author divides his material are lekythoi in which the lines of the drawing are in glaze, and lekythoi in which the lines are in dull color. The present volume deals with the glaze-outline lekythoi; the second class is reserved for another occasion.”—Nation.
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“The present monograph supplies a much-felt need.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 408. Ap. 30, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 60w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Essays in municipal administration. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–2954.
“The author has here gathered together various of his public addresses and a number of valuable articles, now in many cases revised, which had previously appeared in different periodicals, besides adding a few new ones. Of two of the groups of essays one centers around ‘the problems of organization and the legal relations of the cities to the state’ and the other deals with ‘municipal functions and activities.’ A third group contains the portion of the volume which is new (about one-sixth), and gives brief sketches of various municipal activities in Europe, among which may be mentioned rather neglected Vienna.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“It is well up to Professor Fairlie’s former standard. Only two errors of any consequence have been noted.” A. R. Hatton.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 409. N. ’08. 1100w.
“The essays are helpful and instructive, the facts are reliable, and the book plainly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“The make-up of the book is good, it is provided with a usable index and its contents are such as to make it well worthy of ownership by any and all serious-minded students of one of our greatest problems, the government and the proper functions of municipalities.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Some of the chapters are worth preservation in a book, but others are already out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
“The essays of the third group are hardly more than ‘observations,’ as the writer calls them, and are inferior to the rest of the volume in value.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“In general it is a serviceable and informing compend, touching various phases of city history, organization, and administration.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“It is a pity that Prof. Fairlie is unlikely to have a numerous circle of readers, owing to the nature of his topics, but the judicious will recognize the thoroughness of his work, and the industrious will find in the book a storehouse of facts, and ample references to original authorities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 270. My. 9, ’08. 400w.
“In outline form, Professor Fairlie’s work covers a wide range, and students of municipal government will find it helpful in many ways.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
“All the papers are worth reprinting in their present form.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 571. S. ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Farman, Elbert Eli.= Egypt and its betrayal: an account of country during the periods of Ismâil and Tewfik pashas, and of how England acquired a new empire. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–10621.
A discussion based upon personal experiences of the author while United States consul-general at Cairo, and Judge of the International court of appeals at Alexandria. The author attacks England’s policy and points out the possibilities and short-comings of the Cromer administration.
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“The book is decidedly well worth reading, especially for those already somewhat familiar with the subject, to hear ‘the other side,’ if for no other reason.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 623. N. ’08. 240w.
“We should have liked the book better if Cromer and his administration had been left out and treated of in a separate work.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Farrar, James M.= Junior congregation. 1884–1908. **$1.20. Funk.
8–29743.
Outlines in a practical way Dr. Farrar’s methods used in perfecting his young people’s organization known as the “Junior congregation.”
=Farrington, Herbert M.= Gates that shall not prevail. †$1.50. Lane.
“In this volume the limelight is always in evidence. It plays round the head of the modern St. Anthony, who is a famous preacher in the East End, and poses for the picture which is to set all London talking; it dances round Violetta, frail and fair; and lights her path to a public confession; and it envelopes both the prologue, where the story of his mother’s dishonour is related to the schoolboy whom we next meet as Brother Paul of Hoxton, and the equally dramatic close, where he discovers a father in the peerage.”—Ath.
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“A strong, inspiring and uplifting romance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“The picture is too highly coloured to afford sustained pleasure, but should appeal—and that not unsuccessfully—to the popular taste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 120w.
“The author of this book is not devoid of humour.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Farrington, Margaret Vere.= Fra Lippo Lippi: a romance. **$1.75. Putnam.
Set in the atmosphere of Fra Lippo Lippi’s art and its inspiration, this is the pathetic story of his love for the beautiful nun of Santa Margherita, Lucrezia Buti, and of the shadow cast upon it by the venomous interference of the jealous princess Beatrice. The book contains four photogravure illustrations.
=Faulkner, John Alfred.= Erasmus, the scholar. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–5815.
Erasmus the scholar, the impartial friend and critic of Catholic and Lutheran alike, is portrayed thruout the course of his great labor of love to bring both bodies to a mutual concession. The study is an important one because in the light of modernism freed from theological difference one may best interpret this great Erasmian spirit which is coming to its own.
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“The frequency of acknowledged quotation gives an air of frankness to the work which is hardly borne out by an examination of the many unacknowledged quotations, especially in the translations, which are not only freely borrowed, but are mangled at discretion in a way to make their defenseless authors wince. The best parts of Professor Faulkner’s work are his little summaries of Erasmus’s supposed views on doctrinal points.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 170. O. ’08. 320w.
“Professor Faulkner’s memoir is not only adequately appreciative of his subject, but also duly critical, not wanting in humor, and illuminated by ample extracts from Erasmus’s famous works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Faunce, Rev. Daniel W.= Mature man’s difficulties with his Bible. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–9798.
Addressed not so much to theologians, nor yet to men of leisure who may read extended treatises, but to busy men who still find time to read the newer books and magazines which raise questions concerning biblical facts. The chapters treat the Bible in relation to mathematical certainty; scientific spirit; historical spirit; the morality and method of the Bible; and the biblical Christ and human thinking.
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“A book containing many good things. But on the whole it must be pronounced inadequate to its purpose. The author does not fully grasp the difficulties occasioned to the Bible student by the modern scientific world-view.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Contains much sensible counsel concerning Scripture.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Fay, Charles Ryle.= Co-operation at home and abroad; a description and analysis. *$3. Macmillan.
8–33820.
“An English university scholar, a research student in the London School of economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable information covering the entire field of co-operative activity in European countries—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for production, sale, and land tenure, (3) in workers’ societies for production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and industrial, concluding with an account of co-operative law, and a large bibliography.... It is ‘not the herald of socialism, nor is it a means to combat it,’ but simply a natural outworking of the associative instinct in a line of self-help not cultivated by socialism.”—Outlook.
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=Ath.= 1908, 2: 267. S. 5. 170w.
“A work of wide and varied practical interest for social workers is this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 220w.
“It does not detract at all, but in our judgment rather enhances, the value of Mr. Fay’s work, if we see reason to demur to some of the distinctions which he draws.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 806. N. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Fea, Allan.= Nooks and corners of old England. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–227.
Away from beaten tracks “the author covers with pencil and camera counties as widely apart as Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, and he has reproduced over fifty excellent photographs of both known and unknown manor-houses, churches, hamlets, and interiors. One can only be grateful to him for his notes on Beckington castle, Croscombe church, with its wonderful canopied pulpit, Melplash court, said to have been a residence of Nell Gwyn, Postlip hall, with its Elizabethan gables, and Hautboys hall, a beautiful old Tudor house, a few miles to the south-east of Oxford. In no sense a guide-book proper.” (Acad.)
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“A sensible, chatty record of devious wanderings in the byways of old England, and as such may be honestly recommended to those who are not in a hurry and who love old England.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“The most we can say of the book is that it may prove attractive to those who are content with cursory descriptions of attractive places, and may lead the ordinary tourist to things of particular interest in his own country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 237. Ag. 31. 280w.
“Mr. Fea has a large store of curious information.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 530w.
=Fenn, George Manville.= Trapped by the Malays. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A book which recommends itself to girls as well as boys. It is the story “of a young English officer, not much more than a boy, and his exciting experiences in the English dominions on the other side of the world. Captured by treachery by a native prince, he and one of his soldiers escape on the rajah’s elephant, with which they have made friends.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Manville Fenn continues to deserve well of the youth of England.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 652. N. 23. 130w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
“In this tale of bayonet and kris Mr. Manville Fenn shows all the spirit, the humor and the knowledge of character and place which have made his stories so popular with both young readers and those whose business it is to select books for them.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Ferris, George Hooper.= Formation of the New Testament. **90c. Am. Bapt.
7–28619.
A “study of the rise of the books of the New Testament to pre-eminence among early Christian works, and the causes contributing to it.”—Bib. World.
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“Mr. Ferris sketches the rise of the New Testament canon with bold and telling strokes.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 274. Ap. ’08. 350w.
“An able and intelligent study. The presentation is popular and at the same time scholarly.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“He has given the results of his study in clear flexible English, that never declines and never wearies the reader. This is a piece of excellent theological writing.” E: A. Wicher.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 138. Ag. ’08. 980w.
“A forceful and enlightening study. It should establish the author’s reputation as a writer on religious history who can at the same time master facts and exhibit their vital bearing.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“There can be no question, however, but that Mr. Ferris has put his finger upon the source of endless confusion of mind and barrenness of doctrine.... Awakening to the facts which Mr. Ferris has brought into the clear must serve as an emancipation to not a few.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 241. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“A careful, scholarly, courageous work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 795. Ap. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Fessenden, Francis.= Life and public services of William Pitt Fessenden. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
7–37243.
A biography of a man “best entitled to rank as Maine’s prime contribution to American statesmanship.” It is the “story of a public man who never ‘put his ear to the ground’ to listen for the voice of duty, never ‘climbed into the band-wagon’ in search of office, never chose to go against his conscientious judgment a hair’s breadth rather than ‘get left.’” (Dial.)
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“To such a hero, this book is a fitting tribute.” D: M. DeWitt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 622. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“William Pitt Fessenden was a great senator and deserved a proper biography, but it cannot be said that the volumes by his son fulfil the need. The author shows slight acquaintance with the historical literature of his period.” W. L. Fleming.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A piece of biography so morally invigorating as to deserve, in its own very different way, a place alongside the reminiscences of Carl Schurz.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 73. F. 1, ’08. 500w.
“A good life.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The literary form and method of this work mark it as a real addition to the historic literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 450w.
“The arrangement of the matter is defective, but the matter itself is of the first class.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 127. F. 6, ’08. 2650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 630w.
“A work which, if in parts rather dry reading, is a distinct contribution to American political biography. Some of the numerous letters and autobiographical statements which it contains throw fresh and really helpful light on civil war men and measures.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
“Few biographies written by relatives show less bias—less of what Macaulay was fond of calling the ‘lues Boswelliana’. The narrative sometimes backs and fills in a manner that is confusing, and exception could easily be taken to some of the statements; yet, as a whole, the work has been well done.” P. L. Haworth.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 132. Mr. ’08. 850w.
“Full and very satisfactory account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Field, Louise Maunsell.= Katharine Trevalyan. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10431.
Against the unhealthy background furnished by craven types selected from fashionable New York, the author places his unworldly-minded heroine. She is drawn into a net of matrimony by a contemptible fortune hunter, frees herself from its meshes, and slips away disillusioned, having discovered that reciprocity—a thing she had never experienced—is at the foundation of the human bond. Her supreme moment comes when real love proves the truth of her theory and she is no longer outside of life.
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=Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 370w.
“It has plenty of flesh-and-blood characters, and an easy style, but it falls short of absorbing the attention.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 242. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Field, Michael, pseud. (Catherine Bradley and Edith Cooper).= Wild honey from various thyme. *$1.65. Wessels.
“A collection of sonnets and lyrics of which, the inspiration is mainly classical, but which show an unclassical luxuriance of imagery.” (Spec.)
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“The undoubted poetical taste and feeling displayed ... are largely discounted by a serious lack of discriminating power.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 414. Ap. 4. 330w.
“Here are nearly two hundred lyrics and sonnets, packed with thought, and arresting in their originality of expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“Each of the poems in the present collection conveys to the mind a picture with color and design and atmosphere.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is always musical and accomplished, and now and then, as in ‘Chariclo,’ it attains real distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 40w.
=Figgis, John Neville.= Studies of political thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625; the Birkbeck lectures delivered in Trinity college, 1900. *$1.10. Putnam.
7–32802.
A literary revision of the Birkbeck lectures, delivered nearly ten years ago. The author discusses the transition of political thought from the province of the church to that of the state. “The nature and source of all authority is the final object of political research. From this everything else flows easily: communication is established on this basis with all the controversies that distracted medieval society and that form the subject of this book. The relationship of church and state—involving of necessity interminable arguments about the nature of a state, its rights, its moral code—the position of the individual in society: such are some of the catchwords of dispute throughout this fruitful period of political theorising.” (Sat. R.)
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+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 145. Ag. 10. 2200w.
“In detail, unfortunately, the volume leaves a good deal to be desired.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 352. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“This is an extremely valuable contribution to historical and political science. It embodies broad suggestion rather than detailed information; it is philosophical, not descriptive. A deep and accurate scholarship is revealed on every page, and the insight that gives life and usefulness to mere learning is not less conspicuous. There are very few points on which a critic familiar with the subject would venture to question the accuracy of Mr. Figgis in either his facts or his interpretations.” W: A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 708. D. ’07. 1320w.
“We congratulate Mr. Figgis on the publication of these lectures, and we hope that the wider audience will appreciate their value.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 455. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
* =Filippi, Filippo de.= Ruwenzori: being an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, to the snow ranges situated between the equatorial lakes of Central Africa; tr. by Caroline de Filippi. *$8. Dutton.
“The volume is introduced with a preface written by the Duke himself. As compiled and written Signor de Filippi’s book is a narrative describing the adventures as well as the scientific researches of the Duke’s party from Mombasa to those snow-capped peaks in the interior, which were called by the ancients ‘Mountains of the moon.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“The translation is satisfactory, and the illustrations fully deserve this second mention in so brief and general a notice as the present one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 665. N. 14, ’08. 980w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fillmore, Millard.= Millard Fillmore papers; ed. by Frank H. Severance. (Buffalo historical soc. Publications, v. 10–11.) 2v. *$7. Buffalo hist. soc.
A memorial prepared to perpetuate the name of the organizer and first president of the Buffalo historical society. “Besides the ‘Fillmore papers’ there are biographical introductions, an historical address by General J. G. Wilson, some interesting reminiscences and a dozen or more portraits. The papers themselves are arranged by Mr. Severance chronologically under appropriate headings and consist chiefly of legislative speeches, political addresses and private correspondence.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The editor has shown excellent judgment, excluding the trivial or local matter which is too often allowed to cumber the pages of historical society publications. In both volumes few errata have been noticed and only a few slight errors. On the whole, one derives from these papers an increased respect for the honest conservatism of the man’s character and a deepened sense of his limitations as a statesman.” T. C. Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 876. Jl. ’08. 600w.
“While Mr. Severance has evidently spared no pains, and has collected in his introduction and notes a mass of data for which some future biographer will be grateful, his editorial work cannot be unqualifiedly praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 700w.
=Finley, William Lovell.= American birds, studied and photographed from life. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36870.
“The text is divided into twenty-one chapters, each treating some one species or group of species, from the hummingbird to the golden eagle. Most of the studies were made in the extreme west ... but with few exceptions all have closely related eastern representatives, with habits differing but slightly. The facts relate chiefly to the conduct of parents at the breeding season and to the appearance, growth, and general characteristics of the young.” (Nation.) The illustrations, chiefly from Herman T. Bohlman’s photographs, are numerous and excellent.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“One is tempted to dare a superlative and call this the most delightful bird book that has been written.” M. E. Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, 07. 300w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“Fortunately, whatever errors the text might contain, the pictures can be trusted.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 240w.
“The text is uneven. Some chapters are excellent and thoroughly enjoyable; others are spoiled by a padding of unimportant details of uninteresting actions. The work is accurate as to observation and forms a real addition to our knowledge of Western bird life. It is, however, as a splendid record of the photographer’s skill in portraying the more intimate home life of wild birds that the volume deserves especial mention.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 440w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text is delightful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The chapters on the ‘Hummingbirds’ and the ‘Barn owls’ are especially interesting and instructive.” R. W. Hegner.
+ =School R.= 16: 272. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In spite of the criticisms of such matters as are here suggested, the volume is a fresh contribution to popular ornithology, and is both interesting and informing in an unusual degree.” F. H. Herrick.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 182. Ja. 31, ’08. 2450w.
=Fisher, Herbert Albert L.= Bonapartism: six lectures delivered in the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
8–19594.
Six lectures which show that the Bonapartist governments of both First and Second empires “were to a large extent inspired by the same principles, rested upon the support of the same intellectual and social forces, ... and shared in the same kind of ruin.” The lectures are as follows: The bequest of the revolution, The growth of a legend, The Napoleonic state, Napoleon and Europe, The rise of the Second empire, and The downfall.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 686. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“That the author has telling gifts of historical presentation is clear on every page; his lucidity and power of summary are aided by a constant attention to literary form, and by a skilful use of some striking bits of literary material.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 870. Jl. ’08. 960w.
“Deftness of touch and a happy choice of illustrative details are among the attractions of this volume. Among the chief defects of his method of treatment is that it tends to undue emphasis; and at several points we think that Mr. Fisher’s statements are strained, just as his style is occasionally tense and overloaded with adjectives.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 279. Mr. 7. 1400w.
“Vigorous and suggestive in grasp of matter and style of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“He ranges from the campaign of Italy to that of Sedan with a strong grasp of fact and a power of generalization that never flags. The book has the true historic ring, and should be useful for students of the period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 150w.
“He writes about ‘Bonapartism,’ a word which he does not define, the existence of which he does not prove, and he has consequently produced by a tour de force a work of coruscating phrases, of high lights and deep shadows, but one which will not command the assent of the historian, the politician, or the man of common sense.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 303. Mr. 7, ’08. 1200w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Rate of interest: its nature, determination and relation to economic phenomena. *$3. Macmillan.
7–36195.
Professor Fisher of Yale bases his thesis largely upon the theories of Rae, Boehm-Bawerk and Landry. He expands these former versions of the theory by the introduction of an “income concept.” The solution he offers is that the rate of interest be made to depend upon the character of the income stream.
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“This is a notable work. Professor Fisher has made an enduring contribution to the progress of economic thought in emphasizing the peculiar psychical relation which the value of income sustains, through the principle of discount, to the value of capital.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The treatise throughout is ‘Fisheresque’ ... that is to say, it is worked out with the author’s well known and unflinching thoroughness and his merciless (from the reader’s point of view) marshalling of details. It is also characterized throughout by a certain scientific hard-headedness which is not always found nowadays in writings upon capital and allied topics.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 25. Ap. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 635. D. ’07. 3050w.
Reviewed by E. A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 820w.
=Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Fisher, Sydney George.= Struggle for American independence. 2v. **$4. Lippincott.
8–14831.
A continuation and enlargement of “The true history of the American revolution” with which, a few years since, the author startled out of their complacency people who were willing to avoid “their own country’s birth pangs.” Rejecting tradition and substituting facts ascertained from original sources, the volumes become “an excellent corrective, worthy of careful study by all who would know of the revolution as it was.” (Ind.)
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“He has gone to the original sources for information; his citations and references are numerous and valuable; the arrangement of his material is good, and his style is readable and attractive. Yet however creditable his work, it must be confessed that the author seems excessively ‘otherwise-minded,’ and his spirit of criticism and correction seem, in a measure, to outrun his spirit of historical impartiality and fairness.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 143. O. ’08. 1150w.
“Gives a full, detailed, interesting account but is written in a bad spirit and sometimes places wrong interpretations and emphasis upon accepted facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“His ‘true’ history of the American revolution does not differ in large degree from those heretofore written.” E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 45: 110. S. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The story here told is interesting and convincing. Mr. Fisher has good literary ability and the faculty of knowing a point when he sees it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 96. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“Whether Mr. Fisher’s position be admitted or rejected, his volumes cannot be overlooked by any who wish to be well informed upon the origins and fundamentals of our nation or the future of England’s colonial relations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 160w.
“However he may have erred in detail, he has taken a large view of a large subject, has explored it with painstaking, honest effort, and, despite his unfortunate preface, has written a book that will be enjoyed even by those most inclined to dissent from its conclusions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 39. S. 5, ’08. 1700w.
“He has made a commendable attempt to deal frankly with this evidence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“There is no end to the histories of the war of independence, but Mr. Sydney Fisher can give a good reason for writing his.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 870w.
=Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39069.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 102. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The work is valuable for its clear English, its direct statements and its rounded treatment of a broad subject within the compass of a text-book of less than three hundred pages, including the excellent bibliographies appended to each chapter.” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 522. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“On the whole the book is a worthy addition to the ‘Citizens’ library,’ and will prove stimulating to college students taking courses in commerce or economics.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 495. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
“Throughout the book the treatment is concise—possibly, at times, too concise—and is descriptive and expository rather than controversial. The book is especially strong on its pedagogical side.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 168. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 564. S. ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 60w.
=Fitzpatrick, Samuel A. O.= Dublin: a historical and topographical account of the city; il. by W. Curtis Green. (Ancient cities.) *$1.75. Dutton.
8–3118.
“Six of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s eleven chapters are given to the different periods of the city’s life; another deals with Trinity college. The social life of the city from the time when records of the subject begin to be available, the municipal history, the theatre, which has achieved no small distinction, are successively treated, and there is a separate account of ‘Historic houses and distinguished Dubliners.’ The cathedrals of Christ church and St. Patrick are duly described.”—Spec.
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“Is not only the best book that has so far been written on Dublin—it is the best volume which has yet appeared in the series.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“The author is a careful man, and has learnt a great deal about his subject.... In recording so many facts an author cannot be infallible, and we add some suggestions, which may be of use when a new edition is in sight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 754. Je. 22. 1080w.
“The volume is not so attractive in style or dress as Mr. Chart’s, but as a guide to Dublin, old and new, it is equally exact and useful. There is no modern map.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23. ’08. 100w.
“To many the most interesting part of the text will be its account of early history. That of Dublin is specially interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
“A carefully written and interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 169. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
=Flammarion, Camille.= Mysterious psychic forces. **$2.50. Small.
7–30610.
The author “describes his first experiences at seances, his own experiments, with Eusapia Paiadino, the experiments of the Dialectical society of London and of Sir William Crookes and others, drawing from them his own theories and conclusions.” (Lit. D.)
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=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 60w.
“An honest record of long and careful scientific study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
“A complete account of the like investigations on the continent of Europe has as yet been wanting. This book comes nearer than any other to filling the gap.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 846. D. 21, ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 40w.
=Flandrau, Charles Macomb.= Viva, Mexico! **$1.25. Appleton.
8–28075.
A description of Mexico and the Mexicans which gives an intimate insight into the social, political, religious, and commercial life. It is the traveler’s Mexico that is projected in panorama upon the author’s canvas with the certain details that catch the tourist’s eye but which are too often omitted from guide books.
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“An entertaining book in which the author with unrestrained frankness quaintly discusses Mexican things that interest him. It touches upon social, religious, political, and business topics, and handles them all in bold, independent fashion and with as much carefulness as a writer with a whimsical and somewhat humorous disposition could be expected to exhibit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
=Fleming, John Dick.= Israel’s golden age: a story of the United kingdom. (Handbooks for Bible classes.) *45c. imp. Scribner.
8–32325.
“The standpoint of the author is historical, his spirit is profoundly religious.... The difficulties of the narratives of this early period are frankly recognized and the religious limitations of the time are fully allowed for, but the emphasis of the book is on the positive and progressive elements in the history, rather than upon its defects and weaknesses.”—Bib. World.
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“A student who works through the period of Saul and David under Professor Fleming’s guidance will have a new conception of Old Testament history and religion.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The author possesses interpretative insight in a marked degree, and is master of a pleasing style. The historical judgment of the author is well balanced and his book may be highly commended to all teachers of Bible classes.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 79. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Fleming has treated it in a scholarly manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 60w.
“Professor Fleming has found his way through the conflicting sources with no small skill, and his manual affords sufficient help for the serious student to form his own opinions intelligently.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 110w.
=Fleshman, Arthur Cary.= Educational process. (Lippincott’s educational ser.) $1.25. Lippincott.
An attempt, the author says, to organize a new doctrine of education out of an old theory of thought. The author yields to the latter-day conclusions that life is a spiritual process; that activity is spiritual. He takes the problems of education out of the domain of the mechanical, experimental, physiological, physical and psycho-physical and explains them as spiritual processes.
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“Is neither original in method nor brilliant in style.”
− =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Fletcher, Beaumont.= Richard Wilson. (Makers of British art ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
8–33825.
A sketch which aims to give proper prominence to a famous landscape painter whose merit during the century and more since his death has been overlooked. The sketch takes into account the conditioning factors of his life, his education, and his place in art. The volume is made complete by reproductions of his pictures, a list of authorities consulted, and an index.
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“It is quite time something of the sort should have appeared.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 208. O. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“That the facts are so few may well be no fault of the author, but as much cannot be said for the paucity of ideas.”
− =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“To those interested either in his work or in the larger question of the development of landscape art the book can be recommended. Whether agreeing with the author’s estimate of the artist’s importance or not, the facts presented and the opinions of other writers freely drawn upon give value and interest to the biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 312. My. 30, ’08. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Law of the rhythmic breath: teaching the generation, conservation, and control of vital force. *$1. Fenno.
Explains the bare truths of the rhythmic breath as taught in ancient Hindu philosophy and developed by the author.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 170w.
=Fletcher, Horace.= Optimism, a real remedy; with a foreword by William Dana Orcutt. **75c. McClurg.
8–1690.
Horace Fletcher, identified with furthering the Gladstonian doctrine of excessive chewing, shows the life-prolonging influence of physiologic optimism. He discusses the passing of medicine, optimism as opportunism, and happiness after fifty.
=Fletcher, J. S.= Book about Yorkshire. *$2. McClure.
“A book about Yorkshire, with thirty-two illustrations, half of which are attractive sketches in colour, covers the wide field of things worth seeing and saying as well as a single volume could. Much more might, of course, be said about scenery, and charms of wood and water; but these things are in the guide-books, and we think the author was well advised in laying stress rather on Yorkshire dialect, customs, folk-lore, and oddities as well as the churches, castles, and great-houses which always figure in these county records.”—Ath.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 130w.
“All in all, his book is an important contribution to the literature of his country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 540w.
“He has selected and arranged his material admirably.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has used his eyes and the historical records with judgment, and has done his best to give us a real notion of the wealth of interest and association that lies in the great shire.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 65. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Harringtons of Highcroft farm. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–8308.
The story of a Yorkshire homestead which introduces an over worked, much abused young hero. “There is something pleasant about the air of the sixties, which is the period of this tale. Uncle Benjamin stands for what villain there is, and Uncle Dick is that misunderstood and self-sacrificing artist whom we may remember even further back than the sixties. And is not the wilful daughter of an earl who weds in due time with the yeoman’s son a creature of that bygone generation?” (Ath.)
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“The very headings of the chapters acquaint us that we are committed to an old-fashioned and somewhat dull story.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 150w.
“Chronicle is a better name than novel for this book. Its interest is not so much in how it all turns out as in the personality of every separate member of the Harrington family.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“The manner of the book is charming, quiet, placid, but with much depth and richness of feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 233. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Mothers in Israel: a study in rustic amenities. †$1.25. Moffat.
8–19023.
The two “mothers in Israel” are two Yorkshire farmers’ wives with marriageable daughters. They begin their backbiting when they learn that the young minister has become engaged to the schoolmistress. The rustic amenities referred to in the sub-title are lying, slander, evil-speaking, and malice. “There are not wanting graphic touches of village landscape and figures, and if some readers feel cheated out of tragedy, others will take comfort in comedy, for the curtain falls on backbiters thoroughly frustrated, if not in the least reformed.” (Nation.)
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“He handles [Yorkshire village life] tenderly and with a sense of humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 130w.
“The study is made with the utmost seriousness of intention, and the utmost solemnity of belief.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The book is redolent of fresh Yorkshire butter, sun-baked fields, and blooming chestnuts, and it makes amusing and restful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author has managed to invest his characters with reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 342. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from the special purpose of the book, ‘Mothers in Israel’ is a well-constructed picture of life in a Yorkshire village, and the portraits of the two principal characters and of the clergyman’s housekeeper, Elizabeth, are drawn in a very clear and lifelike manner.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 383. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Flexner, Abraham.= American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
An analysis of the educational procedure of the American college from the moment when it tells the secondary school how the boy is to be made ready for college to the day when he receives his bachelor’s degree. The chapters are as follows: The problem defined, The development of the college, The college and the secondary school, The elective system, Graduate and undergraduate and The way out.
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“The author’s tone is very dogmatic, far more so than either his experience or his knowledge of the subject would seem to justify. What he has chiefly done is to record his impressions of the impressions of other people. Mr. Flexner’s aims are of the best but his diagnosis is faulty and his information is neither sufficient nor exact.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 513. D. ’08. 720w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Mirabeau and the French revolution. 3v. v. 1. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–25730.
=v. 1.= The youth of Mirabeau.
The first instalment of a three part biography. The divisions as outlined for the three volumes accord with the well marked phases of Mirabeau’s life, and are as follows: (1) His youth; (2) His public career to the beginning of the revolutionary crisis; (3) His activities in the assembly. The aim is to study Mirabeau as a product of his times, to follow his emergence from a background of historical conditioning forces. In this first volume the sketch of his first twenty-five years is preceded by a presentation of the struggle against arbitrary government in France, and of the origin and rise of the Riqueti, also by four chapters on the direct antecedents of Mirabeau.
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“It is careful, learned, and rich in bibliographical references.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 809. N. 28, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is characterized by a large and coherent plan, a mastery of voluminous material, a power of presenting characters in just relief against the background of the age, by moderation of judgment and detachment of view. The style is marred by an occasional awkwardness of phrase and a translation at times too literal. The note at the bottom of page 153 contains some errors of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Prof. Fling has achieved something very like a masterpiece in [its] kind. If the forthcoming volumes are as interesting and valuable as the first they will be welcome to all students and to the general reader as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Floy, Henry.= Compilation of the records of the Colorado Springs lighting controversy; with an introd. and epitome. *$4. Illuminating engineering pub. co., N. Y.
8–3931.
“In an introductory section, the author gives a historical résumé of the case, together with comments on its main features and conclusions.... The report of the testimony comprises the great part of the contents of the book.”—Elec. World.
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“The book will be of particular value to central stations having municipal contracts for street lighting.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 730. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It is a work that will be of permanent value to electrical engineers and lawyers throughout the country.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 300w.
“The immediate interest of the book to engineers lies in the statements under oath of several men generally recognized as experts in arc-lamp illumination.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Flynt, Josiah.= My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2. Outing. pub.
8–30135.
The self-written “life” of the man, who, instinct with human curiosity, sounded the depths of the under-world and brought back experiences which he casts in the human document form. Early life, his rebellion against order, his days in a reform school, his escape and early tramping experiences, his voyage to Germany as a coal-passer, his life and wanderings in Europe, the friendship with Arthur Symons whom he called his literary god-father, his meeting with Tolstoy are all full of human interest.
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“His narrative is all the more characteristic from its lack of polish. Like all that he has written, it is extremely interesting, even though far less interesting than his talk is said to have been.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 338. N. 16, ’08. 1850w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“The book will perhaps sufficiently appeal to those who care for autobiography for its own sake. There is much of the joy of vagabondage in it, little of achievement. The telling of the story is easy, in spite of its disjointed quality. In the latter part of the book coherence is lacking, and its anecdotal quality is but mildly interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Politician; being the English tr. of his “Daniele Cortis,” done by G. Mantellini. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
8–4034.
A strongly emotional story of a young Italian politician’s love for the wife of a thoroly bad senator. Duty prevails to the point of renunciation, grief is quelled by the call to work, and one must be satisfied with the triumph of moral justice.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The American reader who happens to possess no special knowledge of the affairs of church and state in modern Italy may find it more readable than the novels of the trilogy. Not only is the English thoroughly shiftless and awkward, nowhere rising to the plane of Fogazzaro’s Italian, but the pages are sown thick with the most astonishing errors in translation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Translated into excellent and sympathetic English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 96. F. 15, ’08. 60w.
“A keen, fond eye for natural scenery, and the passionate Italian temperament of the interlocutors, pervade the narrator. This, as well as ‘The sinner,’ while not lacking in dramatic situations and tragic interest, has little of that significance for the neo-Catholic movement which gave such popularity to ‘The saint.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Folwell, William Watts.= Minnesota, the North star state. (American commonwealths.) **$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
A concise narrative, based upon original sources, in which events are unfolded in their relation to the political and economic development of the state without diminution of their dramatic interest. The author has been identified with the public interests of the state for the past forty years, holding for many years the chair of Political Science at the state university.
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“Mr. Folwell offers a readable compend of the state’s history, and by reason of having had access to several sources of original information not previously available he has made considerable additions to those already before the public. The final chapter would have been of more interest and value had it treated more fully recent political developments.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 653. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Folwell writes with considerable dash and vigor, and with a frankness that will scarcely be relished by the survivors among the land and timber manipulators and other corruptionists who were so much in evidence in Minnesota during its formative period. This frankness, however, and an uncompromising insistence on viewing the facts of history from the standpoint of a sturdy morality, far more than compensate for certain minor defects in treatment and construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 789. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Fontaine, Lamar.= My life and my lectures. *$3. Neale.
8–16524.
The experiences of an invincible hero who as school boy, Indian, hunter, or civil engineer, escaped the arrows aimed at the vulnerable heel. During sixteen years he wandered in China, Egypt, India, Palestine and South America after which he enlisted with the Fourth Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army.
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“In spite of the savage delight he had in killing and fighting and in writing about it ad nauseam, the author has a graphic way in relating details of adventure that is often admirable. The book with all its brutality, bad grammar, and conceit, was well worth while as presenting a character the like of which may never be seen again. One ought to be sufficient.”
− + =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“He tells of [his adventures] interestingly and with happy, pleasant, humorous touches that serve to lighten the narrative of peril and of suffering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 140w.
=Forbes, Henry Prentiss.= Johannine literature and the Acts of the apostles. (International handbooks to the New Testament, no. 4.) **$2. Putnam.
7–15616.
“The general view taken of the Acts is that ‘it is history in the ancient, Oriental, religious, not in the modern, Occidental, critical sense.’ The Fourth gospel is regarded as an idealization of material more or less historical by ‘an Asian Christian’ of the second century, and is presented as such with the remark, ‘The truth of fiction may be most lifegiving; it is the ideal which endures.’”—Outlook.
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“One will find much suggestive treatment of important passages without the confusion of encyclopedic detail. A bibliography might have been added without defeating the object of the series and one finds the index to the four volumes too compact.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 479. Jl. ’08. 670w.
“Concise and useful introductions and commentaries prepared from the critical point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 480. Je. ’07. 30w.
“The author contrives to inspire faith in his guidance as a well-equipped interpreter, with stores of learning of which he makes no parade, and sufficient warmth of religious sympathy to prevent anyone from being wounded by his clearcut decision.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 460. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“Mastery of critical material, however it be interpreted, and spiritual appreciation of Jesus are alike conspicuous in this volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 190w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Side-stepping with Shorty. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–12803.
Sprightliness, sympathy with human nature and an abounding sense of humor are the requisites for “side-stepping with Shorty.” When once the reader has acquired the necessary momentum, there is no stopping until he reaches the last page. For Shorty makes no pauses for observation; he sees in transit, thinks while on the move, and delivers himself of his wit at every breath. The twenty skits present people with their foibles lying close to their saner ideals.
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“The substance has that essential vulgarity of which a sound realism, however unflinching, is never really in danger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
“Shorty sees a good deal of life and tells about it with a zest and an unconventionality of expression that make his stories as breezy as the sidewalks round about the Times building on a windy day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 90w.
“A very humorous story, containing some of the mirthful qualities of ‘Mr. Dooley,’ Dickens’s Sam Weller, and the dry wit and shrewdness of Mark Twain.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 80w.
=Forel, August Henri.= Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.
7–20717.
The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)
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“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of translation well and faithfully, and there is a good index.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.
“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain language a convenient survey of the data now available for the understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.
“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved, and deserves to be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.
=Forster, Hugh O. A-.= English socialism of to-day: its teachings and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–17762.
A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his practices however right his theories may be.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets which he criticises.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.
“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly that the result is far from satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.
“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing which much needed doing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.
“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in particular.” W. A. Bruce.
− + =Outlook.= 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.
=Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor.= Positive preaching and modern mind: the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907. *$1.75. Armstrong.
8–9053.
“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern, taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus, theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.
“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral earnestness or their intellectual grip.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.
“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of the discarded ‘period.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism, these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.
8–30937.
The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.
=Foster, William Trufant.= Argumentation and debating. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–19899.
A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league, together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Four-Pools= mystery. †$1.50. Century.
8–8103.
The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy, involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man, a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and fear of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly portrayed.
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“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so frequently attend the tale of mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing. The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality; potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue penciled’ to the skeleton.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many crime-tales, and original in its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
* =Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= Miss Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29869.
A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son. The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of the husband furnish incidents in plenty.
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“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place improbabilities.”
− =Ath.= 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid persons.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the extreme.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Fox, Edgar Alonzo.= Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–39010.
In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school work.
=Fox, John, jr.= Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27497.
“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver, a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.
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“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on the local colour.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.
“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life, even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight errantry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an hour of uncritical pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very winning charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this autumn.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.
=Outlook.= 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.
“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Francis of Assisi, St.= Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi; newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold. (Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.
A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced from a fourteenth century manuscript.
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“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of this classic of religious literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.
“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Frank, Henry.= Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.
8–24255.
A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force, telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the third to the moral agents.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.
=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Heart of a child. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11080.
From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of her truth and simplicity.
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“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the girl shows originality of conception.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.
“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a thesis.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.
“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for its wholesome tone.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w
“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting thoroughness.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but otherwise the story is cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more closely.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her case, because she is an impossible creature.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an acquisition to her new station.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see away is in chap. 21.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Franklin, Fabian.= People and problems: a collection of addresses and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.
8–14656.
Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed, but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of the last decade and more.
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“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.
“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’ as to make the entire volume attractive.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“These comments on current events are not merely of historical interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and readable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.
“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good newspaper editorial writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry.= Elements of mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–23872.
“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the laundry it is the force, 4π^2n^2rm which wrings the water from the clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his hands.”—Nation.
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“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point, the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific principles are numerous.” E. G. C.
− =Nature.= 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.
7–39017.
Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s “Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of old Navarre.”
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“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be found by consulting many books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find an eager welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.
W8–35.
“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men who through the centuries since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full and skilful use of local colour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Fraser, Edward.= “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us to-day. *$1.50. Lane.
“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII. Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.
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“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.
“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt, running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18373.
Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent; there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival, a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.
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“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book is full of human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.
“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s other dramas of conscience and of New England.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.
“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.
“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes of the book already mentioned.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type and individual.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin.= World’s commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–22708.
“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.
“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a good general summary of information concerning the more important economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.
“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the letterpress itself.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Freemantle, Elizabeth.= One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–23925.
In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the “big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.
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“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital woman.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times=. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.
8–26824.
Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.” His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.
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“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s books.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.
“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent unconsciousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
* =French, Anne Warner.= The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25. Small.
8–29870.
An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.
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=Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
8–8098.
A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee, now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’ romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John authenticates in his inimitable way.”
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“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor characters are a little overdone.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor, one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the very last chapter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.
“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should not be read at one sitting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
* =French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.
8–28317.
A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes. “The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces, windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)
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“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated in the mean.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–23712.
“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial times.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of romantic or sentimental appeal.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.
“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause of peace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is worthy of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.
“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the questions which it suggests.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Frothingham, Paul Revere.= Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–29414.
“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude] by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all, love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen, Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers, ancient and modern.”—Dial.
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“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail, and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can be digested piecemeal.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much persuasiveness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
=Frye, Prosser Hall.= Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–27523.
Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand, Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with Hardy’s naturalism, Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden and Emerson.
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+ − =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.
“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from the deeper consistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr. Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
* =Fuller, Henry Blake.= Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23926.
Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence, Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4; 269. N. ’08.
“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work than this; he has done it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr. Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest and sparkle.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Fuller, Robert Hart.= South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22497.
“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.
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“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous, without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of the Boers.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.
“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Government by the people: laws and customs regulating the election system and the formation and control of political parties in the United States. **$1. Macmillan.
8–13760.
“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and means of control of political parties in the United States. It contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties in our public life.”—Ind.
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“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠
“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every voter.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.
“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.
“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a part of the instruction in civil government.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in college courses in government.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to the state of New York, it has general value.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.
=Fulton, Charles Herman.= Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.
7–37731.
This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores, and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)
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“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.
=Furnival, Frederick James.= Babees’ book: medieval manners for the young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is bound in brown leather with clasps.
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“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.
“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
* =Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John.= Shakespeare’s life and work. Cassell.
An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”
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“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice, writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the different spelling we give above.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.
“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively, picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or for private reading cannot be found.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–13276.
A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side, that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and his automobile unconsciously aid.
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“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9816.
A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim “you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever “thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective marvels.
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“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R. A. Whay.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the subject, but not to the average reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 12. Ja. ’08.
“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic control of racial development.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.
“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian. Both the text and illustrations are good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book for popular consumption.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.
“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader as well as to the student of anthropology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
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* =Gaige, Roscoe Crosby, and Harcourt, Alfred=, comps. Books and reading. (Humanity essays.) **$1.50. Baker.
8–29755.
An anthology of the “most human things said about books” including some eighty odd contributions. The groups into which the selections are gathered are as follows: By way of preface; My book and heart; Friends in council; The little ships; Some ancient worthies; The glorious court; Philobiblon; To those who write; Beside the fire; and Complete essays.
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“Has been compiled with care and devotion, and contains some of the choicest passages in literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 170w.
* =Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–34724.
An historical survey which is made under the following heads: The Lollards, Royal supremacy, The fall of the monasteries, and The reign of the English Bible. “The first of these deals, in a fairly full and entertaining fashion, with the rise, spread, and subsequent decline of Lollardy, and the general position of affairs on the eve of the reformation.” (Ath.)
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“The most severe critic would find it difficult to catch Dr. Gairdner tripping on his own ground; but there is a curious lapse with regard to an important religious house which played a significant part in the story of the suppression. A work of the highest standard, wherein is marshalled, with innate honesty of purpose, an abundance of facts concerning a most complex and perplexing period of English history in Church and State.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 499. O. 24. 2300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“In most cases we disagree with his interpretation, and we have spoken of his work as biassed. But his bias, while it governs his argument, has not led him into anything of the nature of misrepresentation of facts. His work is careful, conscientious, and learned.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 883. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
* =Gale, Zona.= Friendship village. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30534.
A village of no definite geographical location is the scene of happenings which are recorded by one who drops quietly into the life and ways of the towns-folk for a short season. From the lowliest to the village autocrat, the chronicler selects her types, and gathers them into a sheaf for the reader. The volume has a large brotherhood-of-man value in its lessons of neighborly kindness and charity, in its substitution of the spirit of simplicity and genuineness for superficial worldliness.
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“We close the book, lingeringly, just as we should leave so friendly a town, with the feeling that America is sound at the core, while it is possible to recognize the truth of such affectionate portraiture.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“We mean no offense by comparing the book with ‘David Harum,’ Calliope being a feminine David, and many of the scenes being similar. This book especially makes for higher thinking and better living, and emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as high.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 470w.
“Miss Gale is a newcomer who has quietly taken her place with those who can bring a smile on the face of life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
“There are genuine every-day Christian faith and hearty fellowship in these pretty, homely, and decidedly clever sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Sorceress of Rome. il. $1.50. Page.
7–36915.
The second volume in the author’s trilogy of romances on the medieval life of Italy. Old monkish chronicles have furnished the material for the story which in the main tells of impassioned love of Otto III, the boy emperor, for Stephania, the wife of Crescentius, their deeds to outwit friend and foe, the tragedy of their life and death.
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“Undoubtedly the author is giving us only such facts as he deems necessary to a clear understanding of the times and the events he chronicles; but the average reader would have been better satisfied to be somewhat less instructed and somewhat more entertained.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 673. F. ’08. 290w.
“Fantastic, over-drawn, surfeited with the extreme and the erotic, the production was not worth the labor and research expended upon it.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 834. Mr. ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“It is a well-written tale, full of color and action, whose pages teem with weird wonders and gruesome surprises.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Galsworthy, John.= A commentary. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–33812.
“A series of little pictures, or idylls, strangely disquieting, of misery and comfort, satiric, ironic, tragic. The chapters bear such captions as ‘Old age,’ ‘Fear,’ ‘Fashion,’ ‘Sport,’ ‘Justice’; but these abstractions are the shadows cast by characters of flesh and blood.”—Nation.
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“These sketches are determined etchings from life, but have been bitten-in without much regard to art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 126. Ag. 1, 120w.
“A series of stories that really deserve to be preserved because of their literary merit, and because of the curious light they shed upon the two natures of poverty.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s animating motive, a desire to puncture the thoughtless complacency of the comfortable classes, has produced in this volume of organically related sketches a work of original distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1. ’08. 370w.
“He puts these reflections into various mouths, they occasionally miss any particular illumination, they do not favor continuous reading, and here and there they too obviously suggest the notebook. Yet there is throughout the volume a clearness of thought, a fine treatment of circumstance, a sane, sardonic humour which would atone for much more serious defects and interest us even more in the author than in his present material.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Island Pharisees. Revised and rewritten. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–27808.
Richard Shelton, a young Englishman born to the “ninety desiring peace and comfort for their spirit ... who will have it that the fashions need not change, that morality is fixed, that all is ordered and immutable” joins the ten Pharisees who grope for a philosophy to uphold the conviction that “All things that are, are wrong” in place of “All things that are, are right.” This story depicts subjectively the struggle of Shelton as he is torn between social conventionality and allegiance to the tramp with whom and with whose philosophy his whole nature sympathizes.
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“Shelton falls immeasurably short of his purpose; he is too weak a vessel for his message, emotionally and intellectually. Wishing to strike at the fundamental evils of society, he succeeds only in impeaching order and respectability. He is not virile, but puerile.”
− =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 420w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Villa Rubein. $1.50. Putnam.
8–20136.
A highborn English girl and a poor peasant artist are the principal characters in this story whose incidents grow out of the struggle between class tradition and the will of youth that knows no allegiance to convention.
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“Whether judged by itself or as a measure of his subsequent advancement, ‘Villa Rubein’s’ publication in this country can only heighten, not diminish, the reputation Mr. Galsworthy has already won.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 47. S. ’08. 950w.
“One wonders what is the motive of the book. It is so much like life as to be meaningless. The absolutely tame ending obscures its drift.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 119. Ag. 6, ’08. 360w.
“It is a sustained story of human emotion and absorbing incident.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13. ’08. 200w.
“It is good enough to make one wish it were better.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Purple and homespun. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12767.
With scenes shifting from Washington to the East Side of New York and to London this story portrays the determination of a young, self-made United States senator to show himself worthy to marry the daughter of a British ambassador, in spite of the fact that he traces his origin to the slums of New York. The willingness to recognize American democratic true worth is opposed by the English traditional demand that every god have his Olympian corner.
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“Mr. Gardenhire’s book has the merit of originality, but he needs to free himself from artificiality, and his knowledge of English society is evidently slight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Gardenhire’s style is stodgy, but he has packed a good deal of experience into his pages, and thereby made them quite readable.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Gardenhire has somewhat disorganized his story by hypodermically injecting an East Side romance, together with a touch of socialism.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 140w.
“On the whole, the affair is labored and inconclusive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= World and the woman. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–38265.
“The story is that of a woman who tries to make her way in Washington society without money, and of the desperate straits into which she fell.... The main part of the tale is concerned with her life there, the devious ways into which her struggles force her, the daughter’s social success and final marriage.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Here is another novel which quite ruthlessly unmasks the double-dealing, pretence, and petty spite which play so sinister a part in the social life of the capital.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“The pictures of Washington society are written with much color and cleverness and many a touch of cynicism. The characters stand out very distinctly, although a bit weak in some places, and the story is developed with a good deal of intensity and charm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Gardner, Edmund Garratt.= Saint Catherine of Siena: a study in the religion, literature and history of the XIV century in Italy, with some unpublished letters of St. Catherine. *$4. Dutton.
8–14840.
A study from original sources of Italian life and thought as reflected in the work and personality of Saint Catherine of Siena, “the successor of Dante in the literature and religious thought of Italy, and the connecting link between St. Francis of Assisi and Savonarola.”
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“A book which gives for the first time a satisfactory chronology, rectifies many misconceptions, and leaves us with a full and rational account of the progress of events.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 845. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“An admirable work, both scholarly and interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Gardner has told Catherine’s story with a completeness scarcely attempted by any of his predecessors.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 500. O. 24. 780w.
“Here indeed is the full story of Catherine’s activities from the beginning, narrated with sympathy and reverence only equalled by historical acumen and literary skill.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 452. Jl. ’08. 3700w.
“The orderly arrangement of the book is particularly noteworthy; notwithstanding the wealth of detail, clearness is never sacrificed.” L: J. Block.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 83. Ag. 16, ’08. 2400w.
“Scholarly in an old-fashioned way, and well written. Obviously the work of a devout Roman Catholic scholar, not a scientific investigator of history, it is inevitably colored by the habit of mind of the believer. Yet the book is rich in documentary value for the student of the times.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
“Rarely do we find the critical faculty so happily blended with enthusiasm. The book is perhaps, the best which has been written about Italy by an Englishman since the death of John Addington Symonds; and indubitably it is the best ever written about St. Catherine.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Into the pitfall [of copious detail] Mr. Gardner has fallen with ready feet. Nevertheless, his study of Catherine and her times is full of interesting glimpses and suggestions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 360w.
“The volume under consideration, apart from its value to students and to all intelligent readers, has a peculiar charm of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Gardner, however, insists upon the times rather than the life. Not that we quarrel with the scholarly writer for this: he has set himself a certain task; he has clearly defined it; and he has carried it to an end with an orderly sequence and a wealth of erudition that excite our warmest praise and liveliest admiration.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 208. F. 15, ’08. 1250w.
=Gardner, William Amory.= In Greece with the classics. **$1.50. Little.
8–14834.
“On a slight thread of pleasant narrative of the author’s own hasty spring tour in Greece are strung original translations of the passages from the Greek poets, which one would wish to recall, upon the Acropolis, at Conolos, Marathon, Aegina, Eleusis, Mycenae, Delphi, Olympia, or Corfu. The original texts are given in a convenient appendix.”—Nation.
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=Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Our author, having come with a thirst, has drunk his draft to the full, not at Dirce’s or Arethusa’s fount, but at that well undefiled the Greek spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1148. My. 21, ’08. 240w.
“Is the kind of guide book for which the sentimental traveller, bored to extinction by archaeology, has been yearning. There is no attempt at completeness, and the relevancy of some of the selections is questionable. The translations, while lacking distinction, are readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Shadow world. †$1.35. Harper.
8–29371.
Here are recorded a series of surprising experiments with psychical phenomena conducted by Mr. Garland among a group of his friends, some half-afraid, some avowedly skeptical, while all were curious and earnest. A number of the actual sessions of this group with a psychic present are given in detail for the purpose of showing evidence concerning the process of mediumship. Then follow experiments throwing light upon the more elusive part of the problem—the question of identity. The volume records dignified, serious investigation that was conducted in the interests of science.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“It is the nature of a crank to go off on any tangent, and Mr. Garland has offered the largest tangent ever provided for a soul-sniffing public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Offers practically nothing new for consideration and investigation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 586. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“For the benefit of those inclined to take his book at all seriously it may be added that the ‘phase’ of mediumship with which it is almost wholly concerned is precisely that which has been most conclusively demonstrated to be permeated through and through with fraud.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Garnett, Porter.= Bohemian jinks: a treatise. *$1.50. Porter Garnett, Bohemian club, San Francisco.
8–21800.
An account of the woodland midsummer dramatic and musical performances given, one a year, by the Bohemian club of San Francisco at the close of a two-weeks’ encampment.
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“The book makes very interesting reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Porter Garnett has put a great many of us under obligations to him by giving us his little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5. ’08. 760w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 367. D. ’08. 470w.
=Garnett, Theodore Stanford.= J. E. B. Stuart (major-general) commander of the cavalry corps, Army of northern Virginia, C. S. A. *$1. Neale.
7–42107.
An address delivered at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of General Stuart, at Richmond, May 30, 1907. It furnishes a suggestive outline for a fuller biography which it is hoped the author will soon undertake.
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“The address by Judge Garnett furnishes a good outline of Stuart’s career.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 140w.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Studies in the inner life of Jesus. *$2.25. Armstrong.
8–19128.
A study of the mind, heart, and will of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels. “Two men constantly struggle for the mastery in this volume—the Scotsman and the German, the dogmatic theologian and the religious psychologist, and when the balance is not maintained it is the latter that usually goes under.” (Hibbert J.) In justifying his study of the inner life of Jesus Dr. Garvie says “an exaggerated importance is attached to a knowledge of contemporary customs and costume” and that “enough has been written about the scenery, the upholstery, and drapery of the life of Jesus.”
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“Dr. Garvie’s studies ... are not only the work of a scholar, but of a spiritual seer; of a man who thinks deeply as well as widely. The outlook is modern, but is balanced by distinctly conservative leanings.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 934. Jl. ’08. 1500w.
“Principal Garvie will have a wide hearing, but his work would have gained from greater conciseness.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Garvie’s conclusions are conservative.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 210w.
* =Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis Aidan.= Greater abbeys of England. *$3–50. Dodd.
8–27782.
“Here we have brief histories of [thirty-one] abbeys, beginning with St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and ending with Whitby. Every name among the [thirty-one] is more or less famous, but among the most celebrated are St. Albans, Battle, Furness, Fountains, Glastonbury, Rievaulx, Sherborne, and Tintern.”—Spec.
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“These pictures are for the most part full of charm and supply accurate ideas of the condition of a large number of the ruined and dismantled abbeys of England. He has managed to write in a bright and interesting fashion on each of the thirty-one greater abbeys herein described. His selection of information for this series of short essays shows a thorough mastery of the subject, and in several cases details are supplied which have seldom, if ever, found their way into print.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 767. Je. 20. 1300w.
“The book is written from a strongly sympathetic standpoint, which is not the least of its charms, and with its mine of information and admirable illustrations, commends itself to the reader as a valuable contribution.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“The stories of the various abbeys are told in good English and with the same ripeness of knowledge as in his other works on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 170w.
“The task of setting these beautiful ruins and their history before American readers has been well done. The fireside traveler is likely to enjoy the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“The illustrations would alone make the book valuable. We could wish, indeed, that they had stood by themselves, or been accompanied by a neutral account.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 793. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Cupid, the cow punch. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37708.
“This is not so much a novel as a collection of magazine stories, loosely connected and numbered as chapters. Cupid is the name of Alec Lloyd, a cowboy, who, besides being a philosopher and sentimentalist, has a local reputation as a matchmaker. The narrative comes from him and is in dialect.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Overdone, but will interest a good many.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08.
“Is clean, wholesome, and amusing—in other words, not commonplace.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book shows an intimate knowledge of the western plains, and is full of good, honest fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“While Cupid’s good nature and clever turns of phrase are infectiously amusing, one is left rather breathless at the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 39. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Gause, Isaac.= Four years with five armies. *$2. Neale.
8–3950.
A short history of campaigns, privations and engagements within the experience of one who served in the armies of the Frontier, of the Potomac, of the Missouri, of the Ohio and of the Shenandoah.
=Gauss, Henry Colford.= American government: organization and officials; with the duties and powers of federal office holders: an original summarization; with a compilation of data from original sources. $5. Hamersly.
8–6616.
A standard work of reference on the structure and regulations of the American government and the duties and powers of federal officials whose aim is to make federal practice “less of a mystery to the millions who are at once the sovereigns of the respective states and of the federal nation.”
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“The information is complete, encyclopedic in scope, but without literary pretension. Not for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“There are serious limitations upon the usefulness of the book, because no sense of proportion is maintained.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 120w.
“The fault of the book is that its policy in matters of detail is not at all uniform. In general, the expository matter is clear and accurate, treating of actual practice rather than theory.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The compilation contains nearly nine hundred pages, and every one of them is informative, giving just the sort of information which a busy publicist, journalist, lawyer, or merchant often requires at short notice.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 250w.
* =Gebhardt, George Frederick.= Steam power plant engineering. *$6. Wiley.
8–27111.
“The author devotes chapters to fuels, boilers, furnaces, superheaters, coal and ash handling, chimneys, mechanical draft, steam engines, turbines, condensers, feed water and feed heaters, pumps, separators and traps, piping lubrication, general costs, testing and typical specifications. In each chapter a rather elementary description is made to lead up to a condensed discussion of the most recent practice.”—Engin. Rec.
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“But slight adverse criticism can be made on the book, and that only in a few minor details. The whole work seems modern, comprehensive and reliable and, while professedly prepared for students, it should serve as a good memory aid for the older engineer and a guide for the younger. Its bibliographies alone make it a valuable reference.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 534. N. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Cannot fail to be of value to engineers in general, and, as a reference, will prove useful to steam specialists.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Gehring, Albert.= Racial contrasts: distinguishing traits of the Graeco-Latins and Teuton’s. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–26696.
A study in race psychology made with the purpose of differentiating the moral, intellectual and spiritual qualities revealed in the literature, life, and art of the Græco-Latin people from the characteristics of the Teutonic race as seen in the same fields. The following divisions are made in the study: Racial contrasts, The fluctuations of beauty and morality, On homology of thought and action, On temporal expansion and contraction, and Organic evolution in the light of comparative philology.
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=Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“These essays promote breadth of intellectual view, hospitality to new ideas, freedom from provincialism and prejudice, generosity of spirit toward all men.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=George, Edward Augustus.= Seventeenth century men of latitude; forerunners of the new theology. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–14321.
The life and writings of some broad-minded men in a century of narrowness constitute the theme of this study. Among them are John Hales, William Chillingworth, Benjamin Whichcote. John Smith, Henry More, Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Richard Baxter.
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“While not a contribution to scholarship, the general reader may find this little labor of love a helpful supplement to the closely-packed article on latitudinarianism and Cambridge Platonism in volume 5 of the ‘Cambridge modern history.’” A. L. C.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 171. O. ’08. 340w.
“It shows no philosophical grasp and makes little or no pretense to connect these English writers with the great currents of European thought. It is written with enthusiasm. It ought to have great refreshment for those to whom Tulloch’s work is too long and too solid.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 190w.
“In Mr. George’s story of their lives and varied experiences, illuminated with ample citations from their writings, one recognizes a work of loving and careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
* =George, W. L.= France in the twentieth century. **$1.75. Lane.
A discussion of conditions in France of today, bearing upon church and state, social life, and literature and the drama.
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“The author is too prone to generalization which is not always accurate. His inaccuracy also extends to specific facts.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 36. Jl. 11. 740w.
“In the great political struggle between Church and State he is openly and avowedly on the side of the latter. It is the one topic on which he loses his attitude of careful, cold analysis and becomes a militant partisan. Throughout this part of the book the reader sees the English part of Mr. George in conflict with the French part. He gives both a chance to be heard, and the self-revelation of the conflict between the two adds no little to the charm of a thoughtful, comprehensive, and eminently readable book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 970w.
“On the whole his views are sensible if not very original.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
* =Gerhard, William Paul.= American practice of gas piping and gas lighting in buildings. *$3. McGraw.
8–17561.
“Chapters of greatest interest to engineers are on (1) the arrangement of gas pipes in buildings, (2) specifications, tables, rules and regulations of companies in regard to piping generally, (3) piping systems for coal, water, natural, air and acetylene gases, (4) testing of piping installations, (5) burners, (6) pressure regulators, (7) globes and holders, (8) fixtures, (9) bibliography. The chapters more easily read by laymen are on topics like prejudices against and fallacies of using gas, advantages of gas as an illuminant and for heat and power, gas meters and gas-meter stories, interior illumination, lighting of country houses, relations of gas companies to consumers, practical hints for consumers, accidents and dangers to public health.”—Engin. N.
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“For the ordinary householder probably a half of the book will be a little too technical and too tedious to hold his attention until he gets well into the back half and finds there the general hints, suggestions and discussions which he can more readily grasp.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 660w.
“The book is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative in its special field, the use of gas by the consumer. It should be a great help to the architect in answering the many questions clients ask regarding gas supply, for it is a book that may be safely recommended to any house owner as a guide.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Modern baths and bath houses. *$3. Wiley.
8–3516.
“A comprehensive treatment of water baths for private dwellings, municipalities, schools, factories, military barracks, prisons, hospitals, clubhouses, etc. The classes of baths named are, of course, indoor establishments. In addition there is a chapter on river and sea baths. Besides water baths, the author treats in considerable detail of air and sun baths, and medical and electric-light baths.”—Engin. N.
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“An excellent book on different forms of baths.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Altogether the book is a very useful addition to the literature of sanitation and of social welfare. It contains more repetitions than are pleasant to a person who reads the book from beginning to end. It is a far more comprehensive work than ‘Public baths and wash-houses,’ by Alfred W. S. Cross.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 207. F. 20, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 40w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Sanitation of public buildings. $1.50. Wiley.
7–37728.
“The public buildings here considered are hospitals, theaters, churches and schools. In addition, the various buildings and accessories of markets and abbatoirs are taken up. The selection of sites, some of the elements of general design, water supply, lighting, heating, ventilating, cleansing, plumbing, sewage and refuse disposal are the main divisions under which each class of buildings is treated. Fire protection is also given a prominent place.”—Engin. N.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is well written, and the layman who is interested in civic affairs will find it easy reading and not so technical in its terminology as to be tedious.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 69. Ja. ’08. 340w.
“As a manual in the true sense of the word ... the volume deserves commendation. It would serve admirably for the use of boards of health and their inspectors.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 655. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“What he has to say on school sanitation and his detailed advice for the care and cleansing of schoolrooms should be studied by parents, teachers, superintendents, and school boards, while his chapters upon church, theatre, and hospital sanitation are of import to all who frequent these edifices.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 190w.
“A useful little work. It is believed that this is the first American book to treat these subjects in a practical way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Gerry, Margarita Spalding.= Toy-shop: a romantic story of Lincoln the man. **50c. Harper.
8–25742.
A child’s lisped request for tin soldiers sent Lincoln, burdened with the nation’s troubles, one day to a toy shop. While selecting them, and marshaling them quite unconsciously into drilling order, and listening to the French shop-keeper’s eulogies of Napoleon’s methods of warfare, the inspiration comes to Lincoln to put Grant at the head of the Union army. It is with this incident that the little volume deals.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“A study of Lincoln the man which is very human and tender.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Gibbs, George Fort.= Medusa emerald. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35622.
An “emerald unaccountably disappears while being displayed to the guests on [board Alexander Wharton’s] yacht one evening, suspicion falls on a young man, Edward Dillingham, who refuses to empty his pockets, as all the other men insist on doing. After this the evil powers of the stone certainly appear to wreak themselves upon the suspected youth. However, all’s well that ends well; the matter is finally cleared up satisfactorily, after many adventures by sea and land that follow with kaleidoscopic variety and rapidity.” (Outlook.)
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=Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Romance of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham and some men and women of the Stuart court. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–12964.
This favorite of James I. and Charles I. who in history and in fiction figures so courageously and so daringly is here portrayed in the light of patriot, egotist, and friend—always the darling of fortune. His many-sided nature now gleams out on the side of virtue and again close-linked with vice. He stands out as the “greatest and last example and victim of a political system which may fairly be called in his case a system of favoritism tempered by assassination.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“He has written one of the brightest, cheeriest, and most readable books that have come under our notice for a long time. The inevitable passages of special pleading do not offend us, because in every case Mr. Gibbs is honest enough to emphasize the saving clauses, and because it is perfectly clear that he does not realize that it is special pleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 595. My. 16. 2400w.
“He has got his materials well together, and has made a book that can be read with interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 218. Mr. 5, ’08. 500w.
“Not by any means ignoring the larger historical issues, English and European, of Buckingham’s career, he shows a special sensibility to its human and picturesque aspects. The result is a book both readable and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 126. Mr. 7, ’08. 800w.
“We are not surprised that Mr. Gibbs, who has the right touch for work of this kind, has made a very readable book on the subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 474. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“He can hardly be said to have made a cool or unbiassed study of Buckingham.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 133. Jl. 25, ’08. 1450w.
* =Gibson, Adam H.= Hydraulics and its applications. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“An attempt has been made to consider the science, and its application to the design of hydraulic machinery, in a manner suitable for a student who has some initial knowledge of mechanics.”
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“The book stands in much the same relation to the works of Merriman and Church that Cotterill’s does to the ordinary treatise on mechanics. The subject matter is not handled with uniform discretion, some parts being excellent and others rather loosely thrown together, and the language in places is that of a lecturer rather than of a writer, and worst of all, the citations of experimental data are not always accurate.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 90: 534. N. 12, ’08. 1700w.
“We think that in one or two cases the matter might have been arranged to rather better advantage, but, on the whole, we have no hesitation in saying that the book is an excellent contribution to the literature of the subject, and embodies the result of no little personal investigation and research. It is specially a student’s book, and will appeal more particularly to those who are already equipped with some fundamental knowledge of hydraulics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 218. Jl. 9, ’08. 800w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Interpretation of the Bible: a short history. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–6097.
“Beginning with the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament, Dr. Gilbert traces the history of the interpretation of the Scriptures through the Catholic and the Alexandrian Fathers, the mediaevals, the reformers, the movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, down to the birth of scientific interpretation in the nineteenth.” (Bib. World.) It “deserves commendation to all Bible readers who are concerned for reality, for the facts inlaid in the Scriptures, and for their meaning.” (Outlook.)
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“Covers a large field which has been but lightly touched upon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“The careful reading of this book would be a liberal education for the average man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Its defects are due chiefly to its brevity. Within so brief a compass the author could not do justice to many phases of this important and interesting subject. The book lacks the fulness and ornateness of language, the wealth and variety of illustration, the suggestiveness and brilliancy of Farrar’s; but as a brief, clear, strong and careful presentation it occupies a field all its own and will serve a useful purpose.” J: C. Granbery.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 214. S. ’08. 870w.
“This treatise keeps the salient and noteworthy to the front, and allows one to follow interestingly a remarkable and instructive history.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 95. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Gilbert has made an interesting contribution to the curiosities of literature in his numerous citations of Biblical interpretations from Philo Judæus to Jonathan Edwards.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“On the whole the book is entertaining, especially in the bits of naive moralizing on every subject from the cleanliness of the poor to Christian Science, that cling like mistletoe to the trunk of the story, and appeal potently, if unconsciously, to the reader’s sense of humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2. ’08. 110w.
=Gilbey, Sir Walter, and Cuming, Edward W. D.= George Morland: his life and works, il. *$6. Macmillan.
8–17200.
An authoritative biography which makes its appeal to the lay reader as well as to the student. “We have for the first time a plain, unvarnished Morland, a just estimate of his character as an artist and a man.” (Ath.) Fifty reproductions of Morland’s pictures add to the value of the volume.
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“It is far and away the best of the many books on Morland. The weakest feature of the book is the apology for an index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 1000w.
“This admirable volume forms a valuable and important acquisition to art literature on account of the completeness of the biographical portion and the excellence and number of the illustrations.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: 83. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Morland’s warm brown tone, however agreeable in the original oil paintings, does not harmonize with white paper and printer’s ink, and as colored book illustrations the plates are singularly ineffective, not to say unpleasant.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Gilbreth, Frank B.= Field system. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–2205.
A work which gives in detail the open methods for proper, prompt and economical execution of work which have made Mr. Gilbreth’s contract business so successful. “The various forms employed throughout the different stages of work are given, with explicit instructions for their use in ordering materials, checking work, keeping time sheets, etc. Instructions are also given on the mixing of cement and concrete, the handling of forms, use of drills, care of engines, air compressors and hoists, pumping, etc. Throughout the work are interspersed tables and formulas.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 189. F. ’08. 350w.
“It should prove stimulating to every one concerned in the conduct of engineering work, [tho] its arrangement is heterogeneous and confused, in parts.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. *$1. Century.
7–32169.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“This volume is one of the very few books of verse that have appeared in recent years that is worthy of a place in the library of lovers of poetry instinct with the ethical spirit.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 675. D. ’07. 460w.
“Now and then, irregular rhythms are essayed in this volume, and even poems in prose, but these experiments we cannot regard as upon the level of the work done in accordance with the rules of the poetic art.” W: M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 76. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“On the whole, it is, perhaps, these rhythmic intermissions of Mr. Gilder’s on one subject and another which give his book a kind of distinction or difference, lending it a bold, adventurous. innovating air, among the increasing legions of mildly meritorious versifiers, whose names have outgrown enumeration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 180w.
“This latest book by Richard Watson Gilder, who holds an unchallengeable place among the poets of to-day, is above all a poet’s book. There is much else, genius of the féministe type, vital and large-hearted, if not rugged technique as fluent and varied as it is delightful, nobility of ideal, and a reality of feeling that lifts the product it permeates to the summits of enduring poesy.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 1200w.
“In this volume he also continues his experiments with relaxed meters; not always with success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 143. Ja. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A complete edition of Gilder’s poems containing the substance of his nine books of verse and also additional pieces which have not appeared in a collection. Mr. Gilder’s versatility due to broad sympathies, love of mankind, human instinct, and the dreamer’s idealism accounts for his wide range of verse. There are poems dealing with the affairs of every day life; poems characterizing men of worth and genius; and poems which bring to the consciousness the immortal value of certain monuments of music and art.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron.= Government regulation of the Elizabethan drama. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24263.
Based upon official documents of the time, this monograph “deals first with the general regulation of the drama by the central government then traces the rise of the master of the revels and of the extensive powers which finally came into his hands, and follows this with a study of the censorship of which the master was the official administrator. Then follows a detailed account of the local regulations in London and of the long and bitter strife which was waged between the municipal government and the royal authority as to whether the drama should or should not be enacted in the city. A chapter upon the Puritan victory ends the study.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A very thorough piece of work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 218. O. 1, ’08. 40w.
“The author has gone into the subject very thoroughly and presented in clear and succinct form, although perhaps a little dry in manner, an immense accumulation of facts.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Gill, Augustus Herman.= Engine-room chemistry. *$1. Hill pub.
8–813.
“Aims to give such information concerning oils, fuels and the phenomena of combustion and steam-raising, all expressed in fairly nontechnical language, as will enable the average reader to understand what is necessary from the point of view of chemistry to obtain the maximum efficiency in the power plant.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Accurate little book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“The book is not intended to appeal to the chemist or technical man. It is too elementary to do this. On the other hand, it is hardly practical to give the uneducated man a volume which, in one hundred pages, tries to give him sufficient knowledge to enable him to undertake analyses which the student of chemistry never performs until he has studied the fundamental principles on which such analysis is based, for at least a year or a year and a half.”
− + =Engin. D.= 3: 72. Ja. ’08. 320w.
“If there is any criticism to be made of the book it is that to read or study it intelligently probably somewhat better knowledge of inorganic chemistry is necessary than even a good engineman or the superintendent of a small shop may be expected to possess.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“A little book, professedly written for the engineer and engine man, but useful for a much wider circle of readers.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gill, George Creswell.= Beyond the blue-grass; a Kentucky novel. $1.50. Neale.
8–12785.
A picture of the life of the people among the hills of Ginseng county, beyond the Blue-Grass region. “Almost all of his characters are rural Kentuckians, and we see them in their homes, at work on their farms, and congregated in their villages, all of them picturesque and all of them more or less interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is not thrilling and his style is quite lacking in literary quality: but there is a certain merit in his book in spite of its shortcomings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 441. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Gillette, Halbert Powers, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Concrete construction: methods and cost. *$5. Clark, M. C.
8–13350.
Treated from the viewpoint of the builder of concrete structures. “The authors have collected ... a vast number of examples of concrete work. These are presented in concise form, with the unimportant details removed; there is an attempt to preserve a certain uniformity of treatment so as to permit comparison between similar constructions. In addition to these specific examples the authors have added, in connection with every branch of work, general instructions deduced from observation and formulas for quantity and cost estimates.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work should prove of exceeding value not only to contractors and engineers ... but to designing engineers and architects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 420w.
“On the whole, the book is a welcome addition to concrete literature. It is frankly a compilation and suffers from some of the ordinary faults of a compilation, but the work of compiling has been done with so much more care than is usual in such books and so much original matter has been added that the statistical nature, often the bane of collated material, is largely lost. We believe every concrete designer and constructor should have a copy.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 950w.
“While the expert engineer may glean some points from the book, it is liable to prove dangerous in the hands of inexperienced men, especially as to its cost features.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Gillmore, Inez Haynes.= June jeopardy. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–17784.
Around a diamond necklace worth a half million and its paste counterpart is woven a story whose exciting events are all crowded into a single night. The character cast includes maids and their lovers, robbers, scheming servants, and the dog Veritas.
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=Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story puts very little strain on one’s mental powers, and, with the added attraction of a quick-moving plot, ought to find favor with summer readers:”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande: a guide to the opera; with musical examples from the score. *$1. Schirmer.
7–41522.
Complete instruction with full consideration for the inspirational side is offered in this little volume. Mr. Gilman discusses Debussy and his art, The play—its qualities and its action, and The music—a revolutionary score, and the themes and their treatment.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Stories of symphonic music: a guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day. **$1.25. Harper.
7–35627.
A practical handbook for the concert-goer which offers in compact, accessible form, information which will enable him to listen intelligently to orchestral music. “It tells stories which underlie the most important works in the orchestra repertoire, describing the drama, legend, picture, mood, or poem which the music expresses. It presents clearly and without technical analysis the basis of every considerable descriptive work in the symphonic repertoire.”
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“A compact little book, for intelligent concert goers rather than professional musicians. Scrappy and journalistic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08.
“The comment is of a highly intelligent character, providing real information and avoiding the meaningless rhapsodizing into which writers upon music are tempted to fall.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 433. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is a compilation from many sources, but it is well made, and the book will serve a useful purpose—it is in all respects worthy of place on the music-lover’s shelves besides Mr. George P. Upton’s series on the ‘Standard’ operas, oratorios and so on.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 106. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Gilman has covered the field well, and collated thoroughly all the annotators.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“The information contained in his volume really ought to be printed in the programmes distributed in the concert-halls. Is one of Mr. Gilman’s most useful and readable contributions to musical literature.” H: T. Finck.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 281. F. ’08. 1650w.
“A useful handbook for the opera and concert goer.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 30w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Church and modern life. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–9795.
A practical as well as inspirational study, seeking an audience among pastors and teachers but aiming to arouse to activity the young men and women to whom the future of the church is committed. The author shows that the roots of religion are in human nature; that like all living things, religion grows; that our religion is Christianity; that Christianity is a social religion; that as the life of religion is nurtured in social worship and service, so its fruit is gathered in the transformation of society; that the church has imperfectly performed its function; that a new reformation is called for; that the church is called to redeem society; and that for the redemption of society a new evangelism is needed.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a good one to put into the hands of those who are inclined to be discouraged over the outlook for the church.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 280w.
“Dr. Gladden’s essay will make for sanity as well as earnestness in the current debate on the relation of religion and the church to social reform.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 160w.
“The book is interpretative of the present movement in the American churches, and will add to that movement both guidance and new impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 80w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson G.= Ancient law. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–2945.
The hero of this novel is a modern Jean Valjean, who goes wrong on the stock exchange and after five years of imprisonment seeks refuge in a southern town under the name of Smith. “It is a long, weary, beaten road that he travels, and he is but the concrete embodiment of a world-old tragedy and world-old problem which has survived crumbling ages. What makes him distinct among many of his brothers is an all-encompassing vision that comprehends both the letter and the spirit of the law that enchains him. Herein is the keynote of an absorbing and convincing story.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The characters are drawn with a sure, skilful hand, the story uncommonly well told.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08. ✠
“In spite of these drawbacks the book is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 180w.
“Its figures, with one exception, are puppets, not human beings. They have no blood or breath of their own. We may be thankful for the lack of funny business in Miss Glasgow’s book, but we have still to regret its lack of proportion, of perspective, of that indefinable circumambient atmosphere, of insight and sympathy with which true humour surrounds its material.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 59. Mr. ’08. 860w.
“Miss Glasgow’s latest novel has both dignity and charm, although certain almost melodramatic happenings, huddled into the closing chapters, do not seem quite in keeping with the sincerity and restraint of what has gone before.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 14: 134. Mr. 1, ’08. 520w.
“But Ellen Glasgow has ascended. She has omitted the family portraits and most of the pedigrees in her new story and made ready for a long, wide sweep of the wings. She has not parted company with the populace. She has simply assumed a nobler attitude to it.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 720w.
“Miss Glasgow writes, as always, with fluency, gravity, and a species of ‘empressment’ which may go a long way toward achieving the effects of depth and subtlety. [The story has an] anti-climax, and [it] sinks through chapters of crude melodrama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 480w.
“It is a book calculated to make you pause in the survey of rapid-fire fiction and realize that here is the real note of study, of character, and of observation. It is indeed a novel of dignity and of distinction.” I. F. Marcosson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 53. F. 1, ’08. 1480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“There are many fine and haunting passages.” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 445. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“The book is eminently dignified and worthy. In its nature it is less entertaining than other novels by Miss Glasgow, but it is a fine piece of literary work notwithstanding.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“She has silhouetted several characters with extreme cleverness, but, more than this, she has chosen a situation and developed it up to an interesting point with some of Mr. Howells’ skill, concluding the story where it is evidently impossible for her to go on. There are very grave defects in her hero’s character, defects that are inconsistencies, for whose weakening influence on the story Miss Glasgow alone is responsible.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 80w.
“The story is founded on a basis of false sentiment and false psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Though written in a different vein from some of Miss Glasgow’s other books, none the less this story furnishes very excellent reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Glover, Ellye Howell.= “Dame Curtsey’s” book of novel entertainments. **$1. McClurg.
7–34781.
A veritable mine of suggestion for the hostess who entertains a great deal. The plans for parties, dinners, luncheons, and games have been thoroly tested and are offered in so great variety that there is something for every day of the year.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“[Contains] many things that are exceedingly valuable in the way of suggestion to the entertaining hostess.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Goddard, Harold Clarke.= Studies in New England transcendentalism. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1. Macmillan.
8–14677.
A doctoral thesis. “Taking these five—Channing, Alcott, Emerson, Parker, and Margaret Fuller—as the foremost representatives of the movement in New England from traditionalism to free thought, Dr. Goddard goes into a minutely inductive study of its genesis and nature, beginning with an investigation of the intellectual and literary influences that affected each of the five in their environment, their reading and studies, and their influence on each other; after which he discusses their relations, severally, to practical life.” (Outlook.)
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“He has the true scholarly spirit and a certain aptness for getting the ear of his audience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 380. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The grasp of general ideas, the sound and penetrating criticism, the orderly marshalling of material, and the literary virtues ... lift this thesis above the mass of ephemeral doctoral dissertations, and give it permanent and substantial value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 500w.
“This monograph is rich in its personal portrayals of the notable characters it is concerned with, and is also a most valuable contribution to the religious and philosophical history of the first half of the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering. bk. 2, Concrete. lea. *$2.50. Edward Godfrey, Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
“The book starts with a chapter headed ‘A survey of the field of concrete design and construction, in which will be found some theses,’ which is a rapid survey of the scheme of the book. This is followed by a short treatment of the materials which go to make up concrete structures, and the methods of handling, finishing and constructing the concrete. Next there are given some isolated cost figures of no exact value, as the conditions under which the work was carried on are omitted. This completes the original portion of the book. There follow articles selected from Engineering news, and thirty pages of cuts.”—Engin. N.
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“Altogether Mr. Godfrey’s work is a valuable contribution to the literature of concrete and concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“In his theory the author is sound; the main objection to his presentation ... is an almost too apparent didacticism and a slight intolerance of any other views but his own. The plan is ambitious and it seems a pity to have it fall so far short of its proper usefulness on account of easily-corrected details of arrangement and composition. The physical make-up of the book only adds to the confusion.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 543. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Hollis.= Man who ended war. †$1.50. Little.
8–28057.
A stirring novel which exploits an ingenious scientific achievement. A man who conceals his identity informs nations that he is destined to stop all war. He orders disarmament, gives a year for it, and, at its end, when no move is made, proceeds single handed to destroy one battleship after another making use of his remarkable and mysterious invention.
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“It is a very interesting and wholly manly story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Godrycz, John.= Doctrine of modernism and its refutation. *75c. McVey.
8–17779.
The author “follows the text of the Papal encyclical against modernism, and first gives his statement of what modernism is in a form for easy reply, and then follows it by a ‘Refutation.’... His refutation begins by asserting that modernism is based on positivism, which is rationalistic and irreligious.... He supports his attacks on the modernists by quotations from Newman Smyth and George Washington, and concludes that ‘one of the greatest persecutions that ever swept over the church is preparing in Europe.’”—Ind.
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+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 686. Ag. ’08. 700w.
− =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Interesting is it to thoughtful Protestants.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 330w.
=Goerens, Paul.= Introduction to metallography; tr. by Fred Ibbotson. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–21497.
A study of the structure of metals which contains much information quite inaccessible to the American student. The first section deals with the physical properties of matter, including allotrophy, cooling curves, and pyrometry; the second, on the physical mixture, deals with the theories of solutions and freezing-point curves of aqueous solutions, fused salts and alloys; the third and fourth are concerned respectively with practical microscopy of metals and the metallography of iron and its alloys.
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“We believe it will find important service as a text-book, and as side reading for practicing metallurgists. The lack of lucidity is, we think, the fault rather of the form and substance of the original text than of the translator.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 79. Jl. 16, ’08. 920w.
“In the whole, the book is hardly more than an introduction into the subject, but as such it is valuable and will prove useful to students of this subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
“Enough has been said to show that the standard work on metallography is yet to be written, but that students will find Dr. Goerens’s book admirable as affording them a glimpse of the methods of investigating metals and alloys.” T. K. R.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 387. Ag. 27, ’08. 630w.
“The exposition of the theoretical side of the subject is not as complete as it might have been but it will give the beginner an excellent idea of equilibrium phenomena. The explanations of the freezing-point diagrams have been duplicated unnecessarily, perhaps not for the beginner, but certainly for those using the book for reference. For the latter class of readers there is too much detail.” H: Fay.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 489. O. 9, ’08. 420w.
=Goodrich, Albert Moses.= Cruise and captures of the Alabama. *75c. Wilson, H. W.
7–27369.
Material that came to light with the publication of the naval records of the rebellion has been supplemented here by Captain Semmes’ diary, which after the war was expanded into a memoir, by diaries of the Alabama’s officers, and by various consular reports. The material worked over with care has been presented in a trustworthy form, readable and informing.
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“A graphic, impartial, and trustworthy résumé, based upon the documents of what was perhaps the most picturesque and important episode of the ocean warfare.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27. ’08. 140w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Gleam o’ Dawn. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–17835.
A story of the Canadian border whose hero is a young half-breed, a poet in feeling and an artist in expression. The spiritual within him wars against the elemental savage desire to avenge the death of his mother, Gleam o’Dawn, who had been deserted by his white father. On the side of vengeance he is spurred on by an Indian who had been his father’s rival; the white path of forgiveness is urged by the “li’l brown girl” whom he loves. Repentance, revenge, tragedy and conquest are the subjective notes of the book.
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“The plot is slight, and the story somewhat sensational, but it is breezy, graceful, full of the charm of outdoor life, and contains some excellent characterizations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08.
“Mr. Goodrich is to be congratulated upon having first designed a worthy pattern, and then upon having woven it with delicate and skilful art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 503. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“One is tempted to think that a masterly short story has been partly sacrificed to the mistaken call of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The plot has many threads, yet it never becomes tangled, and it is brought to a powerful climax, in the virility and tenseness of which there is no touch of melodrama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Gordon, Alexander R.= Early traditions of Genesis. *$2.25. Scribner.
8–9521.
“Embodies a reverent and at the same time thoroughly scientific reconstruction of the traditions and historical facts recorded in the earlier portions of the book of Genesis.”—Ath.
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“This book cannot be praised too highly for its scientific method and its thoroughness. It is written with full mastery of the earlier literature and brings many new and valuable suggestions to the solution of the problems. It may unhesitatingly be recommended as the best book in English on the subject, and it is doubtful whether there is a better treatise in any other language.” L: B. Paton.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 466. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“The author is fully abreast of the most recent discoveries and speculations, and he also possesses the power of lucid and attractive exposition. Valuable additions to the work are the appendixes. The index is inadequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 500w.
“The method is thoroughly critical and historical, and excellent use has been made of the best literature. The results achieved indicate breadth of view, sanity of judgment, and a competent independence of opinion. This is certainly all in all the best book in English on the early stories of Genesis.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“This book is a valuable and welcome piece of constructive criticism by one who has a sympathetic appreciation of all that is elevating in Hebrew tradition.” A. A. Madsden.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 140. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
“He is content to walk mainly in trodden paths; but he has seen things for himself by the way.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“This is one of the best books we have read for a long time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“We must be content with saying that Professor Gordon’s theories show great learning and ingenuity, and that the whole book is well worth careful study. This or that theory may fail to satisfy us, but the effect of the whole study is largely to widen our outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 156. Ja. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Robin Aroon: a comedy of manners. *$1.25. Neale.
8–28989.
A story of the South just before the revolution in which the spirit, grace, hospitality and glory of old colonial days are happily depicted. Captain Paul Jones figures in the tale.
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“An interesting and amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, 08. 100w.
=Gordon, C. H. C. Pirie-.= Innocent the Great. *$3. Longmans.
8–3997.
“The essay is divided into ten chapters, which deal with the period of Pope Innocent’s pontificate, the person and family of the Pontiff, his dealings with the empire, the fourth crusade, the Pope and Sicily, his dealings with the Albigensians. Innocent III. and England, difficulties with the city of Rome, etc., and the character of the Pope. Besides these chapters, the book contains six appendices, four maps, and eight genealogical tables.”—Acad.
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“Our author has brought to his work some important qualities of a real historian; he endeavours, for example, to guage the spirit of the times about which he writes, and to judge the deeds and opinion of the chief actors by the standards of the days in which they lived, and not too hastily to condemn them by measuring their works and sayings by the principles or practices of more modern times. He has also obviously taken great pains to understand his materials, although perhaps in some cases he has given himself unnecessary trouble.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 55. O. 26, ’07. 1680w.
“The essay is an undigested product. The diction of the book is fairly startling by its affectation. A more serious criticism of the work is its inaccuracy.” E: B. Krehbiel.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“This is a portentous work eked out with appendixes, but of little real value.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 200w.
“Though it does not add to historic knowledge, it contains much that has not hitherto been easily accessible to English readers. It is provided, too, with many references to original authorities, with useful appendices, and good maps.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 379. D. 13, ’07. 1440w.
“A hopeless style might be excused if the things it was intended to convey were worth the telling; but at no point of his narrative does Mr. Pirie-Gordon rise to the height of even a modest demand for historical soundness.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 470w.
“It cannot honestly be said that he throws any new light on a baffling period, or brings us to any more vivid understanding of the pontiff under whose sway papal pretensions reached their high-water mark. The author would do well in the future to prune his style of its very irritating classicisms and other affectations.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Gordon, William John.= Round about the North Pole. *$5. Dutton.
8–10293.
An account of the heroes of arctic exploration. “In telling the story of the different expeditions from that of Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553, to Robert Peary’s in 1906, the author has divided the region into sections, beginning with Spitsbergen and following the circle to Greenland, describing the exploration of each section by itself. The main incidents and achievements of the various expeditions are grouped together with numerous extracts from journals and anecdotes.” (Nation.)
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“As a popular account of Arctic adventure the book has its use; but the serious history of Arctic exploration is still to seek.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 820w.
“A more inspiring record of bravery, endurance, sacrifice of self for the sake of one’s comrades, unflinching devotion to duty in the face of deathly peril, it would be difficult to find.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“As an introduction to Arctic travel for the use of those to whom references to original sources are unnecessary we do not know a better book, nor do we think that a work of this kind, where a vast amount of a material is condensed within a few pages, could on the whole be made lighter or more readable without sacrificing its serious character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 538. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
“We recommend this volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Gore, Charles.= New theology and old religion: being eight lectures, together with five sermons. *$2. Dutton.
8–14749.
These lectures and sermons constitute an apologetic which places the new and the old side by side, and on the one hand points to the benefits to be derived from a study of the new, while on the other maintains that the old contains scientific beliefs which cannot be abandoned but which are integral to the creed of Christianity.
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“The five sermons at the end, to our thinking are the most valuable part of the volume. Like all Bishop Gore’s writings, they are a little unattractive and hard. His style is lucid without grace, and strong without elasticity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 183. F. 15. 2000w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 128. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“In maintaining these views, Bishop Gore represents the sane, sensible, English attitude which is to be expected of him. While his treatment will not satisfy all who are in sympathy with modern science, yet on the whole it is reasonable and helpful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 500w.
“This volume might be described as a kind of Anglican Catholic encyclical on Modernism: interesting but inconclusive to the man who is animated by the modern spirit.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“His weak point is his style; he tries to be simple and impressive, but only succeeds in being heavy. At present he treats his hearers as if they were children, and not very good ones.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 796. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
* =Gorky, Maxim.= The spy: the story of a superfluous man. $1.50. Huebsch.
A realistic story of revolutionary Russia which depicts the workings of the secret service and the bitter trials of the revolutionist in his struggle for liberty. In the portrayal of the “superfluous man” from stunted childhood to weak, anaemic manhood the author reveals in all their flagrant hideousness the abortive influences rife in Russia to terminate manhood development and to produce betrayers of the Judas type.
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“The reader may have to set his teeth, not to say to hold his nose, as he reads—but he will be convinced if he sticks it out that this life of which Gorky writes is a fact.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 1000w.
“In his characteristic vivid manner the author realistically describes revolutionary Russia of the present day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“One of the most fascinating and interesting pieces of literature that has been issued of recent years. It is a great book, but for our part we scarcely like this close anatomisation by a son of a father.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“Written with great charm, with delicacy of feeling, poetic insight, and not a little humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 41. F. ’08.
“If the writer should achieve anything like lasting remembrance, it will be due to this work rather than to any of the studies, essays, or verse in which his learning and versatility have won praise. This book is unique.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 6. Ja. 4. 1800w.
“As a personal revelation, this book must take its place in the small group that includes such vital records of the soul as Amiel’s ‘Journal’ and ‘The story of an African farm.’” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 527. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“No book could better show the vast difference between plausible but wholly imaginary biography and autobiography ... on the one hand, and the actual record of a human soul on the other, than this detailed account of the warring of two discordant temperaments.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 96. F. 16, ’08. 1520w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 315. F. 6, ’08. 470w.
“If it be not a document, as the writer calls it, is, we admit, an extremely subtile and fascinating analysis of two human minds.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 197. F. 27, ’08. 1850w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 694. My. 30, ’08. 1250w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Henrik Ibsen. (Literary lives.) **$1. Scribner.
7–41565.
A biography which sketches the influences, positive and negative, that set the great poet to weaving such an individual life tapestry. Ibsen’s adventures as an author are recorded with an idea single to their unity. There is no attempt to set forth the plots of his dramas, nor to treat the spurious “lessons” and supposititious “problems” which so many look for in Ibsen, but to recognize among the “irregularities and audacities,” qualities of merit Mr. Gosse says that it has been Ibsen’s misfortune to attract people who “treat all tulips and roses as if they were cabbages for the pot of didactic morality.” The closing chapters deal with his last years, and his personal and intellectual characteristics.
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“A compact, agreeable, informing biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Gosse has rarely given such proof of his vivacity as in this biography.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 364. Mr. 21. 400w.
“Mr. Gosse has drawn an admirable portrait of Ibsen—from a definite point of view; and it goes without saying that this point of view is entirely Mr. Gosse’s own.” Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 260. Ag. ’08. 580w.
“Mr. Gosse has by no means, as he seems to think, made ‘obsolete’ the standard biography of Ibsen by Henrik Jaeger. That solid performance is likely to outlast many such books as the one Mr. Gosse has given us, agreeable and informing as it is, and it hardly becomes him to belittle a work which is so much more searching and philosophical than his own.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 108. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Gosse’s life of Ibsen is well fitted to supplement the running commentary of Mr. Archer’s introduction. We have in English no other book which gives what we need to know about the man and his methods to understand his achievements.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 921. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Gosse’s book is more complete than those of Jaeger and Rudolph Lothar, and it is also more concise; but it falls short of both in understanding and in sympathy. The figure of Ibsen reflected by the curved mirror of Mr. Gosse’s mind is almost a caricature. Still the book is not without merits. It is briskly written, though not always in good taste, and it gives a fairly just estimate of the plays.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 660w.
“To humanize this sphinx is plainly Mr. Gosse’s aim; if he has not wholly succeeded, he has at least given us a most interesting, sane, and authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“To be noted as of curious interest is the fact that, while Mr. Gosse sometimes adopts the statements of certain Norwegian authorities on Ibsen and his work, he sometimes ignores no less authoritative assertions when they happen to conflict with his pet theories on the subject.” S. R. Cook.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
“His sense of character is too strong to be hushed down by his natural instinct for hero-worship. Just as he sees Ibsen, so does he display him. And the irrepressible sense of character is enforced by a not less active sense of humour.” Max Beerbohm.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 330. Mr. 14, ’08. 1600w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Borderland studies. 2v. v. 2. *$1.50. Blakiston.
7–20140†.
Miscellaneous addresses and essays pertaining to medicine and the medical profession, and their relations to general science and thought. Some of the chapters are: The history of the house, The seven deadly sins of civilization, Disease and sin, Some intellectual weeds of American growth, and Concerning crank, megalomaniac, morphinomaniac, dotard, criminal and insane physicians.
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“While the author commonly has the professional reader in mind, the layman will find much of interest besides getting a good idea of the cleverness of the writer, of his fondness for mannerisms, which are almost sophomoric, and of his use of the sledge-hammer even when a tack-hammer seems quite sufficient.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; with a bibliography by Laura Stedman. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14835.
A series of impressions intended to be of service to anyone who may undertake the task of furnishing a critical estimate of the methods and development of Hearn’s imaginative power and literary development. They deal “with the young man as we find him, uneducated, friendless, without formed character, with a lot of heathenish and unrestrained appetites, crippled as to the most important of the senses, poverty-stricken, improvident, of peculiar and unprepossessing appearance and manners, flung into an alien world in many ways more morbid than himself.”
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“On the whole, the picture of Hearn drawn by Dr. Gould does not differ materially from that to which we were accustomed. It is a little sharper in outline, a little more explicit in detail, that is all.” F: W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 44: 300. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“The reader of the book will desire rather less repetition and a few more authoritative facts.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1348. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“In the actual details of Hearn’s life Dr. Gould presents not much that is new. By far the most valuable parts of the book are those in which Hearn’s literary activities are traced.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 1100w.
“We have not had enough stylists to be able to afford to neglect the memory of Hearn, and Dr. Gould has done a welcome service in so efficiently covering the ground while avoiding the miry and unwholesome places.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 950w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 250w.
“Some readers, we are sure, will be sorry that these pages have been written. They are singularly painful. Many things were against Hearn. And yet we cannot find fault with the book. It presents a very curious picture; and if it leaves a painful impression, one feels at the same time that it makes, or ought to make, for righteousness.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-=, ed. Book of nursery songs and rhymes. **$1.50. McClurg.
With short introductions and ten pages of historical notes there are given here seventy-seven songs, ten game rhymes, a hundred and more jingles. The illustrations and borders are the work of members of the Birmingham art school.
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“I cannot believe in half-hearted scholarship and on the other hand I fail to recognize the need for scholarship in relation to rhymes and jingles in a book for young folks.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1484. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 50w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Devonshire characters and strange events. *$7. Lane.
8–32992.
Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr. Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called Devonshire “oddities,” and the author portrays them with their peculiarities on the outside.
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“This book is thus frankly a book of gossip, and, as we have said, makes capital reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 550w.
“Scrappily put together, to be sure, but containing a good store of entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“This is an odd book. The compiler has managed to bring within his covers much curious information, both about characters and events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w.
“We can promise our readers many happy hours in the perusal of this volume, for it contains eight hundred pages, has some excellent portraits, and is a mine of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Graham, David.= Grammar of philosophy. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–26258.
“A robustious apology, by a Scotch barrister, for the philosophy of the Scottish school.... In the blessed and reverently capitalized name of Common Sense, all the great non-Caledonian thinkers and even the heterodox Scots—Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Mill, Darwin, Leslie, Stephen—are quite simply shown to be intellectually akin to the inmates of Bedlam, though less consistent than the latter in the matter of practice. Intuitive ethical truths like those of mathematics; the argument from design; the foundation of the legal institution of the dock in the eternal nature of things—these and many similar archaisms are triumphantly demonstrated.”—Nation.
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“The philosopher may find other lay contributions to philosophy that are as anachronistic and as absurd; but he will not in many summers find another so breezily refreshing in its anachronism and so consistently amusing in its absurdity.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w.
“The author is an ingenious, though not convincing barrister-at-law.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Graham, Harry.= Group of Scottish women. *$3.50. Duffield.
A series of biographical portraits of Scotswomen of the past who by reason of their heroism, courage, piety or wit, have affected their generation and lent to it the strength of their individuality. Among the women so treated are Dervorguilla; “Black Agnes of Dunbar”; Jane, Countess of Sutherland; Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale; Lady Grisell Baillie; Ann, Duchess Buccleuch and Monmouth; Catherine, Duchess of Queensberry; Mrs. Alison Cockburn; Elspeth Buchan; Jane, Duchess of Gordon; Lady Anne Barnard; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Lady Louisa Stuart; and Mrs. Clementina Stirling Graham.
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“This is a lively and entertaining book, dealing at its best with the leisure and gaiety of bygone days, and written in a style appropriate to so light a theme.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 2: 359. S. 26. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 630w.
“A reaction takes place in the reader’s mind when he ... discovers that the author is selecting among materials for the purpose merely of amusing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 470w.
“The Captain writes with brilliancy and ease, is of an epigrammatic habit, and has many a shrewd or amusing comment to make on his heroines and their times, which he indicates in each case, and succeeds in making real enough to excite interest.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“The book is eminently entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 180w.
“A series of lively and sympathetic sketches.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 70w.
“As biography the book before us is of average quality. That is to say, the early part is worse and the end is better than the common run of such books. It is no exaggerated praise to say that Mr. Harry Graham tells us as much about our own age as the past.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“He feels it his duty to give a sentence a humorous turn even when the subject does not demand it. and the result is sometimes a galvanized gaiety which is a little trying. There are a few trifling blunders of fact and a few odd opinions. Captain Graham has written an entertaining hook, which, unlike so many gossiping biographies, suffers from no faults of taste. He has also the gift, which is becoming painfully rare to-day, of writing Scottish dialect in its correct and classical form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 330. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
* =Grahame, Kenneth.= Wind in the willows. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–29339.
“A simple-hearted Mole, a Water Rat of a poetical temperament, and a wealthy, boastful, and extravagant Toad, with a fine Tudor mansion and a passion for motor-cars, are the principal personages in Mr. Kenneth Grahame’s story.” (Ath.) “From broad farce and the most grotesque combinations of animals and things and speech this book now and again touches poetry as one touches it in life, incidentally, and by the way.” (Outlook.)
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“The author seems not to have given himself up whole-heartedly to his fantasy, and is apt to hinder the charm of his incongruities by spasmodic efforts to make them congruous. These cavillings apart, the book, with its scenes of river, forest, and field, and its whimsical incursions into the human world, forms an all but perfect blending of idyll and inconsequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 200w.
“Some may call it nature faking of the baldest sort, but such pedantry carries its own punishment. The book is not easily classified—it is simply destined to be one of those dog-eared volumes which one laughs over and loves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Quaker and courtier: the life and work of William Penn. *$3–50. Dutton.
8–16919.
“The book is not strictly a history. It is a ... study of Penn’s character and career by ‘a direct descendant,’ with considerable citation of letters and contemporaneous writing and an agreeably woven web of comment on the men and manners and conditions of the time.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Subject to a few reservations, the book is written pleasantly and unaffectedly enough. It contains, indeed, we think, nothing that is at once new and important.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 477. Ap. 18. 1000w.
“Mrs. Grant tells her story pleasantly, and throws about the events of her great ancestor’s life a good deal of the historic framework that such a narrative requires; but apart from the use she has made of a few hitherto unpublished letters, she cannot be said to have produced an original work or one that fills any aching void in literature.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“It seems a pity that, with such good material at hand, and with her sympathetic interest in her hero, the author has not given us, in a less sketchy way, some account of Penn’s relations to the political and religious parties of his time, the development of his own opinions, his schemes, and his failure in colonial government.” A. G.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 618. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“In Mrs. Grant’s book the reader will find much not altogether new, but freshly pieced out with new material.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 600w.
“Simple and candid and sympathetic.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 181. Ap. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“By no means a superfluous addition to the existing memoirs of a great figure in our colonial history. Mrs. Grant’s work is evidently the fruit of careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
“A good bit of work. The story of a life very full of interest is told in a sensible, businesslike fashion, without any rhetoric, perhaps without any distinction of style, but in a way which does justice to the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Grant, Elihu.= Peasantry of Palestine: the life, manners and customs of the village. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–37961.
During Mr. Grant’s residence as missionary teacher at Ramallah, near Jerusalem, he visited the mission stations and schools in central Palestine. “Intensely interested in the village folk, Dr. Grant recorded with camera and pencil the details and surroundings of their life—utensils, houses, songs, customs, superstitions, linguistic peculiarities, antiquities.” (Nation.)
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“Peculiarly valuable, not only because of the region in which he worked and from which his material is mainly derived, but also because of a singular combination of painstaking care and sympathetic feeling for the ways and habits of the people of the land. Moreover, he asked himself very practical questions, and in answering them for himself he has gathered material which answers just those questions which the average intelligent man or woman would like to put to the Palestinian explorer, if he could reach him personally.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 146. Ag. ’08. 1050w.
“A really valuable addition to the literature on Palestine, and the Bible scholar will find it helpful in the study and in the classroom.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“Charmingly written and abundantly illustrated. Convenient foot-notes, referring to passages in both the Old and the New Testaments, which are illuminated or illustrated by the book, make it a useful manual for the Bible student.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Written with the utmost simplicity and straightforwardness, and will doubtless be of much interest and value to all who are concerned with the study of folk-life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 70w.
=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Search of Belisarius: a Byzantine legend. **$1.25. Brentano’s.
7–42002.
A poem written in the Spenserian stanza based upon the legend of Belisarius in which the interest is concentrated on the acts and emotions of a single character, “the deus ex machina of an impressive and emotional drama of Byzantine times.”
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“Told in verse which is neither marked by special virtue nor flagrant fault, which, not offending, yet does not linger in the memory. The book has the dignity of a sincere effort and an appreciation of beauty. Tells you a legend, touching, lovely. But it does not add to your understanding of life, because it is written from the outside and not the inside of its author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 56. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“A noble poem, whether we consider it from the point of view of Arnold, that true poetry is but a criticism of life and the highest expression of the best literature, or from the other extreme of Poe, that poetry is merely ‘the rhythmic creation of the beautiful.’ The appreciative reader will have keen enjoyment in this work of a man of rare intellectual attainments and spiritual insight, and on laying down the volume will find it no easy task to call to mind another living author equally capable of writing such a poem.” J. S. Auerbach.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 293. F. ’08. 1200w.
=Granville, Roger.= King’s general in the West: the life of Sir Richard Granville. **$4. Lane.
8–34202.
A life which is important for the light it throws on “the drama of the Puritan revolution.” It records the military achievements and domestic short-comings of a man who, “loyal, brave, obstinate, contentious, wrongheaded, rash, overbearing, at times cruel, quarreled with his family, his wife, his friends, his fellow-officers and his superiors to the end, scarcely less of a terror to his own side than to his enemies, yet with a certain curious hold on his followers through it all.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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Reviewed by W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 120. O. ’08. 440w.
“One gets vivid glimpses of the age, but we have already many books which are more illuminative.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Grasset, Joseph.= Semi-insane and the semi-responsible: authorized American ed. tr. by Smith Ely Jelliffe. **$2.50. Funk.
7–41081.
A work which makes its appeal to the physician, alienist, lawyer and layman. The author believes in responsibility for the diseased as much as for the criminal, and maintains that the question, Should the accused be punished or should he be treated? ought to be considered. The object of the book is to demonstrate that to this burning question the magistrate, assisted by the physician, may make three different replies according to the case in hand: (1) The accused criminal is entirely responsible ... he ought to be put into prison; (2) The accused criminal is entirely irresponsible ... he ought to be treated and placed in a hospital; (3) The accused criminal has attenuated responsibility ... he ought to be both punished and treated.
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“The book is primarily a practical one. In spite of a somewhat loose style and too frequent controversial digressions, the volume arouses interest in its topic.” W. B. Pitkin.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 132. F. 27, ’08. 1070w.
“The work as a whole raises many large and difficult questions. Its main thesis, however, is a thoroughly defensible one, in the light of modern science. It is an indication of a point of view, and a method of approach to all problems growing out of mental and moral aberrations which are certain to command increasing attention and respect.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 235. F. 15, ’08. 750w.
“The volume is well written and is destined to become the expert’s vade mecum in future medico-legal discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Most interesting to the layman, no doubt, is Dr. Grasset’s cumulative clinic of eminent historical instances of demifous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 55. F. 1, ’08. 1320w.
=Gray, Andrew.= Lord Kelvin: an account of his scientific life and work. (English men of science ser.) *$1. Dutton.
“Not strictly a biography, but aims to give a survey of Lord Kelvin’s scientific work with a mere sketch of his personality. The sections describing his methods in the classroom and laboratory will be found the more interesting.... The author gives clearly the impression of the originality and of the enormous vitality and energy of this intellectual giant who ranks with Galileo and Newton.”—Nation.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 307. S. 12. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the well posted scientist, who has made it a point to keep in touch with the minute data of investigation, much that the book contains will be new.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15. ’08. 1250w.
“This book is admirable for scientific students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 430w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 474. O. 3, ’08. 420w.
=Gray, Rev. James M.= Antidote to Christian science. **$75c. Revell.
7–23291.
“The author here tries to show wherein Christian Science fails as a religion and where the Bible and Christian Science clash. He closes with a chapter on what the church may learn from Mrs. Eddy’s teachings.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A little book marked with a sweet temper, a forebearing spirit, and a familiarity with Biblical texts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 863. D. 28, ’07. 210w.
=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett).= Suspicions of Mrs. Allonby. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23105.
Mrs. Allonby, the wife of a London novelist, tiring of fogs, and piqued over her husband’s failure to regard as necessities five new chic and costly hats, finds fault with his relations with his stenographer, and goes off in a huff to the Riviera. Out of motives of protection he bids the stenographer, quite unrecognized by the wife, travel in the latter’s company; and he follows in disguise. A comedy of suspicions ensues, all harmless and without foundation. The story is sprightly and abounds in local color.
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“Whoever, remembering that well-told and interesting story, ‘The silence of Dean Maitland,’ takes up this book with pleasant expectations, is doomed to severe disappointment.”
− =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
“The author hardly does herself full justice in writing a novel so entirely pleasing to the young ladies who gossip around soda fountains or at the matinees.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
=Grayson, David.= Adventures in contentment. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–40003.
“Mr. David Grayson in these papers dwells on country life, its broadening and elevating influences. He describes the beautiful things of nature—the smell of freshly plowed loam on a spring day, when the clouds hang low and the birds are calling from the budding trees; the joy of seeing the little green blades pushing up, of watching them grow and grow till the bearded heads wave with every breath of wind in billows over the field; and, finally, the delight of harvesting the goodly crop. He is fair, too; he admits that country life has its disadvantages.”—Outlook.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“David Grayson’s merry, commonplace adventures with the book-agent, the millionaire, the infidel, will nourish dozens of earnest readers to whom Mr. Benson’s exquisite interpretation of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm must still be as husks.” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 107: 711. My. ’08. 200w.
“So sweet-tempered and wholesome is Mr. Grayson himself, so much the most interesting thing about his book, that we feel sure that he must have got the best out of life anywhere, and could have adventured quite as contentedly in a three-room flat a folding-bed and a fire-escape.” M. S. Watts.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 7. Ja. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“His enthusiasm is such that he almost infects a millionaire with his views.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Grayson, William John.= Selected poems; selected and compiled by Mrs. W: H. Armstrong. $1.25. Neale.
7–36212.
Mrs. Armstrong’s aim has been that of rescuing from the forgotten past a few of her father’s poems which should live for the character and ideals revealed in them typical of his genius and of times in the south before the war.
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“He was not one of the grand old masters, yet lovers of American verse will remember him gratefully, and should be glad now to salute him who was about to die.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23. ’08. 350w.
=Green, Alice S. A. (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The main theses of Mrs. Green’s vigorous and freshly written work are two. The first is that in the course of the three centuries ... the Norman and the Gaelic elements in the population had coalesced so as to produce a race practically homogeneous and a civilisation distinctly national. The second is that the independent national life thus evolved was wantonly arrested from unworthy motives of mercantile jealousy by the policy of the Tudors, and trampled underfoot by the violence of their agents in the Irish wars of the sixteenth century.”—Sat. R.
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“A remarkable book—a history in name, a French pamphlet in nature. It would require a long time to verify her references, and so far as we have done this, we have found the statements on which she relies. But the interpretation of them is another matter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 117. Ag. 1. 1600w.
“Not a few of Mrs. Green’s generalizations, it is true, appear to rest on insufficient data, giving occasion for the criticism that she inclines to take an over-roseate view. But the great corrective value of her work to students of Irish history is unquestionable, and it should also prove of practical benefit in assisting to uproot prejudices that have long operated to the disadvantage of the Irish people.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 330w.
“If it is impossible not to feel gratitude to Mrs. Green for a book which, whatever else is to be said of it, is undeniably stimulating and informing, it is equally impossible not to regret the spirit of acute partisanship in which it has been written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 50. Jl. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Green, F. E.= Small holding. (Country handbooks.) **$1. Lane.
Shows how a small farm of twenty acres or more may be obtained and worked to the owner’s profit.
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“While he has a wide knowledge of conditions as they exist in England, it is extremely doubtful if all his theories could be applied to practical use in this country.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Thoughtful and practical little book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 450. S. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Green, W. Curtis.= Old cottages and farm houses in Surrey; with introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green. $7.50. Helburn.
One hundred collotype reproductions of typical surviving examples of Gothic domestic architecture in Surrey, an introduction emphasizing the vitality of the architectural designs of old cottages, and notes and sketches describing and analysing the details of construction constitute a noteworthy contribution to the series of “old cottage” books.
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“Naturally, most of the interest is the photographer’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 247. Ag. 29. 360w.
“Mr. Green gives the result of much original research.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 241. S. ’08. 350w.
“While this very beautiful book is primarily intended for the practical architect or student of architecture, the photographs and descriptions will be found full of charm for any one to whom a house means an opportunity to exercise the imagination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 560w.
=Greenslet, Ferris.= Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. **$3. Houghton.
8–27511.
Material from a wide range of sources has entered into the structure of this biography. While letters and memorials form the ground work of the sketch, the author’s personal knowledge of Mr. Aldrich, gained during a period of close friendship, form the basis for estimates concerning his career, temperament and character, which narrative is supplemented by reminiscences. The biography in addition to being an authoritative “life,” sets Aldrich among a group of his contemporaries.
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“He has used nice discrimination in selecting his material and presents it with dignity, grace and a full appreciation of his subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“It is in the generous selections from Aldrich’s correspondence that the chief interest of the book lies—by the wise intention of the selfsuppressing biographer. A biography that will not soon be superseded.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 250. O. 16, ’08. 1700w.
“It is difficult to conceive any better biography of Aldrich than Mr. Greenslet’s.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 500. N. ’08. 1900w.
“To those who admired the vigor and independence of Mr. Greenslet’s book on Lowell, this later work in the biographical field brings some disappointment.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 560w.
“It is pervaded from the first page to the last by his personality, which was something unique among the men of letters at his period.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
“If Mr. Greenslet fails to satisfy us anywhere, it is in the last chapter in which he sums up his criticism of Aldrich’s writings. What he says is good and sound, but somehow it is not quite sufficient; it lacks the last transmuting touch.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 331. O. 8, ’08. 370w.
“No more fitting choice could have been made for biographer of Aldrich than Ferris Greenslet. He brings to his subject all needful sympathy and comprehension. He writes of the ‘singularly fortunate life’ of Aldrich with the spirit of one who knew that estimable man of letters well in his later years and understood his nature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 553. O. 10, ’08. 2750w.
“Mr. Greenslet happily strikes the golden mean between condensation and undue expansion; no one will miss any essential fact, nor will any one feel that the story is a page too long.” H. W. Mabie.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 718. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 160w.
=Greenwood, Granville George.= Shakespeare problem restated. *$5. Lane.
8–21629.
The author “attempts to prove that two men, hitherto considered great were both collossal frauds, and that though hundreds of contemporaries must have been in their common secret, not one of them breathed it in life, and all ‘died and made no sign.’ Mr. Greenwood explains the chain of arguments by which moderns believe they have made this discovery, a chain hardly strong enough at any point to bear the burden of proof, and lacking altogether in many of its links.”—Ath.
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“Though the volume itself shows wide and careful reading it is, after all, only an extended ‘case’ prepared by a lawyer who holds a brief for the plaintiff.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 7. Jl. 4. 2700w.
“This book is more or less valuable as a specimen of a myth in the making.”
− =Nation.= 87: 295. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“It is a well-written book and interesting enough of its kind, and we have no objection to the kind. It can do no harm.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 1050w.
=Gregory, Caspar Rene.= Canon and text of the New Testament. (International theological lib.) *$2.50. Scribner.
7–42092.
“The title indicates the two separate lines of investigations which [the author] pursues. He does not, like most, assume that an unalterable collection of books—‘the Canon’—exists, but explores the evidence for the early existence of the writings most highly valued by Christians for both private and public use, and therefore classed by themselves as canonical, i. e., standard works.” (Outlook.) He distinguishes an “original text,” a “rewrought text,” a “polished text,” the first and second Syrian revisions and leads up to the concession that “The text of the New Testament is in the main assured.”
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“Professor Gregory’s work on the canon arrests and holds the reader’s interest beyond any book ever written on the subject. Its pages possess a quality of vivid interest, even fascination, very rarely attained by works of like solid scholarship. For a classroom manual, we should have welcomed clearer definition as to the critical points in the history of the canon, and fuller information as to the most recent treatises and discussions of them.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 272. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The book is the best on its subjects that we possess. The presentation is popular, even entertaining, in its freshness.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“We cannot help thinking that the desire to write a vivid and effective narrative—certainly a most laudable aim in this province of knowledge—has affected the plan of the book, more especially in the section which treats of the text. There is far too much detailed information regarding certain facts and incidents in the history of the documents, and far too little discussion of critical problems and processes.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 430. D. ’08. 940w.
“He has an eye for the essential points of his subject and the gift of clear arrangement and rapid narration.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 536. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“Since so large a treatise must make its appeal chiefly to students, it would seem that the author would have done better to write for scholars only, with greater conciseness, more frequent abbreviation, and consequent emphasis upon matters of real importance.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“The book is popular in the best sense of the term, being at once readable and accurate.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“It is a splendid combination of high scholarship and brilliant style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
“Lucidity of statement and cautions expression of opinion on open questions are prominent characteristics of this noble work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 789 D. 7, ’07. 370w.
“A man who was entirely ignorant of the question could understand every page of Dr. Gregory’s book—or nearly every page.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 798. Je. 20, ’08. 600w.
“We would especially commend to the attention of our readers the account of the Latin translations, of which the Vulgate is but one.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Gregory, Isabella Augusta, lady.= Book of saints and wonders, put down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and the memory of the people of Ireland. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–12836.
“S. Brigit, S. Patrick, and S. Columba are given due honour here, but there are also many tales of lesser saints, their hymns and their good works. The two famous ocean stories, the Voyage of Maeldun and the Voyage of S. Brendan, are repeated at length. Thus a good deal of the book is devoted to matter that will not be new to readers who know anything of Irish legend.”—Sat. R.
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“One might search through many workhouses in England, we fear, without discovering so much as a strange oath, not to speak of legends and traditions such as are recorded here. It has pleased us more than almost any book we have read of late.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 264. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
“Lady Gregory’s literary art is well known, and the present volume is a good instance of it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 90w.
“To a reader who knows not Ireland, one of the strongest of several kinds of pleasure which this book has to give will come from its constant suggestion of the soft, musical, melancholy voices of the players in that company.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 374. D. 6, ’07. 600w.
“Lady Gregory’s style has this great advantage to Irish readers that it carefully preserves the un-English, curiously inverted forms of speech of the Irish country-people.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 154. F. 13, ’08. 930w.
“It is to be regretted, perhaps, that Lady Gregory has seen fit to take such liberties with the English idiom in her enthusiasm for the Gaelic effect.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 50. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
“Some of the stories would have gained by more elaboration; they are so condensed as to be obscure. But they are eminently characteristic of the quick imagination, the sensibility, the love of mystery, the gift of temperament, of the Celtic race. They contain episodes and passages of unusual and extraordinary beauty, with much that is prosaic and uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
“Lady Gregory has passed in this book from pagan to Christian legend, and has gleaned from mediæval Irish texts, and coloured in places from her own knowledge of oral tradition, a series of charming old-world stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 12. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, and Hunt, Arthur Surridge=, eds. Fragment of an uncanonical gospel from Oxyrhynchus; with translation and commentary. *40c. Oxford.
A reprint from the Oxyrhynchus papyri of pt. v, no. 840, containing one of the finds made by the Egyptian exploration fund in the mounds at Oxyrhynchus. The fragment pictures dramatically the coming of Jesus with his disciples into the place of purification in the temple, the rebuke of the Pharisee for entering unwashed, and the answer of Jesus to the effect that he and his disciples had been dipped in the waters of life.
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“Insignificant as it seems, its contents bring it at once into prominence for all who are especially interested in the thoughts and words of Jesus.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 518. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“The fragment which Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt have published in this separate form is edited with the care and scholarship which have characterized their previous productions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 540w.
=Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Grey, Zane.= Last of the plainsmen. *$1.50. Outing pub.
8–24293.
The record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert, and of a hunt in “that wonderful country of yellow crags, deep canons and giant pines.” The author fulfils his desire to show the color and beauty of painted cliffs and blue-bell dotted aisles in the forests; to give a suggestion of the tang of the dry, cool air; and to throw light upon the life and nature of the remarkable character, Buffalo Jones.
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“A fascinating, out-of-door book, full of the charm of the desert and the cañon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Grey is an enthusiastic sportsman, alive to the picturesqueness both of Western scenery and Western character. He is also a skilful photographer of still life, and has furnished many interesting pictures of the country in which he hunted.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Grey is never dull in his narrative, but one tires of the undue straining after verbal effect in the descriptive bits with which his story is interlarded.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 287. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
“Dr. Grey has a vivid style and a keen sense of dramatic situation, as well as poetic appreciation of the weird beauty and sublimity of the country through which he journeyed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12. ’08. 200w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= George Sand and her lovers. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–36995.
The author “tears away the ‘romance’ of George Sand’s life all drapery that had been left in the shape of ‘hypocrisy.’ He exhibits her as she was, a grisette by blood and instincts, and in the whole conduct of her emotional life. If the story of her ‘romances’ was worth telling in full, which is questionable, here it is told undoubtedly with perfect fulness. Whether it is prudery or not, we infinitely prefer the final chapters—in which Mr. Gribble tells of George Sand’s friendship with Flaubert, of her ‘growing old in dignity,’ and of the genuine importance of her novels—to those in which he expounds his purpose and fulfils his self-imposed mission.” (Spec.)
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=Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Gribble tells everything there is to tell with perfect frankness, and he brings his evidence from all sources, not betraying any prejudices by the way.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1. 1050w.
“Those interested in this branch of literature will probably not be disappointed in this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is interesting and informing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 950w.
“Having noted this exception to his title, however, it is but fair to say that the present study has its warrant and justification. His book is written in the interests of truth, not scandal.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 19. Ja. 11, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book contains little that is new. It is a string of readable, very readable, gossipy anecdotes and not the portrait of an extraordinary woman.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 277. F. ’08. 1580w.
“The story is not edifying, but it is amusing; and Mr. Gribble tells it with a frank cynicism which is not inappropriate.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
“This volume will be valuable, from the literary and sociological points of view, as throwing a sidelight on the romantic movement in France. Whether it is a permanent contribution to the ‘literature of the heart’ is quite another matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Montreux; painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The author “draws upon his intimate knowledge of the personages who lend a fascination to the history of Geneva, and he uses Montreux as a name to designate the whole district of the ‘Swiss Riviera,’ a vague region stretching from Vevey to Villeneuve. Six chapters on the Castle of Chillon, its history and associations; and some delightful sketches of the Regicides, the Pietists, the Salvation army, Byron, Obermann, and Madame de Warens—and ‘you see the trick on’t.’ ... The charming illustrations in colour to this pleasant book, by J. and May Hardwicke Lewis, are beautifully reproduced.”—Ath.
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“It is interesting to see how pleasingly a skilful writer like Mr. Gribble accomplishes a difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 270w.
“The only novelty in Mr. Gribble’s volume is the illustrations, for the text consists almost entirely of literal transcriptions from the same author’s ‘Lake Geneva and its literary landmarks,’ welded together after the manner of a musical potpourri.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
“If fault could be found with Mr. Gribble’s text, it is that so much emphasis has been placed on the various historical personages connected with the region as to leave not enough for descriptions of nature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 370w.
“All that has to be told about the place and people is told very pleasantly by Mr. Gribble, and the pictures of the two artists who co-operate have the charm which we are accustomed to look for in Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25. ’08. 200w.
* =Gribble, Francis Henry.= Rousseau and the women he loved. *$3.75. Scribner.
“Justification for this new life in English, of one whom Mr. John Morley (as we still like to call his lordship) has made the subject of an excellent biographical study, is sought for in the recent discovery and publication, by certain delvers in French archives and private papers, of many letters and other documents that throw new light on the philosopher’s idiosyncrasies and demonstrate the palpable untruth of certain portions of his own autobiography.”—Dial.
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“It presents with provoking trenchancy and thoroughness that one-sided view of the darker aspect of Rousseau’s genius which is commonly held in a loose, vague way. The ‘Confessions’ to judge from the evidences of the pages before us, seems to be the only book by his author which Mr. Gribble has studied thoroughly, and even this he misinterprets through taking too low a view of the whole subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 566. N. 7. 820w.
“If one is interested in Rousseau’s life—and who can help being more or less interested?—it is better to have the real facts than falsehoods; and so Mr. Gribble has rendered a not unuseful service.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 414. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A book of real importance. He argues a good deal from biographical premises, sometimes unsound.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 468. N. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Gribble is a careless, slipshod writer, and his work often produces the impression of having been hurried over, its faults being rather those of a man who doesn’t care than of one who doesn’t know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 740w.
“Lord Morley in his famous essay on Rousseau says of the ‘Confessions’ that their pages are too often contaminated by the ‘reek of the satyr.’ Mr. Gribble has managed, by adopting the point of view he has, to preserve throughout his book much of this aroma without the style which alone makes it at intervals endurable in the original.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book, almost painfully plainspoken as it sometimes is, will be useful to the English reader of to-day, whom it invites to realise the origin of doctrines which appeal to ‘the blindest part of us, our sensibility.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
* =Griffis, William Elliot.= Fire-fly’s lovers, and other fairy tales of old Japan. †$1. Crowell.
8–24870.
Representative Japanese fairy tales which include the legend of the Fire-fly princess who holds court among the stamens of the lotus-lily, the story of the dancing tea-kettle, and many tales of giants, dragons, dwarfs and imps of Japan’s picturesque wonder-world.
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“The author has studied Japan, its people, and their customs, and, while original, the work embodies the spirit of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is a learned, novel, and interesting argument.” A. K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 512. Jl. ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Griffis’ faith in Japan’s possibilities of growth is inspiring. An immense amount of material, geographical, legendary, archæological and historic, produces some confusion when condensed into so small a book, and the frequency of strange names adds further difficulty in reading.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 273. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The work is one that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries, as it contains precisely the very information that all intelligent people wish to possess about this wonderful people, presented in a most charming manner. The volume is beautifully illustrated.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The personal element. Dr. Griffis’s own observation on the state of society under the old régime, is the most valuable feature of the work and distinguishes it from the numerous second hand and superficial books on Japan now in the market.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 528. Mr. 5, ’08. 450w.
“He has brought together, in convenient though somewhat ill-ordered shape, the results of his reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Griffis refers to his having been an educator in Japan a generation ago. He seems not to have come into direct contact with present conditions there.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 1100w.
“No book has yet been written which should do more than the present volume to affirm the ground for the Japanese demand for social equality. Dr. Griffis’s book offers a compact and highly interesting, if highly eulogistic, history of Japan from the earliest epoch to our own.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 509. F. 29, ’08. 1400w.
=Spec.= 100: 1006. Je. 27, ’08. 430w.
=Griffith, Elmer C.= Rise and development of the gerrymander. $1.25. Scott.
7–36715.
A doctor’s thesis based upon exhaustive study of source material. He discovers this form of political trickery (“the formation of election districts on another basis than that of single and homogeneous political units as they existed previous to the apportionment, with boundaries arranged for partisan advantage”) a hundred years before 1812, on which latter date it took its name from Governor Gerry of Massachusetts. He reviews the subsequent gerrymanders in various states and the attempts to eliminate them.
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“A painstaking investigation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 502. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
“The subject is more interesting than the manner in which it is handled. Professor Griffith rarely philosophizes. He likewise abstains from dealing with the subject as a sociologist. His style is at times obscure. Viewed as a catalogue of misdoings, [the dissertation] is not without value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 573. S. ’08. 200w.
“Aside from the first or introductory chapter, which is merely personal opinion and poorly worked out, this is a solid piece of research, and deserves commendation.” E. D. Fite.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 113. My. ’08. 350w.
=Grimm, Carl Robert.= Secondary stresses in bridge trusses. $2.50. Wiley.
8–12774.
The portion of the field of bridge literature occupied by this book has been heretofore unoccupied. “The author limits his treatment mainly to secondary stresses due to riveted joints in trusses. After some introductory historical notes, a consideration of the nature of the problem and some means for its solution, he presents five methods for the calculation of secondary stresses, devoting a chapter to each one. The four principal methods were developed by Manderia, Muller-Breslau, Ritter and Mohr, respectively, while the fifth one is designated as the method of least work.” (Engin. N.)
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“The author has rendered a valuable service to the engineering profession in this country by writing this book which gives the results of previous investigations and directs attention in an effective manner to the importance of the subject. The book deserves careful study by every engineer who is responsible for the design and maintenance of bridges.” H: S. Jacoby.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 646. Je. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Fiji and its possibilities. il. (Geographical lib.) **$3. Doubleday.
7–31404.
The author calls herself “a wanderer about odd corners of the globe.” She is the first woman to penetrate into the interior of the Fiji islands. “The reader is continually surprised at the incidents which befell the author, and at her exposition of the manners and customs of a people who thirty years ago were cannibals. She was received with remarkable hospitality by the chiefs of every town through which the party passed, and was treated with the utmost deference and respect at all times.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“She took some very interesting photographs which alone make the book a valuable record, and her story, though written with praiseworthy modesty, inspires the reader with genuine admiration of her pluck. The book would have been greatly improved by the addition of a map.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 198. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
“Though not a serious study the book gives an excellent idea of social and economic conditions on the islands. A bulky, heavy book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“The account is very lively and interesting. It is, however, diffuse and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 100w.
“Would be excellent were it not for lapses into subjects beyond the writer’s competence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 133. F. 2. 860w.
“Her whole book reads as if made up of letters. She tires the reader by repetitions, long digressions, feebly humorous passages, frequent allusions to cannibalism, and prolix accounts of trivial and uninteresting incidents. Her book would have been far more readable had she confined herself to descriptions of the country and the natives.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 107. Ja. 30, ’08. 750w.
“It is always bright and readable, but shows little literary skill. The temptation to idealize and indulge in sentimental description has not been overcome, but, whatever its faults, the book is a timely, educative, and interesting work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 21. Ja. 11, ’08. 700w.
“The book is written with sympathy and evidently from a background of extensive knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The author gives the reader an excellent though superficial idea of the conditions under which white people live in these distant islands.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 240. Ag. 24, ’07. 1080w.
=Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= In the strange South seas. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–34208.
A tourist’s impressions derived from leisurely travel among the eastern groups of the South sea islands.
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“Many things in it are truly excellent—notably, certain personal descriptions, and the author’s judicious observations on lepers, missionaries. and manners. But the book is tainted throughout with the taint of journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 300w.
“As far as they go her conclusions are just and accurate, though, as she seems to be unacquainted with the writings of those who preceded her, and to rely for her information on the loose talk of traders, she makes a good many mistakes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 360w.
“Her book is worth while. The subject matter has been covered before in more or less appreciative fashion by many writers, but few have approached the task with a keener sympathy, a wider vision, and a daintier sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 380w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Vaiti of the islands. †$1.50. Wessels.
8–30710.
The heroine of this tale is the half-caste daughter of a Maori princess and a derelict Englishmen, the drunken captain of a trading-schooner casting about in the South seas. The primitive, guileful, Maori nature within her wars with her English daring and love of adventure. Aside from the interest attaching to the not easily classified heroine, the story is interesting for its other Polynesian types and South sea adventures.
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“Something new in heroines, and stories, too. Her doings ... are adventures unique and perilous enough to have sated the desires of any wandering seeker after excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 706. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Grohman, William Adolph Baillie-.= Land in the mountains: being an account of the past and present of Tyrol; its people and its castles; with an introd. by C. Landis. *$3. Lippincott.
7–31993.
A fully illustrated book “which is neither a glorified form of Baedeker nor a treatise on the science of rock-climbing, but a volume dealing, in a fashion fitted to appeal to the ordinary reader, with the history of Tyrol and its feudal castles.” (Ath.)
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“In the present work the author is at his best.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 11. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“The pages before us are easy reading, though they disclose some signs of haste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 231. Ag. 31. 1300w.
“To the mere ‘tripper’ who knows Tyrol only from the piazza of an Innsbruck hotel, this book will not appeal; but to the more serious traveller and reader it will mark a valuable contribution to the history of a brave little land.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is an admirable book, admirably written, dealing exhaustively with all the subjects which fall within its scope, too bulky, indeed, to serve as the traveller’s pocket companion, even if his pockets are large, but nevertheless invaluable to the more intelligent class of tourists who wish to realize and understand, as well as to see, this mountain land which the modern influx of tourists has not yet succeeded in spoiling.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 155. My. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“The work supplies a felt want. Of the charming illustrations with which the volume is adorned ... it is difficult to write in fitting terms.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Meantime, not the least interestng chapter of the present volume is the introduction by his American friend, Mr. Landis. It tells us much of a remarkable personality and it makes us wish to hear more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“The best part of the book is concerned with the huntings of that mighty sportsman, the Emperor Maximilian, whose fame the author has done much to revive.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Grohman, W. A. Baillie-.= Tyrol; painted by E. Harrison Compton; described by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. *$2. Macmillan.
Deals largely with the historical side of the subject and is written by “an old resident, thoroughly familiar with the character and habits of the Tyrolese peasant, as well as with the remoter districts of Tyrol.” (Nation.) “The pictures by Mr. E. Harrison Compton which accompany the text are far better than is usual in such volumes.” (Ath.)
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“In spite of trifling defects we can thoroughly recommend the book, and think it will be useful to those who are planning tours.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 97. Jl. 25. 300w.
“The point of view of the insider, whose familiarity with the land and its people is vital, is often fresher than that of the traveller or the student.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 120w.
=Groot, C. Hofstede de.= Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century; based on the work of John Smith by C. Hofstede de Groot (with the assistance of Dr. W. R. Valentiner); tr. and ed. by E. G. Hawkes. 10v. v. 1, *$7.50. Macmillan.
=v. 1.= Includes the works of Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Garard Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, and Johannes Vermeer of Delft. “It is essentially a catalogue and not a treatise on the art of the painters dealt with, though to each is given a short biographical note.” (Spec.)
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“The critical scholarship of Dr. de Groot and the wealth of research lavished on the work by his assistants will render this publication precious for a long time to come.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 159. Ag. 8. 2350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 170. Ap. ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A useful undertaking, and seems to have been conscientiously and thoroughly carried out.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 4.= Begins with an article on Quadrille and continues thru the biographical sketch of Marie Szymanowska.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Complaint was made years ago that there was no sense of proportion in this dictionary, and we fear the same objection still holds good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 107. Jl. 25. 770w. (Review of v. 4.)
“But why should such a dignified and important musical work of reference be disfigured with such a hodge-podge of mediocre and poorly-executed illustrations in these days of pictorial excellence?” G: P. Upton.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The volume is marked by many of the admirable qualities which have distinguished its predecessors. Unfortunately this fourth volume also contains more than its share of blemishes and mistakes.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 897. O. 15, ’08. 688w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 79. Jl. 23, ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes-.= Hilary on her own. +$1.50. Baker.
8–24457.
The story of a spirited young girl, who finding her home atmosphere stifling, breaks away from it and goes to London to look for a secretaryship. The hardships of position-hunting are leavened by the girl’s frankness and irresistible sense of humor, which qualities recommend her to readers, young and old.
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“Passing over manners, which would have horrified Jane Austen, she is a genuine living being, worth knowing for her hearty picturesque talk and her power of humorous characterization.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 230w.
“The subject is hackneyed enough, but the tale is written with a freshness of touch and a constant liveliness of fancy that makes it entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Guest, Antony.= Art and the camera. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35390.
A book which makes its appeal especially to “those who wish to attain greater skill in rendering colour in monochrome.” It is a “practical guide-book to the methods of making artistic prints from photographic negatives. The proper appreciation of the artistic possibilities of a subject, the rules governing point of view, composition, lighting and the like, are dwelt upon; and afterward the method of treating negative and print in order to produce such qualities as are shown in the pictures which illustrate the book.”
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“There is a singular freedom from banality and platitude in his book ... and a pleasing absence of the irritating split infinitive. Scattered through the pages are remarks which reveal much keenness of insight and bring a thrill of appreciation to the reader. One pronouncement of Mr. Guest’s, that the task of the worker without colour—the photographer—demands a keener perception of tones than that of the painter, seems to call for some demur.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 794. Ag. 17, ’07. 1720w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 218. Ag. 24. 80w.
“Mr. Guest’s position is a thoroughly sound and reasonable one; he makes no extravagant claims for photography.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 337. O. ’07. 160w.
* =Gulick, Luther Halsey, and Ayres, Leonard P.= Medical inspection of schools. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–31120.
A by-product of the “Backward children investigation,” research work supported by the Russell Sage foundation. It is a practical, reliable, frank presentation of facts gathered from the study of “retardation” among school-children, a knowledge of which aids in the “betterment and safeguarding of the health and vitality of the future citizens of America.”
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“Cautious without quenching enthusiasm, lucidly exhaustive and admirably arranged, the monograph will assist not a little in the great work, scarcely begun, of supplying the sound body that is needed for the sound mind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“A refreshingly optimistic study of many subjects which will appeal not only to the teacher, but also to the layman. His psychology is, in the main, sound, although his desire to express himself in colloquial language at times leads him astray. His indebtedness to Prof. William James, which is evident throughout the book, might well have been more often acknowledged.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
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=Haber, Fritz.= Thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions: seven lectures; tr. by Arthur B. Lamb; with 20 figures. *$3. Longmans.
8–19027.
The author “endeavors to make clear the significance of heat factors in gas reactions, with especial reference to the specific heats of the interacting substances and to the heat evolved during the reaction. The gathering of these lectures into book form has been for the purpose of effecting a contribution to technical, rather than to theoretical, chemistry, and the aim of the author has been to present in the clearest manner the application of the mechanical theory to chemistry.” (Engin. N.)
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“It is a work that will thoroughly interest chemical engineers and metallurgists.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The whole work is suggestive, illuminating and unique, and should prove most valuable to those who desire to study certain of the phenomena observable during the explosion of gaseous mixtures. The work of the translator has been done most satisfactorily.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 730w.
“While chemical thermodynamics is certainly still far from having reached finality, it is important for our chemical engineers to know what has been accomplished. This book is an excellent guide for this purpose, although it is by no means easy reading.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 550w.
“After a single perusal of the book the reader may not appreciate the infinite pains, or the critical acumen amounting nearly to inspiration, with which the author has extracted the truth from a great mass of uncertain and frequently contradictory experimental material.” G. N. Lewis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 344. S. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
=v. 3.= Completes the “treasury” and extends from the Jacobean to the Victorian writers.
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“While fully recognizing the excellent intention of this work, we have some doubts as to its utility.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 181. Ag. 15. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In general, the brief critical remarks in the introductions are well-balanced despite their extreme brevity and occasional wit.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hague, Charles Arthur.= Pumping engines for water works. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–42484.
“Furnishes in language as free from technicalities as practicable a description of the principles upon which pumping engines operate, a brief outline of their development and a detailed discussion of their parts, without taking up the actual computation and drafting-room practice of the designer.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The book is worth criticising and well worth improving in a subsequent edition.” n.s. Hill, jr.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 294. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“The book is far the best work on pumping engines that we have in English at the present time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Haile, Martin.= James Francis Edward, “the Old Chevalier.” *$4. Dutton.
8–15743.
A study “of Jacobitism in relation to wider issues. The author is thoroughly alive to the significance of the Orleans-Hanover compact; does justice to the Quadruple alliance in its bearing on the Jacobite expedition of 1719; explains the attempt of James to mediate between France and Austria in 1735, and shows how serious a blow to his hopes was the renewal of hostilities between those powers in 1740.”—Ath.
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“A painstaking study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 950w.
“As a study of personality, of the Jacobite movement in England, and of the views of a Stuart restoration held by the great powers of Europe, Mr. Haile’s work will be found both thorough and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“On some points his researches seem to have been thorough and complete; but on many other matters he appears to have contented himself with _a priori_ deductions.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 41. Jl. 16, ’08. 670w.
“Is really an historical study of an exceedingly interesting epoch.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“Admirably complete and readable volume. The constant introduction of quotation marks tends to destroy the illusion and impede the narrative.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Haile does more than merely write a biography of the Old Pretender; he gives us a thoroughgoing and most valuable study of English Jacobitism, based in many of its details on material hitherto inaccessible to the historian.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 121. My. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“Interesting but often too lengthy chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Valuable to student, and to general readers interested in the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08.
“The author is notably open-minded and fair.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Haines sees as a railway man—he sees as truly as one of the great travelling and shipping and consuming public. The tone and the temper are as admirable as though he might be a university professor of railway economics engaged in academic discussion. His book is an admirable chapter added to the fruitful discussion of railway problems.” J: J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“Faults of form and substance do of necessity detract much from the value of the book; but it must not be supposed that it is without merit.”
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 33. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Other similar utterances seem to indicate that the book was hurriedly compiled and failed to receive proper revision; it certainly did not receive adequate proof-reading.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 394. Ja. ’08. 310w.
“The author’s wide experience in railway affairs and his acquaintance with the theoretical side reveal themselves in a clear statement of the development of common carrier service, and of American railway regulation. We note only two errors of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 322. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Haines has written so much on the railway question that it was evidently difficult for him to advance any new ideas.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans: the story of the South American republics. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Somewhat superficial, but reliable and very useful for general information. Popular in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. ✠
“He will give the average reader a better appreciation of the south continent and the people, but with all this there is still much to be desired. There is no unity of treatment.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 203. Mr. ’08. 170w.
“No recent book on South America is so well adapted to the needs of the general reader as is this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“This book deserves careful reading. It is too obviously made up of miscellaneous magazine articles written at various periods and loosely connected with each other. Still it makes easy and interesting reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is written in a readable manner and sympathetic attitude.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“As long as Mr. Hale confines himself to the details of travel his work is not only helpful, but interesting. Unfortunately, he felt called upon to enter the field of broad philosophical analysis.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 360w.
“Very informative volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, George Ellery.= Study of stellar evolution: an account of some recent methods of astrophysical research. (Decennial publications, 2d ser., v. 10.) *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–18034.
The modification of the author’s original project to furnish a handbook to the Yerkes observatory has resulted in the adoption of the plan of describing a connected series of investigation, laying special stress on the observational methods employed, in the hope of explaining clearly how the problem of stellar evolution is studied. “The book is one that does not require great technical familiarity, either with astronomy or with physics.... For the physicist, however, and especially for one who has experience with the difficulties and the charm of the experimental side of his subject the book possesses a fascination that is quite unusual.” (Phys. R.) There are over one hundred plates.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“Is of the greatest value to all who are following the developments of what is emphatically called the new astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 580w.
“Interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 44. Jl. 16, ’08. 360w.
“The last part is particularly suggestive and valuable to amateur observers who are provided with moderate sized telescopes and who are skilled in photography.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 700w.
“The author writes of problems to whose solution he has himself made important contributions, of instruments which he has designed, or investigations with which, owing to his acquaintance with other astrophysicists, he has a thorough personal familiarity. This fact, together with the pleasing style and complete absence of any trace of egotism, gives to the book a character and charm that are rarely met with.”
+ + =Phys. R.= 26: 549. Je. ’08. 520w.
“It is non-technical, readable and gives a clear explanation of the purposes and observational methods employed by the author in his notable researches upon the sun and the chemistry of the stars.” C: L. Poor.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 804. D. 4, ’08. 540w.
=Univ. Rec.= 13: 24. Jl. ’08. 760w.
=Hale, William Bayard.= A week in the White house with Theodore Roosevelt: a study of the president at the nation’s business. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–17769.
An accurate, realistic picture of President Roosevelt as he appears at close hand actually engaged in the arduous duties of his office. The chapter headings are as follows: The president in the White house, A view of the president at work, The spirit of the White house, A typical day with the president, A cabinet day at the White house, Giving audiences to two hundred, An estimate of Mr. Roosevelt, and The president on Mr. Roosevelt.
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“It is written effectively and at times picturesquely, if not photographically. One feels that it is all quite true.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 162. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
=Hall, Bolton.= A little land and a living; introd. by William Borsodi. $1. Arcadia press.
8–19079.
In no way a repetition of the author’s “Three acres and liberty.” The book was stimulated by a letter from Mr. Borsodi to Mr. Hall in which the former points to the farm as the real hope, the one ray of sunshine that is destined to lighten the burden and cheer the lives of the needy of our large cities. Its aim is that of encouraging the overworked wage earner to reach out for a better, saner living, thru cultivating the little lands.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“We heartily recommend this work to all our readers who live on the land and to all those who dream of some time coming into intimate touch with the Great Mother.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 382. O. ’08. 600w.
“The effort to turn towards the land the superfluous population of the cities ... is one that deserves all encouragement not alone for economic but also for higher interests.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 112. O. ’08. 360w.
“His argument is marred by many divagations of one sort or another.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 80w.
“Lacks in systematic and personal apprehension of the question, but is full of stimulant.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 400w.
“The book should be read not only by those who are immediately interested in improving their life’s prospect, but by those whose prosperity enables them to consider means for the betterment of others less fortunately situated in the matter of worldly goods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“All readers who became interested in the suggestions offered by Mr. Hall in the introductory book will find the facts given in its sequel to be even more valuable and to the purpose.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 80w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 520w.
=Hall, Francis Joseph.= Authority: ecclesiastical and biblical. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–10429.
A discussion of the subject from “the viewpoint of the anti-Protestant wing of the Episcopal church. The author notes and makes acute if not convincing replies to the objections of Protestant writers, who understand ‘ecclesiastical infallibility’ differently from him.”—Outlook.
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“It is difficult to reconcile his idea of authority with the modern world, which is insistent on the freedom of inquiry, and is filled with the spirit of democracy. Dr. Hall’s reconciliation is not likely to stand; he must go one way or the other, or else sit down between two stools.” E. S. Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
− =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Hall, Rev. Francis Joseph.= Introduction to dogmatic theology. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–14566.
“The first of an intended series of ten volumes, covering the entire theological field as commonly outlined. The aim is instructive rather than investigative.... The declaration that ‘every particular Catholic church’ possesses ‘authority in doctrine,’ and his claim that ‘these doctrines are contained in a deposit of faith which was committed to the church of God in pentecostal days; that it is the double advantage of a Catholic theologian that he is taught the premises of his science by the Spirit-guided church, and receives sacramental grace within the church to master the truth thus conveyed to him,’ sufficiently indicate his accepted limitations and the class of readers he may expect to reach.”—Am. J. Theol.
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Reviewed by George Cross.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 162. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“It requires but moderate acquaintance with the writings of representative Anglicans to be aware that this work will not be accepted as a standard by the Anglican church as a body, but at most a strong minority party in it, the so-called Anglo-Catholics.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=Hall, H. Fielding.= Inward light. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–2180.
A book to be read in connection with the author’s “Soul of a people.” It develops the “great and vital principle of truth that underlies Buddhism.” It analyzes the evolution of a soul as it comes into the consciousness of its spiritual power and manifests symbolic perfection of body.
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“Charming, even enchanting in style, but lacks serious acquaintance with facts, and mingles beauty and truth with partial statements and actually false conclusions.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“This work contains twenty-two chapters, not one of which the thoughtful reader will be willing to leave unread. Many of them will call for a second perusal because of the light they throw on many problems that have for ages perplexed the brain of man.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 486. Ap. ’08. 3500w.
“It is impossible to deny that the ‘call of the East’ is clear and alluring in these pages, or that the ‘long long thoughts’ of which the book is a presentation are not quietly and effectively set forth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 12. Jl. 4. 380w.
“Charming, even enchanting, is this bit of philosophy disguised as a work of fiction. But as a presentation of Buddhism it lacks all the marks of serious acquaintance with originals or reality.” W: E. Griffis.
− + =Dial.= 44: 243. Ap. 16, ’08. 650w.
“In the discussion of various details, such as transmigration, the law of recompense, etc., Mr. Hall is a safe enough guide; but in his tone, in his interpretation of the spirit, he is at the antipodes of the truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“It would be hard to find a better expression of the gentle spirit of Gautama, the Buddha, than is given in this book. The book is a joy to read.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 1100w.
“A mingling of beauty and truth with partial statements and actually false conclusions. It will attract the superficial reader by its glowing language and entertain the more sober mind by its constant challenge to his thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 561. Mr. 7, ’08. 550w.
“The style is charming.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 512. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=Hall, S. Roland.= How to get a position and how to keep it, with special hints to various classes of applicants. **50c. Funk.
8–22077.
Hard work is the keynote to the success which Mr. Hall preaches. He gives practical advice on the choice of an occupation; on letters of application; on personal application and letters of recommendation. There are also special hints to various classes of applicants, and a closing chapter on Keeping positions and winning promotions.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
“Even those who have already had practical experience, as well as the business novitiate in wage-earning, can learn much from Mr. Hall’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 453. Ag. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Hamel, Frank.= Famous French salons. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
The salon history of French society from early in the seventeenth to early in the nineteenth century—from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame Récamier. Each of the nine leaders of salons is sketched in the light of her special gift for attracting and holding the brilliant minds of the day; as, for instance, the wit of Madame du Deffaud and the literary tastes of Mme. Récamier.
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“The narrative is in each case well told, and the author is skilful in selecting from his authorities the passages which have abiding human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 380w.
“A pleasant and interesting book on an agreeable subject. He has chosen nine famous ladies ... in some instances his choice cannot be disputed; in others it can.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 470w.
=Hamilton, Cecily.= Diana of Dobson’s. †$1.50. Century.
8–19716.
A London shop-girl of spirit chafing under the tyranny of Dobson’s drapery establishment comes to open rebellion upon the eve of a windfall. She inherits three hundred pounds, determines to go straight to Paris and to enjoy clothes, freedom, and fun so long as her little fortune lasts. At the end of a month she is penniless but has found a lover, a titled Englishman, whom she dismisses but finds again in a later state of great want.
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“Lively, unobjectionable story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“Though as literature this novel cannot be said to rank high, it is incomparably better than the general popular novel that appeals to the summer reader. It is a bright, interesting and rather unique love story, but it possesses a merit far beyond this.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 393. O. ’08. 870w.
“The impression remains with the reader of a brisk little story written with perfect taste, while it is at heart a genuine song of the sons and daughters of Martha.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 170w.
“The decided charm of this book lies in its clear, unlabored delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Hamilton, Clarence G.= Outlines of music history. $1.50. Ditson.
8–7604.
A concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented in the light of recent research. It is designed for the general reader and the student. It treats alien musical systems; mediaeval music; epoch of vocal counterpoint; development of monophony; Bach, Handel, Gluck; perfection of the sonata form; transition to the romantic style; nineteenth century romanticists, opera, and composers; and the music of the present day.
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“It is an excellent little book, fully abreast of modern musical scholarship.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A concise survey of the whole field of musical development.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“A volume commendably free from superfluous facts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Hamilton, Clayton Meeker.= Materials and methods of fiction; with an introd. by Brander Matthews. **$1.50. Baker.
8–17693.
A constructive study of the art of fiction from which amateurs who have the professional goal in view may see how great fiction has been and must be written. From a study of novels and short stories the author deduces and formulates the general principles of the art of fiction, emphasizing well the importance of understanding the relation between fact and fiction, the distinction between the actual and the real. The book recommends itself to college students, young authors, club members, circulating libraries and general readers. The best specimens of short story which literature affords are used thruout for the illustration of principles.
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“Particularly well adapted for general reading. It does not cover the subject completely and is of comparatively small value for serious study beside Perry’s ‘Study of prose fiction.’”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“In general the book is no less admirable in expression than in conception: clear and concrete, full of delightful niceties of detail, and not seldom rising into style.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 53. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“There is plenty of real cerebration, and thoughtful novel readers may gain considerable information and some points of view that will be both new and valuable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“It is, all in all, a suggestive, informing, and thoroughly interesting book, if not profound. The subject scarcely warrants profundity. The book becomes a sort of general survey of the best fiction, helping to revive pleasant memories, to introduce the young readers to writers previously known only by repute. It is a good plan and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 660w.
“It is not too much to say that the very real value of Mr. Hamilton’s book depends far less upon direct and specific research involved in it than upon a certain wise and healthful outlook upon life in general, that lies at the basis of his careful and logical subdivision of his book. It has this vital quality of a book that is really worth while, that where it fails to convince it helps you to clarify your own reasons for believing just the opposite.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 621. O. ’08. 830w.
“Should be of value to college students, to young authors, and to literary clubs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.= Butt Chanler, freshman. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27804.
A rousing college tale with intimate characterizations of the prevailing customs among American college students of to-day. The hero is a young freshman who is subjected to the usual round of initiatory hazing, to the usual athletic physical hardening process: and in spite of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, is proven to be morally straight and true. There is the usual campus and gridiron setting.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 90w.
=Hamlin, Myra Sawyer.= Persis Putnam’s treasure. †$1.25. Little.
8–30931.
One of the “Nan” stories which follows the rescue of a wealthy girl from morbidness by a group of healthy happy campers.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Hammerton, John Alexander.= In the track of R. L. Stevenson and elsewhere in old France. *$2.40. Scribner.
7–38531.
The author, an enthusiastic follower of Stevenson, devotes nearly a half of his book to the track of the Travels with a donkey and An inland voyage. He goes over the ground supplementing his observations with extracts from what Stevenson wrote about places in the course. Further rambles in Le Puy, in the country of the Camisards and in the town of Tartarin are equally interesting.
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+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 330w.
“A parasitic growth, and a fairly heavy one.”
− =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It would be a delightful thing to devote three or four months to a journey in France, with Mr. Hammerton’s book to show the way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, 08. 800w.
“This is a pleasant book, and may give some hints for future holidays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1101. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
* =Hammond, Eleanor Prescott.= Chaucer: a bibliographical manual. *$3. Macmillan.
8–28623.
“Without including annotation of the Chaucerian text (except a few well-known cruces), or allusions to Chaucer, or the lighter ‘literary’ essays, or ‘third-hand’ biographies, the author has nevertheless filled a volume of nearly six hundred pages with references, well digested abstracts, independent criticisms, and judiciously selected extracts dealing with all phases of Chaucer’s life and works, as well as the works (in a group by themselves) which have been printed with Chaucer’s or attributed to him.”—Dial.
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“As far as we have tested the book, all the important works on Chaucer are noted in the proper places, and there are very few errors of citation or misprints. The index is good. As far as the author’s work is concerned, then, we have little but praise of the volume, which represents the labor of years.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Her book, as a rule, is marked by a freshness which does not belong to the mere compiler’s work. It is to be regretted, however, that Miss Hammond should so frequently neglect to give the dates of the manuscripts. There is only one omission worth mentioning.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Trail of the badger: a story of the Colorado border thirty years ago. †$1.50. Wilde.
The subject of desert reclamation is handled here in a vivid picture, of life on the southern border of Colorado “where the fringes of two discordant civilizations overlapped each other—the strenuous Anglo-Saxon and the easy-going Mexican.” Two boys, alert, and physically fit, encounter all sorts of dangers in the way of enemies and wild animals while endeavoring to reclaim a stretch of worthless desert waste.
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“The boys of to-day will find it interesting to compare the conditions here depicted with those that exist at the present time, a single generation later.”
+ N. Y, Times. 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2. Houghton.
8–28422.
A biography which brings to bear upon the increasing store of facts concerning Keats’ life, the latter day methods of interpretation and valuation. This sketch is characterized by “an informing of the progressive development of Keats’ genius, the filling in of the background of his life with new authentic and specific details, the interpretation of his poems by his letters and a brilliant account of the posthumous growth of his reputation.”
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“Mr. Hancock is inclined to write staccato. His first few chapters especially strain for effect. The interpretative portion of Professor Hancock’s work, however, is the noteworthy feature of his book.” W. E. Simonds.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 341. N. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“Its success is due to scholarly co-ordination of facts and sane reasoning upon them; its failure is simply that Professor Hancock is too unlike John Keats. Professor Hancock for the most part brings out admirably those component events and experiences which went to the making of Keats. He depicts well many phases of the man: what he misses is the very man himself—the central note of his nature by which all is to be understood. And yet the book is well worth reading.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 584. D. ’08. 3000w.
“A book which is indeed the life of a poet, written by a man stirred by his subject, realizing and making the reader realize those essentials that made Keats Keats, rather than harping on those qualities which he shared with ordinary men, Mr. Hancock has made use of much new material in this book, material which has come to light since Houghton’s and Colvin’s lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 140w.
=Hancock, Elizabeth Hazlewood.= Betty Pembroke. $1.50. Neale.
7–41586.
All about a tender-hearted, true-to-self young Virginia maid and her friends and lovers.
=Handbook= of learned societies and institutions: America. $4. Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= “This first volume deals with societies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America. Each entry commences with the official name of the society or institution, its postal address, and the name of the official, if any, to whom communications should be addressed. Notes of its history are given, including dates of foundation and incorporation and changes of name and organisation, and if it possesses a library the number of volumes is stated; its object; time and place of meeting; number of members and fees; the exact titles of its publications and any special publications; the mode of distribution of publications; and a statement of research funds and prizes.” (Nature.)
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“Includes neither art museums nor libraries, though the admission of such libraries and art galleries as publish real contributions to knowledge would have enhanced the value of the work. The further omission of medical and agricultural societies and institutions, and of civic leagues must also be regarded as a serious drawback. Within its field, however, the book cannot fail to be highly appreciated by librarians and scientific workers in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 207. S. 3, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Cannot fail to be of great use to those interested in American societies and their work; its production reflects great credit on all concerned with its preparation and publication.” H. M.
+ =Nature.= 78: 340. Ag. 13, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Haney, John Louis.= Name of William Shakespeare: a study of orthography. *$1. Egerton press.
7–18135.
Aims “to present in convenient form the principal facts that have been elicited concerning the origin and etymology of the name and the vicissitudes of its orthography at various periods of its history.”
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=Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Although here and there the essay has a more controversial air, perhaps, than its author intended, it is, on the whole, a fair, complete, and clear exposition of the subject. So far as we have observed, it takes account of every scrap of evidence available, up to the time that it went to print.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 283. O. 4, ’06. 340w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
A practical rather than theoretical treatment of some vital present-day educational questions. The first part deals specifically with problems of industrial education in this country, with vocational education, under state auspices; and the second, with some of the results obtained in the secondary schools of Germany.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Gilbert Neal. †$1.50. Harper.
8–27805.
The fact that Gilbert Neal for a third time mortgages everything he possesses to keep a lawless, worthless brother from the penitentiary plays small part in this tale except to show the qualities of the young hero’s character. The serious work of the author is the portrayal of the three characters in a fatal triangle and the relations of the hero to each. One of the three, the long suffering wife of a dissolute minister, is the hero’s good angel, who teaches him moderation by saving him from the rash acts of hot headed chivalry.
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“The only human being in the story is one Daggart, village store-keeper and money-lender, and, as he says, ‘just a natural man, by hunky.’”
− + =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 320w.
=Harding, John William.= Chorus lady; novelized from James Forbes’ play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–10283.
In this novelization the heroine of the play loses neither her penchant for testing the whole gamut of slang nor her unafraid attitude toward sturdy sacrifice.
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“It would be absurd to pretend that the book is as delightful as the play, but it is a creditable and interesting discharge of a difficult task, and is perhaps the best of recent novelizations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Harding, John William.= Paid in full, by Eugene Walter; a story of modern American life, novelized from the play by John W. Harding. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16949.
The novelization of a popular play of the season. It is a story of married life in which a whining, weak-willed husband takes to blaming capital, his employer, and his own loyal wife for the ill success which follows in the wake of his anarchism. He becomes a defaulter, thrusts his wife, at the sacrifice of her womanhood, between him and the prison walls which loom up before him. She pays in full her debt of obligation to him by begging his employer, of doubtful morals, for mercy. In the dénouement, the hard hand of the capitalist puts on the velvet glove; Jimsy, the faithful friend, proves his allegiance, but the husband pursues the way of the lost soul to the suicide’s grave.
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“There has been no falling off in the dramatic interest and no serious blurring of the characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Harding, John William.= The time, the place and the girl; from the play of Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. †$1. Dillingham.
8–22547.
A story based upon the play, “The time, the place and the girl.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 180w.
=Hardy, Thomas.= The dynasts. 3 pts. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
=pt. 3.= “In this Part III we see the career of Napoleon in a convulsed Europe draw to its close in the colossal tragedy whose main features are the burning of Moscow and the retreat of the Grand army through the horrors of the Russian winter, the battle of Leipzig, the abdication of the Emperor, Elba, the return, and Waterloo.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Never has Mr. Hardy’s constructive genius mastered so completely as in his latest work difficulties arising from mass of material.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 615. My. 16. 1000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“There is not a line of poetry in ‘Dynasts.’ Had Mr. Hardy attempted true drama, he must have failed lamentably; but the fact is, he has attempted something else—to get a certain pictorial effect by irregular means—and he has not failed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 486. Jl. ’08. 1150w. (Review of pts. 1–3.)
“With the third section, now completing the work, we become conscious of a precipitation, still somewhat cloudy, of the æsthetical, ethical, and philosophical elements hitherto held in solution, and we feel that a great task has been worthily performed.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 307. My. 16, ’08. 2000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“From the beginning of the sixth act in the famous ballroom at Brussels to the final scene in the wood of Bossu where Napoleon broods over his defeat, Mr. Hardy is at his very best, and in this kind outside of the chronicle plays of Shakespeare there is none better.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 353. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w. (Review of pt. 1 and 3.)
“The stage is enormous and heroic, but the whole vast play is seen in every corner and from every point of view at once in amazing particularity and with a remembrance of its part in the cosmic scheme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 249. My. 2, ’08. 2500w. (Review of pt. 1–3.)
“Taking the completed poem, we feel that the poet has attained unity, and that the dramatic quality of the whole is his great achievement.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 462. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
* =Hare, Christopher.= Courts and camps of the Italian renaissance; being a mirror of the life and times of the ideal gentleman, Count Baldassare Castiglione. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare not merely epitomizes Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ itself, but gives a discursive account of the author’s life and of the stirring events which he saw. Castiglione’s biography was well worth presenting in this fashion, and ‘The courtier’ is always in order. The contacts which such a man has with the great ones of his age, furnish a better insight into the human side of the renaissance than we often get when our attention is primarily directed to Alexander VI, or Julius II, or to the ambitious princes who competed for secular prizes.”—Nation.
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“Many portraits from well-known paintings enhance the impression of reality which Mr. Hare’s agreeable narrative makes upon us.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 140w.
“Altogether Mr. Hare awakens an active desire to possess the ‘Cortegiano’ in its entirety, and what more could any enthusiastic biographer do for his subject?” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 900w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Life of Louis XI, the rebel dauphin and the statesman king from his original letters and other documents. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–182.
A biography whose material has been supplied chiefly by Louis’s “lettres missives” and “pieces justificatives.” “The two great figures, Louis of France and Charles of Burgundy, sometimes grotesque and sometimes terrible, move against a background of civil wars, desperate sieges, inhuman horrors without end. England with its Wars of the roses is closely connected with France and French politics through the unlucky Queen Margaret. Further off in the picture is the always welcome and delightful presence of her father, the good King René, happy and beloved through all contemporary storms.” (Spec.)
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“Although based on new material, not scholarly in the highest sense.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 184. Je. ’08.
“A cardinal defect of the book as a whole is that the light is not sufficiently concentrated. The excellence of the illustrations goes far to redeem the shortcomings of the text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 611. N. 16. 1680w.
“This ‘most difficult period of history’ presents a network of tangled politics and a snarl of interminable feuds; and the patience and skill with which Mr. Hare has threaded his way through it all deserves praise.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 530w.
“A new study that aims at supplementing the work of preceding historians.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 139. Ag. 13, ’08. 600w.
“There is no attempt in this volume to idealize the man, but dispassionate evidence is adduced to show that his crimes are to be considered less from the point of view of personal morality than from their aspect of national purpose in an era when France was struggling to be released from the evils of feudalism.” G. S. Heilman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
“Mr. Hare may be congratulated on having opened a fresh field—at least a fresh point of view—to English readers.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 778. N. 16, ’07. 1460w.
=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= His first leave. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–35365.
The author of “Paul and Fiammetta” tells another story in which sympathy for childhood abounds. The hero is an Indian civil servant on leave in England, the heroine, a “high-minded, merry-hearted English girl”; while the other characters are an unprincipled Jew, an English woman, her neglected child, Roger, and a number of lesser individuals culled from the Cockshot Hills.
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“The plot is very slight but the book contains an interesting group of characters who are, for the most part, well worth knowing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“Mrs. Harker does not always succeed in keeping a tendency to sentimentality under control; but so healthy is the tone of the book, and so agreeable its style, that the final impression it leaves is distinctly pleasing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 723. D. 7. 180w.
“Possesses the initial merit of a genuine charm of style. But, on the other hand, the construction of the story is distinctly loose.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
“A readable little story for women.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A slight, pleasant story which it is a little difficult to appreciate at its proper value. Perhaps because the author treats her characters too subjectively, over-editing them, as it were, we feel sure that we should like them all better if we met them in real life than we do through anything that they do or say in her pages.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The plot never thickens and the incidents barely link themselves into a chain; but they are made pleasant reading by the characterization, which is the strong point of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“But the charm of the book lies in the delicate understanding, shown by the author, of real human nature. The people are distinct individuals. Each one stands out clearly—faulty, attractive, merry, and true, just such a circle of associations as we would choose for ourselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A pretty, readable story, a little sentimental in spirit, and conventional in design perhaps, but fresh and wholesome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
* =Harker, Lizzie Allen.= Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–25368.
“This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and the little boys English, and the scene is laid entirely in Scotland.”—Spec.
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“Will find appreciative readers among lovers of child life or of quiet stories like ‘Cranford,’ with which, however, it suffers by comparison.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08.
“This is a story of exceptional charm. A good style, idyllic simplicity, originality, and tenderness add to the attractions of a work light alike in theme and treatment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 170w.
“Is full of charm and delicacy, with a touch now and then of quiet but delicious humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 571. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
“All lovers of children should read this delicate little study, which, if it cannot escape the accusation of sentimentality, is at any rate very charmingly and sincerely written.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 180w.
=Harland, Marion, pseud.= Housekeeper’s week. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23880.
A preliminary chapter entitled Her house in order, is followed by sixteen chapters outlining work for each day of the week, and eight chapters on such topics as marketing, sewing and mending day, care of the body, domestic materia medica, domestic surgery, care of the sick and miscellaneous hints.
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“The book is a compendium of information that will appeal not only to the young and inexperienced housekeeper, but also to her of longer and wider experience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“This new work seems to gather up the fragments of her overflowing domestic knowledge and experience and present them in a clear and attractive manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is a skilful grouping of suggestions regarding the various forms of housework under the days of the week.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 50w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= New Testament studies; 2, The sayings of Jesus, the second source of St. Matthew and St. Luke; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson. (Crown lib., v. 23.) *$1.75. Putnam.
8–14753.
“Presents Harnack’s recent discussion of ‘Q,’ the common discourse-source used by Matthew and Luke, to English readers. Harnack reconstructs this source, and declares it to be the work of the age of the apostles, perhaps of the apostle Matthew himself, and more ancient than Mark, for it shows no Pauline influence.”—Bib. World.
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“Harnack’s ‘contribution’ is the most thorough that has yet appeared; immeasurably superior to the attempts of Wendt and Resch, an advance also, chiefly by its greater detail, upon the truly scholarly work of Hawkins, Wernle, and Burton. It suffers, however, from the very rigidity of the author’s method.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 650. O. ’08. 500w.
“The book will not destroy Prof. Harnack’s reputation as a higher critic whose scholarship leads him to no wanton attack on religion, and whose criticisms are distinguished by sobriety of judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 431. O. 10. 550w.
“It is unfortunate that so rigid a two-document hypothesis underlies this stimulating book.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“The work is an important one for critical study of New Testament literature and the life of Christ.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His acuteness, vigour and freshness make the dullest details interesting. In his reconstruction of the original ‘Q,’ however, we follow him with caution and some slight misgivings.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“We cannot always accept Professor Harnack’s criticism, but it is acute and enlightening.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 942. Je. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Harper, Robert Francis; Brown, Francis; and Moore, George F.=, eds. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper. 2v. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
Twenty-six essays contributed by prominent men in fourteen institutions of learning which constitute a tribute to the memory of Dr. Harper and form a worthy expression of the scholarship which it was his life work to promote.
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“The volumes are a mark of progress as well as a testimonial to a great teacher. Reading them with an open mind we have reason not only to be thankful for the past but to be hopeful for the future.” H: P. Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 251. Ap. ’08. 1800w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 504. Ap. 25. 1100w.
“The whole constitutes a fitting testimony to the esteem felt by American scholars for a peerless teacher, an eminent scholar, and a great man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“It goes without saying that the book as a whole is worthy of its purpose in scope, content, and execution, and reflects much credit on contributors and editors alike.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 466. Je. ’08. 3400w.
“Two noble volumes of scholarly treatises.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 250w.
“All the articles are fresh, scholarly studies of serious matters connected with Semitic or Old Testament learning. A magnificent monument.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 420. F. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ + =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“The introductory essay ... is a careful and discriminating study of Dr. Harper and his work. The remaining essays are technical in character presenting little of interest except to Old Testament students.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from its memorial significance, this collection of critical studies is a distinct and valuable contribution to the work to which President Harper devoted his life.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 220w.
“A fitting tribute to a scholar’s memory, and such as a scholar would desire to have!”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 485. O. 17, ’08. 1000w.
“In scholarship and dignity of form are noble memorials to the enthusiasm for research that characterized the first president of the university.”
+ =Univ. Rec.= 12: 160. Ap. ’08. 580w.
=Harper, Walter Benjamin.= Utilization of wood waste by distillation: a general consideration of the industry of wood distilling, including a description of the apparatus used and the principles involved. *$3. St. Louis lumberman, St. Louis, Mo.
7–37257.
Aims to make good “the lack of literature on the subject of wood distillation, particularly that which relates to the treatment of resinous woods.” The author presents “the different phases of his subject in such a manner that it might be readily comprehended by persons lacking a preliminary scientific education, the information contained being thought sufficient to enable such, if suitably located, to establish and operate a distilling plant on a sound basis.” (Engin. D.)
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“Should prove of essential value to lumber men and others interested in the industry, in furnishing them with a treatise founded on a correct conception of the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A brief bibliography ... unfortunately, for the most part, consists of titles, only, without dates, publishers, etc.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 370w.
* =Harraden, Beatrice.= Interplay. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–29739.
“The central situation of this story is a new one. A woman, unhappily married, runs away with a lover, whose sudden death gives her husband the chance to divorce her, which he had refused to do when it might have been a merciful act. Years after, she determines, from the impulse of a new and nobler love, to put away her past, as men do, and give herself to happiness. The theme of the author is equal morality for men and women.”—Outlook.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It is to be added that the story reads interestingly, particularly in the first half. The characters in modelling and in conversation, are often original, sprightly, and unexpected, the situations fresh and seizing. But one would welcome an interval of emancipation from emancipation.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 370w.
“Miss Harraden has more wit than humor, and she is occasionally overly sentimental. ‘Interplay’ is the best thing she has done, not even excepting her still popular first book, ‘Ships that pass in the night.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The somber stuff that is the substance of the story is elaborately embroidered with dainty and skillful stitches, making a rich and original bit of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“She can think as well as describe, and her characters impress themselves.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 743. N. 7, ’08. 430w.
=Harris, Maurice Henry.= History of the mediæval Jews from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 60c. Harris, M. H.
8–21947.
“Deals with a golden age of the Jews, when their literature had a splendid development in Spain until they were forced out by cruel persecution at the end of the fifteenth century. The period includes the time of the mystic Nachmanides, the philosopher Maimonides (the author of ‘The guide of the perplexed’), and the poets Jehuda Halevi and Ibn Gabirol. Translations of some of the works of these poets are given.”—Ind.
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=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“A fairly readable and trustworthy summary, whose interest for the average young person is probably not increased by a slightly homiletic flavor. It is none the less a marked improvement on the few existing text-books on the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Harrison, Constance (Cary) (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Count and the congressman. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–15151.
The rivals for a charming American girl are an impecunious Italian count and a millionaire congressman. Contrary to the usual situation the titled foreigner possesses the manhood and the congressman is the villain. The latter has built his wealth upon the wreck of the girl’s father’s fortune. She is clever enough to penetrate his scheme, entraps him and wins back enough money to restore, modestly the Stelvio estates at Lake Como.
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“The personages of the novel are simply convenient dummies for furthering the simple action of the story. The dialogue lacks distinction of any sort.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= My Alpine jubilee; articles from London Times, Westminster review, and Cornhill magazine, 1851–1907. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26234.
Ten short articles and letters including six letters written from Lake Leman last autumn, fifty-six years after the author’s first Alpine trip, also early essays on mountaineering and Sir Leslie Stephen’s Alpine writings. These have been collected and published at the request of the Alpine club of London to aid in the celebration of its jubilee.
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“He writes with the vigour and enthusiasm inspired by the atmosphere of his beloved mountains.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 250w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“The chapters in Mr. Harrison’s volume are of varying value. But all are confidently commended to the lover of the Alps.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= National and social problems. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–14733.
An appeal to international morality and a plea for social regeneration. The first part deals with international problems, war and imperialism; the second part is occupied with questions of labor, unionism and socialism. “The author purposes a socialism, economic, moral and religious, whereby the reorganization of society as a whole will be secured by a new ethical and religious education, entirely reforming the spirit in which capital, the product of society, shall be used, enjoyed, and controlled for the good of society alone.”
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“A permanent value certainly attached to the second part of the volume.” A. G. P.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 530w.
“Although many have already read most, if not all, of the essays now republished, some at least of them possess a curiously fresh interest at the moment, and are most welcome.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 900w.
=Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 340w.
“The half dozen essays in the second section treat of the modern unrest and the impending revolution in the industrial order. In all that he has to say upon this problem he is still the consistent and aggressive Positivist that he has always been.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“We doubt whether a man who avers that he has learned almost nothing in the last forty years of the nineteenth century is qualified to be a leader of society in the beginning of the twentieth century.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison would be a more instructive teacher, and, generally, a more useful citizen, if he were not possessed with the dogma of his infallibility.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 640w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–36260.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“His volumes are of interest despite the fact that they add little to what he had already printed.” W: T. Paullin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 662. O. ’08. 440w.
“The book is the echo of long-drawn-out controversies over worthless issues.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 130. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The book in question has a certain value. Were it not for the title of his latest book one might think that this conclusion was a caricature of common sense.” I. W. Riley.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 663. F. ’08. 1330w.
“The collected issue of these various utterances in defense of positivism as the one and only common-sense philosophy forms a valuable and highly readable sequel to the preceding number of the series.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 18. Ja. 1, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by S. Waterlow.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 130. O. ’08. 700w.
“The work exhibits a philosophical Bourbon who learns nothing and forgets nothing.” I. W. Riley.
− =J. Philos.= 5: 444. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison’s clear style and perfectly frank spirit lend a charm to his work that insure him a hearing with every one interested in philosophical discussion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15. ’08. 430w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 144. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The student of nineteenth century philosophy who desires to conceive aright of the spirit, method, and aims of the system of thought inaugurated by Auguste Comte will find them nowhere delineated more clearly and adequately than in this volume by the most prominent and able of Comte’s disciples.” E. Ritchie.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 558. S. ’08. 460w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 672. N. 30, ’07. 860w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Realities and ideals: social, political, literary and artistic. (Collected essays, v. 4.) **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–26402.
The fourth volume in a series of the author’s essays based on “one coherent scheme of thought—a positivist synthesis—a reorganization of life, at once intellectual, moral, and social, by faith in our common humanity.” This group includes social and political subjects dealing with the relations of England and France, the future of woman, marriage laws, use of Sunday, prohibition, the church, parliamentary reform, etc.; and, under the subject of literature and art, discusses the revival of the drama, decadence in modern art, and concludes with a dozen sketches of prominent past-century Englishmen.
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“Of sheer good writing this volume is full. Of that dignified and impressive eloquence of which Mr. Harrison is a master no better example could be found than in the piece with which the volume opens.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 638. N. 21. 1350w.
“The second part of the book, embracing chapters on literature and art—the first part being devoted to social and political questions—is especially attractive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 270w.
“The essential characteristic of Mr. Harrison’s writing is always earnestness, tho he often buries it in bland humor or carries it home with stinging wit.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison ranks among living Englishmen with John Morley as an essayist of originality, weight, and charm, who has also supreme gifts in expression.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
“Everything that Mr. Harrison writes is so ‘meaty’ and thought-provoking that it seems scarcely necessary to call attention to these qualities in the collection of essays that make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 170w.
=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.65. Putnam.
“The little volume of 168 pages takes the form of a commentary on the famous chapter of Thucydides (II. 15) in which the historian demonstrated the small compass of primitive Athens by the fact that the oldest shrines are all either on the Acropolis or in the adjoining precinct to the south (or southwest). Miss Harrison discusses all the old topographical problems.... She tells us all that is known and much that is conjectured of the earlier pre-Persian Athens on which Pater’s imagination so fondly dwelt, and of the earliest Mycenaean Athens on the Acropolis.” (Dial.) Admirably illustrated.
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“Is by no means too technical to be enjoyed by any intelligent reader who has visited or intends to visit Athens.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 135. Mr. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Things are not really quite so simple and certain as they appear to Miss Harrison’s loyal enthusiasm for Dr. Dörpfeld’s theories. We can recommend to the student or tourist no better introduction to the whole subject than this.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 27v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 25. Latané, John Holladay.= America as a world power.
7–41116.
Professor Latané takes up the thread of history where “National problems” left it at the election of 1896. The main field covered is the Spanish war of 1898 and its consequences on the spirit and policy of the American people, and the administrative and economic questions which have demanded solution.
=v. 26. Hart, Albert Bushnell.= National ideals historically traced.
7–41115.
This final volume of the series is a restatement of the achievements and ideals of the American people, illustrated from by-gone events which show the meaning and extent of national progression. The factors of geographic environment, of race and social conditions, political organizations, social and economic activities, relations with other nations are successively treated, and the volume closes with a discussion of the future of American democracy.
=v. 27. Matteson, David Maydole=, comp. Analytic index.
8–2970.
This general index is a consolidation of the compiler’s indexes in the separate volumes of the series, with some additions and corrections. It covers every important event, noted person and historical fact mentioned in the preceding twenty-six volumes, and fully supplements the separate indexes.
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“A worse fault and the only one we find in the book that is at all serious—his presentation falls short at one point of what his task would seem to call for in any view whatever. It is somewhat onesided and ‘northern,’ not in temper or purpose, in both which respects it is commendably broad, but in matter.” E. B: Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 371. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 22.)
“With much that is good, and much that is helpful, ‘The American nation’ is not an epoch-making work, it is rather epoch-marking.” Max Farrand.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 591. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 1–27.)
“The work seems remarkably free from errors.” A. S. Hershey.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 625. Ap. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 25.)
“This volume must be classed with the studies of American democracy made by De Tocqueville and Bryce. On the historical side Professor Hart’s work is more complete and stronger than either of the other studies. On the philosophic side, it compares less favorably with the work of the French and the English student.” C. E. Merriam.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 626. Ap. ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 26.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. (Review of v. 26.)
“Not an exhaustive study, but is clear and concise.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 45. F. ’08. ✠ (Review of v. 25.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08. (Review of v. 27.)
“The author presents a brilliant summary of the last decade of our foreign policy.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 525. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 25.)
“With its many excellences, it is to be questioned whether the series as a whole has demonstrated the impossibility or the uselessness of the attempt to attain unity or uniformity in the work of a single master hand.” St. G: L. Sioussat.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 309. My. 16. ’08. 3200w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
“The chapters on the national supervision of railroads and the money question touch on a number of new points and are the best in the book.” F. L. McVey.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 122. Je. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 24.)
“Professor Dunning has produced the only brief history of the period that commands respect.” (Review of v. 22.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“The volume starts better than it finishes.” (Review of v. 23.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“When perspective shall have been corrected by distance the historian will still find in this volume much to commend in its calm statement of current facts.” (Review of v. 24.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“Many of its chapters have a definiteness unusual in current history.” (Review of v. 25.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“We are not certain what the editor has tried to do with his ‘American ideals historically traced.’... His volume of essays, some of them interesting and suggestive upon ‘Territorial concepts,’ ‘The man who leads,’ ‘I want to know,’ and the like, is of doubtful value in a great historical work.” (Review of v. 26.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 23 and 24.)
“No volume in this notable series has supplied a more distinct want than Professor Dunning’s.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 22.)
“Two points only in this volume seem to call for comment. The first ... deals with a transition period, in the point of view. How well the author has adhered to his purpose, even a cursory examination of his book would suffice to show. The other point is the author’s judgments of men. Towards the Republican policy as a whole, Professor Dunning’s attitude is prevailingly critical. On the whole, his sympathies seem to lie in this respect with the Liberal Republicans. In his estimates of Republican leaders, however, his criticism is caustic.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 22.)
“The chronicle of events is reasonably full, and on the whole well-balanced and skilfully arranged, but the narrative is left, as a rule, to tell its own story, with but rare intrusion of the author’s personal judgment.... Their clear and impartial narratives should perform a needed service in discriminating the numerous and conflicting elements of which American politics has of late come to be compounded.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 83. Ja. 23, ’08. 1180w. (Review of v. 23 and 24.)
+ =Nation.= 86: 285. Mr. 26, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 25–27.)
“The worst fault one has to find with the book is the inadequate treatment, in the chapters on ‘International arbitration’ and on ‘The forcible collection of public debts’ of the proceedings and discussions of the second Hague conference.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Prof. Hart seems anxious to avoid the reproach of saying undisputed things in a solemn way. He prefers to say highly disputable things in a way as far as possible from solemn, in a style combined of the ‘monographic’ and the journalistic. He has not even taken the trouble to read proofs so far as to avoid repetitions. Inaccuracies are painfully frequent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 26.)
“It is too early yet to write of the period with any finality, but Professor Sparks’s volume certainly affords a comprehensive view of its happenings and its tendencies.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 878. D. 21, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 23.)
“After reading his chapters on organized labor, the trusts, the tariff, the silver struggle, and the national supervision of railways, the student cannot fail to have a clearer idea, not only of the situation as it was ten and twenty years ago, but of the situation as it now is.... Greatest value attaches to Professor Dewey’s account of the beginnings of the trust movement. His handling of the strictly political occurrences of the twelve years is scarcely so successful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 24.)
=Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 320w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The chapters on government are especially valuable, showing as they do a sure knowledge of the views and practices of the past and a keen perception of present conditions; and warm praise should also be extended to Professor Hart’s summaries of our religious, social, intellectual, and territorial development.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 26.)
“The publishers, for some unfathomable reason, have omitted to indicate on the binding the numerical progression of the volumes—an omission which, of course, militates greatly against the usefulness of the work for ready reference.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 27.)
“Excellent on the whole as is his work of digest and exposition, it still cannot be said to be an authoritative survey, even on the documentary side and from the American viewpoint. This lack of an authoritative grasp is revealed in what may be termed the two-sidedness of his book.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 715. D. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Professor Latané elaborates [his themes] with historical accuracy and illumines with his attractive style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Such a series has some advantages over a work by a single author, and also serious disadvantages. The chief ones for our purposes are that the volumes are very uneven, and the point of view of the successive authors is constantly changing. For teachers the first of these defects is the important one, for high-school pupils the second one.” Webster Cook.
+ − =School R.= 15: 715. D. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 8–14.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Manual of American history, diplomacy, and government, for class use. $2. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
8–15335.
“Not only contains a careful selection of the best material from earlier volumes but embodies also significant topics and essential bibliographies adequate to bring the narrative down to the present.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Three detailed courses of ninety lectures each are outlined on the subjects of American history, diplomacy and government. Three shorter courses of thirty lectures each on the same subjects follow. These outlines are supplemented by suggestions for class topics, term reports, etc., and by a valuable chapter on methods and materials, giving directions for the use of books and preparation of reports.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“This volume will be welcomed by the alert teacher even though he may not have access to the wealth of material suggested. It is to be regretted that an index has not been provided.” J. A. James.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 920. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The arrangement of the volume, and the general character of the material to which reference is made, make the volume of value to the general student.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 444. S. ’08. 130w.
“The volume would doubtless be more serviceable and less formidable to the undergraduate if it were broken into three parts, dealing with history, diplomacy and government separately.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 140w.
“So profuse are these citations that many a college student will be confused by their very number. The instructor and graduate student will profit by Professor Hart’s work more than will undergraduates.”
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 243. Ag. ’08. 200w.
=Hart, James Morgan.= Development of standard English speech in outline. *$1. Holt.
7–2750.
“Not a history of the language, not even in the barest outline, but merely an attempt to show how the Englishman or American of today has come by his pronunciation.” “It is substantially an abridged Middle English phonology, with consideration, however, of the main sound changes in Old and Middle English.” (Nation.)
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“We need hardly say that the information given in this little book is sound, and it is only on the question of aim that we take issue with its author.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 250w.
“Furnishes the best existing introduction to the subject of which it treats.” E: M. Brown.
+ =School R.= 16: 270. Ap. ’08. 650w.
=Hartley, Percy J.= My lady of Cleeve. 2 col. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–5574.
Set in the times of the Jacobite uprising this story throws into the foreground one Captain Adrian Cassilis, loyal to the claims of William, and the beautiful but shrewish lady of Cleeve, daring in her devotion to the cause of the Stuart restoration. It is the story of a Petruchio and a Katharine whose hostility is echoed in the din of warfare about them. Petruchio subdues his Katharine’s turbulent pride thru service, and wins her for his bride.
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“Not specially well written, but contains a swash-buckle flavor that is attractive.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“An unusually good example of the modern Dumas romance, the sort that we expect from Stanley Weyman at his best.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Second-rate historical romance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The workmanship is excellent, there is a twist to the language which gives it an adventurous, generations-back flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
“It is one not especially distinguishable from the large number of its companion romances.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Harvey, George B. M.= Women, etc.: some leaves from an editor’s diary. **$1. Harper.
8–30295.
A series of “fugitive observations” which so far as they are concerned with women deal with casuistry, greed, friendship, age, ignorance in management of men, second wives and husbands, taxation of spinsters and bachelors, love, fiction and learning, osculation, woman suffrage, and unequal conditions of men and women. The “Etc.” deals with a variety of subjects including the folly of worry and its cure, disadvantage of great riches, and honesty in advertising.
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“Whoever has read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested these wise follies is armed and equipped for any occasion when men and women meet and the quips pass around.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 370w.
=Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Mr. Burbank has really done some good work, but the critical reader of ‘New creations in plant life’ will be still uncertain both as to its amount and kind.”
− =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
“All who are interested in the work which Luther Burbank is doing among flowers and plants should read this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
=Hasse, Adelaide Rosalie.= Index of economic material in the documents of the states of the United States; prepared for the Department of economics and sociology of the Carnegie institution of Washington. Carnegie inst.
Maine (1820–1904). 75c.
7–24018.
New Hampshire (1789–1904). 50c.
7–29730.
New York (1789–1904). $3.75.
8–9802.
Rhode Island (1789–1904). 75c.
8–14941.
Vermont (1789–1904). 50c.
7–40267.
“Each volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains references to general sources of information and descriptive matter arranged according to the character of the publication. Part 2 contains references to particular series of reports, and particular topics, arranged alphabetically. The references under each topic are divided into two groups, viz., ‘serial’ and ‘non-serial.’ Within each of these divisions the arrangement is chronological.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 79. Mr. ’08. (Review of 3 parts.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08. (Review of 2 pts.)
“All of this work is pioneer work in the vast store of state documents and fortunately it has all been done by trained library workers who had exceptional opportunities in compiling the material. When these series shall have been completed the economist will have at hand the keys for unlocking most of the state material to which he desires to have access.” L. C. Marshall.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 567. N. ’07. 750w. (Review of 3 pts.)
+ =Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 220w. (Review of 1 pt.)
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels. 2v. ea. $6. Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 2.= Labour—Zion. This volume completes Dr. Hastings’ undertaking. Among the valuable articles are those on the gospels: Matthew, by W. C. Allen; Mark, by A. J. Maclean; Luke, by A. Wright; The text of the Gospels, by P. M. Barnard; and The virgin birth, by G. H. Box.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 680w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A stately volume.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 399. My. ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The same excellences and defects that characterized the first volume of this work run through the second volume.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 404. Je. ’08. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is designed especially for preachers, for whom it unquestionably makes accessible many facts suitable for homiletic use. The extreme conservative point of view, however, noted in the first volume is maintained in the second.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole the completed work makes a better impression than did the first volume alone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 257. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is as comprehensive as unique.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a great deal of overlapping; the same subjects are treated under three or four heads and sometimes twice under the same head. The appendix to the ‘Dictionary’ contains perhaps the most important part of all.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hatcher, William Eldridge.= John Jasper, the unmatched negro philosopher and preacher. **$1. Revell.
8–23140.
The life story of a negro who as slave and freeman was a preacher of unusual power. “In Dr. Hatcher’s sketch of John Jasper one has a glimpse of an actual character than which there are few more deliciously humorous, more naïvely primitive, more original in the pages of fiction. Jasper was one of the most unique preachers—black or white—who ever filled a pulpit or swayed with his eloquence, acrobatic quite as often as vocal, the throngs that came to hear him.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hatcher has rescued a bit of literature, rough hewn and of the soil though it is, that one could ill afford to lose in a world where the over-refinement of the makers of books becomes at times a weariness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 1350w.
=Hatfield, Richard=, ed. Geyserland: empiricisms in social reform; being data and observations recorded by the late Mark Stubble: a tentative ed. $3. Richard Hatfield, 1310 Green court, N. W., Washington, D. C.
8–19013.
A sketch of a reconstructed society. Geyserland is conceived to be a ring-shaped island within the Arctic circle. The inhabitants are a fragment from a wreck of antediluvian cultured people. It is the chief aim of this volume to show how the laws of altruistic Geyserland make the customs, dogmas and restraints of present society seem artificial and futile. In the author’s scheme there is no family life, marriage is regulated by the state, the state owns everything and awards everything.
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“It would be superfluous to condemn the ideas set forth, for the book is its own best condemnation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 950w.
=Hauch, Ernst Friedrick, and Rice, Philip Durkee.= Tables of quantities for preliminary estimates. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–36877.
Tables “giving station yardages to the nearest cubic foot, computed from the prismoid formula, for roadway widths from 12 to 32 feet, increasing by arguments of 2 feet, for side slopes from 5° to 35° increasing by 5°, and heights increasing by units from 1 to 50 feet.”—Engin. N.
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“The railway surveyor will find the volume of use when making preliminary estimates according to the method employed by the authors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 74. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“The only criticism to be made is that there should have been given more complete directions as to the methods of using the tables and a more definite analysis of their mathematical deduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Haupt, Paul.= Book of Nahum; a new metrical translation; with an introd., restoration of the Hebrew text, and explanatory and critical notes. *50c. Johns Hopkins.
“Dr. Haupt has the courage of his investigations, and uses all his scholarship to revise the Hebrew text and assign its portions to various periods of Hebrew history. He holds that Nahum is a liturgical compilation in honor of the glorious victory of Judas Maccabaeus over Nicanor in 161 B. C. There are, he says, four poems, of which the two last are taken from much older poems written by one who saw the fall of Nineveh in 606 B. C., while the two first are of the Maccabean period.”—Ind.
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“It will be of value only to the special student, and that too not for its main contentions, which are largely arbitrary, but for the abundance of materials brought together, especially on lexicographical and archaeological topics.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 159. F. ’08. 50w.
=Ind.= 63: 1373. D. 5, ’07. 220w.
“Explanatory and critical notes string together much curious and not always strictly pertinent learning. The positiveness of these divinatory pronouncements is equalled only by the arbitrariness of the critical procedure.”
− =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Black Bruin: the biography of a bear. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–27116.
A short introduction giving some of the characteristics of “Ursus, the droll” is followed by the life history of a bear from cubhood, during which he was a household pet, on thru dancing and circus-bear periods to the wild again whither he escapes after killing his trainer.
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“The author has skilfully woven into his story much of the natural history of the bear, and he has produced a readable story, but yet ‘Black Bruin’ is not typical.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 180w.
“A marvelous nature story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Great Miss Driver. †$1.50. McClure.
8–25366.
In which an unambitious secretary to the Great Miss Driver sketches her career—the career of a masterful young woman of wealth, a dictator and financier, the possessor of a man’s perspective and sense of justice and the heart of a woman. To her, shortcomings in big men may well be overlooked. “They have their big lives, their big selves, to look after. They can’t spend all the time thinking whether they are doing justice to a woman.”
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“Anthony Hope’s new novel is in its way as good as anything he has for some time produced. The air of the story is somewhat artificial, but there are human sentiments and situations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3. 400w.
“There is no exaggeration in saying that in literary technique and human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good fiction ‘The great Miss Driver’ is easily the biggest, best rounded, and altogether worthiest story he has ever written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 379. D. ’08. 760w.
“The ease and politeness of manner with which the story is told may be compared with that of an intelligent, cultivated man who tells a story fascinatingly, yet with a certain deprecatory air, as if he said, ‘But do not let me tire you’ and the reader’s response is, ‘Pray go on, sir; you could not tire me if your tale lasted till morning.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1002. O. 29, ’08. 970w.
“In this book he shows less humor and verbal dexterity than he has led us to expect; but he goes about his task with the air of a man who can handle the tools of the trade, and he produces a novel that, if not extraordinary, is at least entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“This is not in the least reminiscent of Anthony Hope, but it’s a good story all the same.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
“An extremely clever but perhaps a little over-protracted study of a forceful and willful young woman.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
“Even with what he gives in the earlier half, Anthony Hope does not quite make Jenny Driver credible, though he makes her human, and delightful and new; so human, indeed, that his handling suggests that he is not himself quite sure how far he understands her.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. S. 26, ’08. 830w.
“When he writes with the subtlety and finish, the acuteness and sympathy, that are displayed in ‘The great Miss Driver,’ we are reconciled to his abandonment of the domain of fantastic and adventurous romance in which he won his earliest and most resounding successes. There is something artificial in the machinery employed to enable Jenny to turn the tables on her judges and detractors.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 860w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Love’s logic and other stories. †$1.25. McClure.
8–10617.
Fifteen short stories with the title piece, a little drama, buried in the middle of the book. The best of them are Mrs. Thistleton’s princess, Miss Gladwin’s chance, and The prince consort. A bit of art in the first of the three is suggested by the fact that the author keeps his scheme to the short story length by causing the principal character—who with money might have been developed into a hero—to be in a chronic penniless state with an overdrawn bank account.
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“Short stories, good, bad, and indifferent.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Cleverly made stories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 660w.
“Unusually well told in the musing, gently reminiscent manner of the old friend of the family.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 50w.
“Good enough for magazines, but distinctly not worth publication in permanent form.”
− =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 150w.
“All are pervaded with that gentle irony, mildly whimsical humor, and amused acceptance of human foibles with which the author is wont to spice his romantic tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Hawley, Frederick Barnard.= Enterprise and the productive process. **$1.75. Putnam.
7–39068.
A theory of economic productivity presented from the point of view of the entrepreneur and based upon definitions secured thru deduction of the scope and fundamental terms of the science of economics. The author aims to present authoritative notions upon the definition, scope, and method of his reconstructed economic theory and discusses fully the four productive factors, land, capital, labor and enterprise.
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“Not a great book, but a serviceable one for students of advanced economic theory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08.
“An acquiescence in the author’s general conclusions necessitates an acceptance of his risk theory of profits, of his perhaps too pronouncedly entrepreneur point of view, and of his extremely restricted conception of the scope of economics.” R. V. Phelan.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 729. My. ’08. 300w.
“The chief contribution of the book is its point of approach. Anyone who will read Mr. Hawley’s argument will also be convinced that he is in contact with a mind of unusual force and acumen. The argument is well planned and consistently worked out. The present writer is not convinced, however, that the author’s method and point of view are inherently superior to those of the classical school.” T. N. Carver.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 123. Je. ’08. 460w.
=Ind.= 64: 419. F. 20, ’08. 330w.
“On the whole it must be said that the author comes out much better in his conclusions than one is likely to expect after a reading of his introductory chapters wherein he expounds his method and sets forth his point of view.” T. N. Carver.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 111. F. ’08. 960w.
“It would be hard to mention another work that has appeared within the past three or four years which is freighted with more solid thinking upon economic fundamentals.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 291. S. 24, ’08. 830w.
“Novel and original contribution to political economy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 141. Mr. 14, ’08. 1250w.
“Is an original contribution to economic discussion both in method and point of view. However, if we find it impossible to indorse Mr. Hawley’s principal contention, his book is helpful in many ways.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Hawley’s work does not appear, to the reviewer at least, to have produced theoretical results of a high degree of value.” A. S. Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 532. S. ’08. 1850w.
“The economist will find Mr. Hawley’s working out of his theory of economic productivity exceedingly interesting and original, even though neither premise nor conclusion can be accepted without doing violence to established economic tradition.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Hay, Alfred.= Introductory course of continuous current engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
W 8–37.
“The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader, assumed to be already familiar with the elements of electricity and magnetism, with the construction of the component parts of an electrical installation. It is largely descriptive, the text being illustrated with diagrams of electrical devices and circuits.”—Engin. N.
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“The work has been prepared for use as an introductory text on continuous current engineering; it is exceptionally well arranged for this purpose.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 297. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The matter is well presented and the work forms a fine companion volume to the author’s excellent treatise on ‘Alternating currents.’ It combines within the same covers the fundamental phenomena and their applications.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
=Hay, Oliver Perry.= Fossil turtles of North America, pa. $7. Carnegie inst.
8–26862.
“A work which not only makes it possible to gain speedy and accurate knowledge of the group of which it treats, but completely paves the way for further progress in its study.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author finds that there are 266 well-defined species of North American fossil turtles—or more than now survive on all the continents. From this it is evident that the turtles are a disappearing group, though yet so abundant as to lend a deep interest to all problems connected with their origin and distribution.” (Nation.)
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“It is far in advance of any [work] that has hitherto been written on its subject, or on the turtle fauna of any other country.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 330w.
“Almost the only fault we have to find with the volume is the absence of a good table of contents, or of a classified synopsis, whereby the serial positions of all the genera and species might be seen at a glance. In all other respects we heartily congratulate Mr. Hay on the completion of such a valuable and heavy piece of palæontological work.” R. L.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 91. N. 26, ’08. 600w.
“This ponderous and splendidly illustrated volume affords naturalists a compact statement of quite all that is known to date of the ancient turtle life on this continent; many of the forms being new to science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The Carnegie institution is to be congratulated on the publication of this valuable and useful work.” S. W. Williston.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 803. D. 4, ’08. 700w.
=Hayes, Hiram W.= Paul Anthony, Christian. *$1.50. Reid pub. co.
7–42007.
A story whose scenes are principally laid in Burma in which a young American engineer, a Christian scientist, antagonizes a missionary leader and an army surgeon while winning thru his livable, demonstrable religion most of the other characters of the story. It is interesting as a romance and reveals fundamentally what Christian science “teaches in regard to man’s relation to God, his fellowmen, the problems of sin and sickness and how they are destroyed, and the ideal of life.” (Arena.)
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“It is a book that Christian scientists would do well to circulate very widely, and it is a deeply interesting romance that is very pure and uplifting in its influence and atmosphere,—a good book that merits wide reading.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 251. F. ’08. 950w.
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“Written with more skill than is usual with propagandist novels.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 26, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Hays, Joseph W.= How to build up furnace efficiency. 50c. J. W. Hays. 601 Hartford building, Chicago.
A book which deals with the “most common furnace losses and their causes in detail, and makes a strong argument for a liberal use of the Orsat apparatus for furnace gas analysis.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“A booklet that will indicate to the man in charge of a boiler plant where to look for the causes of fuel waste and how to go about stopping them.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1308. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 90w.
“It cannot fail to prove of value to every operating engineer.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Hazard, Caroline.= Scallop shell of quiet. **$1. Houghton.
8–243.
A book of religious verse containing forty Lenten sonnets, an Interlude of fifteen poems, and eight final sonnets composing A cycle of grief ever the death of a friend.
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“[Has] the grace of a deep sincerity.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Shows the subjectiveness of a thinker to whom the world does not present itself in images of form and color, but in whisperings and prayers.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from The Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin; with introd. and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner. $1.50. Brentano’s.
7–34585.
In Hearn’s early youth he formed a friendship with Watkin, a Cincinnati printer, who became the “Old man” or “Dad” while he himself, because of his gloomy tendencies and love for Poe, was dubbed “The Raven.” These letters from “The Raven” to Watkin cover the former’s experiences in New Orleans, offering a series of “vignettes of his strange Creole life,” experiences in the West Indies, and in Japan.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 573. My. 9. 200w.
“Though Lafcadio Hearn’s literary reputation will not be enhanced by the publication of ‘Letters from The Raven’ these unstudied early writings give an insight into phases of his personality not revealed by what he wrote for the world at large, nor, except in small measure, by the numerous private letters printed in his ‘Life and letters’ by Miss Elizabeth Bisland.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 46. Ja. 16, ’08. 470w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Perhaps there is an advantage in having them by themselves in this little book. Their flavor gains a certain pungency by this isolation from his general correspondence.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 650w.
“Amid much that is dull and scarcely worth while in these letters of Hearn’s written to Mr. Watkin ... there is also a touch now and again of the curious Hearn imagination and the haunting delicacies of thought that we know in his later writings.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 43. Ja. 25, ’08. 1050w.
“These letters have little, if any, intrinsic importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 598. My. 9, ’08. 1200w.
=Heck, Robert C. H.= Steam engine and other steam motors. 2v. ea. *$5. Van Nostrand.
5–4757.
=v. 2.= Deals with The form, construction and working of the engine; and The steam turbine. Whereas the first volume contained theoretical discussions, this one relates to the actual engine and its performance. It is fully illustrated.
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“Very full treatise of specialized character, suitable for large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Painstaking and scientific work.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The two volumes are far from being a complete treatise on the steam engine, and they are scarcely suitable for text-books, but, for reference books, they are to be recommended as giving a better and fuller treatment of some works on this subject.” William Kent.
+ − =Technical Literature.= 2: 456. N. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Heineman, Theodore William.= Physical basis of civilization: a revised version of “Psychic and economic results of man’s physical uprightness.” $1.25. Forbes.
8–13635.
A demonstration that two small anatomical modifications determined physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political conditions. The author says, “When sexual reproduction among mammalian creatures resembling the quadrumana produced a variation in the ento-cuneiform bones of their posterior extremities and shifted the occipital foramen magnum to a position a little back of the base of the skull, then was the birthday of the human race.”
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“It is only on the side of ethnographic and sociological facts that he is weak. To those who are interested in tracing out the biological roots of human institutions, especially of the family, therefore, the book is to be commended as well worth reading.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 412. N. ’08. 420w.
“The weakness of the book is found in its assumptions. The author has done a good piece of work, especially strong and suggestive in its biological aspect; and he has shown himself to be an able, original and independent thinker.” F. W. Collins.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 450w.
“There is room for a difference of opinion as to the force of this ‘demonstration.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Helleu, Paul C.= Gallery of portraits. *$7. Longmans.
A book of plates accompanied by an introduction by Frederick Wedmore. There are reproductions of twenty and more portraits of prominent women. Mr. Wedmore says, “The Duchess of Marlborough, depicted here, is far, very far, from being the only instance of a type drawn from moneyed and, no doubt, cultivated America. The Comtesse de Noailles—a young dame du monde who has found time to give to France more than one volume of introspective poetry—represents the Faubourg and the chateau, and the literary salon where tender and gifted Melancholy leaves Flirtation no chance, and rhythmic Sorrow is poured out with the tea.”
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“Except in one or two of these reproductions, we do not quite recognize the magic for which [M. Helleu’s] name once stood.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 775. D. 14. 180w.
“One of the most elaborate and interesting art books of the season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Prominent women are presented in the vivacious style of this most brilliant of modern dry-point etchers, who gives a note of piquancy to all his sitters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand and others=, eds. World’s history: a survey of man’s record; with an introd. essay by James Bryce. 8v. ea. $6. Dodd.
7–42036.
=v. 8.= Western Europe in the nineteenth century—The Atlantic ocean.
The subjects treated are The French revolution, Napoleon and reaction; The political and social changes, in Europe between 1830 and 1859; The unification of Italy and of Germany from 1859 to 1866; A summary of important events which occurred in Western Europe between 1866 and 1902. The last chapter “suggests, without describing, the significance of the Atlantic ocean in history (1) as a great dividing barrier, (2) as the training school of nations, and (3) as a medium of world commerce.”
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“The work of the translator has been uniformly well performed throughout the volume. Of minor faults (there are no great ones) we note a few misprints. For the rest of the book is a truly remarkable compendium of a little understood and less appreciated section of the world.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 814. Ag. 24, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“[The first] four chapters are more or less open to two points of criticism. First, none of the writers has shown at all satisfactorily the great influence of religion, romanticism, capitalism and the improvement in the means of communication in shaping the history of the nineteenth century; they too often lapse into the conventional juiceless political narrative. The fault is not theirs but the editor’s; they fear to be guilty of repetition, in as much as these subjects have already been completely developed as separate topics in