The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials,
and other tributes, to Dr. Hulbert. The second part consists of a dozen lectures on the English reformation and Puritanism, with seven occasional addresses.
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“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous, pungent, and many passages when delivered must have been truly eloquent. The book should find many readers among intelligent laymen as well as among students and ministers.” A. H: Newman.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 317. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“Had Dean Hulbert lived ... it is probable that he would have given these lectures a somewhat more scholarly form and that he would have purged them of some of the errors and imperfections that now detract from their value, especially as regards the more recent history of nonconformity and education in England.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1096. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In general we may say that Dr. Hulbert’s point of view is elevated, his horizon broad, and his purpose sincere. His lectures are therefore good history and not cramped by the immediate purpose for which they were prepared.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 352. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
* =Hull, William Isaac.= Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.
8–28855.
“Professor Hull’s volume is a detailed account of the history and results of each conference. All the topics discussed and all the acts passed are grouped together, the author showing first what was done in 1899 and then in 1907.” (Ind.) “He has analyzed and compared the work of the two conferences by topics and sub-topics, so that we are enabled at a glance to see what advance on any special point—disarmament, arbitration, naval warfare, land warfare, etc.—the conference of 1907 marked over its predecessor.” (Nation.)
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“No one has as yet so completely and adequately covered the second conference, and the volume is therefore the most complete account of the two peace congresses up to date. The volume will become a standard work and will prove especially valuable to editors, librarians and students. We notice only a trifling error or two.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The arrangement of Professor Hull’s book renders it particularly convenient for ready reference.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 440w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Green mummy. †$1.25. Dillingham.
8–20710.
The green mummy held in its hands some precious emeralds. Therefore a certain antiquarian eagerly desires it and therefore the mummy case is delivered to him, containing the dead body of the man who had been sent to procure the treasure. The story unravels the mystery of the murder.
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“It will puzzle and surprise you as thoroughly as anything else he has published.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Hume, Martin.= Court of Philip IV.: Spain in decadence. *$4. Putnam.
8–3611.
“A worthy sociological study frankly recognizing the intimate relation that court life bears to national life.” (Ind.) “Major Hume’s method is to present a series of pictures, chronologically arranged, of Philip’s life and surroundings, portraying as minutely as need be the other prominent personages of the era, and the social life.” (N. Y. Times.) “Having by birth and upbringing a foot in either camp, he has in most of his other works maintained a critical though friendly attitude towards Spain. In this he writes exactly as a Spaniard might have written on the same theme. In fact, his work is really a Spanish history, written in the English tongue.” (Sat. R.)
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“Major Hume lends a personal interest to his descriptions of the principal personages in the historical drama, and his rapid outline of the political situation is vigorous and effective in its brevity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 821. D. 28. 1350w.
“Mr. Hume’s claim to have described an important period directly from the sources in a distinctly human and interesting way is well sustained.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“A formal and judicial history would have been more valuable than these kaleidoscopic views of court life. Still the work is skilfully done, and the presentation of Philip’s incurable frivolity is complete and convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 337. N. 8, ’07. 2000w.
“Errors and inaccuracies ... are by no means absent. A more serious fault of the book is its redundancy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The author’s art has been, through all the maze of detail, and the wealth of documentary evidence, to keep the image of the unlucky king clear and distinct and to enlist our sympathy.” R. B. C. Graham.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 571. N. 9, ’07. 1800w.
“He has compiled a picturesque and superficial book of the court, full of gossip and glittering pageants, but containing little of importance that is new. It cannot be accepted as a wholly trustworthy or scholarly account of his reign.”
− =Spec.= 99: sup. 745. N. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Hume, Martin.= Two English queens and Philip. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This present volume contains a most clear and reliable narrative of that period in English history when the struggle between the Reformed faith and Catholicism was complicated by political intrigues and schemes which ended in Spain’s standing up as the actual antagonist of England in arms as well as in theological controversy, Mr. Hume tells of Mary Stuart’s marriage with Philip and of the incidents which led to that marriage; the events that followed Mary’s death, including Elizabeth’s refusal of Philip and the advance of the Invincible Armada, with whose defeat this volume ends.”—Lit. D.
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“The particular attraction of Mr. Martin Hume’s historical work lies in his dramatic power, his skill in weaving a succinct, vivid, and rapid narrative. He is picturesque without running to exaggeration, and his familiarity with the records, relics, and monuments of the sixteenth century in Western Europe is complete and under perfect control.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 600w.
“A book like this cannot be measured by the same canons as a serious historical work; it is frankly written to please a large public, and not for the instruction of specialists. We venture to think that in works like this he has found his real vocation, and, provided his readers are adequately warned not to accept all his statements unreservedly, we trust he may continue to live to produce a great many more.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Hume’s story ... is one of great interest—picturesque, dramatic, and vital.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 680w.
=Humphrey, Lucy Henderson=, comp. Poetic old-world: a little book for tourists. *$1.50. Holt.
8–21527.
A volume similar in plan to that of Miss Du Bois, and easily a companion to it. The ground covered is different and there are only fifty poems which both compilers have used in common. Here are poems relating to the voyage, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece and to the return.
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“Useful in libraries not having Longfellow’s ‘Poems of places.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“This is a delightful book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 40w.
“The selections, on the whole, are good, most of them familiar enough, but none the worse for that. And the editor has been wise, we think, in looking for pieces that convey some sentiment, personal or historical, connected with a place, rather than for mere descriptions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 100w.
=Humphrey, Zephine.= Over against Green Peak. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12764.
“Aunt Susan, Jane, and I” make a real living personality of an old white house beside the road in the heart of a Vermont valley. The chapters of this book are of the nature of reveries, with the library, the garden, and the orchard for themes. Here one finds simple-life charm, the love of nature, and the joy of claiming the whole year for a comrade.
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“It is characterized by gentle humor, grace, and refinement.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“It must not be supposed that the book as a whole is not as fresh and exhilarating, to nature-lovers, as the mountain air and mountain scenery that have largely inspired it.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader at once finds that he is not dealing with a commonplace mind.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 170w.
“A worthy effort to express through poetry rural life in Maine.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The reader takes part in the simple tasks and quiet enjoyments cordially, and puts down the little book with the feeling that it has afforded entertainment and that it has about it the unmistakable air of literary grace and refinement.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
A biography which furnishes the principal events in Calhoun’s private life and political career, and shows his identification with two opposing popular movements:—“how he helped to form a broad national sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional sentiment.”
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“While the work does not show the brilliancy that made Von Holst’s similar biography so notable twenty-five years ago, its fairness to all parties makes it more trustworthy.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The use of more recent sources of history and researches among state papers and publications of Calhoun’s day add the sense of thoroughness and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Hunt’s sketch of the life and influence of the Southern statesman is a sympathetic and useful one, and he has supplemented his text with chronological and bibliographical notes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 110w.
=Hunt, Violet.= White rose of weary leaf. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Best defined as a sort of modern ‘Jane Eyre’ story.... The Jane Eyre of this story is not an inexperienced young girl, but a sad, disillusioned woman, who has long looked the world in the face, and expects nothing from it but injustice. The Mr. Rochester has been married, not once, but twice.... The spectacular tragedy is not a fire, but a railroad wreck, and even here the wife, though badly hurt, insists upon recovering.... The man, however, allows the other woman to believe that the wife is dead; and from this initial wrong the story moves strongly on to a double expiation, told in a spirit of grim fatalism.”—Ind.
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“The story is undoubtedly clever.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 317. Mr. 14. 300w.
“It is astonishing that a book so faulty should here and there show streaks of such undeniable merit.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 220w.
“A disconcerting tale, not to be commended to readers of tender sensibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 230w.
“The title of this cumbersome story is suggestive of its effect on the reader.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 456. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The book is clever, well written (the dialogue and one or two letters, being quite remarkable), and disagreeable.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 340w.
“Though distinctly clever as a study of character, is squalidly dreary, and makes very depressing reading.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
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“As a colorless record of events and a clear elucidation of the history of parties and of political developments in England during the last half of the nineteenth century, the work of Messrs. Low and Sanders is completely successful, and, as a book of reference of this character, it has no rival in the field.” A. G. Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 583. Ap. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Altogether it may be said that in this volume we have an adequate, impartial, and highly readable account of the period it covers. Our chief criticism of the work is rather negative than positive.” E: P. Cheyney.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 523. Mr. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hodgkin marshals the known facts with great skill, and brings out a number of valuable points more clearly than any of his predecessors. It is possible, however, that he exaggerates the influence of the Norman conquest.” E: Fuller.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within the limits he was constrained to observe, it is well-nigh a model of its kind.” E: Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Unfortunately, he chooses to devote the greater part of the volume to the minute narration of battles and sieges.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 312. My. ’08. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 313. My. ’08. 150. (Review of v. 11.)
“One of the best contributions so far to an excellent work.” E: Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 314. My. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1041. My. 7, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7 and 12.)
“They fully maintain the reputation of the series for solidity and conservatism. As indicative of the machine-made quality which inheres in all the volumes of this series, the fact should be noted that the index [of v. 7] is defective in many particulars.”
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. 08. 300w. (Review of v. 5 and 7.)
“The young man in a hurry will find this volume very useful.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 768. D. 21, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Generally the authors show a power of seeing all around the subjects which they handle.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 12.)
“A work of real value.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 134. Jl. 25, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Hunter, Alexander.= Huntsman in the South. *$1.50. Neale.
8–4450.
How the South goes a-hunting and bags its game is told in a sprightly narrative full of the atmosphere of field and stream. Among the most interesting chapters are “A coon-hunt” and “An old Virginia fox-hunt.”
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“Mr. Hunter’s ... hunting stories certainly have the virtue of a lively narrative form.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 50w.
=Hunter, Robert.= Socialists at work. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11815.
The wide-spread espousal of the cause of socialism, the unquenchable fervor and invincible vitality of its adherents are the themes with which this book deals. It treats of the movement in Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium, of the progress of socialism, socialism and social reform, socialism in parliaments, socialism in art and literature, and a supplementary chapter on the movement in other countries.
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“The book is one of the best, if not the best, for reading by anyone who wishes to secure an answer to the questions, ‘Who are the socialists? What do they believe? What are they doing? How are they organized?’ and these are the important points to know about this movement.” A. M. Simons.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 263. S. ’08. 740w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“The material would serve well for a series of popular magazine articles entitled, ‘Notes on socialism abroad and at home,’ but as a book it is hardly worthy of the perusal of a student.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
“Despite these defects the book has some claim to a passing interest. While outlining the social reforms now in progress in Europe, it serves also to bring the reader into intimate contact with the men of the socialistic movement.” J. A. Lapp.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 146. Je. ’08. 600w.
“He reports with enthusiasm and some exaggeration the triumphs of the European parties that bear the same label as himself.”
− =Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 387. Je. 20, ’08. 680w.
“Based as the book is largely upon personal observation and first-hand material, it presents many facts not elsewhere accessible; and it is admirably written. Its charm is largely due to the personal note.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
“The world-sweep of the movement has never before been so clearly brought before the American reading public.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 130w.
=Huntington, Annie Oakes.= Poison ivy and swamp sumach. *75c. Annie O. Huntington, 31 Glen road, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
8–11102.
Presents “a series of photographs of poison ivy and swamp sumach which make it possible for even the casual reader to recognize leaves, flowers, fruit, and buds, and thereby to be protected against injury. A study of the accompanying text will enable the man who goes fishing early in the spring to distinguish the poisonous sumach without its leaves. There is also a chapter on the treatment of the poisonous eruption.”—R. of Rs.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Huntington has performed a useful service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“Although we are not impressed by the striking originality of Mr. Huntington’s method of treating his subject, he is a close and careful observer of what came under his notice, a skilful delineator of character, and a writer of considerable merit.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1850w.
“Whatever our conclusions may be in regard to Mr. Huntington’s theories, we must allow him the credit of remarkably lucid presentation of a complex scientific question.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 104. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The incidents of his journey are narrated simply, and are often entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“With its simple record of perilous adventures, its excellent illustrations, and its clear devotion to science first of all, it forms a noteworthy and inspiring work of travel.” G. A. J. Cole.
+ + =Nature.= 77: 314. F. 6, ’08. 800w.
“It is a record of careful investigation, with intelligent deduction based on scientific observation, but it is likewise a graphic and charmingly written description of journeyings in unfamiliar places.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“It describes Central Asia in particular. It shows the immense influence exerted by changes of climate upon the history of that region.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 798. Ap. 4, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Huntington, Helen Manchester.= Sovereign good. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28983.
An absorbing story of the love of a young dramatist for a woman of the New York smart set twelve years his senior. Her great love, her renunciation, and at last reconciliation with the thoughts of the love that passeth understanding, of essential and sovereign good, are the motifs to which all else in the story is harmonious, artistic embellishment.
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“The lightness of the book’s impact upon the reader’s mind is the more regrettable in view of the writer’s manifestly sincere effort to express the inner eventfulness of commonplace life.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 150w.
“The author is evidently a novice in story writing, and her book is nine parts of talk to one of movement. But the many, many pages of conversation, description and analysis are written with intelligence and taste, and the character of Fidelia King, the lady who loves without response, is made lifelike and attractive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 529. S. 26, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Hurst, Edward H.= Mystery island. $1.50. Page.
7–32318.
Adventure lovers will fairly gallop thru these pages of crime and mystery. An embezzler attempting to escape the law hides on an island of the Everglades. His secret and the crime committed to cover it are discovered by the knight of the tale who, fever stricken, wanders thru the cypress swamps, happens to hit a trail, and comes upon the refugee and his unsuspecting party in camp upon the island’s oasis.
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“The author falls into the ruts of conventional fiction when he gets his characters back to civilization; but the island episodes are good.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 180w.
=Hurt, Walter.= Scarlet shadow: a story of the great Colorado conspiracy. $1.50. Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan.
7–40797.
“Treats of the war of extermination waged by the Mine owners’ association against the Western federation of miners. Mr. Hurt has given the side of the miners and has shown in an admirable manner many of the facts in the great conspiracy case. He also rightly holds up for the scorn of honorable citizens the Mine owners’ association and its ill-famed servant, Governor Peabody, and the malodorous Pinkerton thugs.”—Arena.
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“This book is written in the bright, crisp style of the modern alert newspaper man. It contains many strong and some very brilliant passages. It is highly dramatic and often grimly tragic. Much of the work is a vivid historic presentation, and so effective is this portion of the book that we specially regret that the author should have mixed romance with the history. Mr. Hurt’s book will appeal to socialists.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 252. F. ’08. 1100w.
“Any man credulous enough to believe the hundreth part of this book—could one so sublimely guileless be found—would certainly have a pleasant idea of life in the great west to-day. Wholesale murder, abduction, and torture are but incidents in this extraordinary tale. As for the journalistic life, which plays so large a part in the story, it is as saffron-tinted as one would expect from Mr. Hurt’s literary style.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’08. 400w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= That little——: a sporting novel. †$1.50. Longmans.
An irascible father drives his son away from home because the latter will neither go into the English army nor accept a position in a certain London office. Richard goes abroad to seek his fortune, leaving the girl he loves to ride her horses, drive her car and look after his wise little terrier. The country setting makes the story, for the author has the trick of taking “a village in the shires and showing how much diversion and variety, not to mention useful activities, are to be found within and without its borders.”
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“The characters are as familiar as their surroundings. They have all been shown before, sometimes better, sometimes worse.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“A genial and pleasant story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
* =Hutton, Edward.= Country walks about Florence. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Hutton is a guide to the Florence “of old renown” and bids his reader linger in the vineyards, hear songs, see the olives silver in the wind, stoop to the flowers, make haste slowly because of the beauty of the day, and not think of hurry because of the beauty of the night.
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“The Florence of Mr. Hutton’s present book is worth a fireside journey through it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“A useful addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 814. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Florence and the cities of northern Tuscany, with Genoa, il. *$2. Macmillan.
“Impressions, experiences, reflections.” “You feel that while each palace and church and soaring tower of Florence has its own special message for [the author] and while ‘amid the hurry and bustle of her narrow splendid ways’ he thinks only ‘of old things for a time,’ the appeal of the country life outside of Florence, with its ‘beautiful gay roads,’ its ‘numberless villas whispering with summer, laughing with flowers,’ is even stronger to him, ‘for there abide the old ways and the ancient songs, which you will not find in the city.’” (Bookm.)
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“His present volume, though it contains little that is new in the way of thought or description, has a few chapters agreeable to read, and, scattered up and down pages somewhat overloaded with ornament and disfigured by repetitions, a good many passages of graceful writing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 266. S. 5. 540w.
“Although small, compact and yet comprehensive enough to do valuable service as a supplementary guidebook among the Tuscan cities, the book is written with a sympathetic understanding, an individual touch, a genuine charm of style which make it equally adapted to the needs of those who are preparing for first impressions and of those who are seeking to revive old memories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“He has a happy quality of seizing an impression and transferring it to words, and his slight historical sketches, though necessarily incomplete, are quite adequate for the purpose he has in hand. His judgments are sometimes biased by feeling, and he does not always understand the Italian temperament.” K. H. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 623. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Worth reading and deserving of shelf room beside Mr. Symons.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Hutton indulges rather too freely in sentimentality. He seems to be an amateur in history, art, in emotion, addressing amateurs. Nevertheless, he succeeds sometimes in speaking about art and life less affectedly than we fear he will.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
“We are very grateful to Mr. Hutton for the sheaves of golden fact which abound in this closely packed volume. The fifty-three pages on Pisa are the best thing we know in English on the treasures of the city and the fortunes of the Republic.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
=Hutton, Frederick Remsen.= Gas-engine: a treatise on the internal-combustion engine using gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, or other hydrocarbon as source of energy. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–345.
“In the first two editions the author had prominently before his mind the idea of examining what the machine does and how this is accomplished. In this edition, on the other hand, he considers the gas-engine from the quantitative view-point more fully, that is, with the idea of examining the size it must have to do a certain amount of work in accordance with the limits set by natural laws.” (Engin. D.) “There is a more complete treatment of gaseous and liquid fuels and differs from the earlier edition in an expansion of the discussion of producers and of carbureters.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The subject matter generally is brought up to date in a satisfactory manner, with, however, some notable exceptions. It reads like the first draft of a book, written without verifying the quantities recorded, without digesting the information given, and without any attempt at accurate statement. The reviewer has gone into what may seem to be minor and trivial points, but in this particular case he feels it is necessary to call attention to these inaccuracies and carelessnesses of statement because they occur in practically every paragraph of the first half of the book. It is a pity that they have not been rectified, for the general plan of the book is good; but until they are corrected the book is too unreliable to be recommended for the use of students.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 438. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
* =Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Age of revolution: being an outline of the history of the church from 1648 to 1815. (Church universal ser., no. 7.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20491.
A sketch in which “the author restricts himself to the history of the churches which claim an episcopate transmitted continuously from the first century. He imparts to it an interest, which might have been missed in brief treatment of a long period, by giving prominence to important episodes and representative individuals—e. g., Jansenism and Port Royal, the French revolution, Bossuet and Fénelon, Wesley, Joseph II of Germany. A salient feature of this ‘age of revolution’ impresses the reader who contrasts the present servility of the clergy to the Vatican with the free spirit often manifested then.”—Outlook.
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“His account of the intrigues which led to the suppression of the Jesuits is masterly, and the whole book is singularly readable. On one or two points, however, we are disposed to quarrel with him. On the whole, however, we have nothing but praise for this excellent book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 60w.
“This valuable little book corrects some current impressions of the eighteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= Aphorisms and reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley: selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. (Golden treasury ser.) $1. Macmillan.
W8–95.
A little volume of quotations from Huxley’s writings. “An elaborate index makes this little book a veritable boon to the literary worker In need of apt illustrative quotations.” (Dial.)
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“Huxley was one of the meatiest of writers, and bears well this somewhat searching test of the quality of his thought.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 341. F. 13, ’08. 110w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.= Little brown brother. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24469.
A story whose scene is laid in the Philippines after the capture of Aguinaldo. “The hero is a familiar character in fiction—a noble-minded Englishman who, as the result of scrupulous unselfishness, is under a cloud.... The action mostly concerns the attempt of an inadequate force to quell a rising of pulajanes, or murderous Christian fanatics.” (Ath.) “The heroine is a high-spirited English girl who likes men who ‘do things,’ and who shares with her father, a wealthy hemp buyer of Calbayog, a belief that it is the white man’s business to keep the little brown brother in his place with a strong hand.” (Nation.)
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“A story of unusual interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“The author is at his best in realizing the sympathy which draws brave men together; he touches love with nobility and restraint, but his irony is too fantastic to be convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 130w.
“This book is much bigger and deeper than its central thread of romance.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 263. N. ’08. 600w.
“For sheer graphic force and the rare ability to make one see, it has a kinship with Mr. Dawson’s ‘African nights’ entertainment,’ and with the earlier Kipling, the Kipling of ‘Plain tales’ and ‘Soldiers three.’ The great fault of the book in point of technique is the manner in which it intrudes the writer’s personal views.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 409. O. ’08. 1450w.
“Considered merely as a novel, this book is of unusual interest. But the book is more than a novel; it is also a sensational political pamphlet. The interest of the narrative is overshadowed by the sweeping indictment of the American administration of the Philippines.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“The book must rely for its popularity upon its merits as literature. And they are not scanty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 740w.
“The great advantage that the story has over bluebooks and reports is that it will be read,—no one who takes up Mr. Hyatt’s story will lay it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 100. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Psychical research and the resurrection. **$1.50. Small.
8–18413.
Contains essays relating to the subjects discussed in the author’s three previous volumes. “The present volume covers more or less of the whole field and may be regarded as a supplement to ‘Science and a future life,’ with conclusions quite the same.” A concluding chapter gives in detail the reasons for not accepting the proverbial story of the resurrection from the point of view of science, and offers the new interpretation of the facts as viewed in the light of psychic research.
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=Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 550w.
“The reader, who in opening this book hopes to discover some positive deductions relating to the nature of a future life, will surely close it with disappointment. Nor do we find this discussion of cases in itself very satisfactory, for we are asked to trust not only the writer, but every word of every person whom he trusts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“It is impossible for any fair-minded person to read [this book], without admitting, however reluctantly, that he, at least, has preserved something of the scientific instinct and method in his ghost hunting, and that his work and his theories deserve that serious consideration the general absence of which he, now humorously, now bitterly, resents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 800w.
“It is a great pity that he has seen fit to burden his pages with much controversial material. Still, the book is undoubtedly useful to those who wish to keep abreast of the progress of psychical research in the United States.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 19, ’08. 330w.
I
=Iles, George=, ed. Little masterpieces of autobiography. 6v. ea. **75c. Doubleday.
This series comprises six handy pocket volumes of biography as follows: Greatest Americans—Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall and Lincoln; Soldiers and explorers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Roosevelt, Stanley, Peary, and King; Men of science—Darwin, Huxley, Newcomb, Geikie, Nasmyth, Bessemer, Edison, Acheson, Curie and Carnegie; Writers—Longfellow, Poe, Tennyson, Burns, Scott, Hawthorne, Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, Stevenson, and George; Artists and composers—Millet, Breton, Story, Nasmyth, Stillman, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Gounod, Grieg and Haydn; and Actors—Jefferson, Booth, Cushman, Morris, Irving, H. B. Irving, Terry, Mansfield, Salvini, and Ristori; Letters, passages from famous biographies, and pages from diaries enter largely into the sketches.
=Inchbold, A. Cunnick (Mrs. Stanley Inchbold).= Lisbon and Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–21792.
An interesting, beautifully illustrated presentation of present day Lisbon, Cintra and other Portuguese cities. The buildings, monuments and ruins are seen in their historic settings, and linked with names famous from medieval times; while the questions of modern development and relative power of the cities are given due attention.
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“As she avoids the temptation to gush, the tone of her book is excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 287. Mr. 7. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 515. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
“Mrs. Inchbold’s descriptive style is easy and pleasant, and the colored illustrations, by Stanley Inchbold, add to the artistic attraction of the volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 130w.
“The travellers by proxy will find this an interesting book, with charming coloured illustrations, giving them a vivid picture of a country full of historical buildings of great beauty; and the travellers in practice will learn of a hunting-ground full of promised delights, or will be able to compare notes and impressions.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton.= Lead and zinc in the United States. *$4. Hill pub. co.
8–18051.
Comprises an economic history of the mining and smelting of lead and zinc and the conditions which have affected the development of the industries. “It attempts not so much to stimulate an antiquarian interest in the early discoveries and feeble attempts at exploitation of the lead and zinc deposits of this country, as to direct attention to the natural features, technical improvements and commercial issues which have contributed to the development of the industry.” (Engin. N.)
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“The book, while seemingly compiled with some haste, is for the major part clear, and contains so much pertinent cost data that it will prove valuable for reference as well as for study.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 440w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott-.= Wulnoth the wanderer: a story of King Alfred of England. †$1.50. McClurg.
The song of Gyso, the gleeman which saved from the oblivion of the past the heroic deeds of Wulnoth the wanderer, has made possible this drama of the Viking days. Here are immortalized the friendship of Wulnoth for Gruthred; the wanderings, perils, and warrings and his slaying of Hungwar, the Dane; the friendship with Alfred and Bretwalda and his love for Edgiva; and his last fight with Jarl Edric.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Province of Burma: a report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago. (Colonial administration in the Far East.) 2v. ea. *$12.50. Houghton.
7–31201.
These two volumes form the first instalment of Mr. Ireland’s report which was undertaken for the University of Chicago, and which will extend thru twelve volumes. A year of preliminary study in London, two years of travel in the Orient, and three years given to the examination of six thousand volumes, mostly official documents, have been spent in preparation for the task. “The volumes contain masses of information concerning every branch of the administration, even down to the rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative council” (Lond. Times) furnishing a basis of fair comparisons with other governments.
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“In reference libraries it must become a useful and indispensable handbook in its field.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A most comprehensive and invaluable compendium.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 584. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Truly encyclopædic. Of much value to the student of colonial administration.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 300w.
“The reader a little above the average will discover much to attract him in the skilful collation of document and statistical abstract, which, even in the absence of interpretative comment, tell more or less of a story by themselves.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“The author has been highly successful in these two volumes in amassing material on which he can base comments of permanent value.” G: R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 1000w.
“The volumes on Burma promise thorough and painstaking editing for the series.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 523. S. ’08. 1350w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 438. Ap. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“No one who has a serious interest in the great administrative problems of empire can afford to be without access to such an imperial encyclopaedia. We congratulate Mr. Ireland on an enterprise which bids fair to rival the greatest feats of German research.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 302. F. 22, ’08. 1200w.
* =Irving, John.= Stories from the history of Oxfordshire. Oxford.
“Mr. Irving who is head master of a boys’ school at Oxford has made thirty little stories out of the historical and legendary material of a country rich in traditions. It is his purpose to stimulate the child’s interest and imagination, and to lead him imperceptibly on to desire a more substantial acquaintance with history.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Irving has achieved simplicity and lucidity to a laudable extent, and his ‘Stories’ are interesting throughout.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 94. Jl. 25. 160w.
“Desirable book for children’s reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 90w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.= Lady of the Mount. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–5226.
Set in the northwestern part of France, this story is an illustration of that struggle between métayers and inexorable nobles which entered so largely into bringing on the French revolution. The Mount is a stronghold of the government ruled by an unyielding lord who conceded nothing to the people and pursued only the “set tenure of his way.” The leader of the opposition is the son of a seigneur whom the governor of the Mount had wronged and whose lands he had confiscated. Thru all the strife of uprisings runs the thread of romance—the love of the high-born lady of the Mount for her half-peasant hero.
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“This is one of the best novels of its class that has appeared during the present year.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ives, Howard Chapin.= Switches and turnouts. 50c. H. C. Ives, Worcester, Mass.
“This study consists of three articles which originally appeared in the ‘Journal of the Worcester polytechnic institute.’ The author calls attention to the following points: First, the descriptions of the different forms of switches and their effect on the lead; second, the statements of practical conclusions to be found at various places in the text; and third, the design of the slip switch, the mathematics of which are believed to be original, not having been found elsewhere by the author.”—Technical Literature.
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“While not developing any new theory, the arrangement of the material is good and the mathematical treatment concise, so that it forms a handy reference book to add to the railway engineer’s handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 80w.
J
=Jacob, Violet.= History of Aythan Waring. **$1.25. Dutton.
8–3675.
Two cousins love “a delightful young Diana of the uplands,” thereby incurring for one of them the jealousy of a vindictive woman. “The hero is found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to death. His lady-love is a winsome creature, and his rival, the villain, is remarkably human for a character of his type. Hester is a striking figure; her delineation is a sombre study of the madness which may arise from a woman’s jealousy.” (Ath.)
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“The tale is leisurely melodrama, presented with more fidelity to detail, and rather more logical sequence and characterization, than is usual in this class of story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 130w.
“The characters are vaguely drawn; the dialogue is perfunctory and bookish; the melodramatic plot is dawdling, lifeless, and absurd.”
− =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The book is somewhat above the average novel in style, characterization, and vigor of treatment. Mrs. Jacob, however, falls short in the most essential quality in fiction—the dramatic touch.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
“The story is very well told.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 70 w.
“Nevertheless, though its execution is not so good as its conception, it is a fine story, thoughtful and imaginative. It is because Mrs. Jacob writes so well that we expect her to write better.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 200w.
“It is characteristic of Mrs. Jacob’s method that she is able to dispense with all the trappings and actualities and decorative apparatus of modern society without in the least impairing the intrinsic interest of her story.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 191. F. 1, ’08. 720w.
=Jacobi, Mary Putnam.= Stories and sketches (1860–1871). $1.50. Putnam.
8–11830.
A collection of the writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi which are “partly a memorial to the life of a talented woman, whose notable success as a physician and whose personal influence are worthy to be remembered, and partly a tribute to the intrinsic value of her few literary productions. All of these stories, sketches, and essays, eight in number, date previous to her graduation in 1871 from l’Ecole de Médecine, for after that event she decided to concentrate her energies upon her chosen scientific and professional work.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“They make interesting studies from the historical point of view. Undoubted talent is exhibited in them, but they belong to another day; and probably the author was wise in giving up literary work for the scientific life to which she adhered subsequently.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 210w.
“Intent as she was on the scientific pursuits that were to be her life work, she could yet write papers of such delicate wit, such incisive expression, such clearness of thought and appreciation of the picturesque as raises them quite above the level of the magazine article for which purpose they served, and makes them as vividly interesting now as at their first printing, thirty or forty years ago.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 310w.
“In the stories and sketches the appeal is usually to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and a striking feature of both these and of the essays is the firm touch with which the author goes to the heart of a character or a situation, and puts its essential feature into terse, telling, and concrete form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 180w.
“A feeling for the supernatural, an appreciation of good style in writing, and a pleasant play of imagination characterize the stories. The book will be of especial value to the many friends of Dr. Jacobi.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Jacobs, Philip P.=, comp. Campaign against tuberculosis in the United States, including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–27800.
This work, compiled by Mr. Philip P. Jacobs under the direction of the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is a survey of the Anti-tuberculosis activity during the past ten years. The book has been made possible thru the coöperation of the Russell Sage foundation.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Salthaven. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–30011.
“A little seaport, a simple-minded captain, a pretty girl, a young man full of assurance and ingenuity, a pert maidservant with her sailor lover—we have met their like many a time in his pages, yet his story is so good humored that it is impossible not to enjoy it.” (Sat. R.) “The novel shows a keen appreciation of the conversational cruelties of women of the lower middle class; and an officious captain who contrives to be bedridden in the house of a couple returning from their honeymoon is prodigiously amusing.” (Ath.)
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“Mr. Jacobs is one of those happy men who can be as funny as they please without detracting from the love-interest of their stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 110w.
“The author is here at his most characteristic. The growth of his familiar episode into a book has not impaired its quality.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There are no thrills and no breathless passages, but it is thoroughly restful and charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 240w.
“The sly turns, the badinage and chaff, the oddly conceived situations, are all Jacobs at his best.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Jacobs has found no fresh ingredients for his latest dish, but his skill in varying the old recipe is so great that we hardly notice this until we have come to the end.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 130w.
“Another of Mr. Jacobs’s delightful stories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Jacobstein, Meyer.= Tobacco industry in the United States. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–36149.
“Deals in a dispassionate way, yet clearly, with the facts of the development of the tobacco trust which has of late been the subject of such heated presentation and litigation. The book covers the whole field from the first plantations in the colonies to the foreign trade and the tobacco tax.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Dr. Jacobstein knows his subject and the monograph gives evidence of much careful work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 130w.
“The author has covered a large field in a relatively small compass but has done it in an eminently satisfactory manner, and has shown both good judgment in his selection of facts and wise discrimination in the emphasis he has given to the different parts of the subject. Few readers of the work will be inclined to feel dissatisfied with the completeness of the author’s statements or the reliability of his conclusions. The monograph is written in an excellent style and proves easy and interesting reading. Perhaps the only serious criticism of the work from scientific standpoint is the lack of a bibliography. Even the references in the footnotes are not abundant and apparently do not include all the sources of information used by the author.” M. B. Hammond.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 124. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared. (Gould prize essays.) 2d ed. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–5163.
The scriptural controversy embodied in the Gould prize essays has resulted in the demand for a justification of the positions assumed by the authors. Such a justification is found in this second edition, which, in addition to the original essays, also includes the sources from which material has been drawn.
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“The bibliography is a valuable piece of work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 228. Je. ’08.
“Extended notes and bibliographies add much to the value of the papers.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The authors of the essays were somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of facts which they were supposed to include in a brief popular presentation of the subject, and their accounts are bewildering to the reader who is not at home in the history of Biblical translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 78. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
“The work thus completed far outranks all others on the same subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 220w.
=James, George Wharton.= What the white race may learn from the Indian. *$1.50. Forbes.
8–17541.
Out of the fulness of a varied experience with red men, Dr. James sets down essentials of health and happiness which the Indian observes, and by a study of which the white man may profit. The author rejects the Indian’s shortcomings of slovenliness and dwells upon racial characteristics that are manifested in the lives of the best men and women and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions and desires regarding physical, mental and religious development.
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“His account of the life, labor, customs and mental attributes is excellent. The book is valuable and could be read to advantage by all whites.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“Many writers have treated of the Indian in a more or less interesting manner, yet we know of no modern essayist who approaches Mr. James in appealing at once to the artist, the utilitarian and the humanitarian.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book is no mere apologetic essay in behalf of a wonderful people; it is a characterization of qualities which have been largely overlooked.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 400w.
“Both hygienically and ethically this book is profitable in the easy chair, and those who would travel to meet ‘the call of the wild’ will find direction in it.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=James, Henry.= Novels and tales of Henry James. 23v. $46. Scribner.
7–41582.
A collective and definitive edition of Henry James’s novels. “To each volume the author contributes a preface, telling the circumstances under which he composed the story, the purpose he had in view, the difficulties under which he labored, and the final result as he now views it after the lapse of many years.” (Nation.)
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“The prefaces will be a delight to all Jamesians, even to many who modestly disclaim such a title. To such a one these prefaces may be interesting chiefly as helping on toward one’s conception of the novel as a literary form.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 44: 174. Mr. 16, ’08. 2050w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“The same principles which Mr. James has discust in his other critical writing now take on [in the prefaces] an unwonted intensity and intimacy. They furnish the key to the whole admirable work he has accomplished; and show it as a goodly structure, reared upon a coherent plan.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“These prefaces ... are written, we regret to say, in Mr. James’s most exasperating style. The sentences are clogged with qualifying clauses, as if Mr. James’s readers had not sufficient intelligence and imagination to perceive qualifications in the very frame of the phrase and connotation of the words, but insisted that it all be put down to the last syllable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The prefaces, in spite of the exasperating style, continue as interesting as in the first volumes of the set.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“The preface, in which Mr. James criticises his own work, is somewhat less interesting than earlier prefaces in this edition.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
=Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Nation.= 87: 115. Ag. 6, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“If a new quarto of ‘Hamlet’ should appear done over like the text of ‘The Americans’ the judicious scholiast would promptly declare that stage directions had, as inextricably as inexplicably, got tangled up with the text and helplessly corrupted it. Apparently the judicious reader will consult his interest and his pleasure if he reads the new preface very carefully, looks over the revised version for passages of exposition and comment, and then recurs to the original text.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 13. Ja. 11, ’08. 3800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The most proportioned of his productions after ‘The ambassadors.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 111. F. 29, ’08. 1120w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“One is glad to have the preface with the new edition, and to any reader who does not yet know Mr. James’s works thoroughly we heartily commend both.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
“To these books he has prefaced essays of very considerable length and of characteristic thoroughness, which are really chapters in autobiography.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=James, Henry.= Views and reviews; now first collected; with introd. by Le Roy Phillips. $1.50. Ball pub.
8–16451.
There are included here a dozen of Mr. James’s essays which were contributed to magazines during the sixties and seventies. They are as follows: The novels of George Eliot, On the drama of Robert Browning, Swinburne’s essays, The poetry of William Morris, Matthew Arnold’s essays, Mr. Walt Whitman, The poetry of George Eliot, The limitations of Dickens, Tennyson’s drama, Contemporary notes on Whistler vs. Ruskin, A note on John Burroughs and Mr. Kipling’s early stories. Mr. Phillips says: “A true lover of Mr. James’s work feels the same delightful sense of intimate discovery in touching these early papers that an artist does in finding a portfolio of early sketches by a beloved master.”
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+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 120w.
“These miscellaneous articles by Mr. James have a real interest, often from the topics, still alive after two decades; always for the sake of their accurate thought and penetrating judgments.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Le Roy Phillips has done something which will give every reader of Henry James a distinct pleasure in collecting these early papers. The clarity of the views, the justice of the criticisms evident in these pages on writers long since become classical, are surprising.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 385. Jl. 11, ’08. 670w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. 18, ’08. 270w.
=James, R. A. Scott-.= Modernism and romance. *$2.50. Lane.
8–17229.
“Intended to form a continuous argument; and various authors and books are selected ‘as examples of certain intellectual or emotional forces which are working in our midst and are moulding the psychical organism of society.’ There are sixteen chapters with such captions as ‘Science and vandalism,’ ‘The decadents,’ ‘The apostles of protest,’ and ‘The new romance.’ In each chapter he discusses representative authors; thus under ‘The fugitives’ he writes of Lafcadio Hearn, Miss Edith Durham, Pierre Loti, and Jack London; under ‘The self-conscious poet,’ of Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Stephen Phillips, and Mr. John Davidson.”—Dial.
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“The individual essays in the book are bright as well as thoughtful, although one must often differ from the writer’s opinions, literary or other. Judging the volume as a whole, we must feel, despite the many meritorious parts and frequency of suggestive or even stimulating passages, that the author has not achieved the unity and comprehensiveness for which the title and introduction led us to hope.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Is made up of rambling essays, light in their quality in spite of the formal introduction, and all readable enough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 840w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Pendleton twins. il. $1.25. West. Meth. bk.
In this Pendleton book the twins occupy the center of the stage. Their frolics and thrilling adventure furnish for the young reader wholesome excitement.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author understands child nature, and in the midst of fun and mischief keeps a steady view of the inherent honor to be found in well-brought-up children.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
=v. 6. Davies, William T.=, ed. Bradford’s history of Plymouth plantation. 1606–1646.
After an eventful career the manuscript of which this volume is a reprint was deposited in the Massachusetts state library where it is protected by a fire-proof safe but daily exhibited under glass to visitors. It is the only extant history of the Plymouth colony’s early years. It tells of reformation and persecution in England, plans for removal, the voyage of the Mayflower, the growth of the colony, troubles with England, the policies of governors, the growth of the Salem church, beside numerous details of struggle and progress.
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“Accepting ‘Narratives of early Virginia’ as it stands, too high praise cannot be given the splendid editorial work which has been done.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 909. Jl. ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volume contains an admirable index.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 621. N. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“Mr. Davis has performed his editorial functions with good judgment and without prejudice, and has kept his comments refreshingly free from the incense of ancestor worship.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The editor has given the text a rather more liberal annotation than has been customary in this series of reprints, and has prefaced it with an excellent biographical and historical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“An excellent reprint.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Jeanrenaud, Henriette.= Duke of Brittany; tr. from the German by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23710.
The story of the brief career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance of Brittany. It records the events of Arthur’s youth, the death of the father, the relations of his mother to Philip of France, the boy’s love for his uncle Richard, his service in the field with Philip, his betrothal to Marie of France, the war with John, and his capture and assassination.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–14346.
An elementary text book for the student and physicist, aiming to cover the mathematical theory of a range of electro-magnetism, the understanding of which is necessary before proceeding to the study of special branches or developments of the subject. The work is more elementary than Maxwell’s treatise.
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“We feel that in a treatise which is designed to guide students so far it would have been advantageous to insert more references to the authorities on parts of the subject for which space could not be found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 640w.
“The most important book in the field of physics of the year—or of many a year.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 315. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
“In a few places there are slips which can hardly be assigned to the printer. The type of reader for whom the book is best adapted is the student preparing for a mathematical examination, such as the Cambridge tripos, in which theory plays the principal part. It should also, however, prove a good book of reference to the physicist of superior mathematical attainments. For either of these types of readers it seems likely to be a really useful book, so far as its scope extends.” C. Chree.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 537. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
=Jebb, Camilla.= Star of the salons: Julie de Lespinasse. (Memoir ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–16930.
While the author scarcely lays bare the secrets of Mlle. Julie de Lespinasse’s success as a salonist, she does reveal the fascination of her personality, the intellectual charm which cast its spell over men of ambition and genius, and the piquant sorrow of her love first for the dying Marquis de Mora, and then the Comte de Guibert. “The four great scenes in French society are first depicted in a vivid, entertaining manner, and then Julie de Lespinasse is portrayed among them—an incarnation of the gloom, passion, and heroism hidden beneath the gay, untroubled surface of life in her age.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 503. Ap. 25. 970w.
“The chief feature of interest in this new biography ... is the minute study it contains of the times in which she lived.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Is in substance an informal ‘doing into English’ of the biography, already officially translated, of M. de Segur. It makes, however, with its twenty illustrations, a fresh and delightful contribution to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“The writer is less engaged in the hunt for scandal than is usual in works of this kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Jebb uses the material discovered by M. de Ségur, but refashions it, with feminine wit and love, into a different effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“It is a sincere, sympathetic, cultivated and even learned biography.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 506. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Jebb, Caroline Lane.= Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, by his wife Caroline Jebb; with a chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as scholar and critic, by Dr. A. W. Verrall. $3. Putnam.
8–3928.
So far as the biographical portion is concerned it is an informing revelation of the influences brought to bear upon rare birthright ability to produce a profound scholar, teacher, and man of the world in the best sense of the trite expression. His letters “are long and numerous, and are gracefully written, vivid, self-revelatory to a sufficient degree to give them a strong personal flavor, and full of brilliant comment upon people and literature.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 189. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 645. N. 23. 2150w.
“His wife has performed her task as editor with most commendable tact and cleverness, giving enough, even of his letters to her, to show what manner of man he was, and yet never overstepping due bounds.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 330w.
“Written with taste and discretion, free alike from fatuous English and sentimentalism. But, apart from Dr. Verrall’s admirable chapter, she and her helpers have hardly paid attention enough to the scholarly side of the subject. Further she has not attempted any distinct portrait of the man.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 609. N. 16, ’07. 1450w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Character of Jesus. **$1.50. Crowell. 8–24445.
Dr. Jefferson, of the Broadway tabernacle, discusses Jesus, the man, as seen by contemporary friends and enemies. The studies include such phases of Jesus’ character as strength, sincerity, reasonableness, poise, originality, narrowness, breadth, trust, brotherliness, optimism, chivalry, firmness, generosity, candor, enthusiasm, gladness, humility, patience, courage, indignation, reverence, holiness and greatness.
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“The preacher’s attitude is one of healthful devotion, and is not marred either by polemical conservatism on the one hand or by barren criticism on the other.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 367. N. ’08. 60w.
“Among the almost countless host of books on the life of Jesus Christ this volume has a place by itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Colour in the flower garden. *$3.75. Scribner.
W8–153.
A fully illustrated volume based upon extensive knowledge, wide experience and good taste. The author shows how successfully a garden “may make a picture, or a succession of pictures”; she believes “that color and massing are as important to the gardener as to the artist.” “Of course, it may be said that this is gardening in excelsis. Still, it supplies an ideal; and we are the better for having an ideal, whether we can reach it or not.” (Spec.)
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“The book may be thoroughly recommended to amateur gardeners, while even professionals may obtain from it much useful information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 274. S. 5. 500w.
“Everyone with a trace of gardening instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll’s book, and those who work under anything like the same conditions will find it very helpful.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 460w.
“The volume is worthy of the highest praise from all points of view.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 210w.
“The photographs are charming, and, studied in conjunction with the plans, instructive; but there is considerable repetition in the letterpress.” A. M. Cecil.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 500w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 626. Ap. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Photography for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–18279.
A book for beginners which describes the use of the camera, chemicals and processes, and gives definite instruction on all points of picture taking and making. There are chapters also on the history and chemistry of photography.
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“In his effort to be clear and explicit the author is very verbose, and the book could have been condensed to advantage.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 273. N. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“A great deal of valuable information and practical advice are contained in Tudor Jenks’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Four philanthropists: a clever satire. 75c. Cupples & L.
With London for a setting this story with many a shrewd scoundrel tells, in the main, how three men started a society to do away with philanthropists. A girl of seventeen is the fourth philanthropist and heroine-in-general, who makes a sure target of the hearts of the other three in her innocent arrow practice.
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“Frankly, it is not up to his standard, and has nothing of the romantic interest which he got out of his stories in earlier days.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 90w.
“The narrative is well-sustained, and, with its avoidance of mere facetiousness, is a bit of agreeable fooling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tangled wedlock. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8097.
A group of sponging artistic and literary freaks of Bohemia form the background of this tale which places well to the fore the self-reliant daughter of one of “The circle” and her lover, a sculptor, who together strike some well-aimed blows at the lotus-eating elect of their Bohemia. The crisp, refreshing methods of the eccentric heroine in dealing with the butcher’s boy who kicked a cat, with her mother’s finances, with the subject of model-posing, and with marriage itself place her in an original class. The unconventional plot with its tangle of marriages is full of novel construction.
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“The pages are enriched with some fine touches of involuntary humor; but on the whole, recalling the dictum that easy writing makes hard reading, one is led to the conclusion that ‘Tangled wedlock’ must have flowed lightly from a facile pen.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“The ill-chosen title does not prepare us for this very readable and well-written novel. The work is finely tempered, the style one of commendable clarity, and the whole is pervaded by humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The satire lacks subtlety, and the psychological analysis with which the other writers have added value to their chaff is wanting.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 50w.
“His work is a triumph of manner, and after reading his story it is by the way he has handled his subject rather than by the subject itself that one is impressed.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 52. Je. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Jerningham, Sir Hubert Edward Henry.= From West to East, notes by the way. *$4. Dutton.
7–42345.
Although no portion of Sir Hubert’s travels from Paris to Japan and Manchuria is left unrecorded the interest centers in his impressions of Japan and the scenes of the late war. “The greater part of the volume, therefore, is devoted to an account of the Japanese experiences. These included interviews with several noted men, among others Admiral Togo and Marquis Ito. The government gave him permission to go to Mukden and Port Arthur, the battles and siege of which places are described with much detail.” (Nation.)
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“Sir Hubert writes pleasantly always, if without great literary distinction; he has observed sensibly, and all men of intelligence must be interested in the chatty record of his observations.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 161. F. 16, ’07. 450w.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 700w.
“A reading of this book leads one to look upon the author’s report of his six months’ journeying as a sort of ‘disjecta membra,’ written by a man who is capable of more valuable and entertaining writing than is contained in the present volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 41: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The work is quite superficial ... [though] free from the faults of the books of the majority of globe-trotters, frequently suggestive, and entertaining from beginning to end.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 600w.
“It is difficult to see the ‘raison d’être’ of the book, except the pleasure which the author evidently had in writing it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 230w.
“The author’s descriptions are always gracefully written and are often enthusiastic enough to be vivid, but they reveal only a mind of rather commonplace order. Sometimes his observation was too hasty to be accurate and his generalizations more picturesque than true.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“[There are] some vivid descriptions of visits to battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war, and some incisive, picturesquely put opinions of Japanese national policies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 80w.
“An interesting and well-informed diary. The best part of the book is that dealing with the scenes of Japan’s great struggle with Russia from Port Arthur to Mukden.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 180. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.= Highways and byways in Kent; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
8–11802.
Guide book haste is eliminated from these pages which are intended for the sojourner rather than the lightning tourist. “Mr. Jerrold writes but little description—barely enough to keep before the reader’s eye a vague vision of the appearance of the country, but he peoples every road and field, every village and historic relic with an impressive company of spirits, the men and women who have made twenty centuries of history, the figures of legend and tradition, and the characters of history.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The book is pleasantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“Some of his illustrations suffer from undue haste. Notwithstanding criticisms, the general charm of the drawings prevails over any possible defects in a few cases. There is a good deal of pleasantly written and slightly informing matter throughout these pages, and certainly the writer takes some pains to relieve them from possible dullness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 34. Ja. 11. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“An exhaustive and informing volume.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Treated with fulness and fine reminiscent flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Jerrold seems to know, with both love and knowledge, every foot of the ground and all its literary and historic associations. The illustrations show a quality in the treatment of picturesque corners and a skill in the suggestion of space and distance comparable with those of Joseph Pennell, although worked out with much more attention to detail than is usual with that artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Thomson’s figures are specially delightful; never careless and always in the right place, they in no case mar the general effect, as too often foreground figures will.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 45. Ja. 11, ’08. 1250w.
“A book which at any rate will stand for long as the best ‘hors d’œuvre’ to the Kentish banquet.... Mr. Jerrold is staid enough, and though never startling in epithet or enthusiasm, is a very agreeable cicerone. Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator, is very unequal. When he is not good, he is almost bad; but when he is good, he is very good indeed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 470w.
=Jevons, Frank Byron.= An introduction to the study of comparative religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the world.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
The author treats his subject from the standpoint of the missionary in foreign countries, who must understand other religions besides Christianity in order to establish common ground for the basis of operation. The subjects treated are immortality, magic, fetichism, prayer, sacrifice, morality and Christianity. Bibliography and index.
=Jewett, Sophie (Ellen Burroughs, pseud.).= Pearl; a middle English poem; a modern version in the metre of the original. **$1. Crowell.
An accurate and melodious modern version of a middle English poem.
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“A translation whose fidelity is instinctive, grace answering to grace. It is not too much to say that Miss Jewett’s translation crowns the series.” K. L. Bates.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 450. D. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Sport of birdstudy: a book for young or active people. *$2. Outing pub.
8–17737.
Designed for beginners in bird study, and tells how to become acquainted with the birds of any ordinary country town, how to go about the sport and what the results are likely to be. The book is profusely illustrated and “besides being an accurate piece of scientific work, forms a bird-census of a region never before investigated or written up.”
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“Although written for adult readers, will be enjoyed by many young people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Job will do well to see that hereafter his fine pictures are not stultified by this pointless use of his text.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 605. Ag. ’08. 1000w.
“Deserves most commendation because it shows boys in story form how much pleasure and sport may be found in studying birds in any ordinary country place.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“It is quite devoid of unwholesome sentimentality, and yet shows for the bird world as loving sympathy as man can well have with the lower species.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A book to delight the average healthy-minded boy, and one to create an interest in a fascinating form of recreation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Johnson, Allen.= Stephen A. Douglas: a study in American politics. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–11832.
An interpretation of Douglas’s personality as a representative figure in the controversies that preceded the civil war, covering carefully the circumstances that shaped him into the “natural spokesman of the conservative slaveholding democracy and filled him with the ideas of expansion and local control out of which popular sovereignty was to grow.”
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“Admirable both as a biography and as a contribution to American history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08. ✠
“The very limitation of the subject has led to omissions that prevent the study from being a complete picture of Douglas. The description of the politician, however, is very satisfactory.” C. W. Alvord.
+ =Dial.= 45: 211. O. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“He has given us a brilliant and well-balanced biography. To a notable degree he has succeeded in portraying a man moving in his environment.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“A careful and animated account of a vehement and stormy career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“On the whole, Professor Johnson has made good his sub-title, for he has produced ‘a study in American politics’ that has all the life and realism of a moving picture in which Douglas is the most conspicuous figure.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“His style is clear and pleasant, and he quotes so freely from his authorities, naming them so numerously, that his book will be one of authority.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 700w.
“Well constructed, well written, and eminently sensible.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 859. Ag. 15, ’08. 970w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 475. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
=Johnson, Alvin Saunders.= Introductory economics. $1.50. School of liberal arts and sciences for non residents, N. Y.
8–9770.
“In the main Dr. Johnson has written a series of studies illustrating the operation of the two economic principles of diminishing utility and diminishing returns with some additional chapters on general economic subjects such as money, financial institutions, international trade, etc. The volume does not claim to be a general text-book on the whole field of economics. Its aim is rather to reach the lay public than the student body, for the author believes that, ‘in a democratic state economic science should be for the many, not for the few.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“By those economists who hold the productivity theory of distribution, this book can merit naught but praise. It is a clear, logical presentation written in terse English. To that growing group of economists, however, who have broken from the Clark idea of marginal productivity and adhere to the price or exchange theory, the book offers little of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 200w.
“In point of scholarship leaves nothing to be desired. Unfortunately the mechanical execution of the volume is not all that is should be.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Assuming that there is a real need for a book of this character—which some of us will consider questionable—the one before us must be accounted to have met that need very successfully. The style is simple and effective; the illustrations happy; the tone moderate and candid. The peculiar doctrines of the school represented are so diluted by qualifications or contradictions that their objectionableness is much diminished; while the treatment is so concrete as to give an air of complete reality to a body of doctrine which is, to say the least, somewhat transcendental.” F. M. Taylor.
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 459. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“If any criticism is to be passed upon his work it is that it is confessedly eclectic rather than hewn from a single quarry. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“If the other books in this series succeed as well as this one in popularizing modern learning the School of liberal arts will have accomplished much for the education of a large number of Americans who are now deprived of such advantages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 240w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Elm-tree fairy book. †$1.50. Little.
A third collection of Mr. Johnson’s versions of wonder tales. It follows the plans of his two previous volumes. He retains the charm, goodness and interest of the old classics but cleanses them of lies, cruelties, bloodshed and suffering.
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=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“The illustrations are decorative in arrangement, but the characters are rather gross in type.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Pacific coast. (American highways and byways ser.) **$2. Macmillan.
8–26885.
A book of leisurely tourist jaunts over mountain trails, into rural byways, among mountain foothills, and thru farming regions of the Pacific coast country. Emphasis is placed upon typical and picturesque country life. At the end of each chapter are to be found notes containing suggestions for prospective travelers.
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“A more readable book of travel is not often published.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Besides a book written primarily to entertain, Mr. Johnson has brought together here so much practical information in regard to the places which he has visited that his work should prove to be of value to those contemplating a trip on the western coast of the United States.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Johnson, Henry.= Life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F. R. G. S., modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia; based on his journals and letters. *$5. Dutton.
8–15733.
Captain Wiggins, the Hudson of the Northeastern seas, was the discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia. From extracts and journals the story is told of his years of seafaring life and his thirty years of struggle and hardship to open a highway thru the Arctic seas, and of his dying without its establishment.
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“A deeply interesting volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 1200w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“The book is well written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“A spirited story of the undertaking.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1058. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Johnson, Herrick.= Ideal ministry. **$1.75. Revell.
8–16404.
Ideal ministry as here set forth “merely brings home to conscience the responsibility attaching to the individual sinners, and the offer of a salvation obtained for each by the cross of Christ as an expiation for their guilt.” (Outlook.) “We may specially mention what seems to us a very sensible summary of the respective advantages of the extempore and the written discourse, and of the _memoriter_ method.” (Spec.)
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“His sage counsels are distinguished by rugged common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“That the ideal ministry must be based on the theology of seventeenth-century Presbyterians, as Dr. Johnson insists, none disputes more incisively than his fellow-presbyter, Dr. Carter, in his recent book, ‘Wanted—a theology.’ Nor will the ideal ministry draw Dr. Johnson’s line between sacred and ‘merely secular’ topics, to exclude the latter from the pulpit. All real interests in God’s world, however secular, have a sacred side. But, while open to these criticisms, this volume is, as the work of an acknowledged master should be, a valuable addition to the cultural apparatus of preachers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Much that he says will be found of value. And all through there is manifest a most earnest spirit, and a desire to give his readers or hearers of his very best. We should like to have had a much fuller bibliography.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 595. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Johnson, Robert Underwood.= Poems. 2d ed. **$1.20. Century.
8–16592.
Includes poems formerly published under the titles, “The winter hour,” and “Songs of liberty,” also two new groups of poems under the headings “Italian rhapsody, and other poems” and “Moments of Italy, and other poems.” “Who longs for music merely longs for love” suggests the characteristic philosophy of the poet in abstracting absolute qualities of resemblance and presenting them on the plane of the ideal.
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“Gracefulness and facility are the dominating qualities of Mr. Johnson’s verse, together with a sense of technique, and skill in the using of it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 265. S. 5. 300w.
“This is clearly a case in which the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the effects produced by the several parts. For one thing, the collective volume shows us the surprising breadth of the poet’s range.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Johnston, Charles H. L.= Famous cavalry leaders. $1.50. Page.
8–22309.
Accounts of the forced marches, dashing raids and glorious charges of fifteen heroes of sabre, spur and saddle: Attila, Saladin, Genghis Khan, Chevalier Bayard, Count Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, Prince Rupert, Old father Ziethen, Frederick William Baron von Seydlitz, Francis Marion, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan and George Armstrong Custer.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 70w.
“It is a historical book and a good one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 60w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Lewis Rand. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23560.
An historical novel set in the administration of Jefferson. Federalist and democrat-republican are pitted against each other in political combat. The hero, Lewis Rand, is a republican; his rival in love and politics, a federalist. Rand, self-made, a protegé of Jefferson, is on the way to fame when he is tempted by Burr to join the latter in his mad and treasonable enterprise of setting up an empire beyond the Alleghanies. The tragedy of Rand’s temptation and fall is powerfully portrayed, intermingled with the gentleness and devotion of the wonderful Jaqueline.
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“The story is in marked advance of Miss Johnston’s earlier ones.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“An historical novel extending over 450 closely printed pages subjects the reader’s patience to an unduly severe test, and we cannot say that the interest is always maintained; but the charm of Miss Johnston’s writing makes amends for much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 130w.
“A well imagined and strongly told tale, within the limitations laid down by the conventions of this particular kind of story telling.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 430w.
“The tragedy of Rand’s life is cleverly worked out; though he occasionally indulges in a display of sentimentality that scarcely fits the strong man’s character and tediously delays the march of the action.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 259. N. ’08. 470w.
“The story is a strong one, richly furnished forth with the accessories of historical fact and of the manners of Virginians a century ago. It provides a vivid presentation of a deeply interesting period in our national annals, and it throbs with a very real life, albeit a life romantically tinged.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Made notable by a sudden maturing of its author’s power to portray the depths of character.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The book is, we think, a piece of permanent literature and must rank as one of the finest novels of its class which have appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24. ’08. 380w.
“The story is notable for a deepening of thought and maturity of analysis that are almost startling in comparison with its predecessors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 530w.
“One of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day in America.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“This story marks a decided advance in Miss Johnston’s power and art.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 340w.
“Some of the customs of the time, notably the method of viva voce voting, are well described.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 70w.
“Will add to her reputation as a serious novelist both by the interest of the plot and by the excellence of the character-drawing.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Johnston, Reginald Fleming.= From Peking to Mandalay: a journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan. *$5. Dutton.
8–34209.
“Mr. Johnston is a district officer and magistrate at Wei-hai-wei. The journey he describes was a result of a long-felt desire to see the various tribes subject to China which inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. He went neither as a sportsman nor a political agent, but as a scholar—an adventurous scholar, which, we may add, is a very admirable character. Boldness is generally rewarded and Mr. Johnston met with no ill-treatment or even discourtesy in districts supposed to be the most ‘anti-foreign’ in the Empire.”—Spec.
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“Taken as a whole, his work is the most important of its kind that has come under our notice for some years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 721. Je. 13. 1750w.
“There is a great deal of matter in his book that will interest geographers, ethnologists, and religionists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
“We cannot profess always to agree with his conclusions, but there is not a page on which he does not earn our respect. Such a work may safely be included among the small number of books of travel which are important.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1350w.
=Joly, Henri L.= Legend in Japanese art. il. *$25. Lane.
8–15873.
A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore, myths, religious symbols and of historical and fabulous personages and incidents illustrated in the arts of old Japan. The book contains over seven hundred half-tone illustrations and sixteen full-page color prints.
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“We commend with confidence this sumptuous treasury of research, not only to British collectors, who are sometimes reproached with appraising their ‘curios’ at a purely commercial value, but also to more disinterested lovers of art and legend, who will find in it many golden keys to the genius and spiritual wealth of Japan.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 261. D. 21, ’07. 2500w.
“The work is indispensable to collectors, who will find in it ample, and on the whole accurate, explanations of the subjects of Japanese art, without which no real comprehension of the merits of an example is possible.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 168. F. 8. 450w.
“Far transcends anything heretofore available for reference. In the main it is accurate, the errors being few and of minor importance.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 211. Ap. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“The enormous amount of matter collected together in the volume bears testimony to the indefatigable zeal with which the author has attacked his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 200w.
“This handsome and interesting book will no doubt be as welcome to collectors of various forms of Japanese art as to the general reader, who will find it excellent entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Jones, Francis Arthur.= Thomas Alva Edison: sixty years of an inventor’s life. il. **$2. Crowell.
8–4377.
A book for every library. It is not alone valuable for its history of the great inventor’s achievements in electricity but for its illustration of the fact that inventing may be learned, if only the creative germ is fostered that lies hidden in most brains. We have Edison at fourteen a shock-headed “news butcher,” newspaper editor and chemical experimenter—all on train-board; at eighteen, “tramp” telegraph operator; at two and twenty an inventor, selling his stock-ticker for forty thousand dollars. Then follow one after another inventions that have astonished the world. Besides his scientific successes, Edison, the man, is portrayed as intensely human.
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“A really fascinating biography which makes no pretence to distinctive literary style but tells the story of the man and the inventor with simplicity, enthusiasm, and sincerity.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08. ✠
“One of the most valuable biographical sketches of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 730. Je. ’08. 470w.
“With young men possessed of some love of science, fondness for machinery, a taste for experimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive genius, the book is sure to be a favorite; as a finger-post pointing the way to success for brains and energy, it ought to exert a good influence; and its attractiveness to the lover of biography is beyond dispute.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 126. Mr. 1, ’08. 1750w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 315. Mr. ’08. 40w.
“Is written quite agreeably and sympathetically.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 514. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“It is regrettable that the many interesting passages should be so promiscuously peppered with inaccurate and misleading technical matter.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 450w.
“The value of the book is limited by the fact that his attitude is entirely uncritical.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 868. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The literary critic and the scientific man, however, will not regard it as a finished piece of work, since it reads too much like a series of newspaper articles, or contributions to ten-cent magazines. But the results detailed in Mr. Jones’s biography are immensely impressive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“It would be a capital book to place in the hands of schoolboys.” G. H. Bryan.
+ =Nature.= 78: 122. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“They who care to watch the wheels of progress go around will like this record of the wizard and his spells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A most human picture of the man himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“We should say that this was in every way an attractive and very likely an inspiring book to put in a boy’s hands, while in its literary character it is perfectly well suited for older readers also.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Jones has made the most of his materials, and the result is a volume of captivating and unusual interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“It is a very human and vivid picture of an energetic boyhood, and a very stimulating one too; for if he had ideal parents, and especially that type of mother which all great men must have, his boyhood reflects credit on the man himself. We should like to have heard more about them; it is our only disappointment on putting down this fascinating book, which will please both the scientific enthusiast and the student of character.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
=Jones, H. Stuart.= Roman empire. (Story of the nations, v. 75.) $1.50. Putnam.
8–22316.
For the professional student as well as the lay reader of Roman history. The author aims “to present in a graphic narrative the picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes of Roman history in their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal history.”
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“He seems to us wanting in boldness of omission, if we may use such a phrase.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 260. S. 5. 920w.
“A work of great value in itself, and of rare promise for the future.” W. A. Goligher.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 541. Jl. ’08. 740w.
“Probably no more competent writer could be found to tell the story of the Roman empire than Stuart Jones.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Stuart Jones has done a very great feat.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 950w.
“A very warm commendation of his book to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 640w.
=Jones, Rev. John Peter.= India, its life and thought. **$2.50. Macmillan. 8–30291.
Observations and experiences recorded out of thirty years of missionary life in India. Themes which the author discusses are India’s growing unrest, due to the dawning consciousness of strength, India’s many faiths, the Hindu caste system, the gita, popular Hinduism, pessimism, modern religious movement and the progress of Christianity in India.
=Jones, Llewellyn A. A., and Bellot, Hugh H. L.= Commerce in war. *$6. Appleton.
8–8473.
A book providing a full exposition of the rules of international law which govern the commercial relations of neutral and belligerent states. Its value is enhanced by its full quotation from treaties, ordinances, and judgments bearing on subjects of contraband, blockade, continuous voyage, carriage of property at sea, right and formality of search, capture and condemnation, recapture and rescue.
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“The treatment of the subject is extremely practical.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 1000w.
“Mr. Atherley-Jones has given his views on certain well-known decisions and executive orders with trenchant vigour.” T. Raleigh.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 389. Ap. ’07. 150w.
“It is the fruit of great industry. Some parts of the subject, notably contraband, have been examined with much care. The exposition is generally clear and accurate. There are copious citations from judgments and treaties which make the book useful to those whose library of international law is small. It is the critical side of the volume which is the weakest.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 19. Ja. 18, ’07. 800w.
“Such an exposition cannot fail to prove useful—as the author hopes—to the lawyer, the shipowner and shipper; to diplomatists and consuls: but it will also contribute to the advancement of the freedom of commerce in war.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“On all the rules of international law under these headings, governing the commercial relations of the subjects of neutral and belligerent states, Mr. Atherley-Jones’s book is a treasure-house of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have examined the digest it seems carefully and lucidly framed, and the book should fulfil the authors’ desires and make an excellent manual of practice.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
* =Jones, Plummer Flippen.= Shamrock-land: a ramble through Ireland. **$2. Moffat.
8–33798.
“A good general description in a running, happy-go-lucky way, of Ireland as it is at the present time, with a lot of good pictures.” (R. of Rs.) “In seeking places of interest and scenes of beauty, of course the author visited Lissoy (now better known as Auburn, Goldsmith’s Deserted village), the Lakes of Killarney, Blarney castle, the Giant’s causeway, the Golden vale of Tipperary, and other inviting districts.... There is much more of the sunshine of the Celtic temperament than of its occasional gloom in this study of Pat and his Emerald Isle.” (Dial.)
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“Has just enough of historical and statistical information to be useful without being tiresome, and a wealth of personal observation and experience that make excellent reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“The photographs illustrating the book are excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Jones not only knows Ireland, but loves it, and writes with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 758. D. ’08. 90w.
=Jones, Thomas S.= From quiet valleys; poems. $1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
7–38615.
A book of graceful verse, which borrows its peace-loving themes from nature.
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“Mr. Jones is a poet of nature, and has felt the soothing ministries of woods and fields and skies. His verse, moreover, is freighted with enough of imagination to be truly significant of the life of the spirit.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Aspects and seasons of nature most inspire his volume and fill it with a kind of transparent violet shadow.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
=Jonson, Ben.= New inn; or, The light heart; ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by George Bremner Tennant. (Yale studies in English, 34.) *$2.50. Holt.
8–12456.
“The justification for this edition is the text, which has been carefully prepared from the earliest editions.”—Nation.
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“The introduction is for the most part a perfunctory discussion of previous discussion, and quite without edification. The notes on the text, although they exhibit much industry, are needlessly copious.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 192. Ag. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Jordan, David Starr=, ed. California earthquake of 1906. *$3.50. Robertson.
7–42337.
Contains eight separate articles each of which discusses the subject from a different viewpoint. “The general scientific or, more properly, geological matters, are treated by President Jordan, Prof. J. C. Branner, G. K. Gilbert, and Dr. H. W. Fairbanks; the more strictly seismological aspects by Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial earthquake investigation committee of Japan; the engineering and architectural lessons, by Prof. Charles Derleth, jr., certain local details by Stephen Taber; and the human side of the sudden calamity, by Mrs. Mary Austin.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“While written from the scientific point of view, they are invested with a good degree of popular interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Both scientific and non-scientific readers will find much to interest them in it.” H. H.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 584. S. ’08. 90w.
“They afford an interesting account of the catastrophe; but the advantage of presentation from different points of view is offset in part by the unavoidable repetitions incident to a compilation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“This is a collection of nine well-written essays, which, as might be expected, more or less overlap in their subject-matter.” J. Milne.
+ =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Mrs. Austin’s contribution is the vivid, human picture of an eye-witness of the catastrophe.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“These essays and descriptive papers give perhaps as well as writings can give a clear, comprehensive, and accurate view of the great earthquake and its associated phenomena.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Fishes. (American nature series.) il. **$6. Holt.
7–42325.
Less for technical students of ichthyology than for nature lovers and anglers this volume contains practically all of the non-technical material included in Dr. Jordan’s “Guide to the study of fishes.” The fishes used as food and those of special interest to anglers in America receive full attention while both existing and extinct families of fishes are treated in proportion to their importance. The volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains approximately seven hundred illustrations.
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“As the contraction has been effected by means of the scissors and practically no change has been made in the text the connections are not always smooth.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“The author’s wide knowledge of this group of animals, his comprehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, lucid, often humorous presentation of his subject, and the superb selection of illustrations, all combine to make this by far the most readable and interesting popular natural history of fishes which has as yet been published.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Presents contradictory and disappointing features.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a better book on the subject, for Mr. Jordan possesses the exact knowledge and infinite patience of the scientific mind with the sympathy and imagination of the great teacher, so that he not only knows his subject, but he also knows how to awaken keen interest and understanding in his readers. There is thus a vital quality to his book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Jordan has aimed to make this volume interesting to nature-lovers and anglers and instructive to all.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
* =Jordan, Edwin Oakes.= Text-book of general bacteriology. *$3. Saunders.
“This book is intended to give a bird’s-eye view of the entire field of bacteriology and, although necessarily largely medical in its scope, it includes also references to the various applications of bacteriology to the arts and industries. Although treating the subject in this general way, it cannot be considered as an elementary book. It is rather a sort of bacteriological Baedeker in which the reader will find references to guide him in whatever direction his interest lies.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“The author’s style is clear and pleasing, and the arrangement of the subject matter is excellent, the frequent side-headings and the very complete index making reference easy. Engineers may find the work somewhat limited on its sanitary side. Throughout the book the more theoretical aspects of bacteriology are, if anything, treated better than the practical applications.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
“Some of it is a little special for a general reader quite unfamiliar with the subject, but much of the book is easy and pleasant reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 440w.
* =Jordon, Elizabeth Garver.= Many kingdoms. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30707.
Creatures of fancy as well as sturdy flesh and blood mortals of real life people Miss Jordon’s world of stories. The elusive lady of dreams and the invisible child playmate demand of the reader a subliminal flight, while the Henry Smiths—middle aged newly-weds—detain this same reader within the walls of a New York hotel where the two spend their honeymoon too diverted to risk their lives among the crowds of Broadway.
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“There is no startling originality in these pleasant tales, indeed, at times the note is definitely reminiscent, but there are wholesome humor and pathos, and the felicity of description that one has come to expect from Miss Jordon as a matter of course.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 140w.
“For the most part Miss Jordon’s literary workmanship is very clever and of more artistic value than is to be found in a great portion of prolific output of American short stories. She frequently spoils the artistic effect of a scene or of an entire story by overelaborate description of presentation and by unbridled indulgence in adjectives and adverbs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 720. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Jost, Ludwig.= Lectures on plant physiology; authorized English tr. by R. J. Harvey Gibson. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–3923.
The work of the professor of botany in the Strassburg university translated by the professor of botany in the University of Liverpool. “After an introduction, which states clearly the problems and methods of physiology, the author divides the field into three parts: (1) Metabolism, (2) Metamorphosis, (3) Transformation of energy.” (Nation.)
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“Though it lacks the suggestiveness and comprehensiveness of Pfeffer, and can by no means replace that indispensable work, its clear and picturesque style adapts it better to the advanced student and teacher. It is well to have it available in English even at the exorbitant price.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 309. O. ’07. 770w.
“The translator has done his work conscientiously and on the whole satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 1100w.
“The English rendering lacks accuracy. We express our high esteem for Prof. Jost’s lectures. The exposition is extremely lucid, and just what is needed for students taking up the advanced study of physiology.” F. F. B.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 97. D. 5, ’07. 1150w.
=Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“When one recalls the multiple and difficult aims of the work, the result constitutes a notable achievement. Many will vote it the most comprehensive introductory text that has recently appeared. The chapters wide in scope, rich in learning, and intensely practical,—all these produce an impression of fullness and adequacy to be desired in a general introduction. The style is pedestrian, simple, and generally clear.” E. H. Lindley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 713. D. 19, ’07. 600w.
“The most defective portion of this book is that on the formation of the concept, a title which is forced into covering the judgment and the process of reasoning as well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 1400w.
“Unquestionably the approach to the material is in several chapters somewhat sophisticated, and the absence at many points of definite and distinct lines of demarcation is likely to be felt by the beginner in a disastrous manner.” J. R. Angell.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 432. Jl. ’08. 2500w.
“This volume, taken as a whole, impresses me as an exposition of the author’s system of psychology which is calculated more to interest and challenge the attention of his brother psychologists than that of his students. The author’s style is expository and argumentative, straightforward, but not easy and varied enough to hold the attention of immature readers.” G. M. Whipple.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 114. Ap. 15, ’08. 2600w.
“Professor Judd’s contribution to the available facilities for the teaching of psychology is a notable one. The plan is consistent, the execution capable, the result distinctive.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 775. My. 15, ’08. 2700w.
=Judson, William Pierson.= Road preservation and dust prevention. *$1.50. Eng. news.
8–24251.
Concerned with the problem of the preservation of the surface and the prevention of dust on macadamized roads. “The author has compiled in convenient form a history, taken from the principal engineering journals and publications, of the experiments which have been conducted in recent years attempting to solve the problems, and of the manner, as well as the materials, in and with which they have been carried out.” (Engin. Rec.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“We feel that Mr. Judson has rendered a valuable service in reducing the subject to a condition that permits of comparisons being made and that gives officials who are not experts, reliable information to guide them in the selection of a suitable remedy for the cure of their own local troubles.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 303. S. ’08. 740w.
“Mr. Judson has rendered the road engineers and roadmakers of the whole country a very valuable service in collecting, collating and discussing the great mass of data on the subject, scattered through the periodicals and society transactions.” S. Whinery.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 427. O. 15, ’08. 650w.
“May be referred to with benefit by those who are taking up the subject for the first time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His book should be in the hands of state and local road officials throughout the country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 250w.
=Julie’s= diary: a personal record; tr. from the Danish by Julia Le Gallienne. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
A personal record which serves as a “beware!” for girls chafing under the monotony of a colorless life, who demand a little day of eventful happenings. Julie is an austere professor’s daughter. She holds in abeyance her lover who could do no more than transplant her from one home at the mercy of the peace of dullness to another like it. Of her own accord she comes under the hypnotic spell of an actor. Her day once spent on the husks of life she returns to the shelter of Erik’s love, scarred but wiser far.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
“Full of a charm, a delicacy, and an insight rarely met with and refreshing in the extreme. A fine art is required to tell such a story and keep it on its high level. This art the author possessed and the translation retains much of it, though it is not quite first rate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 260w.
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=Keane, Augustus Henry.= World’s peoples. *$2. Putnam.
8–10848.
“A. H. Keane has gathered into a volume of a little over 400 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs of the originals, a synopsis of the latest—or almost the latest—view of human genesis and a description, often in some detail where the race is barbarous enough to be interesting, of all the divers peoples of the globe, duly subdivided and classified under the usual groups of black, red, yellow, and white.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The formal descriptions, the enumeration of peoples, and the geographical relations are well done, but social and mental questions are not so well handled.” W. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 123. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“In spite of its defects, the book is readable, well illustrated, and in some respects a convenient manual. Such a work is needed, and is particularly difficult to produce.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 168. S. 16, ’08. 630w.
“It contains more information about the characteristics of different races, their beliefs and customs, than any other book of its size, as interestingly written as such condensed matter can be, and abundantly illustrated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“Like Peschel and Ratzel, to name only the most prominent authors of ethnographies, Mr. Keane has too little system and perspective, and exhibits too little power of renunciation.”
− =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Fertile in curious interest and rather unusually up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“It is in the wealth of detail that its value lies.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Keatinge, Maurice Walter.= Suggestion in education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
E 8–32.
A study in educational psychology, “We are shown the extreme forms of suggestion and dissociation: then we pass to an examination of suggestion in normal waking states. Next come the conditions, preliminary and immediate, under which suggestion is affective. The remaining four chapters, from the seventh to the twelfth deal with the influence of suggestion in the formation of character.” (Dial.)
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“Mr. Keatinge deals interestingly and simply with the psychology of suggestion.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 70. Ja. 18. 450w.
“Very thorough and helpful. The writer has uncommon powers of psychological description: his account of the subconscious, for example, seems to us the best short description we have met (p. 143 ff). He has also in a high degree the art of making his exposition vivid and interesting without being diffuse, by mingling just the right proportions of the concrete and the didactic.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Keays, H. A. Mitchell.= I and my true love. †$1.50. Small.
8–28998.
A story dealing with marriage, divorce, a second marriage, regret, and final reconciliation thru a child of the first marriage.
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“A clever book with a perspective of real life.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
“A slight and rather clever novel. The pretty child might be fascinating if the author had not made the fatal mistake of letting her be vulgar.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“The characters in this book are not puppets, yet they are scarcely real. They are ideas in human form. Her people are conceptions rather than creations. With these conceptions the novelist seems at times to flirt vivaciously. The story is deftly arranged, but savors of impossibility.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
From the viewpoint of the economist and sociologist the whole history of colonization is covered in this study which aims to meet the needs of college students “both by presenting in English a mass of data not readily accessible, and by arranging the same in such system and order as to emphasize the salient aspects of the process of colonization.” Emigration, colonial trade, race contact and like questions are treated in preference to historical, administrative and legal detail.
=Keller, Helen Adams.= World I live in. **$1.20. Century.
8–30582.
A group of fourteen essays and the poem “The chant of darkness.” Miss Keller shows how rich her deaf-blind world is with three senses—touch, taste, and smell. Some of the chapters are: The seeing hand, The hand of the race; The power of touch; Smell, the fallen angel; Relative values of the senses; The five-sensed world; Inward visions; Before the soul dawn; The dream world; Dreams and reality; and A waking dream.
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“Most interesting book, which, though it concludes with a metrical ‘Chant of darkness,’ will be found to emanate much sweetness and light.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 346. N. 16, ’08. 550w.
“Thruout her small volume of essays a new world is opened up for our consideration, a new standard of physical and spiritual values is formulated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“This certainly is one of the wonderful books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“A unique and intensely interesting bit of autobiography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
“A valuable autobiographical contribution to the study of human possibility.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 110w.
“These essays go farther than previous writings of Miss Keller in revealing her psychic experiences.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 100w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= American insects; with many original illustrations by Mary Wellman; 2d ed. (American nature ser., group 1.) **$5. Holt.
8–16424.
The revision substitutes a detailed analytical table of contents for the simple list of chapter titles used in the first edition, and gives an additional chapter (Chapter 19) on the subject of insect behavior and psychology.
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“An authoritative semi-popular work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08.
“Its high merit has been recognized, and that by a constituency not easy to please. It well deserves this patronage.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 393. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“So written as to make it usable by any intelligent person who feels an honest interest in natural history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Both because of the authority of the text and the accuracy and general excellence of the original illustrations, this work has made a place of its own in scientific literature. For the American naturalist it is indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= Insect stories. (American nature ser.) **$1.50. Holt.
8–21773.
Strange, true facts of insect life by an authority on insects in story form for young readers. He records interesting observations about wasps, spiders, red beetles, ants and their enemies, orange dwellers, grass-hoppers, May-flies, bees and honey-ants.
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“Though not many children will read it, those who are already interested in the subject will thoroughly enjoy it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 248. O. ’08.
“Is not a child’s book, in the strict sense; it is written _with_ the child rather than for him. But no intelligent youth can fail to read it with delight and profit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A vast amount of information about wasps, bees, spiders, ants, and other little creatures is charmingly presented by Prof. Kellogg.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 750w.
=Kelly, Edmond.= Elimination of the tramp. **$1. Putnam.
8–5259.
A sociological as well as economic study of vagrancy reinforced by knowledge and experience gained during a long residence abroad. The author states his problem, shows the advantage of classifying tramps, and urges the introduction of labor colonies with a view to solving the tramp problem. This latter topic—its success in Switzerland and the arguments in favor of its adoption in America—occupies the main portion of his discussion. He closes with a chapter on indiscriminate almsgiving.
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“This book is a notable addition to the discussion.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A brief, informing, highly interesting, practical work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08. ✠
“Aside from the question of the value of the method in America, the book gives a very good account of the European colonies and deserves careful consideration.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 100w.
“We think that ... Mr. Kelly’s plan would be an improvement on present conditions, but we cannot think it would eliminate the tramp. The tramp of to-day is the result of conditions of our civilization that must change before their present results pass away.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“Develops what seems to be a very practicable plan adapted to American conditions.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 532. Mr. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“He expounds his problem and suggested solution with energy and intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 177. Mr. 28, ’08. 80w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Wards of liberty. †$1.50. McClure.
7–35624.
A new group of East Side stories. “Eva and Sadie and Morris still adore Miss Bailey and converse in their ‘near-English’ with her. There is more pathos, and more depth of revolt at some of the hard conditions among the poor, in these stories than in those preceding. ‘Little Bo-Peep’ is a horrible picture of suffering, and some of the others are heavy with sorrows.” (Outlook.)
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“They are really humorous creations, both funny and pathetic; Miss Kelly has, we think wisely emphasized the fun.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 480w.
“Humor in phrase and situation lightens all, while heterodoxy actually rages in some of the tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 124. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Kemmerer, Edwin Walter.= Money and credit instruments in their relation to general prices. (Cornell studies in history and political science, v. 1.) *$1.25. Holt.
8–9034.
“A defense of the quantity theory of money from the metaphysical school of economics.... It gives a clear and admirable statement of the quantity theory, in its most modern form, also it aims to present in full strength the theory underlying the value of token money, which supports the recommendations of the ‘Report on the stability of international exchange,’ prepared mainly for Professor Jenks.” J. Pol. Econ.
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“The volume has great value as special reference for students doing advance work in economics. It would hardly be profitable, however, to place the book in the hands of one not thoroughly familiar with the elements of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 250w.
“The monograph is well balanced theoretically, and there has evidently been a conscientious effort to take account of all of the principal methods of investigation in this field, whatever may be thought of certain applications made of them or of the ways in which the material used is manipulated.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 139. Je. ’08. 840w.
“The study is of the kind which is a credit to American scholarship. Its spirit is not that of a critic seeking to quibble: it makes clear and definite issues which invite to thinking and research. It is a pleasure to take up a volume which shows on every page a desire to discuss the subject impersonally with a purpose of arriving at the truth.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 565. N. ’07. 1050w.
“In many ways the best thing that has appeared in monetary investigation for some years past, and quite puts to the blush several rather pretentious works which have recently undertaken to read the burial service over the so-called quantity theory of money.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“His statistics may be inadequate and his index figures hypothetical, but he has given concrete expression to the real quantity theory, or demand and supply theory, of money, and has indicated very clearly the only method whereby its opponents can discredit it by an appeal to facts.” J. F. Johnson.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 536. S. ’08. 1100w.
=Kemp, Oliver.= Wilderness homes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–19727.
Aims to “crystallize and bring into reality that vague longing which the out-of-door lover has felt for a lodge in the wilderness.” Thruout the chapters, which are as follows, runs a note of possibility for the amateur: Making plans, The fireplace, The ax and the tree, Building the cabin, The roof and the floor, The cabin and its environment, Inside the cabin, What it will cost, Some hunting cabins, and A few plans.
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“A book for the amateur, practical in character, sound in advice and restricted to cabins of the less elaborate type.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“The amateur builder will do well to consult the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 50w.
“It is practical in character and sound in its advice. The most serious defect of the manual is its omission of all mention of skylight windows. Mr. Kemp’s book contains no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
“The practical reader, to whom it is addressed, will get from it a large number of valuable suggestions, gathered in the course of actual experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 423. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
=Kempson, F. Claude.= Future life and modern difficulties. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The most recent attempt to show that there need be no collision between the postulates of science and the precepts of religion. Its author is a Catholic priest.... The book is in two sections, the first dealing with the difficulties which science is supposed to raise in the path of religious belief, and especially against the hope of a future life, while the second is devoted to a consideration of the scientific and religious arguments for and against the Christian conception of a life after death.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In a word, we rather like the argument of this book: we dislike its atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19. ’08. 270w.
=Kennard, Howard Percy.= Russian peasant. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13693.
“[The author] has gained his knowledge from personal contact, having lived in the villages of all part of European Russia and studied his subject in illness and health, in peace and war, in times of plenty and of famine. The first portion of the book is devoted to a presentation of village life in all its phases, the second to a study of the outlines of Russian history with regard to the effect of governmental policies upon the peasant masses, and the third to consideration of what he calls ‘Russia’s poison’—the bureaucracy and the church.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Kennard approaches his subjects with the Englishman’s prejudices against dirt, semioriental ways, religious, social, and political ideas, and in consequence sometimes presents a slightly distorted picture.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08.
“A powerful, though overdrawn picture of the interesting people among whom he has done medical work. His general equipment for the difficult task of writing about Russia is insufficient.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 800w.
“Dr. Kennard ... has certainly had opportunities of a rather exceptional character for studying the Russian peasant; but we cannot say that he appears to us at present to have made the best of them.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The temptation to indulge in fine writing has led the author to mar a good many pages, and has made it necessary for the reader to forgive him some absurdities of style for the sake of the genuineness and interest of the information he gives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Whether this critic pays his vigorous respects to the political oppression or to the religious superstition in which the Russian child is bred, his comment is worth notice. We hope that a succeeding edition will contain an index.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 489. Je. 27, ’08. 730w.
“The portion of the book which the author devotes to Russian ethnological history is succinct and interesting, and the photographs of village life which are interspersed throughout greatly enhance the value of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Servant in the house. †$1.25. Harper.
8–14511.
The eternal struggle of the human soul between the forces of God and Mammon is the idea which this little drama embodies. The scene is laid in the home of an English clergyman who has lived his life the easiest way by following the course of least resistance, and in consequence has filled his days with profitless deeds. Thru the influence of a brother he is moved to make restitution and to vindicate his manhood.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“It is doubtful, however, whether an English audience may not find the ending grotesque rather than impressive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 619. N. 14. 730w.
Reviewed by Beverly Stark.
=Bookm.= 27: 408. Je. ’08. 3500w.
“It is a fine failure, as many other things worth reading have been. There is much ingenious and striking use of the dramatic means chosen—as in the excellent dramatic irony, for instance; in fact, there is quite enough to render the reading of the play interesting and amusing.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 1500w.
“It is one of the most notable of recent plays, not only on account of its high moral and social purpose, but in its sustained interest, its swift, compact, and logical action and its compliance with the classic laws of dramatic construction. All the unities are faithfully observed. The dialogue is of striking quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“In reading the play, even more than in watching it, the skill and vigor of its construction come out. The individuality of each of the characters, the complete consistency of each, their steady development, the mutual efficiency with which they interact, these are elements of remarkable gift on the part of the dramatist.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The lofty theme is handled, for the most part, in a lofty way. The play is scarcely less remarkable in manner than it is in matter. It is constructed with an absolute compactness. Finally, the mere writing of this play stands, in the main, upon a level with the masterly structure and the momentous theme. Surely this play is literature, as well as being drama. It deserves to be seen; it deserves also to be read.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 770. My. ’08. 1400w.
“Those who cannot see the play should read the book: those who can should do both.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Even a reading of the ‘book,’ gives one an impression of dramatic power and literary finish almost as noteworthy as the reverent, compelling vitality of the theme and action themselves. The suggestion of Christ is carried out with reverence and good taste.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 757. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Kent, Percy Horace.= Railway enterprise in China: an account of its origin and development. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5870.
The story of the struggle in the sixties to build a road in China. “The book is full of information as to the cost of construction, difficulties financial, political, and other, and many other matters.”
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“Mr. Kent has been painstaking in his work, and has produced a book that commands the confidence of the reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 82. Jl. 23, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Kent’s interesting work traces the history of the Chinese railroads through the various stages of development up to the present era of concessions and dominant foreign control.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’08. 210w.
=Kerr, John Graham.= Work of John Samuel Budgett. hf. lea. *$7. Putnam.
In which a collection of Mr. Budgett’s zoological papers recording his labors for science in Africa, are supplemented by a geographical sketch by A. E. Shipley, and a number of papers based on Budgett’s material which has been worked on by a group of embryologists.
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“A volume which adds distinctly to our knowledge of embryology.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 260w.
“The memorial volume, which is a valuable contribution to embryology, will surely not fail of its highest purpose, of perpetuating by its stimulus the tradition which Budgett’s life and work expressed.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 313. Ag. 6, ’08. 2300w.
“The beautiful volume prepared by his friends and colleagues is a fitting memorial of his life and work and one that stirs a keen sense of the loss that science suffered by his untimely death.” W.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 452. O. 2, ’08. 1000w.
=Kerr, Winfield Scott.= John Sherman: his life and public services. 2v. *$4. Sherman, French & co.
A minute record of Sherman’s full political life the material for which has been furnished by letters, documents, narratives and recital. “The whole period of the civil war and the succeeding era of reconstruction and the resumption of specie payments, in which Senator Sherman played an increasingly important part, are considered in these volumes with unusual minuteness.” (R. of Rs.)
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“It is a biography of the old-fashioned type, written by a man who has been active in politics but without much training in literary work.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 240w.
“His style is uninteresting. His volumes are not the contribution to the history of our own times that they ought to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“On the whole, the book does not displace the briefer and more discriminating volume by Theodore E. Burton.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 194. Ap. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Mr. Kerr’s work compares unfavorably with the more modest biography ... by Mr. Burton.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 861. Ag. 15, ’08. 530w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Kilpatrick, Van Evrie.= Departmental teaching in elementary schools. *60c. Macmillan.
8–14729.
An expository treatment advocating departmental teaching, based upon a wide and varied experience in teaching. The author answers objections to the method, and outlines the most effective plan for developing the system.
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“A concise, practical, interesting treatment of departmental teaching.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“A thorogoing exposition of his principles and doctrine.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Few books on school organization are more timely than this one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
=King, Alfred Grant.= Practical steam and hot water heating and ventilation. *$3. Henley.
8–7883.
“Describes all features of steam and hot-water heating installations, ventilating plants, warming systems for swimming pools, the business methods of conducting steam-fitting work and the care of heating plants, and gives a large collection of rules, memoranda and tables.... While the book is in no sense an engineering work, it is a good explanation of the scope as well as details of the work done by a contractor for heating and ventilating plants.”—Engin. Rec.
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“This work is one of the most complete and exhaustive yet published on this branch of domestic engineering.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“It will not appeal to engineers who have much better treatises on heating and ventilation in their possession. The book contains very little theoretical treatment of the subject and what little there is should be revised by an expert.” W. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 593. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“The two common faults of such books, verbosity and inaccuracy, are not present and the author explains his subject in a clear way that can be understood by the steam-fitter and does not offend the technically educated engineer.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=King, Charles.= To the front: a sequel to Cadet days. †$1.25. Harper.
8–5578.
General King portrays vividly some events that mark the beginning of a young West Point cadet’s career. Cheered to the echo as he receives his diploma, he calls forth a prominent business man’s prophecy that if he were pitted against a keen-witted, sharp, aggressive young business man “he’d be skinned alive—skinned out of his last cent.” But the “sheer grit” that had earned for George Graham deafening applause at his graduation proves equally capable of results in quelling a mine riot and in fighting Indians among the icy flats and snow-patched ravines of the Bad lands.
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“Not so well written as ‘Cadet days,’ of which it is a sequel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The story is graphically written and while a bit highly colored, at least no harm will be done Gen. King’s young readers should they endeavor to imitate young Graham.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Seeming unreality of the spiritual life. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18361.
A scholarly and earnest defense of theism and Christianity, in which are discussed at length the causes of the seeming unreality of the spiritual life, those arising from misconceptions as to its nature and those due to a failure to fulfill the conditions thru which alone a way is opened into the “great values.” Other causes which are irremovable, the limitations of our natures and the unobtrusiveness inherent in the very nature of the moral are also considered. Finally a way into reality is pointed out. It is shown how inextricably the spiritual life is knit up with all else that we count most real and also has its own distinct and valuable contribution to make to life.
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“He is earnest, thoughtful and honest in his inquiry; and he leaves the impression of a brave and sincere spirit neither rashly radical nor timidly unprogressive.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse (Mrs. Charles R. Kingsley).= And so they were married. †$1. Dodd.
8–23918.
Portrays “a conflict between common sense and foolishness which results in victory for the former.... An inexperienced young woman is influenced, for a time, by the extravagant pretension of an older woman who worships society, and this influence bids fair to ruin the young woman’s husband. The rescue is accomplished by the combination of a sensible bringing up and an outspoken wise old grandmother.”—Outlook.
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“This little volume is a sermon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 140w.
“A pretty little story, its appeal solely for the feminine heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
“The author delicately handles the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A simple little story.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Eversley gardens, and others. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–42104.
“She describes ... the gardens of her acquaintance and her own. She relates the making of the latter out of a barren field in a very useful and agreeable manner, and in doing so expresses lucidly the results of her experience on many technical points. Her remarks on soil, deep trenching, pruning, growing bulbs indoors in fibre, and the destruction of blight, are excellent guides, readily remembered because they are written in a style not found in text-books.”—Acad.
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“Miss Rose Kingsley exceeds the promise of her title.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 719. Jl. 27, ’07. 240w.
“The world is overdone with ‘gardening books,’ but for such a volume as Miss Kingsley’s ‘Eversley gardens and others’ we have not only room and to spare, but the warmest of welcomes beside.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 158. Ag. 10. 650w.
“For practical purposes the book will have little value for Americans, since the English climate is so much kinder to roses and other things. But anyone who is enthusiastic about flowers will enjoy the combination of good sense and artistic feeling with which Miss Kingsley presents the whole process of gardening.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
“The author has a vein of pleasantry which brightens many of the pages in a charming way.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“While it is probable that most gardners will find many hints and references to species unknown to them, it is certain that all can learn much from the artistic combinations described by the author, some produced in her own gardens, others in her friends’ gardens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 240w.
“The illustrations are nearly as delightful as the text.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
=Kinkaid, Mary Holland (Mrs. John Kinkaid).= Man of yesterday: a romance of a vanishing race. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–7595.
A story set among the Chickasaws and Choctaws of Indian territory at the time of the division of tribal lands. A white man faithless to his half-breed wife is brought to judgment by her Indian lover. “The passionate race pride of the Indian, his fortitude, his scorn of promise-breaking, are strongly pictured. In Pakali, with her Indian blood and her white woman’s training, lives a heroine fair and tender and brave as heart of romance reader could wish.” (Nation.)
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“The style is rather journalistic but the narrative is interesting and the picture convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“The author has achieved a distinct triumph in taking us actually into the home life of the present-day Chickasaws, and in making us feel their attitude, their impulses, their standards of right and wrong. It is a noteworthy volume, not soon to be forgotten.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 450w.
“A book that owes nothing to ingenuity of plot or to its author’s imagination, but is a page of passing American history, or, at least, an important footnote.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“A close acquaintance with Indian character and customs is apparent throughout, and with the acquaintance goes an intense sympathy for their passing—a passing whose pathos is heightened in the story by the melancholy acquiescence of the better element.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The descriptive parts are written with much poetic feeling, while throughout the author’s manner is worthy of note for its dignity and simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
“A contribution of much worth to the story of the relations between the two races.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Courage of Blackburn Blair. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–34180.
The second volume of Miss Kinkead’s trilogy whose purpose is the presentation of “the three great fundamental relations of life.” It deals with the relation of man toward humanity and makes use of a “modern instance of moral heroism brought into close relations with the Goebel campaign that convulsed Kentucky a few years ago. The hero is a young lawyer and politician who realizes how false is that conception of personal honor which in Kentucky, and in the south generally, requires, a man who is insulted to commit a murder for the vindication of his character.” (Dial.)
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“The story is characterized by a fine idealism and the interest is sustained throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The fine idealism of this book, to say nothing of its many other admirable qualities, gives it a high place among novels of the year.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 370w.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 70w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
A story whose action takes place in Russia, principally following the last revolutionary outbreak. While the lover of an English girl is absent in South Africa she saves her father from financial ruin by marrying, supposedly, a French count. The lover returns, determines to find her, accepts a newspaper commission to Russia and fights a winning way thru danger and intrigue in the very strongholds that protect her. It is an intimate account of conditions in Russia after the war, and is unique for portraying a heroine who does not appear.
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“The story is vigorous in its handling of plot, and the personal adventures of its supposed narrator are told with real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
=Kintzing, Pearce.= Long life and how to attain it. **$1. Funk.
8–17729.
Simple, sane practical advice by which the every-day man or woman may ward off disease, preserve health, and prolong life. A popular treatise based upon scientific principles.
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“The style is simple, the advice practical, the basis scientific.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 250w.
“His chapters are not empirical, but are based on results derived from the positive conclusions of scientific research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 229. Ag. 15, ’08. 340w.
=Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“There is nothing startling in his recommendations. Nothing that is absolutely new in his philosophy; it is the directness, clearness, and completeness of his treatment of the various matters that have to do with longevity that makes his work remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 800w.
“Safe and sane are the remarks of Dr. Kintzing regarding the best methods of preserving health.” Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 235. N. ’08. 200w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= In the open: intimate studies and appreciations of nature. **$1.75. Elder.
8–24897.
It is the real Walt Whitman communion with nature that finds its way into the chapters of this delightful book. The impressions made upon poetic men by each new season from “the spring that is felt rather than reasoned about” to the first snow-storm that “soothes and beguiles into submission” are analyzed so closely that the reader is able to recognize them as self-experienced sensations. Joy in nature in all its forms and moods inspires the invitation into the open which reaches the climax of persuasion in the chapters, The mountains, The forest and The sea.
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“His readers will often pay him the subtle compliment of exclaiming, ‘That is just what I have thought.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“A nature book of such unusual literary charm that it deserves to be ranked well above most of the more homely out-of-doors studies of recent years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Kirkland, Caroline.= Some African highways: a journey of two American women to Uganda and the Transvaal; with an introd. by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell. $1.50. Estes.
8–19264.
A multitude of observations are set down here, many of them made from steamer deck and car window. There are pictures “for instance, of Asab, the Abyssinian port, where three hundred warriors from the desert (Nubians, Somalis, and Sudanese) were taken on board the author’s ship to fight a native uprising in German East Africa; of the hand-run tram system of Mombasa, supplemented by the gharries, or rickshaws, and the carriages and horses of the Hindu merchants; of the customs of London’s West End found in an English colony in the heart of darkest Africa; of the contrast between English and German colonies in Africa; of the sleeping sickness; of the new conditions in the Transvaal; of the Chinese on the Rand there, and of Lord Selborne’s success in the administration of South Africa.” (Outlook.)
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“The points of interest in this journey she sketches with quick perception, and accuracy of touch.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 660w.
“All through this book keenly pointed little pen-pictures are scattered.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 340w.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= An inquiry into socialism. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.40. Longmans.
8–7382.
A third edition whose changes consist chiefly of “the insertion of references to recent or contemporary events such as help to bear out the views propounded.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Dispassionate but sympathetic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 120. Ap. ’08.
“An unpretending, sympathetic, eminently fair exposition.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 279. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“It sets forth with remarkable logic, force, and perspicuity the genesis, aims, and claims of the form of socialism which is gaining ground so fast at present.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 170w.
“A clear, simple, sympathetic interpretation of socialism.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“Nothing could be more opportune than the reissue in a substantially unaltered form of this eminently catholic as well as eminently reasonable statement of the socialist case.” Sidney Ball.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 397. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 70w.
“May not make a reader a convert, nor would every socialist be satisfied with the unadventurous spirit of Mr. Kirkup’s views, but after reading him we think no one could talk the nonsense with which the topic has made us familiar.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Kirkup’s volume is an admirable example of the sentiment which makes for socialism, and which fails to see that if Marx’s destructive and constructive theories are rejected some other economic basis of socialism must be put forward.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Klein, Felix.= An American student in France. **$2.50. McClurg.
8–13682.
“Presents the author’s conception of the way things French impress an inquiring, observant, and serious-minded American student of about twenty-one years of age. The student is a composite type, and, naturally, somewhat idealized; hence not thoroughly real and ‘convincing’ to the reader. But that does not prevent one’s deriving a good deal of entertainment and instruction from the Abbé’s frank and comradelike talks on various subjects of historic, political, religious, and literary interest, whosoever may serve as ostensible mouth-piece from page to page.”—Dial.
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“The book is entertaining.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08.
“The value of his book lies in the fact that under the guise of imaginary conversations he gives the opinions of those Frenchmen who are at the same time sincere Catholics and sincere Republicans.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 35. Jl. 11. 420w.
“The abbé is lively, witty, and observant.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 265. N. ’08. 160w.
“Father Klein is a writer to command attention at all times, but he is not in quite so happy a vein in impersonating the American visitor to France as he was in playing the French visitor to America.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 312. My. 16, ’08. 550w.
“We unreservedly commend it to those who know France, and to those who want to know France.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, Abbé Klein has turned out an agreeable book, which is well printed, indexed, and illustrated. If you are visiting France this summer you’ll find the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 250. My. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“Gives much interesting general information concerning France.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Seriously, the book is interesting as a campaign document on the controversies over modernism and separation, a record of the personal convictions of the author; most of the remainder, if it is anything, is as you please, Baedeker, or Murray, or Joanne.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 560w.
“An entertaining book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. Humorous hits and how to hold an audience: a collection of short selections, stories and sketches for all occasions. **$1. Funk.
8–9509.
A book for the amateur, professional reader, speaker, elocutionist, entertainer, after-dinner and impromptu speaker, the politician “who wants to make a ‘hit,’” the business man looking for a good story, and the teacher planning for rhetoricals. Following detailed instruction on how to hold an audience there are more than a hundred and fifty humorous selections and about thirty serious ones.
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“It is an admirable volume of popular selections for the purpose for which it is designed.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A useful handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
* =Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. World’s great sermons; introd. by Lewis O. Brastow. 10v. Funk.
8–33883.
Ten volumes which aim to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit since the beginning of Christianity and to present them in handy-volume form. Preachers are represented from Basil of the fourth century to present-day divines, and the sermons have been selected in some cases for their literary and rhetorical excellencies but in every case for the service they may render in solving practical problems of Christian living.
=Knapp, Adeline.= Well in the desert. †$1.50. Century.
8–23557.
A story whose scenes are set on the edge of the Arizona desert. A diseased-burdened man, betrayed and unjustly convicted of crime, escapes from prison, evades falling a second time into the power of his betrayer, and is lead by chance to a wooded and watered plateau where for months he lived alone the life of elemental man. The health and manhood which he builds up stand him in good stead when he again faces civilization and establishes his right to citizenship and to the love of a good woman.
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“Not a remarkable story, but unobjectional and full of exciting adventure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“It is a romance as wholesome as it is interesting.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 479. N. ’08. 620w.
“The book, viewed as a collection of exciting anecdotes of life in the Southwest, is readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“It begins with distinction and originality, but it runs into the ordinary and stereotyped story of the West.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The latter part of the romance is a trifle too melodramatic, but taken as a whole the story is alive and worth while. The narrative of the desert is particularly good.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= Over-sea Britain. *$2. Dutton.
War 8–30.
A descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological, and political development, and the economic resources of the empire; the nearer empire, the Mediterranean, British Africa, and British America. (Explanatory title). It is “a careful description of the British colonies in the Mediterranean region, Africa and America, to be followed by a volume on the possessions in Asia and Oceania. The author has adopted a semi-encyclopedic manner of discussion.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Of special use to prospective colonists and to business men engaged in over-sea commerce.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on British world politics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 505. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Knight’s volume is, on the whole, accurate in its statement of facts; it has undoubtedly been produced with great industry and care, and forms a valuable record in the nature of an imperial gazetteer.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 1300w.
“The years 1905 and 1906 are the dates taken for most of Mr. Knight’s figures, and until these figures become too antiquated for the ordinary needs of the reader or student, Mr. Knight’s volume will be well worth a place among the books of ready reference which one likes to keep on the most accessible shelf of the library.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 250w.
“There are minor blemishes, easily corrected in another edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 191. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
“A treasury of reference. But the excellent text would seem to merit maps of greater number and detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“He has managed to write a not uninteresting and instructive work without colour of any sort. Hence the work should be valuable as a text-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“It is rather too large for school purposes, and scarcely detailed enough to be of use to the specialist, but it should serve as a good reference-book to the general reader who wishes to supplement his newspaper knowledge of imperial history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“This is hardly a great book, but it deals with a great personality.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 575. N. 9. 1320w.
“These recollections of friends and disciples, with extracts from his letters and other writings, combine to portray, roughly and by suggestion, an inspiring and astonishingly versatile character; but a complete and consistent account of the man, if such be possible, is yet to be written.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His biographer narrates instead of presenting—an artistic fault which is no less grave in biography than in fiction. He expects us to take his hero on trust, with the result that, after we have read all that he has to say, his hero remains a vague and cloudy figure.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 540w.
“A fitting memorial.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Dawn at Shanty Bay. **$1. Revell.
7–39193.
A story whose “scenes are laid in a Scotch settlement in western New York. The hero is a crusty Scotchman. He inherits his creed and his theory of life from his Covenanter father, who ‘got till his rest wi’out hardly hearin’ tell o’ Christmas, or ony o’ thae new-fangled schemes for worshipping Almichty God.’ But before the end of the story Ronald Robertson Changed his mind about Christmas and several other things.” (Dial.)
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“A pretty story full of the deeper meaning of the Christmas season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, 07. 110w.
“A very readable Christmas story of the genre type.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Knowles’s simple little story is typically Scotch in its setting and atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, v. 2. *$10.75. Oxford.
=v. 2.= Deals with “the various methods of pollination in fifty-six families of dicotyledonous plants.... The author deals seriatim with all the genera and species in the natural orders under consideration, describes the structure of the flowers in so far as it affects directly or indirectly the mode of pollination, and cites the various direct observations on pollination made by himself or others.” (Nature.)
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“The value of a work of this kind depends mainly upon the accuracy of its observations, and in the case of the present volume the names of the recorders are sufficient testimony to their trustworthiness. The work of translation has been carried out in a most satisfactory manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 371. S. 26. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Such a book cannot be reviewed, for it is an encyclopedia. This translation should greatly stimulate observation in a field too much neglected by American botanists.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 63. Jl. ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is filled with facts indispensable to the student of biology and helpful to every serious amateur. It cannot honestly be called interesting to the general reader; nevertheless, the general reader can make of it a great deal of use in examining plants from the new point of view.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 890w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is even more directly a book of reference than the first volume. Will be as welcome to English readers as the more general introductory volume has proved itself to be.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 244. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is of great value to American workers.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 345. S. 11, ’08. 780w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Pianolist: a guide for pianola players. **$1. Moffat.
7–40771.
A guide for pianola players suggested by the experience of one who, undeveloped in musical culture, was briefly satisfied with trashy things but who gradually trained himself to appreciate and to understand classical selections from a wide range of composers. The book recognizes the musical-education possibilities of automatic players.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 44. F. ’08.
“Its author, Gustav Kobbé, has always been among the pioneers in clearing new paths, and in this volume, as in his ‘How to appreciate music,’ he is not afraid to express his opinions freely, even when they clash violently with traditional views and prejudices.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 170w.
“His book is filled with advice to the pianolist as to how to get the best effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Koester, Frank.= Steam-electric power plants: a practical treatise on the design of central light and power stations and their economical construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–11715.
The author, who is an experienced power plant designer, deals with every phase in the design of light and power plants starting with the preparation of plans, letting of contracts, efficiency, cost and site for the location, and continuing to a descriptive discussion of five typical American and European power plants.
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“He here brings together into a coherent whole the very considerable amount of information which he has accumulated during his professional work in regard to the best approved modern practice in the design, construction and operation of steam-electric power plants.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 320w.
“The book is, on the whole, disappointing. The author has treated nearly everything in a most general way—general in the sense of being vague and indefinite and not in the sense of being broad and comprehensive. The author gives the impression of being a spectator who sees results rather than being a designer of world-wide experience who is elucidating his own work.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 78. Jl. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life of Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, 1798–1871, of the first elective Supreme court of Pennsylvania. $3.50. Campion & co.
7–10037.
“This is the third biography of eminent Pennsylvanians written by Mr. Konkle. Ellis Lewis was one of the leaders of the Democratic party, and the author’s main purpose in writing his biography is to present the counterpart of the Whig and Republican movements which constitutes the main theme of the author’s life of Thomas Williams.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Had Chief Justice Lewis been a jurist only, we are told in the preface, ‘the author would have felt no mission to present his career.’ Nevertheless, this life of Lewis is almost wholly devoted to his career as a jurist. Of his influence upon the tortuous course of Pennsylvania politics we get only occasional and fleeting glimpses which whet the appetite for more.” P. O. Ray.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 388. Ja. ’08. 560w.
“In the absence of any general political history of Pennsylvania, biographies like these meet a distinct need, and Mr. Konkle’s legal training, his knowledge of Pennsylvania leaders and characteristics qualify him to supply this need. It is, therefore, to be regretted that a work of much promise and great possibilities is marred by many defects. Whenever the author passes from the analysis of complex political situations to the narration of simple events his style is clear.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 163. Jl. ’07. 380w.
=Kotzschmar, Mary Ann.= Half-hour lessons in music: class work for beginners at the piano. $1. Ditson.
7–33585.
Twelve lessons for teachers of children; the aim being “to see from the children’s point of view, and to explain and illustrate things musical in a way that would appeal to their imagination as well as reason.” The author makes much of the natural enthusiasm and optimism of little people; she believes in class instruction in preference to private lessons; she introduces into each lesson interesting details about the lives of composers.
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+ =Nation.= 86: 179. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Kramer, Harold Morton.= Castle of dawn. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10278.
Two Chicago young people, one a newspaper man and the other the charming daughter of a certain “Graball” Gray are imprisoned under puzzling circumstances in the Ozarks. After a week of hairbreadth experiences, they find that the Castle of Dawn where they have become prisoners in velvet rather than iron is the rendezvous of Nicaraguan revolutionists whom the government is trying to run to cover. It is a sprightly story with a romance that is kept apart from the few melodramatic touches.
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“The surprising thing about ‘The castle of dawn’ is, not that is is a mediocre novel of its kind, but rather, that being so obviously built according to formula, it should be anywhere nearly so good as it is.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 230w.
“It is all very trifling, but it is also very diverting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book will certainly not fail to hold the attention, and it has many good qualities, but it is too bewilderingly involved for the brain of the average reader.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 310. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Kremer, Ida.= Struggle for a royal child, Anna Monica Pia, duchess of Saxony. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–2755.
Here are narrated the experiences of a governess in the house of the Countess Montignoso during 1906. She was sent by the Saxon court to Villa Montauto, for the purpose of helping to return the royal child, Anna Monica Pia, to her father. The book is in the form of a diary and records minutely the daily life of the Countess and of the members of her household.
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“It is mainly taken up with a study of the Countess’s character, and shows much penetration, clear insight, and the ability to philosophise with discretion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Kubinyi, Victor von.= King of Rome; a biography. $1.50. Victor von Kubinyi, box 33, South River, N. J.
7–40865.
In this historical sketch the author has endeavored with painstaking care to evolve the truth concerning Napoleon’s son from all the mass of fact and fiction which has been written concerning him. He sympathetically treats the life of this unfortunate young prince from its beginning in Paris thru his various changing fortunes in Austria up to the day of his untimely death. The biography is supplemented by several illuminating sketches which tend to enlarge and develop the original theme.
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“It is chatty, gossipy in tone; speaks of the Little Corporal with the enthusiasm of a private of the Old Guard, and of the Duke de Reichstadt with the undiscriminating tenderness of a devoted nurse.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 830. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Kuhns, Levi Oscar.= Sense of the infinite: a study of the transcendental element in literature, life and religion. **$1.50. Holt.
8–24253.
With the same method of literary investigation that the author employed in “Dante and the English poets” he traces the evidence to the transcendental element in the literature and religion of the Western world from the time of Plato to the present. The book is addressed to the general reader. Following an introduction which lays out the lines along which the discussion moves there are chapters on What is the infinite, The transcendental view of nature, Romantic lore and the transcendental sense, Plato and Plotinus, Platonism past and present, Mediaeval mysticism, Renaissance and reformation, The Pietistic movement and its influence, The transcendental element and modern life.
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“In few popular works of the present time has the essential spirituality of mystic exaltation been so consistently maintained.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is written with unusual simplicity, in every-day language, with ease and dignity of style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Kunz, George Frederick, and Stevenson, Charles Hugh.= Book of the pearl: the history, art, science and industry of the queen of gems. **$12.50. Century.
8–29321.
The combined work of a gem expert and a member of the United States fish commission. It is a handsomely made volume of five hundred and thirty pages covering the entire field of the pearl. It illustrates the use of pearls as objects of art and ornamentation; notes their decorative value as shown in portraiture and in imaginative designs by great artists; assembles theories and facts concerning their origin, growth and structure; sets forth their values, artistically and commercially; describes proper treatment and care; gives the history of pearl fisheries; and emphasizes the importance of conserving the resources and the possibilities of cultivating the pearl-oyster.
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“Encyclopaedic in character, and representing an appalling amount of the most laborious research, the book is nevertheless thoroughly readable.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 440w.
“The book is a very great success in every way.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 300w.
“Must be pronounced as fascinating as it is learned and authoritative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 674. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The work as a whole, however, is fairly readable. In quantity and quality of information it should be accounted as one of the most notable works yet produced on a topic connected with jewelry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 830w.
“Once in a while there is produced a book so comprehensive in its treatment of the subject with which it deals, so manifestly the product of infinite pains in an author eminent in his chosen field, and artistically so beautiful in its finished form, that the reader can hardly help but exclaim at the skill, patience, and labor involved in its production. Such a work is ‘The book of the pearl.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 604. O. 24, ’08. 2350w.
“For those who own pearls, and for those who love pearls, and for those who want to know all about pearls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 220w.
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=L.= Dark ages and other poems. $1. Longmans.
Fifty-five religious and secular poems. “Of the sacred poems we should put ‘Lethe’ first, and of the others ‘The English gipsies’ and the charming ‘Cottage inscription.’ Not all of the lyrics are Arcadian. Some are passionate outcries against contemporary follies.” (Spec.)
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“A cultivated and reflective mind, dwelling upon themes of art, religion, history, and the legendary past, finding for its thoughts and fancies a striking form of individual expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 62. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Uniformly effective work. Many examples of two tempers—that of the image maker and that of the meditative listener—mingled in a composite strain of sensitiveness to aesthetic and spiritual impressions.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A serious and sensitive mind, with many deep affections, and his composition is both skilful and painstaking.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 728. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“A little lacking in rhythmical finish, but has the merit of ideas, and now and then of fine verse.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= The woman pays. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–18368.
A melodramatic story in which the principal characters are a young New York newspaper writer, his wife and a clergyman. The latter, egotistical, self-loving, casts a spell over the woman, wins her from her husband and betrays her honor.
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“It is a tale that is told with some power. Some of the descriptions of a phase of metropolitan life are interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 320w.
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= In Korea with Marquis Ito. **$2.50. Scribner.
8–7156.
A study including statements of fact based on personal observation; expressions of opinion based upon the fullest obtainable knowledge of the facts; and certain conjectures ventured after facts have been studied and opinions weighed. Prof. Ladd went to the country to lecture and staid to absorb matters pertaining to international affairs and race psychology. His work is first a narrative of personal experience, and, second, a critical and historical inquiry with many a sidelight on Japan’s greatest statesman.
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“Though he has an obvious pro-Japanese bias, it is impossible to doubt that his story, in the main, is accurate.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 470w.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 60w.
“The volume is well illustrated, and is in every respect a valuable work of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Because Professor Ladd clearly shows the vital relation of mission work to its environment (and he is the only writer so far as we know who has done this needed work with such ability), he has done a most valuable and timely service to the growing science of missions. A well written book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 500w.
“The work is timely, the information fresh and reliable, the style is charming. The book is laid down with a feeling that the clouds have been cleared away from a very interesting and hitherto very obscure passage in contemporaneous history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“For the serious student Dr. Ladd’s book by no means supersedes the works of Dallet, Hulbert, and others who have studied Korea in the perspective of history, language and literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 850w.
“Can hardly be accepted as [an account] of a disinterested and impartial student. Undoubtedly honest, sincere, and convinced, his book is nevertheless an ex parte statement of a professed friend of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“From a competent observer and fair-minded critic and reporter, with very unusual opportunities for correct information, we have the truth about Korea, and Japan in Korea. So enlightening a volume should not lack a good map.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“However much careful readers might disagree with the author in several of his opinions on things Korean and Japanese, they will not fail to appreciate the sincerity of his views, and wish that another equally sincere and able work showing the other side of the question might, if that is possible appear to enlighten them.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 350. N. ’08. 760w.
* =La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. McClure.
Six lectures which inaugurated the Scammon course at the Art institute of Chicago, in 1903. They are as follows: The school; Delacroix; Millet; Decamps and Diaz; Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny; Corot. Index.
* =Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Christ legends; tr. from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. **$1.25. Holt.
Mainly from the apocryphal New Testament writings are borrowed legends of the early life of Christ which Miss Lagerlöf has made over and expanded into stories near of kin to Swedish folk lore tales. The miracle-working power of the child Jesus is revealed with spiritual discernment from which the ardor of her imagination does not detract.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“All the stories, no matter what their claim may be to authenticity, are eloquent of that spirit of joy and imaginative fervor which from time immemorial has imparted its zest to the celebration of Christmas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by Velma S. Howard. il. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–33213.
A book which is the result of “years of study of animal and bird life by the author, with legends and folk-lore, which are woven together in the charming story of little Nils, turned into an elf, traveling on the back of a goose with a flock of wild geese, understanding the speech of birds and animals.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Will interest children who like George Macdonald’s fairy tales and the like; will make a place for itself but not be popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“I should advise parents to give the book an examination, for its foundation is built upon national characteristics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Said to be the best book of Sweden’s great fiction writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Lair, Jules.= Louise de la Vallière and the early life of Louis XIV. (Memoir ser., no. 39.) *$3.50. Putnam.
The story of Louise de la Vallière who “was a favorite of Louis XIV., who bore him four children, was discarded for another favorite, and ended her days as a Carmelite nun. The narrative woven around this tale is a revoltingly minute description of the doings of court libertines and intriguers.” (Ind.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 300w.
“The book has all the appeal of the romantic novel. To such M. Lair’s careful and accurate work cannot be too strongly recommended.” G: H. Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 1800w.
“If there were any scheme of social regeneration that would put to hard labor the people who write and read such unnecessary, and to say the least, unesthetic rubbish, it ought to be welcomed by those who have a kindly interest in humanity.”
− − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have nothing but praise for a charming work charmingly printed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
“The translator of this interesting volume seems to have done her work faithfully, though her style is occasionally marred by unfortunate solecisms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 640w.
“The story of her life is neither instructive nor inspiring, and as told by M. Lair it is so burdened with unsavory detail and false sentiment as to make thoroughly unpleasant reading.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“M. Lair treats his subject with good taste and delicacy, fairness and candour.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 480w.
=Lake, Rev. Kirsopp.= Historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–5811.
“An examination of the evidence from the critical point of view, with a result unfavorable to the material view of the resurrection.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 20w.
“Even those who are unable to follow the author in all his criticisms and exegesis must admit the force of his reasoning, and the reverence with which it is presented.” G. E. French.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 6: 691. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The work as a whole is an able piece of historical criticism, conducted in a reverential spirit, and recognizing to the full the limits of historical investigation and the privileges of religious faith.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Has a fair claim to be reckoned as one of the really important works upon its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w.
=La Monte, Robert Rives.= Socialism: positive and negative. 50c. Kerr.
7–21308.
A group of essays dealing with such subjects as Science and socialism, Marxism and ethics, and The nihilism of socialism.
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“There is no connection between the essays and, on the whole, they do not present as satisfactory a statement of the socialistic doctrines as does Mr. Spargo’s book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 280. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“He has studied his books, and he writes with dash and cleverness. But his tolerance of persons who do not see with him is by no means gentle.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 6, ’07. 200w.
=La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich H. K.= Undine; tr. from the German by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23095.
“He takes the reader through enchanted forests and among mysterious gnomes and spirits. The malicious Kühleborn, the quaint old fisherman and his dame, good father Heilmann, the worldly Bertalda, the gallant but fickle Huldbrand, are characters full of interest; but most beautiful and lovely in her form of water sprite, and afterwards in the suffering wife when she had found a soul, is Undine.”
* =Lancaster, G. B.= Altar stairs. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A novel which tells a tale of the South seas, in which a dominating man suddenly finds himself in love with a woman who is bound to another. The hero holds for months in his power the man to whom the woman he loves is bound, but ultimate happiness comes out of it all.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The grip of the story can in no way be conveyed by an outline of the plot, each incident being so firmly built into the general structure that the whole must be envisaged in detail to be appreciated. It would seem as if there might be less wading in gore without sacrificing the sweep and vigor of the story.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Lancaster’s style is not good, and in his endeavor to be characteristic he occasionally becomes unintelligible. But there is a fresh wind blowing through the book that sets the blood dancing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Tracks we tread. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–28459.
A story which “leads us into the sheep-country of New Zealand, among a class superficially more like our Western ranchers than the official Englishman. Yet it is the Briton bearing the sacred torch to the farthest ends of the earth whom we are once again called upon, not unwillingly, to admire; the type of those ‘who go away many times to endings unchronicled; men who love, who conquer, and serve, on the downs, the harsh mountains, the unhandled plains.’” (Nation.)
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“A book of uncommon calibre, rugged, sincere, tremendously virile—a book that pictures the rough, hard men of a rough, hard country frankly, without illusion or euphemism, but with a deep understanding of human nature that makes it a book to linger over.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 450w.
“Kipling’s hall-mark is upon it as a whole. Its salient traits are terseness and vividness of phrase, a grim humor prone to deal with the less savory aspects of the theme, and an unconquerable instinct for the romantic aspects.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lanchester, F. W.= Aerodynamics; constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight. *$6. Van Nostrand.
8–26416.
“For the first time, as far as we know, this volume brings together in one place all that theory and practice have to contribute to our knowledge of the conditions which govern true flight. The final chapters, dealing with the experimental work of Langley and other investigators, is probably the most interesting to the ordinary reader, who will realise from it how complex are the problems that the aviator has yet to solve.”—Spec.
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=Engin. D.= 4:55. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Had the author extended the last chapter to include the work of continental writers ... and excluded some of the more shaky theoretical chapters, the work might without exaggeration be called a complete treatise on aerodynamics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 337. Ag. 13, ’08. 780w.
“A sound and conscientious piece of work which should be invaluable to the practical builder of aeroplanes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Landor, Arnold H. Savage.= Across widest Africa. 2v. *$10.50. Scribner.
7–37937.
An account of the country and people of eastern, central, and western Africa, as seen during a twelve months’ journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde. Mr. Landor’s book is not devoted to adventure, “it is concerned with the characteristic features of that country.... The rivers, mountains, elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the various complicated tribal divisions and names, the languages and the customs of the tribes, and the host of details which of necessity must constitute the study of the observing traveller, are the objects which appeal to him.” (Dial.)
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“All due qualifications being made, there is a large amount of interesting reading in these two handsome and well-illustrated volumes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 430w.
“Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the subject of some very interesting chapters of the book” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 415. D. 16, ’07. 1870w.
“Apparently ignorant of those sciences with which an explorer ought to be thoroughly familiar, Mr. Landor states his observations, his deductions, his impressions, and also those of other people, as if they were infallible dogmas. The result of this, and of his inability to sift evidence in a scientific way, is a tissue of absurdities, enunciated with such a semblance of authority that an unwary reader would assume them all to be well-ascertained facts. Notwithstanding his many errors of fact and of inference ... it is only fair to admit that Mr. Landor’s book makes interesting reading all through; that in no single work is it possible to find so many details of the customs of so many central African tribes; and that, if the author lacks many of the qualities of an historian, he, at any rate, possesses those of a traveller in a high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 330. N. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“Though much of the book is tedious, there is also much that is entertaining, and it enables one to realize vividly how life in the heart of Africa appears to the traveller.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 289. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Tales of Troy and Greece. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–34175.
The author has regrouped the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” into two cycles, one called “Ulysses the sacker of cities,” and the other “The wanderings of Ulysses.” “Three other sections recount the tales of the Fleece of gold from traditional matter, being supplemented by Apollonius Rhodius and the fight between Polydeuces and the giant from Theocritus; and the stories of Theseus and Perseus, which depend mainly on summaries contained in Plutarch and Apollodorus.” (Ath.)
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“Delightfully told in the fairy-tale manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Lang, though as simple in style as Mr. Church, differs from the latter in that he pauses to describe customs, arms, and mode of life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 340w.
“Mr. Lang ... puts into his text more substance than is found in the ordinary adaptation or rewritten classic.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Will prove a sheer delight to any boy or girl of imagination and a feeling for adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Lang has attempted a sort of Biblia innocentum version of the Grecian Book of books. The result is an excellent narrative that often vividly recalls the original. The rest of the book is made up of the stories of Theseus, of Perseus, and of the Golden fleece, which are equally interesting, though marred with one or two misplaced modern touches.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Professor Church’s book is story pure and simple; Mr. Lang’s is story embroidered upon, and given a moral, philosophical, and historical complexion by turns. Yet Mr. Lang’s language is quite simple, and the child could accept the narrative at its face value with perfect comprehension.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1220w.
* =Lang, Leonora Blanche (Mrs. Andrew Lang).= Book of princes and princesses; ed. by A. Lang. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–28404.
True stories “almost as interesting as fairy tales.” They are concerned “with people, little people indeed, yet people of real flesh and blood.... The subjects of the stories, taken from English and French history, deal with the early lives of young persons, some of whom died young, while others grew up to be famous personages.” (Cath. World.)
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“Mrs. Lang writes effectively, but has not altogether succeeded in attaining simplicity of style. The volume is an attractive collection of real stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 120w.
“Though the stories are strictly historical in the main, Mrs. Lang has embellished the cold data with lively conversations, and parenthetical comment to suit the story to juvenile taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“The young people who are bored by these stories, even though they are true, must be very hard to please.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 880w.
* =Lanier, Sidney.= Poem outlines. **$1. Scribner.
8–27138.
“This slender volume is a poet’s note-book. It records ideas, impressions, figures, pictures, which the poet proposes to use at some future time in a more complete way. It is a collection of fragments, of quick studies, such as a painter makes out of doors when the light is rapidly changing, and which he works up at leisure in his studio.”—Outlook.
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“A little book of poetic outlines that lets [the world] into some of the vagrant moods of one of the most sensitive and sweet-spirited singers of our Southland.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 605. O. 24, ’08. 730w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Larard, C. E., and Golding, H. A.= Practical calculations for engineers; for the use of engineering students, apprentices, draughtsmen, mechanics, foremen, and others practically engaged in engineering work. *$2. Lippincott.
W8–140.
“The general character of this work places it somewhere between the engineering pocket-book and the college text-book. The methods, formulæ, and appliances which a student encounters during a good college course in mechanical engineering are here, not demonstrated, but collected and described, systematically, and applied to such practical examples as are likely to occur in an engineering workshop.”—Nature.
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“It can do best service to men who lack an education in engineering theory, but even many of these, technical college graduates, may find it a guide to improvement.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The authors give some most striking examples of the great value of squared-paper work in the systematic plotting of variable quantities in all branches of a manufacturing establishment, and the lessons to be learnt therefrom. This section is extremely suggestive, and will well repay the careful study of all practical engineers.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 555. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Lathrop, Elise L.= Sunny days in Italy. **$2.50. Pott.
7–29872.
“An unpretentious volume of agreeable, familiar gossip about a dozen or more of the chief points of interest to which the average tourist sooner or later finds his way. It is a sort of pot-pourri of miscellaneous impressions and information, vivid little pen pictures of a building, a landscape, a crowd at a railway station; useful advice, gleaned from experience, regarding the hiring of apartments, bargaining with cab drivers, traveling in third-class carriages; an accumulated store of observations regarding Italian traits and social customs.”—Bookm.
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“Differs from other books on Italy in describing the little things about the life and customs which other writers have not mentioned, and yet are the things a traveler likes to know about.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Miss Lathrop has not any real gift of expression; her observation does not seem to have been more than superficial; and apparently her knowledge of Italy is merely that of a tourist.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Àp. 11. 300w.
“Flung together with a well-intentional sincerity, a pleasant and quite feminine enthusiasm which makes agreeable reading.” F: P. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately, at least two-thirds of the book is a perfunctory performance without ‘raison d’être.’ The worst defect of the book, however, is found in the errors in style, with which its pages bristle. Nor is the book free from errors in statement. Yet, in spite of these defects, the book may be recommended for its practical, sympathetic, and in many respects novel account of the Italian customs of to-day.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’97. 430w.
“This is a pleasant book, giving intelligent descriptions of rural Italy as well as of the Italian cities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 494. Ja. ’08. 450w.
=Lauck, William Jett.= Causes of the panic of 1893. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22103.
“Reviews the industrial and financial history of the decade preceding 1893, and then describes the panic itself. In the account which Mr. Lauck gives of the conditions in Germany, France, and Great Britain his work supplements usefully A. D. Noyes’s ‘Thirty years of American finance’; but in his discussion of events in the United States he adds substantially nothing to Mr. Noyes’s narrative.”—Nation.
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=Nation.= 86: 90. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“It may seem left-handed praise to hint that it is more interesting and useful as prophecy than history, when it purports to be purely and merely history. Yet we doubt that any such treatise could serve a more useful purpose than to light the way to avoidance of past errors and sufferings by the lessons of experience.” E: A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 565. S. 21, ’07. 510w.
* =Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
A work which examines the problem of the future supply of gold from a scientific standpoint and correlates the influence of this supply with prices and the movement of capital from the financial standpoint. The four divisions of the treatment are: The geology of gold; The geographical distribution of gold in the past and present; The extraction and dressing of gold; and The economy of gold.
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=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Launspach ... devotes about a quarter of his book to the history of the constitutional struggle; his account is not, as the accounts given by lawyers frequently are, a mere string of facts and dates; he has tried to make the story intelligible.... The legal chapters on marriage, patria potestas, and succession, which follow the constitutional sketch, aim at doing no more than summarizing the legal aspect of the family.”—Sat. R.
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“Is one of those books, far too common in England and America, which possess no particular value for scholars, yet do not serve the general reader. The author’s mind is legal and schematic, rather than historical, and he does not seem to realize that many of the foundations upon which he builds ... have been seriously shaken by anthropology and by historical criticism. The most substantial chapters are those on family law.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 350w.
“There appears to be a singular lack of proportion in the space devoted to the various controversial topics, and also great arbitrariness in the distinction between those points which are discussed and those others which are dealt with dogmatically.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 205. Ag. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“There is much of value in Mr. Launspach’s volume. We do not always agree with him. He makes too little, we think, of legend and tradition.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 140w.
=Laur, Francis.= Heart of Gambetta; authorized translation by Violette M. Montagu; with an introd. by J. Macdonald. *$2.50. Lane.
8–13688.
“The heart of this book is the love-letters of Gambetta written to Madame Léonie Léon. Around them are grouped a certain amount of history, a larger amount of inference or conjecture, and a still larger amount of tearful sentiment by M. Laur.” (Nation.) “The new historical fact in the letters here translated is the revelation of the truth that Gambetta deliberately pretended to favour a schism such as would detach the Gallican church from Rome, in order to bring the pope to accept his proposals for the separation of church and state.” (Ath.)
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“The translation is hardly good enough for the letters, which when they first appeared in Paris were praised, above all things, for their style.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 1130w.
“M. Laur’s method is throughout too gushing to pass for that of sober history. He reminds one of a lachrymose Victor Hugo: ‘I wept. All France wept.’ The style is staccato drowned in emotion. But disregarding most of M. Laur’s sentimental embroidering, these letters of Gambetta must be taken as a real contribution to our knowledge of the man.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 520w.
“The book is too good, too thoroughly an analysis of two human hearts, too personal, too intimate not to arouse suspicion that the author has frequently used his imagination in order to seek out dramatic causes for known suggestive results.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 129. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“The letters in this volume ... constitute an important, but in parts slightly hysteric, contribution to the history of an extremely interesting period in the political development of France. It must be confessed that, from the English point of view, and as a transcript of human emotion presumably at its highest, they are rather disappointing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 369. S. 12, ’08. 1450w.
* =Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson bay company; new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v. *$5. Outing.
Tireless examination of records and documents, many of which are unclassified and inaccessible, lies back of Miss Laut’s 800 page story of the Hudson bay company. Beginning with the voyages of Henry Hudson, the author omits none of the exploration that precedes the organizing of the Hudson bay company, and then exploits the company “as adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert’s land to California—feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy,” pausing for historical details where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer and pioneer.
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“Unfortunately there is no index. Both author and publisher are to be congratulated on a most important and careful work, which is yet alive with human sympathy and full of vivid character drawing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 700. N. 28, ’08. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Lawson, W. R.= American finance; part first—Domestic. $2. Macmillan.
7–28928.
Mr. Lawson—not the author of “Frenzied finance”—is an Englishman who has written a number of books of this nature including “British economics.” This is a history and discussion of American financial methods in four parts: Evolution, Organization, Creative powers, and Destructive powers.
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“The book seems to want a definite purpose. The writer betrays a lack of economic training and judgment, and at the end one is in doubt as to what Mr. Lawson really thinks about our monetary system and financial methods. Its value as descriptive material is vitiated by bad arrangement and incoherence.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 370w.
“In general the discussion of these questions as of our financial experience as a whole is suggestive and stimulating. It is, however, rather picturesque than analytic.” James Cummings.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 438. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“A very readable account.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 192. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“Though we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters economic, we gladly recognise that ... he has selected an excellent subject in which he seems to be much more at home.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 110w.
“The book is frankly popular and does not pretend to be a contribution to our knowledge on the subject. The author’s style is breezy and his treatment somewhat superficial, but the book is well written and decidedly interesting. The author possesses a clear and sympathetic, if not very profound, understanding of American financial institutions, and his attitude is remarkably broad-minded and fair.”
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 444. F. ’08. 250w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= François-Auguste Rodin. *$1. Kennerley.
8–35518.
A sketch of the celebrated French sculptor, written from first hand materials-from conversations with Rodin, from consultation with his friends and from his correspondence. It is neither a copy nor an abridgement of the larger “Life” but a fresh treatment thruout. The forces which have operated in Rodin’s career, his peculiar genius, and illustrations of his success are discussed with understanding.
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“A good book for the library that cannot afford the larger life by the same author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Lawton is keenly interested in the artist of whom he writes, but is so close to his subject that it somewhat overawes him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 200w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
“This little book is written with sympathy and insight, and will be appreciated by those who have not time to read the author’s longer book treating of the greatest figure in European art of the present age.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of Punch; his life, letters and diaries. *$3.50. Holt.
8–6092.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“His life, though in no sense dramatic, was an interesting one; for years he rubbed elbows intimately with all that was best and most brilliant in the upper circles of London’s Bohemia.” Beverley Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 517. Ja. ’08. 970w.
“London of the sixties and early seventies and ‘Punch’s’ inner editorial circle, besides many more intimate matters, live again in its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“His letters are of the kind that must have filled the recipient with joy, but that somehow in cold print, half a century later, sound forced and schoolboyish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Layard, bound apparently to make a portly volume, has not digested, selected, and rejected from among his material as carefully as one might wish.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Layard is sometimes more expansive in this volume than the occasion demands. But on the whole ‘Shirley Brooks of Punch’ is highly entertaining, and a book for which we should be grateful.” H. S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 752. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“We do not wish that it had been shorter or substantially other than it is.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1056. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Suppressed plates: wood engravings, etc.; together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector. *$4. Macmillan.
8–18752.
In bringing out old books in new dress, plates have been discarded for moral reasons, for lack of artistic merit, and for failure to illustrate the text adequately. The author discusses these suppressed plates, includes many of them in his illustrations, tho none whose moral tone is questioned, and deals at length with palimpsest plates—plates which have had objectionable portions burnished out and which have been adapted to their new use by re-engraving the erased sections.
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“Mr. Layard writes with such extensive knowledge that it is not easy to find holes in his armour. The facts are brought together with so much skill that this volume will rank, both with those who sell and those who buy books, as an acceptable work of reference, entertaining as well as instructive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 750w.
“He treats in a most entertaining manner of a subject which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest to every ardent book-hunter, print-collector, and artist.” G: W. Cole.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 161. Ap. ’08. 1750w.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
=Forum.= 39: 529. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“People who care for the bypaths and curiosities of the pictorial side of literature will be much interested in Mr. Layard’s new book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Lea, Frederick Charles.= Hydraulics. *$5. Longmans.
8–10845.
“In this work the author has endeavored to embody the results of the large amount of experimental hydraulic work which has been accomplished during the past decade—especially on the subject of the flow of water—and to indicate the methods used in obtaining these results.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 300w.
“The author writes as one having authority and altogether the book appears to the reviewer as the most satisfactory treatment of its subject for the English speaking student that has yet appeared.” G. S. Williams.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“Altogether the work forms an excellent textbook, and is cordially to be recommended to students of this most interesting and useful science.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 530. Ap. 9, ’08. 700w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies, Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada. **$2.50, Macmillan.
8–1774.
A volume which supplements the author’s series of histories on the inquisition. It throws light on the workings of the inquisitorial system as operated by the colonial tribunals in the new world, and the retarding effects upon the development of the Spanish-American colonies.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 689. Ap. ’08. 30w.
Reviewed by G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 847. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“The volume is marked by the characteristic excellences of its predecessors: a style which is useful, without possessing much literary charm, an inexhaustible knowledge of his subject, and an organization of his materials so exact, and so natural that the reader easily follows the narrative.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 311. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Throughout the work, a closer chronological arrangement at times might have conduced to greater clearness.” J. A. Robertson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 455. S. ’08. 550w.
“Ranks easily with his strongest and best.” L. M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He has always the great advantage of looking at the subject as a whole, and viewing it against the background of the parent institution.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The ground to be gone over is so large and the records are so scanty that the treatment is necessarily less detailed and vivid than in the other volumes.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“To those who are interested in the theme it seems unfortunate that Dr. Lea should have omitted the history of the Spanish inquisition in the Netherlands, Chile and the La Plata provinces. An inclusion of these areas would have rounded out the view most admirably.” W: R. Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 328. Je. ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 563. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Lea, Homer.= Vermilion pencil: a romance of China. †$1.50. McClure.
8–9531.
A young Breton priest, detailed to instruct the wife of a wealthy mandarin, falls in love with her and they elope. They are caught, the husband subjects his wife to the terrible torture of the lyngchee, while the lover identifies himself with the “Deluge family,” a secret revolutionary society, whose symbol draws to him crowds who aid in rescuing the condemned woman. “The book is more than a novel—it is a human document.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A lurid and grotesque impression of China.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The most remarkable piece of fiction the year thus far has brought. The story itself is not overpowering in its ingenuity, but in its opening of glimpses into a world all but unknown to the west, it is of very great interest, and in its undeniable penetration of character and power of description it merits the wide attention which beyond doubt it will receive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“A story full of exciting scenes and revelations about China and the Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Lea’s story is rather too tragic and too horrible in its descriptions of Chinese tortures to be agreeable but it is a sincere picture of a beautiful character in the person of its heroine, and of her influence over a great Chinese official through her loveliness and brilliant mind in abolishing evil and injustice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“This appears to us the most valuable novel on the subject of China as yet penned in the English language, none existing, besides, that so well combines instruction with entertainment.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Lear, Edward.= Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave; ed. by Lady Strachey of Sutton court. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–28968.
Edward Lear, the pioneer limerick maker, caricaturist, and landscape painter, is self revealed in these letters in which “mingle tenderness, a whimsical humor, and the power to see the visible world as pictorial material.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Lady Strachey is to be congratulated on the publication of letters which reveal a pleasant personality. We have no doubt that Lady Strachey’s venture will come to a second edition, and offer some corrections in view of that event.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 760. D. 14. 830w.
“A volume of characteristic and amusing letters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have read these letters with continuous delight. They fully satisfy such expectations as may have been aroused by Lear’s long-famous ‘Book of nonsense’; in other words, they justify Lear’s reputation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 1250w.
“These are delightful letters and fully satisfy any expectations about them which might have been aroused by Lear’s long famous ‘Book of nonsense.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 90w.
“They reflect the temper and interests of his prime, and are so personal in their tone that we gain from them a vivid picture of the quaint personality that so continually suggests Thackeray’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 493. S. 12, ’08. 2050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The book is exactly of the kind which one can pick up from a shelf in an odd minute of spare time and dip into here and there with enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 230. S. 26, ’08. 240w.
* =Leaves= from a life. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
8–31145.
Supposedly from the pen of a daughter of William P. Frith, the English painter, these sketches contain anecdotes of Browning, Tennyson, Du Maurier, Leighton, Dickens, Trollope, and many other celebrities in arts and letters.
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“It is a good-natured, simple-minded, humorous presentation of a great slice of mid-Victorian England, a canvas full of figures rendered with practically no technique at all. The slipshod condition of the author’s style is almost incredible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Laughter-loving pages. They are the record of a woman who has seen much of life, who loved it in its full course and loves it now in retrospect. Her book will amuse people from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 1100w.
=Leavitt, Sheldon.= Paths to the heights. **$1. Crowell.
8–15159.
The record of the work of a physician who abandoned drugs and entered the field of mental healing. His experience lies between orthodox theology and Christian science and is full of practical suggestion.
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“We read the book and find it rational and instructive in many respects.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 387. O. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Le Blond, Elizabeth A. F. (Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond) (Mrs. Main).= Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun. *$3.50. Lippincott.
A narration of the author’s experiences in climbing thirty-three mountains. “It was delightful,” she writes, “to think that we could start when we liked, return when we liked, and have the cheering rays of the sun always visible. In the north, too, we found all the picturesqueness of Lapp and reindeer, all the repose of a land where no tourists are seen, all the magnificence of ice-clad mountains and spires of rocks mingled with the softer beauty of lake and fjord.”
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“There is much detail which can interest only the keen mountain climber. The interest for other readers lies in the fact that the book shows, as no other within our knowledge does, how delightfully a summer can be passed in camp or in one of the little settlements in this region. To the vivid word pictures are added 71 reproductions of photographs, which show not only the wondrous scenery, but also many of the stirring incidents of the ascents.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 260w.
“There are some very interesting passages in ‘Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun,’ for the author, besides being a good climber, is a charming writer, who relates her experiences wonderfully well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 220w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Inspired millionaires: a forecast. $1.25. Mount Tom press.
8–17551.
Mr. Lee looks forward to the time when some millionaire will conduct a factory that “will rank with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad, and the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah.” He believes that the question of human labor is one that belongs to the arts and humanities, and not merely to the sciences; that the factory, if enough soul is poured in, should be as spiritual as a church and as educational as a school. “His fresh way of putting some old facts and truths is not unlike the wholesome freshet that leaves behind it a fertilizing deposit.” (Outlook.)
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“These essays are as light as gossamer in substance, and their intellectual quality will not appeal to the common mind at all. The spirit of the book is wholesome, the manner is pleasing, it is surely harmless, and it may have more than an aesthetic influence.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
“The author puts much that has been said on social problems into a breezy and original form which holds attention through all the amplification and reiterations of his central idea.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is not a safe book for beginners.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“The ingenuity she displays in demonstrating her thesis is equaled only by her success in draining the plays of red blood and humanly vital signification.” Archibald Henderson.
− =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 360w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 209. S. ’08. 40w.
“Will be of value to many readers, especially elementary Ibsenites, not because it tells what the symbols are and mean, but because it tells how to track them.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 922. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, Mrs. Lee’s little treatise strikes one more as a series of somewhat iterative talks, loosely strung together and considerably too dilute for grown folks. Her ideals are sound and helpful for earnest young people desirous of writing papers on Ibsen.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 670w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Limbo and other essays; with a new drama, Ariadne in Mantua. *$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of Limbo and other essays which also includes the new drama Ariadne in Mantua. “This is a little play in which the forces of Tradition, Discipline, and Civilization ‘triumph over the mere forces of =Nature.=’ It is a closet drama, and the action is improbable; nevertheless it rises to a moving, even pathetic climax.” (Nation.)
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“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ seems to us an exceptionally charming closet drama.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 82. Ag. 16, ’08. 860w.
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 70w.
“It is not always apparent what Miss Paget is talking about, and she is frequently guilty of rhetorical indiscretions which mar an otherwise pleasant style, but her essays contain much agreeable suggestion of an aesthetic nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ is treated, we need hardly say, with ‘Vernon Lee’s’ own peculiar distinction, and both in refined thought and beautiful prose the drama is worthy of her.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 869. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Sentimental traveller: notes on places. *$1.50. Lane.
8–3114.
Vernon Lee takes her readers into Italy, Germany, Switzerland and France and thru her impressionistic word-painting helps them to catch and retain “portraits set in frames of their own familiar scenery.” “Many interesting and important personages are mentioned or met with, and anecdotes are told of most of them. Churches and castles and peasant abodes are entered and admired, and works of art receive words of commendation or disapproval.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The descriptions are still admirably done; but there is a surfeit of them. The reflections are still those of a highly cultivated mind, but nothing new or moving.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
“It is all the work of a woman of wide and easy culture, possessing a pleasing fancy and no imagination. The book is obvious, but kindly, for all its condescension, a condescension none the less marked that it is probably unconscious.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“The charm of her writing lies in its lightness of touch, a quality particularly evident in her slight but sure comment upon now this, now that place, as a butterfly might go from flower to flower.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“‘Vernon Lee’ has written many delightful things, but nothing perhaps more keenly suggestive and charmingly convincing than the first chapter of her new book. Full of human as well as artistic interest. No one will question their originality and charm.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 550w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Studies of the eighteenth century in Italy; new ed. *$6. McClurg.
A new edition for whose unchanged text the author offers some apologies, yet refuses “to lay indifferent hands, and even skeptical eyes upon it.” It was written out of the fulness of youthful fancies, and is permitted to remain the log-book of the author’s exploration, the inventory of her enchanted garret. A new thirty-five page preface “expounds and glorifies” the phase of her study dealing with music. See Cumulative book index for contents.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 250w.
“The illustrations are excellent and contribute their share to the vividness that is perhaps the salient characteristic of the work.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 401. D. 1, ’08. 2500w.
“Correctness, orthodoxy, can be had for the asking at any academic counter; Miss Paget deals in something better.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 600w.
=Lees, Dorothy Nevile.= Tuscan feasts and Tuscan friends. *$1.75. Dodd.
8–18700.
The author’s experiences while living as governess in Florentine families who spent their summers among the hills of Tuscany have furnished the material for this description of life in and about a villa. “She draws a delightful picture of certain Tuscan children.... Among the particularly good chapters are those giving an account of a Tuscan fair, of the funeral of a contadina’s baby, of the exquisite Tuscan irises and the preparation of the orris-root perfume.” (Nation.)
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“Two defects in the book are excessive sentimentality and the literal translation of Italian remarks.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“Without any appreciable gift for writing, the author is yet able to bring before us the well-known scenes she describes just because she has felt their beauty and loved them.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 200w.
“The book has two irritating blemishes. Miss Lees is so stirred by Italy’s fatal gift of beauty that she pauses continually to soliloquize in platitudes with exuberant sentimentality. The other defect is her habit of translating the remarks of her Italian acquaintances literally from the Italian idiom and in the Italian order, and by this libellous method making the most graceful appear the most imbecile of tongues.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is richness of legend, story, and customs in [this book].”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The style becomes rather commonplace and monotonous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“An agreeable book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 100w.
“These bright vivacious sketches of hers call for no review, only for commendation. They are instinct with the true everyday life of Tuscany. The writer has a quick ear, a quick eye, the faculty of appreciation, the gift of enthusiasm and a very agreeable humour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Little dinners with the Sphinx, and other prose fancies. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–36411.
Mr. Le Gallienne resumes his conversation with the lady of the opals, bridging a separation of four years since the last “little dinners.” In addition to the title story there are other prose fancies as follows: The death of the poet; The butterfly of dreams; My castle in Spain; Once-upon-a-time; The little joys of Margaret; What’s in a name; Revisiting the glimpses of the moon; Eva, the woodland and I; and The dream documents.
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“Mr. Le Gallienne’s hand has not lost its dexterity as long as he can fashion tales like these, and if his gift of philandering has a little failed it may be replaced by a more masculine and robust genius, and both he and his readers may be the richer.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
“These stories, in fact, with their exquisite images and lovely language, are like those creations of Norse mythology that appeared beautiful women when they faced you, but should they turn their backs, proved to be no other than empty shells. To be sure, if one kept the right point of view they were fair to look upon—and that is something to be thankful for.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 259. D. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Omar repentant. *75c. Kennerley.
A temperance sermon embodied in a poem. It serves as a warning to youth losing itself on “the vine-trellised path to hell.” It is an antidote to the Rubaiyat in setting forth the subtle harmfulness of the vine instead of its glory.
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“No matter the duration of the author’s mood, it is good sense and not bad poetry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book in a different vein from the author’s other volumes, perhaps, yet it possesses the distinct flavor of his art, and could not have come from another’s hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3. Neale.
7–25045.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Haiti, at last, has a champion who is entitled to be heard; for he speaks from fullness of knowledge, and from a position of political eminence sends forth no uncertain sound.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 450w.
“This book deserves to be widely read.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Pilgrim jester; a poem. **$1.25. Lane.
A poem whose subject is “contemporary society, the fermenting must of modern circumstance.” “‘The pilgrim jester,’ a symbolic blend of Socrates and ‘The beloved vagabond,’ walks through modernity wisely smiling, contemplating all forms of creeds. To the sandspinning multitude, the blind mouths of Law, Church and State, to the philosopher, the demimondaine, the poet, the frustrate woman, the laborer, he holds up in turn amid appropriate surroundings the mirror of a gently sympathetic scepticism.... He shadows forth a philosophy not unlike the clearer teachings of Stevenson, of Browning, of Whitman: that living is worth life, and only fear is evil.” (Forum.)
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“Though his indictment of established modes of thought is not free from little touches of self complacency ... and his philosophy, in one of its aspects at least, recalls the unassailable optimism of Dr. Pangloss, the book shows much observation and humour, and its technique is admirable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 796. D. 21. 120w.
“For all its casual beauties his book remains a breathless body, his idea a disincarnate ghost; great in conception, perhaps—but unexpressed for want of artistry in the expression.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 525. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The characters, including the jester, would have lived more intensely had the author been less hobby-haunted than he is. But there is vivacity in it all which proves the thought sincere, and gives it a value in spite of its being unoriginal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 650w.
“Mr. Arthur Legge is that rare thing among modern writers, a satirist who is also a poet. His ‘Pilgrim jester’ has passages which are not unworthy of the author of ‘Don Juan.’ Great skill in versification, a keen sense of the ironies of life, and something of prophetic wrath are joined with a delicacy of imagination and a capacity for sustained melodious flights which make his little book worthy of note by all lovers of good literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: sup. 119. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Leith, W. Compton.= Apologia diffidentis. *$2.50. Lane.
8–16412.
A pathological study of the disease of shyness written in an autobiographical strain that carries conviction.
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“The matter of the book, unfortunately, is not sufficient to carry all its superstructure. There are passages of pathos, and here and there a touch of insight; but on the whole the writer has scarcely enough to say to justify the decorated way in which he says it.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 282. Mr. 7. 1550w.
“Distinguished on every page for beauty of style. The shy fraternity will need no word of ours to lead them to this book. But we hope that what has been said here will turn the lover of literature to the volume also, knowing as we do that it holds for him a pleasure not often vouchsafed in these days of universal scribbling.” J: J. Holden.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 101. F. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The style is so carefully elaborated, at times so precious, that it suggests insincerity. Perhaps the book, if taken in small doses, would seem a thing of firmer texture.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“This is a study in style as well as a study of shyness. It is a very flower of culture. One hardly finds anywhere in English prose a happier faculty of sympathetic description of nature, that nature which the solitary finds his refuge from man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“The book has high literary merit; the style is full of melody and colour, and the rich dreamy sentences rise into the air like wreaths of fragrant incense-smoke.” A. C. Benson.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 368. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Leland, John.= Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535–1543. ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 2v. ea. $4. Macmillan.
7–25493.
=v. 1.= Contains pts. 1 and 2. It “comprises the antiquary’s journeys through twenty-three counties. Some of these are touched upon but slightly. The western counties, however, of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall are dealt with at considerable length.” (Ath.)
=v. 2.= Contains pts. 3 and 4, and an appendix consisting of the detached part of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’ found in Cheltenham. “Notes, chiefly concerned with men and lands, culled from rolls and pedigrees or set down by Leland from hearsay, go to make up part 4; Part 5 is narrative ‘Itinerary,’ but, the original being lost, Miss Toulmin Smith has been obliged to rely here on Stow checked by Burton.” (Sat. R.)
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“Forms an indispensable book of reference to those interested in the history and antiquities of the west of England. Deserves a place in every well-furnished library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the editorial part of the work we have nothing but praise. The notes are few, but to the point.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 540. My. 2. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The text of these two excellently printed volumes seems to be above reproach, and all students of English history will be grateful to Miss Toulmin Smith for the immense care she has devoted to the preparation of it. It would be a great pity if Miss Toulmin Smith’s excellent work were to suffer from the want of an adequate index.” A. G. Little.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 569. Jl. ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“We congratulate Miss Toulmin Smith upon the manner in which she has edited this valuable work, which is admirably printed, with a satisfactory index.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 246. Ag. 9, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His ‘Itinerary’ will always stand as a work indispensable to the student of English topography and life of the sixteenth century. Its value is chiefly for the scholar and the local antiquarian.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 980w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 175. Ag. 10, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing is well done, and though a proper name has here and there been allowed to escape, the index is satisfactory.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 638. My. 16, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =Leland, Walter S.= Boiler accessories: a complete and authoritative treatise on the various accessories of the boiler room and engine room essential to economical operation, together with practical instruction in their use. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30357.
A handbook prepared for self-instruction and home study. Its three divisions are: Special constructions and mechanical aids, Control and supply devices, and Boiler troubles and tests. “The subjects embrace settings for boilers, types of furnace construction, forced and induced draft, steam and water gauges, safety valves, feed and blow-off apparatus and piping, including fittings and insulation.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“One usually expects something more pretentious, however, when the words ‘complete and authoritative treatise’ are employed.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 180w.
“The book seems to well serve its purpose of a not-too-technical manual of boiler appurtenances.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 190w.
=Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Jeanne Mairet, Madame Charles Bigot. **$2.50. McClure.
7–39534.
M. Lemaître holds the view of the majority of critics “that Rousseau, in the last analysis, was a madman, rendered insane by the cumulative effect of prolonged disease and real and imaginary persecution; that his ‘pathology’ was the foremost factor in determining his career and ideas; and that it is impossible to acquit him of gross and unpardonable inconsistencies between his theories and his manner of life.” (Outlook.)
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“Has faithfully presented all facts which are necessary for a complete picture of the man’s character and mind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
“They are written in a free-and-easy style, and are rather familiar talks than formal addresses.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 240w.
“Interesting and very readable volume. Not a little of the decided charm of the book lies in the fact that the author reveals himself quite as much as he does his subject. The fatal defect of his argument is his neglect of—or shall we say unfamiliarity with?—the progress of thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” G: H. Casamajor.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 57. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“A rather awkward translation. In the light of the Macdonald documents, M. Lemaitre would seem to be an unduly harsh commentator; and, granting their invalidity, he still is certainly most unsympathetic. It is unquestionably most readable and most stimulating. It possesses many passages of high analytical value.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 320w.
“Well worth reproduction in English. On the whole they have been adequately translated.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
“Treats the generally odious details of his countryman’s life with more philosophical indulgence, dwelling more insistently on that strain of madness which is the kindest explanation of some of Rousseau’s extraordinary actions.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Lenk, Dr. Heinrich von.= Marie Antoinette’s youth; tr. from the German of Dr. Heinrich von Lenk by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23568.
A story from childhood to the perilous days of the Reign of terror gives a clear insight into the unfortunate queen’s character and the circumstances which led up to her death.
=Lenôtre, Gosselin.= Daughter of Louis XVI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France, duchess d’Angoulême. *$4. Lane.
8–33929.
The story of the daughter of Louis XVI, her tragic separation from her father, mother, brother, and aunt who were sent to the guillotine, her release and her exchange on the Swiss frontier for Austrian prisoners, and her residence in Austria and marriage to the Duc d’Angoulême.
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“M. Lenôtre’s latest revolutionary study, though not perhaps so interesting as some of those that precede it, is marked by the same excellent qualities of exhaustive research, calm judgment, and lucid narrative. Mr. May’s translation has merit; but ‘sapiential work’ (p. 313) is scarcely happy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 1150w.
“Enough new material has been included to make the work interesting, even to those who are already tolerably familiar with the general facts of Marie Thérèse’s career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 980w.
“Those who are fascinated—may we not say as Shakespeare was?—with the tragedies of royal houses are under obligation to M. Lenôtre, the writer, and Mr. J. Lewis May, his translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 545. O. 10, ’08. 450w.
=Lenz, Max.= Napoleon: a biographical study; tr. from the German by Frederic Whyte, il. *$4. Putnam.
8–3126.
A biography which aims to interpret phases of Napoleon’s character rather than to present an exhaustive history of the man or his times. Emphasis is placed upon the development of his mind, his literary attempts, his dreams and early ideals, his philosophy that man exists for the state, and the character of Napoleon as he reveals himself in documentary material.
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“Details are not the matters in which Professor Lenz was interested. His eye is ever on the Titanic struggles of Napoleon’s genius amid the maelstrom of historic forces. The translation is of uncertain merit.” G. S. F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 868. Jl. ’08. 950w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08. ✠
“The fact is that Dr. Lenz has narrated in too great detail the early part of his story.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 40. Jl. 11. 580w.
“Although it is not free from errors that one does not look for in the writings of a distinguished Berlin professor, it delights the reader from time to time by its felicitous summaries of complex situations. The attitude of sympathetic observer, which Dr. Lenz assumes, often results also in well-balanced interpretations of Napoleon’s motives and plans, impossible to those who are always hunting for evidences of Satanic intrigue.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One must on the whole conclude that, although the book is not entirely without interest on the side of the character of Napoleon the non-combatant, it was hardly worth the honor of translation.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A comprehensive study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The translation is rather indifferently executed by Mr. Frederick Whyte. There are many ‘lives’ of Napoleon far more informing than this latest one—Rose’s, Fournier’s, Sloane’s, to mention a few of the best. Moreover, the value of Dr. Lenz’s work for the student is much diminished by the absence of bibliography or references.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 500w.
“We do not recall any biographer of Napoleon who has recognized more clearly the psychological change wrought in his character by the process of events than has Max Lenz in this biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 530w.
“From the trail of the serpent of Anglophobia this volume is certainly not free.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 642. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Le Queux, William.= Lady in the car. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of magazine stories. “This volume recounts a series of episodes in the career of a person known as ‘the Prince’—a species of Raffles on an international scale. Both in England and abroad he masquerades as the Kaiser’s cousin with striking impunity, and, fortified by a bewildering array of magnificent motor-cars, effects divers sensational swindles and robberies, contriving incidentally to deceive many confiding females in an apparently heartless manner, despite the author’s tribute to him as one who ‘has never, to my knowledge, played an honest woman a scurvy trick.’” (Ath.)
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“The first chapter shows some sense of comedy, but those which follow are on conventional lines, and can hardly be considered up to the standard of average sensational fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 160w.
“Most of the stories are tiresome, and none of them are convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Le Queux, William.= Pauper of Park lane; a mystery of east and west. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8090.
A tale of mystery which centers about a Jewish financier’s methods of trapping a murderer—a secret agent in the employ of the Servian government.
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“The threads of the narrative are many; and as some seem taken up only to be dropped, we are soon reduced to a fitting state of bewilderment.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 283. Mr. 7. 130w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Mystery of the yellow room: extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–19097.
“Here is a room with all its windows barred on the inside, no chimney, no openings of any kind but one door, which is locked on the inside by a young woman, whose father is in the next room and close to the outside of the door, a servant with him. Suddenly from inside the yellow room come shrieks and shots. When the door is broken down the daughter is found wounded on the floor, the furniture thrown about, and absolutely no one else is there. The girl could not and did not make all the wounds on her. Query, who did it?”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“‘The mystery of the yellow room’ has all but one thing. It fails to carry entire conviction.” Beverly Stark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 603. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“The interest lasts to the end of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“For sheer originality and ingenuity we reckon this the best detective story published for some time.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“The publishers advertise it as suited to reading on a railway journey. It is a correct appreciation, and places the book accurately as a literary effort.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is elaborately worked out, and few can guess the answer before the author chooses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 150w.
=Lescarbot, Marc.= History of New France; with an English translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant, and an introd. by H. P. Biggar. 3v. v. 1. Champlain society, Toronto.
A reprint of Lascarbot’s “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published in 1609. “An introduction, by Mr. Biggar, gives briefly and clearly the little that is known of Lescarbot’s life, of his personal connection with New France and of the motif of his book. Then the translator of the book, Mr. Grant, describes the method and the aim of the translation, the various accessory materials and some further details of consequence.... There follows the translation of the first two books, made from the edition of 1618, immediately after which is an exact reprint, in smaller type, of the corresponding French original.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“It seems ungracious to note flaws in a work so good, and indeed they are few. We miss a bibliographical account of Lescarbot’s book, though we naturally expect it, and the notes, especially upon Lescarbot’s sources, are at times unsatisfyingly brief. And the system of connecting the pagination of translation and French is not the most convenient.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 602. Ap. ’08. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It must not be forgotten, however, that Lescarbot’s history possesses an importance of its own as literature, and that in this respect it has no rival in the early books of New France. Mr. Grant’s translation as a whole is admirable, and worthy of a place beside Otis’s ‘Champlain’ and Shea’s ‘Charlevoix.’ The text, however, offers opportunities for many more useful notes than Mr. Grant has seen fit to give, and Mr. Biggar’s introduction might have been considerably enlarged.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lesdain, Count de.= From Pekin to Sikkim, through the Ordos, the Gobi desert, and Tibet; with a preface by John Murray; with maps and illustrations. *$4. Dutton.
W8–118.
A remarkable wedding journey made by Count de Lesdain and his nineteen year old bride, from Pekin across Northern China, the Ordos and the Gobi desert, then south over the highlands of Tibet into India. It was undertaken to gratify a wish to cross country hitherto unknown, and to increase the geographical knowledge of the day.
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“The interesting portion of his book seems to us to be that relating to the fairly well-known Chinese province of Kansuh.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1200w.
“The narrative lacks color and action, and even the real geographical contributions are not clearly set forth.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 180w.
“It gives a vivid picture of life and conditions in little known parts of the empire.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“The blessed sense of humor was not absent, and the book is brightened by many pages of reflected experience, which must have served to ease the days and weeks of hardship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 320w.
“Adds a new chapter to geographical information.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 958. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Letters= from a workingman, by an American mechanic. **$1. Revell.
8–28322.
“Familiar talks in the most unconventional and occasionally even slangy diction, directed to workingmen at large by a man who had actually been a mechanic and worked side by side with the men whom he was addressing.... Such titles as “Human nature in the shop,” “Spies in the shop,” “Exploiting the working class,” “Tenement-house neighbors,” “Settling the strike,” “Labor and the saloon,” and “The workingman and the church,” give a fair idea of the field covered by this book.”
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“The writer is a man of intelligence who takes pride in his work and has a sturdy independence of character. His point of view is always interesting and instructive, although his comments on men and things and conditions may not be always of much value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the views put forth in this book to appreciate its earnestness and its sympathy with the worker and the unemployed, and especially with the worker who belongs to the skilled class, and whose intelligence is lively and active, though not infrequently misdirected.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Lewes, Vivian Byam.= Liquid and gaseous fuels, and the part they play in modern power production. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13632.
“Treats the subject of liquid and gaseous fuels from a popular but comprehensive point of view, and it is not intended to take the place of the standard treatises on the several branches of the subject.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 280w.
“The author is a master of his subject, writes in a clear and often interesting style, and he has made a useful book which is worthy of a place in any engineer’s library.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 432. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“There is one point which Prof. Lewes appears to have overlooked. He considers that the alcohol will be either manufactured from potato starch or saw-dust.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 98. D. 5, ’07. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= An American patrician; or, The story of Aaron Burr. **$2. Appleton.
8–5600.
A biography of Aaron Burr which in the form of fiction includes also a group of contemporaries. “Adopting the view that Burr’s scheme of western conquest involved no traitorous designs, Mr. Lewis contrives to arouse a good deal of sympathy for his hero.” (Outlook.)
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“This is an ultra-lively galloping picture of the times. No modern newsboy could call the day’s news on the highways with more disregard of classic forms. That there is a vividness which puts the wars, factions, and policies of the day in gay colors before us is not to be gainsaid. The truth of the colors may well be questioned. As to the method of putting on colors there can be no question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“Apart altogether from the truth or falsity of his portrait of Burr, he draws a grossly distorted picture of the times and of the historic personages with whom Burr had to do. For this reason Mr. Lewis’s latest adventure in ‘fictional’ biography is far more deserving of censure than of praise.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 882. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= Wolfville folks. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16469.
The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman, who is the narrator of the “doings” of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts, “the genteelest sharp, an’ the best eddicated, that ever dwells in Arizona”; to Sam Enright, “the soul of fairness”; to Cherokee Hall, “predestined kyard-sharp”; and other frequenters of the Red Light. This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the landlady’s husband, her willingness to install a successor and the alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins.
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“Rollicking sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“We like these gentlemen of imaginative, figurative speech, and welcome ‘Wolfville folks.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Taking dialect and story together, the book more nearly than any other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering American humor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their purely imaginary dialect were true to life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Genesis of Hamlet. **$1.25. Holt.
7–39507.
A discussion which brings into composite view the theories of Coleridge and Werder in explaining the Hamlet of Belleforest, Kyd, and Shakespeare. The author in his summary says: “Coleridge finds that Hamlet’s delays are due to internal difficulties, for which he is to blame. Werder finds that they are due to external difficulties for which he is not to blame.... We will say with Coleridge that Hamlet’s difficulties are internal, and with Werder that he is not to blame for them; but we must add, in disagreement with both disputants that these difficulties are not the causes of the delay. The causes of the delay are those external difficulties which have vanished into the fourth dimension.”
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“An eminently sane and readable essay toward a rational appreciation of Shakespeare.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
“The method employed in this book is suggestive of the process of qualitative analysis in the chemical laboratory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 730w.
“The book has none of the dulness which so often characterizes the discussion of pedantic problems and is as interesting to the layman as to the Shakespearian scholar.” S. R. Cook.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=Lewis, George Randall.= Stannaries: a study of the English tin-miner; awarded the David A. Wells prize for the year 1906–07, and published from the income of the David A. Wells fund. (Harvard economic studies, v. 3.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–5604.
“The tin mines of Britain appear at the very dawn of our historic knowledge of the island as its special attractiveness to foreign traders; accompany its whole story as an influential and picturesque element; and are still today an essential part of the life of the southwestern counties, and a factor in the national policy. Moreover the tin mines and the tin miners have always stood in a peculiar and far from easily understood position; in a certain sense monopolized and exploited by the crown; in another sense privileged and favored beyond other interests and other classes of inhabitants. It is this interesting and obscure history that Mr. Lewis has elucidated in the present volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“In this book, historians have at their service, for the first time, a clear, adequate and interesting explanation of what has formerly been a poorly comprehended institution, and the narrative of a previously unwritten chapter of English history.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 841. Jl. ’08. 850w.
“Very scholarly study.” R. V. Phelan.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 400w.
“For some topics, Dr. Lewis has not given sufficient definitions, assuming a knowledge of the terminology on the part of the reader. But this is due to his own intimate knowledge of the whole subject, which is apparent throughout the work.” D. C. Munro.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 120. Je. ’08. 640w.
“A piece of sterling work. It is true that the book lacks distinction of other than a workmanlike order. His conception of his task is scholarly rather than scientific; and while he sets forth minute details upon certain matters of minor import, he does not make clear what manner of man the Cornish tinner has been and is to-day, and how he has developed into his present estate.” W. C. Mitchell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 387. Je. ’08. 800w.
“His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tinmining counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of England—in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for its inclusiveness.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 220w.
“A subject well worth attention, and he has treated it in a manner reflecting credit on himself and on the ‘Harvard economic studies.’” C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 240. Ag. ’08. 430w.
=Lewisohn, Ludwig.= Broken snare. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–28063.
“More than most works of fiction, this is a story of a man and a woman, to the exclusion of all other personalities; of their love and its consequences, to the exclusion of all other interests. The woman is an ardent creature, cramped by the conditions of a peculiarly mean and sordid existence; the man has the artist’s temperament, and what he imagines to be deep convictions concerning the futility of the marriage-bond. The two agree to join their lives without the usual legal proceedings, and set out for a honeymoon in the South.” (Dial.) Then come a break, separation, suffering, reconciliation, and reunion according to the demands of human society.
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“This is a strong and well-written study of one phase of the marriage problem.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 500w.
“It is not a book for the young person to read, but it is one from which the mature mind can get nothing but good, and one which offers a singular satisfaction to the artistic perceptions.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It is a novel of rather unusual quality in its serious intent, its clearness of vision, and its workmanship. The author might sometimes have developed his story, it is true, with more reticence and equal power, and so have run less risk of offense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Lidgett, John Scott.= Christian religion: its meaning and proof. *$2.50. Meth. bk.
7–37982.
“‘An attempt to explain and verify the Christian religion by means of the fatherly-filial relationship.’... The author divides his work into three books, of which the first deals with the history and task of the Christian evidences.... [His second book on Christianity as the absolute religion] outlines the content of the Christian religion; for, as he says, we must know what a religion is before we can vindicate its truth.... The third and last book is entitled The proof of the Christian religion. The primary argument advanced for the truth of Christianity is that it is indispensable to the full realization of the noblest human life, and that its consciousness of filial relationship to God gives abounding satisfaction and spiritual power.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The author takes a comprehensive view of his subject, and his main thesis is consistently, even though somewhat awkwardly, worked out.” B: L: Hobson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 499. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“The volume clearly evinces the author’s cultured and vigorous mind. But while it may seem that its arrangement of topics might be recast with advantage, our time requires a more radical betterment of it—a clear and consistent distinction between the constant and the variable elements with which it is concerned, the religion and its associated theology.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 340w.
=Liebich, Louise (Mrs. Franz Liebich).= Claude-Achille Debussy. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–8847.
A critical and biographical sketch of Debussy which emphasizes the originality of his genius. The contents are as follows: Hand and soul, in which his personality is described; Modus operandi; Choral, orchestral and instrumental works; Songs and piano pieces; Pelleas and Mélisande; As writer and critic. A chronological list of Debussy’s works and several portraits makes the undertaking but more complete.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 134. Ag. 1. 280w.
=Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 223. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“We have on many occasions expressed our objection on general grounds to the issue of biographies of living celebrities, musical or otherwise, while they are still in mid-career. Subject to this reservation, we can cordially commend Mrs. Liebich’s genial and enthusiastic sketch of the most advanced living representative of French music.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
=Lilley, Alfred Leslie.= Modernism: a record and a review. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–13710.
Mainly a collection of newspaper and magazine articles on the present problems of Roman Catholicism. “Although Mr. Lilley has confined himself in this volume to comment on the Modernist movement in the Roman Catholic church, and more specifically to the exponents of that movement in France, he has made it clear that modernism is a movement affecting the whole of Christendom.” (Nation.)
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“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lilley’s opinions—and we are far from sharing them all—he has done extraordinarily good service in calling attention to the present condition of thought and feeling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley understands and appreciates the ‘Modernists’ position far better than anyone else outside their communion.” H. C. Corrance.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley is thoroly acquainted with his subject, and writes agreeably and kindly.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 70w.
“It is remarkable for the lucidity of its exposition and for its complete freedom from intellectual and religious frivolousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 376. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Lilley gives us the results of a careful and sympathetic study. We do not agree with all that he says.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 581. Ap. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Dissolving circle. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–11084.
An impressionistic study of the life among a group of men and women in the “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The principal character is a struggling doctor who, tho not a member of the colony, is working painfully to divorce himself spiritually from a girl who had given up his love for that of an unregenerate man. The doctor’s mission becomes that of compelling the unworthy suitor to be true to the wronged girl.
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“Aside from a tendency to indulge in fantastic flights of fancy, the author on the whole keeps himself commendably in the background.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 270w.
“A want of unity in the plot and the heavy handling of a delicate theme are the most conspicuous faults.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 190w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Quest eternal. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22346.
The story of a boy’s and later a man’s reserve, struggle and self denial to see the playmate of his youth and finally the deity of his dreams become a famous singer.
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“A prologue, which, taken by itself, is one of the best things he ever wrote. Taken as a whole it preaches a sane and wholesome optimism. And this, in a measure, suggests the technical shortcoming of the book—namely, that its mood is not sufficiently sustained.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 370w.
“The story has originality, both in conception and development, and its pages carry something of that significance in which too much of American fiction is lacking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 578. O. 17, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The situation may be strained at times, but the author never fails to absorb the reader’s attention and command his respect for the characters he draws.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Many mansions: being studies in ancient religions and modern thought. *$3. Benziger.
8–21815.
“As a general introduction we find the sacred books of the East briefly tabulated under Max Müller’s guidance, but with special reference for Buddhism to Professor Rhys Davids, for the Avesta to M. Darmesteter, for the Chinese religious classics to Dr. Legge, and for the Koran (we prefer this accepted spelling) to H. E. Palmer.... Mr. Lilly is concerned with metaphysics, not with popular religion ... and quotation from experts overflows in his pages, which describe the old Hindu creeds merely in passing, while they are copious on Buddhism and Islam, and furnish monographs on Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer. The concluding essay sums up and appraises ‘the newest view of Christ,’ as set out in Professor Pfleiderer’s work, ‘Die entwickelung des Christenthums.’”—Acad.
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“A learned volume. He employs a somewhat academic, though very readable style. Mr. Lilly’s authorities in every instance are the best, and commonly the latest.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 135. N. 16, ’07. 900w.
“In riper quality, and with more mellow sympathy, Mr. Lilly presents or re-presents in his latest volume a good deal of the material which, nearly a quarter of a century ago, he published in his ‘Ancient religion and modern thought.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 300w.
=Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= Cy Whittaker’s place. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27807.
Bayport, in the Cape Cod region, is the scene of this tale of village doings. Cy Whittaker after years of absence comes back rich to Bayport, effaces every bit of modern improvement in his old home, and restores it to the old homely, quaint conditions of his boyhood days. Cy’s village cronies, the child that walks into his home and heart, and the school teacher are the principal characters in a tale full of humor and human kindness.
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“Here is a pleasant, homely, simple-minded story that gives the reader much the same sort of enjoyment he would get from a performance of ‘Shore acres’ or ‘The old homestead.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“On the whole, if you haven’t been down Cape Cod way this summer—or even if you have—you may do worse than take a trip some quiet evening to Mr. Lincoln’s Bayport.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Humorous, human, and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 10w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Daniel Boone, backwoodsman. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–24465.
A preliminary chapter is devoted to a survey of the country in which Boone’s life was passed and to a brief statement of the facts of his early career. The narrative proper begins with Boone’s migration with a band of forty neighbors to Kentucky, and continues with facts and some fiction to illustrate the trials and achievements, the disasters and triumphs of frontier life.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
“Would be commendable as a biography, if it were not partly fiction; where there is a paucity of authentic data, the author feels compelled to invent. But Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has a picturesque style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“To cast much of the story into conversational form ... has its drawbacks, in the uncertainty of the reader who likes to be sure as to just where fiction ends and fact begins. It all weaves in together to make a vivid picture of the toils, perils, pleasures, and heroisms that went into the conquering of the frontier.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
“Interesting historical tale for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Narcissus, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.
8–12552.
The volume “takes its title from the initial poem, which fills two-thirds of the book’s sixty pages, a narrative in rhymed pentameter of the life and death of the ill-fated youth. A dozen or more short poems on varied themes fill out the book.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The Greek story is told with grace and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Litchfield’s muse really sings, no matter what the measure, and there is fire in the love poems, and in the descriptive lines there is rich and beautiful color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Supreme gift. †$1.50. Little.
8–9529.
The portrayal of a ruined man’s daughter staggering under the burden of her father’s debts. The scene is Washington, and poor people with small savings are the ones most involved in the failure. Joan’s supreme gift is honor which she preserves at the expense of happiness and finally health. While it is not the custom now-a-days for a heroine, glorious in her young strength and beauty, to lay down her life for a cause, it seems the only logical way out of this sea of difficulties.
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“A well-intended book with a wrong-headed thesis.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 350w.
“One searching earnestly for the novel ‘as she is advertised to be,’ must be bitterly disappointed in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If the emotional values had been more carefully considered the result would have been a novel of some intensity and strength.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Litta, Duke.= Soul of a priest. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–33161.
A polemical story whose attack is made against the Roman Catholic church. It describes first the influences which induced a young Italian nobleman to enter the priesthood, and then gives the progress of his disillusionment, and the rejection of his vows.
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“The bitterness of the author’s strictures is of a nature to awaken in the fair-minded reader a considerable degree of sympathy with the institution attacked.”
− =Acad.= 73: 953. S. 28, ’07. 80w.
“Occasional statements betray imperfect acquaintance with rules and customs of the Roman church.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. S. 21. 300w.
“The interest of the story lies in the struggle and awakening of a soul, not in an indictment of the Roman Catholic church. As it is, the Duke Litta has succeeded in marring what is otherwise an unusually forceful book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 305. My. ’08. 350w.
“Less a work of literary art than a pamphlet to promote deplorable and un-Christian prejudice.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“The bitter and even petulant spirit in which the book is written detracts from its value as a contribution to anti-clerical literature. The narrative, however, in spite of some inconsistencies and its lack of incident, has a certain unity of effect and holds the attention throughout.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of spiritual conflict.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
* =Little, George.= Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.
The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Lloyd, Francis Ernest.= Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
8–9545.
“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in two desert plants, _Fouquieria splendens_ and _Verbena ciliata_, made at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.
=Science=, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.
=Lloyd, John.= Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–15725.
A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.
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“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs along at full speed.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is well contrived.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Loane, M.= From their point of view. $2. Longmans.
8–35515.
Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the district worker whether her activities are confined to East End, London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less well founded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.
“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality. Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained by a constant succession of good stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.
“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the British people understand what should be their true attitude towards poverty.”
+ + =Spec.= 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.
=Locke, James.= Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–3426.
“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans, peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not give time to think over improbabilities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Lockwood, George Browning.= New Harmony movement, by G. B. Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.
5–16517.
“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen.... It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of Rs.
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“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century life as has not been done before.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.
“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational experiment.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.
=Locy, William Albert.= Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.
8–21045.
An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.
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“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the scope and development of the broad science of biology.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably complete and interesting account of the development of biology tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper names occur with annoying frequency.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.
“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the important subsidiary sciences.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title, Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October, 1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second with The permanence of personality.
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“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book. A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not expert.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.
=Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No, only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
=Lomas, John.= In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
8–26238.
A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza, Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations add to its value.
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“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible, and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most writers on Spain seem prone.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.
“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.
“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=London, Jack.= Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–3084.
The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries, usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its own—the era of the brotherhood of man.
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“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the cause of social justice in our days.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a nobler civilization.”
− =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.
=London, Jack.= The road. **$2. Macmillan.
7–39522.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler civilization.”
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.
“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.
− + =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English and powers of terse, vivid description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.
=London municipal society.= Case against socialism: a handbook for speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21561.
“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of the hour.” (Spec.)
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“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of either side.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.
“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so graphically.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has not fallen off.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Longueville, Thomas.= Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.
8–10271.
A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.
“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense. He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind of literature which our young officers should read, and for this reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily confused and vague.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place; and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Knack of it: some essays in optimism. **75c. Revell.
8–23515.
A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr. Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together. Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”
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“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this vigorous age of ours.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.
7–29153.
The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed. From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as humorously conceived follow.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 53. F. ’08.
“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas.= Queer things about Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–1464.
“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play, ‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.
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“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.
“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an Occidental can hope to achieve.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects, cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete accounts of Persian life ever written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.
“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey, from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a fascinating and most instructive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.
=Lorimer, George Horace.= Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–16951.
By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself, the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy, with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold, he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.” (Outlook.)
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“Humorous extravaganza.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.
“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment, when credulity threatens to grow tired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.
“A lively and well-told story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.
“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give it critical attention.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first, because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American language.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.
=Loughnan, R. A.= New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22496.
A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr. Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture, mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to know it.” (Sat. R.)
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“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the reader absolutely nothing about it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the country before the advent of the European.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a humorous touch.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Lounsberry, Alice.= Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–12186.
Information about the making of a garden, about the names, habits, and seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo books.” The book is fully illustrated.
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“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more practical if it contained less story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 226. Je. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Standard of usage in English. *$1.50. Harper.
8–12736.
In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers. Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent reading as well as sound doctrine.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special instances.” G: P. Krapp.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.
“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind and some for readers of another.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.
“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against ‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the writer has mastered his language.”
− =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.
“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of newspaper usage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.
“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lovell, William H.= Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1. McGraw.
8–22566.
“While not containing any additional information than the usual chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying, the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.
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“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.
“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding to the student approaching for the first time this most important factor of plane-table surveying.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Lovett, James D’Wolf.= Old Boston boys and the games they played. **$1.50. Little.
“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines, rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those days.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr. Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops. Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow and mud?”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially the Boston boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Low, A. Maurice.= America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–26412.
A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are: The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and Social customs.
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“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.
“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding of conditions and ambitions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.
“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous impression.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= Government of England. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
8–16501.
A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The most important divisions of the work are The organization and construction of the government, The working of the political parties and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government, Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.
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“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason of its comprehensive plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and municipal institutions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.
“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important historical work of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.
“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory views.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.
“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr. Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.
“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it of the highest permanent value to students of political science the world over.” E: Porritt.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.
“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply repay re-reading.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the scholarly simplicity of its style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of constitutional rule and procedure.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.
“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof. Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a ‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.
“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.
“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.
“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book lies in its text-book nature.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.
* =Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.
Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The contents of this book have been developed with reference to two principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument. These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with other important features.” (Preface)
=Lucas, Bernard.= Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–26838.
A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)
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“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable comprehension of difficulties.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.
“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.
“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C. MacMillan.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of Christianity.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.
“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the attention and the thanks of theologians.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Anne’s terrible good nature, and other stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.
A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children. “Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings; the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing. Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children they always keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)
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“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the description which appeals successfully to children.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.
“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are inimitable.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her, understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.
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“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There is no index (a sad fault).”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28632.
“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books, cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a ‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his opportunities.”—Spec.
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“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human touches.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.
“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather than from design.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E. V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully and entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times somnolently reminiscent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Lucas, Reginald.= Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.
A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster, Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.
“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events in English history for the past forty years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to the heart of the English people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.
“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.
“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and straightforward.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.
=Lucas, St. John W. L.= Oxford book of French verse, XIIth century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.
8–9513.
Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Excellent anthology of French verse.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.
=Lucy, Henry W.= Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50. Putnam.
Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and Bulls in the Westminster china shop.
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“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but not invariably, kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.
“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal miscellaneousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most in earnest.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.
“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are assured straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem. il. **$1. Revell.
7–38030.
The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and marginal decorations in color.
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“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
− =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.
=Lungo, Isidoro del.= Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann. **$2.25. Doubleday.
8–2186.
Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical idealization.” (Outlook.)
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.
“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated sympathetically.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through translation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− + =Ind.= 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.
=Luther, Martin.= Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–18069.
“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life, both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and experience.”—Outlook.
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“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made by the present translator should be largely impaired by her unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of its shortcomings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.
“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an expert German scholar.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.
“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work with an altogether insufficient equipment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.
“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English, simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.
“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a most valuable companion-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.
=Lutz, Grace Livingston H.= Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–5229.
Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and duplicity.
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“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very hot day and a hammock.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Lynn, Margaret=, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse. *$1.10. Macmillan.
7–39508.
This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.
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=Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent for reference work or supplementary reading.”
+ =School R.= 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard.= Examining and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.
7–17674.
A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are treated.
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Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.
=El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of agricultural science.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes=, ed. Family chronicle; derived from notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5. Dutton.
8–18702.
“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner, unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.
“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm. This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic events.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.
“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of readable items.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
M
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.
8–31020.
“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a contemporary event.”—Outlook.
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“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Essays that every child should know. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–7181.
Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, comp. Stories new and old: typical American and English tales; selected with introductions by Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18574.
A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of short stories and for the study of leading short story types or varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and women.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and comparing one with another.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate=, eds. Heroines that every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–5881.
A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc, Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and Florence Nightingale.
* * * * *
“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Macaulay, George Campbell.= James Thomson. (English men of letters ser.) **75c. Macmillan.
8–9515.
More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)
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“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.
“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the little volume deserves nothing but praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Though we have been compelled to say that Mr. Macaulay does not seem to have done all that could and should be done with his brief, we are also compelled to point out that his discussion of Thomson’s poetry is, on the whole, competent, interesting, and suggestive.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 85. F. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Macaulay belongs to the scholastic school of critics. He is always careful, laborious and accurate; but he is never very illuminating, nor very profound.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 421. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Macaulay, Thomas B. M.= Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay; selected and arranged by Sir George O. Trevelyan. **50c. Longmans.
7–36134.
“It was Macaulay’s habit to write notes upon the margins of books that he read and especially of the astonishing number of books that he read again and again. In this little book, Sir George has made an entertaining discourse out of these notes, quoting many that are not highly important, to be sure, but also reproducing many sound and judicious observations. The historical reader will be particularly interested in the series of comments relating to Cicero, whose combination of the literary, oratorical and political life made him an object of especial interest to Macaulay.”—Am. Hist. R.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 140w.
“Make very pretty reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 786. Je. 27. 780w.
“No one who takes up this volume can fail to carry away from it something of his industry, his honesty, his noble and lifelong devotion to the great literature of the world.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 332. N. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“The habit is generally to be discouraged, but Macaulay has certainly fallen into safe and very competent hands.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 743. N. 16, ’07. 830w.
* =McBeth, Kate C.= Nez Perces Indians since Lewis and Clark. **$1.50. Revell.
8–12811.
“Barring some historical matter, this is a sketch of the life and work of the author and her sister among these Indians for a period of a quarter of a century, and a general account of missionary activities. It contains practically nothing relative to the life of the Indians, but really tells what the white man has done for them, particularly in matters religious, and portrays the development of churches.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“While the scope of the book is not wide, the history is worth preservation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 626. N. ’08. 80w.
“Her intimate knowledge of the customs and folklore will make her work of value to all students of the Indian race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Short history of our own times: from the accession of Queen Victoria to the accession of King Edward VII.; a new ed., rev. and enl. **$1.50. Harper.
8–5814.
A new edition which extends the story to the beginning of King Edward’s reign, and even beyond his accession in cases where issues, opened in Victoria’s reign, came to a close in the first years of her successor’s rule.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 121. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The best single volume history of modern England to be had.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“It is late in the day to say how entertainingly this history is written; it is never too late to protest against the printing of such a volume without maps or chronological tables.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“The rather small type and the narrow margins which have been necessary in order to bring the entire book into the compass of one volume do not add to its comeliness and for some readers may lessen its usefulness.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 146. Mr. 14, ’08. 130w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Duke’s motto. †$1.50. Harper.
8–23545.
A stirring tale of love and intrigue set in the times of Louis XIII. In the background are plenty of rascals ready with trained swords to aid the villain in ridding his path of the Duke de Nevers, the one man who stands in way of winning wife, rank and fortune. Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman of Europe, plunges into the game of avenging the duke’s death. During twenty years he lays his plans and brings them to a dramatic climax when the villain’s lifetime of treachery is exposed and punished.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“The author does his part so ardently and zealously that the reader is carried from episode to episode on a tide of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“It is patent ... that this ‘melodrama’ ... has been very hastily and carelessly constructed.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 110w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Seraphica. †$1.50. Harper.
8–4440.
An adventure romance of the time of Louis XV., when a regent was ruler of France. An alliance arranged to bring harmony to two rival duchies could not be consummated because of the wilfulness of a little duchess and the obstinacy of a young prince, whose heart had already been given to a court favorite. When the little duchess learns that the prince has refused even to look at her photograph and has fled to Paris, she decides to follow him, win his affections, and then avenge herself by spurning his love. The duchess escapes from home in male attire which she soon discards. In the role of a tavern maid, who aspires to be an actress, she makes friends with the prince, extricates him from many difficult situations and has a golden opportunity to take full and sweet revenge—but she doesn’t.
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“Essentially stagy. Brisk and light of foot, careless and gay.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 170w.
“Mr. McCarthy makes, all things considered, the most of his opportunities offered by a plot so inherently improbable.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is a gay little butterfly romance floating above the tangled ambitions and the graver policies of the times.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 230w.
“An animated and effectively costumed story, ripe for a fall from the bookshelf to the footlights.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“A thoroughly delightful tale. The book possesses far more coherence, authority, and literary quality than the author has previously shown himself capable of—more, in fact, than are usually apparent in our current fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“An entertaining and ingenious plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not one which we would recommend ‘virginibus puerisque,’ but it is all through on the right side.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 140w.
=MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“A book designed for teachers’ use, but somewhat lacking in those qualities that would make it of highest value—directness, definiteness and capability of being translated into every-day use in the classroom.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“The chapters on the folk tale and the fairy story and on myth as literature are especially good.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well balanced, so scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely adequate to the task proposed, that it ought to become a gospel. Teachers ought to buy it as they buy dictionaries—and read it better.” E. H. Lewis.
+ + =El. School T.= 8: 347. F. ’08. 780w.
=McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia.= Sowing seeds in Danny. †$1. Doubleday.
8–9810.
A frontier Manitoba town furnishes the background for this tale in which a delightful little Irish girl and her brother Danny teach lessons of child wisdom and helpfulness.
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“The style is very poor, the plot slight and far from original, but there is much of the same kind of homely humor and sentiment that made ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch’ unique and popular.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“There is an atmosphere of kind thinking about the loosely constructed narrative which gives an otherwise unpretentious tale a sufficient reason for existence.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 604. Ag. ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The humor and sentiment which the members of [a very interesting Irish] family exhibit in their homely lives are what make the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
“A wholesome, optimistic story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
=McCormick, Frederick.= Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. 2v. *$6. Outing pub.
8–2962.
A serious, unimpassioned account of the Russo-Japanese struggle, written by a special representative of the Associated press who went thru the entire war. Mr. McCormick writes vividly of the principal battles from the opening shot at Port Arthur to the triumph of the “Japanese military” at Mukden. He further discusses the peace and armistice, the Russian, the Japanese and the Chinese in the war, the elimination of Korea, the rise of Japan, Eastern consolidation and the elimination of the West, and the position of America.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“There is no other book on the war which combines so many elements of excellence. The work of Mr. McCormick is a commentary on the values of civilization as they revealed themselves in a great struggle.” P. S. Reinsch.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 635. N. ’08. 450w.
“We are glad to possess the volumes for their many merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 450w.
“The value of Mr. McCormick’s work arises wholly from the intimacy with which the author was acquainted with the conditions, the personalities, and the events of the war. Mr. McCormick is very far from being an historian. Yet, despite more or less serious limitations, a perusal of his volumes is sufficient to give the assurance that they contain much that is essential to a full knowledge of the war, and a good deal that one may never be able to lay hold of elsewhere.” F: A. Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 97. F. 16, ’08. 1700w.
=Ind.= 64: 750. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
“For accuracy and authenticity may rank perhaps with Kinglake’s ‘Crimean war.’ Mr. McCormick is not only a clever writer, but an artist, and his own sketches are among the most interesting illustrations of this brilliant work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The narrative is often obscure, ill-connected, largely speculative, and carries in consequence no large sense of authority.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A more satisfyingly illustrated record of its kind would be hard to find. The reader who followed the events of the war as closely as he could from the material then available, will find here a far more vivid view than he was able to get then.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 1850w.
“A clear and graphic account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 310. Je. 6, ’08. 900w.
“No doubt it is extremely interesting to be able to realise the American view of affairs in the Far East, yet we cannot but reflect that it would be far pleasanter to study it in a style less irritating.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 612. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Reinforced concrete: a manual of practice. $1. Cement era pub., Chicago.
“This book has been written for the purpose of supplying a working manual, full of practical hints for men not technically educated and with as little as possible of theoretical discussion.” (Engin. D.) “The pages are full of useful hints as to methods, the kinds of tools to use, the personnel of the force, the conduct of the work, form design and construction, all quite clearly and correctly stated.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Much of the matter is original, and the work is in no sense a compilation.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 150w.
“It is frankly a ‘manual of practice,’ and as such it is as complete as its limited size admits. It is only when it leaves practice to take up theory that its usefulness diminishes.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Ernest McCullough handles his subject in a sane way that is quite refreshing. It is exceedingly easy to read and quite up to date in its statements and warnings. A few lapses are usually to be found in the best book, and in this case may be mentioned the defining of the modulus of elasticity as a force, which is perhaps only a little lax.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 448. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Maccunn, John.= Six radical thinkers. *$1.70. Longmans.
W 7–109.
Six expository essays as follows: Bentham and his philosophy of reform, The utilitarian optimism of J. S. Mill, The commercial radicalism of Cobden, The anti-democratic radicalism of Carlyle, The religious radicalism of Mazzini, and The political idealism of T. H. Green.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 142. My. ’08.
“An interesting volume, subject, however, to the drawback that the treatment of political philosophy in chapters devoted to and distinguished by the names of individuals is never thoroughly satisfactory. The treatment of the lives is pleasant, and any reader, learned or ignorant, may peruse them with some advantage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 1000w.
“The style is forceful and clear, and the crisp, short sentences enforce attention from beginning to end. Equally helpful to the reader is the author’s manner of seizing upon certain sharply contrasted features in each of the six radical systems, features which, because antithetical, one would scarcely expect to find side by side in a single political philosophy. Of the writers treated in this book T. H. Green is the one with whom Professor Maccunn appears to be most thoroughly in sympathy.” M. S. MacDonald.
+ + =Philos. R.= 17: 347. My. ’08. 350w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the technical skill with which Professor Maccunn has used his six Radicals ... as stepping-stones for traversing a difficult period in political and philosophical thought. The argument has a perfect continuity. The essay on Cobden we find the least satisfactory in the book, because it is so ‘judicial’ that it is in fact rather nebulous.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 575. Ap. 13, ’07. 1600w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Husbands of Edith. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–13724.
Young Medcroft, a London architect, who has arranged with his wife to visit cousins of hers in Vienna whom he has never seen, finds that it would be vastly to his advantage to seem to be off on that trip and yet remain in London to fight a coming bill. So he induces a New York friend to play the rôle of husband to Edith. The humorous situations growing out of the substitution reach their climax when the masquerader falls in love with the wife’s sister and defies the horrified relatives by openly making love to her. It is an uncommonly good comedy in plot and execution.
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“Mr. McCutcheon has never written a more entertaining tale.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“An unblushing piece of newstand literature which will doubtless please the audience at which it is aimed.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“Described in the author’s most entertaining manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Man from Brodney’s. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–23920.
A South sea island is the scene of this tale into whose composition Mr. McCutcheon works his favorite ingredients. Two Englishmen, smarting from domestic irritation, go to the island of Japat, south of the Arabian sea, amass a fortune equal to Monte Cristo’s, die and leave it to two grandchildren who must marry in order to possess it; otherwise it would go to the islanders. The fact that each heir had already married complicates the settlement which involves heirs, lawyers, islanders, and indirectly a beautiful princess with copper-colored hair. The man from Brodney’s, counselor for the islanders, is the hero of the all-conquering McCutcheon type.
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“Mr. McCutcheon has his usual success in writing an interesting story, and in making the impossible plausible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Macdonald, Mrs. Frederika.= Iliad of the East: a selection of legends drawn from the Sanskrit poem, The Ramayana. *$1.50. Lane.
A reprint of a popular version of the mythological tales in which Valmiki’s The Ramayana abounds. The purpose remains the same as it was stated in 1870, “to bring home to English readers the proofs of the resemblance between some special qualities characteristic of the modern sentimental temper and the sentimental temper which penetrates old Indian poetry.”
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+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Will serve to renew interest in a clever and popular abridgement of the huge epic Ramayana.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 160w.
“A treat for a new generation. The book does not represent any scholarly effort to reproduce the original Sanscrit, but is merely a collection of stories delightfully told through the medium of a French translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 720w.
“The editor, in her admiration of Buddhism, evinces a radical misconception of Christianity, derived from its mediæval theology.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 814. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and Curdie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–23533.
A reprint of this child’s favorite with twelve illustrations in colors by Maria L. Kirk.
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“This is another of the books which are never outgrown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=MacDonald, Robert.= Mind, religion and health. **$1.30. Funk.
8–30268.
A discussion of the psychological principles underlying mental and religious therapeutics; a call to the church to apply these principles in ministering to those who are afflicted either in mind or body; and an appreciation of the Emmanuel movement, with an account of the practical good accomplished.
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=Ind.= 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 140w.
“This is a timely and judicious book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Macdonald, William=, ed. Documentary source book of American history, 1606–1898. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–23907.
“Gives satisfactory evidence that a wise principle of selection has been followed in choosing documents to illustrate the history of the United States from the time of the founding to the close of the Spanish war. In all, nearly two hundred items are included, comprising colonial charters, acts of Parliament and Congress, treaties, resolutions, and executive papers.”—Outlook.
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“The student who has this book as an adjunct to his narrative text may easily double the efficiency of his work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 268. O. 16, ’08. 80w.
“In the aggregate the collection will meet the need of most students. We can only regret that the editor has not extended the period of his compilation, in order to include some of the commoner documents of the last ten years.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is very little to criticise in Professor Macdonald’s compilation, barring a conspicuous absence of documents illustrative of the first steps in territorial expansion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=MacDougal, Daniel Trembly.= Mutations, variations, and relationships of the oenotheras, by D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail, and G. H. Shull, pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
7–37035.
A further account of evolutionary studies upon the oenotheras (evening primroses). Seeds representing the species in cultivation in the principal botanical gardens of the world have been received in America and have been sown for cultural investigation. These with a number of forms native to North America are included in the papers of the present volume.
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=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 61. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“An investigation which for minuteness and exhaustiveness is without parallel. The part of this memoir which has interested us most is that which deals with the origin of mutants from strains of Oenotheras different from that which de Vries found at Hilversum and observed his classical series of mutations in.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 78: 10. My. 7, ’08. 700w.
=McFadden, Elizabeth Apthorp, and Davis, Lilian E.=, comps. Selected list of plays for amateurs and students of dramatic expression in schools and colleges; with an introd. by Ludella L. Peck. *$2. Miss E. A. McFadden, Box 328, Cincinnati, Ohio.
8–4425.
A wide range of plays is included in the list suitable for all occasions. There are plays for children, out-of-door plays, Christmas plays, etc., all systematically arranged for the amateur’s benefit.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“Promoters of school entertainments will be grateful for this compilation.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 60w.
“The volume will prove serviceable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman.= Infinite affection. *$1. Pilgrim press.
7–36403.
Here is outlined “the theology of a young man who has hospitably submitted himself to what is termed ‘modern thought.’” He believes that “we can no longer confine inspiration to the Bible, the incarnation to Christ, or religion to a church” and that Christ “is actually what man is prophetically,” and that man can reach the perfection of the great Exemplar.
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“This work, by one of the most brilliant and deeply thoughtful of the younger ministers of the Congregational church, merits wide circulation. It is instinct with lofty spirituality and the living faith that makes religion most vital to those who thus believe.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 249. F. ’08. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
* =McFee, William.= Letters of an ocean tramp. *$1.50. Cassell.
“Under the thin disguise of letters from a dead friend Mr. McFee presents us with impressions of life afloat, as seen from the point of view of third engineer on board a small trading steamer. One is puzzled at first to understand whether it is fact or fiction; it is overwhelmingly literary, fastidious (and a little self-conscious) in style, full of moralization and philosophy, and crammed with allusions to eminent authors—Ruskin, Pater, Nietzsche, Heine, Boileau, Beaumarchais, Borrow, Browning, and many others.”—Ath.
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“He never forgets himself in his subject, as other sea-writers do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 260w.
“Whatever he sees in persons or things—the romantic, pathetic or the fascinating—in foreign climes, he describes in virile English, which is both descriptive and philosophic, and in which the reminiscent and anecdotal are not absent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=MacGowan, Alice.= Judith of the Cumberlands. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28314.
Here the charm and spirit of life in a primitive mountain settlement are brought vividly to view. Fires of old feuds yet smoulder; the illicit still works in secret cover; and the new justice of the peace finds himself on shifting ground. But light comes to the chaotic region of the “Turkey Tracks,” when plots and counterplots with their reign of doubt and pain and misunderstanding give way to the love of a strong man for the maid of the Cumberlands.
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“Her book is simply a rude, unvarnished picture of mountain folk drawn with a cool literalness which brings into the foreground all their coarseness, with little of the finer touches of intelligence to soften it.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book to be praised.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“There is no shadow of imitation in the author’s work, but it recalls some of the best early writing of Miss Murfree, and has an especial freshness of its own.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
=Macgowan, Rev. John.= Sidelights on Chinese life. *$3.75. Lippincott.
8–3983.
“Dr. Macgowan’s volume professes to give no more than the general views of the salient points of the Chinese character. In fact, it consists of a series of essays in which the author descants on the various phases of Chinese life from the cradle to the grave. He has much that is interesting to say on these topics, and we derive from a perusal of his pages an enhanced regard for the Chinese people.”—Ath.
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“If we have a fault to find with Mr. Macgowan, it is that he deals too often in the superlative degree in his paraphrases of facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 820w.
“A series of informing and interesting chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It is an authoritative and illuminating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
“It may be pointed out, not as a criticism but as a caution, that Dr. Macgowan is writing of the Chinese of the South, who differ in many material respects from their compatriots of the North. His chapter on Chinese education is out of date, and it is a pity that so modern a book should not have given more than a notice of a few lines to the drastic changes that are taking place in the Chinese educational world.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 49. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“One cannot read many pages without discovering the mark of the writer who has firsthand information: and yet Mr. Macgowan detracts from what might have been a much more illuminating book by careless writing, which involves him in many seeming contradictions and repetitions, and by such trite reflections as a satirist once called ‘Glimpses into the obvious.’”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 151. Ja. 25, ’08. 1850w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Lure of the mask. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–17786.
A lilt from an Italian opera sung by a well-trained voice from out a blurring New York fog begins for young Hillard, who from his bachelor quarters hears the siren note, a romance all atingle with adventure. It ends happily in an Italian villa after the trail of a titled serpent has been obliterated.
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“This novel is pervaded by a morally enervating atmosphere whose subtlety and insinuating character render it all the more injurious, and nullify any possible good of the vocal morality that from time to time confronts the reader.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
* =McIlwaine, Richard.= Memories of three score years and ten. *$3. Neale.
8–19140.
Nearly four hundred pages of “memories” from out a long useful life as student, pastor, soldier, chaplain, and college president. The events of his life are related to the development of Virginia’s political, religious, and educational interests of the past half century.
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“A notable contribution to the biographical literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
=M’Intosh, John Geddes.= Industrial alcohol: the production and use of alcohol for industrial purposes and for use as an illuminant and as a source of motive power. *$3. Van Nostrand.
Agr 7–2204.
“The first of these books, after describing the properties of grain, or ethyl, alcohol, and the general principles of fermentation, takes up the manufacture of alcohol from [its many sources]. A long chapter is given to the description of the various methods of distillation and rectification of the alcohol obtained from the above sources. The concluding chapter gives in more or less detail the uses of grain alcohol in the arts, the principal part being devoted to its action as a solvent.”—Engin. N.
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“This book will certainly be of great use in pointing out the successful processes in use abroad, and will, therefore, serve a highly important role in the development of American industrial alcohol.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 530w.
“The book on the whole is well written and is carefully indexed. The diagrams are numerous and well chosen. The book serves a useful purpose in bringing together under one head much interesting and valuable information.” L. P. Kinnicutt.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 424. O. 17, ’07. 210w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= In the dead of night. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–12558.
The thrilling side of night life in New York city is portrayed in this story of adventure which begins by kidnapping an innocent man, placing him in another man’s shoes, and requiring him to work his way thru a maze of mystery.
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“Mr. McIntyre has been unusually successful in ravelling up his mystery, but, as too commonly happens in these stories, the solution is an anticlimax.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= With fighting Jack Barry. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28972.
John Barry whose name is linked with many a naval achievement before and during the revolution is the hero-in-general of this exciting tale. Yet the young reader who is fast upon the heels of adventure follows Bob Fairly in his struggle to keep possession of a mammoth ruby presented by the French king to a Fairly for service. Once stolen, its recovery furnishes as exciting a series of incidents as ever a Sherlock Holmes attempted to untangle.
=McIntyre, Margaret A.= Cave boy of the age of stone. (Stories of primitive life for primary grades.) *40c. Appleton.
7–15587.
Here the author has worked into story form the progress made by the cavemen and moundmen. She tells how primitive people lived, how they fared, how they fished, how they trapped and killed wild game, and how they used the margin of time for development.
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“An interesting and readable account. For children of the primary grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss McIntyre must be commended for a happy thought. The story is sufficiently interesting to attract [children].”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 578. My. 9. 130w.
“The matter is all excellent and her book, In scheme, most acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Mater: an American study in comedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–29017.
A satirical comedy in which a mother resorts to what she deems justifiable deception in aiding her son, opposed to bribery, to win a political fight. “The play is remarkable for two reasons; first because satire is applied poignantly to American conditions in the guise of charming fancy and poetic allegory; second, because it subjects American life, as portrayed on the stage, to a literary treatment that adds to Mr. Mackaye’s poetic reputation—a sense of humor that sinks below situation and touches character.” (Ind.)
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“After reading the play, we are still doubtful whether its democratic ideas are quite clear, and whether or not its levity is sufficiently under control. But the book is an achievement to the decided credit of Mr. Mackaye.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Mackaye has done a sparkling piece of literary work, but with a flavor of cynicism which is not altogether agreeable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 344. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
“It is a little too fine, perhaps, for the popular theatre, but will surely appeal to the reader of taste and intelligence. Its satire is keen, and the character of ‘Mater’ has unusual charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 559. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Scarecrow; or, The glass of truth: a tragedy of the ludicrous. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–7173.
Mr. Mackaye, author of “Sappho and Phaon,” uses New England in the days of witchcraft for a setting of this his first prose drama, and acknowledges his indebtedness to Hawthorne for inspiration. “It is an imaginative study of New England temperament, as a local phase of broader human psychology.” The comic theme has for its underlying idea “the sense of human sympathy which is, it would seem, a more searching critic of human frailty than satire.”
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“We find the piece to have these three excellent possibilities, of significance, scenic capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We think it lacks coherence.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is fairly well constructed, and has enough movement to keep the reader steadily interested.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“It is a play of vigorous imaginative richness and often of colorful, felicitous diction. The satire may be readily appreciated but is not an essential to enjoyment. For the story and the manner of telling are in themselves highly diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 930w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Master influence. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13277.
A story whose central figure is a girl who, indifferent to her “smart set” surroundings, gropes for an influence that can lift her above ennui. Hospital work is more alluring than doctors, men of dreams or dukes. But one day a young politician, a leader of men, reveals his power thru love and becomes her “master influence.”
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=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=McKenzie, Frederick Arthur.= Tragedy of Korea. *$2. Dutton.
8–32329.
An anti-Japanese narrative covering a period of thirty years during which the history of Korea has been linked with international developments. The author’s conclusions all emphasize his view that Japanese rule in Korea has been unnecessarily harsh and cruel.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 840w.
“The statements of fact and the assertions of opinion which Mr. McKenzie has set down in his little book are abundantly worth giving to the world.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 289. N. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“Though obviously intended to be fair, scarcely makes as much allowance for the difficulties of the conqueror as circumstances might seem to warrant. He is a trained observer, and has a graphic, picturesque style that gives life and color to the page.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 433. Ag. 8, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
* =Mackinder, Halford John.= The Rhine: its valley and history. *$3.50. Dodd.
8–24297.
The history and geography of the Rhine valley take precedence in this informing Rhine book over its natural beauty and romance. “The reader is given a wonderful bird’s-eye view of that great valley which has seen so much of the history of Europe. By presenting landscape in bare, almost mathematical, lines he succeeds in forcing a novel aspect upon the reader’s mind, much as in another sphere Mr. Hardy in his ‘Dynasts’ presents us with the bones of history, and therefore with a fresh view of it.” (Spec.)
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“A text which is, in a scholar’s eyes, worthy of its surroundings. The fault of it is, perhaps, for the general reader, that in dealing with a subject of such romantic interest, he has clung too closely to topographical detail. He has not allowed the romance of the great river to inspire him. In the spelling of names Mr. Mackinder is a trifle inconsistent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 456. Ap. 11. 1100w.
“The work shows careful study and patient labor, and is good to read by itself or to use as a supplement (even though a ‘colored supplement’) to Murray or Baedeker.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
“One of the most beautiful travel books of the year.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“We commend this book as a unique guide to the essentials of both European geography and history. Without abating one jot of his scientific purpose, Mr. Mackinder has succeeded in making his narrative as fascinating as a romance.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 500. Mr. 28, ’08. 1400w.
=M’Laren, R. S.= Mechanical engineering for beginners. *$1.75. Lippincott.
8–32659.
“In this book the author has endeavored to give in broad outlines the information it is necessary to possess concerning the ordinary branches of mechanical engineering, and at the same time to go sufficiently into detail to enable the beginner to make all the calculations likely to be required during the earlier stages of his study.”—Engin. D.
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“For a young man who is thinking of taking up a mechanical engineering course at a technical school, the book will serve as an admirable introduction thereto. Young draftsmen and machinists desiring to know something of mechanical science will have their interest whetted by reading it, for the calculations included are extremely simple, and invite, rather than repel a continuance of study.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“If the author had entirely left out his chapter on electrical things he would have an admirable book, but that one section is grossly misleading in important and elementary matters. Throughout the book the student needs to bear in mind that British practice is dealt with and that American ideas depart from this widely at times.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
=McLaws, (Emily) Lafayette.= The welding. †$1.50. Little.
7–34773.
The south before the war furnishes the background for this story which follows the career of the ambitious son of a Georgia cracker. Abolitionists and their opponents figure true to history, and there appear such notable ones among them as Garrison, Lincoln, Greeley, Clay, Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, President Buchanan and Alexander H. Stephens.
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“As a novelist Lafayette McLaws has many superiors in American fiction; that is, many people who can make their characters more vital and convincing, but we know of no historical romance that presents so fine or true a picture of life in the South and in the national capital from forty-nine to sixty-five as is given in ‘The welding.’”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 691. D. ’07. 540w.
“The more personal side of the narrative is constantly interesting, and we heartily congratulate Miss McLaws on her work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 695. F. ’08. 400w.
“She has the national rather than the sectional consciousness and hates slavery both from the humanitarian and patriotic standpoint. She offers really valuable information concerning social conditions in the South prior to the war.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 270w.
=McMillan, Archibald Harold.= Telephone law: the organization and operation of telephone companies. *$3. McGraw.
8–22088.
A compact and concise handbook of legal information designed to serve the practical telephone man rather than the practicing lawyer. All of the matters pertaining to the organization of telephone companies are discussed in relation to the laws governing them, including a thoro examination of the statutes of different states.
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“This excellent work will be found of use by others than telephonists and may be heartily recommended.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 259. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. McMillan’s book gives valuable information for men in a certain line of enterprise; it is compiled from authoritative sources and put together in a style that is consecutive, concise and understandable.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 370w.
=Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 50w.
=Macmillan, Rev. Donald.= Life of George Matheson. *$2. Armstrong.
8–9534.
A biography of Scotland’s celebrated blind preacher. “Blind at his entrance to Glasgow university, but winning its highest honors, minister to a city parish with nearly two thousand communicants and a multitude of poor, assiduously visiting them, but never preaching the same sermon twice, while continually addressing the public through the press, he was one of the few heroic souls whose energy has wrung triumph out of seemingly hopeless disaster.” (Outlook.)
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“A sympathetic and appreciative biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 950w.
“Is a most stimulating book. While it is full of lessons for every one, it appeals especially to young men or women who, laboring under some great physical infirmity, feel that for them an actively useful life is an impossibility.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 320w.
“The note of eulogy that recurs throughout this record of an extraordinary career is justified by the facts.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Macmillan has given us a touching record of a great life, which was singularly fruitful of good in adverse conditions.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Macnaughton, Miss S.= The expensive Miss Du Cane. †$1.50. Dutton.
A novel abounding in types. “The story is one of the slightest, just the awakening and growth of love between two very likeable young people at a house party.... Nobody is made to say or do anything for the purpose of carrying the story along. The talk, of which there is a great deal, and the action, of which there is very little, all of it merely makes the reader acquainted with the people, and whatever happens is the natural development of the characters and the situations as they react upon one another.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Miss Macnaughton is too clever, has too much of the novelist’s instinct, not to manage her people with skill, and not to make many shrewd comments on women and life; but we are forced to admit that she has not escaped the sin of monotony.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 740w.
“The story is not convulsed by storms of elemental passion—the setting precludes high tragedy—but it has affecting as well as shining moments.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 1400w.
* =McNeil, Everett.= Boy forty-niners; or, Across the plains and mountains to the gold-mines of California in a prairie-schooner. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27102.
The first of three volumes intended to picture to the eyes of the younger generation something of the perils and hardships endured across country in 1849, to the gold field of California. This story deals with the experiences of two boys who travel down the Ohio river, up the Mississippi and Missouri and on across the mountains, encountering the hardships of thousands of emigrants to whom the lure of gold was irresistible.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 100w.
“Its chief virtue is of the unrefined diamond sort, its atmosphere suspensive.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Any newsboy would enjoy this narrative, however clumsy the writing. The book is not to be recommended for children who can get better, but some librarians may welcome this story as a stepping-stone to higher things.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Macrosty, Henry William.= Trust movement in British industry. *$2.50. Longmans.
W7–120.
“In this volume the author shows not only that the combination movement has made substantial progress in Great Britain, but that it presents similarities to the movement in protectionist countries at so many points as to necessitate the conclusion that there are behind it world causes more fundamental than tariff vagaries. The book is divided into an introductory chapter, twelve chapters describing combinations in different industries and a chapter presenting a ‘Survey and conclusions.’ In the introduction a convenient classification of combinations is suggested which forms the skeleton for the descriptive chapters which follow.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
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“The volume is a bit disappointing because it represents nothing more than results which might be obtained by an ordinary legislative commission. The book is hard to read. The paragraphs are long and tiresome. The style is clumsy. We need thought—but that thought must be transmitted by means of good English.”
− − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“A comprehensive and fairly detailed narrative. We can only regret that in his summary and conclusions as to the mass of material presented the author has not ventured into more detail.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 42. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“An admirable survey.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 181. F. 20, ’08. 500w.
“[The chapters] give every evidence of exhaustive research and accurate scholarship.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 558. S. ’07. 320w.
“For this scholarly and impartial treatise we have nothing but praise. Our readers will find in his pages a very full and detailed account of the most important instances of trust combination in this country.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 263. Ag. 24, ’07. 2220w.
Reviewed by G. H. Montague.
=Yale R.= 17: 109. My. ’08. 750w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker=, comp. Handy book of synonyms. (Handy information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–22888.
A practical desk guide to words in daily use, giving their definition and parallel meaning.
=Macvane, Edith.= Duchess of dreams. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–14334.
The story tells how a social climber of Newport reaches an enviable height of popularity as the prospective hostess of a Romanoff princess, how at the last moment the princess on account of illness fails to arrive, and how the undaunted hostess substitutes a girl from the coast of Maine who had a French mother and a gift for play-acting—a duchess of dreams.
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“In places she is a little unconvincing and her characters lack personality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 93. Jl. 25. 100w.
“All that one asks in such a coil is pleasing style and sustained interest and here are both to the reader’s hand.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“People who like this sort of story will be apt to recommend this literary sweetmeat to their friends as ‘perfectly dandy’ or ‘just charming.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Macy, John Albert.= Edgar Allan Poe. (Beacon biographies.) **75c. Small.
8–7372.
Without extenuating or accusing, this sketch seeks to treat the biographical facts of Poe’s life with fairness to the poet and to give the reader a right view of the man as seen from modern days and interests.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“It contains everything that the busy man or woman wants to know about the author of ‘The raven’ and ‘The bells.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 106. O. ’08. 800w.
“His little book sustains the general excellence of the series to which it belongs.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We are glad it was Mr. Macy and not some one else who did it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“His critical comment, interspersed throughout the narration, runs for the most part in the common groove, although occasionally we can not follow him.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 488. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Many new things are told of his life that have been unknown and unheard of until now.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“He has followed the generally accepted facts, but his interpretation of them is eminently sane and cool, free from prejudice, and unmuddled by any unnecessary mixing up of moral and intellectual judgments. A vein of grim, dignified, and restrained humor runs through the work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“The brief ‘Life’ is not in any sense a finality; its style is too journalistic; but it is an interesting account of a perplexing career.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 110w.
“His critical dicta we cannot always accept.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
=Madden, Eva Annie.= Two royal foes. il. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33904.
“The story has a historical background, its scenes being in Prussia at the time of the invasion by Napoleon. The story opens with the Battle of Jena, through which the heroine, a peasant girl, is left an orphan. She then goes to live with her grandfather, and the two have many adventures. Queen Louisa of Prussia also figures in the novel.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Quaint, pretty, unpretentious story. History seems well founded and characters are life-like.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 23. Ja. ’08. ✠
“There is a certain very charming German atmosphere thruout ‘Two royal foes’ and yet we are baffled. For without condemning it, we needs must criticise it for its diffuse story, for its over-exact narration of Napoleon’s ravages in Prussia, and for the very slight juvenile strain in its pages.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1481. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A charming historical story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Madison, James.= Journal of the debates in the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787; as recorded by James Madison; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
8–20180.
Madison’s journal is the only complete record of the constitutional convention extant. It is a continuous chronicle of the proceedings of the convention and has been reproduced in these two volumes with notes which include a comparison of the journal with the records kept respectively by Robert Yates, Rufus King and William Pierce.
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“A number of errors have been left uncorrected. The debates have been edited in a careful and scholarly manner.” W. F. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 915. Jl. ’08. 410w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“This whole admirable edition of Madison’s ‘Journal’ will be a boon both to scholars and to less ambitious students of the constitution and its history.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 101. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No further edition of the Madison notes will be needed for many years.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“This work will bring into the hands of teachers, scholars, and students of national politics a historical document of the first importance, edited and printed in the best style and at an exceedingly moderate price.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 180w.
“Does not give a definitive edition of the debates, and much remains yet to be done in the study of available material. The convenient form of this reprint is hardly sufficient to justify its existence, and there are not a few misprints which could have been avoided.”
− =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 230w.
“An exhaustive index makes the work thoroughly usable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It shows textual differences from the earlier editions over which it is a vast improvement, if only from the standpoint of convenience for reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Of the several editions of this invaluable journal which have appeared since Madison’s death by far the most satisfactory is the new two-volume edition edited by Mr. Gaillard Hunt. The special value of Mr. Hunt’s work lies in the fact that he has compared the statements made by contemporary writers with the corresponding entries in Madison’s journal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Intelligence of the flowers; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–36869.
An essay on the signs of reasoning in flowers which “is a complement to his essay on bees ... [The author] wishes ‘merely to recall a few facts known to every botanist,’ and has ‘no intention of reviewing all the proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.’ He confines himself almost entirely to the delicate arrangements for cross-fertilization, describing them with as great scientific accuracy as if he were not a poet.” (Dial.)
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“A charming companion piece to the ‘Life of the bee.’” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 710. My. ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a poet.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 280w.
“It is a unique combination of fact and fancy, scientific in its statements, humanistic in its interpretation of them, mystical in its philosophy, poetical in its expression.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 158. Ja. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good example of the decorated giftbook.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“The translation preserves most of the original’s charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
“A translation of extraordinary refinement.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“Is ostensibly a nature book, but the delicate imagination and exquisite literary style of the author are so persuasive and charming throughout the book that it is really a work of literature.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 50w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Pélléas and Mélisande; tr. by Erving Winslow; with an introd. by Montrose J. Moses. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–22493.
An edition of Maeterlinck’s play for which Mr. Montrose J. Moses has written an introduction revealing Maeterlinck’s mastery of delicate and strange intuitions, enumerating the fragments of his philosophy and calling attention to his spectral background and dramatic theory. The volume is a fitting holiday offering with its marginal decoration and excellent illustrations.
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=Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translation is ... prosaic and discordant: poorer even than the Alma Tadema version.”
− =Ind.= 65: 843. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Winslow’s translation is adequate. Mr. Moses contributes a readable, painstaking introductory essay. As a Mary Garden picture book the Crowell edition of ‘Pélléas and Mélisande’ deserves cordial praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 603. O. 24, ’08. 400w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad-gita; or, The message of the master; compiled and adapted from numerous old and new translations of the original Sanscrit text by Yogi Ramacharaka. 2d ed. 75c. Yogi pub.
7–15127.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of Vedantic philosophy. The translation is accompanied by a general introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books of the Gita.
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“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit or has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its admirable expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory little volume.” J. H. Coates.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
A collection of papers including “a few large, plain, simple ideas” concerning naval matters which the general reader ought to know. Captain Mahan discusses The principles of naval administration, The United States navy department, Principles involved in the war between Japan and Russia, Objects of the United States naval war college, The practical character of the United States naval war college, Subordination in historical treatment, The strength of Nelson, The value of the Pacific cruise of the United States fleet, and The Monroe doctrine.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Ought to be in the hands of every intelligent man.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable way. The socialism of this book is of the ‘Fabian’ school, educative and opportunist; its weapons are not carnal but spiritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 520w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
7–41543.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“Books like the present volume do, in our judgment, incalculable injury by catering to the military spirit.” B. O. Flower.
− =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 410w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 286. Mr. 7. 60w.
“There is nothing new in it excepting the preface, which is a summing up of the argument. Yet it is very well worth having and reading, or re-reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It would certainly be well if the apostles of peace at any price—and we have many in our midst—would study Captain Mahan’s admirable and dispassionate essays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 210. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
=Spec.= 100: 461. Mr. 21, ’08. 1700w.
* =Maire, Frederick.= Modern pigments and their vehicles: their properties and uses considered mainly from the practical side, and how to make tints from them. $2. Wiley.
8–1476.
“The manual is written for the men who use or sell pigments, and who mainly want to know what they can expect of them. It is especially designed to be of value to the young man who is starting out to learn the painter’s trade. The various pigments which are used in compounding colors and tints are taken up in order, beginning with the yellow pigments, and dealing with the reds, greens, blues, browns and blacks, respectively. Their history, early use, methods of mining and preparing for market, and adulterations, are described.”—Engin. Rec.
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“For the purpose for which it was written this book should be of value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 170w.
“A most excellent book written by one who evidently knows the practical side thoroughly. There are several books which are more scientific and chemical, but there is none which will be of greater value to the chemist, the practical man or the young apprentice at the painter’s trade.” A. H. Gill.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Constitutional history of England: a course of lectures. **$3.50. Putnam.
“These lectures discuss the public law of Great Britain at five periods. The first period runs from 1066 to 1307, the second period extends to 1509, the third to 1625, the fourth to 1702, and the fifth to the closing years of the nineteenth century. Much of the ground covered by the lectures was later traversed by Prof. Maitland in his carefully written ‘History of English law,’ ‘Domesday book and beyond,’ ‘Township and borough,’ and other publications, to the preparation of which he devoted a great deal of time and study.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The publication of these lectures in their original form, under the care of such a competent and sympathetic editor as Mr. Herbert Fisher, is a matter for congratulation on behalf of a large body of teachers and students alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 394. O. 3. 820w.
“The plan of the work is unique. The editorial supervision is done with that discrimination and good judgment which characterizes all the work of Mr. Fisher.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 662. S. 17, ’08. 680w.
“What he has written is in the main indisputable, and needs no revision. By contenting himself with established facts he has rendered his work of almost as much value to-day as it was twenty years ago.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 339. O. 8, ’08. 1250w.
“Persons familiar with the works of Prof. Maitland that were published in his lifetime will have little use for this posthumous volume; but we believe Mr. Fisher is quite right in saying that the study of the Cambridge lectures will serve as an excellent introduction to an exhaustive inquiry into English constitutional history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 450w.
“Is distinguished by profound erudition and clearness of exposition. A good many popular misconceptions, perhaps more prevalent here than in England, are cleared away, and a better understanding had of the factors making for England’s continued strength and stability.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
=Major, Charles.= Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian treasure. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28633.
A book of lively, wholesome stories of adventure which Uncle Tom Andy Bill, seventy and reminiscent, selects from his boyhood experiences.
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“A new juvenile which will receive a ready welcome.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 40w.
“Even if the older reader may not care so much for the treasure and the bears as the boy, he will admit that the story is a true and lively picture of life half a century ago in what is now the middle west, but was then the frontier.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Makower, Stanley V.= Perdita: a romance in biography. *$4. Appleton.
8–34595.
A sketch of Mary Darby Robinson whose beauty was passed down to posterity by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and other artists, who was a favorite pupil of Garrick and as Perdita captured the affections of George, Prince of Wales. “As here told, the story is a veritable microcosm of eighteenth-century life, not only the relation of the first important intrigue of a royal debauchee; so the mere lover of scandal will be compelled, whether he will or no, to see things in their right perspective.” (Ath.)
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“The faults are few and far between, and the merits considerable. The latter far exceed those of the ordinary popular biography, and the impression left is that of literature rather than book-making.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 315. Mr. 14. 1700w.
“The present book tells her capricious career with an admixture of fiction which does not jar with the known facts, and which certainly makes sprightly reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
“The book that lies before us will certainly appeal to all novel-readers as well as to the smaller public which prefers its history and biography unspiced by imagination.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 504. Mr. 28, ’08. 420w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
A study of girlhood at the point of its emergence from the school room into the world where coquettishness, seriousness, ingeniousness and young philosophy struggle with one another for the upper hand. The problem of double personality appears and with it two lovers, a clergyman and a scientist, who claim to be respectively interested in the heroine’s soul health and the psychological problem which she embodies.
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“A fine piece of irony, though the simple will devour it for its sensation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 240w.
“The descriptions of English rural life are true and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Mallock. William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper. 7–39227.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book is, on the whole, one of the best attacks on socialism although purely theoretical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
“Mr. Mallock’s analysis appears to us radically unsound.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 447. S. ’08. 550w.
“[In the second part of the work] the Socialists and their opponent, Mr. Mallock, are equally academic—their illustrations are equally in the clouds, except where examples quoted by Mr. Mallock err in the opposite direction of an over-practical crudity.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 191. F. 15. 800w.
“On the purely intellectual side, his criticisms, valid or otherwise, will arouse fruitful thought and discussion; but though we must admit that he justly accuses many socialists of improperly prejudicing the subject, we cannot acquit him of this same fault.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 39. Ja. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“This volume, on account of its compactness of argument, felicity of illustration and dialectical cleverness, cannot be ignored or scorned by the socialist editors and pamphleteers who are preaching a new evangel.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“On its positive or non-controversial side the book before us merits no particular comment. Where it is not positively erroneous it is merely commonplace.” R. F. Hoxie.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 540. O. ’08. 430w.
“With all his cleverness Mallock is unconvincing. To deal effectively with socialism, one must have some genuine capacity for appreciating the need and the possibility of social betterment, and Mallock’s work makes the impression of one whose social sympathies are atrophied.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Mallock’s book will be read with interest by all who heard his lectures in sundry American cities, and it might well attract an even larger number in its elaborate form. The topic is worth it, and the treatment is at least easier reading than Marx’s.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 1030w.
“He is both clear and clever; but he is not always conclusive.” Lyman Abbott.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 539. Mr. 7, ’08. 530w.
“His analytic and literary powers as shown so brilliantly in his former well-known work, ‘The reconstruction of religious belief,’ characterize also this little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 120w.
“What the situation requires is a successful apology for the system of liberty and free exchange which, with many lets and hindrances, has during historical times been becoming the progressive basis of existing society. Mr. Mallock’s book, though it is not specifically addressed to this aspect of the controversy, makes its definite contribution thereto, and it is more valuable in this respect than as a hostile criticism of the nebulous aspirations of socialism.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 940. Je. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. $1.50. McClure.
8–13767.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“This book owes a charm to its nondescript character. There is a quality very warm and human and engaging in this casual narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 592. D. 26, ’07. 610w.
“A series of first-hand views of London life on its pathetic side, with much of the sociological interest, is brought out under the title of ‘The soul market.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 30w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of voice production. (Music students lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
Deals with the fundamentals of tone production. The purpose is to present simply and in easily understood terms the essentials of good tone production in such order, and the accompanying instruction and exercises with such definiteness that the difficulties which discourage students may be at least minimized.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces including also Foix, Roussillon and Bearn, il. $3. Page.
7–38519.
Uniform with “Castles and chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire country.” Geographically the rambles cover the French slopes of the Pyrenees from the Atlantic Gulf of Gascony to the Mediterranean Gulf of Lyons and on to the Rhône. The feudal chateaux and fortified bourgs of this region furnish the author abundant material for his appreciation of their architecture, comments on the manner of living in far-away times, and for his chatty presentation of men and manners of to-day.
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“The title of this handsomely bound and illustrated volume scarcely does justice to its contents.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 681. Ag. ’08. 450w.
“The text combines descriptive and historical material with personal impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 90w.
“A work which summarizes his knowledge in good pedestrian prose and, being carefully indexed, should be valuable for purposes of reference.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 180w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F.= In the land of mosques and minarets. $3. Page.
8–15291.
Another Mansfield-McManus collaboration which takes the reader to the less frequented places of Tunisia and Algeria. It is full of information “both ordinary and unusual, about the lives, manners, and customs of the natives, the country itself, and the line of contact between the natives and the many-nationed crowd of aliens.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 50w.
“He has set before us a glowing panorama of Algerian life and scenery.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
“The text is written entertainingly and gives no end of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“It contains much information interesting alike to the traveler and to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 44. S. 5, ’08. 60w.
“This is a very pleasantly written and readable volume, well set off with illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–39037.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The result of her labors, however, displays neither the extent of learning—except in matters of somewhat gossipy detail—the grasp of her subject, nor the command of style needful to justify three hundred pages and more about matter of which scholars as well as general readers may contentedly remain ignorant.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 662. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“An extensive bibliography, carefully classified, a full index, and careful annotation will commend the book to students. Mrs. Marble writes fully and entertainingly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“An entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
“Mrs. Marble, whose method is largely descriptive and biographic, has put the knowledge about this group of writers into very convenient form.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= My lost self; il. by Alex. O. Levy. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8096.
Cuthbert Dalrymple, a young New Yorker of the exclusive, law-abiding set loses consciousness through a mysterious blow. When a second blow restores him he finds that he has been ruled for a season by a lower personality—that he is in Sicily and the most feared of a band of desperadoes. His chief business in his restored state is that of fighting to protect the Sicilian heroine against intrigue and danger in wild surroundings.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 130w.
“Whatever may be said as to the credibility of such events as depicted it cannot be denied that they follow one another with a rather fascinating rapidity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= He can who thinks he can, and other papers on success in life. **$1. Crowell.
8–30895.
A group of forcible editorials reprinted from Success magazine including the following: He can who thinks he can; Getting around; Education by absorption; Freedom at any cost; What the world owes to dreamers; The spirit in which you work; Responsibility of power; An overmastering purpose; Has your vocation your unqualified approval? Stand for something; Happy, if not why not? Originality; Had money but lost it; Sizing up people; Does the world owe you a living? What has luck done for you? Success with a flaw; and Getting away from poverty.
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“Undoubtedly it will be helpful in many ways to many men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3. Houghton.
7–36985.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Recommended because it is as good as, or better than, any other general book on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, we think it will amuse, but hardly instruct, the reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 39. Ja. 11. 480w.
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“An altogether delightful book. We sincerely wish that it might be generally read to or by secondary schools and colleges in Greek or in ancient history.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 312. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“It is, however, odious to weigh mint and anise and cumin in the presence of a really fine work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1567. D. 26, ’07. 970w.
“The illustrations are admirable, and would make a book of much value and interest worth possessing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 300w.
“There is a ground which this volume covers as no other has yet done. With this volume in hand any intelligent traveler should find the rough places made smooth, with the direction and information that the stranger craves.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“It will also prove useful to the intending traveler in those regions, for the writer gives an accurate and not exaggerated picture of the incidents inevitable to such an expedition. As a guide the author is only moderately well informed. He clearly knows nothing of the mediæval history of Greece.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“A very pleasant and useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–38520.
“Professor Margoliouth tells his readers some interesting facts about these three famed Eastern cities. The buildings of the Fatimide and Ayyubid eras are described. The sovereigns who ruled over Cairo are treated at length, and nothing essential is missed in the historical sketches given of Jerusalem and Damascus.”—Lit. D.
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“It bears throughout the stamp of an individual mind, well stored with the original sources familiar to the learned author, but able to take independent views and here and there to draw a luminous generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 152. F. 8. 1600w.
“Is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its description of these three great cities. Is certainly one of the most beautiful of the series.” Justin McCarthy.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1421. D. 12, ’07. 210w.
“The text has the rare merit of being trustworthy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Very superior to the greater number of the colour books that have recently been issued, for it would be of permanent value even without the illustrations.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 1460w.
“It must frankly be said that the history of Cairo here given is dreary reading. The illustrations are beautifully executed with carefully worked-out detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The text of Mr. Margoliouth’s book differs from that of most volumes which describe the history of Cairo or Jerusalem or Damascus because it has been written by one long immersed in the atmosphere of the Orient and of the Arabic language.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“The artist gives us only the picturesque or artistic scenes in the Oriental cities he delineates, and wisely passes by the dirt or the dull ugliness amidst which they are set; and the historian would do well to follow his example where literary interest and not historical completeness is his object.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 52. Ja. 11, ’08. 800w.
“This attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and students of history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= King Edward VI, an appreciation, attempted by Sir Clements R. Markham. *$3. Dutton.
8–10272.
A eulogistic treatment of a “period of anarchy in which a Tammany ring of titled ruffians ... left England the legacy of a pauper class.” (Sat. R.) The precocious Edward VI of this book “was a statesman who understood the self-seeking, unprincipled character of the politicians about him; a princely boy who had more sense in his little finger than both his uncles put together had in their whole bodies.” (Nation.) The author exploits the young king’s learning, his interest in geography, his fondness for games; and above all argues that he was neither a tool nor a figurehead.
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“Unluckily, Sir Clement’s passion for historical paradox does much to spoil the effect of his nervous and sympathetic narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 380w.
“Sir Clements’s knowledge of the period is not profound, and it is only his own idiosyncrasies which make his book remarkable.” A. F. P.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 199. Ja. ’08. 380w.
“It is not, we think, possible to say that Sir Clements Markham has added anything to our knowledge of the reign, or that his confidently-expressed judgments enable us to understand better the men and women who played their part in it. The chief interest of the book lies in the details of Edward’s interest in such subjects as geography and exploration, a much more healthy occupation for him than his boyish attempts at theology.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 630w.
“The book contains many excellent portraits and much useful biographical and genealogical information, but its conclusions will hardly find acceptance at the hands of fair-minded historians.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 471. Ag. 29, ’08. 840w.
“While we dissent entirely from Sir Clements’ estimate of the reign, we must say that his pages make pleasant reading. Pageantry and heraldry he understands, and he gives a brilliant description of his young hero’s coronation. Interesting and original also are the pages in the book that tell of the Tudor navy and the ‘first Arctic expedition.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 206. F. 15, ’08. 1000w.
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 704. N. 7, ’08. 1100w.
=Marks, William Dennis.= Finances of gas and electric light and power enterprises: electric railways, electric light stations, gas works, oil motor cars. 4th ed. $4. William D. Marks, 623 Park Row bldg., N. Y.
7–27171.
“Five chapters have been added to the present edition. Included in the new matter is a digest of some of the evidence in the recent lawsuit (not yet settled) over the reduction of the price of gas in New York city to 80 cts. per 1,000 cu. ft. There is also included a paper on ‘Railway rates for electric railways.’”—Engin. N.
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“The book as a whole contains a large amount of information, statistical and descriptive, on various phases of the subject indicated by the title.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 140w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 49. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Marriott, H. Crittenden.= Uncle Sam’s business; told for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
8–28399.
An informing story which shows Uncle Sam as ruler, captain of industry and public servant. In the first instance Uncle Sam is shown as law-maker, judge, ambassador, society man, trader, soldier, sailor, peace-maker, and immigrant; in the second, as builder, house-cleaner, store-keeper, builder of war ships, manager of public lands, maker and distributer of money; in the third, as farmer, chemist, forester, weatherman, and patron of science and art.
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“The information is rather disconnected and the style wordy and careless, but the book has value in connection with the study of civics.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should meet the present demand for instruction without drudgery.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Older people may obtain clear ideas of governmental matters upon which they have not been well informed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Mars, Gerhardt Cornell.= Interpretation of life; in which is shown the relation of modern culture to Christian science. **$3. Appleton.
8–18359.
A work written from the Christian science standpoint which makes a stirring appeal to every thinker. Dr. Mars “discusses successively the natural world-order in its evolution, inorganic and organic; then the supranatural or rational world-order; next the threefold unity of reason, in science, art, and ethics; then the threefold interpretation of reason, theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical; then ‘the pedagogy of pain,’ involving the problems of evil, sin, and atonement, or reconciliation.” (Outlook.) He closes with a defense of Mrs. Eddy.
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“It is as suggestive as it is lucid, as logical and closely reasoned as it is profoundly thoughtful and convincing to the reason.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 258. S. ’08. 8000w.
“The work will not be of much value in proselyting, but it ought to exert a good influence inside the church in checking the disposition to scoff at scientific methods and defy common sense.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 700w.
“Christian science ... has at last found an expositor and defender who really knows something, who has read widely and intelligently, who can compare and reason, and who does write English that means something.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 349. Je. 20, ’08. 880w.
“Fundamentally as we disagree with many of Dr. Mars’s conclusions, we believe that so long as these problems exist such earnest attempts to solve them cannot be useless. He at least brings to consciousness many of the contradictions of our social order and he thinks nobly of man.” Christian Gauss.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 771. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Dr. Mars’s surprising conclusion should not in sober judgment impugn the solid merits of the work to which it is, in strict logic, no more than an appendix.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 480w.
=Marsh, Charles Fleming, and Dunn, William.= Manual of reinforced concrete and concrete block construction. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“Presents in compact handbook form the necessary information required in the design, construction and supervision of reinforced concrete work. The text is based upon that of the third edition of their favorably-known quarto treatise, ‘Reinforced concrete.’ the demonstrations or reasoning, however, upon which the formulas are based, being omitted in order to keep the work within handbook limits.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 340w.
“Its main faults for American sale are its rather unwieldly size ... and its use of British standards of measurement and practice. A very good designing hand-book, a trifle obscure, perhaps, in some of the theory, but still quite valuable to the office-man in concrete work.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 539. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Some of the methods of design employed in the book will be questioned by some engineers, but the book as a whole is excellent.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= Exton Manor. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3427.
English country life is depicted here in a manner to create atmosphere and with it the feeling of knowing the characters intimately. In this Exton Manor community a social war is waged which has for its cause the question of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The episode is used to test the Christianity, apart from Churchmanship, of a group of people prominent among whom are a clergyman’s busy-body wife and an adherent of the Woman’s reformation league.
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“The book is a long one.... It moves with all the slowness of the old three-volume novel; and it moves with that slowness just because the author is not an analyst ... but shows you life itself.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“A tale of much more than ordinary excellence, which moves slowly and is not strong in plot, but which introduces real people who live out very real lives and command interest to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Marshall succeeds in keeping our interest to the end, for his people are living people, and never once do they descend to caricature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 300w.
“There is enough that is good in this book, and enough that shows possibilities for later work from the author, to justify serious criticism.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 178. Ap. ’08. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 560w.
“The details are painted in with so much fidelity and with such loving care that it has with good reason recalled to most reviewers the works of Anthony Trollope.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The story that he unfolds in his successive chapters is an interesting one, while as a study of contemporaneous life it is strong, keen and humorous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Is one of the most carefully written and thoroughly worked out pieces of fiction that has appeared in England for a long time past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 611. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“There is very little art in it; but the fact that such a chronicle should only occasionally be boring proves a skill in the chronicler which is sure to commend him to the many readers to whom gossip makes a more direct appeal than art.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Marshall has written nothing better than this, and we might say nothing nearly so good. We heartily recommend this calming book to a bustling age.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 462. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Marston, Edward (“Amateur Angler,” pseud.).= Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton: a sketch of their lives and family connection. *$2. Longmans.
An octogenarian has brought together late material which further illuminates the history of the famous angler, Izaak Walton, and has presented it with the quiet enthusiasm of fellow sympathy.
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“A book of somewhat disjointed notes on the two worthies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 360w.
“The story of how Ken became bishop alone makes the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 450w.
* =Martin, Edward Sandford.= In a new century. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–27778.
Twenty-two essays telling “of the consequences of too much success, of some advantages of the common lot, of the remuneration found in reading and writing, of the prospects of ‘Society’ in America, of riches, character, and money, of the profound need in our leaders of what he calls the spiritual quality, of the seashore and the inland countryside, of the purpose and use of deafness, and many another subject handled with skill and distinct literary ability.” (Outlook.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“Mr. Martin is a genial philosopher, but his teaching is none the less timely and vigorous.” E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 500w.
“What he says is always worth reading, and he always says it felicitously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Very much up to date and very typically American is this collection of essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 540w.
“His sturdy, uncompromising stand for truth, and civic and personal righteousness, is clothed in a form of grace, and sparkles with the irony admissible to a thoroughly refined mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Letitia: nursery corps, U. S. A. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37709.
Stories of army life with a little girl in the foreground whose happiness is less in the hands of a heartless mother and a self-centered father than in the keeping of her “striker” guardians. “In one of the stories the canteen question is viewed from a familiar standpoint—that with the abolishment of the army saloon the soldiers seek amusement in worse places. Another shows how the social distinctions of army life extend even to the children of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Humorous setting-forth of some of the unromantic features of army life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 19. Ja. ’08.
“This forlorn little waif, remaining unspotted by her very wordly world, the reprehensible morals and manners from which she springs, and the problems of post life as seen here, are compounded of paper and printer’s ink.”
− =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 80w.
“Six commonplace short stories of life at an army post are all one finds in this book by the creator of the winsome Emmy Lou.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“The stories are amusing and give a good insight into wandering military life. But the language is sometimes marred by obscurity owing to an obvious effort to imitate Kipling’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
=Martin, Helen Riemensnyder.= Revolt of Anne Royle. †$1.50. Century.
8–25996.
This story follows the development of a lonely child from the age of eight thru years of struggle against the authority of a stern guardian and the snobbishness of his relatives, thru years of growing self assertion and revolt against imperious control, on to maturity and happiness. There is also a portrayal without exaggeration of a worldly minded clergyman, whose shallowness is strongly contrasted with the results of service achieved by a young curate of determination and power.
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“The story is forced and unnatural and many of the characters are exaggerated, but as a clever love tale it will be acceptable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08.
“Whether considered as a love romance or as a sectional view of American life, the story is one of the best American novels of the season.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 220w.
“If the reader can conceive of a story that combines the old-fashioned charm of the ‘Wide, wide world’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ with the fresher interest of a modern romance, he will have some idea of the fascination of this remarkable book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The dénouement is not unforeseen, but the bits of artifice relied upon to sustain the plot interest and attain a fit ending are forgivable in view of the real interest in the people of the book, which is never wanting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 480w.
“The story is overweighted, and the effect is neither agreeable nor artistic.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico of the twentieth century. 2v. *$8.50. Dodd.
8–4360.
“An authoritative and exhaustive account of present-day conditions in our neighbor republic, written in the hope of remedying popular ignorance and prejudice in regard to a country whose geography, social and economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a sealed book to Europeans and even to other Americans.”—Dial.
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“A valuable compendium. Readable, letter press excellent, illustrations admirable, binding only fairly durable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“The book contains much that is of value, and almost everything that will be sought for in such a work. But it is padded with a great deal of gossip, here slightly out of place, as having often little or no connexion with the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 730w.
“He knows his subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece of information will be likely to find just what he wants somewhere in these two volumes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Although more pretentious is in reality less valuable than Mr. Starr’s book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“He has piled up a mountain of facts, has amassed what should be most useful to both the Englishman and the American.” G. R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 421. Ag. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“As an aid to promoters, industrialists, and investors generally, Mr. Martin’s volumes have special value.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Verbose and chaotic volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 360w.
“The fault we find is that Mr. Martin gives us information which is quite unnecessary, and has really little or nothing to do with Mexico, and yet declares that he has been forced to omit things obviously more pertinent for want of room.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 990. D. 14, ’07. 1700w.
=Martin, William Frank.= Sir Harry Vane: a drama in five acts. $1.25. Roxburgh pub.
8–5897.
A drama based upon historical facts selected from the period of Vane’s occupancy of the governorship of the Massachusetts Bay colony, 1636–1637. Political and theological controversies form the background of the drama, conspicuous among whose characters are Sir Harry Vane, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley.
=Mary Stuart, queen of Scots.= Queen Mary’s book: a collection of poems and essays; ed. by Mrs. P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot. *$3.50. Macmillan.
8–16438.
“A translation of a collection of poems and essays written at intervals during her life, beginning with her Latin exercises at the age of twelve, and ending with the essay on adversity written in prison. Its best features are the five excellent reproductions of works in her handwriting, and an appendix containing the original texts in a generally accurate form.”—Ath.
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“The editor is, in fact, not qualified to do good editorial work.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 819. D. 28. 1150w.
“It cannot be denied that there is a strange pathetic interest in ‘Queen Mary’s book.’ The pathos of the book lies in the poems and prose compositions of the queen herself, which are here for the first time brought together in a single volume. Our only quarrel with the book is that all the originals are not added.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot does not pretend to be an historian or a critic of eminence. Her part, we may say, is to show her convictions by laying a flower on Mary’s grave, by adding a stone to the wall of defence against her enemies. And her work is done in a candid spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=Marzo, Eduardo=, comp, and ed. Art of vocalization. 3 bks. pa. ea. 75c. Ditson.
Shows to Americans with their beautiful singing voices the necessity of a “hurry never” creed if they would reach the goal of excellence attained by Europeans. Exercises for voice culture are selected from the works of Lablache, Panofka, Randegger, Marchesi, and others.
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+ =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
* =Masefield, John.= Captain Margaret: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a perilous journey to the Spanish Main whither Captain Margaret, dreamer no less than swordsman, goes from England to help the Indians against the oppression of Spain. The story tells how the renegade husband of Captain Margaret’s former sweetheart comes, with his wife, aboard the captain’s ship as it was putting out to sea, how he pretended to his wife to be nobly bent upon fighting for the Indians when in truth he is fleeing from justice, how the captain’s quiet, restrained power is a foil for the husband’s perfidy, how the wife finally recognizes it, how the colony fails but how love triumphs.
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“It is a good yarn, full of colour and movement.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 92. Jl. 25. 230w.
“The psychology, and occasionally the dialogue, are strangely modern. But the story is finely conceived.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 455. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
“We must say that the last chapter atones for some of the incredibilities, as it contains passages which are noble and moving, and will, we think, be very grateful to every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 99. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Masefield, John.= Tarpaulin muster. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–10282.
Twenty-four stories, chiefly sea-tales with the tang of the salt in them, the changing lights that draw colors from old ocean, and sounds that range from alluring siren refrains to the creaking of cordage and the booming of breakers. A veritable classic is “Being ashore” which, contrary to the title, is a magnificent description of a run off River Plate, with the writer possessed of the spirit of the wind and the ecstasy of the spray.
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“Mr. Masefield is a genuine sailor author, and his work merits support.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 150w.
“Writes vividly of his themes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“To approach it in the same spirit that one opens an artist’s sketch-book is to guard against disappointment in not finding sea yarns of a stirring sort, and to insure appreciation of the author’s pleasant style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Masefield is a master of strange effects. Writing of the sea or of Irish fairies, of whom he possesses an intimate knowledge, he leaves a feeling that haunts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Masefield challenges notice on a higher plane as a sea-folklorist (if we may be allowed the barbarous expression) and an interpreter of sea-magic; and, though the quality of his work is unequal, at its best it is very fine indeed.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 801. My. 18, ’07. 1300w.
=Mason, Caroline Atwater.= Binding of the strong. †$1.50. Revell.
8–23544.
A story based upon historical facts concerning the hasty courtship and marriage of John Milton and Mary Powell. Into the background are woven facts of political strife and upheaval, while well to the fore are the desertion of the wife and the reconciliation effected by Delmé Davies, whom in the wife’s absence Milton had learned to trust and to love.
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“It is a pleasing and happy story, in spite of the fact that ‘they’ did not marry in the end. It will make the great poet more real to some readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Pleasantly told tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 90w.
=Massey, Gerald.= Ancient Egypt: the light of the world: a work of reclamation and restitution. 2v. *$12. Dutton.
8–13676.
“The volumes are divided into twelve books, in which Mr. Massey has treated ... the various forms of sign language and Egyptian wisdom as the source from which was derived most of the knowledge of the ancient world and the religion of the modern.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In any case his book would be of no value except as a compilation. But, further, he had little idea of what is and what is not permissible in logical argument; very few of his syllogisms are without a flaw; he has no perception of what is possible or impossible in respect of philological comparisons, and he was dominated by a fanatical belief with regard to the origin of Christianity which at once takes his book out of the realm of science.”
− − + =Nature.= 77: 291. Ja. 30, ’08. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“Very interesting work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 490. Je. 27, ’08. 500w.
=Massey, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical farming. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–40013.
A book for farmers and agricultural students which treats of the care of the soil and crop production.
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“Is well written, in an easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“In every way this book is of decided value.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 612. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Massie, Walter Wentworth and Underhill, Charles R.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony popularly explained; with a special article by Nikola Tesla. **$1. Van Nostrand.
8–22565.
Aims to give in simple untechnical language a clear idea of the reception and development of wireless communication. The author describes the substance thru which signals are sent, the theory of the propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves, the apparatus used, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of wireless telegraphy—both commercially and financially.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 120w.
“The authors of this little work have succeeded better than one might expect in the task of giving the lay reader simple ideas of wireless telegraphy and telephony.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book cannot fail to be helpful to one wishing to obtain a fair idea of the principal features of wireless communication, for the authors have handled the subject in an instructive manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 503. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“The explanations are simple and clear and the descriptions are not overloaded with technical details.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Deals fairly well with the first part of the title, giving the theory of electro-magnetic wave motion in an especially clear manner. Wireless telephony is but slightly touched upon.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Masson, John.= Lucretius, epicurean and poet. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–15762.
A work which represents the painstaking study of a lifetime. “Dr. Masson’s scheme includes a survey of Roman history in the time of Lucretius, a study of the influences working in the man, and an exhaustive exposition of the qualities of his work” (N. Y. Times.) including chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised by Gassendi.
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“A careful perusal of Mr. Masson’s work has impressed us so favorably that we think that his book, rightly understood, cannot fail to extend and increase the knowledge and appreciation of one of the greatest of Roman poets.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 329. S. 19. 800w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“A good piece of work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Masson could not well treat the subject without giving much valuable material. But as a whole, the work is irritating and unsatisfactory. Dr. Masson’s work suffers fundamentally from lack of reflection.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 381. Ap. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The whole hook provides rare entertainment for the mind fitted to receive it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 152. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“For a faithful exposition of this noble poem this volume is unrivaled.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 126. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A reading of Mr. Masson’s substantial book and a fresh reading of the poet suggest that a wholesale appreciation of Lucretius comes natural nowadays either to persons who shut their ears to the music of words, or whose interest—and this is perhaps the case with Mr. Masson—lies really in the history of science.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 535. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“The relation of Lucretius’s scientific reasoning to modern thought has been discussed by Dr. Masson in the present volume with a knowledge and insight which leave little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 299. F. 22, ’08. 2100w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= New Plato; or, Socrates redivivus. **75c. Moffat.
8–10888.
Socrates steps out of the pages of Plato into Mr. Masson’s humorous colloquies as easily as he quits the steerage of the Lusitania and takes up his headquarters at the Mills hotel. He acquaints himself with New Yorkers, visits their homes, and discusses with true modern insight such subjects as The married life, The gambler, The bridge player, Socialism, Learning, Surgeons, Philosophy, The missionary, and The nature of happiness.
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“Probably no parodist has so struck the modern note as he has done in his ten brief colloquies. His English imitates successfully, and often amusingly, the Jowett style. He would have done well to submit his proofsheets to a Greek scholar before publication.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Masson’s wit is subtle and his humor is elusive. But both pervade his writings and give them appreciable value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 260w.
=Mastin. J. B.= Immortal light. $1.50. Cassell.
A romance with a scientific accompaniment which steers the reader to the South Pole. “Mr. Mastin pictures races of mankind far higher in development than ourselves as dwelling near the South Pole.... We see his travellers pass through solids, on ether, by a natural law applied by human intelligence to the art of locomotion. Instead of Eskimos, they meet radiant persons who can talk in all languages, but understand thought without speech. Instead of icefields, they find a pretty country where the panther grazes like a sheep. But the Pole itself is in a prohibited, region guarded by electricity.” (Ath.)
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“The story is wildly improbable, but confronts incredulity with a considerable display of scientific detail. A strong religious feeling animates the last part of the book, but we think the author errs in linking his deism with the conception of a polar Eden.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The details are worked out in a fairly interesting manner, and the novel deserves notice, as it points to the way in which further developments in scientific attainment may serve as the foundation for a higher spiritual evolution in human beings.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 68. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.= Andrew Ellicott: his life and letters. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–13374.
Sets forth the work and character of “a foundation-builder,” a man who laid out the city of Washington, completed the survey of Mason and Dixon’s line, negotiated with the Indians and helped to settle numerous boundary disputes for the government.
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“This revival ... of an old, honest, capable and useful member of a half-forgotten world, is a refreshing event. If the new ‘prosperity associations’ would encourage such revivals, American libraries would be the better for it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Flame dancer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24467.
Mystery, oriental mysticism and romance mingle in this story which deals mainly with the disappearance of some jewels acquired by a millionaire from the treasure of the flame dancers and sought by the chief of the ravished shrine—a Chinaman who wields the art of See-foo-tee, or double hypnotism.
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“No doubt this story will delight people who like to have their heads spin as they take their literary pabulum.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 240w.
=Mattapoisett, Mass.= Mattapoisett and old Rochester, Massachusetts; being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham. (Grafton historical ser.) **$2. Grafton press.
7–26622.
Early history of Rochester prepared under the direction of a committee of the town of Mattapoisett. “As dealing with one of the oldest settlements in Plymouth colony, it contains a good deal which is of more than local moment.” (Bookm.)
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“It would have been more satisfactory if the author had supplied references, in foot-notes, to original authorities, though in some cases the information is given in the body of the text.” M. W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 660. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“Though full of detail, is successful in avoiding the drone of the village chronicler.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 513. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Is a new instance of good historical work resulting from a town or church celebration.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Is an admirable example of local history intelligently compiled by the co-operative method and written with a view to a larger than purely local interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–29534.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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Reviewed by Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 340w. (Review of chapter on “Ibsen the playwright.”)
“Essays of varying merit. Some of them might better have been left to the temporary honor of the popular magazine, to be read and enjoyed and forgotten; others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day by publication in book form.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 137. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“I have had no hesitation in expressing divergent views from those set forth in this volume, not only because the book is in the main so fine, but because its author enjoys honest dissent fully as much as praise. For the benefit of the next edition, one or two minute slips may be mentioned.” W. L. Phelps.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 377. Ja. ’08. 1900w.
“It actually looks in some cases as though Professor Matthews had made too violent a wrench to get away from the academicism natural to his profession and were in danger of overleaping the saddle altogether.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 220w.
“It is in the chapter devoted to ‘Ibsen the playwright’ that he most commands attention.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Short-story: specimens illustrating its development; ed. with introd. and notes by Brander Matthews. *$1. Am. bk.
8–1920.
The specimens illustrating the development of the short story are preceded by an introduction which traces the growth of the form thru the history of literature and seeks to set forth its slow attainment of the essential type.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 222. Je. ’08.
“The editor contributes some fifty pages of critical matter, which are highly interesting, both because they exhibit a man riding a hobby, and because they provide a sympathetic and penetrating study of the subject.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
=Matthews, Frank Herbert.= Principles of intellectual education. *75c. Putnam.
8–3283.
A short, compact discussion which passes for a good illustration of the English method of treating educational theory. “What are the general qualities of mind which education is able to develop, if any? followed later by the natural sequel: What is the best means of doing so? The answer to the first question is ‘flexibility and exactness’; the second answer the reader must deduce from the investigation and statement of the ‘principles of intellectual education—the subject of the volume.’” (Ath.)
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“For the matter of the book we have only praise, but the manner leaves much to be desired. In spite of blemishes, however, the book is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 260. S. 7. 1100w.
“The very fact that one could not well say that the author leans distinctly to either side [the outgoing activity emphasized by Froebel, and the inworking of the world upon the growing mind which is the foundation of Herbart’s doctrine] shows that he is not a slavish follower but a self-respecting thinker.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“The book can be strongly commended to teachers as, on the whole, an orderly exposition of contemporary educational ideals.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =School R.= 16: 207. Mr. ’08. 700w.
=Matthews, Franklin.= With the battle fleet. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–30928.
The cruise of the fleet of sixteen American battle ships from the leaving of Hampton Roads on December 16, to dropping anchors in San Francisco harbor on May 6. The stops, receptions tendered, routine and social life on an American man-o’-war, and lessons of the cruise make reading as interesting as it is informing.
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“His active participation and his fresh descriptive instinct are far above the ordinary.” M. J. Moses.
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“A book that offers not a little information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“Informative and entertaining.”
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“One of the best recent examples of intelligent and graphic narrative and description in the form of newspaper correspondence.”
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=Maude, E.= Oriental campaigns and European furloughs: the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian mutiny. *$2.50. Wessels.
The experiences of a fighting man, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, who tells the story of his life from the time that he went out with a cadet ship in 1843 until 1887 when he retired.
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“Possessing a certain old-time simplicity which somehow reminds one of Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’ and those marches of twelve parasangs to an inhabited city, this is somehow a decidedly refreshing sort of book.”
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“This is a pleasant and unaffected record of experiences in war and peace.”
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=Maunder, Edward Walter.= Astronomy of the Bible: an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. *$2. Kennerley.
An astronomical commentary on the Bible, quite free from technicalities. The general divisions of the treatment are as follows: