The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times
and seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day, The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural reference and an index complete the volume.
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“In Biblical astronomy, indeed, the present work may be considered almost an exhaustive treatise; and if some of the author’s conclusions are not universally accepted, all are well worthy of thoughtful discussion.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 216. Ag. 22. 1100w.
“The standpoint of the author is that of a believer in Holy Writ, who is free from those notions of inspiration that modern science has rendered untenable, and is to be classed as a devout man well acquainted with the latest teachings of science and eager to use them in classifying obscurities in the Scriptures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“There is much in the book that is interesting and valuable; when the author gets outside the supposed necessities of his apologetic he is well worth attention.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Hill Rise. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–271.
“In this story there is a certain moral hidden, which we take to be the recuperative and redemptive power of hard work. In reality the hero of the novel is an old builder, in whom the snobbish treatment of his neighbors on the Hill of Medford, with its 18,000 inhabitants, has engendered a passionate hatred. He buys the estate of Hill Rise with the intention of rooting out the snobs, and he all but fails. The story holds us by the interest of this battle.”—Ath.
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“His touch is pleasant, light, and humorous at times; at others sufficiently earnest. Mr. Maxwell is one of the few writers who are always interesting, and the main reason is that he keeps in close touch with human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 230w.
“Is quietly successful in its quality and interest as a clever satire upon self-sufficient uselessness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
=Mayer, Clarence.= Telephone construction: methods and cost. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–23074.
“Presents a simple and comprehensive system for collecting, analyzing and recording the various costs involved in telephone line construction, giving examples of the forms and blanks used for the different divisions of the work, and explaining clearly the methods employed in computing, proportioning and prorating the costs.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The book recommends itself as being a volume of exact records of experience and not of theories and opinions.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Maynard, Samuel Taylor.= Small country place. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–17270.
“The book covers not only the treatment of buildings and grounds, but offers definite suggestions regarding the planting of gardens and orchards, poultry-keeping, dairying, and many other interests connected with the small rural or suburban place. The author has passed more than thirty years of his life in teaching botany and horticulture and has endeavored to make his book thoroughly practical. The book is fully illustrated.”—R. of Rs.
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“The principles of the practices outlined might be more thoroughly discussed to advantage. The arrangement and style are good, and the facts accurate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08. ✠
“The text and illustrations combined promise to prove profitable to a large number of the class of readers for whom the book is intended.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“His book would be admirable if it were not in reality three or four books squeezed and contracted into one.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 390. Jl. 11, ’08. 280w.
“No one who owns a country house or has the plan of one burgeoning in his imagination will care to ignore a book that contains so much valuable information and so few waste words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Mayow, John.= Medico-physical works; being a translation of Tractatus quinque medico-physici. (Alembic club reprints, no. 17.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–3602.
“A larger volume than most of its predecessors, and contains the ‘Medico-physical works’ of John Mayow, who as early as 1668 in chemical matters relating to combustion, respiration, and other vital activities, anticipated opinions which were not established for another hundred years. The text is a translation of the five essays of the Oxford edition of 1674. The editors have noted the main facts of Mayow’s life and a few explanations in a rather brief preface.” (Nation.) “The basis of Mayow’s work was his recognition of the existence in the air and in common nitre of extremely subtle particles to which he gave the name ‘nitro-aërial spirit.’” (Nature.)
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“Judged by a few random comparisons with the original text, the translation is exact and good, but we are not quite in accord with the limitations as to explanations which the translators have set themselves. Nor is the comment as to the neglect of Mayow altogether just.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 339. F. 13, ’08. 600w.
=Meehan, Michael.= Mrs. Eddy and the late suit in equity. $2.25. Michael Meehan, Concord, N. H.
8–8275.
Records with justice to Mrs. Eddy the out-of-court events and utterances that led up to, grew out of or resulted from the late suit brought against her.
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“It is well that a reliable and exhaustive history of the famous suit in equity ... should appear in substantial form for preservation.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 591. My. ’08. 600w.
* =Megargel, Percy Freeman, and Mason, Grace Sartwell.= Car and the lady. †$1.50. Baker.
8–22795.
This is a story, based upon actual happenings, of a transcontinental motor race, which tested both the respective merits of rival cars and the manhood and hardihood of two lovers, an Italian and an American, who were rivals for the hand of a spirited New York girl.
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“One of the best of the numerous motor stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08. ✠
“There are exciting events in plenty, and the story moves with appropriate swiftness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 491. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
* =Meier-Graefe, Julius A.= Modern art; tr. from the German by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. 2v. *$10.50. Putnam.
“A comparative study of the formative arts, being a contribution to a new system of aesthetics.” “In his exhaustive work he traces the source of modern art to Rubens, following its development through the careers of the great men and movements that have come since his day down to the present time. He brilliantly analyzes such great protagonists and varied characters as Delacroix, Daumier, Constable, Ingrès, Manet, Millet, Gaughin, William Morris, Van Gogh, Renier, Renoir, etc., and shows in an intellectual manner how they influenced the events of their respective periods.”—N. Y. Times.
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“These plates call for more than casual attention, not only because they contribute much to the attractiveness of the volumes, but because they form an unusually representative collection covering the entire period dealt with in the book. As reflected in what is apparently an excellent translation, this style is sometimes lucid and at other times a mixture of clever epigram and verbosity in which the leading thought is not readily disentangled from a wealth of illustrative imagery that obscures it. But always there is entertainment and mental stimulus.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 400. D. 1, ’08. 900w.
“Now and then in the chaos of words one seems to catch an idea by the tail, but one can never hold it long.”
− =Nation.= 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 260w.
“For the first time we have presented such a full study of modern international activities, causes, and effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“A series of discursive, thoughtful, suggestive essays, which seem quite as effective in English as in their original German. The volumes are lavishly illustrated as to quantity and poorly as to quality. Our critic, in truth, seems not so remarkable for his review of English or German or any other painting as in his account of French art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 670w.
“With most of Herr Meier-Graefe’s views, though he has a good deal to say that is of interest and incites to argument, I more or less acutely disagree.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 635. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
“His passionate bias for anything and everything French colours the whole book. Herr Meier-Graefe has great ability; he has at command a vast amount of information and a ceaseless store of sometimes striking and suggestive aphorisms. If he kept to generalities, and did not illustrate by tangible examples, we should find him a great deal more persuasive than he is.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 662. N. 28, ’08. 1850w.
=Mencken, Henry L.= Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. *$2. Luce, J. W.
8–4452.
Nietzsche is here translated into terms familiar to all readers. He is considered the “high priest of the actual,” divine mysteries are lunacies to him, he believes with Schopenhauer that philosophy is comfortless because it is the truth. The will to live is the only thing that must concern us, moral codes are simply expedients found helpful in successful endeavors to live. The book sets forth how his philosophy rejects Christianity and democracy; how it points out the evolution of the human race thru the immoralist to the superman; how it combats ideas held holy and impeccable by mankind to-day.
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“A very able elucidation of a distinctive field of modern thought.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Though we dissent profoundly from the appreciation of Nietzsche expressed in this volume, we have to thank the author for his keen analysis and clear statement of the ideas and principles that characterize the philosophy of the Superman.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 398. Je. ’08. 750w.
“Mr. Mencken has produced a very readable book and a better presentation of Nietzsche to the English reader than is elsewhere available. Critically speaking, it has one serious fault,—that the reader is often left in doubt as to where the author is speaking his own views and where he is merely presenting those of Nietzsche.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 330w.
“One of the most interesting and instructive books that has come from the American press in many a long day. The presentation of Nietzsche’s philosophical teachings is both intelligent, intelligible, and highly amusing.”
+ + − =Educ. R.= 35: 508. My. ’08. 550w.
“His exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy is clear, simple, and orderly, quite free from the cobwebs of metaphysics; if he shows bad taste in the details of writing, this may be passed over as a mark of zeal in imitating his master. We can commend the exegesis, though we repudiate the conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 600w.
“It is evident that Mr. Mencken possesses the requisite sympathy, and withal a certain clear, forceful, even ardent style, a keen and thorough-going intellect, knowledge of men, and a sense of humor. He is not hampered by prejudice nor dismayed by traditions, and he is able to leave out inessentials without destroying the harmony of what remains. He has made a good book and gives us a pretty fair conception of just what Nietzsche was and what he stood for.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 420w.
“Whatever may be thought of Nietzsche’s philosophy, there is here a clear exposition of it in vigorous, straightforward language, together with a really interesting and thoughtful biographical memoir.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Meriwether, Colyer.= Our colonial curriculum, 1607–1706. $2. Central pub. co., Washington, D. C.
8–13757.
“The author covers a wide field and gives excessive space to a consideration of the curriculum of schools and universities in England and other European countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book has eight chapters as follows: Elementary course, The general college course, Ancient languages, Theology and philosophy, Geography, history and modern language, Mathematics, Science, Disputation.”
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“In spite of its incompleteness the book represents much study and should be in the library of all persons interested in this field.” Marcus W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 910. Jl. ’08. 480w.
“What the book lacks is the ability to interpret the lessons which the facts brought together teach.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 80w.
“An excessive modernity, including a style not infrequently verging upon the flippant, characterizes the book.”
− =Nation.= 86: 552. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
* =Merriam, Charles Edward.= Primary elections: a study of the history and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–33814.
Traces the development of the legal regulation of party primaries from 1866 down to 1908, sums up the general tendencies evident in this movement, discusses some of the disputed points in the primary problem, and states certain conclusions concerning our nominating machinery.
=Merrick, Leonard.= Lynch’s daughter. †$1.50. McClure.
8–29737.
A story of tainted millions. Lynch’s daughter, an American girl, weds a poor English artist who gains her consent to refuse one cent from a father who is known as “the devastating trust magnate, the debaucher of politics, the infamous multi-millionaire.” Her trials under the strain of poverty lead her to a period of estrangement from her husband during which she returns to her father, is solaced for a time, then suffers remorse, renounces her wealth, and, finally finds full compensation in her husband’s love and genius.
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“May be read without dread and with pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 580. D. 10, ’08. 270w.
“As a whole, we have found ‘Lynch’s daughter’ superior alike in charm and verity to ‘The worldlings.’ Take it as a fantasy, if you can, make allowances for its appeal to the commoner kind of readers if you will, and you will find much in it to repay perusal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“It is not a great work of art, but Mr. Merrick may be congratulated on having produced a book which is thoroughly entertaining, while at the same time depicting every-day life with homely fidelity.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Merrill, Lilburn.= Winning the boy; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **75c. Revell.
8–11441.
“The author has brought together, in an entertaining and instructive manner, some stories and essays on boy life that every parent, teacher, and other individual interested in children should read. No man is better equipped, and in my judgment, more capable of speaking and writing helpfully and wisely upon the subject than Dr. Merrill.”—Introd.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Is in very truth a book, as the publishers declare on the cover, ‘for every parent, teacher or person interested in children.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Merrill, Selah.= Ancient Jerusalem. **$6. Revell.
8–10618.
Dr. Merrill thru the years of his exploration and later consulship devoted himself to his study of the ancient topography of Jerusalem. “The gist of Dr. Merrill’s thesis is that ... the original city of Jerusalem lay not on the eastern, or Temple, hill, but northward of the present Zion, or westerly hill, in the neighborhood of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and that the Acra, which play so prominent a part in the story of the Maccabean contests, was located at this spot.” (Nation.)
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“His view’s on many points are striking, and his presentation is original and interesting.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Few scholars probably will accept Dr. Merrill’s general conclusions, and in details he contributes little to our knowledge of Jerusalem not already available in other volumes.”
− =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“Dr. Merrill is quite out of sympathy with modern views, and especially with modern views of the date and composition of Old Testament books, and on that account he fails to use the Bible effectively in his topographical studies. Moreover, his whole presentation is one-sided; he cites only that which tends to support his positions.”
− =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The author has viewed the subject from all sides, and given his conclusions in a scholarly form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“Dr. Merrill’s noble work has a value that can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
7–37945.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“It should be in large libraries or in any library whose patrons have special interest in the subject, because of its compact summary of arguments.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 716. My. ’08. 250w.
“A careful and dispassionate piece of work.” J: J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 950w.
“A clear and concise presentation of the problem.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 160w.
“A better brief than this in defense of the Inter-state commerce commission has hardly been produced. Dr. Merritt’s book is scholarly and useful.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 860. D. 28, ’07. 510w.
“A useful review of the chief decisions of the Interstate commerce commission. Not only is the book out of date, but some of its statements are questionable.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Metcalfe, Richard Lee.= “Of such is the kingdom,” and other stories from life. 3d ed. $1. Richard L. Metcalfe, Lincoln, Neb.
7–37252.
An optimistic tone pervades this book which draws the mind of man from selfishness and brutality, hypocrisy and insincerity, double dealing and lack of candor to the temple of childhood where there is sincerity and truth, to the “Kingdom of never grow old” where there is relief from the meanness and the malice of the world.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Prolongation of life: optimistic studies. *$2.50. Putnam.
8–12571.
Pasteur’s successor here continues his warfare against disease, old age and death. “Although Metchnikoff in this new book does not claim to have made the ultimate discovery in biology that will at once conquer the evils of disease and death, nevertheless he does reach certain definite conclusions as to the causes for the relatively short duration of human life, and having found what he believes to be these causes he makes what are at least tentative suggestions looking to their modification.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“The work is suggestive.” Scott Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 456. S. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Chalmers Mitchell has performed his task as a translator in a most satisfactory manner, for the book reads as though it had been written in English.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 624. N. 16. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“Although Professor Metchnikoff’s book is important on account of its topic, and interesting and suggestive in its treatment of it, it is impossible to praise it very highly from a literary standpoint.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 270. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“The book deserves a wide and careful study.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 314. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The book is one that will be widely read by the general public on account of its frank and simple style, altho he makes no effort to dodge the use of scientific terms or to palliate his conclusions to meet popular taste.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 864. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“While an ultra-materialist, Metchnikoff is enthusiastically optimistic as to the future of the race, and his work is a help toward ideal living.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 371. D. 6, ’07. 1030w.
“He writes with the spirit of a seeker after truth. His book, while highly suggestive, is intended to be neither exhaustive nor conclusive. Its purpose is rather to point out the problems of somatic limitations, and the principles involved in attempting their ultimate solution.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 710w.
“A remarkable book in many ways. The whole range of literature is ransacked by the author, and the facts and opinions collected are discussed with an originality, a width of view, and knowledge that give the book an especial fascination and constantly arrest the attention.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 289. Ja. 30, ’08. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 25. Ja. 18, ’08. 2900w.
“When he comes finally to discourse upon morality, he illustrates afresh the unwisdom of specialists who disregard the maxim ‘Let the shoemaker stick to his last.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag: 1, ’08. 440w.
Reviewed by Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 233. N. ’08. 1550w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 244. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
“It is to be regretted that Professor Metchnikoff has not more clearly defined his use of such purely relative terms as ‘pessimism’ and ‘optimism;’ but whatever meaning he attaches to the word ‘pessimism,’ whether he regards it as an attitude of the mind or as a matured judgment arrived at only after study of life’s problems, we absolutely dispute the assumption that the intellectual world is at present pessimist.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 1250w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The work of a partizan who is unable to write disinterestedly, but the only available book on an exceedingly interesting and important subject. The facts are fairly accurate, but twisted out of their natural meaning and import.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 15. Ja. ’08.
“It is highly probable that if the evidence has been given its proper weight the dark picture here presented might prove less sombre.” S: E. Sparling.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 300w.
“His conclusions are in the main directly contrary to those of the recent commission appointed to investigate public ownership in Great Britain.”
− =Arena.= 39: 122. Ja. ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by J. W. Garner.
=Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Is worthy of the most serious consideration by every student of municipal affairs.” F. L. McVey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 128. Je. ’08. 360w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 450w.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“It is, in fact, giving more credit to Mr. Meyer than is his due—perhaps more than he himself would claim—to describe his book as a study of the working of state ownership of telegraphs. It is an examination of some of the weaknesses of the system, with an overemphasis on each of the defects exposed.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 256. Ja. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“He is a prosecuting attorney rather than a judge, and it must be admitted that his indictment is thorough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 360w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 341. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Brings together an important mass of material which is combined and treated in such a way as to produce a distinctly partizan and prejudiced piece of work. Useful for debate because the preponderance of published matter on the subject takes the other side of the question.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Will prove of great help to those who wish to marshall on one side all that can be said against public management. Room is left for a more rounded and judicial treatment of the subject.” E: W. Bemis.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 527. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“An ably written, extremely partisan brief.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 530w.
“As pictured by Mr. Meyer, there is no redeeming feature in the long chronicle of stupidity, ignorance, incapacity, mismanagement, and political intrigue which make up the state operation of these industries. As may be imagined, such a black case against government management of industry is not secured without some distortion of facts; statistics abound and give a ‘vraisemblance’ of finality to the discussion, but a careful selection of only those favorable to his case absolutely vitiates the conclusion.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“Mr. Meyer pays little heed to this attitude of English people toward expenditure, and attributes the lack of progress in telephone development to the muddle-headedness of the government.”
− =Ind.= 64: 257. Ja. 30, ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book is rather a curious sample of social psychology than a useful contribution to a solution of the telephone problem.” J. R. Commons.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 631. N. ’08. 900w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 670w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29. ’08. 1300w.
=Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Servia and the Servians. *$3. Page.
“The volume consists of chapters on the history, religion, and national characteristics of the people, including special chapters on the peasant, the music, the literature, and the economic possibilities of Servia. An appendix contains a specimen of the Servian national poems and of Servian folklore, and gives some interesting statistical information of the most recent data upon the country of King Peter. There are sixteen full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs taken by the author, landscape views and peasant type.”—R. of Rs.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 569. My. 9. 880w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
“He has written of them sympathetically, of course, but at the same time with discrimination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 250w.
=Miles, George Henry.= Review of Hamlet. **$1. Longmans.
7–39206.
A new edition of a work which appeared in 1870. “Miles sees in Hamlet superb intellectual strength and a strong and tender conscience which guides the whole course of the prince’s conduct. And, he argues, the secret of the tragedy’s hold on men is that it mirrors forth the struggle between passion and conscience, and the sharp antithesis between fate and Providence; and throws across the action of life the deep shadow of the world to come.” (Cath. World.)
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“There is more education in this book than is to be found in many specimens of what are called, through courtesy or bland presumption, courses of English literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 693. F. ’08. 880w.
“It throws light upon aspects of the play which the great army of Shakespearian critics have left exceedingly dark.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4. ’08. 640w.
=Millais, John Guille.= Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. il. *$6. Longmans.
8–3111.
“Primarily for hunters and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the country and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But Mr. Millais has also much to tell of the daily life of the islanders and the customs of the Micmac Indians, of whom he has made a special study.... There are a dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either by Mr. Millais or photographed.”—Dial.
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“Makes the reader interested in his adventures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 70w.
=Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“To all who wish to know about Newfoundland and her attractions for the tourist, the man of business, or the sportsman, we can strongly recommend Millais’s book. It is the best work that has ever been written on the natural history of the island.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“In works of the present nature, Mr. Millais is at his best; and his best, alike with pen and pencil, is, it is almost unnecessary to say, very good indeed.” R. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 223. Ja. 9, ’08. 400w.
“It is a breath-taking experience to pass with Mr. Millais into the virgin forest, to see with his eyes, and, without the dangers and discomforts, to enjoy with him the fascination of the big game hunt.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“We like the book above all else for a quality which goes very near to mysticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 950w.
“If it is the mark of a good travel book to make the reader earnestly desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful work, Mr. Millais’s vivid narrative, and a wealth of beautiful illustrations, convey a most attractive picture of the island and its sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 673. Ap. 25, ’08. 1400w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= City of delight: a love drama of the siege and fall of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–9528.
Against the historical background of the fall of Jerusalem, Miss Miller has sketched a romance of compelling charm. The hero, Philadelphus, a Judean prince, great grandson of Judas Maccabeus, was wedded at the age of ten to a child of four. After fourteen years of separation they are to be reunited in Jerusalem whither Laodice is conducted by a treacherous servant who plays into the hands of Salome bent upon usurping Laodice’s place. At the same time a jealous cousin leaves Philadelphus for dead, hastens to Jerusalem and also becomes a usurper. For the rest of the tale it is a battle royal, attended by confusion, between the revived Philadelphus and Laodice and their enemies Salome and the pretender.
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“The story is far inferior to ‘The yoke.’ though we think it is almost as good as ... ‘Saul of Tarsus.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“The plan is a good one, the story interesting, the setting admirably chosen. If the execution were only as good as the design! Even as it is, the glint of historic interest gives the book a welcome dignity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
“In descriptive detail and collocation of events it holds its own with many similar novels which are called classics. The author has observed consistency throughout. There is a simple but dramatic plot, few characters, and every evidence of sincerity. It is to be hoped that the book will find the appreciation it deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The book is the strongest and best written Miss Miller has so far done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Miller, Elmer Isaiah.= Legislature of the province of Virginia: its internal development. (Columbia univ. Studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–1371.
An historical account of the subject from the beginning of the government of Virginia to the revolution of 1776.
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“A methodical and useful study, though the author makes dull reading of the development of our chief colonial legislature, whose history might easily be made interesting.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 90w.
“There is one slip in the very learned and valuable monograph.” H. E. E.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 617. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A very interesting and readable contribution.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Miller, Frank Justus.= Two dramatizations from Vergil: 1, Dido—the Phoenician queen; 2, The fall of Troy; arranged and translated into English verse. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29879.
Includes “Dido: an epic tragedy” which appeared in 1900, and also a new dramatization, The fall of Troy. It is a helpful supplement to the text for classes in Vergil, and affords a play which has been staged with satisfactory results.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= The bird our brother. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–14948.
Information which goes to reveal the bird’s kinship with the human family is treated here in a popular sense for the general reader. Chapters treat of the bird’s individuality, intelligence, language, altruism, education, affections, courtship, home, amusements, means of defense and attack, odd ways, equipment, and usefulness to us.
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“A unique addition to bird literature, which will be interesting to the adult bird-lover, but will not appeal to readers in general as do the author’s earlier and more individual writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“It will be a valuable defense for those who uphold the same theories, though for pure delight in the reading one cannot help grudging the pages that are thus taken from the writer’s record of her own discoveries.” M. E. Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The modern psychologist will undoubtedly question the author’s point of view in reading so much human life into bird life; but aside from this possible quibble about interpretations, the book is certainly interesting reading, and forms a good climax to the series of books which this author has contributed.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1295. Je. 4, ’08. 180w.
“It seems invidious to criticise such an excellent book, but it must be confessed that the author is somewhat handicapped in her efforts to preserve a dispassionate attitude by her ardent affection for the world of birds.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Will surely add to her reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
* =Miller, Kelly.= Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2. Neale.
8–24845.
Nineteen essays which discuss the various phases of the negro problem, and the questions that enter into a full solution. Some of the chapters are as follows: Radicals and conservatives; As to the leopard’s spots; An appeal to reason on the race problem; The negro’s part in the negro problem; Social equality; Religion as a solvent of the race problem; Rise of the professional class; Eminent negroes; What Walt Whitman means to the negro; The artistic gifts of the negro; A brief for the higher education of the negro; Roosevelt and the negro.
=Milligan, Rev. George.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Thessalonians: the Greek text; with introd. and notes. *$2.60. Macmillan.
A commentary and exegesis. “Two purposes are apparent in the present commentary on Thessalonians, one to follow Swete, Mayor, and Robinson in filling up what was lacking in the task which Lightfoot, Westcott, and Hort had set before themselves; the other, to bring to bear upon the language and grammar of the Thessalonian letters the results of the author’s investigations in papyri, inscriptions, and ostraca.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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“Thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject, catholicity of outlook, caution in the expression of opinion, and a distinct winsomeness in the personal equation are in evidence throughout the book.” J. E. Frame.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 487. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“Is especially welcome, since the need of it was great.” G. E. French.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 942. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“This is a most careful contribution to the exegesis of the New Testament.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 268. F. 15, ’08. 360w.
=Milligan, Robert H.= Jungle folk of Africa. **$1.50. Revell.
8–25385.
Impressions gained during seven years of missionary work in West Africa. “He dissents from the view he has found presented in recently published books about the Dark Continent, that its people are physically ugly, mentally stupid, morally repulsive, and everlastingly uninteresting ... and pictures the Africans he met as a very interesting people, constituted, like the rest of us, with brain and soul and capacity of one sort and another not essentially different from his own. He rates these people as human beings, and finds many of them distinctly lovable.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is as readable and interesting a book of travel as one can wish for.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor, and literary quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The book is entertaining and far more illuminating than many of the travelers’ accounts that have appeared in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 90w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Mills, John.= Short university course in electricity, sound and light. *$2. Ginn.
8–31127.
A course built up around laboratory outline which represents one semester’s work. The method is analytical rather than descriptive, and the book contains sixteen chapters on electricity, five on sound and seven on light.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Avesta eschatology compared with the books of Daniel and Revelations; being supplementary to Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenids and Israel. 50c. Open ct.
8–5564.
“In this thin octavo the aged Zend scholar gives his conclusion that the doctrines of angels, devils, the resurrection and the eternal life were adopted by the Jews at the time of the exile from the religion of Media and Persia.” (Ind.) “This work ... ought to be a reliable source of information regarding Zoroastrian conceptions of the future.” (Bib. World.)
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“The work is valuable as a compendious statement of the more important teachings of Zoroastrianism.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 524. Jl. ’08. 130w.
“The biblical side of the treatment is too largely fanciful.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 30w.
“The author often sees parallelisms that are not convincing, and his arguments are at times inconclusive. The book is not easy reading, but deserves critical study, for Mills was one of the best Zend scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“This essay ... presents a peculiarly interesting chapter in the study of comparative religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Van Rensselaers of old Manhattan. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–38597.
A novel set in “the days of New York when brocades, powder and patches were worn.... The heroine rejoices in the name of India, and is a hoyden, as her starched old Tory relative appropriately but impolitely informs her. Still, she is so attractive that her path is literally besieged by the gallants of the day.... The other characters include the hero, a young Tory of fallen fortunes, a desperate and most repulsive villain, and an actress; while George Washington appears upon the scene, though very cursorily.” (Outlook.)
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“The whole is in the style of an acute Christmas card many times multiplied. Incidentally there is some text.”
− =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. ’07. 50w.
“There is very little plot, too much declamation, and a constant striving to produce atmosphere that is too apparent and therefore fails of its effect.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 180w.
* =Milman, Lena. Sir Christopher Wren.= (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
A life of Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect of St. Paul’s cathedral, for which the material has been carefully sifted, and which benefits by the present day view-point and triumph of photography.
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“Miss Milman has written a most interesting life of a fascinating personality.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 340w.
“Upon the whole, the biography justifies itself. It was well worth doing, and it is done well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 900w.
=Milne, John Stewart.= Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times. *$4.75. Oxford.
8–9768.
A first venture into an untried region. “From all available ancient authors who touched on medical matters Milne has collected the references which throw light on the description or use of an appliance. This material he supplements by illustrations from the more important museums and collections of Europe. In the text the instruments are grouped under suitable divisions, but no account is taken of devices for the reduction of deformities, or of splints and related appliances.” (Nation.) The volume is fully illustrated.
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“A useful and interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Milne had virtually a virgin soil, and he has worked it in a thoroughly scientific manner until it has yielded a rich harvest.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 1000w.
“Learned and interesting treatise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1100w.
“An attractive study of the subject. Although the book itself is well indexed, the plates are not indexed, so that to find any figure is a matter of some difficulty. The bibliography, which appears to have been put together somewhat hurriedly, pays too little attention to journalistic literature.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Milne has done his work so well and so accurately that as this monograph is the first dealing with the subject it must remain for a long time the standard authority until further finds prove or disprove some of the disputable conclusions drawn by the author. The monograph presupposes a considerable amount of knowledge on the part of the reader. He must in the first place be skilled in the practice of his profession, he must be interested in its antiquities, and he must be a fair classic. These qualifications being granted, the book is most excellent reading, and throws abundant light, not only on the subject of which it treats, but also on many collateral points.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Mincoff, Mrs. Elizabeth, and Marriage, Margaret S.= Pillow lace: a practical handbook. *$5. Dutton.
8–5855.
Not a book for connoisseurs, but a guide to amateurs in the actual making of lace. “The first chapters contain a short historical survey of the art of lace-making from its earliest known period, that is to say about the year 1520; also brief accounts of its manufacture in different countries and towns. The rest of the book, from the third chapter to the last, is entirely practical, describing tools and methods of lace-making, and giving a large number of patterns with full explanations, and working diagrams, and directions for tracing and rubbing.” (Sat. R.)
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“The book is the first in English treating the subject especially from the viewpoint of the maker.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“The authors have very sensibly made their explanations as short as possible, relying much on the excellent diagrams.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 199. F. 15. 1270w.
“The book has practical interest for those who wish to teach art industries to women who need to become self-supporting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 170w.
“Those who desire to know and apply the principles underlying a large class of laces, will find it an almost inexhaustible treasure house. Though a little bulky, it is a practical manual.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Mincoff’s book is somewhat expensive in proportion to the cost of the tools, but it is well and fully illustrated, and we hope that it will have the effect of persuading women to be industrious in a useful artistic way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 85. J. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The lessons are carefully graduated and clearly expressed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=Ming, Rev. John Joseph.= Characteristics and the religion of modern socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–16212.
A book whose aim is that of stimulating inquiry to the end of reaching reliable conclusions concerning the moral and religious attitude of contemporary socialists. The discussion falls under two heads, The characteristics of modern socialism and The religion of socialism.
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“Father Ming has drawn up a powerful arraignment, amply sustained with testimony, against atheistic socialism; and it will serve the purpose of warning Catholics against it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 544. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“The author’s own religious belief appears to have biased his treatment of the subject.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 80w.
=Minot, Charles Sedgwick.= Problem of age, growth, and death: a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell institute, March, 1907. (Science ser., no. 21.) **$2.50. Putnam.
8–24260.
Presents arguments and evidence to support the following laws and corollary: “First, rejuvenation depends on the increase of the nuclei. Second, senescence depends on the increase of the protoplasm and on the differentiation of the cells. Third, the rate of growth depends on the degree of senescence. Fourth, senescence is at its maximum in the very young stages, and the rate of senescence diminishes with age. As the corollary from these, we have this—natural death is the consequence of cellular differentiation.”
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“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Possesses a more or less general and popular interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
“With his usual skill and lucidity the author develops his views concerning these questions which he has studied carefully for many years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 320w.
=Mistral, Frederic.= Memoirs of Mistral, 1830–1877; rendered into English by Constance E. Maud, with Lyrics from the Provençal by Alma Strettell. *$3.50. Baker.
8–8543.
“The memoirs of Mistral not only recount the steps which were taken by him and his confrères in the Felibres movement, but they are filled also with charming details of Provençal farm life, the legends and primitive customs of the Provençal peasantry; there are many little personal anecdotes that give a picturesque view of some of the poet’s experiences at school and on the paternal farm, and his amusing contact with some of his peasant neighbors. The whole leaves the reader with the belief that there may still be room for the romantic troubadour, the follower of the ‘Gay science’ in our modern civilization.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A book of quite unusual charm, but not essential to the economical library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 105. Ap. ’08.
“Admirably translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 577. N. 9. 1300w.
“The book has (to give it the highest of all praise) charm: it captivates the reader and holds his attention to the end. Miss Maud’s translation is smooth, but ... not always grammatical.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 36. Ja. 16, ’08. 2440w.
“A delightful volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“Throughout full of interest and charm.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 751. Mr. ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“Miss Maud adds some footnotes. For the duplicate note on the ‘trees of liberty’ and the somewhat vague note on ‘les Aliscamps,’ it might have been well to substitute a note on the meaning of that puzzling word ‘Félibrige.’ But good service has been done. To read about the man who knows so much about his country and feels so truly about it is a fine antidote to an English winter; refreshing too to get new knowledge about a literary revival so spontaneous, so free from the squalor of politics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 700. D. 7, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck.= Mosquito life: the habits and life cycles of known mosquitoes of the United States. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–39002.
An account based on the investigations of the late James William Dupree, surgeon-general of Louisiana and upon original observations by the author. “The book is replete with information concerning the mosquitoes of the United States, especially those of New York, New Jersey, and Louisiana. The anatomy of the adults, larvæ, and pupæ is described, and an illuminating account of their habits, flight, and breeding-places is given in detail. The relation of mosquitoes to malaria, yellow fever, elephantiasis, and other diseases, is treated in a popular way, and a description of the means of control of these pests is supplemented with an account of their principal enemies.” (Dial.)
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“The drawings would have been more useful if magnifications had been given, and more acceptable from a technical point of view if more contrast had been employed, and if the direction of lighting had been consistently used, at least in contiguous drawings.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 214. Ap. 1, ’08. 380w.
“An entertaining (although loosely written) book about the subject in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“One may learn from this book a great deal about the lives of mosquitoes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“For health inspectors, for those interested in sanitation generally and for physicians this book will be especially useful. On the whole this is a very useful book; with plenty of faults and an abundance of points that might be criticised if criticism is fault-finding; but altogether considered it is commendable.” J: B. Smith.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 22. Jl. 3, ’08. 780w.
=Mitchell, Henry Bedinger.= Talks on religion: a collective enquiry, recorded by H: Bedinger Mitchell. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–14747.
“A group of fifteen friends in council meet monthly for a comparison of views on fundamental questions about religion. The group includes men in scientific, literary, church, and business life, some of them university professors and men of international reputation.” (Outlook.) These “talks” show the manner in which they grapple with religious and philosophical questions of the day. “They exhibit both skeptical and constructive thinking at their best, they tend to clear the air of religious thought.” (Outlook.)
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“This book is of exceptional interest because of the place of its origin, the personnel of its speakers, and the subject-matter of its discussions.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 488. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“It is a highly stimulating book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by G: A. Coe.
=J. Philos.= 5: 661. N. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“It would be impossible to indicate adequately in the course of a single review the rich variety of theme, felicity of expression, and breadth of spirit which characterize ‘Talks on religion.’” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 614. O. ’08. 2200w.
“For those who lack the opportunities of mental sharpening in the private discussions of cultured minds this volume is a most attractive substitute.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Red city: a novel of the second administration of President Washington. †$1.50. Century.
8–30709.
Philadelphia is the scene of this story of Washington’s second administration in which Hugh Wynne and Aunt Gainor reappear. The hero is a Huguenot émigré who with his mother is grief-stricken over the wanton murder of his father at Avignon by the revolutionists. His life in a Quaker home and love for a Quaker maiden, his work in Hugh Wynne’s employ, his relation to affairs of state, and his methods of avenging his father’s death suggest the outline of the tale steeped in the atmosphere of the times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08. ✠
“In French matters, he slips occasionally. It is a real story of real human interest, and its action is often exciting beyond the limits of Quaker sobriety.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 456. D. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“A book full of charm and feeling, a novel which is less a novel than a panorama of a brick-built town.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 699. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
=Mitchell, Wesley Clair.= Gold, prices and wages under the greenback standard. (Univ. of Cal. publications in economics, v. 1.) *$5. Univ. of Cal.
8–14358.
“Contains five chapters of text covering a total of 283 pages (with the included statistics), the remainder of the book being given over to elaborate statistical tables showing rates of wages, relative prices, etc.... Dr. Mitchell describes his volume as ‘the statistical apparatus of a book still to be written,’ the chapters of the text being intended merely to expound the nature of the figures and the modes of getting the results.” (Econ Bull.)
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“Such a pace as is here set for the academic monograph will be hard to follow.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 60w.
“It is not too much to say that, taking the present volume with his earlier contribution, he has done the most satisfactory piece of work on the history of the greenbacks and their effects that has yet appeared, and in the course of so doing has contributed something to the process of putting American price statistics upon a rather better basis.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 137. Je. ’08. 660w.
“In fact, the book is beyond praise.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 629. N. ’08. 950w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker. 7–28500.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Dr. Miyakawa’s object in writing the book is clearly one of which all progressive men of both nationalities must approve, that of bringing the two peoples to a clear understanding of each other, and the work is well calculated to fulfil this object.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja, ’08. 150w.
“In structure, style and dress, shows just what a book ought not to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 44. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
“Though the text does not impress one as having as great originality and influence as some other books on Japan, there is in it a certain forcefulness and even fascination, for in it we learn the better to appreciate the peculiar Japanese way of looking at men and things.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people; Congress, President, and courts (according to the evolution of constitutional construction). 2d ed., rev. **$2.50. Baker.
8–24433.
Constitutional government of the United States as viewed by a Japanese attorney. The edition has been carefully revised thruout. All criticisms, objections and controverted points have been thoroly considered; all sections and some chapters have been abridged and additions made; and changes from technical to popular form have been made to suit the better a wide range of readers.
=Moffett, Cleveland.= King in rags. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–36249.
A sociological story whose three leading characters maintain respectively the following attitudes toward the question of poverty: Poverty is an ugly beast ... created by the greedy and luxurious rich for their own undoing; poverty is the lot of the weak and unworthy, the survival of the unfittest; poverty would disappear if there were a fair division of the products of toil.
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“The main defect of the book is its sentimentalism—a pit into which reformers are apt to fall. But, despite its inconsistencies and improbabilities, it is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 253. F. 29. 150w.
“It is assuredly not a commanding exposition of its theme or in any large way sensational. But while obviously, even naïvely, a vehicle for a moral, the story slips along so easily that it affords no chance to escape the appalling facts it marshals relating to the conditions of labor and living in our city.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“One derives the impression that the author grew a bit tired of ‘A king in rags’ before he put the cap to his climax. Nevertheless, a novel the interest of which does not flag through nine-tenths of its unfolding is worthy of serious consideration. Let it be said that Mr. Moffett’s first novel, though not, perhaps a great achievement, is, at the very least, a most brilliant promise.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; translated from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. pt. 3, 2v. *$5. McClurg.
Two volumes constituting the third and last instalment of Molmenti’s history. It treats fully of Venice and its decadence.
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=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“They are probably the most elaborate and instructive volumes on Venetian manners and customs yet attempted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo, and Ludwig, Gustav.= Life and works of Vittorio Carpaccio: tr. by Robert H. H. Cust. *$15. Dutton.
8–14763.
A volume “of archaeological and artistic interest” which has appeared with the revival of Carpaccio. Its keynote is the faithful manner in which the painter mirrored in his pictures the Venetian life of the fifteenth century.
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“The one quality lacking in this otherwise admirable book [is] that of a convincing system of critical argument in support of the authors’ often plausible views.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 134. F. 1. 1270w.
“Pictorially as well as from the point of view of scholarship the work is exhaustive.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“English readers are fortunate in having put before them Mr. Cust’s skilful and admirable translation of this excellent work.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 620w.
“It is sure to take rank as the standard work on the long-neglected master of whom it treats.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 335. F. ’08. 400w.
“The book is a notable addition to the body of historical art criticism, and the translator, Robert H. Hobart Cust is to be highly commended for having placed this volume within the reach of the English reading public in a version that is at once readable and authoritative.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 800w.
“It is just as important to unearth an old friendship as it is to unearth an old picture. Professor Molmenti’s sumptuous volume does both. The most important-looking of the season’s books on art.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“It is exhaustive, laborious, and learned. But though we leave the book satiated with facts relating to the externals of the work of Carpaccio, we feel that we are unsatisfied.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 643. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
=Molnár, Ferencz.= Devil; adapted by Oliver Herford. *$1. Kennerley.
8–26860.
A three act play adapted from the Hungarian by Oliver Herford. The devil in the guise of a modern society man takes a hand in overcoming whatever of resolution and honorable purpose remain in the minds of a man and woman who are wrestling with the temptation of forbidden love.
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“Oliver Herford’s adaption of Ferencz Molnar’s play ... is on the whole rather a clumsy effort. Points which probably gave value to the original have been considerably blunted in translation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
“It bears the same marks of haste as the stage production. Grammatical and typographical errors abound, speeches are assigned to the wrong persons, and even the leading characters are misnamed.”
− =Outlook.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
* =Monckton, C. C. F.= Radio-telegraphy. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“Contains a general exposition of the principles underlying the subject, together with a description of a large amount of the apparatus and methods used by the various companies.” (Nature.) “Although not so complete as Prof. J. A. Fleming’s work, it gives the general reader a good account of the rapid progress in the new art of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Monckton is successful in making his exposition of the various systems of transmission and reception, now in use, intelligible to the non-scientific reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on having written a very interesting and valuable book.” C. C. G.
+ =Nature.= 78: 505. S. 24, ’08. 1050w.
=Montgomery, Harry Earl.= Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
The trust problem, freight-rate problem, government ownership, labor problem, and the negro problem are five vital problems discussed with calm, sane and deliberate judgment.
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“The reader will find the proposed remedies set forth with more reasonableness than the rather assertive confidence of the author’s language might suggest; while the array of statistical and other data gives the book a value for popular reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Rev. Henry Hutchinson=, ed. Mankind and the church; being an attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to the fulness of the church of God, by seven bishops. *$2.25. Longmans.
“Two Indian bishops, the archbishop of the West Indies, a bishop in Japan, another who was for some years in China, and the bishop of New Guinea speak of the Anglican communion as they have seen it in their dioceses, its strength, its weakness, its successes, and its failures. They speak for the Mohammedans and the Hindus of India, for the Japanese and the Chinese, for the negroes, and for the population, other than Malay, of the largest island of the Pacific.”—Spec.
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“It is written in a manner which will give enjoyment to every cultivated reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 260. My. ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“Highly interesting and valuable introduction furnished by Bishop Montgomery.”
+ =Spec.= 89: 994. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.= Anne of Green Gables. $1.50. Page.
8–18572.
“A farmer in Prince Edward’s island ordered a boy from a Nova Scotia asylum, but the order got twisted and the result was that a girl was sent the farmer instead of a boy. That girl is the heroine of this story.” (N. Y. Times.) “Anne is a sort of Canadian ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm’ in her imaginativeness, love of high-flown language, and propensity to get into scrapes. But the book is by no means an imitation; it has plenty of originality and character.” (Outlook.)
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“A story that all girls from 12 to 15, and many grown-ups, will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“The author’s probable intention was to exhibit a unique development in this little asylum waif, but there is no real difference between the girl at the end of the story and the one at the beginning of it. All the other characters in the book are human enough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
“It will please grown-up people quite or nearly as well as the school-girls for whom it is primarily designed. It ought to have a wide reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Moody, Walter.= Men who sell things; observations and experiences of over twenty years as travelling salesman, European buyer, sales manager, employer. **$1. McClurg.
7–41593.
A book of sound advice which is the outcome of knowing every round of the ladder. Alertness and poise are the salesman’s essentials acquired “thru the natural law of infinite patience, constant study of new conditions, clear adaptation of means to ends, infinite devotion to instant duty, and absolute fidelity to his house as it is and yet may be.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“While the book is not of a technical nature, nevertheless the fact that so many engineers are connected with the selling departments of their firms ... will make it one of value to many technical men.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Trial marriage. 75c. Empire book co.
8–19570.
“The author’s aim in this novel seems to be to demonstrate how inevitable are the fetters of law and custom which, forged at the dawn of civilization, have now linked themselves into the life and thought of the twentieth century; we are, he maintains, so strongly bound in many ways that a return to more primitive usage would be impossible.... With regard to the scientific care and education of the young, Mr. Moore puts forth theories not yet advocated by the most advanced socialist, only to demonstrate their futility.”—Ath.
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“We think that he has thus fallen between two stools, and has written neither interesting fiction nor a useful political tract.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 170w.
“We are told that in England Mr. Moore is considered witty but this does not appear in [this book], although [it] is full of dialogue into which much glitter has been introduced. It is not the glitter of a naturally brilliant man, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 1170w.
=Spec.= 99: 267. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Passing of Morocco. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–21029.
An account of the recent outbreak in Morocco and the resulting French expeditions, interspersed with descriptions of Moroccan life.
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+ =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“One point only is made which we have not seen sharply brought out elsewhere, and that is the ruthlessness with which the French have been carrying on the campaign against the Shawia tribesmen.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 40w.
“Here is an eyewitness worth hearing. Mr. Moore, we think, has a more pliant and engaging style than before.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 748. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
=Moore, James Hall.= Defence of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. *$1.50. Stone & Barringer co.
8–17535.
An attempt to prove the authenticity of the documents which Carolinians hold to have been drawn up by the citizens of the county of Mecklenburg, May 20, 1775, in which they declared their independence of England. The author storms the Hoyt strongholds of opposition and incidentally throws light on some of the obscure phases of the revolution.
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“Mr. Moore adds almost no new facts to the controversy, and his literary skill is not large.”
− =Ind.= 65: 98. Jl. 9, ’08. 320w.
“He possesses neither the historical sense nor the critical acumen of Mr. Hoyt. As a complete expression of what can be said in favor of the declaration his book has value.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It is difficult to see where he has made any impression on Mr. Hoyt’s position, which is practically that taken by Adams and Jefferson.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 411. Jl. 25, ’08. 1550w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Moore’s book is to the pro-Mecklenburg literature what Mr. Hoyt’s is to the anti-Mecklenburg—the best that has yet been published.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Delftware, Dutch and English. **$1. Stokes.
8–26011.
The initial volume in “The collector’s handbooks” series. It is a guide to many styles of Delftware, explains its nature and tells the story of its production from 1672 to the present time, including Oriental influence and the origin of designs for decoration.
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“Mrs. Moore’s book has been judiciously and interestingly compiled.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“Follows the plan of her earlier books in its chief features and is quite up to her standard.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Moore, Norman.= History of the study of medicine in the British Isles. *$3.40. Oxford.
The Fitz-Patrick lectures before the Royal college of physicians of London, for 1905–6. “The inner title, ‘History of the study of medicine in the British Isles,’ is somewhat misleading, since Dr. Moore does not attempt to show precisely how practitioners were trained. What he has done is to pick out various medical men of different periods, and to sketch partly their training and partly their methods as indicative of the general state of medical study in Great Britain at the time.” (Nation.) “The whole is a curious combination of science, tradition, and what we may, perhaps, call white magic.” (Spec.)
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“Dr. Moore’s volume is rather episodic and biographical than historical in any broad sense; but what he writes is of extreme interest, and may well form a basis for further work since he has gone to original sources for the facts.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 650w.
“It is very creditable to Dr. Norman Moore that he has made time to consult original authorities, and that he has cast his results into four such interesting chapters.” D’Arcy Power.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 550. Jl. 08. 1150w.
“An exceedingly entertaining and instructive book, despite the somewhat rambling and unsystematic treatment.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Moore’s book is a most interesting and scholarly contribution to the history of medicine.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 25. My. 14, ’08. 1900w.
“All this deserves, and, so excellent is Dr. Moore’s method, will easily secure, careful attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Moral= training in the public schools. $1.50. Ginn.
7–28175.
Two essays that received respectively first and second prizes offered by an anonymous California citizen for the best essays written on the subject.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“This collection of views is well deserving of study for much valuable pedagogical instruction that it contains. It is, too, a pregnant, ready-made text for a powerful article in defense of our parochial schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 824. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“No teacher can afford to neglect a careful reading of the book.” E: O. Sisson.
+ =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Is distinctly worth reading and reading again.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 103. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, sound, sane, suggestive, instructive, inspiring, seem to the reviewer the adjectives that most fitly describe this little book. It is worthy the attention of teachers.” C. T. Lane.
+ =El. School T.= 8: 463. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The volume is a notable contribution to the discussion of moral education and allied problems, and the simplicity of treatment makes it easy reading. The absence of an index is to be regretted.” W. S. Monroe.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 51. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The book deserves attention from parents as well as teachers.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays, 5th. ser. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–14376.
=ser. 5=. A fifth volume of “Shelburne essays.” There are eleven in number, and they deal with such subjects as The Greek anthology, The centenary of Longfellow, Dickens, Chesterfield, Gissing, and Donald G. Mitchell.
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“Their literary merit warrants their purchase in book form by larger libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“In the pages of so accomplished a literary artist as Mr. More one looks for, and finds, many an apt phrase that lingers in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 15, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The book is a valuable outcome of much knowledge and wise deliberation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Whatever Mr. More writes, however, has the value of thorough and competent workmanship; but a little salt of wit, an occasional lightness of touch, would cheer his readers without weakening the fiber of his very scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 811. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“One omission it seems to the reviewer has been made: the sectional conflict in Virginia which paralleled and followed the Stamp act controversy.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 500w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The writer’s imagination occasionally runs riot when he attempts to reconstruct the scenes through which the orator of Virginia moved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 823. D. 28. 190w.
“The author also brings in many details of persons and events that distract attention from the main current of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 240w.
“It is the chief defect of Mr. Morgan’s book that he claims too much, in too many directions.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 1920w.
“This is a biography which, if somewhat colored by the zeal of hero-worship, is profitable as well as pleasurable reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morgan, George Campbell.= Analysed Bible. 3v. ea. **$1. Revell.
7–33562.
A commentary to be complete in about thirty volumes which attempts to preserve a unity by analysing the books of the Bible into large logical sections. Volumes one to three are as follows: Genesis to Esther; Job to Malachi; Matthew to Revelation.
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“These analyses are always clever, but sometimes at least not sufficiently supported by the text.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The analyses and titles are generally striking and rhetorical rather than simply faithful to the works discussed.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 480, Je. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While these three volumes, containing brief introductions to all the books of scripture, might be useful for a Sunday school Bible class, yet they are vitiated by an utter lack of criticism, and by a failure to put the reader at all in touch with the way of regarding the Bible that should be inevitable to every modern man.” E. S. Drown.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 21, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Morgan, James.= Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28434.
Mr. Morgan aims not to form a history of the civil war, nor to give an analysis of Lincoln’s character but to write a simple straightforward story of his life in its true sequence. This plain story of essentials is a “series of dramatic pictures of the struggles and achievements of a common man in whom a race of common men is exalted. In the preparation of his book Mr. Morgan has made use of the various accessible authorities, presenting those incidents in his hero’s life which are most significant and essential.” (R. of Rs.)
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“He tells a story, simple and straightforward—one that will interest and inspire the young American reader.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Morgan is much more than a faithful compiler. He has points of view of his own, and seizes with individual judgment upon the facts worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Morgan tells his story pleasingly, and presents in it a very good sketch of Lincoln’s remarkable career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 170w.
“We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln. A book about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Morley, John.= Critical miscellanies, v. 4. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A group of “fugitive pieces, yet perhaps not altogether without a clue.” (Preface.) The subjects are as follows: Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A new calendar of great men; John Stuart Mill, an anniversary; Lecky on democracy; A historical romance; and Democracy and reaction. The appendix furnishes explanatory and bibliographical notes.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08.
“The volume is commended to those who enjoy a literary style of the highest excellence, allusive yet never obscure, deep reflection enriched by wide literary knowledge and rendered precise by personal experience in governmental affairs, fair-minded treatment of opposing views, and a vindication of political idealism.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 176. O. ’08. 330w.
“A work of real value to serious persons and merits a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 330w.
“Lord Morley reflects in every page he writes the influence of the best culture of the day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 61. Jl. 18. 2000w.
“With his clear style, wide reading and ever present note-book, he is one of the most delightful of transmitters that we have.” C. M. Francis.
+ =Bookm=, 28: 146. O. ’08. 2000w.
“The book is good reading and wholesome for us Americans. It will help us to think straight about some of our own immediate problems, although it does not deal with any one of them directly.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 213. S. ’08. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 130w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 564. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The charm and value of these essays depend largely on the fact that they are the product of a rich mind, which has thoroughly digested its knowledge, and has tested books by experience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 234. S. 10, ’08. 1650w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 360w.
“The great merit of these ‘Miscellanies’—the fine flower of essay-writing—is that they ‘set men on thinking’ about politics.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 48. Jl. 11, ’08. 2150w.
“We have no other writer with quite the same outlook,—the sane and broad-minded liberalism, the candour, the earnest desire for the truth, the tolerance for human imperfections.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 18. Jl. 4, ’08. 1650w.
=Morris, Gouverneur.= Footprint, and other stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–6985.
Eleven stories, creepy and gruesome for the most part, which smack more of the fatalist’s fancy than of the imagination which characterizes wholesome adventure. The stories are The footprint, Paradise ranch, Captain England, The execution, Simon L’Ouvrier, A Carolina night’s dream, The stowing away of Mr. Bill Ballad, The explorers, The little heiress, The best man, and The crocodile.
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“Gruesome short stories varying in merit. Some of them are decidedly clever, some grotesque or horrible, and all are more or less disagreeable, and incline to the morbid.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“Mr. Morris ought to change his course. Nevertheless, I am glad that before mending his ways he has given us this volume. If these stories are not great, they are at least different, and their rather highly spiced originality is welcome to a jaded appetite.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 283. My. ’08. 500w.
“One might discuss at some length Mr. Morris’s methods of fiction, for they are good methods, and might be studied with profit by many better known and far more prolific writers of to-day.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“They show Mr. Morris to excel most of the short-story writers of the day in his use of the Stevenson manner, which he combines with Edgar Allan Poe matter. The knack of descriptive narration he has in an uncommon degree, whether his pictures be first hand or not. The sense of futility is the chief defect of what are otherwise capital tales.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Nine stories of a very depressing aspect. It seems as though the choicest bits of horror had been suggested by Poe, and the cynicism by Maupassant.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“Very clever but sometimes intensely disagreeable studies of the horrible and grotesque.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Morris, Harrison Smith.= Lyrics and landscapes. **$1. Century.
8–12818.
A collection of poems by the author of “Madonna and other poems” and “Tales from ten poets.” “Mr. Morris strikes his deepest note in Destiny, a Phi beta kappa poem, although we regret to find in these dignified verses a veiled apology for our latter-day American imperialism.” (Dial.)
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“Neat and decorous compositions, not exactly inspired, but mildly pleasing.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 130w.
“His poems have no great philosophical content, perhaps; but in his ode to ‘Night’ he succeeds unusually well in a kind of eye and ear impressionism quite legitimate after its own fashion.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Morrow, William C.= Lentala of the South seas: the romantic tale of a lost colony. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24468.
A tale of the hardships of a band of colonists cast away on an island in the South seas. “The book is nothing more than an account of the savages’ attempts to hoodwink and destroy the white invaders, and the white men’s final conquest, thanks to the timely aid of a volcano, an earthquake and a thunder-storm. There is also an adopted daughter of a cannibal king, who figures somewhat largely in the book.” (Bookm.)
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“Somewhat uninspired, and much too long.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 146. O. ’08. 340w.
“Is more or less exciting, but is written in a style whose affectation of simplicity results in being decidedly irritating.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Morse, Hosea Ballou.= Trade and administration of the Chinese empire. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–18747.
“Portrays the present state of the Chinese empire, with such record of the past as will enable the reader better to comprehend the present.” (Sat. R.) “The two opening chapters, written by the Rev. F. L. Hawks Potts, President of St. John’s College, at Shanghai, present a condensed but readable sketch of the history of China from the earliest times to the present. Mr. Ballou then in a dozen chapters elucidates the system of government.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A much needed book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“A useful compendium.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 850w.
“Is the first to put into succinct form a fairly complete account of those practical matters concerning which the man of affairs, whether of business or of state, most wishes information. The book lacks an analytical table of contents, which would have greatly enhanced its value for just those readers for whom it is particularly designed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My 23, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Morse is impartial—as impartial, at any rate, as a man who knows his subject can be. An eminently informative book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1650w.
=Mosby, John Singleton.= Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. **$2. Moffat.
8–8120.
Col. Mosby’s aim is that of clearing the name of Gen. Stuart from aspersions cast upon it in records made by Gen. Lee’s staff-officers. It gives a sketch of the battle of Chancellorsville and the cavalry combat which opened the Gettysburg campaign and justifies Gen. Stuart’s movements.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“It cannot be said that Col. Mosby proves all his points; but he does prove some of them, and throws new light on others.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Col. Mosby goes against all the accepted authorities; he takes to task all of Lee’s biographers and staff officers; he makes raids in all directions upon historical positions, and he fires volleys here and there, some of which are effective and some of which go off harmless into the air.”
− =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 215. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
“Col. Mosby is, of course, a partisan. But his account is interesting, it brings out neglected aspects of the famous battle.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 1100w.
=Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann, ritter von.= Stories of Jewish home life. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–40796.
Five stories as follows: Aunt Guttraud, Schlemihlchen, Rav’s Mine, Jephthah’s daughter, and Rascholchen. In them the great heart of humanity throbs and goodness triumphs. The settings and colorings are distinctively Jewish.
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“Should be as fascinating to the Gentile reader as many stories of Gentile hearth and fireside experience have been to the Jews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
=Moses, Bernard.= South America on the eve of emancipation: the southern Spanish colonies in the last half-century of their dependence. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15885.
“A sketch of social conditions in South America during the period immediately preceding the severance of relations with the mother country. The most interesting chapters are those dealing with the characteristics of the colonial city and the developments of social classes under Spanish rule.”—Nation.
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“Without making any attempt to exhaust the subject, Professor Moses has succeeded in giving excellent pictures of life and institutions in the pre-revolutionary era.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 164. O. ’08. 660w.
“This work errs in details, sometimes in essential details. For the purpose in view, this must be pronounced a very useful and entertaining little work.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Should be carefully read as an introduction to the study of Latin-American institutions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 50w.
=Moses, Edith.= Unofficial letters of an official’s wife. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29360.
A group of chatty informing letters which the wife of Professor Moses wrote while residing in Manila during the governorship of Mr. Taft. One finds all the bits of Philippine “hearsay” most entertainingly set down, including the appearance and characteristics of the natives, housekeeping problems, incompetency of servants, discomforts of climate, social life in Manila, amusements, holiday revelry and excursions out from Manila.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50. Kennerley.
7–38221.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It would be too much to expect that all should agree with the selection of recommended books, but the choices are sane, on the whole, and if not carefully balanced, and satisfactory in all particulars, are suggestive. Bibliographical information concerning title is frequently inaccurate, incomplete, and faulty in form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 106. Ap. ’08.
“While there is much in it that is sound, practical, and useful, we cannot give it unqualified praise; it is, as the author himself admits, an incomplete and unfinished sketch. There are many slips, errors, and omissions, sadly needing correction.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is especially valuable to librarians, with whose needs the author is familiar.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“May be trusted as a safe guide in a problem that becomes yearly more difficult.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 260w.
=Mosso, Angelo.= Palaces of Crete and their builders. *$5.25. Putnam. 8–12966.
“An account of certain excavations and investigations in the famed land of the Minotaur, which carry the history of the Cretans back authentically to the neolithic period and furnish much interesting material for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and antiquaries generally.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The translation is excellent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 833. D. 28. 1550w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“The personal element often becomes obtrusive. Moreover, there are many mistakes in the text. With all its faults, however, the volume has a pleasing freshness and spontaneity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 357. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Dr. Mosso’s is no dry-as-dust narrative. He knows how to be entertaining, and he is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
“The book is a rambling and often rather absurd work, written about things archæological by one who is no archæologist, but knows a good deal about skulls and something about divers natural sciences. The author ... has a strong bent towards rhapsodical and even dithyrambic meditation, and indulges it to the full. The book is worth examination, however, and even purchase, for its illustrations.”
− − + =Sat. R.= 105: 207. F. 15, ’08. 1050w.
“Whatever we may think of Signor Mosso’s ethnology, his book will be found full of interesting detail, which we may or may not connect with his anthropology.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Motley, James Marvin.= Apprenticeship in American trade unions. (Johns Hopkins univ. studies in historical and political science. Series 25, nos. 11–12.) 50c. Johns Hopkins.
8–7186.
A monograph whose chief emphasis is placed upon the historical development of apprenticeship and upon the critical analysis of union regulations. There are chapters on apprenticeship as regulated by government, custom, trade-unions and trade agreement.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 696. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an admirable scholarly piece of research, of the highest credit to its author and the economic seminary of Johns Hopkins university. There is but one place where I would raise a question, and that is in the difficult attempt to classify the unions according to the extent to which they enforce apprenticeship as a prerequisite to membership.” J: R. Commons.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 49. Ap. ’08. 530w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.= Motley’s Dutch nation; being the Rise of the Dutch republic (1555–1584); condensed, with introd., notes, and a brief history of the Dutch people to 1908, by W: Elliot Griffis. $1.75. Harper.
8–12133.
An abridgement of Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch republic” and an independent sketch of Dutch history, from A. D. 1584 to 1907 constitute respectively the two broad divisions of this volume. The latter brings the history down to date, showing the social, political, and economic situation and problems of the Dutch nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 229. Je. ’08.
“A more useful single-volume treatment of Dutch history is hardly to be found.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
“We confess to a feeling of sorrow and affront on seeing Motley abridged. But the work has been as well done as was possible.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Contains only a single map, and that is inadequate. Such an omission is unpardonable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 93. Je. 30, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The difficulty of the attempt [to collect the moral lessons in Shakespeare into a system] is increased with the rigidness of the system and the formality of the treatment, and Prof. Moulton’s treatment is formal even to pedantry.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 91. F. 15, ’08. 290w.
=Muir, M. M. Pattison.= History of chemical theories and laws. *$4. Wiley.
6–45162.
“Mr. Pattison Muir does not claim to write a history of chemistry; he traces the growth of knowledge and opinion on such matters as the nature of the elements from the crude conceptions of the alchemists through the strict atomic theory down to the current ideas about ions and electrons. Similarly he deals with the nature of chemical change, which with the conception of element and compound form the two special ideas marking off chemistry from the other sciences.”—Sat. R.
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“Certainly the author has given the information in a most readable and fascinating manner, which will render his book useful and attractive to a wider circle than merely chemists and physicists.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 600w.
“Mr. Muir has displayed great learning and much literary ability.” W. R.
+ =Nature.= 75: 601. Ap. 25, ’07. 900w.
“We can recommend Mr. Pattison Muir’s treatise to any serious student of chemistry; it is just the book for a clever boy who has learnt all the routine, and now should begin to think more abstractly and generally.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The feeling of growth and organic interrelation is kept admirably before the reader. The style is attractive and the mode of presentation lucid and interesting. The book is not only suggestive, but highly readable—there is not a dry page in it.” Alexander Smith.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 304. F. 21, ’08. 800w.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Orphan. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–6662.
With the plains as a habitat, clumps of chaparral to hide in, cowboys to hunt him down, and Apache bands to match his deadly aim, the Orphan, outlaw and terror of Ford’s Station is the fascinating hero of this tale. In the development of the story, it is revealed that his vengeance is directed only towards cowardly, irritating, petty specimens of cowboy humanity; that underneath his rough exterior are splendid manhood and courage; and that he is as chivalrous as a knight of old when called upon to defend women. There is plenty of wild west adventure with which mingle the dust and heat of the plains.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as virile as the life it describes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
An intimate sketch of “a very unusual, very vital human being” who, born and educated in Germany, became a wanderer, living in six countries and having a variety of bread-winning experiences, and finally finding her place as professor at Wellesley where she remained until her death. The invincible spirit of hard work characterized her life which is portrayed by her friend and successor.
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“The account of this remarkable woman’s life is very interesting. One would scarcely suspect, but for Professor Müller’s prefatory confession, that English was not the author’s mother tongue.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 582. D. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Mullins, Rev. Edgar Y.= Axioms of religion. **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–14676.
Beginning with the new test of denominationalism and other themes leading to the truth of the soul’s competency in religion, Doctor Mullins proceeds to show that religion has its axioms no less than other realms of knowledge and experience. He gives the theological, the religious, the ecclesiastical, the moral, the religio-civic and the social axiom.
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“His conclusions are those of a sincere and cultivated man, and merit a respectful attention from the reader, be he or not a Baptist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Munro, Neil.= The Clyde; river and firth. *$6. Macmillan.
8–18705.
“The river ‘from a mossy cup in a nook of barren hill,’ and the estuary down to Ailsa Craig, are shown under many phases of wind and weather, with castles, mountains, hillsides, waterfalls, villages, orchards, and fishing pools; the harbour and shipping: and the yacht-flecked lower waters and mountain-girt lochs, with endless glens and islands and landmarks of history since the Norsemen’s time.”—Ath.
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“The fidelity of the sketches is as marked a characteristic as their winsomeness. Some press errors ... are venial blemishes in a beautiful book, which is an excellent memorial of the Clyde, viewed through three happy temperaments.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 95. Ja. 25. 1120w.
“A beautiful and a readable volume.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The colored illustrations ... are of the character to which we have become so well accustomed in these picture books—at times clear and almost beautiful, at times a mere daub of crude colors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Munro writes with his enthusiasm well in hand, and the illustrations are more pleasing than is always the case in this class of book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Munroe, Kirk.= Under the Great Bear. †$1.25. Harper.
A book for boys which narrates the adventures of a young mechanical engineer who goes to Newfoundland and Labrador in the interests of a copper company. There are encounters with icebergs, blizzards, wrecks, smuggling enterprises, to whet a healthy imagination, and underneath all there is a mind single to duty and definite accomplishment.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.= On the witness stand: essays on psychology and crime. **$1.50. McClure.
8–13667.
A book for judges and lawyers which presents a deeply psychological study of crime and its various methods of detection and prevention. The author discusses at length the many illusions which often affect the minds of witnesses, the errors which are due to the defective memory of witnesses, and the influence often exerted upon testimony by suggestion in court and by hypnotic influence. The book leaves no point untouched which has to do with modern ideas and methods in dealing with crime.
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“The last chapter, concerning the prevention of crime and use of modern psychological knowledge in this connection is the most valuable and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 198. Je. ’08.
“An extremely important little volume, which should be read by everyone who has to do with criminal courts or who is interested in problems of crime.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 130w.
“The unsatisfactory initial chapters are, however, largely redeemed by the remaining portion of the book.” F: T. Hill.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 406. Je. ’08. 600w.
“How little or how much one may sympathise with Professor Munsterberg’s methods and conclusions, one may unhesitatingly approve his emphasis of attention to the problem as a psychological one.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 38. Jl. 16, ’08. 1750w.
=Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 330w.
“The main contention of the book is open to serious question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Münsterberg talks fact and common sense; he defines what can, and especially what can not, be done with hypnotism. Thus he performs a great and much-needed service—a service that ought to put many a pseudo-mystic out of business and rescue numberless dupes from the swindlers who are robbing and killing them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 237. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“His book is most suggestive, interesting and valuable, although marred here and thereby a tendency to dogmatism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is a good deal of interesting and perhaps profitable information in what the professor tells in his chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 160w.
* =Murdoch, W. G. Burn-.= From Edinburgh to India and Burmah. *$3.50. Dutton.
A pictorial journey with text to amplify it. The author’s impressions “were gathered at the time of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and are mingled with many digressions and reflections. The author saw southern India first, and was charmed with it, but found it eclipsed in every respect by Burmah. Thence he returned to Calcutta, and made his way back to Bombay viâ Benares, Agra, and Delhi.” (Ath.)
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“The book itself is pleasantly written, and even on the wellworn themes of P. and O. voyages and Indian travel fresh impressions from a capable observer are welcome. There are too many misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 303. S. 12. 380w.
“His notes on his journey are in the nature of a diary, and run smoothly and fluently, carrying the reader easily along through scenes which a heavier literary cicerone would render tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Murdock, Harold.= Earl Percy’s dinner table. Special ed. *$5. Houghton.
7–39216.
“The author does not attempt to set forth in fictional form the Boston of 1774–5, but pictures it in vivid, dramatic narrative, in which figure constantly the chief actors of the time, both British and colonial. Earl Percy’s hospitable board is the scene of the greater part of the narrative, and the reader gets from the conversation of his guests picturesque accounts of the state of public feeling in the town, but toward the end there are stirring descriptions of the fighting at Lexington and at Bunker Hill. The final pages recount the later histories of Earl Percy’s guests. Copious notes in the back of the book explain historical references and quote authorities.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The notes are, perhaps, more interesting than the text.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 416. Ap. 4. 400w.
“The atmosphere of the period has been remarkably suggested throughout the story, which holds the interest of the reader to the end.” Laurence Burnam.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 310. My. ’08. 220w.
“An unusual book—an historical monograph possessing both unquestionable authenticity and rare distinction of style.” E. K. Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 1230w.
“A unique bit of historical recreation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 350w.
=Murphy, Thomas Dowler.= British highways and byways, from a motor car: being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales and Scotland; with 16 il. in color, and 32 duogravures from photographs. 2 maps. $3. Page.
8–5245.
Good maps, and excellent illustrations increase the value of Mr. Murphy’s well arranged information concerning British cities, and rural Britain.
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“An excellent guide. The incidental information about hotels and garages will save many moments of worry.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 240w.
“He has succeeded in giving us something more readable and more literary in character than the ordinary compendiums. The author’s love of historic places and of beautiful scenery makes the book of considerable value as a vade mecum.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1294. Je. 4, ’08. 260w.
“An agreeably written and attractively illustrated book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Murray, John, and Miller, Marion Mills.= Round up: a romance of Arizona; novelized from Edmund Day’s melodrama, il. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–11703.
Prospectors, ranchmen, outlaws, and Apaches, with a western heroine or two furnish the characters for this novelized melodrama set in Arizona and Mexico. “It is decidedly a stirring tale, abounding in thrills—fights and famine, torture and deceit, love and vengeance.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The ‘novelizers’ have done their work well, but those portions which form the cement holding the dialogue together seem sometimes a bit labored.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
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=Nash, Henry Sylvester.= Atoning life. **$1. Macmillan.
8–12601.
A book instinct with the spirit that reforms, with the atoning life that lies at the root of good society, at the foundation of human fellowship. Dr. Nash says: “One of the pressing needs of ministers and laymen alike is a vital theology that springs from life and, returning quickly to the life out of which it sprang, gives form and clarity to experience.” It is with this vital theology that the book deals.
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“Those who know Dr. Nash’s previous works will expect to find here deep scholarship and spiritual power and striking forms of speech. They may not expect to find such complete simplicity of style as will add clearness to depth. But just such a combination is to be found here.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
“Here is a small book but a great one, in which deep and patient study issues in such terse expression that one should willingly give it two or three readings to absorb its fullness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13. ’08. 400w.
=National civic federation.= Municipal and private operation of public utilities; report. 3v. $10. National civic federation.
8–2952.
A report representing two years of exhaustive investigation which comprises three volumes—one containing the conclusions arrived at and the other two the statistics of plants examined, upon which these conclusions are based.
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“These three volumes as a whole present the most valuable compilation of statistics concerning municipal affairs yet published in the United States. Whatever limitations are present are in large degree unavoidable, for the complexity of the subjects to be treated makes it unusually difficult, if not impossible, to draw from the facts a conclusion that will be convincing to all.” C. L. Jones.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 600w.
“Far superior to anything of the kind heretofore published. It is to be regretted that the general review of the whole investigation contains so little in the way of judicial weighing and balancing.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 291. Mr. 12, ’08. 6000w.
“This is probably the first time that such a complete discussion of the subject has been presented under conditions so favorable for clearing away the unessential assumptions and disputed facts that make the usual article on the subject hardly worth reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 693. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The volumes are supplied with very minute indexes, which will enable a student to secure information on almost any point involved in the discussion of municipal operation.” D. R. Dewey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 337. Je. ’08. 850w.
=Neff, Elizabeth.= Altars to Mammon. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–5884.
The story of a young Methodist minister’s struggle against the over-powering money-methods by which a millionaire would gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven. “The pastor is fresh from a theological seminary, and the scene of the story is a sordid little town where the pull is toward the open saloons away from the churches.” (Ind.)
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“The wealthy capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor and salves his conscience by building churches has been worked to death of late, and ought to be allowed a season of decent retirement.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written after the manner of E. P. Roe, and should have a wide circulation among those who admire the commonplace, even in heresies. It is realistic in situations, literal in details, and indicates that the author has good principles, excellent convictions, shrewd insight, everything except genius.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.
8–1681.
“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.
“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than clothed upon by the imagination.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.
=Neilson, Robert M.= Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20. Longmans.
A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.
− =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.
=Neumann, Angelo.= Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.
8–29008.
Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great master of music “behind the scenes”—both figuratively and literally. The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.
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“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L. M. Isaacs.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.
“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of his music.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic, but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German edition, adds to its value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= Principles of psychic philosophy. **$1.40. Lothrop.
8–10430.
Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power, unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man, psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power, freedom, healing, and fulfillment.
=Newman, Ernest.= Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–30389.
“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including ‘Salome.’”—Nation.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.
“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will resent as over-censure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series, and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing, saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.
=Newman, Richard Brinsley.= Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10613.
In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed. by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.
To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans. They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality and Criticism.
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“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.
“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only who do not need them?”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.
“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.
“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical practitioner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.
“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of preventive medicine.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.
=Nicholas, Francis Child.= Power supreme: a novel of church and state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.
8–20675.
“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor, bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader; such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.
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“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who has been personally familiar with the country in which the scene is cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.
“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary feeling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.
“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–25998.
“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.
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“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the farce-comedy is to the drama.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.
“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or any other form of the blues.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar source.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–38599.
Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story. There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted tragedy.
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“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to originality.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.
“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of reputation through this latest novel.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.
“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.
=Nicolay, Fernand.= Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50. Lane.
8–3124.
“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.
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“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness, abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present it in English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.
“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”
− =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining, or vital, or even plausible.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of a personal nature about Napoleon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this multitude of details.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.
=Nicoll, Michael John.= Three voyages of a naturalist: being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–14717.
A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the “Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.
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“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.
“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.
“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote islands.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on account of the many new species described.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas.= History of English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.
7–37996.
Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary origins and movements.
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“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned, but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with matter for superficial conversation.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.
“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but would be selected after the library owned old standards.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 227. Je. ’08.
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only valuable, it is really readable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.
“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than read the books themselves.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.
“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are, but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–17253.
The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its islands.
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“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident and originality of plot.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s island life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Niecks, Frederick.= Programme music in the last four centuries: a contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.
7–27022.
“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that ‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.
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“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.
“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is noble?
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“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.
“This version should form a quite successful book and should have considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life, it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction claims for it.” F. Thilly.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.
“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into fluent and easy English.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.
“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on the natural history of morals and other subjects.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made ‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.
“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N. Dolson.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Human, all too human: a book for free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the workers.) 50c. Kerr.
8–7591.
Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to those who are not afraid to read them.”
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita).= Cradle tales of Hinduism. *$1.60. Longmans.
8–13677.
The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)
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“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers of the magic and the human.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.
“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with the originals.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.
“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.
=Nojine, E. K.= Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B. Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.
W 8–120.
The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat. R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.
“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather than as a narrative.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or picturesque.”
+ =Nation.= 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.
“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets from it the impression that it proves too much.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.
“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and picturesqueness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.
“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de.= Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.
8–838.
“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.
“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.
“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to the beginnings of modern classical culture.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.
“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Noorden, Karl Harko von=, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine; tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.
Agr 7–2016.
A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der pathologie des stoffwechsels.”
=v. 1.= The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the original literature.” (Science.)
=v. 2.= The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others, deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the kidneys.
=v. 3.= Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.
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“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen comparisons quite at random.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the original.” Otto Folin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.
(Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Norris, Henry Hutchinson.= Introduction to the study of electrical engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–348. (2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)
“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station, transformers and motors, and their applications, electric lighting and heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of intelligence.” (Elec. World.)
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“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation more than compensates for this deficiency.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is often surprising.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the subject which he has selected.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.
8–444.
A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by the cult.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.
=North, Arthur Walbridge.= Mother of California; with an introd. by Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.
An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California history.”
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“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.
“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is timely and useful.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for geographical and historical research and also all those who take delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a too florid rhetoric.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.
=Norton, Grace=, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his writings.”—Nation.
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+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Norton, Grace=, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–16222.
“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand foremost.”—Nation.
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+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
* =Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2. Century.
8–33815.
A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The author shows what the original document contained, shows why the charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short, covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem and clears up the mystery.
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=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5889.
This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.
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“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of utterance.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.
“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the mere splendor of vision.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it should not detract from it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.
=Nuelsen, John L.= Some recent phases of German theology. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
8–7161.
Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author, while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians, laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.
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“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a report of the varying phases of German theology at present and less recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and between these some mediating varieties.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L.= History of nursing, the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
7–41533.
Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria, Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work; and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.
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“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and may do to alleviate human suffering.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.
“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.
“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such duties—and who is not?—should read it.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
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=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. *$2.25. Dodd.
8–7374.
A guide, including illustrations and maps, to every island in the West Indian archipelago. It gives descriptions of each one, its attractions, resources, climate, history, hotels, as well as routes thither from the Atlantic ports of the United States, Canada, England and Europe.
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“Indispensable to the traveler, as there is no other complete guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 100w.
“An excellent book ... on an untouched subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“A thorough and reliable guide.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“Tells us all that can be wanted.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= John and Sebastian Cabot. (Heroes of American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–11834.
Mr. Ober clears up some of the doubts that have obscured the claim of these discoverers to the mainland of North America. He narrates their voyages, portrays vividly the thrill of enthusiasm that stirred England, Venice and Spain when new world riches were the talk and dream of king and peasant, and discusses the sturdy elements that formed the character of the Cabots.
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“Offers information but is not scholarly in treatment, nor distinctive in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“He has taken great pains to make his sketch as nearly accurate as possible, and he writes with judgment and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Juan Ponce de Leon. (Heroes of American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–9496.
Aside from the quest for the fountain of perennial youth which has always lent romance to the name of Ponce de Leon, here are recorded many daring adventures of the explorer among the islands of the new world where he is revealed as a hardy soldier, an honorable cavalier, and a noble man.
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“The book is an entertaining one, and a contribution, in its way, to historical literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Told in succinct and interesting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=O’Connor, Vincent C. S.= Mandalay, and other cities of the past in Burma. *$5. Appleton.
8–20523.
“A resuscitation of the past of Burma as it finds expression in its cities, the centers of a by-gone day.” “The spirit of the East possesses him, and amid the deserted pagodas, the ruin-strewed jungles, the mouldering scenes of vanished glories, he knows how to discern and interpret the subtle charm that appeals to every traveller whose footsteps have wandered among the relics of departed greatness in Asia.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Much that is both valuable and beautiful in Burma possesses also the characteristic of impermanence, and the fact is of itself good justification for this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 733. D. 7. 720w.
“His book ought surely to be read with delight even by those to whom the wonders of the Orient are but a vague vision.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 770w.
“His book is not easy reading, except to those familiar with the country and its history.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 630w.
“Of hardly less interest than his story of Mandalay are the stories Mr. O’Connor tells of the older cities of Burma.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
“The author knows his Burma from end to end; he writes with equal sympathy of its past history and its wealth of natural and artistic beauty.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 550w.
=Oesterley, William Oscar Emil.= Evolution of the Messianic idea: a study in comparative religion. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26835.
“The elemental emotions of fear, the sense of dependence on a higher power, and the desire for happiness, accordingly give rise to three primordial myths found among widely diverse peoples.... The spiritual truths enveloped in these misty conceptions it was the mission of Israelite teachers to clarify, and this process of development is Dr. Oesterley’s theme.”—Outlook.
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“We must confine our remarks to criticism of a few leading ideas. We must also remark that the apologetic parts of the book are by no means happy all through. Dr. Oesterley’s work is, however, on the whole, likely to prove very useful to a wide circle of readers. It is stimulating, earnest, frank, and full of interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 662. My. 30. 1100w.
“It is an illuminative piece of scholarship in comparative religion. It hardly needs saying that readers of the Testament will find profit in this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 280w.
=Oesterley, Rev. W. O. E., and Box, G. H.= Religion and worship of the synagogue. *$3. Scribner.
8–11732.
“The authors, both of them clergymen of the Church of England, write with equal knowledge and fairness, in the belief that Judaism and Christianity are complementary and belong together, and that the advocates of each can only be true to their respective faiths by mutual fellowship and respect for one another’s convictions. A survey of Judaism from the New Testament to the present day necessarily covers a great variety of subjects, the classic literature or sources, the theology, the current practice; on all of these Mr. Oesterley and Mr. Box give adequate information.”—Sat. R.
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“The authors have approached the theme in a proper spirit of sympathy and discrimination; they have made good use of the best authorities at their command; and they have also done whatever was possible to gain personal impressions of several of the customs they describe.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 325. F. 8, ’08. 510w.
“This excellent work supplies what has long been wanted, a clear and dispassionate account of Judaism such as the ordinary reader can understand.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w.
“Very instructive volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 650. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Grand army man. †$1.50. Century.
8–24451.
Mr. O’Higgins in novelizing David Belasco’s play has aimed to translate into the form of fiction the flavor of Warfield’s acting, and the charm of Belasco’s stage. Here as in the play the effort is spent on the development of the simple, tender hearted Wes’ Bigelow whose only shadow across a serene sky is due to the misdeeds of the wayward foster-son.
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“The book contains the essentials of the play, with enough fine material replete in imaginative power and human interest to make an absorbingly fascinating novel of human life.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 480. N. ’08. 200w.
“He has accomplished his task in as agreeable a manner as the process will allow. He has poured his own originality into the work, rounding out in word pictures that which Mr. Warfield so adequately brought out in his acting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. O’Higgins has succeeded in turning out a little volume which will be welcome to those who want an enduring record of a fleeting playhouse impression, and which has some interest as fiction on its own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 511. S. 19, ’08. 570w.
“The book will not disappoint the many friends of Wes’ Bigelow among his Grand army comrades and others.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 70w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. *$6. Dutton.
W7–195.
A volume which grew, says the author, “from a pilgrimage about Venetian streets and canals ‘for the purpose of identifying and precisely indicating the position’ of the palaces referred to by Ruskin, Fergusson, Street, and other students of Venetian architecture. The chief examples are described in the order of their erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or Renaissance. From the writings of the three great Venetian diarists has been drawn an accompanying picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice’s greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations in color, and others, possibly more valuable to the student, in black and white, by Mr. Trevor Haddon, besides several reproductions from Ruskin’s studies of Venetian architecture.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book that will delight all lovers of Venice.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Is the most important and the most valuable of all these new volumes on Italian themes. This is a scholarly and a thoroughly workmanlike book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 200w.
“This book is not only much better intrinsically than his historical sketch of Venice, but it also is free from the pot-boiler aroma that pervaded that effort.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Okey knows his Venice well. He has ransacked history and legend for illustrative comment, using both with judgment, and indeed with restraint.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 50. Ja. 11, ’08. 930w.
=Olcott, William Tyler.= Field book of the stars. **$1. Putnam.
7–26464.
This guide “is gotten up in very compact form, presenting in fifty diagrams the appearance of the skies at different seasons and the location of all the important constellations. Accompanying each diagram is a brief explanation. There is nothing of either a technical or a theoretical nature, and nothing has been included which cannot be studied with either the naked eye or an opera glass.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“Of this sort the book is a model of simplicity and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 130w.
“For assistance in the geography of the heavens, and for choosing particular objects that are suitable for naked-eye or opera-glass study this little book is the most complete and the most practicable that has thus far appeared. The diagrams are simple, clear, and admirably adapted to class or individual use. The author’s work is excellently done. The book is timely and teachable, and there is little of moment in it to criticize. Every high-school teacher of astronomy ought to have it and to use it in his classes.” G. W. Meyers.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 346. My. ’08. 1100w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Aunt Maud. +$1.50. McClure.
8–20135.
Tells how a niece is so clever regarding her aunt’s announced match-making schemes that she takes matters into her own hands and swears the young man to secrecy over a compact to play a part for a month during which time they are to seem engaged while in reality they are only “taking each other’s measure.” “The result is a series of emotional incidents, described with much vivacity and minuteness, and leading to an event which amiably and not quite unexpectedly vindicates the tactics of Aunt Maud.” (Nation.)
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“A book worth bringing to the attention of readers who like incursions into the domain of sentiment that is not sentimentality.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 380w.
“It is a sensible book for young girls.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“The central love-story is treated with so much originality and discretion that we are at a loss to understand the author’s fiasco over his more ambitious portrait.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Virginie. †$1.50. McClure.
8–4038.
This story is really the continuation of a deus ex machina’s task to bring happiness to the daughter of the woman whom he had loved and lost. The protector is a chemist and he administers to Virginie, on the eve of an odious marriage with a dissolute count, a Monte Cristo potion which causes temporary suspension of life. He chooses a British lover for her, an amateur archaeologist, to whom he delivers a wax statue packed in ice with a silver trumpet in its hand. The statue comes to life and is beautiful. As Virginie comes out of the trance of body, the Englishman emerges from his trance of soul. The guardian sees to it that there are plenty of adventures to test the lover’s sincerity and heroism before he confesses the truth to him.
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“The author writes with attractive lightness, and we have been amused by the feats of the special maker of providence for the young people. It is a pleasant story, except that too much is made, we think, of eating and drinking.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 110w.
“The author has developed an absurd situation with a gravity that is almost obtuse.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written with much cleverness and skill, and is plausible enough to be entertaining, even if the reader does not find the evasive and resourceful Italian, who is really a famous French scientist, entirely convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 370w.
“A more improbable tale than ‘Virginie’ would be hard to find.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Is all wrong from beginning to end. It is not merely the wild extravagance of the conception, unworthy though that be of a writer of Mr. Oldmeadow’s powers, but it is the whole atmosphere of false sentiment in which the story is steeped that offends.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Oliver, Thomas.= Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social and medical points of view. *$3. Dutton.
8–27120.
“Treats of the diseases incidental to a great variety of occupations in factories, workshops, mines, potteries, and other employments where many persons labor together.”—Nation.
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“In every case the information supplied is ample, and the best-known methods for abolishing or lessening the evils attendant on each occupation are given with commendable brevity. Several statements and facts are repeated at short intervals in almost identical words—a blemish which can be easily removed in the next edition of what must prove a highly useful book of reference. There is an excellent index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 420w.
“It is an excellent, simple, and untechnical description of the diseases due to gases, poisons, dust, etc.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 543. O. ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 540w.
“In a comparatively small book Dr. Oliver has succeeded in bringing together a vast amount of useful information on all sorts of subjects. The facts with which he has dealt are not drawn up in any very orderly array, and throughout one finds a certain vagueness which may well tend to make the reader feel that he is treading on ground too uncertain to bear definite action. In some places where definite directions are given they are contradictory.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 627. O. 22, ’08. 1050w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= The gentleman. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28993.
A continuous series of adventures both on land and sea that result in thwarting the plot of Napoleon to kidnap Nelson just before the battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon’s agent is an Irish rebel—the Gentleman—whose charming personality and bravery won the admiration and respect of his enemies. The rescuing party consists of a few sailors and fighting men of whom a fifteen-year old midshipman is the first in valor and resourcefulness.
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“An ingenious, breathless story, of decided literary merit, that men and older boys will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“The last fight of the ‘Tremendous’ is one of the best naval battles in fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 676. N. 28. 330w.
“A distinctly bigger achievement than either of its author’s earlier books; and, one is tempted to add, the book best entitled of any story written in English since the days of Robert Louis Stevenson to trace its ancestry straight back to the purest strain of the romantic novel.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 510. N. ’08. 2000w.
“Take three parts of Stevenson to one of Charles Kingsley, flavor with reminiscences of Blackmore, beat violently, and serve in paragraphs à la Charles Reade—such seems to have been the formula for this rather extraordinary book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“One can only call it melodrama; but it hurries the reader along without a halt on a single page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 796. D. 19, ’08. 720w.
“The book is marred a little by hints of torture and by some passages which may try the nerves of haters of bloodshed and cruelty, and sometimes the author’s style, purposely made sharp and concise, becomes a little too Victor Hugoish in abruptness. But, criticism aside, the romance is one of the best of its class; it holds the imagination with intentness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck.= Western Asia in the days of Sargon of Assyria, 722–705 B. C.: a study in oriental history. (Cornell studies in history and political science.) **$1.25. Holt.
8–17886.
“Represents seven years of study during which the author was for a year a Fellow at the American school for oriental studies, under Professor Schmidt, and had the inestimable advantage of a careful topographical study of a portion of the territory covered by Sargon’s campaigns.... Among the points most valuable is his study of the perplexing ‘Muzri’ question raised by Winckler. Also of much interest is the account of Sargon’s campaigns to the north against the Mannai and Khaldians (Chaldeans) until he was slain in battle with the Cimmerians, as this brings him into relation with tribes whom our author recognizes as Aryan.”—Ind.
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“This book is a good example of the systematic work that must be done on every period of Babylonian-Assyrian history before an adequate history of those nations can be written.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 90w.
“An admirably careful, thoro and adequate study of Sargon’s campaigns, and has close bearing on biblical accounts.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
* =Olmsted, E. Stanley.= Emotionalist: the romance of an awakening to temperament. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–30250.
The story of an American girl’s struggle for temperament which if added to her gift of a beautiful voice, to her ambition and energy would insure a much coveted career. She pursues her study in Germany, meets a man who takes a hand in developing her temperament with the result that he loves her, and sacrifices his happiness for her art only to see her turn aside from it and marry a Fifth avenue oil-magnate.
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“A clever piece of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Brahmans, theists, and Muslims of India. *$3.50. Jacobs.
8–436.
Studies of goddess-worship in Bengal, caste, Brahmanism and social reform, with descriptive sketches of curious festivals, ceremonies and fakirs.
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“An excellent book on the practice of religion as distinguished from the doctrines or philosophies. Useful in connection with so called accounts of religion which are purely idealistic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
“A special master-key to the problems of Indian life and thought.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 259. S. 7. 2750w.
“The work contains a great deal that is full of human interest, but its value had been much enhanced by greater compression and more reflection of a suggestive sort upon the phenomena presented.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 138. O. ’08. 340w.
“Mr Oman’s evidence is all the more valuable and convincing in that he approaches the speculative realms of Hindu thought with broad-minded tolerance and sympathy, whilst he is too sound a student to ignore or to minimize the more repellent aspects of Hinduism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 276. S. 13, ’07. 1700w.
“The many pages devoted to subjects already treated by the other writers, such as caste and the history of Hindu theism, are not of great worth, and give the impression of having been taken in great measure from previous authors. On the other hand, Mr. Oman’s own observations and studies from life in India, his descriptions of the Holi festival and the Mohammedan fakirs deserve a permanent form.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja, 30, ’08. 150w.
“He has evidently written con amore, and with wide and diverse knowledge, and his pages give to the reader a singular feeling of being in touch with at least some of the actualities of this alien and mysterious life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 60w.
* =Onken, William Henry, and Baker, Joseph Black.= Harper’s how to understand electrical work; a simple explanation of electric light, heat, power and traction in daily life; with a dictionary of electrical terms prepared by Joseph H. Adams. $1.75. Harper.
8–33039.
A book which answers for boys and girls the questions how and why machinery moves when the force behind it is electricity. It is the story of the every day uses of electricity indicating the universality of its application. The author shows how electricity is made; how it is used for light, heat, power and traction; in the home, on the farm, in hospitals, on steamships, in mines, in the manufacture of steel; for protection, as a destroyer, and for the transmission of intelligence.
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“Here is a book that makes the sharp and proper divisions as to methods and apparatus, and tells with precision just what is involved in lighting as distinguished from traction, in telegraphy as different from telephony. Our own opinion is that it will find a large circulation on account of the boldness with which it gives engineering data and diagrams.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1252. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
“It is a deep book for a boy ... but one that will stimulate his mind if he be mechanically inclined.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 694. D. 17, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= The avenger. †$1.50. Little.
8–13951.
A mystery story with a profusion of ingredients ranging from political intrigue to private revenge. The book differs from other of Mr. Oppenheim’s stories in that the man who takes life, the avenger, is a most reputable citizen of London, who can’t understand why, if on the battlefield one is held blameless while taking brave men’s lives, a man who rids society of lives that breed corruption should be condemned. He has the courage of his conviction and rids the world of three decadents, consoling himself with the belief that it is a moral act.
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“Amongst the makers of sensational fiction Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim ranks as a past-master.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“An absurd, wholly improbable, yet readable tale.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“There is not a dull page in the volume and many of the scenes are highly dramatic.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Considered as an invention merely, the story is neat and effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Unlike most detective stories his plots are not mechanical and his people not marionettes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The avenger’s folk are nicely alive—all who are not killed. Its manner places it in the class of novels of comfortable manslaughter—smooth-running, readable, pleasantly puzzling.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether it is a lively, thrilling, and captivating story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether a rattling good story of its sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
“Is notable for its cleverness in placing before the readers a murder problem apparently simple but really all but insoluble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Entertaining romance.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 623. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Great secret. †$1.50. Little.
7–40278.
A story of intrigue woven about an international conspiracy hatched by Germany and involving Great Britain. The outwitting of the band of German conspirators in London is a clever piece of interference, conducted by one Lord Leslie Wendover alias Leslie Guest, aided by a renowned English cricket player, and a charming American girl.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“An exceptionally able story of the kind.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 180w.
“It is not likely that ‘The great secret’ will be distinguished for merit above its fellow; but it may achieve a mild distinction in this country because its author has allowed himself to indulge in gentle sarcasm at the expense of the American woman. This is not one of those mystery stories which offer a real challenge to the reader’s analytical faculty. The truth is that Mr. Oppenheim, entertaining as he may sometimes be, is sadly superficial.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 61. Mr. ’08. 1000w.
“Although one cannot cease to protest against the utter improbability of the general plot and many situations of this story, nevertheless curiosity is aroused from the first and carries us along to the finish.”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“There is no permanence and vitality in the plot to give it more than an ephemeral existence.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips Oppenheim leaves us with a headache. He is so amazingly strenuous, and his characters pass through such terrible experiences in rapid succession that our nerves are shattered before we get to the end of the volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 120w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Long arm of Mannister. †$1.50. Little.
8–23549.
A man who had been the victim of the dark plotting of eight conspirators takes his revenge upon each in turn. The punishment is administered single-handed, and for variety, ingenuity, boldness and thoroness can scarcely find its parallel in fiction.
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“The story is better written than some of Mr. Oppenheim’s recent thrilling romances and will hold the reader’s interest from start to finish.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Mannister’s methods are too simple to greatly absorb a generation of readers that has known Sherlock Holmes.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 70w.
“Here Mr. Phillips undertakes to show, in a thrilling succession of anecdotes, that the way of the transgressor is much harder than the Biblical aphorist dreamed it. He has succeeded remarkably.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“This may not be Mr. Oppenheim’s best work, but the narrative is compact, lively, and exciting—a diverting companion in an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
* =Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= Elusive pimpernel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–33437.
“A sequel to ‘Scarlet pimpernel,’ in which intrigue, romance, and love go hand in hand along a path of real historical limitations and extent. It is a new story, a new telling of certain episodes of the French revolution, in which are continued the career of the Scarlet pimpernel, that daring and mysterious young English soldier of fortune, and the intrigues of the terrible yet fascinating French agent, Chauvelin.”—N. Y. Times.
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“If the reader can accept the improbabilities, he will find the story entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 120w.
“The story ... is told with a rush of incident and with not a little imaginative power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The interest is wrought up to the very highest pitch. Nor is the tale a mere succession of startling incidents, made to look natural, and very cleverly joined together.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
=Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= In Mary’s reign. (English title, The tangled skein.) 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14959.
“This is a sentimental tale of the days of Mary Tudor, with a fairly ingenious plot. There is an innocent maiden, a very good English lord, a double, and two very wicked Spanish diplomatists who speak with a scarcely veiled sneer and contrive most diabolical plots.”—Acad.
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“The style is of the most jerky and suburban type. The characters, moreover, are entirely melodramatic.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The romance is of the machine-made order, nor does it give any adequate picture of the times. Its popular merit will probably be that it has dramatic moments.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 288. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“There is none of the vigour shown in the ‘Scarlet pimpernel.’”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Orgain, Kate Alma.= Southern authors in poetry and prose. *$2. Neale.
8–23871.
A collection of biographical and critical essays, with selections from the writers. Among the groups of twenty-six men and women briefly sketched are Sidney Lanier, Augusta J. Evans, William Gilmore Simms, John Esten Cooke, Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy, George Washington Cable, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Nelson Page.
=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Evolution of mammalian molar teeth, to and from the triangular type. *$2. Macmillan.
The first volume in a series of six Biological studies and addresses. “The purpose of the book is the collection of the writings of the author on this question and the extension of them by other observations and illustrations in support of the tritubercular theory.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“The author has succeeded in placing trituberculism on a much more secure and unassailable basis than it ever previously occupied.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 435. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
“The whole book gives evidence of the most painstaking work. Perhaps its most delightful feature is the judicial fairness and frankness with which the whole evidence is reviewed and discussed.” R: S. Lull.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 341. F. 28, ’08. 1200w.
=Osborne, Charles Francis=, ed. Historic houses and their gardens: palaces, castles, country places and gardens of the old and new worlds described by several writers, illustrated with plans and photographs; with introd. by Frank Miles Day. $6. Winston.
8–22109.
A beautiful volume of folio size, with heavy glazed paper, large type, and numerous finely reproduced illustrations. The text includes thirty chapters, each of which is devoted to the description of some historic house and its garden. An introduction states some of the fundamental principles that ought to govern the relation of houses and their gardens. A wide range of selection is offered including houses in England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Japan, India, France, Mexico, and the United States.
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“The book will bring travellers’ joy, whether reminiscent or imaginary, to those who turn its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1, ’08. 400w.
“There are thus scattered through the volume many welcome suggestions; and the appreciative reader may find in this rather bewildering abundance material for deductions which a work of narrower scope would not afford.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 350w.
“A very beautiful and instructive illustrated volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“In the main the book is harmonious in style and method, and in every case the reader receives pleasurable impressions of the beauty of the places and agreeably rendered information as to their association and history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Osgood, Elliott I.= Breaking down Chinese walls, from a doctor’s view-point. **$1. Revell.
8–5266.
A clear exposition of Chinese conditions and the place which medical missionary work has assumed in the Christianizing of China. “The author has shown that the missionary ‘must demonstrate by living illustrations the superiority of Christianity over heathen systems’; that dispensaries, hospitals and schools have been opened to prove the advantages of a Christian civilization; and that the home-life of the missionary is as effective an agency in regeneration as the pulpit and the hospital.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 717. My. ’08. 220w.
“A convincing and distinctly illuminating account of experiences in China.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The fervent religious note throughout the book is so deep and earnest and heartfelt that it must command respect even from those who have no sympathy with the evangelical movements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08 150w.
“Is interesting reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=* O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Linguistic development and education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–36885.
“Part 1 treats of the ‘Non-reflective processes in linguistic development’ and includes chapters on prelinguistic expression, early reaction upon conventional language, parts of speech in early linguistic activity, inflection and word order, and development of meaning for verbal symbols. Part 2 on ‘Reflective processes in linguistic development’ treats of acquisition of word ideas in reading, acquisition of graphic words, development of meaning for word ideas in reading, development of efficiency in oral expression, processes in graphic expression, and development of efficiency in graphic composition, and acquisition of a foreign tongue. Each chapter is followed by a summary and at the close of the book is a very good bibliography and index.”—School R.
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“With the exception of several chapters, the book will be read chiefly by specialists. The style, however, is forceful and agreeably simple.” G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 457. S. ’08. 300w.
“The volume occupies a field of its own and is of value to those interested in child-study. It has also some worth as suggesting the probable origin of language and as farther suggesting proper methods of education.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 130w.
“It is not unfair, perhaps, to say that the chief value of the book lies in the organization of material scattered about in special articles and separate treatises, so as to present a comprehensive view of the whole process of linguistic development, rather than in the new facts reported, or new theories propounded. To have made this body of opinions accessible in the form of an outline of theory is to have performed a worthy service to education.” W. B. O.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 53. S. ’08. 400w.
“Of the three books that Professor O’Shea has written, this will probably be of the most permanent value. It has more of the merits and fewer of the defects of the other books and treats of a definite subject with such completeness that it is not likely to be soon displaced by any other book.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ =School R.= 16: 624. N. ’08. 620w.
=Osler, William.= Alabama student, and other biographical essays. **$2. Oxford.
“The topics of these essays are all biographical, among the subjects being John Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Sir Thomas Brown, Harvey, William Pepper and Alfred Stillé. The Alabama student who supplies the subject for the main title was Dr. John Bassett of Huntsville, a devoted physician and student in medicine of the early half of the last century.”—Lit. D.
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“The history of medicine appeals most to the best educated in the profession, but in the hands of a writer like Prof. Osler it is in itself an education.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 440w.
“Dr. Osier gives not only the conventional facts in a man’s life, but has added much by way of personal comment that is distinctive in itself and frequently charming.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 602. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“In many respects the gem is the last essay of all, the Harveian oration of 1906.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 555. D. 3, ’08. 870w.
“Earnest, candid, not lacking in humor, lucid and virile, not infrequently adorned by the allusions of a scholar who is too wise to be a pedant, Dr. Osler’s observations are always interesting and frequently brilliant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
“They are marked by good sense and discrimination, graced with a pleasant style, and ballasted with the results of enthusiastic research. Primarily they were intended for doctors, but we hope that their publication in this form will give them the much wider audience which they deserve.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 503. O. 3, ’08. 1750w.
=Ostrovsky, Alexander Nicolaievich.= The storm; tr. by Constance Garnett. *$1. Luce, J: W.
The scene of this drama is laid in a small provincial town on the upper Volga. A sharp-tongued mother, a weak-willed son, and a sweet-tempered daughter-in-law are the principal characters. The tyranny of the mother drives the son’s wife to reckless relations with a merchant’s son. Between the girl’s pangs of conscience and her uncontrollable fear of thunder, she is moved, during a terrifying storm, to make confession, and later, in a fit of remorse, drowns herself.
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“It is a play that would make practically no appeal to any English speaking audience, but the development of character and action, if it may really be called that in the sense in which the word is used on our stage, will prove interesting to the reader. And the book should find a place in the library of every student of the drama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 480w.
=Owen, Charles Henry.= Justice of the Mexican war: a review of the causes and results of the war, with a view to distinguishing evidence from opinion and inference. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–22535.
Maintaining that those who declare the Mexican war unjust base their charges mainly on opinion and inference, that to avoid intricacies and contradictions they followed the line of least resistance and attributed it all to slavery cabal, the author concerns himself with the causes as they are conceived to arise from the Monroe doctrine. Aside from being a justification of the war the discussion is a criticism of the methods of some noted historians.
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“There is room for a book which shall bear the title of this one, but it must be written by a student familiar with the westward movement and able to discriminate between sources of information and opinions of irresponsible journalistic historians.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“The book is well worth reading as a patriotic defense of our government and its armies.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 630w.
“We must dismiss his book as inconclusive.”
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− + =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
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=Packh, Baroness M. de.= Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.
8–2942.
A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional inhumanity.
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“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Pagani, Rev. G. B.= Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the Italian. *$3. Dutton.
The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)
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“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously naïve but devout and interesting life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.
“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has succeeded in writing a dull book.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.
“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence, and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary talent, are evinced in this life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and instructive about it.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J.= True story of Andersonville prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.
8–9498.
Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.
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=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Old Dominion: her making and her manners. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–7373.
Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation, showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America; Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia Sunday.
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“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.
“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful essays to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 201. Je. ’08.
“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.
“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the benefit of average readers.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive personal touch, and are worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native state.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial times.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–30716.
“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to military greatness made by the two contending generals in that war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.
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+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy rather than cold, impartial history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1. Scribner.
8–35741.
The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home of Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.
“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little boy.”
− =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The story is an exciting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It lacks vital interest.”
− =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.
=Paget, Stephen.= Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5617.
The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.
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“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.
“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.
“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the connoisseur.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.
“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s view of the calling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.
“A pleasant book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise up the better from their perusal.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader, in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.
“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a cordial welcome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he is all jauntiness with no apology.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–29352.
The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia. The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠
“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply, swiftly, and honestly.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.
“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using singular verbs with plural subjects.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Paine, John Knowles.= History of music to the death of Schubert. *$2.40. Ginn.
7–35630.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much as possible up to date.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.
“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving care.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.
“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view, splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and judicious in spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.
“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–33155.
A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race, insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient Italy: historical and geographical investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–5246.
A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws light on the history of Greece.
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“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of constructive work of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author. The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness in style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.
=Palmedo, D. Petri-.= How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.
8–12802.
A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.
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“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily understood.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise, but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.
“An unusually satisfactory little book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–25371.
The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang, becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)
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“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.
“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Palmer, George Herbert.= Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12560.
This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life, work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.
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+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠
“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.
“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.
“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen sense of proportion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly _human_ books of the season.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many others.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.
* =Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher: essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system, College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go to college?
=Palmer, William Scott.= Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.
“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to revelation from within outward, in a growing religious experience, and a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at the root the same.”—Outlook.
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“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church to look beyond their own borders.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.
“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.” G. Tyrrell.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the Anglican clergy.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Park, Joseph C.= Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1. Macmillan.
8–10294.
Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification, description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make; (7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.
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“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted educational value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this excellent text-book.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Theodore.= American scholar; ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39034.
A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people, expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s “History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed. with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–38887.
A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in life.”
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= World of matter and the spirit of man: latest discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39391.
Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on “The theological and philosophical development of New England” have never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet form but have never previously found their way into any American volume.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Thomas Valentine.= Cherokee Indians, with special reference to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–38633.
Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance. The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.
“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian question, the book is very weak.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri.... The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure, as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.
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“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the careful study of all intelligent citizens.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this important subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–26195.
A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753. The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.
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“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.
“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of France. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9526.
A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis. It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.
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“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A facile, stirring book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.
“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and thoroughgoing in invention.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable advance upon his previous work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Parsons, John Denham.= Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6. Wessels.
Deals with the much debated question of human immortality. Discusses soul, body, matter, Buddhism, psychical research, spiritualism, incarnation, theology, the Bible, life, and death.
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“Although it is clear that Mr. Parsons has read widely and thought for himself, it does not seem likely to us that any considerable number of persons will be physically or mentally able to follow his reasonings in all their sinuous windings by means of such a volume as the present.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 200w.
“The worst thing, perhaps, about the work is its style, which does the treatment grave injustice. In a work of this kind, it has seemed more desirable to give some insight into the real scope and design of the work, rather than deal mainly with matters of criticism. But its manifold points of learning and interest can scarcely be set forth in a review.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 260. Ja. ’08. 900w.
“It would perhaps be easier to discover the nature and purpose of the universe than the nature and purpose of this book. It has been vouchsafed to only a few to have definite information on this subject, and Mr. Parsons has been even less successful than others in his attempt to solve this riddle.”
− =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 380w.
“If the author knows what he means, and he cannot possibly, no other human being will have the slightest glimmering of it.”
− − =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
=Partridge, Anthony.= The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as “The ghosts.” Exhausting what their friends called “esoteric rubbish,” but craving amusement, the members of this group enter upon a series of bold robberies and turn the spoils over to charitable institutions. After they run their daring course they are steered back into normal channels and the curtain falls upon a serene, apparently unscathed, circle.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“A weird sort of novel, and one that leaves a distinctly bad taste in the mind. It is a daring and uncanny theme, and one that invites to discussion of its psychological possibility. But the author offends against both probability and the instinctive sense of human justice in his resolution of the problem.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Partsch, Herman.= Messages to mothers: a protest against artificial methods. **$1.50. Elder.
8–14355.
The collected utilitarian results of a series of vital human nature studies undertaken during twenty-three years of medical practice. With a view to eliminating preventable ills he presents a simple scheme for right diet, care and treatment of mother and child, and for the conservation of power in physiological functions.
=Pastores, Los.= Los pastores, a Mexican play of the nativity; tr., introd. and notes by M. R. Cole; with illustrations and music. (Memoirs of the American folk-lore society, v. 9, 1907.) *$4. Houghton.
7–11974.
Carefully edited to show comparison of various accessible versions, this play is of “interest as a survival on American soil of a form of drama which we usually associate with Europe in the Middle ages.” (Am. Hist. R.) “It is probably a seventeenth century production. It varies in style ‘from doggerel to the distinction of good Spanish models.’ The actors are the shepherds, the hermit, Lucifer, and the archangel Michael. The message of the nativity is announced, producing varying effects upon the different actors. The shepherds seek the babe and render adoration to him. A combat takes place between Michael and Lucifer, in which the latter is finally subdued.” (Dial.)
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“The subject-matter ... is of very uneven literary merit and contains frequent inconsistencies, and an unexpected amount of humor. The introduction, notes, music of the songs, and photographs of the actors in costume add much to the value of the work.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 935. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“The spirit of the play is on the whole good. There are fine passages, but there is also a good deal of coarse by-play.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 244. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= The master criminal. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42014.
The “master criminal” is a man who devotes his intellectuality, strong character and courage to the furthering of crime. “His morbid, perverted nature causes him to hate all his fellowmen and to injure them in every possible way.” (N. Y. Times.) “He has planned to strike a father thru his son, but love interferes, the love that purifies and ennobles. It may interest the reader to know that it was this master criminal who planned the theft of the antique snuffboxes from the London home of Mr. Wertheim—Floerscheim he is called in the story.” (Ind.)
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“The book will furnish rather entertaining occupation for an hour or two.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“For all who are fond of the hectic flush in fiction the story, whose scene is laid in London, will be an entertaining tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.= Jerusalem in Bible times. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–26700.
A handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest archaeological researches. The author gives carefully sorted facts concerning the sites, archaeology, and the history of Jerusalem, accompanied by numerous illustrations and maps.
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“An excellent handbook for students and travelers. The book not only evinces familiarity with the results of recent investigation, but itself makes a worthy contribution to the sum of existing knowledge about Jerusalem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 365. N. ’08. 60w.
=Patterson, John Henry.= Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African adventures; with a foreword by F: Courteney Selous. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–4611.
The thrilling experiences of Col. Patterson among the man-eating lions of Tsavo become an “epic of terrible tragedies.” How he succeeded in bringing to an end these savage depredations by killing eight lions constitutes a most intense story of adventure.
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“It should prove intensely attractive to boys, and not less so to their elders. It is strange, however, that a writer who evidently knows Swahili should adhere to the obsolete method of writing an apostrophe after initial _m_ and _n_.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 570w.
“The story he tells us is given very simply and quietly, with no aiming whatever at effect. It does not need it; the facts are overpoweringly dramatic by themselves.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8. ’07. 610w.
“Col. Patterson is an engineer and a sportsman rather than a man of letters but his book is full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“No boy’s book of imaginary adventures published at this season is likely to make its reader hold his breath more frequently than this modest but veracious record. There is a good deal else in the book which will interest the sportsman as well as the general reader, though if the book were fiction we should be inclined to describe those parts which do not deal with the man-eaters as an anti-climax.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 459. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The story, indeed, is so amazing that the reader might at first suppose it to be exaggerated. But quite apart from the entire absence of artifice in Colonel Patterson’s style, which is itself an evidence of truth, an overwhelming amount of independent testimony supports the genuineness of all the details.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 669. N. 2, ’07. 2450w.
=Patterson, Joseph Medill.= Little brother of the rich: a novel. $1.50. Reilly & B.
8–23548.
“The story concerns a young man, son of a country parson in Indiana, who won his way by his athletic prowess into the selected and richest set of Yale undergraduates, and afterward, with the help of these same young men, rose by way of a broker’s office to affluence and a position in society in New York.” (N. Y. Times.) Sordid facts of fashionable social life in New York are exploited.
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“It would not be worth while to take this novel seriously enough to laugh at it, were it not put forth, like Mr. Sinclair’s fustian, as socialistic or the work of a socialist.” J: Macy.
− =Bookm.= 28: 279. N. ’08. 1300w.
“In the judgment of the intelligent reader, has little excuse for being.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 320w.
“The workmanship of the story is distinctly amateurish, and the matter fails to carry conviction. Also the theme is somewhat threadbare and the details are more so. But the book is readable.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Patterson has delivered a telling blow at the evils that he uncovers.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 170w.
=Paulin, George.= No struggle for existence, no natural selection. *$1.75. Scribner.
A critical examination of the fundamental principles of the Darwinian theory. “This is a book by a mature scholar written for the purpose of establishing the Lamarckian theory against the Darwinian. The second part of the book is devoted to a reactionary refutation of the Malthusian doctrine of population.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“The book before us is altogether interesting, although it mainly consists of an attack on well-known theories. His views are open to serious criticism. The book is written in a pleasant style, and contains much food for thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 187. Ag. 15. 700w.
=Payson, William Farquhar.= Barry Gordon. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27100.
The fiery blood of undisciplined southern ancestors is in Barry Gordon’s veins, which uncurbed, causes expulsion from college and rejection at the hands of the girl he loves. During a period of wandering he gathers courage for a great sacrifice from which he emerges a conquered self, and is restored to his early forfeited happiness.
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“So amateurish a writer as Mr. Payson can awaken no belief in the reality either of the gallant Col. Gordon or of his son.”
− =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“A good story, written with vigor and skill and dash.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
“Exciting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not of especial value, but it. is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston.= Book of the little past. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–24442.
A book of child verse full of child problems and child-philosophy. A note of the seriousness with which children are wont to interpret all play as work is suggested in the lines:
“And now I have the boat to mend And all our supper to pretend. I am so Busy, all the day, I haven’t any time to play.”
The illustrations are done by Elizabeth Shippen Greene.
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“She sometimes strains to copy Stevenson, without quite approaching him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
“Some really deserve to rank with Stevenson’s melodies in his ‘Child’s garden of verses.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Pearson, Charles William.= Literary and biographical essays: a volume of papers by the way. *$1.25. Sherman, French & co.
8–19169.
Essays in the following subjects: Poetry, Early American poetry, The art of poetry, The English language, Alexander Pope, Macaulay, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Ruskin, James Martineau, Longfellow, Washington, and Lincoln.
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“The biographical essays are as a rule excellent. In the case of John Ruskin, we think the author has slighted the subject and failed properly to interpret the great philosopher, critic and teacher.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 260w.
“While the essays lean a little to the pulpit treatment, they are wholly and wholesomely adapted to the general reader who may happen to take a lively interest in the best literature of our time. There is here and there an oversight in the proofreading.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1069. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“One of those unnecessary books which the world will willingly let die.”
− =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl: 23, ’08. 320w.
=Pearson, Robert Hooper.= Book of garden pests. (Handbooks of practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.
8–8130.
An English work designed for English cultivators. Here are “set forth in clear language, devoid of unnecessary scientific terms, the evils to which garden and orchard are subject—and they are not few—and also how to deal with each pest as it occurs.” (Ath.)
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“It is a book which we recommend all gardeners, amateur or professional, to purchase, and keep for reference in the day of trouble.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 766. Je. 20. 130w.
“Mr. Pearson’s book will supplement some excellent American treatises, especially those which have been given out by our experiment stations and in our garden libraries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“The American gardener will find its chapters suggestive and in some instances distinctly useful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Peck, George Record.= Kingdom of light. **$1. Putnam.
7–21301.
A corporation attorney’s confession. “Mr. Peck tells us that Concord ‘was in its day, and will long continue to be, a greater force in this nation than New York and Chicago added to each other.’ In that elevated spirit his little book is written. The pity of it is that means will never be found for giving it such wide distribution among those who need its philosophy, as the help of a great railroad gave to ‘A message to Garcia.’” (Lit. D.)
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“As captivating and convincing a plea for devotion to the ideal in the midst of common life as one often runs across.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 140w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Sword of Dundee: a tale of “bonnie Prince Charlie.” †$1.50. Duffield.
8–17830.
A sprightly tale set in Jacobite times in which the representatives of two Scottish clans are rivals for the hand of spirited Agnes of Anchnacarry, with Stuart loyalty, who devotes her wit and courage to the cause of Prince Charlie all the while proving true to her lover of Clan Cameron.
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“The loyal young heroine’s adventures are many and exciting, and in following them the reader so far catches the spirit of that eventful period as to be willing to overlook the author’s occasional failure to keep the machinery running smoothly and noiselessly.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“She has evidently studied the period. It is the more pity that her work should be marred by incongruities.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 180w.
“An interesting romance based on one of the most romantic episodes in Scottish history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Peele, Robert.= Compressed air plant for mines: the production, transmission, and use of compressed air, with special reference to mine service. $3. Wiley.
8–24250.
In which “all the well-known makes of air compressors are described, their principles of operation and details of construction are discussed, and their good and their not so good features are pointed out with such impartiality that those most numerously employed in actual work find no more favor than those which are less frequently met.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The book is a useful presentment of its subject in many respects, and offers a safe guide to the practitioner, as far as it goes. It is only occasionally marred by minor defects.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 319. S. 17, ’08. 560w.
“A very complete and convenient summary, at once useful and usable with not the slightest suggestion of padding. The author quotes authorities quite profusely and perhaps not always after sufficient scrutiny.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Peile, James H. F.= Reproach of the gospel: being the Bampton lectures for the year 1907. *$1.80. Longmans.
7–42089.
Professor Peile states that “The influence of Christianity on mankind at large is, and has been, strangely disproportionate alike to its high claims and to the reasonable expectation of those who saw its beginnings.” This conviction, the cause, and the remedy constitute the subject of a discussion which places its emphasis upon the conduct rather than the creed of Christianity.
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“Though Mr. Peile’s book is in no sense great, and does not stimulate thinking like Dr. Bussell’s more valuable work, it is an impressive appeal to the Christian world to take its Christianity as seriously as its worldliness.... As a volume addressed, not to the academic, but the ‘respectable’ world, this book could hardly be surpassed.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 665. My. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by G. Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert, J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1450w.
“Professor Peile tells us that the true object of his lectures was to make his hearers think, and in this he has succeeded.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 464. Mr. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Pell, Albert.= Reminiscences of Albert Pell, sometime M. P. for South Leicestershire; ed. with introd by Thomas Mackay; with an appreciation by the Right Hon. James Bryce. *$5. Dutton.
8–32328.
Albert Pell was a man of rugged independence, a practical and skilful farmer, a Tory of prominence in the party ranks, tho an avowed Free Trader, and a philanthropist in spirit, while sincerely showing his detestation of its cant. This book records his views and includes his collection of good stories told about political personages of importance.
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“The book is remarkable in the way it endears the author to us.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 1100w.
“Certainly nothing so distinctly good in English non-political autobiography has found its way into ‘The Independent’ office for the last twenty years.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“In his racy, unaffected language he offers a series of pictures of English life in hall, farmhouse, and cottage, which are a real addition to the literature of social England.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“This volume is as full of good stories, well told, as an egg of meat; and everyone should read it who wishes to travel from George IV to Edward VII and to laugh by the way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which should not be missed by any one who enjoys racy humour and a genuine revelation of character.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 422. Mr. 14, ’08. 1450w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Amateur motorist. **$3.75. McClurg.
“A book for amateur motorists, written by an amateur motorist, relating his experiences in the hope that others may profit thereby.... The 70 pages given to a description of the leading cars, with illustrations and prices, flavor somewhat of a catalog.”—Ind.
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“The book contains practical hints of a sound character, but it would not be easy to say precisely what good end it is destined to serve. Its disadvantages are these: from the standpoint of the experienced motorist, it offers nothing new; from the standpoint of the novice, it is needlessly verbose in some directions, and, upon the whole, neither explicit nor comprehensive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 685. N. 30. 460w.
=Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Sir Richard Escombe: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18372.
A story of the ruined Medmanham Abbey and the famous Society of St. Francis founded there during the stirring days of Sir Francis Dashwood, John Wilkes, Churchill, the poet Whitehead and the villainous Lord Harborne. It concerns mainly the relations of Sir Richard Escombe with the society, his efforts to end it, and his relations thru trial and misunderstanding with Kitty Dulcimore of Sherbourn in the county of Warwickshire.
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“Despite its staginess, it is a fairly brisk and cheery story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“Melodrama of the carefully matured, carefully selected variety, that with a judicious blending of realistic detail may be warranted not to offend the sensitive literary palate.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 66. S. ’08. 580w.
“A highly readable piece of work.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 455. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“There is an ingenious story, there are court portraits, social caricatures, wild Irish extravaganza, even idyllic patches. The language fairly wallows in artificiality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“If it does not endure much thinking or analysis, that is no great fault, since its readers will be disposed to little of either.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 420w.
=Pendleton, Louis Beauregard.= Alexander H. Stephens. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–11395.
From sources new and old the author has gathered together material for this biography which follows a great life full of tragedy both public and private as well as full of triumph and usefulness. It is suited to the modern reader and is desirable “not only because of the peculiar personality of one of the ablest of the southern statesmen of the old régime, and because of his association with great events as vice-president of the southern confederacy, but because he was one of the most consistent figures in the long struggle between the champions of state sovereignty and the supporters of federal supremacy.” (Preface.)
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“A book to be taken rather seriously. Mr. Pendleton is weakest, I think, in his discussion of the question of the right of secession.” W. G. Brown.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 155. O. ’08. 860w.
“The best available book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Mr. Pendleton’s life of Stephens is less partisan and better informed than some of the southern biographies that have recently appeared.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Without adding anything valuable to the printed materials, Mr. Pendleton has given a good popular account of this pathetic career.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 750w.
“A comprehensive and interesting life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 860. Ag. 15, ’08. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“This life is worth reading first as a study of the man, secondly for the light it throws on the struggle between North and South.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Penhallow, David Pearce.= Manual of the North American gymnosperms, exclusive of the cycadales but together with certain exotic species. *$4.50. Ginn.
7–23272.
“The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled “Anatomy,” the second “Systematic.” Under anatomy (192pp.) a detailed account of the regions and elements of mature gymnosperm wood is given, including discussions of durability, decay, and general phylogeny. In the systematic part (157pp.) a synopsis of the genera and species of cordaitales, ginkgoales, and coniferales is presented, based entirely on wood characters, and including so far as possible the economic values.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“A very painstaking and a unique book. The book will certainly be highly useful in its practical applications and also as a great assistance in the recognition of fossil material.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 45: 417. Je. ’08. 620w.
Reviewed by C: E. Bessey.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 609. O. 30, ’08. 600w.
* =Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell), and Pennell, Joseph.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
Whistler who authorized the Pennells to write his biography, during a number of years before his death furnished them with personal reminiscences, anecdotes, correspondence, and various other data. This material with the addition of other first hand facts gathered from his family after his death is ample for the complete intimate, sympathetic biography which has been produced. “As a collection of Whistler pictures, also, the work is of remarkable value, the reproductions made for the Pennells, at Whistler’s order, bringing to light etchings and drawings which have not before been made public.” (Lit. D.)
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“The book is a conscientious endeavor to put before the reader Whistler as he really was—as he appeared to those privileged to know him intimately. A few inaccuracies have crept in. The numerous illustrations constitute a feature of great interest. Taken together they afford a more extended glimpse of the range and character of Whistler’s art than has hitherto been available.” F: W. Gookin.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 448. D. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The Pennells appear to have maintained a balance both of judgment and taste that fully justifies the artist’s choice and designation of them.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 300w.
“Is unusually complete, supplying many details regarding the famous, eccentric artist which have hitherto been lost in obscurity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“One may sometimes take exception to the particular form of praise indulged in.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 532. N. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“The pattern of intercourse and incident is intricate enough, and the background of misunderstanding and injustice that frequently appears is, of course, sombre, but the harmony of the whole is marvelously kept, and the reader sees a Whistler of many sides but of one inspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 682. N. 21, ’08. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. and Mrs. Pennell’s book is the account of Whistler’s experiment in teaching, the ‘Académie Carmen.’” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 571. N. 7, ’08. 1800w.
“The book is a sympathetic record rather than an impartial criticism, and the painter’s personality, no less than his art, is treated with loving approbation.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 779. N. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Spitfire. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–24456.
An “ingenious yarn of the sea and stolen jewels and characters at cross purposes.... ‘The Spitfire’ is a yacht, and it is strongly suggested by several people, beside the author, that the name describes the heroine of the yacht’s log for its last eventful voyage.”—Ind.
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“A good story, of the kind which does not depend upon minute analysis or subtile psychology for its interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is plenty of action in the plot, and if occasionally the author permits himself a certain amount of license in grammatical construction, and loads his descriptive passages with colloquialisms, he no doubt hopes thus to preserve the atmosphere of the story, which is not that of the classics.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
=Perry, Arthur Cecil, jr.= Management of a city school. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10626.
Here are discussed the problems of public school administration from the standpoint of the principal, rather than that of the superintendent or the teacher. The author sets forth the work of the principal; his duties; his responsibilities to the state, public, authorities, and pupils; his problems; and the principles which should direct his administrative work.
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“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“The book should be helpful to young principals and to those who are fitting themselves for such work; and it can be read with profit by all who are concerned in the work of the public schools.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Park-Street papers. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–28842.
Five papers concerned with the Atlantic monthly, with its Park street home, and with some of its distinguished writers of the past. The contents are: Atlantic prologues, (five toastmaster addresses); The centenary of Hawthorne, The centenary of Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Whittier for to-day; and The editor who was never an editor.
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“Graceful essays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08.
“Marked by his customary geniality of temper and lightness of touch, with just enough of artistic detachment to lend grace and freedom to his style without rendering it too coldly impersonal, ‘Park-Street papers’ maintain the high standard of their author’s work as essayist and literary critic.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Those who read the sober little volume will feel nearer, kinder to that dignified periodical, the ‘Atlantic monthly,’ just as they might feel more intimate with any other old ‘grande dame’ after looking at her family album and the skeletons in her closet.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
“He has the ‘toastmaster’s’ fondness for life under its social, cultivated, and genial aspects, and, having a genuine esteem for the characters of his guests, displays at times a toastmasterly indulgence to their literary deficiencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 785. D. 19, ’08. 430w.
=Person, Harlow Stafford.= Industrial education: a system of training for men entering upon trade and commerce. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22413.
“The volume deals with the training required by young men who would fit themselves for the higher positions in industry or commerce, and the need of providing such training in the United States.... His opinion clearly is that while commercial training should be offered in high schools, collegiate courses, and professional departments, the ideal conditions can be found, only in distinctly professional instruction, open solely to those who have already completed a liberal education.”—Nation.
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“Admirable brief discussion entirely from viewpoint of higher education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
=Cath. World.= 87: 112. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“We disagree strenuously with the implication in the author’s statement that ‘the training for work should not be weakened by having to carry the burden of training for culture.’ The monograph is an interesting and valuable study.” David Kinley.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 115. F. ’08. 500w.
“His book is a useful contribution to an important branch of educational discussion.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 190w.
“The book is suggestive rather than exhaustive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
=Peters, Rev. John Punnett=, ed. Annals of St. Michael’s; being the history of St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal church, New York, for one hundred years, 1807–1907. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–31234.
“The history of St. Michael’s church of this city is more than an account of the founding and growth of a particular parish, with its petty trials, its varying fortunes according to the abilities of its leaders, and its trivial enterprises of merely parochial significance.... It constitutes an important part of the history of the development of the upper part of New York city, its old families, its marvelous material changes, its schools, hospitals, orphanages, and institutions for the variously afflicted.”—Nation.
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“A model of what a history of an important church should be.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The story is told with fidelity to fact, skill in narration, and with an enthusiasm that sustains the reader’s attention throughout.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 220. Mr. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Peters has assembled much that is of great interest in the development of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Justice to the Jew; new ed. rev. **75c. McClure.
8–9751.
“The present edition of a work published nine years ago, and now re-written, is a strong statement of facts which demonstrate the irrationality of prejudice against any Jew because he is a Jew. It comes with peculiar force from one who confesses that he himself was once blinded by such prejudice.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 278. N. ’08.
“Dr. Peters is not always duly careful in statement or temperate in language, but blemishes of such sort are venial in comparison with the unreason and inhumanity at which he strikes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 100w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Strenuous career, or Short steps to success. *$1.25. Laird.
8–17545.
“The volume is packed with edifying examples of worldly success attained in the face of obstacles; and these are strung together on a thread of good common-sense moralizing. The author warns his readers that the fruits of success turn to ashes in the mouth unless the success sought be a high and worthy one. True success, he points out, ‘lies not in getting what you desire, but in achieving that which will elevate and ennoble yourself and at the same time confer some benefit on your kind,—a success which will be measured by its contribution to the world’s welfare and happiness.’”—Dial.
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“It is characteristic of the country.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 20. S. ’08. 800w.
“The combination of worldly wisdom with sound moral standards, which the author shows, makes the book a safe and helpful one to put in the hands of aspiring youths.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Phillips, Alfred E.= Surveying. $1.50. Am. school of correspondence.
8–8482.
“Gives in clear form practical instruction in the use of surveying-instruments and the method of plain surveying, including plotting, levelling, triangulation, line running, cross sectioning, traversing and other details of field work.”—Engin. Rec.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“While it has little to distinguish it from any one of many similar works, yet it seems to be well adapted to the purposes of a correspondence school.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“The information is given in a clear manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Old wives for new. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–8091.
The story of a man who weds a thin slip of a maiden. “Sophy, the slip grows fat—and grows fat with all the pomp and circumstance of flesh. No details are spared. Meanwhile Sophy’s husband (who herds railways like sheep) grows ever more natty and fastidious.” (N. Y. Times.) “By this time neither loves the other, so they obtain new partners without disgrace or even embarrassment.” (Ind.)
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“It is a powerful story, as unpleasant as it is vividly faithful to conditions as they exist.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 509. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“As vigorous and straightforward a story as we have now come to expect from this writer.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 495. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It would be useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent fabrication, which is one of the most revolting books, in both incident and general plan, that we have ever read.” W: M. Payne.
− − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“In making so much of the purely physical attractions and repulsions between unhappily mated characters, Mr. Phillips offended the instinct for decency of the sounder millions of Americans.”
− =Ind.= 64: 808. Ap. 9, ’08. 750w.
“Setting out with a theme which is ignoble in most of its external aspects, he has not a touch to refine or even to lighten it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“Substance is furnished by some very truthful pictures of real every-day America—good and bad—but the author has depended—like the makers of many modern plays—upon his ‘specialties’ to catch the public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 187. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 20w.
“There are introduced scenes and incidents that are far from nice reading, that are vulgar and disgusting in themselves, whatever may have been the author’s moral purpose.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Phillips has lavished paint on his picture to a degree approaching vulgarity.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 130w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30248.
A slight story that tells how a maltreated little waif darted into the life of a dispirited gold hunter, and how the lad’s coming was the beginning of happier days at the Gulch tho not until a severe test of courage proved the boy’s metal.
=Phillips, Stephen.= New poems. **$1.25. Lane.
7–34791.
A group of poems including practical pieces, and verse that appeals to the emotions and to the sense of beauty.
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“Not up to the average of the author’s earlier work, but the large libraries will want it for the student and lover of English literature.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
“We fear that Mr. Phillips’s reputation will gain but little by this volume. Good lines—indebted for their charm, in great measure, to hints of Tennyson—stand out from the ruck with an added prominence; and, on the other hand, lines are not lacking which are noteworthy by reason of their inferiority.”
− + =Ath.= 1908. 1: 156. F. 8. 1100w.
“Left entirely to his own resources, Mr. Phillips does not seem to us a vertebrate poet, but he can drape the limbs of old romance in very graceful folds.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 74. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
“If this were the author’s first volume, one would call it promising; from a proved craftsman it is merely slovenly.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 527. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The best of Mr. Phillips is not his thought nor his emotion, nor the interaction of both; it is his expression. He is content, as a rule, to take a good story or a respectable idea, and tell it with all the resources at his command. The new book as a whole, gives the impression that the poet has come to a pause in his development. The old qualities are here, with a finer feeling than before for the point where enough has been said.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 364. N. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“Like most of the lesser versifiers of the day, his virtue is in the sensuous, unthinking perception of beauty.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 280w.
“The present volume is very well worth reading as an exemplification of his skill, and especially as showing, upon the whole, a distinct advance upon the ‘Poems’ of 1900.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 460w.
“There are good lines in Mr. Phillips’s poem, but there is very little uplift of vision, and sometimes his verse drops to a level of commonplace prose.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 370w.
“He is now a deft workman in his own spacious vein. These verses for the most part have a fluent tinkle, a kind of obvious succulence, which makes them in a way readable. Such readability, however, is more remote from true standards of poetry than any amount of frankly bad verse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 280w.
“The poems almost without exception are characteristic of Mr. Phillips’s best work.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1770w.
=Phillips, Stephen, and Carr, J. Comyns.= Faust; freely adapted from Goethe’s dramatic poem. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24861.
A free paraphrase of Goethe’s poem which “presents the main events of the legend with a more narrow continuity of narrative; compresses into comparatively few scenes the unrestrained sweep of Goethe’s epical inventiveness; discards the subtler phases of the world-poet’s philosophy, and reduces his main ideas to the simplicity demanded by a theatre-going public that yawns while it asks to be amused.... The authors have cut out and thrown away many passages of their original; they have rearranged the order of the passages retained; but beyond this they have set themselves scarcely any exercise of the imagination.” (Forum.)
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“The great departure from Goethe is, in my humble opinion, an absolutely fatal mistake.” F: B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 812. D. ’08. 3700w.
“Their task was special, and they have performed it admirably.” Philip Littell.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 363. D. ’08. 800w.
“Considered merely as an adaption of Goethe’s poem to the uses of the stage, this latest ‘Faust’ is thoroughly commendable. The present work is largely a dilution of previous rendering of the great original.” Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 221. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Is worth reading for its own sake and for the sake of the comparison that it invites with the huge masterpiece on which it is based.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
“In mere style and rhythm and facility Messrs. Phillips and Carr ... have thus been able to produce the best version in English of Goethe’s work. The condemnation and adaption of the poem to a workable drama have been skilfully managed, though not always to our taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 294. S. 24, ’08. 730w.
“It is not a translation, and yet it has all the awkwardness of one—the phrases that suggest imperfect understanding of the original or the carelessness natural in handling ideas not our own. Indeed, of carelessness there is more than enough.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 130w.
=Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell.= History of transportation in the eastern cotton belt to 1860. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–1482.
“The present volume is concerned almost entirely with the development of transportation in South Carolina and Georgia.... After an introduction of twenty pages giving a general survey of the transportation problems in the South, Professor Phillips devotes two chapters to highway and canal development in lowland and upland South Carolina prior to 1830. Then follow accounts of the Charleston and Hamburg railroad and the premature Charleston project, the Georgia railroad and banking company, the Central of Georgia system, the Western and Atlantic (built by Georgia) and various minor branch roads. The concluding chapter describes the beginning made during the five years before the war in the integration and co-operation of the hitherto independent roads, and summarizes the effects of the railways upon social and economic organization.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Professor Phillips has written a scholarly book rich in detail. He has placed students of social as well as economic history under lasting obligations.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 539. O. ’08. 650w.
“The investigation is both thoro and interesting, and the relations of transportation to the wider economic interests are never lost sight of.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 562. S. ’08. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Mother of the man. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–4037.
Such a mother as Ibsen foresaw for the rearing of sturdy sons is portrayed in this peculiarly strong tale with its convincing men and women. The hero is a hot-headed, untamed youth, restless with the surging of warring elemental passions. The mother’s wisdom and justice apparent in her swift play of mind offer the restraining and developing influences that finally bring the son thru pain and turmoil to the light.
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“The plot is simple, the delineation of character masterly and delicate, the descriptions of the enchanting moors exquisite.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Phillpotts has a famous style, rich and generous, and his moor draws the best out of him. His pictures of nature are singularly vivid and delectable. The most notable point in this book is the greater ease and quietness which his methods have acquired.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 221. F. 22. 350w.
“A book which is hard to discuss in terms of calm, every-day criticism. It is the sort of novel the thoughtful reader will want to keep, that he may return to it again and again, to browse here and there upon its pages. In a word, this novel is that rare and beautiful thing, the work of a poet who has something to say.” J. Marchand.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 60. Mr. ’08. 320w.
“The most human, the most appealing, the wisest and the most lovable of mothers in recent fiction. Eden Phillpotts has written his strongest book, so far, in ‘The mother of the man’ with a ripeness and restrained power rarely excelled.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“None of these people have ‘cultivated’ minds. We have not to solve them as intricate puzzles, but to watch them unfold in character and meaning, simply and beautifully, by what they say and do—rather than like Mr. James’s people, complexly and often beautifully, by the play of his fancy about them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“This last is perhaps his finest work; it moves with greater freedom, and gives evidence that the writer is growing with each book he gives us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The plot is slight and the action far too sluggish, but the workmanship and the intellectual quality are of the best.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Virgin in judgment. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–29741.
“This story contains a dozen capital portraits of rural men and women, dwellers on Dartmoor some half-century ago. The lives of the three protagonists culminate in tragedy, the legitimate outcome of clashing temperaments. Rhoda Bowden’s affections are all centered in her brother David.... David has married Madge, who is Rhoda’s antithesis, a woman compact of sympathy and love. Jealous for her brother’s honour, Rhoda charges Madge with unfaithfulness to him. Madge is innocent, but unlucky circumstances lend colour to the accusation, and Rhoda’s harshness drives her to self-destruction. Rhoda learns the truth too late and loses her brother’s love.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The principal charm of this book will lie for many readers in its picture of the rustic community as a whole. The writer’s chief distinction lies, perhaps, in his well-nigh Shakespearean respect and liking for simple and dull people.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 540w.
“The end is so sudden, so unexplained, and so unnecessary. It is pathetic, but it lacks justification; pathos is a mere trick of technique, but tragedy is proof of the artist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“It is doubtful whether Phillpotts has surpassed ‘The virgin in judgment’ in any of his previous novels. He lies full length upon Mother Earth, but he gazes up into the depths of the sky.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“Here is a matter for sadness, but there is mirth too, for the author gives us pages of humorous dialogue, as well as glimpses of content in many a cottage. We feel, as we read, that his touch in characterisation is sure and his outlook upon life is sane.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The statue: a story of international intrigue and mystery. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22564.
A story which “centers about a gigantic and mysterious statue built in the grounds of his country place by a financier of international reputation. A loan to the government of Morocco, which involves the possibility of a European war and survival or downfall of an English ministry, the murder of the great financier at the foot of his statue, a dramatic trial, an escape from prison, and the final revelation of the secret of the statue, provide ample complications and incidents.” (Outlook.)
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“Is no more than a melodramatic tale of ingenious intrigue, of mysterious crime, and of detection and retribution. Taking it upon this low level, the story is effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is the kind of thing the cheap magazines print—a tale of murder and supposed mystery, with suitable embellishment of ‘love interest.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
“Too serious development of an ingenious tangle of circumstances. The end is surprising in its hopelessly improbable character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“The secret is ingenious, but as a _dénouement_ it is disappointing.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Phyfe, William H. P.= Twelve thousand words often mispronounced. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–16935.
A revised and enlarged edition of “10,000 words often mispronounced” with a supplement of two thousand additional words. It is a complete hand-book of difficulties in English pronounciation, including an unusually large number of proper names and words and phrases from foreign languages.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent; with 8 il. in colour and 32 in half-tone. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17199.
Written from the English point of view this study follows the progress made in the field of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Preraphaelites and the impressionists figure largely in the treatment, with mainly such phases of other artists’ work as have contributed directly or indirectly to the success of these two schools.
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“A useful compilation covering subjects difficult to get in one volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
“The book cannot be regarded as important, but it is conscientious, and as original as is required by its purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 230w.
“The title is misleading and untrue as an indication of what the book really is. ‘Modern painting’ is not English painting alone. It would almost seem as if the two parts had been written at different times and put together without any proper relation to each other.” W. C. Larned.
− + =Dial.= 45: 340. N. 16, ’08. 1100w.
“Is not a well-proportioned book. The book is of no importance, critically, but may have its uses as a popular account of the art of the last half of the nineteenth century.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 233 Ap. 18, ’08. 220w.
“Is at times characteristically British and insular in tone.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“The review is inadequate in its comprehension of what America has done for modern painting.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 300w.
“A readable, well-informed, and eminently fair-minded book.” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 1050w.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Trees in nature, myth and art. il. **$1.50. Jacobs.
W 8–60.
“A book which tells what men have thought and said about trees, how artists have painted them, rather than a discussion of trees themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a pleasant leisurely way about myths and artists and art and the more or less scientific fancies of unscientific observers.”—Dial.
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“On account of its weakness in originality and insufficient power of expression, we fear that we must place it too near the category of those books to the writing of which there is no end.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 86. N. 2, ’07. 1500w.
“The worst point about the book is that the author is always throwing off suggestions more interesting than his main argument.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 696. N. 30. 400w.
“Mr. Phythian’s book will interest those who, less active, still love to lounge in grove or glade and dream of the stately procession of the friendly trees.” T: H. Macbride.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Phythian is at his best when he treats of trees in art, and is least satisfying in the chapters which describe them in nature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 348. N. 15. ’07. 1000w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Inscriptions of the Nile monuments: a book of reference for tourists. **$5. Putnam.
8–19581.
“The translations here presented of the more important and interesting inscriptions that challenge the traveler’s curiosity recall the vanished life of that once mighty kingdom in clear reality—the Pharaohs and priests, the conquerors and magicians, the beliefs and customs, of three and four thousand years ago. These inscriptions, together with the photographs accompanying the text, make up a rare ‘book of remembrance’ for the returned traveler, as well as a guide and interpreter for the tourist. The translated inscriptions are accompanied with adequate historical and other notes and comments, and the photographs are of superior quality.”—Outlook.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 783. O. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Occasionally he has done violence to English construction by following very closely the Egyptian order of words; at times, however, this method adds to the picturesqueness of the versions. Printed on thinner paper and in smaller type, some of the 130 illustrations might suffer, but the book would gain, and it would certainly prove not only a practicable, but an interesting and a profitable companion on a Nile voyage and on a temple pilgrimage.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 528. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The selection is made with good judgment, and the author’s long residence in Egypt makes him fully competent for his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 2000w.
“A more welcome companion-book for the visitor to ‘Egypt’s land of memory’ than this finely illustrated volume could hardly be produced.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15. ’08. 120w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Federal usurpation. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–4348.
“A plea for the sacredness of the constitution of the United States,” called forth by President Roosevelt’s suggestion for an increase of Federal power “thru executive action—and thru judicial interpretation and construction of law.” “The author arraigns Mr. Roosevelt for attempting to destroy the State government, imperialize the national government and convert the presidency into a dictatorship.” (Ind.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“This is a vigorous and well-written, tho somewhat polemic, constitutional study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 155. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever one may think of Mr. Pierce’s methods or conclusions, it cannot be denied that his vigorous plea for state rights ... is worthy of thoughtful consideration. Neither the facts nor the tendencies which they show are, of course, new, although no recent writer has so carefully collected them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Cannot be taken by the student very seriously. It is a view of the constitution much more ably presented by Professor Stimson. It is accurate neither in its facts nor in its law.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 314. O. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Pierce, Ulysses G. B.=, comp. Soul of the Bible: being selections from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha, arranged as synthetic readings; introd. by Edward Everett Hale. *$1.25. Am. Unitar.
7–32351.
Here are brought together passages which explain and supplement each other and which are of permanent worth. “The readings are synthetic. In each selection the whole Bible has been drawn upon, as needed to develop the subject or to supplement the thought. Isolated passages have been brought into relation with the larger thought of which they are generic parts, thus utilizing many short passages which would otherwise be overlooked because of their fragmentary character.”
=Pillsbury, Walter Bowers.= Attention. (Lib. of philosophy.) *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–19132.
The English edition of a work which in 1906 appeared in French as a volume of the Library of experimental psychology. “The English volume is an expansion of the former work and increases notably the value of this contribution to psychology. There is an additional chapter on measurements of the attention, a very important topic; a similar addition treating of the relation of attention to the feelings and to the self, and a useful practical chapter upon the educational aspects of attention. What appeared as a single chapter in the earlier publication on memory, will and reason, is now amplified into three separate chapters.” (Science.)
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“The work is marked throughout by accuracy of statement, wide familiarity with the literature of the subject, and fairness and discrimination in criticism.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 406. Ap. 30, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be true that the functional view is not adequately worked out, but it has been expressed a sufficient number of times to deserve, some of us believe, a respectful hearing. As an example of structural psychology, Professor Pillsbury’s work will command instant recognition. He will probably be satisfied to answer that this was all he intended.” C: H. Judd.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 651. N. ’08. 2300w.
“The volume may be emphatically commended.” J. J.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 819. My. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Pinkham, Edwin George.= Fate’s a fiddler. †$1.50. Small.
8–18409.
One Bermondsey Bibbus, the keeper of a second-hand book shop in Boston, his wife, addicted to lachrymose poetry, and his son, the hero and narrator of this story, constitute the chief group of characters. The father camps on the trail of the rainbow until he really finds a reasonable pot of gold in a newspaper office in Missouri. The son goes to school and enjoys the wealth of the cousin who inherited an uncle’s fortune instead of himself.
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“A confused story, with a somewhat foolish plot, but two characters who might almost have stepped out of Dickens redeem it from commonplaceness.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The story is not told in a way to appeal to mature minds, and however much it may please young people accustomed to the stories of Oliver Optic and writers of that class, it is not a book that will, we think, be prized by most novel readers.”
− =Arena.= 40: 486. N. ’08. 200w.
“A very readable novel with a distinct flavor of Dickens in it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 240w.
“The book is rather well done, but one doubts if it is particularly worth doing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“To revive a wholesome type of story even on a reduced scale is a thankworthy deed. Mr. Pinkham has done so, and has suitably, humorously, and cleverly added of his own.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 430w.
“Had the excellence of the first chapters been sustained throughout, the book would be a noteworthy one instead of merely above the average.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Platt, Dan Fellows.= Through Italy with car and camera. il. **$5. Putnam.
7–42023.
Mr. Platt’s itinerary “covers not only the well-beaten roads, but many byways—from Castelfranco and San Daniele in the north to San Galgano, Montefalco, and Jesi in the centre. Most remarkable are his illustrations, which have three merits—they are very numerous, more than 200 in all; they are uncommonly well done; and they include many out-of-the-way scenes and bits of native life and costume.” (Nation.)
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“With that touch-and-go spirit which the motor-car encourages, and the Italian scenery in the latter part of the year intensifies, [the author] devotes his energies to the criticism of art. As a critic of art Mr. Platt is by no means commonplace and conventional. He does, indeed, cast down some of the ancient idols, but he is not a destroyer of all the cherished images.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The bars should never be lowered to admit the perpetrators of such banalities in text and ‘illustration.’”
− + =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 140w.
“After one has read the letter-press, these half-tones will serve as a sort of album of Italian subjects, to be returned to again and again.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja 30, ’08. 130w.
“A most readable record of the journey to the centres, great and small, of Italy’s past artistic activity. His style is simple, there is no attempt at fine writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 420w.
“The lover of Italy, if he does not expect an elaborate work, will find here much worth having and preserving.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Is in effect a glorified guide-book to the wonders of nature and beauties of art, which were the objective of each day’s outing.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 624. F. ’08. 360w.
=Player, Preston.= Notes on hydro-electric developments. *$1. McGraw.
8–21048.
A discussion whose object is to furnish information to the water power promoter which shall enable him to determine accurately the merits of a proposed undertaking.
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“The information given is valuable and worth the consideration of anyone at all interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 160w.
“This book should be particularly interesting to younger men in electrical and hydraulic work.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“This side of hydro-electric work has never been taken up so authoritatively before, and the manual is to be commended as answering a real need.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 335. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Plechanoff, George.= Anarchism and socialism; tr. with the permission of the author by Eleanor Marx Aveling; with an introd. by Robert Rives La Monte. 50c. Kerr.
W8–79.
“One of a series of reprints of socialistic literature published for the purposes of propaganda. The treatment is a well reasoned defense of Marxian socialism as over against utopian socialism on the one hand and nihilism and anarchism on the other hand.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“The treatment is conventional, and the chapters on Proudhon and Bakounine are especially readable.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“Taken as a whole this volume is a masterpiece that surpasses every other work on these subjects. It contains the quintessence of the progressive thought of the past two centuries. It is an invaluable contribution to art and literature.” Saul Beaumont.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 800w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Canada. **$1.75. Holt.
8–26881.
Roy and Ray whose journey thru Mexico taught many things historical and geographical to young readers, are equally alert in the present volume devoted to Canadian history, scenery, manners and customs. The book offers valuable supplementary reading for schools.
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“Clear, well-written and accurate, the book will prove especially useful in connection with school work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“However excellent the material, we cannot overcome our dislike of the cross-question. Miss Plummer, who has done her work carefully is a trained observer.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“An excellent travel book for children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“A book sure of a welcome from bright boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 80w.
=Podmore, Frank.= Naturalisation of the supernatural. **$2. Putnam.
8–22271.
Traces the history of spiritualistic movements, and from the published and unpublished investigations of the Society for psychical research produces material that on the one hand exposes fraud and on the other scientifically substantiates certain marvellous occurrences of psychic phenomena. “The author is convinced of the reality of telepathy, including the production of hallucinations by spontaneous thought transference, but is skeptical of the physical manifestations of spiritism which are now returning to popularity.” (Ind.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“Altho it follows the lines of his earlier works and contains little that is essentially new or different, and altho he is disappointingly inclusive in summing up the argument and stating his own opinion of it, yet his care in collecting his evidence and fairness in discussing it make the volume useful to those who wish to form their own opinions.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 488. Ag. 27, ’08. 730w.
=Nation.= 87: 239. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 300w.
“A really helpful addition to the rapidly growing literature dealing with the work that is being done in the debatable field of spiritistic phenomena, apparitions, hauntings, and kindred manifestations of a supposedly supernatural character.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 334. S. 12, ’08. 1050w.
“Though there is nothing very new or sensational in the volume, there is plenty of evidence of careful work, and of a refusal to rush into a spiritualistic explanation of unknown phenomena while any other explanation remains possible.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 744. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
* =Poincaré, Lucien.= New physics and its evolution; being the authorized translation of “La physique moderne, son evolution.” (International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
“The keynote of the book is the remark that physical science progresses by evolution rather than by revolution; and that science in general is in some sort a living organism which gives birth to an indefinite series of new beings which take the place of the old. The author shows how the science of mechanics and the mechanical hypotheses of Newton, Descartes, and La Place have been modified by recent discoveries, and he explains the limits of metaphysics and philosophy in dealing with the laws of nature.”—Nation.
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“Although it is short and clear, it will not be found easy reading, and some of it will not be followed without consultation of other works, save by those to whom the methods of research as well as the broad principles of physics are already familiar.” S. S. Sprigge.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 885. S. 14, ’07. 1900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“The compression of so many subjects into a space of little more than 300 pages is in itself a feat of which few living men would be capable; but our wonder at this deepens when we observe the means by which it is effected. The editor of the series has done his work with discretion, and his comparatively few notes are useful in supplying needed definitions and in bringing the book up to date.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 940w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It is a scholarly production which can be confidently recommended to all who are interested in the development of physics.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 800w.
=Pollak, Gustave.= Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian drama. **$2.50. Dodd.
7–38906.
In which Franz Grillparzer, the typical Austrian of the Metternich period, is introduced to American readers. The sketch gives an intimate insight into the life and times of the playwright and also translates “freely the best of the plays, thus affording, besides the synopsis of each drama, a taste of the atmosphere of the work that nothing short of the actual text can provide.” (Bookm.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08.
“Mr. Pollak, who writes with a sound knowledge of the facts and a genuine enthusiasm for his subject, is hardly, we think, a sufficiently acute psychologist to make an ideal biographer of Grillparzer. But the narrative is clearly and pleasantly told, and English readers will gain from it a good general idea of Grillparzer’s life and work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 170. F. 8. 1450w.
“He has given a sympathetic account of Grillparzer’s rather meagre and unhappy life.” P. G. Hubert, jr.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 521. Ja. ’08. 1150w.
“He has written a sympathetic study of a character very difficult of comprehension if viewed apart from the circumstances of time and place. The metrical translations are an important feature of the book. With few exceptions they render with uncommon success the meaning and melody of the original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 18. Ja. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“In the main, in its triple character of biography, criticism, and translation, it is an admirable piece of interpretation, and in view of the place which Grillparzer has come to hold in German literature, it can scarcely be doubted that M. Pollak, in introducing him more fully to the American public, has given us one of the most important books of the season.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 88. F. 15, ’08. 1300w.
“It is a piece of biographical criticism of exceptional value by reason of its sound scholarship, competent literary judgment, and thorough workmanship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 110w.
* =Pollen, Mrs. John Hungerford.= Seven centuries of lace. $9. Macmillan.
“Mrs. Pollen [owner of the La Primandaye lace collection and wife of the official editor of the South Kensington museum catalog of books in art] is an enthusiast on the subject of ancient needle and bobbin-made lace, and has added value to the fine series of plates in her book by an able introduction, in which she traces the evolution of the sister crafts, and defines the distinctive peculiarity of each variety, adding a complete glossary of technical terms, for some of which no adequate English equivalent had previously been given.”—Int. Studio.
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“The earlier part of Mrs. Pollen’s book is naturally the more interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 373. S. 26. 620w.
“All who delight in fine needlework have every reason to be grateful, so faithful are the interpretations given and so clearly do they bring out not only the exquisite symmetry and appropriateness of the designs, but also every minute detail of stitchery that contributes to the general effect.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
“If supplemented by a good history, tracing the development of design and technique, its excellent plates would have genuine educational value, but in its present form its usefulness is practically limited to the collector or to those already somewhat familiar with the history of lace.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 740w.
=Polley, Joseph Benjamin.= Soldier’s letters to charming Nellie. il. $2. Neale.
8–4889.
Letters written by a member of Hood’s Texas brigade to a loyal Southern girl. They tell of experiences which have since become a part of history; of personal observations and feelings on the march and in battle.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
=Poor, Charles Lane.= Solar system: a study of recent observations. **$2. Putnam.
8–5270.
A supplement to standard text-books and encyclopedia articles, whose aim is to show by means of untechnical language and without the use of mathematics by what steps the precise knowledge of to-day has been reached, and to explain the marvellous results of modern methods and modern observations. Here is set down what modern science has revealed concerning the sun, the moon, the earth and other bodies in our planetary system, concerning satellite systems, comets and meteors, tides and tidal evolution, and the evolution of the solar system.
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“A book of average merit but with no distinguishing features that call for special commendation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08.
“Can be most highly commended both as a text book and as a general exposition of the most important of astronomical phenomena.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 458. S. ’08. 240w.
“Cannot fail to be read with avidity by the ever-increasing number of astronomical students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 406. O. 3. 820w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Attractive and thoroly readable. He is rather severe, but not unduly so, upon the extraordinary views of Lowell in regard to Mars and its so-called ‘canals.’”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 422. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“It is descriptive and authoritative, recording salient facts in a simple and direct manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 520w.
“It is not too abstruse, is thoroughly entertaining, and is timely.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 70w.
“Its freedom from slips shows that the author has exercised the same minute care over the proofs that he has in the selection and exposition of the matter.” W: E. Rolston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 629. O. 22, ’08. 670w.
“The work is compact, readable and instructive in just the points where one’s schoolboy ideas need readjustment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“A very interesting and suggestive volume.” C. L. Doolittle.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 56. Jl. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Pope, Amy Elizabeth, and Carpenter, Mary L.= Essentials of dietetics in health and disease: a text-book for nurses, and a practical dietary guide for the household. *$1. Putnam.
8–22245.
A text book designed to be of use in the teaching of dietetics in schools of nursing, and also of use as a dietary guide for the home. The first part deals with the principles of dietetics, and the second, with recipes.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Much is exceedingly good, despite a confusing inconsistent use of calculations and chemical terms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Popplewell, William Charles.= Strength of materials; a manual for students of engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13630.
A book intended for students of engineering who are desirous of obtaining a working knowledge of the fundamental principles involved in problems of machine and structural design. Special attention has been paid to the unequal distribution of stress and to the limits of elasticity in iron and steel.
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“We already have a number of much better works, and there seems to be no place in the American field for this newcomer.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 280w.
“Though prepared for English students, [this book] will prove of equal value to Americans who wish a short, correct, and vigorous treatment of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Nature.= 77: 412. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Porter, Charles Talbot.= Engineering reminiscences contributed to “Power” and “American machinist”; rev. and enl. il. *$3. Wiley.
8–9539.
The articles contributed to “Power” and “American machinist” have been revised and expanded and have been collected here for an addition to the history of American engineering. “It must be borne in mind, of course, that the book makes no pretence to be an impartial and complete history of the field of engineering to which it refers. Mr. Porter has merely set down his personal experiences and those of his associates and contemporaries from his own personal viewpoint.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 250w.
“The book is written in conversational style and with a frank recital of successes and failures which make it highly entertaining. The young engineer can learn many lessons in practical business.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book is a model of its kind, written with very many humorous comments and full of the charm of scholarship tempered by the broad views that come only with intimate acquaintance with men of all degrees in many countries.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 386. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
* =Porter, Eleanor H.= Turn of the tide. †$1.25. Wilde.
The sequel to “Cross currents” which follows the development of Margaret Kendall, lost in the slums for four years, from the time when she is restored to her home.
=Porter, Gene Stratton.= At the foot of the rainbow. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–978.
Central Indiana furnishes the rural scene of a story whose characters—two men, and a woman—constitute the modern-drama triangle. It is a tale of a heroic Scotchman’s friendship for a dissipated Irishman who had played the former false when entrusted with a message to the girl both loved.
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“A light, cheerful and, at the same time, pathetic, little story. A breezy, fresh, out-of-doors atmosphere is its chief characteristic. Similar in this respect to the author’s ‘Freckles,’ but better done in every way.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story has the same outdoor quality that ‘Freckles’ has, by the same author, but it makes less of an appeal to the sympathies.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 95. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“If it is worth reading at all (and let us give the author the benefit of the doubt), is so because of the background of outdoor life, nature, and the changing pageant of the seasons.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Porter, Mary Winearls.= What Rome was built with: a description of the stones employed in ancient times for its building and decoration. *$1.25. Oxford.
8–13631.
The knowledge of antiquary and geologist has been drawn upon to furnish to inquirers this description of the stones used in building ancient Rome. The kinds of stone are identified and traced to their home quarries, and historical and mythological details are included.
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=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 17w.
“A little more care might also have been well spent in the arrangement of the matter. Only trifling blemishes, detract from the value of an interesting compilation. It is difficult to point to any other work on the subject equally convenient and trustworthy.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 196. Ja. 2, ’08. 400w.
“A highly interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 170w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Woven in the tapestry. **$1. Moffat.
8–9525.
“These are the tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the distant borderlands; of the pagan king, Thyaterion, and his daughter, the princess Alacia; of the Hermit in the forest, and of the stranger who came to live for a while as the Hermit’s disciple.” “The nosegay of chapters from the life of a fairylike princess holds allegories that trace the growth of her mind, soul, and heart. Side by side with these are cameo portraits of her lowlier neighbors, of her courtiers and counsellors, and of the true and only prince.” (Nation.)
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=Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 150w.
“The soul not dead to the whisperings of poetry, may pleasurably walk in this pretty garden of fantasies.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a gracious little book; and perhaps there may be a truth in its flowery pages which the plainer story of real life overlooks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 220w.
* =Post, Melville Davisson.= Corrector of destinies: being tales of Randolph Mason as related by his private secretary Courtlandt Parks. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25120.
A group of mystery stories containing legal tangles which Randolph Mason, wizard of the law, straightens thru a maze of technicalities. “Randolph Mason may not be humanly possible—an embodied characteristic is rarely so; but there is a certain stern charm in so austere a conception as the incarnate essence of justice untinctured with sympathy.” (Nation.)
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“Most of the stories hang upon points of law more interesting to the technician than to the outsider.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The book is well written, and is sure to be of interest both to old friends of Randolph Mason and to those who meet him now for the first time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Post, Van Zo.= Retz. †$1.50. McClure.
8–16717.
A young nobleman of Flanders goes forth to adventure and achievement uncertain whether the power that moves the world is money, knowledge or love. The gift of Venus—as old as time—is accepted after daring deeds prove the worthiness of the hero.
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“Structurally, it is incoherent, but its episodes are exciting enough to make us condone the fault of amorphous plan.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Cora Brown.= The secrets of beauty and mysteries of health. **$1.75. Elder.
8–10640.
A practical guide to beauty which gives suggestions for the right care of the skin, hair, nails, eyes, nose, ears, face, mouth, teeth, hands and feet. Valuable formulas are interspersed for the compounding of aids to beauty and health.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 218. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“She has given to the world of woman a very sensible and thorough study of the methods in vogue all over the world for the promotion of good looks and good health.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The volume contains all sorts of good advice, based on the author’s stage experiences and travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Margaret.= Golden ladder. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12224.
The story of a wanton young woman who treads the broad way just because she wants all of the tinsel of life and none of its serious joy. On the rounds of the “golden ladder” the hero—who in truth does not deserve the name—sacrifices his manhood, but still climbs, by the Wall street way, to his millions.
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“The story is made both unattractive and ineffective by the ostentatious desire of the author to point its moral.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 180w.
“The volume undoubtedly has good material in it; Margaret Potter sees life on a rather big scale, and she uses verbal colour in a way that forces the reader to see what she wants him to see.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 399. Je. ’08. 400w.
“Some of her bits of description and dialogue are calculated to bring a blush not to maiden cheeks alone. We are inclined to think that ‘The golden ladder’ has done a thing well worth doing after a fashion in which it distinctly ought not to be done.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 330w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the Briand family, and an occasional lapse from egotism on the part of the hero, the novel is unjustifiably repulsive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Most of the characters are crude in conception and are not made credible in development.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 180w.
“The book is, of course, designed to show up the terrible hunger for riches that possesses the land; but we fail to see that it will turn any young man from attempting the ascent of the perilous ladder.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 620. Ag. ’08. 400w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
“The novel, if a little long, is decidedly clever, but it is by no means pleasant reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Pottle, Emery Bemsley.= Handicapped. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17789.
“Donovan O’Hara, who came of a well-bred mother, was handicapped by having a horse-trainer for a father. He had the bringing-up, the associates, and, on the whole, the tastes and morals of a horse-trainer.” (Nation.) How his heritage operates against him in matters of love forms the main theme of the book. “The group of people who appear in these pages is united by a common love of horse flesh.” (Nation.)
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“Does not at any point gain much hold upon the reader’s attention.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 140w.
“When the book is not horsy it is ‘sexy.’ It it also rather dull.”
− =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“An eloquent little romance, vibrant with plenty of wholesome activity, and with a pathetic love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 140w.
=Poulton, Edward Bagnall.= Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4. Oxford.
Contains a series of ten essays on various aspects of the Darwinian theory and is introduced by a chapter entitled Mutation, Mendelism, and natural selection.
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“Our first thought on reading these essays is one of regret that their author did not rewrite them entirely and give his matter in a new form. By the present arrangement the book appeals much more to the entomologist than to the general reader. Perhaps their main fault is a certain pedagogic flavour, and hence an impatience of views not entirely in consonance with those of the author.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 157. Ag. 8. 900w.
“This introduction, together, with the last three or four chapters, should have formed an independent volume on natural selection and mimicry.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“We dare not find fault with it, save indeed to wish its treatment had been even more encyclopaedic.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 336. S. 12, ’08. 1600w.
=Powell, Frances, pseud. (Frances Powell Case).= Old Mr. Davenant’s money. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10860.
A story with a subtly handled mystery concealed by an avaricious mother and a faithful servant. A mother had managed with skilful manœuvring to secure old Mr. Davenant’s money for her son. The boy dies and the mother rather than lose the fortune slips a twin sister into his shoes and brings the child up as the son and heir. The east end of Long Island furnishes the setting for the story which sketches a fascinating group of characters and is rich in local color.
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“The sugaring of the pill is so well done that the story may well enough be read for its interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
* =Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Art of natural sleep, with definite directions for the wholesome cure of sleeplessness, illustrated by cases treated in Northampton and elsewhere. **90c. Putnam.
8–32345.
A little book prompted by the author’s experience in overcoming insomnia which is designed to help physicians, Emmanuel workers, and others who believe in the art of natural sleep to aid those committed to their care. The method is auto-suggestion reinforced by faith.
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“The tiny book is written in the simplest and most practical style, and its definite directions for the cure of sleeplessness are such as any person can follow with very little trouble.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 723. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Christian science: the faith and its founder. *$1.25. Putnam.
7–40519.
An interpretation of the facts of Christian science, its tenets and its founder written by one who is neither a defender nor an assailant.
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“A careful, painstaking exposition, manifesting a thorough knowledge of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08. ✠
“The volume should have careful consideration from all who are interested in the phenomenon.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 130w.
“A very careful and painstaking examination.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 40w.
=Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 264. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
“The author is frank and impartial with Eddyites and their opponents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A scathing indictment, all the more scathing because of the dispassionate form in which it is presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“It ought to be satisfactory to those who wish a fair-minded and judicial interpretation of Christian science.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 180w.
=Poyser, Arthur.= Tower of London; painted by John Fulleylove, described by Arthur Poyser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The text, beautifully printed on thick paper with wide margins, consists of an historical sketch, and then descriptions of walks through the Tower, round the Tower, about Tower hill, and Allhallows Barking by the Tower. This part of the work is competently done, but without special distinction of style. The pictures are pretty, fortunately in rather subdued colors, but without notable excellence.”—Nation.
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+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 120w.
“There is sufficient in the way of historical sketch, of description of the several towers, chapels, and chambers, and of anecdote about famous prisoners to make the work valuable without overloading it with detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 150w.
“If Mr. Poyser sees more imaginative possibilities in the Tower than the great writers themselves appear to have seen, we must say that he himself has cast little of charm over his descriptions.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Fulleylove’s pictures have all the charm which we are accustomed to find in his work. Mr. Poyser’s description is satisfactory on the whole.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 712. N. 7, ’08. 240w.
=Praed, Rosa Caroline (Mrs. Campbell M. Praed).= By their fruits. $1.50. Cassell.
“A story with twin sisters as the central figures. Dual personalities, so alike that they easily pass for each other when apart, equally beautiful in physical appearance, they are yet opposites in temperament and character; Aglaia-Pascaline, frivolous, a victim to the drug habit; Pascaline-Aglaia, pure, spiritual, would-be savior of her sister. Around these two characters the story is woven.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Though it can scarcely be called probable, is highly ingenious, and through four hundred odd pages the interest never flags.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 140w.
“According to my thinking, it is, on the whole, the most remarkable and the most original novel Mrs. Praed has yet brought out, and its heroine is certainly one of the most charming, noble-minded woman figures in our recent literature, at once poetically ideal and yet thoroly lifelike and real.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1339. Je. 11, ’08. 350w.
“The interest never flags for one moment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
=Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. *$3. Schirmer.
7–38011.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The book becomes unbalanced towards the end.” O. G. Sonneck.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 828. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“Particularly useful for small libraries with few reference books. The illustrations are interesting, but not finely executed.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 47. F. ’08. ✠
“He has increased the literature of music by a contribution of permanent value.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 99. F. 16, ’08. 850w.
“By the painstaking care with which he has selected his material, and the clear, succinct, straightforward method of its presentation, without waste of words, his book is an important contribution to the literature of music, and it makes interesting reading for layman and musical student alike.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It may be said that too many minor names are included among the numerous sketches of composers. By omitting such trivial information, room might have been provided for references to the more important books in which the subject of each chapter can be studied in detail. Apart from this, it would be difficult to suggest a way in which this book might have been improved. Is a marvel of industrious research and exceptional usefulness.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The book is far from being a mere compilation. It is not lacking the personal point of view, and the flavor of the personal criticism. The arrangement is admirable, with its division into large and small type; and the index is very full.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 50w.
=Pratt, Walter Merriam.= Burning of Chelsea. $1.50. Sampson pub.
8–19884.
A contribution to local history based on personal knowledge and observation. It gives a volunteer fireman’s story of the great conflagration of last April with additional chapters on the history of Chelsea. Fully illustrated from photographs.
=Presbrey, Frank.= Motoring abroad. *$2. Outing pub.
8–16437.
The account of a two months’ automobile trip thru Normandy, Brittany, the chateau country of Touraine, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales made by an enthusiastic automobilist and his wife. The volume is instructively written and profusely illustrated. It closes with a chapter on “Practical suggestions” in which the author gives other automobilists the benefit of all the means adopted to reduce discomfort and annoyance to a minimum.
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“Is notable apart from the descriptions he gives of the countries.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“We can confidently recommend [it] to the stay-at-home who is afflicted with the somewhat prevalent desire to see Europe from an automobile.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4. ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The author knows how to enjoy himself thoroughly and he understands how to tell in crisp, entertaining fashion, what he has seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Prescott, Samuel Cate, and Winslow, Charles E. A.= Elements of water bacteriology, with special reference to sanitary water analysis. 2d ed. $1.50. Wiley.
8–9036.
A new edition rewritten to cover the progress during the past four years. “Particular mention is made of addition to the chapters on Self-purification, on the Isolation of the typhoid bacillus, on Colon tests, and a new chapter has been provided on the Bacteriology of sewage and sewage effluents. A quite extended bibliography is provided.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“In its practical applications the book is an excellent compendium of data bearing on the bacteriological conditions of normal waters, the self-purification of streams, the efficiency of sand and mechanical filters and the relation of bacteriology to sewage purification.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 420w.
“The book can be recommended as a very useful one and a great improvement on the first edition.” R. T. Hewlett.
+ =Nature.= 79: 6. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Preuss, Arthur.= Fundamental fallacies of socialism: an exposition of the question of landownership; comprising an authentic account of the famous McGlynn case. *$1. Herder.
“Written by a Catholic who seeks to prove that the public ownership of land is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic church, especially that embodied in the encyclicals of Leo XIII. These encyclicals and Henry George’s open letter to the pope are discussed in detail. The author then seeks to prove that the removal of the ban of excommunication which had been pronounced against McGlynn because of his advocacy of Henry George’s theories did not mean, as it was commonly supposed, that the single tax was not contrary to Catholic doctrine.... The final conclusion is that public ownership of land being wrong, similar arguments will prove the error of public ownership of other agents of production—hence the fallacy of socialism.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“When Mr. Preuss will have dealt intelligently with the crux of the situation hinted at in his observations, he may, with more propriety than at present, claim to have produced ‘the first and only adequate presentation, in English, of the important question of landownership.’”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 100. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
=Ind.= 86: 637. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 180w.
=Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
* =Preyer, David C.= Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
“Written not for the professional, whether painter or critic or student, but rather for the reader who is interested in art for the beauty of it and for the tourist who is looking for information. While the greater part of the volume is given over to Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hals, Memling, the Van Eycks, Teniers, Jan Steen, Van Ostrade, and the other great painters, much space is devoted to the modern Dutch artists, Israels, the Maris brothers, Neuhuys, &c.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Such a history has not before appeared in English, nor in Dutch in the same completeness. Mr. Preyer’s account of the lesser men, as well as of their more noted fellows, is written with intelligence and discrimination.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Is sufficiently enthusiastic about his subject to impart some of his appreciation to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Price, Eleanor C.= Princess of the old world [Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans]. (Memoir ser.) *$3. Putnam.
8–10260.
The biography of Louis XIV’s wayward and eccentric cousin who “next to Queen Elizabeth is perhaps the most interesting spinster in history.” (Spec.) “The life of Mademoiselle covers a great part of the seventeenth century, a very interesting period in the history of France, seeing that it includes the wars of the Fronde and such personalities as Conde—perhaps the most brilliant of all French soldiers before Napoleon—and Mazarin. Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans mixed, of course, with these men and engaged in the politics of their time.” (Sat. R.)
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“The author has used contemporary sources with taste and discretion, and has supplemented them with the best modern authorities.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25. 1400w.
“An exceedingly finished and accurate presentation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
“The author has the knack of making her people seem very real and very much alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
“A picturesque and highly readable study.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 779. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
=Price, William Thompson.= Analysis of play construction and dramatic principle. $5. W: T. Price, 1440 Broadway, N. Y.
8–23870.
“Mr. Price’s theory is that dramatic genius, unsupported by mastery of technical laws, is comparatively powerless to make a good play—which has a certain measure of truth in it—and that the requisite technical knowledge must be obtained by minute analysis of standard pieces in order to discover their constructive principles. As models for dissection he selects five plays, ‘Ingomar,’ ‘Lady of Lyons,’ ‘Camille,’ ‘Still waters run deep,’ and ‘A new way to pay old debts’—of which only one, ‘Camille,’ is really notable for artistic composition.”—Nation.
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“His unworthiness as a teacher is manifested, not so much in his exaggeration of the importance of mere mechanism as compared with that of matter—much of what he says about technique is sound enough, though tediously trite—but in his utter failure to offer any suggestions of practical value to the budding dramatist. All the real instruction in his ponderous volume could be put with better effect into a thin pamphlet for use as a primer.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 269. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“There are no better books on this subject than Mr. Price’s.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 970w.
* =Priestman, Mabel Tuke.= Art and economy in home decoration. **$1.50. Lane.
8–27401.
The author, a practical interior decorator, presents a study of house decoration in which color is the keynote. “Suggestions are given how to treat our walls, what curtain material is best, what to choose as floor-covering, and how much ornament is admissible on our furniture, besides many other points of vital importance to the young housekeeper, or the older one whose eyes are being opened to possible beauty. The illustrations in the book are excellent as aids to the text.” (Outlook.)
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“More inclusive than Daniel’s ‘Furnishing a modest home,’ but is on different lines and will appeal to a different class of readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’06. ✠
“The subjects are treated with the knowledge that comes of long study of interior decoration, and in a simple, untechnical way that will appeal to the average home-maker.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“The clear classification of subjects in this manual will be appreciated by those who use it.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Prior, James.= Walking gentleman. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23524.
On the day preceding his marriage, Lord Beiley, immensely bored with life, wanders away and yields to the temptation of vagabondage. His itinerary takes him among people with whom rank counts for nothing, where he learns to value essential manhood. And “the Lady Sarah comes to feel that his desertion of her was a blessing to them both, because it taught each of them that life was not quite worth while without the other.... It gives a series of vivid pictures of rural England, a succession of carefully studied types of middleclass lower-class men and women, of the scum and riff-raff of society, all admirable in their own special way.” (Bookm.)
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“In the general scheme of his work—its inconsequence, its whole-hearted love of the open road, and, above all, its wide sympathy with all sorts and conditions of men—Mr. Prior reminds us irresistibly of George Borrow.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 951. S. 28, ’07. 350w.
“For a novel with no plot it is astonishing how interesting this itinerary is; the book will dwell in the memory when most novels have faded from it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 200w.
“The story not only has a clever theme, well handled, but better yet, it is delightfully written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“With the exception of ... a precocious but lovable child, it is in the minor characters that Mr. Prior shows his finest art. The story in itself is not strikingly original; its value lies in its flashes of human insight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. James Prior possesses an exceptional wealth of juicy humor; he pours forth the wine of mirth that gladdens the heart in liberal measure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Programme= of modernism: a reply to the Encyclical of Pius X., Pascendi dominici gregis; with the text of the Encyclical in an English version, tr. by Rev. Father George Tyrrell, with an introd. by A. Leslie Lilley. (Crown theological lib., no. 25.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15499.
The fault of “Modernism” for which the authors of this volume have suffered excommunication is that of regarding Christianity as transcending the outward doctrinal and ecclesiastical expression of it and daring to submit these externals to historical criticism. The reply includes a most lucid and concise presentation of the results of the “Higher criticism,” states wherein the Encyclical has misrepresented the “modernists.” and explains and justifies their position, maintaining that it is in accord with the best Catholic traditions.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 346. Mr. 21. 1200w.
Reviewed by H. C. Corrance.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“It is a very remarkable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Pleasant land of France. *$3.50. Dutton.
W8–121.
“Seven sketches and studies, ranging over agriculture, folklore, history, and literature, with the one common attribute of an all but exclusive bearing on provincial conditions of life and thought in France.” (Nation.) “For American readers the essay on Fontainebleau will probably hold the greatest share of interest.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is a pity he did not expand the two essays [on French agrarian subjects] into a small volume, bringing the facts under consideration down to the present day, and elucidating his pages with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 37. Jl. 11. 630w.
“Most important are two practical discussions of French farming and tenant-right, together with an elaborate contribution to the appreciation of Rabelais.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“For the thousands of Americans who annually make their holiday in France one would not do better than recommend this essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 650w.
“Whether courting the muse of history ... or drawing a humorous philosophy from the gudgeon-fishing which is the national pastime of provincial France, Mr. Prothero is wholly delightful here.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Prothero’s delightful book on France covers a variety of subjects, on each and all of which he speaks with authority.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 408. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
=Putnam, George Palmer.= Tabular views of universal history; originally compiled by G. P. Putnam, and continued to the year 1907 by Lynds E. Jones and Simeon Strunsky. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–39021.
A series of chronological tables presenting in parallel columns, a record of more noteworthy events in the history of the world from the earliest times down to 1907.
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“A laborious undertaking which we are bound to say hardly seems to us to have paid for the doing.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 30w.
“For the layman studying universal history some such arrangement is a godsend wellnigh indispensable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6. ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have tested the dates for various periods we find no reason to doubt the general accuracy of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“The new edition contains a number of important features.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 50w.
“On the whole, the book seems to be carefully compiled.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 836. My. 23, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam, Ruth.= Charles the Bold; last duke of Burgundy, 1433–1477. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–6627.
A biography whose importance grows out of the last duke of Burgundy’s relation to events rather than out of any patriotic or heroic qualities. The author has condensed a vast amount of reliable material in her sketch, making use of the later results of historical investigation. She says, “The veracity attained is only that of a mosaic of bits; each with its morsel of truth.” She emphasizes the insufficiency of the duke’s mental equipment to cope with the forces of his age, and further believes that his chiefest happiness lay in his unconsciousness of his shortcomings.
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“Accurate as to facts, and good in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08. ✠
“An interesting account of a most interesting career.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Particular attention should be called to the well-selected illustrations. Miss Putnam tells in an attractive and authentic fashion the life of the last Duke of Burgundy.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“Will surely take first rank in the series to which it belongs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“A brilliant miniature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“It is written with perhaps more dash and fervor than both the hero and the subject warrant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 260w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 370w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Ruby of Kishmoor. †$1. Harper.
8–31166.
A story of adventure set in the island of Jamaica which introduces a pirate, his allies, his daughter, and the hero, a tall, lean, loose-jointed Quaker. Before his death the pirate turns over the famous Kishmoor ruby to his daughter, and the Quaker plays the hero in defending her against the father’s confederates, who, separately, in the act of securing the ruby, bring death upon themselves.
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=Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W: G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“The artist-author is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
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=Quackenbos, John Duncan.= Hypnotic therapeutics in theory and practice; with numerous illustrations of treatment by suggestion. **$2. Harper.
8–6667.
The author believes that the transliminal or higher spiritual self may be inspired to assert a control that is practically boundless, within the limitations of physical possibility and moral right, over “the flesh,” that is, organs of body and faculties of mind; and that the whole purpose of hypnotic suggestion is the evocation of such control. He treats hypnotism as the great regenerative force of the age, bases his statements on scientific facts having back of them over seven thousand personal experiences in treating physical and moral diseases.
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“This is really ‘yellow’ psychology, and is none the less jaundiced because one may charitably concede that the author is sincere.”
− − =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 570w.
“He accepts as proved many things to which the cautious scientist would at most give the benefit of the Scotch verdict.”
− =Ind.= 65: 431. Ag. 20. ’08. 440w.
“Any minister who is thinking of taking up such work, from whatever motive, would do well to read this book and heed its counsels of caution.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“A volume more remarkable for the magnitude of its claims than for any conviction of the validity of those claims which it carries.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
=Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28. ’08. 40w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 50w.
=Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“[We open it] with pleasant expectations. Nor are we disappointed, as far as plan and style are concerned, for the author knows how to write, and his eye for dramatic effect is keen. But we must confess to a considerable disappointment when we discover that the book is not so much a novel as an argument for the single tax.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
“A tale of much incident; in fact, its author has over-charged his canvas in his zeal to preach the economic cure-all made familiar by Henry George after its previous long struggle for recognition. There is discernible in these pages, however, a great sincerity of purpose, an ardent desire to reform and improve, to serve the poor and awaken the rich.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 170w.
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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violoncellos. (Music lovers’ lib.) il. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35540.
“Is concerned with the history of the instrument and its evolution from the ‘ravanastron’ of India, probably its earliest prototype, to its present form.” (Int. Studio.) “Not only gives an account of the instrument, but is full of pleasing anecdotes, subjective fancies, scenery, such, for instance, as the glimpse in the opening chapter of London on a foggy day, and records of players in centuries passed.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Not by any means indispensable to the ordinary collection of books on music.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The author ... has certainly made her book acceptable to the general reader; but it also contains plenty of solid information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 425. Ap. 4. 250w.
“The numerous digressions introduced concerning those who have been responsible for the changes in the model of the instrument undoubtedly enhance the general interest of the work.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“There is a quaint flavor to Miss Racster’s style, a certain humorous enthusiasm, which makes her book capital reading, even for persons whose relations to the violoncello are through the ear alone; while he or she who has ever handled the instrument cannot fail of discovering an almost lyric charm in the pages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2. ’08. 150w.
=Radau, Hugo.= Bel, the Christ of ancient times. *75c. Open ct.
8–19535.
“From the preface to this book we learn ‘that the Babylonian religion is a purely monotheistic religion, more particularly a monotheistic trinitarian religion.’ The first sentence of Part 1 reads: ‘It is admitted by every one who has studied the religion of the Babylonians, that it is from the first to the last polytheistic. By a more or less successful series of permutations and combinations this apparent contradiction is removed, and Enlil, who is “one flesh” with Ninlil, his wife, is shown to be the one Babylonian deity.’ The second part shows that the belief in the resurrection is the essential doctrine of the Babylonian, as well as of the Christian, religion.”—Bib. World.
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− =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 200w.
− =Ind.= 65: 496. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
=Raikes, Hugh P.= Design, construction, and maintenance of sewage disposal works; being a practical guide to modern methods of sewage purification. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Written by an engineer for engineers. It “summarises a considerable amount of recently acquired knowledge relating to sewage disposal, and contains the advice and experience of one who has had to face the practical problems involved.” (Nature.)
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“This is a ‘live book.’ Any differences of opinion which may be felt between author and reviewer are merely such as necessarily and usefully exist between workers in different parts of the same field. The practical man will find in its pages many useful ‘tips’ and will be led to see where he can be helped by scientific investigation, whilst the scientific worker will be enabled better to realize the practical limitations which are often set to the ideal design indicated by theory.” G. J. Fowler.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 183. Ag. 13, ’08. 2500w.
“Some of the bacteriological and chemical references in this volume are insufficient for the student’s comprehension as they stand at present, and in some cases they demand revision in a subsequent edition. A volume which, from the engineering standpoint, justifies its appearance.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 473. S. 17, ’08. 830w.
=Railway master mechanic.= Railway shop up to date; a reference book of up to date American railway shop practice; comp. by the Editorial staff of the Railway master mechanic. $3. Crandall pub. (For sale by Van Nostrand.)
7–42333.
A reference book of up-to-date American railway shop practice showing what methods have been adopted to meet certain ends at individual plants. “The book takes up in turn the general lay-out of the shops, the locomotive shop, the blacksmith shop, the freight car shop, the passenger coach and paint shop, the planing mill, the foundry, the power house, the store house and the roundhouse. There is also an excellent bibliography of American articles on such structures.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“The book will be of great value in the office of any railway motive-power or shop department officer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 400w.
“Of decided value to railroad master mechanics and mill architects generally.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Ramsay, Sir James Henry.= Dawn of the constitution; or, The reigns of Henry III and Edward I. (A. D. 1216–1307). *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–21030.
The fourth volume in the author’s history of England in the middle ages. “Single minor incidents are made to contribute to the progress of the story; familiar dramatic events are sanely and soberly described; the royal finance is treated with unique fulness and clearness; the military element is not preponderant. The historian has, within his limits of matter and form, provided ‘those desirous of knowing the cardinal facts of English history with a consecutive and verified narrative.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“In matters of general accuracy and apparatus somewhat is left to be desired. Sir James Ramsay has again done a great service, especially to students, who may at any time be helped by one or another apparently superfluous detail.” R. K. Richardson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 106. O. ’08. 950w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’08.
“A work constructed on this plan can hardly be otherwise than dry. One grows weary of the author’s painstaking chronicle of movements and interests of but one class, his neglect of other aspects of the life and thought of the nation. Yet despite limitations, the merits of the history are many and lasting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 670w.
“Although Edward is the central figure in the volume now before us we fail to derive from it any clear conception of his personality. Sir James is an annalist of the most laborious description. Somewhere in his pages we may count on finding all important facts along with many that are unimportant.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 860w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Cities of St. Paul: their influence on his life and thought: the cities of eastern Asia Minor. (Dale memorial lectures in Mansfield college, Oxford, 1907.) il. *$3. Armstrong.
8–3647.
The Dale memorial lectures for 1907. Tarsus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Derbe and Lystra are the cities treated. “The lectures aim to show the element in Paul’s thought of social reorganization which was contributed by Greek ideas of development in individual freedom guided by education. They abound in points of historical, biblical, and antiquarian interest, with serious criticism of various current views. Much the largest section of the volume is deservedly given to Paul’s native city.” (Outlook.)
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“The reviewer confesses to an impression that the material at the author’s disposal is often too slight for the conclusions that are based upon it.” G: H. Gilbert.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 477. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“These chapters narrating the history and showing the life of each of these cities will be invaluable to students of the New Testament; and Sir William Ramsay is to be congratulated on his excellent work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 700w.
“This will be a useful book to students of the life of Paul.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“No one knows Asia Minor more thoroly than does Professor Ramsay, and, as the learned public knows, this ‘Cities of St. Paul’ is but the latest of his series of volumes which have added so much to our knowledge of the physical, social and historical surroundings which affected the great apostle’s character and work.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 500w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 230. Ag. 15, ’08. 180w.
“Important work. Has no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The book indicates Dr. Ramsay’s undoubted scholarship and his wide grasp of facts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He speaks with conscious authority and long experience, and is a little resentful of amateur encroachments upon his domain, whether those of ‘Palestinian tourist savants,’ whose half-knowledge he frankly criticises, or of German scholars who work from books and in long succession repeat each other’s errors.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 469. Ap. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“If we cannot always accept Sir William Ramsay’s theories, we always find him full of enlightening suggestion.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 620. Ap. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Rand, Benjamin=, comp. Modern classical philosophers; selections illustrating modern philosophy from Bruno to Spencer. *$2.50. Houghton.
8–6098.
A series of selections valuable to college classes including philosophical writings of Bruno, Bacon, Hobbs, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte and Mill.
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“Will immediately become a standard book of reference.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable one for the college student to have at his elbow.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 80w.
“Good as his book is, it might be bettered in the earlier editions which are certain to be called for. As it stands, the work is heartily to be recommended to instructors and students alike.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 554. S. 24, ’08. 640w.
“One of the most useful books on its subject published in recent years. Any book of this kind is, of course, open to criticism of detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“The volume can be strongly recommended to the general reader. Such a book as this will best realize its final purpose, however, as indeed the compiler points out, if it serves as a stimulus to the student to turn to the unabridged writings themselves of the great thinkers. To that end the addition of a few bibliographical references would have been of real service in directing the uninitiated.” G. M. Duncan.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 662. N. ’08. 1850w.
=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Adopting of Rosa Marie. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24300.
A story for children which is a sequel to “Dandelion cottage.” The chief interest for the group of lively children who laugh and play thru the book is a little Indian child borrowed for a day but kept indefinitely on account of the desertion of the parents.
=Rappoport, Angelo S.= Curse of the Romanovs: a study of the lives and reigns of two tsars: Paul I and Alexander I of Russia, 1754–1825. *$3.50. McClure.
8–9071.
“This book is dedicated to the memory of the ‘noble martyrs who have fallen in the struggle for Russian freedom.’ Herein lies the alpha and omega of the spirit in which it is written. The ulterior object of the author, in raking up as he does the bones of the dead, is obviously to stir up public indignation against the Tsar and enlist the reader’s sympathy in to-day’s policy and aims of the extreme revolutionaries of his own country—a policy which will lead, he hopes, to ‘the disappearance of the house of Romanov as a reigning family.’ The book is full of stories of court scandal, of ruling favourites, intrigues of mistresses and lovers’ plots.”—Sat. R.
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“Considered as a book for the general reader, this handsome and well illustrated volume may be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 800w.
“The first chapter is turgid rant; but after that matter and manner begin to improve. The author, if not sympathetic, is at least no longer obviously unfair, and he has used standard authorities.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
“At times the narrative is too theatrical in style.” G. S. Hellman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“It is not instructive reading, but entertaining as a ‘modern society’ book, with information ransacked from a heap of multifarious native and foreign sources, comprising archives of princes, secret feminine correspondence, journals and memoirs, selections from ancient history based to a great extent upon court rumors and private letters describing palace life behind the scenes. His book in the hands of the uninitiated is likely, at the present juncture of our international relations with Russia to do more harm than good.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 730. D. 14, ’07. 1050w.
* =Rasmussen, Knud.= People of the polar north; compiled from the Danish originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.
Selections from the results of Mr. Rasmussen’s Eskimo study published recently in Copenhagen. “The author spent two winters with the polar Eskimos, familiarizing himself with their manner of living, their social institutions, their religion, and their traditional history. He was admirably equipped for this work, because he had spoken the Eskimo language from his babyhood, and because he was entitled to claim a certain racial kinship with the Eskimos.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Though the work does not appeal to the casual reader, it will be deeply interesting to the student of man.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 800w.
“A valuable work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
=Rath, E. J.= Sixth speed. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10277.
Tells of a chauffeur who wearies of his menial service, calls his millionaire employer names, “thereby separating himself from his job, and turns pirate in very up-to-date fashion. He invents, or somebody invents for him, a new motor which will propel a boat at the speed of more than a hundred miles an hour. His boat is secretly built and equipped, a trusty crew is secured, and he starts out to plunder the yachts of the wealthy.”—Dial.
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“A book not to be taken seriously in any literary sense, without either form or style, but having the characteristics of surprise and excitement that go to the making of an entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A most enjoyable tale of adventure, full of action and interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
“There is something doing all the time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Quickened. †$1.50. Little.
8–9530.
Dealing with picturesque phases of Quebec and its surroundings, drawing together French, English and American types, this story emphasizes some of the strongholds of the Roman Catholic faith.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“This is a mighty theme; the author fails to handle it convincingly. She only tells us that it happened.”
− =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The story is in no sense a great one, but its deftness of description of place and person, its seriousness and refinement, make it comfortable reading.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 150w.
“There is something tragic in a really fine book that flags toward the end. However, there are at least a hundred pages of tense, well-written drama, and they alone would make the book well worth reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Psychology of inspiration. **$1.40. Funk.
8–794.
An attempt to distinguish religious from scientific truth and to harmonize Christianity with modern thought. The author shows that the subconscious mind is the avenue thru which truth in the form of intuitions and inspirations influences the progress of knowledge, ethics, art, and religion. He contends that these influences are suggestive rather than dictatorial in character, and that they insure development in proportion as they are heeded and understood. He finally shows that these truths, materialized, form the world with which science deals, and therefore the harmony between spirit and matter.
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“It is, we think, difficult to over-estimate the value of this volume at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 508. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“One expecting to find here a thoroughgoing discussion of inspiration from the psychological point of view will be greatly disappointed. The book has much that is valuable in relation both to inspiration and to the harmonizing of scientific and religious thought, but its chief usefulness is likely to be in stirring discussion upon the problems presented.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
=Raymond, William Galt.= Elements of railroad engineering. (Railroad engineering. v. 2.) $3.50. Wiley.
8–7887.
“The aim of the author has been to describe the fixed portion of a railroad plant and to present the underlying principles governing the design of its layout, a railroad being viewed as a plant operated for the manufacture of transportation which must be marketed at a profit to the owners.... The author includes a number of original articles, among which are those on curve resistance and the cost of the worst class of rise and fall.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 110w.
=Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 450w.
“The author’s comments in regard to overcapitalization and stock watering do not state all that is favorable to the railroads on this much-hackneyed subject, though the popular view is very clearly though briefly set out.” W. D. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 434. Ap. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“The book is prepared for class-room use and furnishes a broad, substantial foundation for future study of details.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Read, D. H. Moutray.= Highways and byways in Hampshire. (Highways and byways ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–21025.
Notes and impressions of “happy days, motoring, driving, cycling and walking” in a country which to the author is “a bundle of memories, all colourful, with a setting of sun-washed landscapes, sweet scents, and bird melodies.” “Nearly a hundred charming pen-and-ink drawings are contributed by Mr. Arthur B. Connor, and a good map and an index are useful features deserving of mention.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Haste and anger with locked doors are, we suppose, the reason that so many exceptional churches of Hampshire in the very parts visited by Mr. Read, and close to the highway, are left unnoticed or passed by with insufficient comment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 566. My. 9. 850w.
“A book in every way worthy of the series in which it appears.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“He treats you as if he were conducting you through his own estate, and took pleasure in pointing to this and that which he values for his own reasons. The result is entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Only a reader well versed in English history and English literature can properly enjoy it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Moutray Read has dealt with his subject in a satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Redfield, Isabella Taylor.= Reasonable way to study the Bible: the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles. 50c. Isabella T. Redfield, Pittsfield, Mass.
7–42456.
“Miss Redfield has divided carefully the material in both the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul into convenient and related sections, and by a series of questions has prepared the way for the student to arrive at independent opinions on the course of the history and the various types of religious thought.”—R. of Rs.
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=Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The analysis of the Biblical material is good, the coördination of references to the historical work and the Epistles shows careful study, and the questions for the student are designed to call out independent thought and appreciation of the real problems of the period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Is stimulating to all teachers ambitious of thorough work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Reed, Milton.= Democratic ideal. *75c. Am. Unitar.
7–30430.
The initial progress that came out of the “iron necessities” of man’s being and which has developed principles of liberty, equality of rights, and justice is capable, the author believes, of continuing its work for the American people until all of its problems of government and society are solved.
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“While the author prints some very just and harsh criticisms on modern economic conditions, he seems not to have a comprehension of the economic laws underlying many modern movements.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 50w.
* =Reed, Myrtle.= Flower of the dusk. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24448.
A story in which a crippled daughter struggles to keep up the deception of riches for the comfort of a blind father. When thru the aid of an heiress and her surgeon lover both are cured the father does not survive the joy of seeing the daughter who, on account of the resemblance to the mother and his unbalanced state of mind, he thinks is his long dead wife. The shadow of an early love tragedy lies across the pages of the story.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“As a story this seems scarcely equal to the author’s former work, ‘A spinner in the sun.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The slight little luminary of a story twinkles here and there with fun and revolves in a vast atmosphere of songs, dreams, parables, rhapsodies.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 150w.
“It is a perfect example of its kind and a vast improvement upon the colorless fiction that seeks its dignity in harping on disagreeable topics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= William Tell: a drama of the origin of Swiss democracy. Lippincott.
8–24854.
A play written around the legend of William Tell which is dedicated to the principles of human progress and which takes in the movement in Switzerland towards freedom and unity.
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“Is not wholly devoid of imagination or descriptive power, but is so undramatic in its action and so untheatrical in form as to be wholly unsuitable for stage representation.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 123. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= American diplomacy under Tyler and Polk. (Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history, 1906.) $1.50. Johns Hopkins.
7–39215.
“Thirteen chapters ... dealing with the diplomatic events of the administrations of two ‘accidental presidents.’ ... Their subject matter deals chiefly with questions of boundary—northeast, northwest, and southwest. Undoubtedly the best portions of the book are the eight chapters dealing with our relations to Texas and Mexico. The author does much to dispel the prevalent belief that the ‘peculiar institution of the south’ was an active aid to extension in the southwest.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 180w.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Reeve’s excellent study of the diplomacy of the United States under Tyler and Polk is necessarily lacking in unity, for neither a single administration or a single group of diplomatic negotiations is the theme. No one can neglect its use in the study of the diplomacy of this period. It is written in a clear style, plain and unadorned.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 714. D. ’08. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
* =Reeves, William Pember.= New Zealand. *$6. Macmillan.
A particularly illuminating book about New Zealand which “does not pretend to be either a guide-book or an exhaustive treatise.” “Especially interesting are the chapters on sport and country life, and much light is thrown on the social conditions, which, Keir Hardie asserts, have established a standard of comfort and a recognition of the rights of labor which make New Zealand the most desirable of all countries for the emigrant workman.” (Nation.)
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“It is for its descriptive passages that the reader will most prize this book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 726. D. 5. 630w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Charmingly illustrated and informing account of New Zealand.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
“As charming a book as we ever hope to read about the country he has so well represented. The text is more than worthy of the numerous illustrations, which are a true pleasure to the eye, and are by far the best pictures of New Zealand we have ever seen in a book. It may seem captious to complain of very small blemishes; but the book is written with such careful art that they are relatively more disfiguring than in most books. We unreservedly commend this book. It is romantic because Mr. Reeves is a poet, yet it nowhere exaggerates.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 631. O. 24, ’08. 1900w.
=Reich, Emil.= Foundations of modern Europe. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12963.
A book, growing out of a series of public lectures, which gives a short sketch of the main facts and tendencies of European history that, from 1756 onwards, have contributed to the making of the present state of politics and civilization. Under the wealth of facts the author finds the soul of progress which he reveals.
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“A second edition gives opportunity to call attention again to the very suggestive lectures which this book contains. Dr. Reich is particularly happy in his insistence: first, upon the European influence of the American war of independence; and, second, upon the very important part played by the French in the war.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 70w.
− =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“His glittering generalities and dogmatic judgment are particularly unsafe to readers like many of those in the C. L. S. C., who are inclined to take everything in print as gospel truth.”
− =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
“It is not only in detail that this work fails, but in larger generalizations, which might, if well founded, counterbalance some degree of inaccuracy in minor points.”
− =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever may be Dr. Reich’s faults, he is not dull, and, though his accuracy in explaining the course of human events has often been questioned and hardly less often denied he certainly does look at things with eyes that take in a good many of them at the same time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 40w.
=Reich, Emil.= General history of western nations from 5000 B. C. to 1900 A. D. 2v. *$4. Macmillan.
8–20728.
Two of the three volumes dealing with “Antiquity.” The first volume includes an Introduction containing the methodology of history, a general historical bibliography, and Books 1 and 2 which deal with the great land empires, Chaldea, Egypt, Assyria, the Hittites, the Phrygians and the Lydians; and with the border states, the Phoenicians, the Hebrews and the Hellenes. Volume two contains Rome, the Roman republic, and the Roman empire; with full index of both volumes.
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“The fact is that these volumes are by no means the outcome of first-hand research. They do not even contain much systematic criticism.” H. W. C. D.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 816. O. ’08. 580w.
“It would be false to say that amid so many printed pages there are no wise and suggestive sentences, but it is all spoiled by the pompous dogma, vague assertion, high-sounding futility and arrogant assumption of omniscience on the part of the author.”
− =Ind.= 65: 377. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“The value of these synthetic principles, whatever it may be, is largely offset by the glaring faults of the work. It contains many errors of detail; long periods, like that of the emperors, are inadequately treated; the theories it upholds are often pushed to extravagant lengths; and the spirit of the author is unnecessarily combative and egotistical.”
− =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 680w.
“It takes close reading and some thinking to follow him, interesting though his assumptions and contentions are. It may be doubted whether Dr. Reich can sustain his positions except as hypotheses. As demonstrations they lack something of convincingness, and even of authority, despite his signature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 545. O. 3, ’08. 2100w.
“Sometimes he even seems to strain a point to make his theories fit the facts. But in general his opinion is well worth the reader’s attention, and on every page the student should find food for thought.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 358. O. 17, ’08. 2200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“Herr Reich has written a good book, and as he might have clothed it in German or some even more native language, we must put up with his queer lingo.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 516. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Dr. Reich is somewhat paradoxical, and very firmly convinced of his being in the right.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 220w.
=Reichel, Willy.= Occultist’s travels. *$1. Fenno.
8–25375.
Describes the author’s travels thru Egypt, France and England, the United States, Hawaiian islands, Japan, China and the Philippines. His experiences with experimental occultism include seances, tests of trance inspiration, trumpet mediumship, crystal gazing and palmistry; he touches upon theosophy and reincarnation and describes certain visits to spiritual camps.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13:522. S. 26, ’08. 680w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–27522.
Miss Repplier has brought out of their century-old silence people whose “little nothingnesses” of every day affairs and real work were woven into the tissue of England’s social and literary history. What these people thought about each other, what they read, and what they did constitute a book of delightful literary chit-chat. Some of the titles are When Lalla Rookh was young, On the slopes of Parnassus, The literary lady, and Our accomplished great-grandmother.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 540w.
“A little volume of essays which confirms the judgment of the critic who declared that Miss Repplier possesses and monopolizes the almost lost art of essay writing.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 256. N. ’08. 850w.
“In her customary pleasant fashion, and with abundance of apt quotation, she makes the reader share with her a sort of amused superiority to the persons pricked by her somewhat pitiless pen, held up writhing for a moment on its cruel point, and then consigned again to a well-earned oblivion.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 254. O. 16, ’08. 400w.
“A Christmas present worth having.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“In the end one has been instructed in much half-forgotten lore, as well as refreshed by the instructor’s twinkling wit and clear, quiet humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“She is the greatest living master of good-natured satire, if indeed she has ever been surpassed in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“She is decidedly amusing, but we are not sure that she is just.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 888. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
=Repton, Humphry.= Art of landscape gardening; including his sketches and hints on landscape gardening and Theory and practice of landscape gardening; ed. by J. Nolen, il. **$3. Houghton.
7–38627.
Deals with the principles of landscape gardening. “The grounds laid out or improved by Repton, perhaps it should be said, were gentlemen’s estates, large and small, and though these, or portions of them, were called parks, they were private rather than public parks, and each was associated with a residence, permanent or temporary. Many of the principles so clearly set forth, however, apply equally to either public or private work.” (Engin. N.)
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“The illustrations are especially worthy of mention, because with the exception of a few modern photographs, they are reproductions of Repton’s own sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 600w.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Cannot fail to be of value and interest to Americans.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Of course it is a book addressed to the few. Still, the book will be found interesting by readers who do not contemplate the making of landscapes.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’07. 110w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Broken off. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“A variant of a popular theme, the engagement of a well-born, beautiful, but poor girl to a strong, honest, middle-class rich man whom she first despises and in the end adores.”—Sat. R.
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“The story is a little too commonplace for the really original study of emotions to which it forms a background.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 250w.
“It is a very fair specimen of this kind of feminine novel, workmanlike in treatment, fluent with emotion and sentiment, and set in an adequate picture of country-house life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Mrs. Baillie Reynold’s writing is never actually dull, but it must be confessed that in her present novel she comes perilously near it.”
− + =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 120w.
=Reynolds, Victor.= Stories of the Flemish and Dutch artists from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century; selected and arranged by Victor Reynolds. $3. Duffield.
Stories of Flemish and Dutch artists told in the words of the original historians of the two schools. The illustrations are selections from their paintings reproduced in colors and halftones; and appendices include respectively a chapter on “The discovery of oil-painting.” and a list of the authorities drawn upon for the sketches.
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“This is first of all interesting; and it does well what it undertakes to do.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Rhead, Louis John.= Book of fish and fishing. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–18028.
A popular rather than scientific treatment of fishes found from Labrador to Dry Tortugas. “In addition to descriptions of the appearance and habits of the fish, are chapters headed, Where to get them, How to get them, and When to got them. The book is well illustrated with copious cuts and contains also some interesting maps and charts.” (Ind.)
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“The English is sometimes slovenly, and the lack of an index a serious omission.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Very useful book.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Ind.= 64: 1454. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“While Mr. Rhead’s ideas are in the main sound, his sins of omission are serious. There are many examples of slipshod English.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“Contains a large amount of practical information in compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Rhodes, Harrison Garfield.= Adventures of Charles Edward. (English title, Charles Edward.) il. †$1.50. Little.
8–13950.
Charles Edward, a young New Yorker, endowed with high spirits and abundant riches, is a prank-loving individual who perpetrates his jokes on two sides of the Atlantic. His first adventure secures him a wife, the daughter of an English lord; at another time he advertises for an heirdom and gets it; still again he buys the manuscripts of four authors, has them published simultaneously as the work of one man, and while reconciling the public to the dissimilarities apparent in the books, is also engaged in assuaging the injured feelings of the four authors whose identities have merged into that of one unknown man.
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“Mr. Rhodes recounts pranks with easy gaiety and fluent humour.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 169. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A sort of Americanized version of Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A thoroughly delightful volume, quite out of the beaten track of humorous literature.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 126. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“It is transatlantic both in its Gibsonian illustrations and its piquant humour, which we should have liked better had there been less of it—its qualities, refreshing when taken in small doses, becomes enervating in bulk; but for the busy man, who takes his literary refreshment homœopathically, ‘Charles Edward’ may be recommended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 70w.
“In this last chapter, as in other isolated moments through the book, the author shows himself endowed not only with wit, but with true humour, the humour that draws the tear as well as the laugh.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 414. Je. ’08. 650w.
“Only a very unreasonable critic could deny that they possess the quality of entertainment.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 501. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“The book is breezy and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
“The book is one smile from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Yolanda of Cyprus. **$1.25. McClure.
8–13705.
A sixteenth century melodrama presented in modern style. Its scene is laid in the Island of Cyprus. It was published in London two years ago, and in its present slightly revised form will be produced next season in Chicago by Donald Robertson.
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“Tho Mr. Rice seems occasionally in danger of betraying the essentials to the accidents of drama, his plays have still sufficient life to animate them, even when read in the study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Exhibits both literary facility and poetic imagination. It contains, indeed, many melodious and some striking passages, but its general conception is so extravagant, its construction so crude, and its semi-miraculous happy ending so conventionally theatrical in its futility, that as drama it is inconsiderable.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
“When all is said, ‘Yolanda of Cyprus’ is no inconsiderable achievement; and it is most encouraging to our hope of a native drama to know that an American has written a play which is at the same time of decided poetic merit and of detailed dramaturgic power.” C: M. Hathaway, jr.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northeast; with il. by the author. (English title, Feathered game of New England.) **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
Short descriptions of nearly a hundred game birds, both land and water, written by “a man whose nature study has been conducted in the open and mostly over a gun-barrel,” yet one who discourages the conscienceless depletion of flocks.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is attractively written, though both style and spelling follow New England fashion; whilst, the illustrations, especially those of the birds, deserve great praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 320w.
“The general reader will find much to repay him for the time devoted to this book, and it contains no end of detailed, scientific information for the professional ornithologist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“The style is of that vivacious and exuberant kind which we should expect of an American sportsman.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Wooing of Calvin Parks. †$1.25. Estes.
8–23552.
“Mrs. Richards makes a very engaging central figure of Calvin Parks, once ‘master of the Mary Sands, Bath and Floridy—with lumber,’ now owner of a ‘candy route, hoss and waggin.’ Sam and Sim, the old twin brothers in their temporary reaction from too long and too heavily enforced love-each-otherness, make a good field for missionary effort and Christmas reconciling. It is caricature, of course, but not stupid caricature. And the benevolences of the story are amiable, but not cloying. Pervading the whole are Maine-isms of choicest quality.”—Nation.
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“Is full of humor and abounding in genuine ‘down East’ sayings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“Mrs. Richards serves a feast of Maine humor, seasoning it with her own sympathy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether the story is a bright one without a line of tragedy in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“There is only a slight little thread of story, but the telling of it is very delightful. For it is full of the unconscious humor in turn of thought, habit of mind, and forms of expression characteristic of the old-time, rustic New Englander.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Tells her new tale simply and with homely humor and hearty sympathy with human nature’s foibles and generous impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 60w.
=Richards, Ralph Webster.= Synopsis of mineral characters. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–10258.
Alphabetically arranged for laboratory and field use this pocket-book includes crystal form, habit, system, cleavage, hardness, fusion, and solubility in hydrochloric or other acid. Definitions of mineral terms and of rocks associated with the minerals included are also provided.
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“The descriptions are concise and accurate and include all the more essential properties of the species described. The book will be useful both to students in the laboratory and field, and to miners and others who are interested in minerals.” C. W. W.
+ =J. Geol.= 15: 824. N. ’07. 70w.
“The arrangement of the matter makes reference to the book easy.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 583. Ap. 18, ’07. 50w.
=Richardson, Alfred Madeley.= Modern organ accompaniment. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–4012.
“All the various topics bearing upon the subject are considered in detail; the art of registration, the accompanying of hymn tunes, motets, and plain song, the use of ornamentation, and the art of augmenting or reducing piano scores for use on the organ.”—Cath. World.
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“Contains an interesting and valuable chapter on the materials for tone-colouring which modern organs offer, also a very practical one on the accompaniment of plain-song.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10. 450w.
“A chapter on the art of accompanying such a quality of voice [the boy-soprano voice] would be very opportune just now, and would complete what is otherwise a splendid volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 105. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The book is very inaccurate and confessedly careless.... The plan of the book, we gladly admit, is exhaustive and irreproachable.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey.= Lover of Queen Elizabeth. *$3.50. Appleton.
A sketch that gives Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester’s relations to the Queen, and in particular his forced connection with the policy of her marriage and succession.
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“It is a sound, good book, and more conscientious than its romantic title would lead one to suppose. If it were otherwise, it would hardly be worth pointing to one defect ... the absence of all citation of the authorities quoted, and even of a preface indicating the sources consulted. Nor is the index at all adequate for a volume of 390 pages so fully packed with incident.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 700w.
“A simpler and more proportionate treatment might easily have rendered this book a worthy contribution to Elizabethan history.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 540w.
“However familiar the author may be with the easily accessible material of Elizabeth’s reign, she has little acquaintance with good style.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Richardson unfortunately writes very badly, with no distinction, not much care as to grammatical construction, and a colloquialism that jars upon the reader. Probably most of the events belonging to Leicester and Queen Elizabeth’s long intimacy are brought together in this book, and the story is sufficiently romantic to be readable.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Nor can we say that Mrs. Richardson succeeds in making the sorry story live. She seems to be an imitator of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and has caught something of the stylistic obscurity and preciosity of that school.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 395. S. 28, ’07. 1250w.
“We cannot say that there is no ‘scandal about Queen Elizabeth’ in this volume; but the subject is handled with adequate gravity and discretion.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and others=, comps. and eds. Alphabetical subject index and index encyclopedia to periodical articles on religion, 1890–1899. *$10. For the Hartford seminary press by Scribner.
8–2949.
A volume of nearly 1200 pages. More than 60,000 articles from some 1500 reviews are indexed. References are made under upwards of 15,000 subjects and under each a brief definition is given. A large majority of the periodicals indexed cover the years 1890–1899 only but some are indexed from their initial volume and some are carried down to the year 1907. A special feature is the indexing of 175 encyclopedias and reference works. The indexing is done according to the Poole method. Under subjects the material is arranged alphabetically according to authors. Volume number, year and inclusive paging are given but no note is made of the monthly or weekly date of periodicals. The work is practically without cross references, only an occasional one being given.
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 926. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“A compendious work, and a distinctly valuable contribution to library aids for the larger libraries and special collections.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08.
“One of the most important bibliographical publications of recent years.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 140w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference. Cement workers’ and plasterers’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–22300.
The second volume in “The building mechanic’s ready reference” series. “There are seven parts covering in a general way: 1, Cements: specifications, tests, analyses, strength; 2, Concrete: aggregates, mixing, strength, specifications, composition, notes; 3, Mortar, reinforced concrete, concrete piles, forms, etc.; 4, Sidewalk construction and other special uses of cement and concrete; 5, Cement building blocks; materials, manufacture, use, tests and building regulations; 6, Plastering; 7, a chapter on laying out work, tables, and miscellaneous information.” (Engin. D.)
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“It certainly would be to the great advantage of any piece of work for the mechanics and workmen engaged to know more of what they are doing than merely how to conduct the mechanical operations involved and there is no book that we have yet seen in the field of cement and concrete that can give this information as thoroughly and clearly as the one before us.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 470w.
“An admirable book to put in the hands of the mason or mechanic who wishes to learn something about the rapidly-growing cement industry.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 150w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference. Plumbers’, steam-fitters’ and tinners’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–23582.
“The book is divided into five parts, treating of the following subjects: 1, Hot air, steam and hot water heating; piping of heating systems and pipe fittings. 2, Data on boilers; radiation; tables of sizes, strengths, weights, etc. 3, Hydraulics; sewers; excavation; tin and sheet metal work, etc. 4, Gas fittings; gas, soil and vent pipes; plumbing rules, etc. 5, Examples of modern plumbing; specifications; receipts, tables, etc.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 120w.
“Is quite up to the standards previously set, and, for the purposes intended, these standards are high.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 321. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Richmond, Grace Louise S.= Round the corner in Gay street. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–23930.
A story in which is depicted the leavening influence of the Bells, father, mother and five children, among the wealthy Townsends of a nearby mansion. Contains “a strong flavor of ‘Little women’ in an up-to-date setting.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“It is unfortunate that the story cannot fully impress the reader with its own merit.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Richmond, Mary Ellen.= Good neighbor in the modern city. **60c. Lippincott.
7–39066.
Makes its appeal to all who are interested in the problem of social service and community living. It tells how to be neighborly when conditions least favor it. Some of the chapters are: The child in the city, The invalid, The family in distress, The contributor, The church member, and The tenant.
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“Sane, stirring talks on social science and practical charity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 148. My. ’08. ✠
“A good book to read, to lend, or to give to other neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
“As a distinct contribution to knowledge the book will not take rank, but as a safe guide and inspiration to the kindly impulses of the individual it will find its place, and this seems to be the purpose for which it was written.”
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 447. F. ’08. 780w.
=Rickard, Thomas Arthur.= Journeys of observation. $3.50. Mining and scientific press.
8–2203.
“The observations of a mining engineer on trips into two representative mining regions of Mexico and southwestern Colorado, describing industrial conditions, geological structure, mining methods, and metallurgical practices which were found there. Abundant and excellent illustrations are included.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The trips from place to place are incidental linkages between collections of rather diversified (some people might say ‘scattered’) notes on methods of tunneling, drifting, stoping and timbering, on processes of ore treatment and mine management.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 649. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 40w.
=Riddle, Matthew Brown.= Story of the Revised New Testament, American standard ed. *75c. S. S. Times co.
8–17776.
A little book for the general public which gives an account of the origin, methods, and progress of the revision movement during thirty-five years.
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“Constitutes a valuable ‘footnote to history.’”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Riggs, James Stevenson.= Messages of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. (Messages of the Bible.) **$1.25. Scribner.
7–38254.
The discourses of Jesus in the Gospels of John arranged, analyzed and freely rendered in paraphrase.
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“The subtitle hardly does justice to the useful introduction and extended notes which give this little volume much of its value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Rigg’s ability is not in question, but rather the nature of his task.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Riley, Isaac Woodbridge.= American philosophy: the early schools. **$3.50. Dodd.
7–36876.
A work intended both as a source book and as a critical exposition of the growth of philosophical opinion in the land. It is divided into five books, corresponding to the five schools which the author believes to have divided the allegiance of the early American thinkers: Book I takes up the question of early Puritanism in New England; Book II deals with early Idealism; Book III considers the speculative emancipation of the various colleges, Harvard, Yale, King’s college, and Princeton, in a deistic direction; Book IV is devoted to Materialism, the prevailing thought in the South; and Book V treats of the Realism of the Scottish type.
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“Dr. Riley’s method, the patience and thoroughness of his research, the fairness and general sanity of his judgments, are all good models for imitation. The value of his work is much more than that of a source-book. As a finished product it is likely to hold its place as an authority in the field it has so thoroughly explored for a long time to come.” A. T. Ormond.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 603. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“We have here an important book, important both for what it is and what it promises.” A. H. Lloyd.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 505. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“Though open to some adverse criticism the book is thorough and scholarly, and is the most nearly complete work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08
“The book was well worth the doing, and it has been superlatively well done. Neither his subject nor his method of treatment requires any ‘apologia.’ We may note in passing a few slips in proof-reading.” H. T. Peck.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 2800w.
“The result of extended inquiry, and seems to give us at once footing among the thoughtful nations of the world. Dr. Riley seems to us to wander a little too much at random through an author’s works, and, by mingling his own criticism, to help us still further to lose our way and to be left with a colorless impression of the force and order of events.” John Bascom.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 177. Mr. 16, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the most complete work which has yet appeared on the early history of philosophy in America. It is, in fact, the only one which attempts to treat the subject with thoroughness and in all its details.” A. L. Jones.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 157. Mr. 12, ’08. 2250w.
“This volume is often somewhat burdened by weight of detail.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which makes us wish we had something here like the French Academy, that so good a book might be stamped with the seal of national approval.” C: Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 927. Je. ’08. 1100w.
“All American philosophy, indeed, is from imported stock, the account of whose naturalization and development here is a valuable contribution to the history of civilization on this continent.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 45. Ja. 4, ’08. 450w.
“Clearness in a book of exposition, either historical or doctrinal, is a quality on which too much stress can never be laid, and there is certainly enough of that in ‘American philosophy.’ His estimate of individual thinkers and schools cannot but be influenced by his personal speculative leanings; and, while this is unavoidable and natural, it will render the work less acceptable to such as have other preferences and inclinations.” E. L. van Becelaere.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 202. Mr. ’08. 2550w.
“Though open to criticism upon some details, the book as a whole is a thorough and scholarly piece of research in a territory where the author has often been obliged to blaze his own way, and a notable addition to our historical literature.” A. O. Lovejoy.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 464. Mr. 20, ’08. 1650w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Boys of the old glee club. il. **$1.50. Bobbs.
7–39035.
A poem full of reminiscence written in Riley’s inimitable Hoosier dialect. The following is suggestive of the whole:
“You folks rickollect, I know— ’Tain’t so _very_ long ago— Th’ Old Glee Club—was got up here ’Bout the first time Grant tuk the cheer Fer President four years—and then Riz—and tuk the thing again.”
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“It is instinct with that human interest that is the chief charm of Riley’s verse, and it will be especially enjoyed by the ‘Boys in blue.’”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 126. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“The illustrations by Will Vawter really ‘belong’; they tell the story parallel to the poem.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
=Rinehart, Mary Roberts.= Circular staircase. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23102.
The unmarried aunt of a brother and sister just out of college and finishing school is persuaded by the young people to take a country house for the summer. The series of mysterious crimes into which this peace-abiding trio is plunged is traced to the machinations of a bank defaulter whose home the aunt had rented, and within whose walls were hidden stolen securities.
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“Humorously told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“With the possible exception of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ this is by far the best mystery or detective story of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 394. O. ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Written in any old style it would be the sort of thing people sit up nights to finish; written in the delightfully humorous vein which makes it stand out so much above the ordinary detective story, it is bound to be, with more than usual deserts, a popular success.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 250w.
“Readable, entertaining, amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
* =Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray).= Blackstick papers. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–33772.
A group of essays gathered together under the name of “Blackstick papers” after the Fairy Blackstick who thousands of years ago lived in Crim Tartary. They are so called because they concern subjects in which this fairy was interested—old books, young people, schools of practical instruction, rings, roses and sentimental affairs. Some of the chapter headings are: Haydn; Felicia Felix; St. Andrews; Concerning Joseph Joachim; Mary and Agnes Berry; Paris, Prisms, and Primitifs; Mrs. Gaskell; Concerning Tourguenieff; and Concerning Thomas Bewick.
=Robbins, Helen H.=, ed. Our first ambassador to China: the life and correspondence of George, earl of Macartney, and his experiences in China, as told by himself. *$5. Dutton.
8–19596.
“Affords an interesting picture of Chinese court and customs of the day, of loyal entertainments which rivalled Arabian nights, and of the most amusing subtility and illusiveness of Oriental diplomacy. Moreover, the ambassador’s reflections upon Chinese character, his recognition of the stability and cohesion of the people and the courtliness of the educated class, form a valuable memorial to eighteenth century impartiality and insight.”—Ind.
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“Mrs. Robbins has done her part of the work exceedingly well, and her comments are judicious and reasonable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 375. Mr. 28. 1700w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 260w.
“This book is both readable and valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 14. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The diary makes a valuable and interesting addition to the information given in Sir George Staunton’s narrative, confirming in the main the impression it left, while possessing the superior charm of a private letter over an official despatch.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 468. Ap. 11, ’08. 1550w.
“Macartney’s own diary of the mission ... is that of an accomplished and very observant man, and as a story of travel, difficulty, and fresh experience it is quite romantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 263. F. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Robbins, Leonard H.= Jersey jingles. $1. Wilson J. Vance, 164 Market st., Newark, N. J.
Humor, the wisdom of childhood, and the homely philosophy of grown-ups combine to make Mr. Robbins’s jingles full of the sentiments which everybody feels but permits to go unexpressed because they are so closely associated with humdrum, uneventful experiences.
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“Accepted only for what they are, Mr. Robbins’s book will help to brighten a dull half hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 105. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Robbins, Mrs. Sarah (Stuart).= Old Andover days: memories of a Puritan childhood. *$1. Pilgrim press.
8–30581.
Mrs. Robbins, past ninety years of age, reviews the Andover days of her youth with its distinguished men and gracious women. “It is not so much of minute events that she writes, as of the general spirit and atmosphere which pervaded the seminary and those who were attached to it either as professors or as students. It all seems to us of to-day a gloomy and forlorn sort of life, but it is obvious from Mrs. Robbins’s chronicle, that the young, at least, were able to find their pleasures in the midst of those somber and terribly serious surroundings.” (Lit. D.)
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“It is a quaint picture—sternness and smiles, catechism and cakes. We only regret that her memory of the shorter catechism is faulty. Exactness was the merit in those days, and she quotes three answers, and two of them wrong.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 230w.
“Mrs. Robbins’s memory goes back with vividness to the life she knew on that New-England hilltop.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Roberts, Charles G. D.= House in the water: a book of animal stories. $1.50. Page.
8–17808.
Eight animal stories. “Bear and moose and lynx and wolf range again through these pages; and those other favorite heroes and heroines of fiction whom Mr. Roberts is fond of calling ‘the wild kindreds.’” (Nation.) “The illustrations by Mr. Bull and the decorations by Mr. Vining Smith are not only in general harmony but in very subtle sympathy with the text.” (Outlook.)
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“Mr. Roberts maintains in this new collection his high rank as an interpreter of the woods people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“His zest in wild nature is intense, and he succeeds in communicating it to the reader. Also he tells a story dramatically.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 642. N. 21. 400w.
“These variations upon the old theme strike one as a little perfunctory.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“From the nature standpoint the book should interest young and old alike. In addition, the volume is distinctly noteworthy as an example of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Roberts, John, jr.= Laboratory work in electrical engineering (preliminary grade): a series of laboratory experiments for first and second year students of electrical engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
The material treated here “divides itself naturally into two general sections, the first dealing with measurements of resistance, electromotive force, current, quantity and energy. The preliminary work leads up naturally to the calibration of instruments. The second part treats of measurements of an engineering nature such as tests of materials used in electrical machinery, of electrical lamps, and of small electrical machines.” (Engin. N.)
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“The only criticism of this arrangement is that the student is not directly stimulated to draw deductions from his experiments. This lack can be easily supplied by the personal instruction of the teacher.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 340w.
“The scope of this book is partly in the field of electrical (physical) measurement and partly in the field of electrical engineering; and for some places, as the laboratory for which it was written, it may be well suited. For other places it may be found not to cover sufficiently either field.”
+ − =Phys. R.= 26: 546. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Blue Peter. $1.50. Page.
Contains five sprightly sea yarns as follows: Extra hands on the “Nemesis”; The overcrowded iceburg; The remarkable conversion of Rev. Thomas Ruddle; The strange case of Captain Bragger; The captain of the “Ulswater.”
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“Comes as an invigorating breath of salt air.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 500w.
“Contains several good sea yarns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 70w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Captain Spink, and other sea comedies. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mr. Roberts is “a sea-rover of literature, with a buccaneer’s swagger and a sailor’s roll; ‘full of strange oaths,’ and with a broad sense of humour. These are really farces of the sea, which he delivers to us over his pipe and glass. The author knows every foot of a ship and every turn of the ocean. Landlubbers will enjoy his stories perhaps even better than seafarers, who may find themselves too broadly painted.” (Ath.) “Six of them centre round a sea-captain, and six more diverting ‘old men’ it has seldom been our lot to meet.” (Sat. R.)
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“Mr. Morley Roberts uses crude colours and chalks, and you must stand a little way back to get the best effects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 254. F. 29. 150w.
“The first two of the seven stories catch and clog a little on their own humorousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
“The plots are the slightest possible, but the book is reasonably entertaining on account of an odd whimsicality in the dialogue.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“These comedies are seven in number, and the listening landsman will wish they had been more, so captivating is Mr. Roberts in his merry mood, so clever at infecting his reader with his mirth.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 274. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“People who like sketches of the sea, and of nothing but the sea, cannot do better than read this collection.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 80w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Captain Love. $1.50. Page.
8–15150.
Highway robbery, kidnappings, gambling, love and gallantry abound in this tale set in the reign of George I. A young nobleman on his way to London is robbed of his money, clothes, and memory; for when returning consciousness finds him at a farmhouse he fails to recall his name or family. Under the name of Captain Love he enters upon a round of exciting adventure. “The captain is a thoroughly expurgated d’Artagnan with a touch of Monsieur Beaucaire and a strong dash of Quixote.” (Nation.)
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“If not a novelty it is at least done with considerable zest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“Although, in the main incidents, the story conforms heartily to its type, there is a certain novelty and attractiveness in the hero, something of the finer spirit of romance.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
“Mr. Roberts has perhaps overdone the business of being exciting. He does not give you time to enjoy properly a single one of the thrills in his eagerness to ring all the possible changes and produce a sensation for every paragraph.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 270w.
=Robertson, James Alexander.= Bibliography of the Philippine islands, printed and manuscript, preceded by a descriptive account of the most important archives and collections containing Philippina. *$10. Clark, A. H.
8–16566.
Issued as volume 53 of the extended series on “The Philippine islands, 1493–1898.” Mr. Robertson “has not undertaken to prepare a full comprehensive bibliography of the Philippines ... his purpose has been, as regards printed Philippina, to point out the sources for a complete study of Philippine bibliography, while also setting forth the main data regarding rare works in this field; and to list manuscripts in a way hitherto unattempted.” (Dial.)
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“Painstaking editorial work is apparent all through it. The reviewer has handled it considerably without detecting an error of statement, and the very few mistakes in proper names thus far noted seem chargeable rather to original transcription than proof-reading.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 160. O. ’08. 650w.
“Indispensable for every library pretending to cover this field at all and for every special student therein.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1. ’08. 1350w.
“Dr. Robertson has acquired an unequaled knowledge of the contents of the libraries of the world on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Robertson’s work is quite indispensable for one who wishes to make ‘a thorough bibliographical survey of the Philippines’—the test of usefulness which the compiler had in view. It is not, however, a comprehensive bibliography, to be independently used as such.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 142. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Is indispensable to libraries not possessing the series as a whole.” J. A. Le Roy.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 50w.
“Used as supplementary to Retana’s, the Library of Congress, and Pardo de Tarera’s lists of printed Philippina, it is indispensable to any good library and to the special student of the Philippines.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 40w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Come and find me. †$1.50. Century.
8–5885.
A story of California and the gold fields of Alaska. The author brings together a varied group of characters: a tired father hugging thru life the secret of a gold field’s location, a hard woman who ruled husband and household with a hand of iron, two girls worshipping secretly a stalwart youth, passion-mad for the north and discovery, and an enduring lover who braves slights and hardships for the girl he loves. In the wonderful light of the north facts are seen shorn of doubt and mystery, and lifetime misunderstandings are adjusted.
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“A story of unusual dramatic power and interest, the characters drawn with delicacy and vigor. A truly absorbing piece of fiction.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story is entirely out of the ordinary.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 496. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“Cleverness is everywhere the mark of the book, but one is disposed to lament that so much of it is allowed to run to waste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 412. Ap. 4. 280w.
“It might have easily been much stronger, if the author had only been a little more sure of her point of view. The material of Miss Robins’s latest book is admirable, but she has failed to give it to us in the proper proportions.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 183. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“The whole story, rambling and incoherent beyond what is ordinarily permissible, is redeemed by the bits of reality.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is the thrilling interpretation of a man’s patriotism for the unknown that gives the story its peculiar significance.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 867. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“It is very long-winded, not much happens, and the people are hardly deserving of prolonged study for their own sakes.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Miss Robins is not so well endowed with the story teller’s instinct as she is with the faculty for the dramatic portrayal of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 850w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13. ’08. 300w.
“The fault of the story is in its undue length and in some ineffective details. But as a compelling representation of the fatal and glorious fascination of exploring it is a success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Her story is much more fundamental than London’s tales of the north, for instance; much more thoroughgoing; and yet there is an evident lack of homogeneity, an unsatisfying absence of balance, too many untied ends that mar its completeness and leave it roughly unfinished.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Mar is drawn with delightfully humorous appreciation, and the love affairs of the two girls is one of those fancies which would probably have never occurred to a man, and could not certainly have been treated by him with that airy yet exact discrimination which makes so light of its unlikelihood. There is much in the earlier part which could scarcely be better done. These things remain and will remain in one’s gratitude long after one’s regrets have vanished for the completer work they seemed to foretell.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 273. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
“With all deductions on the score of structure, ‘Come and find me’ is a remarkable and suggestive study of the conflict of love, duty, and ambition.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 543. Ap. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Under the Southern cross. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–36093.
A tale in which a Peruvian baron and a thoroly self-reliant American girl cross swords. “The special triumph which Miss Robins has achieved is to carry through a really serious love affair with a sustained touch of lightness during a lengthy voyage; to make us thoroughly fond of the man and of the girl; to make us hope, almost to the last, that in some way their temperamental and their acquired differences may be reconciled; and then, in the end, to leave us quite satisfied to find that the inevitable has happened.” (Bookm.)
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“It is seldom that one comes across a new type of hero in the lighter sort of hammock fiction who is so sympathetic, so genuine, so altogether attractive as the Baron de Bach. An exceedingly clever story, written with a half-veiled touch of satire.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 104. Mr. 08. 300w.
“A slight romance. The story is somewhat overdressed with decorative margins on every page and several colored plates and other pictures.”
− =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Call of the city. **$1.25. Elder.
8–23563.
Essays which express to the reader the myriad reflective thoughts that surge thru his brain when he is under the spell of a great city’s “abundant vitality, splendid power, and organization of forces.”
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“Verses, selected with the same discrimination and originality that mark the style of the essays, appear as headings for the prose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“These essays are trifling; they are not overweighted with thought, and they are frankly sentimental. It ought to be much sought by purchasers of gift books in the coming holiday season.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 100w.
=Robinson, Harry Perry.= Twentieth century American: a comparative study of the peoples of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–19181.
Observations, comparisons, and criticisms concerning political, social and industrial life as it exists in England and America. “Many of our people can draw information from his observations here. These take a wide range—the attitude toward women, humor and art, education and culture, politics and politicians, constitutional questions now in controversy, Mr. Roosevelt and the corporations, commercial morality, the growth of honesty, comparison of commercial methods here and in England.” (Outlook.)
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“There is nothing at all superficial or cursory about his work. A classic accordingly the careful reader will be apt to acknowledge that Mr. Robinson has produced. There are some few slips, such as will occur when one trusts to his memory without verifying everything.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + − =Bookm.= 28: 44. S. ’08. 1800w.
“The American reader ... only in rare cases will feel inclined to challenge the essential truth of his statements. He has been conspicuously successful in making plain two or three causes of misunderstanding between the two peoples that are usually ignored.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
“The volume must be read to be appreciated, and it ought to be widely read and attentively pondered.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 292. S. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Conversational in tone and wholly without the dogmatic utterance from which it seems to be almost equally difficult for the preacher, the teacher, and the critical writer to get free.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
“Since the appearance of Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ some twenty years since, no Englishman till now has published observations on the American people of such value as these.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Is a book that may well turn out to have marked an epoch. Mr. Robinson knows more about this country than do most of its natives.” E. J. Putnam.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 5: 360. D. ’08. 2500w.
“An unusually well-informed and sympathetic piece of international observation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 100w.
“This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good things, and written in an excellent spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles Austin.= Development of modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history. 2v. v. 1. *$1.50; v. 2, *$1.60. Ginn.
7–36724.
A work which uses past history only for the light that it throws upon the political, economic and social present. It begins with the age of Louis XIV. Volume one covers the eighteenth century including the French revolution and the Napoleonic period: volume two treats of Europe since the Congress of Vienna.
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“Errors in the text are very few. It is as solid and informing as it is interesting and clever.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 188. O. ’08. 1300w.
“An admirable collection of selections from the best original sources filling a long known gap for teacher and student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“There is no better text-book for the nineteenth century than this.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
=Robinson, John Beverley.= Architectural composition. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
8–9099.
The author aims to raise “the power to design from its comparatively obscure position as an art to the dignity of a science.” “Throughout the volume architecture is treated merely as a plastic art, apart from construction or the texture of materials—apart from the uses of the building, or the locality in which it is erected, or the interest attaching to it as the work of different peoples.” (Ath.) “Instead of attempting to impose upon the reader the dogmatic decrees of his personal taste, he endeavors to discover the fundamental reasons why certain lines and proportions are harmonious and pleasing and others the reverse.” (Ind.)
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“There is much in the volume worth careful consideration.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 443. O. 10. 400w.
“The book would be especially valuable to building committees of laymen who are called upon to decide between plans submitted by architects.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 180w.
=Robinson, Tracy.= Panama: a personal record of forty-six years, 1861–1907. $1.50. Tracy Robinson, P. O. box 58, Colon, Panama.
7–41775.
Mr. Robinson’s personal record of forty-six years includes nothing that cannot be called Panama history during that period. The building of the first railroad and its bearing upon the development of the country, the establishment of the French Panama company, with De Lesseps as its moving spirit, and all of the political, religious, and domestic problems are treated in an informing manner.
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“His book gives as good a general notion of the course of things at Panama up to the beginning of the present canal enterprise as can be found anywhere in like convenient shape.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 81. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Robson, Philip W.= Power gas producers: their design and application. *$3. Longmans.
“Devoted almost entirely to the design, construction, and operation of producers. It is divided into three sections, the first, which takes up very nearly two-thirds of the whole volume, treating of suction gas producers; the second, which is short, dealing with pressure plants for non-bituminous fuel, and the third, occupying about one-quarter of the volume, covering pressure producers for bituminous coal.”—Engin. N.
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“Those who wish to know why gas producer plants are built as they are, and how they should be operated after they are built, will find this book a valuable addition to their libraries.” A. E. Forstall.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 647. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“It sets the subject out in a clear and concise manner, and indicates the theory of the various actions, as well as the means by which the application is carried out. The description on p. 56 of the arrangements in the Crossley plant for varying the entering mixture is not very clear, and throughout the book but little is said of the generators by this firm, and it is limitations of this kind which are the chief fault that can be urged against an otherwise admirable book.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 658. O. 29, ’08. 920w.
=Roeder, Rev. Adolph.= Practical citizenship. $1.50. Blanchard.
8–19014.
“A series of popular articles, published in the Newark Evening news, on the nature of the body politic as an organism, the forces that give it life, and the attainment of practical citizenship is here presented in book form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) The volume is divided into three parts: 1, The machine, a description of the elements of government; 2, The force, an analysis of the forces behind results; 3, Practice, the citizen’s part in the work of running the machine properly.
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“The scientific shortcomings of the first two divisions may be overlooked. The third is better. The series as a whole is inspiring in the cause of a larger manhood and may be read with profit.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 70w.
“In the last chapter, ‘Ideals,’ Mr. Roeder strikes a lofty note, and makes a fitting end to an inspiring book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Shell book. **$4. Doubleday.
8–12800.
A popular guide to the knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign. (Subtitle.) “Three aspects of conchology enforce attention: the biological, the purely systematic, and the zo-geographic.... Of these three Miss Rogers has wisely selected the second as her dominant theme.” (Nation.) The illustrations are in colors and black-and-white from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.
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“The present volume is, then, more valuable to the student than Baker’s book by reason of its arrangement and scope, and is at the same time not beyond the range of the interested general reader, while the latter offers some interesting general matter not to be found in the former.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
“Supplies a real need. The style is graceful not without touches of pleasant fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 900w.
“Might be called a popular work if that term was not so misleading. It is a book scientifically arranged, carefully indexed, and beautifully illustrated. The pictures are fascinating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 540w.
=Rose, George B.= Renaissance masters: the art of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Botticelli and Rubens. *$1.25. Putnam.
8–2389.
“The design of this book is to give in a brief compass an insight into the essential characteristics of each of the masters treated, so that the traveler may be able to enjoy them for what they are, without looking for merits in one which can be found only in another.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Rose, John Holland, and Broadley, A. M.= Dumouriez and the defence of England against Napoleon. **$5. Lane.
A story based on “a French manuscript of 397 pages, in which Dumouriez, with his own hand, set forth the scheme he had worked out to insure the safety of his adopted country.” (N. Y. Times.) “In their last chapter the authors sum up as far as possible in his favour, but they are not able to deny that a Commander-in-Chief who deliberately offers to hand over to the enemy the fortresses which constitute his country’s main line of defence cannot properly be designated as anything else than traitor.” (Sat. R.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The authors have rendered a real service to history in producing this book and have displayed much industry in collecting material. They have succeeded in giving us what was lacking before in English—a clear and consecutive account of Dumouriez’ remarkable career.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. S. 26, ’08. 1400w.
=Rosenkrantz, Palle, baron von.= Magistrate’s own case. †$1.50. McClure.
8–2946.
In addition to the all essential story interest, this book is one that commands and holds the attention of the legal profession. It is an argument against too great reliance upon circumstantial evidence. A crime is committed, the wrong man accused, and although the accused man knows who the real murderer is he withholds information for personal reasons. For personal reasons too the prosecuting magistrate resigns his work on the case. From beginning to end technical issues are at variance with personal and emotional issues. The psychologist as well as the lawyer will be interested in the story.
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“A detective story of excellent plot, holding one’s attention closely, and giving one a very good idea of German criminal procedure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study of persons and motives is much better done than in the ordinary English story of murder; but his narrative has a heaviness here and there, especially at the beginning, which may repel the reader of what is, after all, an interesting book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 160w.
“Its plot leaves nothing to be desired; it is a ‘capital puzzle,’ but its treatment by a trained mind lifts it above the average.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The effect of this [story] is to vindicate the contemporary writers who imitate Poe and Wilkie Collins.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A really clever story.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“A detective story, very cleverly contrived, with something more, and on a higher plane of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 20w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society; an analysis of latter-day iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“For competent persons, who are seriously interested in discerning the signs of the times, this book will perform the service of a high-power magnifying glass. The weakest passage in the book is from the pen of the President of the United States.” A. W. Small.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 566. Ja. ’08. 840w.
“Style is vigorous and fresh.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 48. F. ’08.
“One of those rare books that are really worth while. We could wish that he had laid more emphasis on publicity of great business affairs as a means of making public opinion effective; but one ought not to find fault with so good a book. It well deserves the wide influence invoked for it in the interesting prefatory letter of President Roosevelt.” H. R. Mussey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 295. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“No one who seeks to guide public opinion, whether he be journalist, statesman, clergyman or teacher, can afford to miss getting its point of view—that of social solidarity as the basis of social morality.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 61. Ap. ’08. 540w.
Reviewed by A. O. Lovejoy.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 510. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The appeal to public opinion and the analysis of the defects in the present public opinion are perhaps the most profitable parts of the work.” L. W. Sprague.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 136. O. ’08. 400w.
“Professor Ross is master of the literary style which the importance of his subject demands for due effect on thought and conscience.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
“His book would be more effective if it were written more simply, with less obvious straining for novelty of expression.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 555. S. ’08. 250w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Social psychology: an outline and source book. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21601.
Professor Ross has been the pioneer in this branch of social science and offers the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal systematically with the subject of social psychology. He considers the nature and scope of social psychology, suggestibility, the mob mind, conventionality and imitation, custom imitation, conditions affecting the sway of custom, interference and conflict, union and accumulation, compromise, public opinion, and disequilibration.
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“Without great depth or undue consistency, it is peculiarly suggestive and stimulating, and will interest a larger body of readers than the conventional literature of psychology attracts.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“This is a work we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 467. N. ’08. 420w.
“Professor Ross’s manner is comparatively free from scientific affectation. The tone of the book is temperate, but the spirit that of a man very eager to read the signs of the times and full of the sense or illusion of progress.” C. M. Francis.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 593. Ag. ’08. 2000w.
“In general the book seems admirably made for college uses. The discussion is at almost all times clear, and it has the spicy interest common to Professor Ross’s works. There are two general adverse criticisms of the book which it seems fair to make. In the first place, the title is misleading. The other general criticism relates to the tone of the book.” J: L. March.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 517. D. ’08. 960w.
“Tho it is intended as a college textbook, the adventurous reader who picks here and there some of this fruit from the tree of knowledge will be rewarded with more sweet mouthfuls than the grower promises. Rays of humor lighten the pages.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 680w.
“One must dissent from it occasionally, but it is a wholesome, stimulating and serviceable work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 41. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Throughout his book the psychologist feels the lack of any true psychological analysis. As the book does not attempt to take up the principles involved in special uniformities like language or religion, it becomes virtually a treatise on the various aspects of imitation.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 400w.
“As it stands, it is still one of the best studies of custom and convention in any language.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 381. D. 15, ’08. 1900w.
“Professor Ross is one of the few specialists in the subject who are able to popularize their discoveries and to make the subject interesting to the lay mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 130w.
“On the whole we have in this work an able marshaling of the knowledge thus far brought to light on the subject of social psychology, and a clear, untechnical, while at the same time often eloquent, discussion of the laws, principles and leading truths of that rather subtle and recondite branch of sociology.” L. F. Ward.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 54. Jl. 10, ’08. 1400w.
* =Rossetti, Christina Georgina.= Family letters of Christina Rossetti; ed. by William M. Rossetti. *$3.50. Scribner.
Family letters which are offered for the value they possess in showing forth the writer’s “genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and feeling.”
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“Seldom has been given a more beautiful glimpse of home life than Mr. Rossetti has afforded us in this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 601. N. 14. 1450w.
“The letters are especially rewarding as documents of life.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 735. D. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Full and formal publication was not necessary, since neither in bulk nor in quality are the letters telling.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 900w.
=Rossi, L. Melano.= Santuario of the Madonna di Vico: Pantheon of Charles Emanuel I. of Savoy. il. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–13292.
“The author has written a history of architecture, of painting, and of sculpture, and has frankly told us the names of the books from which he has compiled it. He has shown that the dome of Vicoforte is superior to the dome of St. Paul’s, London, which latter is no dome at all, and he has furnished us with a scientific account of what a dome ought to be.”—Lit. D.
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“All who are interested in architecture and the decorative arts, or in the political and religious history of Italy, owe to Signor Rossi a deep debt of gratitude for the unwearying patience with which he has collected information on his important subject, the number and beauty of the illustrations supplementing his text, and the clearness with which he has told the whole story of the evolution of the building.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 450w.
“It is pleasant and instructive reading, but has nothing directly to do with the Madonna of Vicoforte.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The book shows wide, but undigested, reading of authorities, down to the most recent; it is overlain with references and footnotes to the point of suffocation; but the unwary reader had best shun the ‘historical’ chapters; they are full of pitfalls. It is a pity that so much labour, research, and effective illustration should be marred by writing so grotesque.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“Includes in its moderate compass a great array of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 900w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men: a study in character. Anniversary ed. **$1.50. Houghton.
A study which follows Lincoln’s search after power over the rough way of apprenticeship to hardship, toil and discipline. Here is portrayed the indispensable man, the master man, shaped and molded by the potentialities of invincible energy, courage, honesty and patriotism.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Australian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–29330.
An informing child’s study of Australia touching upon the points of history, geography, life in the bush, characteristics of natives and present day civilization.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Grecian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–23099.
A story which introduces young readers to Greece old and new and to the every-day life of the little Grecian cousin.
=Rowe, Leo S.= Problems of city government. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29625.
An analysis of the general principles involved in city growth, with an inquiry into the nature of the changes in social structure which are traceable to the rapidly increasing population in cities. In the course of the study reasons are made clear for the present-day doubt concerning most effective municipal legislation, and lines of progressive evolution are suggested.
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“The very full and scientific treatment of the problem of public utilities should recommend the work to all thoughtful citizens.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Professor Rowe’s work possesses usefulness—particularly in his account of the spread of the commission plan and in the comparative view of American and European experience in the management of public utilities.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 496. N. 19. ’08. 2000w.
“A very original and suggestive discussion of municipal questions by an eminent authority.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 13w.
“His book is much more than a mere summary of foreign experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 200w.
=Rowland, Dunbar.= Encyclopedia of Mississippi history; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons. 2d ed. 2v. $12. Dunbar Rowland, Jackson, Miss.
“A large two-volume work of more than two thousand pages containing historical sketches of the important events and episodes in the life of the commonwealth, of all the counties, cities and towns of the state including towns and villages now extinct, biographical sketches of men ‘who have left their impress on the history of the state’ and sketches of various institutions.... The design of the work ... is to present in compact form, arranged in alphabetical order, a complete history of Mississippi from 1540 to 1906, the plan being to combine the best features of history for continuous reading with the cyclopedic style for ready reference.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The encyclopedia has the inherent faults of a work prepared according to the topical plan. The work shows evidence of great industry and of intimate knowledge of the state’s history. There are many very good sketches and compilations which have more than a local interest.” J. W. Garner.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 661. Ap. ’08. 520w.
“Dr. Rowland and his helpers seem to have carried out the plan fairly well. The scale is too generous. There are some failures to meet successfully a difficulty inseparable from the form. The work would also be better for an index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 480w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Across Europe in a motor boat. **$2. Appleton.
8–27781.
This is a record of the adventures of the motor boat Beaver on a voyage over “a long wet trail” across Europe by way of the Seine, the Rhine, the Danube and the Black sea. In spite of the fact that the jaunt required a deal of preparation and experimenting, and that it ended in a wreck does not lessen the satisfaction of the achievement.
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“Mr. Rowland’s story, like his journey, is rather for the sterner sex, but is graphically told and holds the reader’s interest to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 150w.
“A most delightful story, in which Mr. Rowland brings into good play his cleverness at description and his charm as a humorist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 700w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Philosophy of loyalty. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11729.
“A thoroughly sincere attempt to set clearly before the American people the need for aiming at the highest ethical ideals in their daily life, in their intercourse with one another, and in their relations with the outside world. Believing that certain present-day conditions and tendencies indicate a lowering of individual and national standards. Professor Royce gives himself resolutely to the task of remedial and constructive criticism.”—Outlook.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 756. Je. 20. 1750w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“His treatment is extraordinarily interesting and is not lacking in manifestations of Professor Royce’s own peculiar literary and philosophical style.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 60w.
“From the philosopher’s point of view the book might have been better if it had been shorter. The reader is apt to be carried over the difficult places of the argument by the flow of the author’s eloquence rather than by the force of his logical reasoning.” W. R. Sorley.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 207. O. ’08. 2000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 570w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 17. Jl. 2, ’08. 520w.
“The lesson of his new book is founded on his sure observation of the present tendencies of thought, and in it he reveals himself as the true patriot as well as the philosopher.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 900w.
“His work is immediately and concretely inspiring to the man not at all concerned with the subtleties of metaphysical disquisition, but very much concerned in the affairs of every-day existence.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“These criticisms do not affect the great practical value of the book; it gives beautiful and forceful expression to ethical idealism, and grandly fulfils its purpose ‘to simplify men’s moral issues, to clear their vision for the sight of the eternal, to win hearts for loyalty.’ There is moral enthusiasm in it, there is patriotism in it, there is love of humanity in it.” Frank Thilly.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 541. S. ’08. 4200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book of remarkable freshness and power; popular in the best sense, since it never loses touch with common habits of thought; and inspired at times by a poetry and eloquence which, in Plato’s phrase, give to the quest of truth something of the warmth of desire. The book being one of popular lectures, naturally there are gaps in the argument and rhetoric at times in place of reasoning.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 446. S. 26, ’08. 1600w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Race questions, provincialism and other American problems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–31148.
A supplement to the author’s “Philosophy of loyalty.” In the light of that philosophy he discusses the following American problems: Race questions and prejudices; Provincialism; On certain limitations of the thoughtful public in America; The Pacific coast—a psychological study of the relations of climate and civilization; and Some relations of physical training to the present problems of moral education in America.
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“Apart from the strong common sense of his views and their bearing upon the immediate problems of life, Professor Royce wields an uncommonly lucid and forcible pen. This volume makes a plain and important appeal to any intelligent man or woman, and should have a wide reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 500w.
“The point of view from which Professor Royce paints his picture is one that enables him to bring out certain values strongly. And it scarcely needs to be said that the coloring, the light and shade, the detail that helps the central motive, are all handled with masterly skill.” J. H. T.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 394. D. 15, ’08. 930w.
=Royle, Harold M.= Chemistry of gas manufacture. il. *$4.50. Henley.
8–16415.
A practical manual for the use of gas engineers, gas managers, and students. “Starting with the method of preparation of the standard solutions required in the chemical work which it seems to be customary to carry on in an English gas plant, the body of the book goes on through coal testing, flue-gas analysis, the distillation of coal and coal tar, the analysis of crude coal gas ... fire clay and fire brick, the testing for naphthalene in gas ... and the determination of the candle power, the calorific value and specific gravity of illuminating gas, and is concluded by a short chapter on the testing of the oil used and the oil tar produced in the manufacture of carburetted water gas.” (Engin. N.)
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“This book should be of great use to those for whom it is intended.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 304. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The condensation of the matter taken from periodicals is not always accurately done. Another fault of the book is found in typographical errors, which are the more important because several of them occur in the spelling of proper names. There are also faults of arrangement. The faults mentioned do not, however, detract materially from the value of the matter contained in the book, and, as previously stated, it is worthy a place in the libraries of American gas engineers.” A. E Forstall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 658. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
=Ruhl, Arthur Brown.= Other Americans: the cities, the countries, and especially the people of South America. **$2. Scribner.
8–27368.
Mr. Ruhl, a journalist who has made extended tours thru South America sets down his impressions for the general reader’s enlightenment. He furnishes authentic facts concerning economic, social, and political conditions which exist there. “There is an appendix consisting of statistics and other data and a good index. We ought to know more about these ‘Other Americans,’ Mr. Ruhl insists, since half the western world is theirs.” (R. of Rs.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠
“As a social observer Mr. Ruhl may be commended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 520w.
“Serves well a useful purpose.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Ruhl discourses most entertainingly and informingly in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 220w.
=Ruhmer, Ernst.= Wireless telephony in theory and practice; tr. from the German by James Erskine-Murray. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–18757.
A complete and connected account in untechnical language, so far as possible, of the subject of wireless telephony, its progress, and prospects for future perfection. It outlines the theories and apparatus of Bell, Tainter, Simon, Hayes, Duddell, and others who have worked for practical ends in wireless telephony.
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“The work is undoubtedly the most complete presentation of the subject that is in print.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The result has been that the greater part of the matter can be easily grasped at a single reading and the rest can be understood by a little study.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 730w.
“Those who wish to obtain a good knowledge of the subject will find the information well presented.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’08. 240w.
“The matter is well presented, and it should prove interesting reading to all who take an interest in the advances of electrical engineering.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 10. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 30w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Lawless wealth: the origin of some great American fortunes. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–16214.
Mr. Russell takes his reader over the course covered, often by hops and bounds, by some of the financial magnates on the way to their present millionaire goals. He shows that fortunes are not the equivalent for public service rendered at the expense of ability, energy and foresight, but that they are secured thru the appropriation of public utilities to private greed. The author aims to arouse a public that stands by and witlessly connives with the abnormal money fiend by tolerating his practices.
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“He is not as dispassionate as a judge nor as dry as an economist, for on every page he shows the indignation of the prophet. Mr. Russell is a muck-raker proud of his profession.”
− =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“Whoever aspires to act as a public teacher should show reserve, moderation, appreciation of the exact quality of the acts condemned, and dispassionate consideration of the remedy. Of these qualities Mr. Russell shows no trace.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 364. Je. 27, ’08. 1200w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy: the story of a strange life, 1752–1770. il. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–12132.
This biography is the result of fourteen years of sympathetic study and research among all classes of material where could be found a crumb of information concerning this “marvelous boy” and “literary forger” who committed suicide in his teens.
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“Though Mr. Russell needs constant checking, however, whether he be dealing with his hero as man or as poet, he has amassed facts which are not only interesting but illuminating, and his book is worth reading.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 484. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“Masson’s short and pathetic account ... is more effective than this later, more elaborate, and undoubtedly better-informed work.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Russell is as extravagant in his praise of Chatterton’s poems as he is undiscriminating in his estimate of his influence upon the romantic movement.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 205. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w.
“Fulsome praise such as this repels thinking and judicious minds.”
− =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“To any balanced judgment the extravagances and perversions and the bad taste of the present biography will tend only to obscure for a moment the profound pathos of Chatterton’s life and his due reward as one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 378. Ap. 23, ’08. 1200w.
“A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer, nobler, piece of writing than Mr. Russell’s preface, and the book itself is in fitting sequence.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Russell’s book is the most considerable and well worked out life of Chatterton which has appeared.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Russell, William Thomas.= Maryland: the land of sanctuary. il. $1.75. Furst.
8–316.
A history of religious toleration in Maryland from the first settlement until the American revolution, authorities and sources being given at every step.
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“Very interesting historical study. Father Russell has treated his subject with thoroughness and amplitude.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 256. My. ’08. 850w.
=Rutter, Frank.= Path to Paris: the record of a riverside journey from Le Havre to Paris. *$5. Lane.
The impressions of two Englishmen journeying along the Seine from Havre to Paris on bicycles visiting Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec, Jumieges, Rouen, Les Andelys, Giverny, Vetheuel, Mantes, St. Germain, and other riverside cities and villages. The author’s artist companion furnishes the 68 sketches in black and white.
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“Mr. Rutter has the gift of writing agreeably, but he does not always take the trouble to use it, and too often has recourse to ‘padding.’ Uneven as the book is, it has given us several hours of real pleasure among familiar scenes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 152. Ag. 8. 480w.
“Mr. Hanslip Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings to the volume, which is in all respects admirably got up.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Rutter has written charmingly of the out-of-the-way matters that came under his notice, and Mr. Fletcher, the artist, has made some very good drawings to accompany the text. Somehow, though, we suspect, Mr. Rutter of romancing a bit in a hit he makes at ‘two American ladies.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 460w.
“He does his ‘ruining’ and his descriptions and moralisings and art disquisitions with a light touch, and gives the tour an air of personal originality. The effect of the whole, text and pictures, is agreeable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The writer has, it seems, a special interest in art, and has much that is interesting to say on this subject, and, indeed, on other matters. It is a pity that he should find a pleasure not only in depreciating his own countrymen, but in drawing his depreciation from a necessarily tainted source.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 137. Jl. 25, ’08. 140w.
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=Sabatier, Paul.= Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.
8–14319.
The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government has a controversy.” (Outlook.)
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“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.
“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M. Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing argument.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
* =Sabin, Alvah Horton.= House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.
8–21778.
Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting, varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by every house owner.”—Science.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠
“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish hands in the direction of efficiency.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears, as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound practice.’” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.
“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.
* =Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as well as at home.
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“Valuable volumes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.
“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes well deserving of serious study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.
“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive comment.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.
=Sager, Daniel Showers.= Art of living in good health: a practical guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–32393.
A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.
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“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 83. Mr. ’08.
“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good; while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.
“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
=Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce.= Calendar of the court minutes of the East India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster. *$4.15. Oxford.
8–16489.
“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639. But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July, 1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the documents from the East India series at the Public record office and of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.
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“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains material for the domestic history of the East India company, 1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the system of personal government under Charles I in years when that system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.
* =Saintsbury, George E. B.= History of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= From Shakespeare to Crabbe.
This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)
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“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics, definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless. On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good reading even of prosody.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such queer stylistic freaks.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Saintsbury, George Edward B.= Later nineteenth century. (Periods of European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–36994.
The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.” It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.
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“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠
“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.
“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in their respective circles.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.
“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign. **$1.75. Stokes.
7–37249.
An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)
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“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book seriously.”
− =Ind.= 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.
=Nature.= 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.
“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the practical study of the trypsin treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an obsession.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness: a book of practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,” whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic principle.
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“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not often been made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Salisbury, William.= Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–9151.
The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’ experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ and concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.” Preface.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.
“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective ‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”
− − =Ind.= 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow journalists by one of themselves.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.
=Sallows, James Francis.= Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical press.
7–33978.
Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing. (Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)
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“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.
“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of steel will find of exceeding value.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.
=Sanders, E. K.= Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.
The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors. But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)
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“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.
“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being, the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is capitally drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.
“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it that he was as good as his parents.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.
“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’ will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.
“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Sanders, Lloyd Charles.= Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.
Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen, wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)
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“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.
“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of letters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.
“The text has been carefully compiled.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Interesting book of gossip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.
“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.
=Sanderson, Rev. Edgar.= Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–1437.
“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature, in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass, Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda, Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)
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+ =Acad.= 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
=Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.
“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson tells them well.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.= Art of singing and vocal declamation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–18037.
“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this handbook for young singers.
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“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08.
“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career as students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.
“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic side.” L: M. Isaacs.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”
=Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Containing much valuable advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.
“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.
=Sargent, Arthur John.= Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.
8–9032.
Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India]; The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884. Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important official papers and note on the character of statistical information available for the Chinese trade.
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“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is the best summary view of the development and importance of English trade with China yet published.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.
“Lucid and convincing work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.
“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.” P.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“A careful and scholarly study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet in its resistance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E: Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.
“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other genera.”—Dial.
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=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.
=Dial.= 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.
“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.
7–29604.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical, statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.” John Bigelow, jr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.
“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.
“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.
=Sarolea, Charles.= Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.
8–26235.
A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal Newman and modernism.
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“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of psychological insight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable knowledge of our language, treats the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Saunders, Edward.= Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging insects. $1.25. Dutton.
Agr 8–399.
“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”
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“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an attractive manner.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an authority whose statements can be trusted.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall.= My pets: real happenings in my aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–30262.
Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons, canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.
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“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.
=Savallo, Teresa de.= House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8102.
A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate, and clears the way for a happy dénouement.
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“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.
“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly told.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-.= Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864 (the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–18961.
A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the student of history written from the point of view of an impartial officer of the British India army.
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“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in arrangement, and impartial.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.
“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud).= Jack Lorimer’s champions. $1.50. Page.
7–23939.
This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.
8–20152.
Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest times to the present day. This work is based upon the German “Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes a twelve volume edition.
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+ + =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical subjects the treatment is more adequate.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schauffler, Robert Haven=, comp. Through Italy with the poets. **$2. Moffat.
8–3507.
An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”
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“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent composition, and for the classified arrangement which makes it useful for specific reference.”
− =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary, its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre verses.”
− =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 98. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.
8–13665.
A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew, University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah. or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness; and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.
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=Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
− =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent Christians.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Scheffauer, Herman George.= Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.
8–20495.
Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the past.”
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Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
=Schelling, Felix Emanuel.= Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.
8–5140.
A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship, relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared, how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms. Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The domestic drama.
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“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library that can afford it should have it.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08.
“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.
“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent; we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.
“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject which have preceded it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.
“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan drama’” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of excitement.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.
=Schmucker, Samuel Christian.= Study of nature. (Lippincott’s educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.
8–20551.
An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study. Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.
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“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive and detailed in the field covered.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–35862.
Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus, vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting light upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)
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“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified his references.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.
“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.
“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable treatise.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.
“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception to the rule.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.
=Schon, Hans A. E. C. von.= Hydro-electric practice: a practical manual of the development of water power, its conversion to electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.
8–23073.
An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter, investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman, and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for the student and practitioner.
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“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and illustrations have a direct value.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner, but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.
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“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that Americans will again come to understand that there are better things in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for accumulation.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.
“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit, their function in a republic and their history in this country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Schultz, Alfred Paul.= Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.
8–22785.
A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted.
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“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Letters of Robert Schumann; selected and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.
8–8848.
Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a little too free.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.
“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the ‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and gives them an undeniable charm.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.
“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is, on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and students of the romantic movement will value highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
=v. 3.= 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from 1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.
At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr. Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were conspicuous and potent in his career.
=Schütze, Martin.= Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.
8–29016.
A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers. The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)
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“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Schwartz, Henry B.= In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
8–22266.
The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the author’s observations are largely confined to that province.
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“He holds that nobody can understand modern Japan until he shall have acquired a fair knowledge of the old life of the nation, and the purpose of his book is to help the world to that acquisition. No doubt it will be helpful in that way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=Schwed, Hermine.= Ted in mythland. **$1. Moffat.
7–26321.
Ted runs away with the little bronze Mercury that had “led him on” from the mantelpiece heights. His adventures are told in this fairyland myth book.
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“Even tho some might approve of the method, there is a lack of artistic handling in this book which forces both prose and poetry to become the vehicle, nor can we say much for the verses, which lack spirit.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Scoble, Herbert T.= Land treatment of sewage: a digest of the reports made to the Royal commission on sewage disposal by their specially-appointed officers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W8–99.
“The results of a study of eight English farms in which the following points were noted: (1) The composition of the sewage and the preparation before passing on the land; (2) the nature of the soil and the sub-soil; (3) figures relating to acreage, population, etc.; (4) method of treatment of sewage and cropping the land; and (5) analysis of the quality of the effluent as compared with sewage and with stream.”
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“Promises to be of interest and value to those to whom the original documents are not accessible, and, we may add, hardly worth the heavy purchase price ($12) for any American not deeply interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A valuable reference book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Voices and visions. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–13940.
“There are three series, the first devoted to poems of life and nature, in which the author’s felicity of phrase, his literary grace, and his command of tripping meters are perhaps at their best; the second to love poems, in which if there are no depths of passion there are refinement of feeling and beauty of imagery, and poems of the East, rich with Oriental color.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Of ... pretty futilities ... is the book made up.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Scollard’s muse has always the true poetic lilt in her song, he has a pretty thorough acquaintance with the technique in verse, he has sentiment and fancy and a keen appreciation of the value of words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–17822.
A practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of the social forces which are at work among the pupils. The actual activities of living children are studied, and much of the treatment deals with the question of self-organized group work with the aim of teaching principles of social democracy.
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“Full of original and stimulating ideas.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
“The book will meet a need in teachers’ and parents’ meetings, reading circles, etc., and ought to have a wide circulation as a most effective means of helping to bring those who are within and outside the school to a better understanding of some of the possibilities of democratic education.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School. R.= 16: 554. O. ’08. 1200w.
=Scott, Ernest Findlay.= Apologetic of the New Testament. (Crown theological lib., v. 22.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–23276.
An examination of the form and substance of the New Testament writings as directly determined by the practical needs of the early church. “The early church had to defend itself against many foes. It had to prove the real Messiahood of its Master, whose conception of that office was different from the one current in Israel, and to make it clear that a crucified Messiah best fulfilled the predictions of prophecy. It also had to defend itself against Judaism, Paganism, and Gnosticism; and how this was accomplished is traced in Gospels, Acts, and Epistles. Then the claim of Christianity to be the final and absolute religion had to be made rational, which is done in the Epistle to the Hebrews and in the Fourth gospel.” (Hibbert J.)
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“In this volume Mr. Scott has done excellent work. If we are to use the New Testament as an apologetic with the help of Mr. Scott, he ought to show what Christianity is apart from the doctrines by which it is presented to thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 190. F. 15. 300w.
“Mr. Scott writes convincingly on his subject.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 939. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Scott has a subject of great interest and importance, and his volume is a worthy companion of his work on the Fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 73. Je. 23, ’08. 300w.
* =Scott, James Brown.= Texts of the peace conferences at the Hague, 1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2. Pub. for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Aims to present to the English-speaking public the official French texts of the two conferences, accompanied by an official English translation and the diplomatic correspondence necessary to their understanding, together with an appendix of documents relating to, and explanatory of the various conventions of the two conferences. A preftory note by Elihu Root states the importance of the conferences, and an introduction by the editor supplies the necessary historical setting.
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+ + =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 230w.
“Professor Scott’s volume makes a very useful companion volume to Prof. William J. Hull’s book on the two peace conferences.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Scott, Sir James George.= Burma: a handbook of practical information; with special articles by recognised authorities on Burma. il. *$2.50. Jacobs.
W 7–177.
“The practical information contained in this valuable handbook covers the customary topics: the country with its geography and climate, government, education and history, industries and culture, including religion, art, literature, and the Burmese music. A series of appendices give statistics of the different divisions and districts of the province, with lists of species of flora and fauna, metals, minerals, etc. Some three score illustrations, for the most part well chosen, add materially to the book.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is full of interesting matter but so compact that it would hardly be chosen for merely entertaining reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is by far the most convenient and satisfactory manual of information about Burma.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is to be recommended not so much for its literary merit as for the accuracy, completeness, and careful arrangement of its information, although there are flashes here and there of the power of graphic description that made the author’s earlier works, under the pseudonym of ‘Shway Yoe,’ conspicuous. The one serious fault that might be found with Sir George Scott is his indulgence in the practice of disparaging all the statements made in Chinese histories on the subject of Burma. Some misprints are due, perhaps, to the author’s absence when the book was passing through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1200w.
“We think that the handbook, besides being indispensable to the tourist, is also well worth perusal by members of the non-travelling public who are anxious to know all that can be told about one of the most recent, and at the same time most interesting, possessions of the British Crown.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 440. Mr. 7, ’07. 1500w.
“It looks as if it did what it professes to do. The arrangement is all that it should be.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Princess Dehra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–16520.
A mythical kingdom, a valiant American hero, a king’s daughter, the king himself, a villainous plotter and his accomplice constitute, in the main, the caste for this drama. When the king dies the American and the villain are left to settle the question of succession by dint of wit and sword. And this is the portion of the tale that provides thrills.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Effective but more or less conventional romance of love and adventure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 350w.
=Scott, Ralph.= Automatic block signals and signal circuits. *$2.50. McGraw.
8–7884.
American practice in the installation and maintenance of signals electrically controlled, and operated by electric or other power with descriptions of the accessories, now regarded as standard. (Explanatory title.) The book is intended for the signal and railway engineer, the electrician and the layman. The author’s method of presentation is descriptive. Fully illustrated.
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“The book furnishes much accurate information concerning modern block-signal systems, logically arranged and expressed in simple language.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 937. My. 2, ’08. 110w.
“The book is the only up-to-date work on the subject. It is an authoritative as well as comprehensive treatise on the subject.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
The author states that it is the human mind with which advertising deals; and so its only scientific basis is psychology which is simply a systematic study of those same minds which the advertiser is seeking to influence. He sets forth the principles at the root of advertising, and with a carefully planned series of concrete illustrations shows their relation to successful business.
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=Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
=Ind.= 65: 1003. O. 29, ’08. 260w.
“A bright and suggestive work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
“Some very interesting observations on a matter of grave importance to business men are contained in ‘The psychology of advertising.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
“The book throughout is extremely suggestive.” W. K. Wright.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 396. D. 15, ’08. 880w.
=Scott, William. Riviera.= *$6. Macmillan.
8–3125.
“Mr. Scott takes an eager interest in the people and their past, as well as in landscape, and he has ransacked local histories. He describes not only the natives but the swarm of foreigners who flock to the Riviera during the winter. Starting at Hyeres on the west, he follows the magic sickle of sea and shore round to Sarzana, pausing at many out-of-the-way places, making excursions up the valleys, or sitting down beside some ruin to recount its story or merely to chat.”—Nation.
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“But with the praise of the pictures our praise of this book must end. We have, indeed, seldom seen anything so incongruous as the pages and pages, and chapters and chapters, of vapid criticism concerning hotel visitors, hotel dinners, and custom-house officers, and the excellent print in which it is enshrined.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 330w.
“Its illustrations depict both the gaiety and the quaintness of the region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation, its crags and castles, and its changeful blue sea. Altogether they give a complete and artistic picture of the region which some one has called the loveliest garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with information, and it is hard to think of a phase of the subject that it does not touch upon.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“There is a certain insular point of view, a typical British condescension in some of his remarks. Mr. Scott is an agreeable guide, not wholly deficient in humor; and his sketches are often very fine.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1. Holt.
8–15310.
A pre-laboratory study designed to meet the requirements for a series of individual experiments in the first course of psychology. It is intended to supplement any good text book.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“The purpose for which the book will be found especially adapted is that of providing a thoroughly good short laboratory course in institutions which cannot afford laboratory equipment. As a means to this end, it deserves the most cordial praise. Here and there points for criticism appear. It is easier, however, to mention these very trifling defects than to refer individually to the excellent and ingenious features of the book.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 550w.
“The experiments are judiciously selected. And, what is better, they are described in terms which can scarcely fail to be thoroughly understood by the average undergraduate. Moreover the significance of the various forms of mental function is discussed in a manner which is calculated to stimulate the interest of the student. The reviewer can readily understand how it will prove to be a boon to many American psychologists.” J. W. B.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 308. S. 15, ’08. 600w.
“It should be said with the brevity as well as with the emphasis characteristic of the book itself that it accomplishes its purpose with exceptional skill.” J. J.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 985. Je. 26, ’08. 280w.
=Seaver, Edwin Pliny=, comp. Mathematical handbook. *$2.50. McGraw.
7–40023.
A reference book containing the chief formulas of algebra, trigonometry, circular and hyperbolic functions, differential and integral calculus and analytical geometry, together with mathematical tables.
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“Contains a large amount of information in compact form for ready reference by the mathematician and engineer.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
“Will find a wide use among engineers and mathematicians.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 73. Ja. ’08. 230w.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 657. D. 12, ’07. 390w.
“The book is a substitute for many textbooks in the engineer’s working library, and is far more complete than the mathematical chapters of the popular handbooks.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“A well selected and carefully arranged collection of formulas and tables.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 544. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Last duchess of Belgarde. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–17998.
The sad story of the last duchess of Belgarde who worshipping her unworthy duke from a quiet corner fosters her determination to be faithful to him, who when the French revolution breaks in all its fury joins him in prison, and after a brief long-delayed honeymoon spent within prison walls goes to the guillotine with him.
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“The tale is done in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The characters, we may add, are mere paper dolls, the incidents few and not vivid. Yet despite the superficiality of plot and character, the tale has the merit of simplicity and lack of pretense.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“A little classic so sweet and true in its sentiment, so firm and clear in its characterization, and so wholesome in its morality that it will do as much good as it will give pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
“A slight, but perfectly wrought tale of the French revolution.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Amabel Channice. †$1.50. Century.
8–27496.
Married early in life to a man whom she does not love, Amabel Channice yields to an infatuation for an artist, flees with him, breaks the moral law, and, returning, cloisters herself in her husband’s lonely Charlock house. Her husband’s comprehension that responded to her great need, his protection of her and her illegitimate child arouse her love for him which gives place to contempt when she learns of his long life of continued dissoluteness. The woman’s conscience demands that she risk her last chance at happiness thru her son’s love by revealing to him her sin and the resulting smirch upon his life. The son’s nobility and magnanimity are the saving elements in a strong climax.
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“An admirably written book in which there is nothing superfluous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 100w.
“She knows how to give spiritual definitions to all that is stupid and commonplace with an efficacy that is entirely too celestial to be veracious.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1062. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
− + =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 300w.
“The book rises to a climax tender and inevitable, wholly satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The complications of the plot are perfectly fitted into each other, and the result, apart from the great interest excited by the human situation, is a distinct intellectual pleasure. Impresses the reader with a profound sadness, only lightened by the wonderful skill of the author’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“There is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the reader’s mind.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= New American type, and other essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12605.
Reflectively informing and written from a modern viewpoint, these essays are twelve as follows: The new American type, The mob spirit in literature, Mrs. Wharton, Certain aspects of America, Exile, Charles Russell Lowell, American colleges, A gap in education, Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Nations and the decalogue, Mark Twain, and The coup d’état of 1861.
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“Essays of popular character and more than ordinary charm, half serious, half humorous.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“Taking the volume as a whole, it is typical of the better class of American essay writers.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 404. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“The writer’s ideals are high, and his style that of a critic ‘of natural gifts and educated taste, experienced in the humanities.’”
+ =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 492. Ag. 27, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 150w.
“His essays are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness of phrases, elevation of thought, insight—all the qualities that ought to distinguish essays, that, in fact, almost always do distinguish essays that reach the reviewers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
“His mind has an edge, and his style bites at times like the point of the etcher’s needle. He pays the reader the respect of stating his own thought with the most uncompromising directness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. ’08. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 109. O. ’08. 780w.
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Fundamental truths of the Christian religion. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of a series of lectures given to German university students urging the modern critical method of studying the Bible and Christian doctrine.
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“His sincerity is unquestioned, his learning extensive, his philosophic penetration of high order. His lectures, in their English version, scarcely do their author justice. It is doubtful if they will convey much meaning to one who is unfamiliar with current German theological discussion. Their treatment of large topics in metaphysics and theology is much too brief to be clear.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
=Seguin, Edward.= Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological method. $2. Teachers’ college, Columbia univ.
E8–718.
Containing a discussion of our present knowledge of idiocy, The method of treating idiots, The practice of the same, and An outline of the direction to be given to the scientific efforts of the friends of idiots and the apostles of universal education.
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“It was a happy thought that led to the reprinting of this valuable thesis for many years out of print. All teachers of backward children should take advantage of this opportunity to secure the book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 90w.
=Seignobos, Charles.= History of medieval and of modern civilization to the end of the seventeenth century, tr. and ed. by James Alton James. *$1.25. Scribner.
7–29565.
Contains “selected topics of a nature to make the customs of each society clear, and explanations intended to make it understood how these customs were formed, modified and scattered.” “Many events are indeed briefly recalled, but only because of their special connection with the movement of civilization. The larger lines of political development are indicated, and a resumé is given of the essentials of medieval and early modern history with reference to institutions, customs, ideas, art and letters.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“It adds relatively little to what is to be found in our better manuals. Yet its matter is presented sometimes more truly than in our manuals and often much more effectively; and the translators have rendered, though not always with unswerving accuracy, on the whole with commendable success, both the sense and the style of the original.” E. W. Dow.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 391. Ja. ’08. 440w.
“There is little that is novel in his treatment and the point of view taken is somewhat too French for Anglo-Saxon readers. Some of the failings of the book are probably due to the translator or adapter, whose English is rather stiff and wooden, and who owns to having made excerpts from M. Seignobos’s work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= African nature notes and reminiscences; with a “Foreword” by President Roosevelt. *$3. Macmillan.
8–21506.
An interesting side light on some phases of natural history. Observations made from experiences during thirty years of adventure in Africa have resulted in the theory that carnivorous beasts hunt their prey by scent rather than by sight. “President Roosevelt furnishes a foreword in which he heartily supports, from his own observations in the Rocky mountains, the views of the author as to the fallacy of much of the theory as to protective coloration of animals.” (Nation.) There are chapters on the hyena, the wild dog, the cheetah, the rhinoceros and the giraffe.
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“Though authorities on natural history may arrive at different deductions, no one acquainted with the author will question the correctness of his facts.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is an attractively written narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 165. Ag. 20, ’08. 530w.
“His remarkable sporting adventures are the more thrilling because of their obvious truth, and the quiet style of narration.” H. H. Johnston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 217. Jl. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“While the entire volume, through which rings the love of the free, clean life of the wide open plains, may be described as a lifetime’s close and intelligent study of the habits and ways of wild creation, there runs through it a strain of adventurous excitement.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 700. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
=Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index, by Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–40850.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The translation is accurate and close and succeeds in preserving the spirit at the same time.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is not conspicuous for literary qualities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 551. My. 2. 600w.
“On the whole this work, without being slavishly literal, is remarkably true to the content and spirit of the original, and is easily the most satisfying English version of the tragedies.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 276. My. ’08. 1450w.
“His tabulated comparison of the tragedies with their Greek originals and his mythological index will be useful to students, and there is an excellent introductory essay by Professor Manly on Seneca’s influence on early English tragedy, of which the only complaint to be made is that it is too short.” J: W. Cunliffe.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 336. Je. ’08. 500w.
“Professor Miller ... has succeeded in accomplishing the task of giving new life and interest to these products of the rhetoric of the early Roman empire.” David Magie, jr.
+ =Class. Philol.= 3: 363. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Of course one who searches will find errors.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 419. N. ’08. 860w.
“Professor Miller’s translation is not merely scholarly: it is fluent and vigorous.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1568. D. 26, ’07. 560w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Professor Miller deserves high credit for making the best of these opportunities, and producing a book that is at once good reading in English and a faithful reproduction of the spirit of the original. His choruses are sometimes a trifle flat, missing the gravity of the original, but, in the longer narrative and ornamental passages of the dialogue he has been singularly successful.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 610w.
“It is a model of what translation should be, faithful both in spirit and detail to its original, yet rendered into excellent English, and into verse that gives us the illusion of reading Seneca himself.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Miller’s version, though fluent and easy, is wanting in force, and often fails to catch the nervous energy of those terse, telling phrases in which Seneca delights.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 131. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Astronomy with the naked eye: a new geography of the heavens; with descriptions and charts of constellations, stars, and planets. **$1.40. Harper.
8–14345.
This book by means of star-charts is intended to acquaint the casual observer with the appearance of the constellations, as viewed with the naked eye, with their histories and mythologies, and with the stories of their chief stars and star groups. The constellations are studied according to the months during which they approach the meridian, the north and south line of the sky. A separate chapter is given to the study of the planets.
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“Compared with Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ the present volume offers more information but lacks the charm of that book for reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“It is an excellent guide to the study of the heavens, as a preliminary to that of scientific astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
“The work is well and systematically done.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Serviss is a clever writer, and the text is trustworthy ... but the material is assembled in heterogeneous fashion, and the index is very imperfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 170w.
“It is the charm of Serviss’s attractive book that it blends all that is known of the stars and planets with all that has been imagined.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 750w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Moon: a popular treatise. il. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–34594.
“The author presents in dialogue or conversational method a familiar and easily understood description of the important physical features of the moon. Technicalities are avoided, and there is nothing that would puzzle the reader of ordinary intelligence. The illustration is quite remarkable in its own way, for it consists of a series of lunar photographs showing the moon as it appears on successive evenings throughout an entire month, while the text describes the mountains, plains, and craters, as they are seen in the successive photographs.”—Outlook.
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“While feminine characteristics are very obtrusive in the conversations, the reader may judiciously skip these, and find a wealth of accurate descriptive matter concerning the prominent features of the lunar landscape.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The exquisite photographs—well reproduced—and the easily readable text of this volume should ensure it a welcome from all classes of readers, whether they be astronomers or not.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 78: 101. Je. 4, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 180w.
“This form is in fact a very convenient and sensible one for the purpose in view, and Mr. Serviss has made use of it to advantage.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Serviss would have done better to stick to the ordinary method. Some readers, however, may prefer his device, and as far as we have tested the book it is quite trustworthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Natural history of the ten commandments. **50c. Scribner.
7–36867.
Mr. Seton develops the theory that the decalogue is not arbitrary and for man’s use alone, but that it exists in the greater order of things and all highly developed animals obey its laws.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 673. O. ’08. 40w.
“Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is likely in the end to consider the idea a possible argument for moral evolution.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Some scientists will criticise it as imaginative; that, in our view, is its virtue.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 60w.
=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell; ed. by her niece Eleanor L. Sewell. *$1.50. Longmans.
The record of a busy useful life that extended over ninety-one years. She identified herself thru life with literary interests, publishing volumes of travel, history and fiction, the best known of the last class being “Amy Herbert.” She became a pioneer worker in the movement of more thoro education for girls, founding St. Boniface school in the Isle of Wight.
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“Her diary records much European travel. Her remarks on those she encountered are acute.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 576. N. 9. 1700w.
“The story of her youth gives some interesting glimpses of social and educational conditions in England during the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 260w.
“Told in a somewhat fragmentary manner. On the whole, however, the picture is sufficiently complete.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 617. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
=Shaad, George C.= Power stations and power transmission. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
7–37601.
A manual of approved American practice in the construction, equipment and management of electrical generation stations, substations and transmission lines, for power, lighting, traction, electrochemical and domestic uses. The volume is divided into two parts, one on the power station itself, and one on transmission.
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“This book is free from those weaknesses of correspondence-school books which have been criticised in these volumes. It should be a very acceptable aid to those engineers who are called upon for such a great variety of work that they cannot become specialists in this particular branch.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Shallow, Edward B., and Cullen, Winifred T.= Nature study made easy. *40c. Macmillan.
8–29747.
A series of lessons for the fourth grade of the New York city schools. While essentially a reading book the subject matter is suitable for nature study.
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“There is a great deal of good and usable material in the book, but it is so badly confused with make-believe conversation, impersonation, emotionalism, and faulty science, that _instead of making nature-study easy_, it would seem to the reviewer that the book must join that mass of pseudo-nature literature which is really making it very hard for a real nature-study to take a place in the school curriculum.” O. W. Caldwell.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 616. Je. ’08. 460w.
“The form of the book will lead many teachers to encourage reading more than observing. While it may for a time be useful for unprepared teachers, it is certainly not going to help much in solving the most pressing problems of nature study for city schools.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Shambaugh, Bertha Maud.= Amana, the community of true inspiration. $3. State hist. soc. of Iowa, Iowa City, la.
8–19211.
The first detailed study of the Amana community of Iowa. Believing that “divine inspiration and revelation are just as real and potent to-day as in the time of Moses” these communists in both their church and their society are bringing into realization the oracular power of the Biblical prophets. “The people are graded into three spiritual orders. Celibacy is praised, marriage is permitted; but marriage reduces the pair temporarily to the lowest spiritual rank, and so does the birth of each child. There are no amusements, no school vacations, no politics. Daily prayer-meetings center all interest in the salvation of the soul.” (Outlook.)
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“An extraordinarily interesting account of the life of this unique group.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 185. O. ’08. 350w.
“The author’s style is good; her account readable.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 636. N. ’08. 260w.
“The first thoro study of the community.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 60w.
“Of peculiar present interest is this account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“A sympathetic and well-proportioned account of the social and spiritual growth of Amana.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
=Shamel, Charles H.= Mining, mineral and geological law. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–42017.
A treatise on the law of the United States involving geology, mineralogy and allied sciences as applied in mining, real estate, public land, United States customs and other litigation; also the acquisition and maintenance of mining rights in the public domain and obtaining patents for mineral land under the United States mining laws. (Explanatory title.) It is designed for the lawyer as well as the practical man.
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“A concise but thorough discussion of the scientific topics which are important in connection with mining litigation is given in the beginning of the work, and its value is supplemented by an excellent bibliography on these subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 305. Mr. ’08. 320w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Sharp, Archibald.= Balancing of engines: steam, gas, and petrol: an elementary text-book, using principally graphical methods; for the use of students, draughtsmen, designers, and buyers of engines. *$1.75. Longmans.
7–42489.
“This book discusses in detail the methods of obtaining good balances of the inertia forces of engines, and also briefly considers the question of uniform torque on the crank-shaft. The treatment is largely graphical, and the author has included original methods which he believes will greatly facilitate the computations of engine designers. Exercises for the use of students are appended to nearly all of the chapters.”—Technical Literature.
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“As a whole, the book before us is admirably clear and well written. The most important contribution which Mr. Sharp makes is in his discussion of the kinetic energy of pistons and connecting rods.” L. S. Marks.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 80. Ja. 16, ’08. 960w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 100w.
=Sharp, Dallas Lore.= Lay of the land. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–27140.
“Fifteen brief talks on the small neighbors that share our home fields—the muskrat, the buzzard, the owl, the woodchuck, the hundred other small and large, but always busy, souls that have bodies to feed and must feed them chiefly when we are not looking—that is, not looking closely.” (Ind.) “The author retains enough of the scientific temper to keep him accurate and safe from undue romancing, but not enough to kill sentiment.” (Dial.)
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“It will interest young people as much as adults.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠.
“The volume might well have been named from its best chapter, ‘A cure for winter.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 370w.
“He is a born naturalist, a true lover of nature, and has the art which is not easily acquired—the art of Thoreau, of John Burroughs, of Gilbert White, of Selborne—of making interest where we poor, sightless creatures make a dead loss of our time.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Nicolete. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The author introduces her readers to a “feckless but charming” family, inhabiting an old Tudor manor house. The father, an artist, belonging to “the fascinating, irresponsible order of beings,” and his beautiful wife bring up their seven children “on much love and a minimum of common-sense.” The sixth child, Nicolete, is the heroine of the story. She “combines the best qualities of both parents, but [is] destined by her loyalty and unworldliness to be perpetually victimized by her brothers and sisters.” (Spec.)
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“Miss Sharp is one of the lucky people who write with charm, whatever their subject may be. Her children are always delightful, spontaneous, and really childlike, and, if many of her other characters are but grown-up children, they are none the worse for that.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 230w.
“The narrative opens with some amusing sketches of child life, and is throughout bright and wholesome.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“Various phases of London and suburban social life are described, all with a sure touch that reveals a wide knowledge and experience on the part of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“The book is readable, and more, right through, but the humour and freshness of the first part eclipse the somewhat long-drawn sequel, excellent though that sequel is as a study of an artistic temperament, hampered by environment and the possession of a conscience.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 207. Ag. 24, ’07. 1320w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39228.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by E. S. Bradford.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 460. S. ’08. 400w.
“His volume, although frankly remaining a series of talks rather than a book, has more unity than most collections of this sort; and it is hopeful and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Its well-reasoned optimism is founded on wide knowledge and sincere human sympathy. Its analysis of present conditions, and its interpretation of them, are well-nigh authoritative.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Shaw’s work is judicial and dignified, tuned for presentation to academic audiences, but yet quite radical in tone and spacious in outlook.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 50. Ja. ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 330w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 540. Mr. 7, ’08. 700w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 554. S. ’08. 200w.
“The five college addresses which make up this volume are all rich in suggestions derived from many years’ observation and experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Shaw, Leslie Mortier.= Current issues. **$2. Appleton.
8–8152.
Current political questions are discussed including the railway question, overcapitalization and watered stock, trusts, and the currency question.
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“The book is of temporary interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“Mainly of value as representing the views of one active in political life and at the head of the treasury during an interesting period in its administration.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 50w.
“For students of the political thought and movements of the last decade the volume has no little significance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
“What the book reflects is experience rather than learning, and a good native intellect rather than study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 900w.
“Possesses beyond almost any other of our public men the gift of lucid exposition.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Shearer, John Bunyan.= Scriptures: fundamental facts and features. 60c. Presbyterian com.
Seventeen Bible studies among which are included the following: The unities of the Scriptures; The object and scope of written revelation; The universal book; The canon; The supernatural in the Scriptures; Creation and the Creator; The relations of the Bible and science; Evolution; Geology; The six days of creation; The deluge; The Bible in liberal education and God in history. Nine chapters are devoted to the influence of Judaism on ancient religions, ancient philosophy, and ancient civilization.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Lisheen, or, The test of the spirits. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–33595.
A young Irish landlord reads Tolstoi, applies the lesson, and discovers the condition of the Irish tenant must be improved. He deserts his station for a time and goes to work as a peasant on a small farm in Kerry. The hard fought battles of his self imposed apprenticeship to experience rather lose their force at the end in the magic of the “‘deus ex machina’ of a full purse.”
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“Canon Sheehan is scarcely equal to his subject, but he must be accorded due praise for his descriptions of the monotonous existence led by the lowest classes in Ireland.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 274. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“The descriptions of peasant-life are admirable; the working out of the plot is not convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“He has been tempted to add a secondary story, with disastrous results.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 580w.
“This is all very well for a plot, but its handling is tame and ineffective.”
− =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 420w.
“The story itself is rather awkwardly contrived, and the interest of its central theme is much weakened by the introduction of many chapters concerned with aristocratic society.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“The pictures of peasant-life—by no means idealised—are admirable. The author must have discovered for himself, even though unconscious of his errors against reality and good taste, that in half his chapters he is building entirely upon guess-work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 673. N. 30, ’07. 540w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Parerga: a companion volume to Under the cedars and the stars. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–7172.
Meditations, some four hundred in number, arranged under the heading of the seasons, whose themes border on literature, metaphysics and practical life. “Though the subjects vary indefinitely, they are reflected in the same idealizing mirror of the writer’s mind. And of that mind the most insistent categories are a contempt for modern materialistic standards; a Solomon-like preference ... for the house of mourning over the house of laughter; a sense of the fact that the key to the world-riddle is kept by the spectre that holds the key to all the creeds; finally, that the flying years bring with them disillusionment—and resignation.” (Cath. World.)
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“Imagination and feeling, literary criticism, moralizing on the mystery of things, keen but kindly observation of human nature, flow in an unstinted tide from this charming philosopher, as he flits from topic to topic with a sweep that embraces heterogeneity itself.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 340w.
“The book is far from being commonplace or dull.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 314. My. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Dr. Sheehan is not at his best in literary matters. In meditations on nature and in certain aspects of human life he is more to be admired.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 470w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= Unbelief in the nineteenth century: a critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
7–14561.
“A review of the various theories—philosophical, quasi-scientific, theological, ethical, critical—which since the time of Kant have more or less radically antagonized the beliefs of the church. These theories are first stated and then criticised. Both the statement and the criticism are presented in compact and lucid form, for a vindication of Christian belief. The author’s standpoint is conservative, but not extreme. He concludes that while the nineteenth century has rigorously tested Christian beliefs, and modified them to some extent, they have been fully vindicated in their fundamental features.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Sheldon writes in a clear style and shows wide reading in the broad field he covers. His exposition is clear and historical and his criticism such as is commonly urged by enlightened orthodox apologists. Professor Sheldon does not seem to realize the profound change that is demanded by our modern view of the world, and clings to elements that belong to a deistic interpretation of the universe.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 170. Ja. ’08. 690w.
“The entire discussion is fair-minded and instructive. The point of criticism to which it is most liable is in the use of ‘miraculous’ and ‘supernatural’ as equivalent terms—a common mistake, than which none is more fruitful of confused thought in current controversies.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Sheldon, Mary Boardman.= Coffee and a love affair: an American girl’s romance on a coffee plantation. †$1. Stokes.
8–21616.
A story among the mountains of Central America whither “one makes his way on the back of a good Sierra Nevada mule to a coffee plantation, where gasoline prevails not and the mail arrives by a banana boat every fourteen days.” (N. Y. Times.) “Here the reader cares more about the coffee than he does about the love affair—the descriptive parts and incidents of plantation life are really very good.” (Outlook.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“The coffee predominates, and the numerous interesting facts concerning it which are brought in under cover of a young American girl’s passion for traveling in strange countries and away from beaten tracks, commend the book as much to the masculine as to the feminine reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“An American woman ... tells her experiences with considerable liveliness, a little after the manner of ‘The lady of the decoration,’ but without that little book’s personal charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.= Untrodden English ways. **$3. Little.
8–30034.
To the leisurely traveler or the stay-at-home tourist this volume is made valuable by chapters about St. Ives, the haunt of artists and authors: John Keble’s Hursley; By famous graves; Three memorable pulpits, John Cotton’s, Thomas Arnold’s and Henry E. Manning’s; Bunhill Fields, the “Campo santo of the dissenters”; and Westminster abbey’s collection of wax effigies which in centuries past have appeared in funeral processions.
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“Mr. Shelley’s style is easy and readable, bespeaking intimate acquaintance with the subject in hand.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“A great amount of enthusiasm, reverence and love is bottled up in the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19. ’08. 50w.
“We advise these who are planning a voyage to England to procure and study this convenient handbook.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 908. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“This book will have special interest to those who love Devonshire.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 739. D. ’08. 40w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener; with introd. and notes by Bertram Dobell. *$1.50. Dodd.
8–18715.
Some forty odd letters written by Shelley to the Sussex schoolmistress, Elizabeth Hitchener, who in the private life of the Shelleys was entitled “Portia.” or “Bessy,” but who in the end was denominated “the Brown Demon ... our later tormentor and schoolmistress.” The correspondence is published for the first time.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 302. S. 12. 640w.
“It is altogether a pathetic, interesting, absurd story; and though the letters contain nothing material to it which was not known before, it is satisfactory to have them complete.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 339. Mr. 14, ’08. 1550w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 280w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.= Stained glass tours in France. **$1.50. Lane.
8–856.
“Describes the notable windows to be seen and gives practical and full itineraries for reaching them. With a view to the convenience of the tourist and student, he divides the history of stained glass into three epochs: (1) The thirteenth century and earlier; (2) fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; (3) sixteenth century. Visits to the glass of these epochs are subdivided into a dozen tours. A table of itineraries groups the distances from Paris in kilometers. The illustrations show representative examples of the art.”—Int. Studio.
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“A useful, interesting book for the intelligent sight seer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08. ✠
“Had he taken only a little more trouble and been less diffident of his abilities, he could have produced a volume both fascinating and valuable, with little addition to its bulk.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 400w.
“Mr. Sherrill’s descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town are simple, non-technical, and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“In system and accuracy of treatment the volume renders capital service as an introduction to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
“He is a particularly pleasant guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 41. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
=Sherzer, William Hittell.= Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks. (Smithsonian expedition of 1904.) (Part of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge v. 34, no. 1692.) $1.75. Smithsonian inst.
8–4476.
“Gives the results of a systematic examination of the Victoria and Wenkchemna glaciers in Alberta and of the Yoho, Asulkan, and Illecillewaet glaciers in British Columbia. The study embraced the surface features of these glaciers, the nature of the ice movement, the temperature of the ice at various depths and its relations to the air temperatures, the amount of surface melting, the possible transference of material from the surface portion to lower portions, the rates of movement, the advances and recessions of the glacial extremities, and the structure of the ice. There is an accessory discussion of the physiographic changes of the region in Pleistocene and earlier times.”—J. Geol.
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“An unsatisfactory flavor is given this by an effort, italicized as though important, to make plasticity mean something which plasticity does not usually mean, for no other apparent reason than to justify the retention of an old term which is likely to be either misleading or meaningless.” F. C. C.
+ − =J. Geol.= 16: 388. My. ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too diffuse in describing the well-known, Dr. Sherzer has made a valuable and remarkably well-illustrated contribution to the literature of glaciers.” T. G. Bonney.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 463. Mr. 19, ’08. 1050w.
=Shield, Alice, and Lang, Andrew.= King over the water, il. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–11474.
The biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, the “Old Chevalier” or the “Old Pretender.” “The purpose has been,” so the preface states, “as far as may be, to avoid incursions into general history, confining the work to biography.”
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“We have noticed very few blunders. The reader who takes pleasure in Mr. Lang’s sprightly style will find something not unlike it in these pages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 1100w.
“By a careful study of all the documents available, what is really the first complete modern biography of James has been produced.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 169. Ap. ’08. 1200w.
“Miss Shield is interested in the human side of her subject, and gives us a delightful picture of every-day life at Saint Germains and Urbino.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 42. Jl. 16, ’08. 720w.
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“The present attempt at rehabilitation is a bright and spirited piece of writing, quite worthy in most parts of Mr. Lang, though he assigns the larger share of the credit for it to his collaboratrix, Miss Shield. It contains some good and curious reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
“Very interesting, though here and there, in spite of Mr. Lang’s supervision, slightly effusive.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Shields, Rev. Thomas Edwards.= Education of our girls. *$1. Benziger.
7–41558.
Higher education of women is advocated in this discussion but emphasis is laid upon the fact that it must be education for women. The author dwells at length upon the subject of coeducation, and concludes that women can be most fully and most naturally educated only in schools and colleges provided for them alone.
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“Whosoever is interested in the subject will find a fund of suggestion in a modest little volume by Dr. Shields. To a thorough knowledge of theoretical pedagogics Dr. Shields unites a wide experience of the practical conditions of Catholic education for girls, as they exist in this country.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Shoemaker, John Vietch.= Health and beauty. *$3. Davis.
8–20542.
“Dr. Shoemaker, the well-known specialist and professor in the Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, has in this volume undertaken the serious and practical task of teaching people how to take care of themselves, and especially of their skin. The skin is not only the pane of glass through which we can see and read the condition of the internal organs, but it is the drain-surface of the body. The doctor shows us how it may be kept in a condition of efficiency, how it may be brightened and beautified.”—Lit. D.
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“We are acquainted with no popular work of the kind so thorough, so learned, so voluminous, and so sane.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“His book is a capital one, and should be in the possession of every one who is interested in the acquirement or maintenance of sound health and the beauty derived therefrom.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 428. Ag. 1, ’08. 470w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Wanderings in Ireland. **$2.50. Putnam.
The spirit of Ireland gets into Mr. Shoemaker’s pages from the moment he hears the Isle of Shamrock’s greeting to him. “Glory be to God, but yer Honor’s welcome.” He travels “by donkey-cart, by jaunting-car, by train and motor,” is a keen observer and sympathizer, and gives vivid descriptions of the people and their land.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Can be read with entertainment even by those who have no interest in motoring.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“A vivacious narrator.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The description is entertaining and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“There is plenty of information in this volume, information historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment as might have been expected.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Greater love. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–17252.
A story which portrays the suffering of a woman whose daughter was born out of wedlock. The mother finds that no matter how extenuating were the circumstances of her offense she must atone for a broken law, which atonement involves the greatest conceivable sacrifice, viz., separation from her child.
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“The style, if somewhat serious, is dignified, and the psychology of the mother’s love is made clear and credible without exaggeration or mawkish sentimentality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
“As a statement of the omnipresent problem, the book has some novel adjuncts and complications. As a contribution to a solution it is worthless, since morally it is a long, indeterminate muddle.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 470w.
“Mrs. Sholl has written a book worth the writing, and written it with dignity and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Deep currents of feeling and character are indicated in an almost masterly fashion.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4. ’08. 170w.
=Short. Ernest H.= History of sculpture. *$3. Dutton.
8–19092.
“Mr. Short believes that true art is always the expression and interpretation of national life.... As a background for an intelligent understanding of the sculpture of any age one must have, then, an idea of its temper and tendencies. Such conceptions Mr. Short endeavors to supply in brief historical summaries and characterizations.... His book covers the entire ground from the rise of the sculptor’s art in Greece through the work of the French and British schools of the nineteenth century. Few biographical data are given, and attention is paid only to the most characteristic works of each artist.”—Dial.
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“Many of the author’s opinions are disputable, but the facts are mostly taken from accepted textbooks, though their expression is sometimes inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 250w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“While the author’s critical qualifications are not of the highest order, and his style is often slipshod, he yet succeeds in taking sculpture out of the region of the archeological catalog of technical and dry discussion, and in describing many of its masterpieces as the expression of national or local feeling, and even in some of his pages in quickening the reader’s sense of plastic beauty.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“This book is readable and suggestive. It is not really a history of sculpture. It is rather a collection of readable essays for leisure hours.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“At both ends, it is manifestly incomplete. Its excellencies, however, are as patent as are its defects.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Collected poems; with an introd. by George Meredith. $1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Shorter with the true ballad and short-story gift scores many of her greatest successes in the field of Irish legend. Her poetry has been collected here with an introduction by George Meredith. “It is hard to choose where all is good, but if choice must be made ours shall be ‘The Dean of Santiago,’ ‘The beggar maid,’ ‘The white witch,’ ‘The little black hound,’ ‘The man who trod on sleeping grass,’ ... ‘Cean Duv Deelish,’ the beautiful little poem on ‘Ireland,’ ‘The suicide’s grave,’ and the final poem, ‘The enemies.’” (Spec.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 1000w.
“The true thing to say about them is—what is in fact very high praise—that they are nearly all very pleasant to read.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 340. N. 8, ’07. 1200w.
“Some extremely enjoyable verses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 850w.
“There is a readable flow and interest in many of Mrs. Shorter’s ballad and narrative poems.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Limited both in range of thought and expression, her poetry wins the reader by a certain sincerity, freshness, and simplicity.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Shufeldt, Robert Wilson.= Negro: a menace to American civilization. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–36977.
“An impassioned plea against the process of hybridization or ‘mongrelization,’ which, in the author’s opinion threatens the white race in this country so long as the negro remains with us. Admitting that the tendency of modern civilization seems to be the amalgamation of all races and their unification into one, he yet protests against the amalgamation of negro with white American, (which is proceeding steadily in his view).”—N. Y. Times.
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“Careful students, administrators, educators already perplexed by the problems of race contact, will find no help in the volume.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Shufeldt is more lurid than scientific in the form of his statements at times, for he speaks rather as a justified alarmist than as an investigator, but his book, also, is not without its value as evidence in the case.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Extempore speaking for school and college. *90c. Ginn.
8–20155.
Aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at the end of each chapter and in the appendix, suggestions and topics for class exercises.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Later years of Catherine de Medici. *$3. Dutton.
8–36143.
“The first of Miss Sichel’s work, published some time ago, dealt with Catherine and the French reformation—the woman struggling for power. The second part, now before us, brings the story down to the year of her death, 1589 and consists principally in a study of the art of balancing parties and social forces by which the princess of diplomats maintained her sway.”—Ind.
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“Our author has done well the work she has set out to do; she is unusually free from heated partisanship.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 844. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“She has her material well in hand and makes it serve a natural gift for the analysis of human motives.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“Is written with a clear and ardent appreciation of the great personalities who made up the social and political life of the era, and with a firm grasp of the close sequence of events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 536. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Miss Sichel is both a skilled and a powerful writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 90w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 240. Ag. 22, ’08. 1100w.
“This is certainly the most striking book Miss Sichel has yet written, and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
=Sickert, Bernhard.= Whistler. (Library of art.) *75c. Dutton.
“Breadth of vision has enabled the author to see the painter’s art in relation to contemporary feeling, in its relation to his opponent Ruskin’s criticism, and to the artistic aspects of the modern world. The real, and not the superficial, points about Whistler’s art are understood, and the selection of etchings reproduced for illustration is the best that could have been made.”—Int. Studio.
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“One might seek very far amongst the small books upon art which nowadays are issued in such numbers to find again a book so pleasantly written as this one. The writer shows insight into his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 319. O. 08. 120w.
“Mr. Sickert writes of the art of Whistler with great enthusiasm, but also with much discrimination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 80. Jl. 23, ’08. 240w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Home life in Germany. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–20729.
From a thoroly German point of view. Mrs. Sidgwick discusses the “German children, their schools, the education of the poor, that peculiar type of girl known as the ‘Backfisch,’ the students, women, marriage and housewives, householders and servants, food, shops, markets and sports and games, inns, restaurants, lodgings, summer resorts, peasant life, and the poor.” (Outlook.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 754. Je. 20. 1400w.
“Has given her book an introduction which comes near being the best thing in it. It does exactly what a preface ought to do, it makes the reader eager to press on to the rest of the book whether he be interested in the subject or not, because he feels that anything such a sane, broad-minded, and amicably humorous woman has to say will be worth reading.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 40: 63. Jl. ’08. 1300w.
“She has written no more interesting story than this book on home life in Germany.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of entertaining information, seasoned by lively anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“An interesting book that shows an intimate knowledge of racial peculiarities in living and in point of view.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 20w.
“A singularly acute and intimate appreciation of home life in Germany.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 440w.
“A really unusually interesting book this, by a woman who knows both English and German types and treats them with a kindly sympathy, a keen discernment, and a good-natured humor which make highly entertaining reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has written a book which was wanted, and written it with exceptional verve.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 831. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Desire. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Desire, the heroine of this novel, is called upon to choose, at the time of her father’s death, between a wealthy marriage and earning her own living. She prefers the bread-winner’s course. “Peter Grimstone, the hero, is the most attractive figure in the book, and his struggles, aided by Desire as his secretary, with the affairs of Grimstone and Son, and with the machinations of his wicked brother Alexander, are not a little interesting.” (Spec.) “The real strength of the book lies in the careful development of the two chief figures and the reader’s interest and belief in their ultimate happiness.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The book, in short, is decidedly unequal but the author’s charm of writing and sincerity of purpose will reward all readers who have patience and perseverance enough to proceed with the unsatisfactory early chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Silver, Arthur P.= Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada; or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona. **$2. Dutton.
W8–122.
“The book, which is better printed than bound, is made up of a rather heterogeneous collection of papers on husbandry, angling, and hunting. The many illustrations are of varying excellence, but they serve to give the reader a good idea of the character of the maritime provinces and Newfoundland.”—Nation.
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“The beautiful province of Nova Scotia has been well served here by Mr. Silver.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 350w.
“A number of minor mistakes might be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 150w.
“Eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is pleasantly and unpretentiously written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“This is a most readable book, and we have enjoyed the description of life and sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
=Sinclair, Bertrand William.= Raw gold. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–21615.
The Canadian border furnishes the scene of this tale of Wild West life—primitive, exhilarating, spiced with dangers. Particularly is it a delineation of the character of the Northwest mounted police, sent by the English government to keep order “in a territory that was a city of refuge for tough people who had played their string out south of the line.”
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“There is sentiment of the kind that fits with the open sky and life in the saddle, and the whole story moves with a swing and reality that are refreshing in the extreme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 528. S. 26, ’08. 230w.
=Sinclair, May.= Immortal moment: the story of Kitty Tailleur. (Eng. title Kitty Tailleur.) †$1.50. Doubleday.
“In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, induces him to propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past.... The struggle between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose mistress Kitty Tailleur is—is described with extraordinary force. The tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.” (Spec.) “Her ‘immortal moment’ is ironically so called, for it is the moment in which the higher nature asserts itself, and she makes the confession which she knows must end her dream.” (Dial.)
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“Miss Sinclair has up to a point made an excellent study of a type, and then shut her eyes and jumped at the rest. Yet her failure is more interesting than most successes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 220w.
“It is seldom that a story brings to the reviewer such a sense of impotence to do it justice within the space of a single paragraph.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 550w.
“As a faint reflex of the Camille story this one must be set down as essentially immoral, simply because its intention is to throw a sentimental glamor over the ugly outlines of depravity. But we cannot dispute its literary art or its emotional subtlety.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Rehabilitates the Camille motif by the sterling art of its treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“Sometimes the reticence lies a little obscuringly over the effect. But the reticence is delightful; we forgive it our losses for the sake of the gain, and we admire the author’s determination to offer no concessions to stupidity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 21. Jl. 4. ’08. 630w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 237. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Sinclair, May.= Judgment of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
8–9176.
An analyst’s portrayal of the subjective phases of two egoists’ married life. The sea change that gave their life the shimmer of something rich and strange as two souls struggled and fluttered after the immaterial is followed by a transformation caused by the failure to give fresh, wholesome, material expression to their ideals, leaving a “decomposing discolored shell” wholly at the mercy of the peace of dulness.
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=Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A sad story, interestingly told, but with a moral somewhat obscure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The right people will probably never hear of ‘The judgment of Eve.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 180w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Metropolis. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–5582.
To expose the vice and extravagance of the New York rich has been Mr. Sinclair’s purpose in writing this story. Two brothers, one the antithesis of the other, are the mouthpieces which Mr. Sinclair uses respectively to shout forth the demagogue’s selfish creed and to denounce it.
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“The strength of the novel is in its picturesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 250w.
“We close the book with the feeling that our time has been wasted upon a very dull tract.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A large part of it reads like the prospectus of a hotel or the advertisement of a department store, with the prices in plain figures on every article.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“It is a tract with enough of the air of fiction to draw the attention of a generally intractable public. The story element is delightfully ingenuous.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“A jumble of odds and ends. The yellow ‘sensations’ of two or three years reappear in a barbarous melange. It has all been done, and much better. The bad example, as Mr. Sinclair depicts it, only disgusts educated people because of the falsity of the picture, and ought to make the multitude laugh.”
− − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 1300w.
“Nothing is more patent than the author’s lack of personal knowledge concerning the social life of New York. If it were not so absurd, it would be a pitiful exhibition of misdirected energy.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“True stories must often be harrowing and heartbreaking; but there is no excuse for writing brutal, hateful, sordid fairy stories.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 909. Ap. 25, ’08. 1200w.
“Morally and intellectually as repellant as the descriptions of the physical details of the Chicago stock-yards and slaughter-houses.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 400w.
“Books like ‘The metropolis’ act as a lure to the weak-minded instead of serving as danger-signals to keep them from the path of evil.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 530w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Moneychangers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–24866.
A continuation of “The metropolis.” In this second of a trilogy aiming at an exposé of contemporary business and social corruption of New York, Mr. Sinclair reveals the rottenness of Wall Street’s high finance.
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“To say the truth, Mr. Sinclair is neither a Dickens nor a Zola, but ... a successful sensation-monger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
“Is hardly to be classed as a novel, just as it savors of the absurd to class his previous works as fiction. It is a tract, a preachment in journalistic style, through the mouths of marionettes.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“If he is lying, this book ought to be burned; and if he is concocting the stories he tells so circumstantially, there are at least fifty well-founded prosecutions for criminal libel in the book.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 581. N. 7, ’08. 770w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Great rivers of the world, as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34681.
“Victor Hugo’s glowing words repeat his impressions of the Rhine and Loire; Dickens tells of a trip down the St. Lawrence (was he so fair to it because it is more Canadian than American?); Pierre Loti pictures the Ganges, Thoreau the Concord and the Merrimac, and Mrs. Richings the Irrawaddy. All the rivers of the earth which are great either in size or in association are described by competent writers.”—Dial.
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“The accounts are various in character, some statistical and some impressionistic, and they show entertaining variety of style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Holland. (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
In which visits are made to the Hague gallery; the Rijks museum; the Stedelijk museum; the Town hall, Haarlem; and the Boijmans museum, Rotterdam. Brief biographies of painters, helpful comment and criticism on the most famous pictures in each gallery, and illustrations which aid the text are presented in condensed form for the tourist.
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“A careful resumé of the treasures of Holland, a compact book convenient for reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Switzerland, described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34593.
“The first division of the book deals with the country and the race, the second with their history, the third with Alpine climbing, the fourth is descriptive purely, the fifth sets forth social life among the Alps, and the last is devoted to statistics. The names of Ruskin, Tyndall, Goethe, and Victor Tissot are in the list of writers.”—Dial.
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“Shows Miss Singleton’s careful editing. Mr. Edward Whymper’s exciting account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn alone makes the book notable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
=Slaughter, Rev. Philip.= History of Truro parish in Virginia; ed. with notes and addenda by Rev. E. L. Goodwin. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14829.
The parish whose history is sketched here included among its vestrymen George Washington, George Mason, and other noted statesmen. The sketch is important because it shows the character of the church school which, hand in hand with religion, taught men of genius the rudiments of popular government, the foundations of human rights, and the reconciliation of diverse rights.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Slosson, Mrs. Annie.= Dissatisfied soul; and A prophetic romancer. *75c. Bonnell.
8–19156.
Two stories of New England life. The first set in the White mountains sketches a woman characterized by her sister-in-law as the “fittiest, restlessest, changeablest” woman living, who was “never, never quite satisfied.” Even death did not bring her rest, so she returns to earth after three weeks. The second story whose scenes are laid in Connecticut tells how the story which a young girl writes comes true in dream fashion.
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“She shows her usual skill in the handling of a grotesque theme.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“It is a clever and very entertaining short story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Slosson, Annie Trumbull.= Simples from the Master’s garden. *$1. S. S. Times co.
7–42011.
A group of stories in each of which is a simple exemplar or expositor who reveals the healing power of some phase of Christ truth.
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“In homely phrases she sends out many a truth which might be ignored in more costly dress.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Mrs. Slosson continues to write in her original vein of tender human feeling and deep spirituality.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“All are of good quality.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Small, Sidney Alymer-.= Electrical railroading; or, Electricity as applied to railroad transportation. $3.50. Drake, F. J.
8–10297.
“Evidently this volume was prepared mainly for men who had no knowledge of electricity previous to securing the particular book.... The first third of the book deals with elementary electricity and magnetism, covering, in an inferior way, about the same ground as could be studied with any good text-book on elementary physics. The other two-thirds of the book seem to be largely copied from descriptive catalogs of prominent manufacturing companies, and from employee’s instruction books, as issued by a few railroads.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is clearly-written, and for the man who has not had a technical training it will prove a valuable aid in enabling him to keep up with the advances in his profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 190w.
“There is enough in the book that is new and useful to make it a matter for regret that so many criticisms need to be made. The book is safe for the instruction of motormen, etc., only under the direction of a well-educated engineer who will be able to recognize troubles which exist for the confusion of most readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 546. My. 14, ’08. 960w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Daughter: a love story. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10433.
A daughter suffocating in her home and town surroundings breaks away from her family, goes to London and throws herself into “socialism, emancipation of women and various other popular movements of a radical type.” A wealthy young Englishman falls in love with her, but realizing the futility of wooing her, masquerades as a young mechanic, wins her, and finally, after demonstrating his manhood and the sanity of his ideas, secures her forgiveness for the deception. “The author has turned out a good tale—a sane mixture of the socialistic, purposeful, and often hectic novel, with the healthy story of an admirable love match.” (Nation.)
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“She has not allowed her charming gift of imagination to be stifled in a riot of either abuse or argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 150w.
“The chief fault with Constance Smedley’s vigorous and carefully written book, ‘The daughter,’ is not the lack of a message, but rather an obscurity in its scope and purport.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
=Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3. ’08. 40w.
“Has interest, the interest not of a great or a literary product, but of a faithfully planned and well told story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“It is a tract, spirited, clever, often dramatic, but still essentially a tract on the marriage question.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
“Quite entertaining are the adventures of Delia.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Alton Lincoln.= Frederic William Maitland: two lectures and a bibliography. *85c. Oxford.
A presentation “of Professor Maitland’s historical method, of his conception of history, and of the quality of his work.” “In the first lecture the clue to Maitland’s greatness is found in his spiritual conception of history ... and in his broad and profound human sympathy, with which his imagination, insight and humor are closely allied. In the second lecture, Maitland is considered as a ‘converted lawyer,’ come back to the historical fold, whose legal training gave him an interest in the history of ideas and a practical, as opposed to a purely academic, point of view.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“Thoughtful discussions.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 907. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The careful bibliography appended to these lectures might be more conveniently arranged.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 620w.
“Contain a panegyric ... which is splendidly generous, yet after making all deductions we cannot dispute its substantial justice.” C. J.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 621. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“This is a tribute of praise worthy of the man to whose memory it is paid,—more it would not be possible to say.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=Smith, Arthur.= Game of go, the national game of Japan. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–21547.
A guide to the Japanese national game which is played on a board like chess or checkers and is a game of skill not of chance. There are 361 positions for the men instead of 64, and it requires about thirty years at the rate of one game a day for the player to attain professional rank of the lowest degree.
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=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Smith’s exposition, with the abundant diagrams, details of rules and methods, and illustrative games, is admirable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 390w.
=Outlook.= 90: 137. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Smith, Charles Sprague.= Poems. *$1. Wessels.
8–24852.
A little volume of verse which sounds the dream note of a busy man’s life. Poems of his college-days, several written during years spent in Europe, and poems of the people, with liberty and fraternity for themes, are included in the group.
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“The thoughts exprest are inspiring and the feeling sympathetic.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 130w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Santa Claus and all about him. †$2. Stokes.
“The pictures and texts give an account of the whole Christmas history of Santa Claus from the time of his waking up one cold morning at the north pole, his trip down into the world of boys and girls to see what is needed, then back to the pole, work in the toy shops, and finally the return with a load of presents. The book comes in a box showing Santa and his reindeer on it.”—N. Y. Times.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 110w.
“It is not the text that matters, but the interpretative drawings in color; here the detail is joyously clever and will please older people because of a subtle humor, even as it will hold the youngsters because of the strong appeal to imagination.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Smith, Ernest Ashton.= Hildebrand: the builder. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–22118.
A scholarly presentation of the times of Hildebrand, the manner in which the papacy as an institution was evolved, the condition of the clergy, the sway of German popes, the power behind the papal See, and the progress and results of Hildebrand’s mission to raise the morality of the church, and to strengthen its unity.
=Smith, F. Dumont.= Blue waters and green and the Far East to-day. $1.50. Crane & co.
8–22265.
After many experiences with people the world over, Mr. Smith believes that the ideal race would be the composite one, with the industry, honesty and temperance of the Chinese, the courtesy of the Japanese, the frugality, wit and the artistic sense of the French, the stability and balance of the Germans, the tenacity of purpose of the English, and the energy, initiative, the driving power, and saving sense of humor of the Americans.
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“Adds to a lively sense of fun the qualities of serious contemplative judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 300w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver, one who was not afraid and who spoke the truth. (True American types ser., v. 5.) *60c. Am, Unitar.
8–28435.
A sketch of Captain Scott, the original of Caleb West in “Caleb West; master-diver.” Thru his submarine work on the Race Rock lighthouse off New London harbor, which Mr. Smith built in his profession of engineer, Captain Scott became an honored friend of the author’s, valued for his integrity, command of resources, indomitable courage, fearlessness and control over his men.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It is a good little book for a pessimist to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23554.
Peter, gentle and manly, shrewd and ingenuous, young and sixty, gives unstintingly of his time, his service and his love to young Jack, the hero, an impulsive southern lad who cares more for honor, independence, and friendship, than for the profit to be derived from his uncle’s Wall street office. Peter, as Jack’s Prospero, provides him with adventures and opportunities for heroism as the confidential clerk to a contracting engineer; nor is the magic wand laid aside until Jack has come into his fortune and has brought to a successful issue a diffident courtship of his employer’s daughter.
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“A very cheerful, wholesome book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a characteristic story, betraying all the recognisable qualities of the author; it is well-bred, nicely written, with a painter’s instinct for light and shade, constructed with an engineer’s sense of form, and it glamours with the usual suspicion of personal reminiscence and autobiographic impressions.” G: Middleton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 153. O. ’08. 460w.
“This new story of his has both charm and fragrance; if it does not reach very far into the depths of life, it at least shows us the surface in most alluring colors.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Its great charm lies in the author’s marvelous descriptions and his genius for picking the good instead of the evil out of life ... a high, fine, friendly goodness that belongs to earth and mortality here and now.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 718. S. 24, ’08. 870w.
“It is a very cheerful and wholesome sort of book, with lots of people wandering in and out of its pages, not much of a plot, and such as there is rather loose-jointed, plenty of good talk—most of it Peter’s—on a great variety of subjects and a general aren’t-you-glad-you’re-alive sort of air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 380w.
“‘Peter’ is a bit of romanticism in a day of commercial engrossment, and makes the charm of the old South, which was non-commercial, credible.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 272. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
=Smith George Adam.= Jerusalem: the topography, economics and history from the earliest times to A. D. 70. **$7.50. Armstrong.
8–20144.
A work that is complementary to the author’s “Historical geography of the Holy Land.” The first volume treats of the geology, the water supply and of topographical problems. The second volume gives a connected history, religious and political, of the city and its people from the days of Tell-el-Amarna to the conquest of Titus.
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“We feel that even in a long review it is impossible to do full justice to the many-sided interest of this important work, in which true scholarship is never flaunted, but is felt in every line, and in which moderation and sound sense dominate every conclusion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 631. My. 23. 2100w.
“As a whole this is the most elaborate and scholarly work on Jerusalem that has appeared in any language.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 680w.
“The value of these volumes lies, not in the presentation of new discoveries, but in the sane exposition and discussion of what we already know with regard to the topography, the archaeology, and the history, religious, social, and political, of Jerusalem.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 1700w.
“An interesting and instructive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Smith has the caution of a true scholar, he will not go beyond the place where he has sure footing.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 670w.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 82. Jl. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“We are warmly grateful for an admirable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 95. Jl. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Smith, H. Clifford.= Jewellery. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
8–20539.
“With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewelry the author has confined himself to Europe, dividing his work into four main divisions. The first deals with the jewelry worn during classical times and until the ninth century of our era; the second treats of the jewels of the middle ages; the third is devoted to the jewels of the renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times. In compiling the work the best authorities have been consulted, and the owners of famous collections have been generous in the matter of photographs of their choicest treasures.”—N. Y. Times.
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“That this attractive subject has fallen into eminently capable hands is at once apparent, as is also the restraint the author has exercised in order to bring the work within reasonable bounds.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 308. S. 12. 1300w.
“Scholarly volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 330w.
“That which is most admirable in the book is the author’s strong sense of the artistic value and significance of jewelry.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 59. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11. ’08. 400w.
“The thoroughness of the author’s work and his excellent equipment for his task are evident on every page. It is sure to occupy an honored place in the libraries of collectors and to be regarded by museums and specialists as a high authority on a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Smith, Harry James.= Amédée’s son. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23927.
Cape Breton folk, staunch in Catholicism and steeped in superstition, form a background for this story of simple deeds. In the foreground are an orphan lad, dreaming of the call of the sea and finding study intolerable, a grandfather whose dearest wish is that the boy shall resist religion as it is taught, and study to find God in the law and order of the world of science, and an old servant who opens the eyes of the grandson to the duty of love that he owes the aged man.
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“A gentle and gracious idyll. The story is of the slightest, the handling graceful but somewhat amateurish.”
+ − =Nation.= 37: 341. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“He is quite a real person all the way along, and he moves among real persons, some of whom are well worth meeting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Smith, Rev. John Talbot.= Training of a priest: an essay on clerical education, with a reply to the critics. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–13666.
Deals with the “studies and mental culture of Catholic priests.... Dr. Smith is himself a priest, and writes with a view to improving the intellectual status of American seminaries.” (Ind.)
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“We have our doubts whether Dr. Smith’s recommendations will strike to the root of the trouble.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The clear account of the training of a young man for the priesthood, the charm and ease of style, and the eminent good sense and breadth of the author make the book much more than a mere sectarian essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4. ’08. 140w.
=Smith, Joseph Russell.= Story of iron and steel. (Appleton’s lib. of useful stories.) **75c. Appleton.
8–5612.
“Gives what larger volumes have failed to do—namely, an intelligent, readable presentation of the broad aspects of iron and steel making, which are of interest to the average man. It discusses not only the purely technical development from a historical standpoint, but also the no less important economic and commercial results accompanying this development.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“An excellent little book for the use of teachers, as well as for the pleasure of the interested general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. ✠
“May truthfully be described as the first satisfactory popular history of the world’s greatest industry.” W. S. Tower.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 462. S. ’08. 430w.
“His style is clear and simple; he has succeeded in his purpose to ‘make every paragraph intelligible to the lay reader,’ but it would still be possible for an unregenerate man to take a nap while scanning the pages.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Smith, Logan Pearsall.= Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2v. *$7.75. Oxford.
8–9089.
Mr. Smith has collected Sir Henry Wotton’s letters, presented them with necessary annotations in order of data and prefixed to the collection a life of the writer.
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“He has come only a little short of producing himself a literary masterpiece. For this achievement both his method and his style prove a shade too severe. This book is one which no student of European history during the first quarter of the seventeenth century may safely neglect.” Barrett Wendell.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 852. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is the master of a close scholarly style, relieved now by a happy metaphor, now by a touch of dry humour. His work in these volumes shows a rare combination of literary sense, painstaking care in collecting, elucidating, and dating his material, balanced judgment, and self-repression.” G. C. M. Smith.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 361. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith has the essential qualifications for dealing with a man like Wotton—he can write lightly and readably. The biography, which fills half of the first of his two fine volumes, in no sense competes with Walton. It is full and complete, whereas Walton’s is simply an inimitable portrait of his friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 345. N. 15, ’07. 3300w.
“His letters are edited with rare erudition and still rarer taste.” P. E. M.
+ =Nation.= 86: 278. Mr. 26, ’08. 3500w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word, and his wide erudition, his scrupulous exactitude, his immense and enthusiastic industry, have combined to produce a work which will serve as a permanent object-lesson to the great host of slipshod literary historians.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 821. N. 23, ’07. 1900w.
=Smith, Nora Archibald.= Adventures of a doll. †75c. McClure.
8–277.
“The scenes of this little story for children by the well-known sister of the equally well-known Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, are laid in the Scottish highlands. The three characters are Betty, a little five-year-old girl, her dog Muff, and her rag doll.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A merry little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 24. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss Smith tells the stories in a breezy manner.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Robinson.= English quotations. *$2.50. Dutton.
W8–110.
A collection of the more memorable passages and poems of English literature, arranged according to authors, chronologically, containing a full index of words. It is neither an anthology nor a handbook; it is rather a scrapbook of “elegant extracts” which Mr. Smith invites the public to share with him.
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“We cannot call the book either a good anthology or a good reference manual of familiar quotations. The poetry selected is good, as far as it goes, but the selection seems to be representative of one man’s taste, instead of illustrating the consensus of received critical opinions.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The selections are too short for reading and not numerous enough for reference.”
− =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“The poetical value of a passage has more weight with the editor than proverbial portability. As such the pages of the volume may be turned over with unflagging interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 80w.
“A preposterous book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 430w.
=Smith, Rollin Edson.= Wheat fields and markets of the world. $2.15. Modern miller co., 3d & Pine sts., St. Louis, Mo.
8–21514.
“It is often impossible to answer the questions concerning wheat fields and wheat markets without a long search in newspapers, pamphlets, and encyclopaedias. In the present volume we have replies to very many questions which would ordinarily occur in connection with wheat fields and markets—not so much, however, in connection with the methods of grainhandling, milling, and manipulation of prices.” (Outlook.) “Conditions in Western Canada are especially instructive and the countries of Europe and Argentina contribute their quota of important data.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Mr. Smith’s book fills a long-felt want.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“This is a decidedly useful book and one that makes us wonder why the idea was not worked out long ago.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The attempted distinction between political and economic socialism is not clear.” M. O. Lorenz.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 297. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Smith is apparently not so well acquainted with socialist writers and advocates as with trade unionists.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 105. Ja. 9, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Theodate Louise=, ed. Aspects of child life and education, by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–21334.
A volume which makes accessible to parents and teachers, in condensed form and at moderate price, the results of researches conducted by President Hall’s pupils along the line of the psychology of childhood and its applications to education. The chapters are as follows: The contents of children’s minds, The psychology of daydreams, Curiosity and interest, The story of a sandpile, A study of dolls, The collecting instinct, The psychology of ownership, Fetichism in children, Boy life in a Massachusetts country town forty years ago.
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“The papers contain much curious and interesting matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 900w.
“Aside from the particular theory underlying most of the articles, the reports themselves are of course of peculiar interest to all parents and teachers, and they certainly tend to bring us into closer touch with child life.” Irving King.
+ =School R.= 16: 204. Mr. ’08. 900w.
=Smith, Vincent Arthur.= Early history of India from 600 B. C. to the Muhammadan conquest including the invasion of Alexander the Great. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$4.75. Oxford.
“The enlargement consists chiefly in the expansion of the last three chapters of the book dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the North, the Kingdoms of the Deccan, and the Kingdoms of the South, which contain forty-three of the seventy-two new pages. A new appendix, pp. 260–264, deals with the question of the hostages obtained by Kaniska in consequence of his conquests in Chinese Turkestan.... The date of Kaniska is the subject of a new and lengthy note.... The account of the Caka immigration and of the Indo-Parthian princes has also been enlarged.... Finally, recent translations of Canakya’s ‘Arthaçastra,’ have enabled Mr. Smith to give from contemporary Hindu sources interesting information of the Greek accounts of Candragupta’s empire.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The painstaking care for details and the additions that make the new edition a distinct improvement upon the old, deserve the gratitude of all students of the history of India.” G. M. Bolling.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 894. Jl. ’08. 450w.
“The revision has been a careful one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Smyth, Newman.= Passing Protestantism and the coming Catholicism. *$1. Scribner.
8–10863.
The author sees in the “modernist” movement in the Roman Catholic church of which he gives a discerning and sympathetic account, and in the failure of Protestantism to make religion a vital force in the life of the present generation and to command the unreserved enthusiasm and loyalty of earnest men, evidences that the superficial divisions of western Christianity are passing away, giving us glimpses of the underlying bed-rock of unity. The unity, he says, already exists. It is the duty of Christian churches to manifest it. The author speaks from the broad level ground of Christian charity.
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“The style is pleasing and forceful and with the timeliness of the theme will doubtless give the book a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
“One feels almost ashamed to remain an unbeliever, and yet, since the truth must be told, there can be little question that the outlook is not so bright in fact as it is on Dr. Smyth’s pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 670w.
“It is interesting reading, and will appeal to the reader as being the careful conclusions of a fine and balanced mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18. ’08. 280w.
“This is written in a charming style. It is animated by an excellent spirit, and its ideas and ideals are presented in attractive attire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“A very suggestive and thought-provoking book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 150w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= William Jordan, junior. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–6984.
The story of a frail, unworldly boy brought up as a recluse by an aged father and fed on “the old authors, irrespective of day or night and apparently of the ordinary needs of human beings.” Unfitted to buffet hardships he is nevertheless plunged into the maelstrom of London commercial life. Dreamy idealism is his substitute for practical worldly wisdom, and he is scathed at every turn. The world knew him not nor the soul flights that he expressed in his swan song and in his epic poem on Reconciliation.
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“The book is certainly far above the average as a piece of writing, but it requires more careful reading, in order to comprehend the meaning of the author or his view-point than readers of fiction ordinarily wish to give.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
“Easily the most important novel of the month, if not of many months,—the novel which best deserves careful and sympathetic consideration. An uncommon book, written in a most uncommon and often very beautiful phraseology. There is no use in denying that the book is marred, here and there, by its obscurity; it leaves one often groping in the dark.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 181. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The book is one to love, and one that may act as a leaven upon the spirits that are not wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort or degree of fermentation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Its symbolism does not spoil the beauty of the simple narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 270w.
“Whatever it is, it is so bizarre, so grotesque, so mysterious, and so uncomfortable as to afford little pleasure. One chapter, however, is clear enough, and a very fine thing—that in which the boy sees the ocean for the first time. But as a whole the book fails.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 349. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“Not that the book has not solid merits—purity of English, strength of handling, beauty of thought, dignity of construction—but these things seem but the foundation work for a psychological loveliness, half mystic, half human, which eludes, even while it thrills us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 400w.
“A most unusual piece of fiction. The object of the work, carefully done as it is, is inexplicable. If it aims to portray exalted genius in an unsympathetic and cruel world, it misses its aim by extravagance.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration and educational work of American juvenile reform schools. (Columbia univ. Teachers college. Contributions to education, no. 12.) $2. Teachers college, Columbia univ., N. Y.
7–39061.
“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care, vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally, the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J. Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H.= School reports and school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10624.
A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is undertaken to the end of showing the best methods of making reports, answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.
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“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.
“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.
“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the scope, outlay and results of American education.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.
“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome this book.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School R.= 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.
=Snow, Louis Franklin.= College curriculum in the United States. $1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.
E 8–10.
Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.
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“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher education in this country.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Snow, William Gage.= Principles of heating: a practical and comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2. Williams.
7–36224.
Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and charts useful in the solution of heating problems.
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“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade press.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily accessible.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.
=Snyder, Carl.= American railways as investments; with an introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values. *$3.20. Moody corporation.
7–25023.
A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage to themselves and the public.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.
“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such treatise has done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G. de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion, which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.
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=Acad.= 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O. Newland.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its predecessors.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a disappointment.” A. G. K.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Somerville, Charles.= Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing country.
=Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).= Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.
8–23093.
A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral, but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.” (Nation.)
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“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is perfect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of the Irish peasant.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.
=Sons= of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Sorel, Ernest.= Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr. from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.
7–36878.
The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in engines.
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“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum efficiency.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Spargo, John.= Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12780.
A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.
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“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠
“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.
“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.
“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly put together. It would have been of service if more definite references to state and national government bulletins had been made and attention called to the fact that many of these which are excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free of cost.” G. N. Lauman.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.
“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to persuade, to convince, to inspire.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social service.” J. E. Pope.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.
“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without consultation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.= Old England: with 80 illustrations in color and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.
“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.) “The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)
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“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more capable hands.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.
“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.
“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual class of work of this kind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr. Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= History of the United States navy. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–5238.
A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy” and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the character-development of the heroes.
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“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.
“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the naval forces in critical moments.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been written.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.
“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“An uncommonly good book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American naval history that has yet been written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28292.
In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important that every library should have this book.
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“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Speer, Robert Elliott.= Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.
8–20734.
“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help to see the right way than of set addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Spender, John Alfred=, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12973.
Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion, bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,” shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty, war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic, gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.
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“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight, enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some of delightful excellence.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.
“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism or cheap epigram.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1053. D. 21, ’07. 1200w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge. (Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.
8–11738.
A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.
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“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed and useful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 1: 241. O. ’08.
“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are once more exemplified in this noble tome.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the notes, they are well-informed and useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.
=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= Critical essays of the seventeenth century. 3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays, letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.” (Nation.)
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“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward reading.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading. There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of criticism’ displays in a chapter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work, laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of erudition which never grows pedantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Spivey, Thomas Sawyer.= Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.
8–5225.
The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy termination of the love episode.
=Spooner, Henry John.= Machine design, construction and drawing: a text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–34187.
“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.) “The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80 numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)
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“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of machine details.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject. It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
=Sprague, Rufus Farrington.= True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–829.
Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service, but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.
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“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J. Davenport.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 117. F. ’08. 1120w.
=Stacpoole, H. De Vere.= Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of love and life.
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“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr. Stacpoole’s story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.
“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many modern stories is really justified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.
=Standage, H. C.=, ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.
8–8483.
“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster, plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and japanning.”—Nature.
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“A valuable reference volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Contains information which should give it a wide field of usefulness.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.
“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley. Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Standard= handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.
8–347. (2d. ed. 8–17558.)
“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length, which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.
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“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not excepting those published in England, Germany, France and Italy. It is a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.
“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.
“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more complete and satisfactory form.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.
“A most valuable reference manual.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Stansfield, Alfred.= Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and practice. *$2. Hill pub.
8–35541.
Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical furnace.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the electric furnace.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.
“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.” F. A. J. FitzGerald.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
=Stanton, Stephen Berrien.= Essential life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14659.
Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time; Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment; Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities; Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.
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“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm of his own.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.
=Starr, Frederick.= In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and labor. *$5. Forbes.
8–11833.
A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures, portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types, dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this character.” A. B. Lewis.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form much information about the land and the people otherwise inaccessible.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.
“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned for by the general interest of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.
“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the book is not great.”
− =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.
“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various Indian towns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Stebbing, William.= Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.
8–26221.
“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in 1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)
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“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.
“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any marked critical value.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a better guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
* =Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
8–34145.
The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion; Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea; Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and index of first lines.
=Steele, Zadock.= Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.
8–30488.
A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and his escape back to Vermont.
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“His narrative is direct and simple. It was worth while to reprint it in the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that so little pains was taken with the editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Life and correspondence of James McHenry. *$6. Burrows.
7–24607.
The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.
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“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical biographer.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 145. O. 08. 950w.
“The editor is at times indiscreet in his notes, some of which are uncritical and some spiteful. By far the most valuable material in the volume is the letters and drafts of state papers by Alexander Hamilton. A volume of one-half the size, comprising McHenry’s own letters and a selection of those from his correspondents, would have conveyed a better impression of the man. The index is inadequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja 23, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Many of the letters, to be sure, are purely personal, and but for the delightful glimpses of the man’s private life might advantageously have been omitted; but there are many of real historical value.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 370w.
“His correspondence, most of which now sees the light for the first time, contains many important references to persons and events that have long since become historic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 150w.
=Steiner, Edward A.= Mediator: a tale of the Old world and the New. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29568.
“The story begins in Russian Poland and describes in a graphic way an anti-Semitic persecution. In consequence of the danger and suffering to which they are exposed, the principal characters emigrate to New York, and the author gives a realistic account of their life in the Jewish quarter. The book is evidently intended as an eirenicon to compose the differences of Jew and Gentile.”—Nation.
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“As a novel the story is not strong. It does not seem that this volume begins to have the value of the author’s earlier book ‘On the trail of the immigrant.’”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“The realistic parts of the narrative contain many offences against good taste; and these are the more to be regretted because the conception of the author is original and he writes at times with dramatic power.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The story has not a little imaginative power, and ‘rings true’ both as a reflex of actual conditions and a stimulus toward better things.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“A vein of sincere religious feeling runs through this interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 80w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Christianity’s storm center. **$1. Revell.
7–27620.
“The author, skilled laborer, minister, superintendent of the Department of church and labor of the Presbyterian church, is interested in aggressive evangelism, and believes that the church should so change its methods as to meet present needs. The problem is not properly stated by asking, ‘Do workingmen go to church?’ but by the query, ‘Does the church go to the workingman?’ The chapters bear such titles as: ‘The trades union’; ‘The city slum’; ‘Social centers’; ‘The institutional church’; ‘Aggressive evangelism.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The discussion is, however, extremely rambling and decidedly lacking in logical order. Nevertheless, the book is of rather exceptional merit. If the church fails to profit by such a book it speaks badly for its own future influence.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“Churchmen who would understand the conditions, threatening or hopeful, that challenge or invite them to the field, should not neglect this report.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
* =Stenton, Frank Merry.= William the conqueror and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–31143.
Carefully selected and judiciously elaborated details of William the Conqueror’s life fill nine chapters of this history to which three chapters have been added sketching the changes in constitutional organization and social life which followed the events of 1066.
=Stephan, Walter George.= Drawing instruments, their use and abuse. *$1. McGraw pub.
8–21049.
A student’s guide to the selection of instruments, their testing, their use and abuse. Besides the regulation drawing instruments are considered the slide rule, the section liner, the universal drafting machine, the elliptograph, the pantograph, the planimeter and the plane table.
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=Engin. D.= 4: 184. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“It will prove interesting to all engaged in the actual work of drafting, and is of special value to beginners.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Stephen, Leslie, and Lee, Sidney Lazarus=, eds. Dictionary of national biography. 22v. ea. *$4.25. Macmillan.
A new edition occupying about half the shelf space of the former issue and costing one-third the price. “The work was begun in 1885 and completed in 1900 under the editorship of Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, and its 31,000 separate articles cover practically all the notable names in the history of English politics, religion, literature, art and science, including many American.” (Ind.)
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+ + + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is really preferable, both on account of accuracy and the amount of shelf-room required, to the original issue.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 217. Ap. 1, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 120w.
“It is a pity, looking to the proven utility of the work, that the three supplementary volumes issued in 1901 are to form the supplementary volume of the reissue.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 410. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 504. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 636. My. 16, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume contains some notable contributions.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 244. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The work is really indispensable to the student, and every public library, not to speak of private purchasers, should be supplied with a copy.”
+ + + =Spec.= 100: 423. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Spec.= 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spec.= 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.
8–26830.
Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes, with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.
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“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic values.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Stephens, Winifred.= French novelists of today; biographical, descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies. *$1.50. Lane.
Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a study of French novels.
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“A useful guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been carefully revised in proof.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.
“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.
+ =Dial.= 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.
“A handy source of information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.
“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her judgments are sound, her temper is even.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Stevens, Albert Clark.=, ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed., rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.
7–36716.
“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States, together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless. Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all interested in secret societies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.
=Stevens, Isaac N.= Liberators: a story of future American politics. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–6664.
A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of political questions which have an important bearing on the well organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college girls.
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“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit, it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.
“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our people.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 485. N. ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but offering attractions to many readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Stevens, William Chase.= Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.
7–36113.
“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable), and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really useful).”—Bot. Gaz.
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“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been prepared in large measure directly from the material under observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply, clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception, embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of ‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.” J. M. C. and C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.
“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by clearness and coordination.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.
* =Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3. Houghton.
8–33773.
A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and interesting poems relating to the history of America from its discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.
=Stevenson, Burton E.= Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.
7–24194.
The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies, and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a courageous lad would call splendid.
=Stevenson, William Barrow.= Crusaders in the East: a brief history of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.
8–9075.
From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states. The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power upon history.” (Spec.)
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“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.
“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of information.” G. Le Strange.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.
“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand. The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.
=Stewart, Clinton Brown.= Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1, a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no. 173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–3626.
Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from 1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
* =Stewart, Jane Agnes.= Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–33162.
A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and home-made gifts.
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“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.
“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Stewart, William Morris.= Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.
8–15703.
The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men, Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated with the men who made the history of the country.
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“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity more seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“A vigorous summing up of the life of a real man. It is an amazingly entertaining record, and the editor ... has done his part of the work admirably.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 2450w.
“There is a good deal that seems irresponsible and in questionable taste. There is a good deal of fun and there is a good deal of liveliness in the book.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= American constitution: the national powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people. (Lowell institute lectures, 1907.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–3494.
Eight lectures which aim to show that the constitution is not an “Antiquarian curiosity”; not a mass of dry rules, but the very substance of freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive. They explain the human meaning of the constitution, the safeguards that it offers every one and the live issues that it still embodies. Mr. Stimson’s closing lectures are on Changes in the constitution now proposed and Interstate commerce, the control of trusts, and the regulation of corporations.
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“This is a popular but satisfactory treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 150w.
“The subjects discussed are of deep interest to all thinking Americans. Though we do not agree with all the positions taken by the author, we regard the volume as an extremely important contribution to our political literature, and much which it contains is of the highest interest and value.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 499. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“The temper of the book is admirable, and we can only hope that it may be widely and intelligently read.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 421. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The historical part—that is about one-half—of Professor Stimson’s volume is utterly worthless.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 80w.
“One cannot detect in his remarks any factious purpose, only the conscientious exercise of the judicial function of ascertaining the law of the land, as declared and divided by the constitution, and applying it to the several subjects under consideration. Thoughtful citizens will find the discussion well worth while.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
“Our point of view of the constitution is not that of Professor Stimson. But the book is valuable, first, because it will put before the students of constitutional law with great clearness the theory of strict construction, and, second, because it points out, on the one hand, the historical origin of certain fundamental principles of American constitutions, and, on the other hand, certain real perils against which we need to be on our guard.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 640w.
“As a critique of contemporary government and administrative policies by a lawyer of distinction in many fields of legal research and practice, the volume is not without value: but since the whole argument rests on a particular interpretation of history, it is the philosophy, not the conclusions, which principally engage the interest of the student.” C: A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 340. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“In general, Mr. Stimson’s views are conservative and his exposition of the division of power between the states and the federal government judicious and helpful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The reading public will find it spirited, intelligible and suggestive: and if they trace errors here and there, there are none that are vital.” S. E. Baldwin.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 235. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= Law of the federal and state constitutions of the United States; with an historical study of their principles, a chronological table of English social legislation and a comparative digest of the constitutions of the forty-six states. *$3.50. Boston bk.
8–15307.
A three-part study. The first is devoted to the origin and growth of the American constitutions; the second to constitutional principles as expressed in the English statutes of the realm and American constitutions; the third, to the state constitutions, annotated and compared with the federal constitution.
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“This book is unlike the usual treatise on constitutional law, both in arrangement and manner of treatment.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 639. N. ’08. 230w.
“In a broad sense Professor Stimson gives us a view of the political or constitutional life of the country—an almost indispensable thing to the investigator of today.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29, ’08. 640w.
“This grouping of constitutional law around common topics ... is a comparative study never before worked out so completely. Our debt to the compiler is accordingly large. There are occasional defects even in the seriatim analysis of the growth of particular constitutional usages.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 780w.
“The law student, the journalist, men professionally engaged in political life, and others who have occasion to acquaint themselves with the details of American constitutional law will find this book a valuable aid in their study.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 120w.
“As a book of reference it is indispensable to every student of American politics.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 110w.
“The politician, lawyer or student of American institutions should have it as a supplement to Mr. Bryce’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 260w.
* =Stimson, Henry Albert.= New things of God: sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–28071.
“Not truth absolutely new, but old truth freshly put and in new relations, is the substance of his message, illustrated from his large acquaintance with literature and life. Dr. Stimson feels and joins in the movement of modern thought, saying that ‘a new theology is the demand and the inevitable product of every age,’ but that after all, and in all change, religion is the same, ‘the response of the soul to God,’ Christ as ever the pilot of the soul, and one’s attitude toward him the test of character.”—Outlook.
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“Characterized by several qualities most sermons lack: clearness, sanity, and practicality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The sermons are thoughtful, practical, and inspiring to the reader.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 150w.
“These discourses are focused on the fundamental truths with a frequently inspirational effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Stirling, Anna Maria W.= Coke of Norfolk and his friends: the life of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, etc., including many unpublished letters of noted men of his day, English and American, il. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–13695.
Containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services, and private friendships, and including many unpublished letters from noted men of his day. (Explanatory title.)
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“This life is so thoroughly well done, so carefully ordered, so reasonable in its judgments, and so well written, that the reviewers all complimented their sex by supposing the biographer to be a man, and the present writer, if he had not been better informed by accident, would indeed have done the same.” G. S. S.
+ + =Acad.= 73: 207. D. 7, ’07. 2000w.
“Half, or two-thirds, of these fat volumes would have been better than the whole. But having passed this criticism, we hasten to say that the book is of distinct social and historical value, confirming, and sometimes supplementing, such works as the Greville, Creevey, and Albemarle papers. It is also remarkably entertaining, and should prove a profitable quarry for the anecdotist.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 681. N. 30. 1300w.
“We thank Mrs. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of recent years.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 361. N. 29, ’07. 2700w.
“Altogether, the book may well engage the attention of him who wants to see English life of a century ago; and he will not fail to enjoy the character here revealed of what we, with a certain touch of fondness, are wont to style ‘a gentleman of the old school.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 500w.
“Her whole-hearted admiration for her distinguished ancestor has made it impossible for her to conceive that he was not in every way great, and so deep is her own interest in him that she imagines everything connected with him, no matter how remotely, must be of general interest.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
“Mrs. Stirling has done her work handsomely, and has plainly been helped by the good will of the Coke family and all its ramifications. If the biography is unnecessarily long, it contains much new material that is well worth unrolling from its wrappers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 869. N. 30, ’07. 1400w.
* =Stoddard, William Osborn.= In the open. †60c. Harper.
8–32332.
Wholesome adventure and excitement commend these tales of the exploits and frolics of a group of breezy, healthy children who hunt, camp, fish, encounter Indians, fight prairie fires, and roam about for worlds to conquer.
=Stoker, Bram.= Gates of life. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14957.
Miss Stephen Norman tries the working value of a theory that the wrecking of many lives can be avoided by a woman’s taking the initiative in the momentous question of marriage proposals. She offers herself and her estate to young Everhard, a dissolute man who makes light of the whole affair. Wounded pride takes its unlawful revenge on her real lover, but justly metes out punishment to Everhard who attempted to follow up his advantage from motives of graft.
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“Surely Mr. Stoker is still capable of better things.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 150w.
“A blatant melodrama, all the trashier for the grandiloquent moralizings—in which the word ‘sex’ is unpleasantly frequent—which punctuate the surprising actions of his characters.”
− =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“There are novelty and variety in Bram Stoker’s novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
=Story, Alfred Thomas.= American shrines in England. *$2. Macmillan.
“A convenient summary of the English antecedents of a number of well-known Americans. Six chapters are devoted to a careful presentation of the evidence in regard to the Washington family, the last link in which was completed by the accidental discovery in the State department at Washington, in 1902, of the will of Mrs. Martha Hayward, née Washington. The ancestry and English home of Franklin, of Standish, of Winthrop and Penn, of Yale and Harvard, of the Lees and the Adamses, are discussed.”—Nation.
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“For those who like this sort of thing the book is unquestionably valuable, and it is probably just as well to have somebody do it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 60w.
=Stoughton, Bradley.= Metallurgy of iron and steel. $3. Hill pub.
8–5613.
A college text-book as well as a reference work which “fills a distinct gap in English metallurgical literature, in that it provides a clear, up-to-date, description of the apparatus, furnaces and appliances used in the metallurgy of iron and steel.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Best single book on American practice for small libraries. Needed also by large libraries, because of its closeness to present methods.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is altogether a most complete and valuable work, as it gives the best methods of production and in addition records in a thorough and practical manner the most recent advances in the subjects of metallography, corrosion and the new alloys.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“It is a first-class illustrated description of the present state of the iron and steel industry, entertainingly written, splendidly illustrated, a little too detailed to be called superficial, yet not minute enough to be tiresome to anyone wishing to learn something about iron and steel. The book contains many minor errors in its descriptions, such as ascribing views and explanations to the wrong metallurgist. It also contains some major errors in questions of theory and calculation.” J. W. Richards.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Stratileseo, Tereza.= From Carpathian to Pindus; pictures of Roumanian country life. il. *$3.75. Luce, J: W.
7–28495.
“The author of this volume has set herself to put before her readers a full account of the condition and character of the Roumanian peasantry, the inhabitants of the lower basin of the Danube, as well as of their natural surroundings.” (Ath.) “The book is more than a mere record of historical, ethnological, and sociological facts in regard to the Roumanian. It is a treasurehouse of folklore, legends, ballads, and songs often with the music attached.” (Nation.)
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“The book will interest students of folk-lore and local customs as well as those who have visited or propose to visit, this somewhat neglected corner of Europe. The style, though lively, betrays in places that the writer is a foreigner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 350. Mr. 23. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 170w.
“She does not claim to be a politician and contents herself with descriptions of the Roumanian peasantry. These are very well done, with a light touch and with enthusiasm tempered by humour. She has made a careful study of folk-lore and tells some amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Stratton, Alfred William.= Letters from India; with a memoir by his wife, Anna Booth Stratton. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–36147.
A volume which reflects the force of “American scholarship, tact, and energy in touch with modern India.” (Outlook.) A Canadian, educated in Canada and the United States, for a time connected with the faculty of the Chicago university, the author eventually served in the combined capacities of registrar of Punjab university and principal of the Oriental college at Lahore, India. His letters are valuable “for what they tell us of university life in northern India, of the class of native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.” (Spec.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 400w.
“They not only give a clear impression of a singularly conservative, lofty, and unselfish personality; they afford us a clear picture of an American scholar’s life in India, and also many interesting side-lights on social, educational, and political conditions in northwest India.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 600w.
“The letters are always interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Opera: a sketch of the development of opera with full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory; with an introd. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 3d ed. rev. and enl. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35265.
Brought to date by the inclusion of such operas as Puccini’s “Tosca” and “Madame Butterfly”; Charpentier’s “Louise”; Strauss’s “Salome”: Saint-Saëns’s “Hélène”; Giordano’s “Fédora” and “Siberia”; Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande”; and other new operas.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 123. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This very readable and trustworthy book may be commended to all lovers of music who wish to know something about the great works of the lyric stage.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The most laudable thing about this volume is the combination of clearness and conciseness in the telling of operatic plots.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 290w.
“He is as little without bias as may be expected of one who traverses so broad a field, and his view is clear as his style is entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Not remarkable for skill in character-drawing or probability of plot and event, but will hold the interest, and compares favorably with Mrs. Wister’s other translations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 20. Ja. ’08.
“It is done with Mrs. Wister’s trained skill, thorough knowledge of German, and admirable taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Strindberg, August.= The father (a tragedy); tr. by N. Erichsen. *$1. Luce, J: W.
8–13718.
The first appearance in English of a drama written by “the most pessimistic of living pessimists.” “‘The father’ reveals an amazing combat between mother and father for the control of their daughter’s destiny, the mother ultimately gaining her point at the expense of her husband’s reason. When it appears that he is to have the upper hand, she drops a fatal seed of doubt as to who the child’s father actually is. Presumably she has always been a faithful wife, but the poison of suggestion has been implanted in the husband’s mind and he is eventually driven mad by the thought. As a study of misogyny and abysmal pessimism ‘The father’ probably has few equals in any language.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“That it would exercise a powerful effect cannot be doubted, but it is unpleasant beyond expression. The present translation by N. Erichsen appears to preserve the general character of the original.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Stringer, Arthur J. A.= The under groove. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13274.
In a series of seven short stories an old offender against the law tells in the first person his experiences in New York while assuming the rather novel rôle of detective. With a facility born of long experience in practical criminality he makes use of the usual methods of perpetrating crime in order to ferret it out for his own private ends. The mental processes of the scientific burglar are analyzed so that the book is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a study of criminology.
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“Lively reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 268. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“In themselves the eight stories, with one or two exceptions, would make good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“And if the whole thing moves with the lightness and spirit of the true adventure story, it none the less retains the importance of a sincere study in psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 190w.
“Would be far better if it had omitted the telepathic and hypnotic basis on which it is constructed.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Outlines of systematic theology, designed for the use of theological students. **$2.50. Am. Bapt.
8–30158.
An outline embracing the substance of Dr. Strong’s three-volume “Systematic theology,” a work which after twenty years has been revised and enlarged. The abbreviated work is at once a text-book for recitation, a minister’s hand-book, and a convenient guide for the busy layman.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Systematic theology: a compendium and commonplace book, designed for the use of theological students; new ed. rev. and enl. 3v. ea. $2.50. Am. Bapt.
7–37983.
Dr. Strong with his “open mind, broad sympathy and keen vision” has kept pace with the progress of the times and now presents his hand-book modernized. Volume 1 deals with The doctrine of God, volume 2, with The doctrine of man, and volume 3, The doctrine of salvation.
=v. 2.= Doctrine of man. Deals with anthropology or the doctrine of man. The origin, the nature and the fall of man are treated and the consequences of the fall—physical and spiritual death.
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“It is the more to be regretted that the insight so clearly expressed in the passages cited should not have been allowed to determine the treatment in other parts of the volume.” W: A. Brown.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 150. Ja. ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume like the first, contains an amazing wealth of quotation drawn from wide circles of thought; sometimes the passages are more cogent and convincing than his refutation of them.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 502. Jl. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Stroup, Ner Wallace.= Fact of sin viewed historically and doctrinally. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–29856.
A discussion of the vital relation of the fact of sin to the divine plan of salvation.
=Stuart, Eleanor.= The postscript. †$1. McClure.
8–14333.
A slight story set in Italy in which an American girl, the widow of a count; a scheming Italian, bent upon besmirching the good name of the dead count; and a wronged woman are the principal characters. When all misunderstanding is cleared away the postscript which the wife adds to her former joy and trust in her husband is “I know in whom I have believed.”
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“A tale of rather delicate workmanship, in which the characters are drawn with more than ordinary skill and charm and the plot is rather painful and melodramatic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The heroine is a rather commonplace little person, and one feels that the writer somewhat exaggerates the importance of her experience.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
“Talent and care have evidently been expended on this novelette.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Stuart, Gerald Villiers.= Soul of Croesus. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–17792.
The fantastic story of a modern Croesus, whose father had bequeathed him an enormous fortune with the injunction to spend all. Warring against the merciless debauchery is the better personality, which thinks, philosophizes and exerts a strength that grows impotent when the whole army of lower personality imps come trooping back. The story from a subjective standpoint stimulates the reader’s thought and interest.
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“There is a lot of trimming to the story that is extremely entertaining, and it is that which makes Mr. Villiers-Stuart’s book worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 720w.
=Stuart, Henry Longan.= Weeping cross: an unworldy story. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–23103.
The adventures in New England, about the middle of the 17th century, of an Irish bond servant “who had been first a Jesuit pupil, then a royalist soldier. He is sent to the hard mercies of the Pilgrims by Cromwell, indentured to a noble-minded master, but has the misfortune of being loved by that master’s daughter. The conflict between religion and passion that follows is analyzed with extreme keenness, but is hardly edifying in its bold realism, and is agonizing in its relation of mental and physical suffering.” (Outlook.)
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“It is the matter rather than the manner we confess to finding distasteful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 170w.
“The book is eminently worth reading.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 142. O. ’08. 770w.
“It makes a vivid and robust tale, but its effectiveness is dulled by interminable passages of description and introspective analysis.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 550w.
“A book which, for the present day and hour at least, must be set down as a novel of some importance. He has given fearlessly and honestly, without fear of offense, a record of sinful love that nevertheless does not lose its dignity nor its claim upon our sympathy and our esteem.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 40: 224. S. ’08. 1100w.
“Is not the ambitious success its author has aimed at, but it is a serious piece of work, creditably carried thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
“With more restraint of manner and maturity of thought, Mr. Stuart’s vivid fancy gives promise of work of real value.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The story, although full of misery and tragedy, deserves commendation. Its literary merit is of a high order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 200w.
“There is much that will offend the taste in the ultra-realism of the narrative. This is all the greater pity because the author has an imagination of unusual power, a style vivid and forceful, and an honest intention to present the tragic struggle between a man’s better nature and cruel temptation.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
“It is a fine tragedy, clothed in real eloquence and dignity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 260w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William.= Germany in the early middle ages, 476–1250; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2. Longmans.
8–19595.
“Contrary to one’s natural expectations, the volume is narrative rather than constitutional, but there are to be found in its pages several of those remarkable characterizations of medieval personages in which Stubbs was an undoubted adept. The chapters are so arranged as to form a tolerably complete account of Germany from the great migrations to the death of Frederick II in 1250, and the style, less severe and impersonal than the stately diction of the constitutional history, will make the book more acceptable to the general reader.”—Ind.
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“The book offers little or nothing to the specialist, is not adapted to use in the class room, and will hardly hold the attention of the general reader, but it may be recommended as collateral reading to college classes in medieval history.” O. J. Thatcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 167. O. ’08. 600w.
“Tho the lectures throughout impress one with the soundness and breadth of the learned historian’s studies, there is a certain ancientry in their doctrines and temper.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Nor can we feel that this volume goes far toward supplying any lack that really exists.”
− =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 660w.
“It is difficult to see what purpose is served by the publication of this volume. We regret that we must add that the editor has not made it easier to approve of the publication by the way in which he has performed his share.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 661. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= Lands of summer: sketches in Italy, Sicily, and Greece. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13684.
Seven sketches which the author’s travel in the Mediterranean countries has inspired. They are spring-time with Theocritus, From Athens to Corfu, Midsummer in Tuscany, Bergamo and the Bergamasque Alps, The centenary of Alfieri at Asti, The wraith of a ducal city and Life on a Tuscan farm.
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“It is slight and superficial, but is at least as good to read as, and much less pretentious than, the majority of ‘travel books’ written on these well-known lands.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 180w.
“An unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 470w.
“The classical student may read him at home, with pleasure and some profit; the tourist will find him of some service on the spot.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The work lacks distinction. As a whole it is scarcely less monochrome (but more attractive) than its sickly blue cover.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
“It is neither bad enough to infuriate nor important enough to arrest.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 4: 746. S. ’08. 270w.
* =Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.= Origin and character of the Bible and its place among sacred books; new ed. rev. and enl. *$1.20. Am. Unitar.
8–33168.
Embodies the results of the latest investigations along the lines of origin, authorship, growth, real character, transitory elements and permanent value of the Bible. It contains illustrative tables, lists of best books for reading and study, and several entirely new chapters.
* =Surette, Thomas Whitney, and Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Appreciation of music. **$1.50. Baker.
A volume which “presents ‘in clear and untechnical language an account of the evolution of musical art from the primitive folk-song up to the symphony of Beethoven,’ illustrating the stages of this development by musical examples, and providing detailed analyses of many typical compositions. The volume has several portrait illustrations.”—Dial.
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“A useful book for students, for music clubs and for the individual reader who has a fair knowledge of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Teachers will no doubt find not a few useful hints in it, and the general reader also would do well not to ignore it. There are excellent things, notably in the chapters on Bach and Beethoven. The best thing in the book is the chapter on Beethoven’s humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 548. D. 12, ’07. 840w.
* =Swett, Sophia Miriam.= Princess Wisla. †$1.50. Little.
8–30702.
The story of a child that was rescued from drowning by an Indian woman, dyed with pokeberry ink to resemble an Indian child, and made into an Indian princess.
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=R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
=Swift, Edgar James.= Mind in the making: a study in mental development. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–12179.
“As a sound-hearted and clear-minded social reformer, taking a common sense view of social problems,” (N. Y. Times.) the author makes a plea for a broader interpretation to education. “Mental plasticity, capacity for understanding and controlling new situations and for making them” should be the outcome of education. See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“As a whole the volume embodies a systematic knowledge of children and sane ideas of their needs. The book is bound to have a wide and a wholesome influence, and largely because of this the reviewer wishes to call attention to what seems to be an unwise emphasis in the chapter entitled, ‘Criminal tendencies in boys.’” K. E. Dopp.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 261. S. ’08. 570w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book’s chief defect is an evident lack of wide acquaintance on the part of the author with sociological and anthropological literature. This gives rise to many omissions and several slips.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 640. N. ’08. 420w.
“One by one, the more concrete and the more comprehensive questions of the applying psychologist are reviewed in this collection of essays; and each brings a tangible addition to the insight that can assimilate data while it yet directs their accumulation and dominates their interpretation.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 40. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Some of his psychological studies are particularly shrewd and practical, and the book as a whole deserves attention.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“We can scarcely conceive that any teacher or thoughtful parent would not be interested in nearly all the essays, and no one engaged in educational or social improvement can rise from its reading without both stimulation and encouragement.” J. H. T.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 162. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 180w.
“A more significant book or a more attractive one has not lately been published because it presents facts clearly and accurately, its deductions are reasonable, its logic denotes a broad, well-cultured mind, its historical perspective is suitable, its style is good. He may go too far in some of his deductions, but the influence of his book ought to be beneficial beyond the field of pedagogy.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w.
“As a plea for the personal element in education, and for the extension of the experimental method ‘in the interest of a soundly constructive pedagogy,’ this is an eminently luminous and influential work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Is of real value to both investigators in educational psychology and students of college grade. Concerning some of the conclusions which Professor Swift does definitely accept, ... it must be noted that other intelligent investigators possessed of the same facts as the author would still not proceed to his conclusions.” E: L. Thorndike.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 212. Ag. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Swift, Ivan.= Fagots of cedar. $2. Ivan Swift, Harbor Springs, Mich.
8–240.
A collection of verses of the Michigan woods and lumber camps.
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“Mr. Swift’s poems have much of the strong, virile, thought-suggesting quality of Whitman’s work.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 495. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“At its best Mr. Swift’s verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of meaning, suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 138. My. ’08. 100w.
“The breath of the woods is in them and the perfume of the cedar, though there is nothing to suggest that they have come out of an ancient chest. On the contrary, they are what would be called up-to-date poems. While there is at times a touch of self-consciousness, there is throughout the evidence of genuine feeling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Age of Shakespeare. **$2. Harper.
8–27774.
Nine critical papers which deal with Shakespeare and the writers of his age. Marlowe, Webster, Dekker, Marston, Middleton, Rowley, Heywood, Chapman and Tourneur are in turn compared with Shakespeare; and the latter’s indebtedness to each is pointed out.
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“Even those who have long been familiar with the greater number of these essays will read them with the certainty of lighting on matter well worth study, and will find fresh interest in tracing the few changes time has brought about in his judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 674. N. 28. 1000w.
“The book is a good book, a serious and illuminating piece of criticism.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 1800w.
“Full of wonderful little flashes of delicate perception, epigrammatic summings-up that refuse to be forgotten, and then, at the turn of a page, a blast of turbulent adulation, a whirlwind of redundant hyperbole, full of sound and fury. Nevertheless, such as it is, it is a book indispensable to any one who is making a study of Mr. Swinburne the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 405. O. ’08. 1950w.
“As a critical work, it cannot be taken seriously.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 854. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“As a whole the book must impress any sane reader as the cry of an enraged and baffled romanticism, of a romanticism that, like some wild beast at bay, snaps and snarls at common-sense.”
− =Nation.= 87: 445. N. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“Swinburne guides us to a study and comprehension of a form of literary art now extinct, and helps us to comprehend its beauty.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 633. O. 31, ’08. 2000w.
“The essay on Dekker is perhaps the most delightful in the volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 422. O. 3, 08. 1550w.
“The defects of his book would certainly have been avoided by an unsparing use of the comparative method. These essays are excellent from many points of view; but their crowning excellence is the force which is in them that compels whoever opens them to go back once more for light and refreshment to the works of the great Elizabethans.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 502. O. 3, ’08. 1600w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Duke of Gandia. **$1.25. Harper.
8–11735.
Rome in the latter part of the 15th century is the scene of this Borgia story told in poetry. It is a domestic drama, which depicts a tragedy in the life of Pope Alexander VI. The jealousy of the younger son which causes him to kill his elder brother, and the father’s ultimate reconciliation with the wrong-doer form the main basis of the plot. The characters of mother and daughter add lightness and human interest to the story.
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“Here in this briefest and most actual of his plays—an act, an episode—he has concentrated much of this floating beauty, this overflowing imagination, into a few stern and adequate words, and made a new thing, as always, in his own image.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 469. Ap. 18. 1200w.
“Marvellous work, which no other poet now living could dream of equalling.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 60. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
“Has one virtue that strikes the eyes. It is brief. Mr. Swinburne’s excessive use of Catholic symbol and phrase in the mouths of these inhuman creatures of blood and lust will be wantonly offensive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
“The book cannot hurt a poet of great renown, but the contemplation of its hideous subject cannot help anybody. It is a mistake.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Swinburne’s hand has not entirely lost its power.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“‘The Duke of Gandia,’ which is perfect of its kind, proves once more the surety of an artistic instinct which can not only choose, but reject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 532. Ap. 25, ’08. 1600w.
“It is stamped with all his old mastery of craft.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 20. Jl. 4, ’08. 430w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities of Italy. **$2. Dutton.
7–38637.
In studying Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Pisa, Sienna, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo and Brescia, Mr. Symons’s “intention has been that they should tell him their story, that they should ‘give up their own secrets,’ rather than that he should judge them according to his own eyes, ears and artistic prejudices.” (Spec.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
“This is a beautiful and quiet book, full of delicate observation and fine criticism expressed in the sensitive prose we expect from Mr. Symons.... He has cared for [Italy] as it were by the way, as he might do for any work of art with which he found himself in sympathy—not more, but assuredly not less.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 185. F. 15. 1000w.
“It is a volume well worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers; it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those who have basked long enough in Italy’s smile and learned enough of her nature to compare impressions and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent controversies that add so much flavor to literature of this type.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book, as are most of the writings of this English poet and critic, is decidedly worth reading.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“The amateur, or, if you will, the dilettante spirit, pervades Mr. Symons.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 450w.
“The secrets he surprises are always the artist’s secrets—never humanity’s. They are grown in the garden of culture, not in the wilderness of life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book of sensitive English prose, full of unexpected rhythms and words which rather evoke than describe the places of which they speak. The best chapters of the book are devoted to that tragic wilderness [the Campagna].”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
“If, as he desires, the personal note were absent, the book would be really delightful reading, and its presence is only occasionally irritating. Mr. Symons sees vividly and describes brilliantly. If his cities have not given him their inmost soul, their outward aspect is entirely his.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Symbolist movement in literature. *$2. Dutton.
A new and revised edition of a work appearing eleven years ago. “The book presents studies, both biographical and critical, of the writers, chiefly French, whom Mr. Symons regards as the leaders of the Symbolist movement, and the value of the book lies chiefly in the facts and impressions which it gives of this little group of writers, the best known of whom by American readers are Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Huysmans. There is a chapter on ‘Maeterlinck as a mystic.’” (Outlook.)
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“A body of delicate criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 637. My. 23. 60w.
“One may quarrel with this frankly partisan historian at whatever turn one will; but his book remains exceptionally attractive and enlightening. We have before us not a searching philosophical treatise, but a delightful bit of literary history and æsthetic appreciation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 374. Je. 16, ’08. 3200w.
“It is the most sympathetic study and the most illuminating interpretation that has yet appeared in English of that curiously interesting group of French writers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 330. Ap. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Students of literature have much to be grateful to Mr. Symons for, and this little collection of essays increases measurably their debt to him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
“Whatever one may think of its doctrine, its charm of style and the interest of its contents will certainly recommend it. His little studies are relevant and illuminating. We think he is wrong, however, when in his conclusions he attempts to fuse his pessimism and mysticism.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 454. S. ’08. 400w.
“The book is valuable as an impressionistic study of one of the minor currents of the literary movements of the last generation.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
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=T., L. G.= Three years behind the guns: the true chronicles of a “diddybox.” †$1.50. Century.
8–25121.
The chronicle of a San Francisco youth who ran away from home, enlisted in the navy in time to cross the Pacific on the Olympia and take part in the battle of Manila bay on the flagship with Dewey. Keen observation and quick wit characterize the intimate record of happenings on an American battleship, and the descriptions of people, climate and scenery.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The book affords an entertaining and occasionally edifying, confidential account of all that one particular man-o’-war’s man thought and felt and did during three years’ service.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Taft, William Howard.= Present day problems: a collection of addresses delivered on various occasions. **$1.50. Dodd.
8–19618.
Two of these addresses deal with the Philippines, two with the relations of China and Japan to the United States, two with the present administration, two with the judiciary, and others with General Grant, the army, the panic of 1907, labor and capital, the achievements of the Republican party, and southern democracy and Republican principles.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 110w.
“Matters of public policy and public interest are discussed in Mr. Taft’s informed and persuasive style, and whether one is for or ‘agin’ the administration and its policies, the collection provides valuable and instructive reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“Characterized by the traits which have made Mr. Taft the power that he is in America to-day—a warm and intelligent sympathy with his fellow-men; ... a judicial spirit; ... a higher regard for substance than form; ... a delight in achievement; and an almost ingenuous trust in the intelligence and good sense of the people, whether they be those whose government he is helping to administer or those whose attention, as an audience, he is undertaking to engage.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 776. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Takahashi, Sakuyei.= International law applied to the Russo-Japanese war, with the decisions of the Japanese prize courts. (American ed.) *$8. Banks.
8–17983.
“The most recent addition to the extensive literature on the international questions and legal relations raised by the Russo-Japanese war.” (Nation.) “The book is not a defense of Japan in any sense, although Japan’s conduct was bitterly criticised by her adversary. Instead of an apologia the book is a legal history of the memorable conflict, which has supplied a new set of precedents. Its usefulness is enhanced by its liberal citation of the original correspondence upon many disputed points.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Careless statements, English far from idiomatic and bearing unmistakable marks of its foreign authorship, misprints in quotations from foreign languages, and a general tone of extolling Japanese observances in contrast to Russian breaches of international law mar the value of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“It is hard to recall any war of which the legal phases have been treated with similar fulness, and in a similar manner; that is, with equal citation of original documents. It is this which gives the book its value, apart from its logical and convenient arrangement.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 1500w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Chaucer story book. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–28994.
Twelve stories in the “Canterbury tales” retold in the prose of to-day. The stories chosen are those that require fewest omissions in adapting them to modern taste.
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“We cannot say that she has successfully retained the ancient flavor, and unless that is done, the task were hardly worth while doing at all.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“The transcription is fairly and faithfully done.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
“Told in a readable fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= ed. Children’s hour, 10v. $17.50. Houghton.
7–31214–23.
A ten volume anthology of the best children’s literature in story, poem and narrative.
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“It cannot be recommended for the library with limited funds. It will make, however, a valuable addition to any library that can afford it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 93. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1476. D. 19, ’07. 280w.
“Have much of interest in them. For the village library and for the home there is offered a rich choice and variety for ‘the children’s hour.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 625. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w.
“The selections suit all ages of children, and the work as a whole forms an almost ideal story-book-present for the holidays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Letters from colonial children. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23916.
This collection of chatty letters, with the intimate personal note, introduces grown-ups and children of our early colonial days—the days of privation and valorous deeds, the days of John Smith and Pocahontas, of Roger Williams, William Penn and Peter Stuyvesant.
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“These letters reflect admirably the child’s point of view on conditions and life in colonial times, and are both good history and delightful literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“She has kept the letters historical on the one hand, yet has not deprived them of their youthful tone on the other.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“The letters form an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 30w.
=Tardieu, André.= France and the alliances: the struggle for the balance of power. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–31144.
In substance eight lectures given under the auspices of the French circle at Harvard. Mr. Tardieu’s aim is to show Americans the France of to-day, in presence of Europe and the world, such as she has been shaped, after painful experiences, by thirty-eight years of sustained effort and diplomatic action. His chapters are as follows: France and the Russian alliance; France and the English “entente”; France and the Mediterranean understandings; France and the Triple alliance; Conflict of the alliances; The new Asiatic and European understandings; and France and the United States.
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=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 200w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= Guest of Quesnay. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27810.
Thru an automobile accident in the streets of Paris a young American loses the memory of his life that had gone before—a life which was rapidly winning him one of the most unsavory reputations on the continent. He becomes the charge of a scientific celebrity who undertakes a unique psychological experiment of restoration. The professor’s ends are all but defeated by the pursuit and vulture like claims of a Spanish dancer to whom his ward had formerly been prey. By rare strategy the dancer and her spies are baffled, and the “real man” comes to his own and to the love of a strong and charming woman—the guest of Quesnay.
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“Not wholly convincing, but has much of the charm of Tarkington’s earlier stories and some delightful minor characters.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“But if Mr. Tarkington never gets beneath the surface of his subject, he at least displays all the merits of the method he seems deliberately to have chosen. It is a charming surface that he presents.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 278. N. ’08. 940w.
“We discover in his new novel—metaphysics, subjected to the alchemy of a genius’s imagination, freshened with the immortality of hope, sweetened with the phenomena of love.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1061. N. 5, ’08. 760w.
“A bright and interesting story for all the metaphysics we found in it.” W: G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made a hit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is not quite convincing in its theme. But the book has movement and some fun in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
“If Mr. Booth Tarkington had only kept his story out of ‘The guest of Quesnay,’ he might have given us a delightful book.” Agnes Repplier.
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 700. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
* =Tarkington, Booth, and Wilson, Harry Leon.= Man from home. †$1.25. Harper.
8–32634.
The play in which William Hodge has scored such a genial success. It turns upon an international marriage, in the preliminary settlement for which the Kokomo, Indiana guardian of the American girl marrying a title, crosses the ocean and takes a hand in revealing to the hoodwinked girl the precise character of a group of sharks bent upon benefiting by the settlement. A good plot, shrewd interpretation of human nature, and irresistible humor give merit to the play.
* =Taylor, David Clark.= Psychology of singing: a rational method of voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and modern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–34628.
After examining the numerous scientific treatises on voice culture and testing their practical value, Mr. Taylor’s conclusion of the whole matter is that mechanical vocal management is all wrong and that instruction by imitation is the one scientifically sound method for teachers to follow. The divisions of his discussion are as follows: Modern methods of instruction in singing; A critical analysis of modern methods; Basis of a real science of voice; and Vocal science and practical voice culture.
=Taylor, Hannis.= Science of jurisprudence. **$3.50. Macmillan.
8–28859.
“A treatise in which the growth of positive law is unfolded by the historical method and its elements classified and defined by the analytical.” “It is a systematic, comparative study of Roman and English law, revealing the fact that the ultimate outcome of the one is a dominating code of private law, the ultimate outcome of the other, a dominating code of public law.” Out of the fusion, the author shows, is arising the typical state law system of the future.
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“He does, indeed, make a useful contribution to the comparative study of law. Dr. Taylor’s work in this respect is qualified to stand beside the best, and the good faith of his title is redeemed. But it is hard to resist the suspicion that his prime motive was to assert his belief that an American had influenced the development of the public law of the world fundamentally, in a manner, indeed, worthy to place the United States beside Greece or England as a molder of destinies of mankind.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 649. N. 7, ’08. 1400w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 90w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Lady Jane Grey and her times. *$4. Appleton.
8–34205.
Sound historically this biography outlines the brief life of Lady Jane Grey, the “little saint of the iconoclasts,” against the background of sordid ambitions, religious quarrels and political intrigue. There are also sketches of Mary and Elizabeth, of Edward, Katharine Parr, Dudley and Somerset, and the parts they played in the brief drama of Lady Jane’s latter days.
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“She has gone carefully over the ground for herself, made a judicious use of authorities new and old, and embodied the results in a clear and readable narrative. The book may be recommended as a sound piece of work, likely to be of use to those who are mainly interested in the personal history of the period.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 409. Ap. 4. 1600w.
“‘The times’ bear, necessarily, a disproportionate relation to the heroine. It is the fault of all these popular biographies to avoid anything that is not superficially interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“We have enjoyed the book, and would only venture to recommend to the author a little more fearless certainty of touch and confidence in her own intuitions. The spirit and the colour of the time break out too seldom. When they are allowed to have their way, the effect is convincing.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 623. Ap. 18, ’08. 540w.
=Taylor, John Metcalf.= Witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
8–17703.
The author shows from sources long hidden that Connecticut in no way repudiated witchcraft practices but took an active part in the persecution of its alleged demon-governed victims. In what manner the delusion took root in the minds of the colonists, its growth and final passing are set forth with due attention to an authentic colonial setting.
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“His book shows marks of haste, especially in the somewhat chaotic and inaccurate opening chapters, and one may be permitted to suspect some errors in his transcripts and even a possible incompleteness in his roll of witches, but, such as it is, the little volume is most welcome.” G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 179. O. ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Taylor has done a service to psychology as well as to history in searching out and publishing the original documents in the most important of the Connecticut witchcraft cases.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 208. Jl. 23, ’08. 700w.
“Despite his apology for the first four chapters they show that the history of witchcraft is beyond the scope of his powers and the bibliographical note at the end displays little familiarity with the literature of his subject.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 500w.
“In an authoritative and concise manner, yet with all the charm of a narrative, the author sets forth ... the story of the rise, spread, and passage of the delusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 512. O. ’08. 80w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Reaping. il. †$1.50. Little.
8–1781.
A cross section of Washington’s social and political life. No special lens is turned upon the slide; one sees with the naked eye a woman’s misery resulting from an unhappy marriage and the devotion of a young congressman, formerly her lover, who sacrifices political advancement and the girl he loves to aid the sufferer to obtain her lost happiness.
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“It is not a pleasant story ... and it is not particularly convincing in its treatment of social problems; but it is undeniably readable, and the dialogue is excellent.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 407. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The general atmosphere of the social life of the capital is interestingly and almost brilliantly reproduced.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Where credit for freshness is due is in the characterization.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Temple, Alfred George.= Modern Spanish painting. *$20. Lippincott.
8–13286.
“Pictures by modern Spanish painters being in great demand, it may be concluded that Mr. Temple’s volume supplies a want. He offers a copious list of the chief members of the school, the titles of their principal works, and in some instances the owners of those works—information which is not obtainable in any other work on the subject, and which must have cost a good deal of trouble and research.” (Ath.) There are 60 photogravure reproductions of the recent Spanish paintings of note.
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“We might allow for a certain degree of complaisance in an author indebted for some of his store of information to the courtesy of artists and owners, but either gratitude distorts beyond measure the expression of his true opinion, or he takes a too lenient view of what are only masterpieces of shallow frippery.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 570w.
“Mr. Temple’s book supplies the entertaining record that we needed for English readers.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 57. D. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
“A very beautiful book and one of unique value to all who are interested in contemporary European art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 782. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–13746.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Lady Tennant has exploded the frowning fortress of art criticism, and shown us the real way to see pictures—to become as little children.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 213. D. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“One of the happiest books for children that we have seen.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 334. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
“A very pretty and readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Tenney, Alvan Alonzo.= Social democracy and population. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *75c. Macmillan.
7–36152.
“An attempt to answer the question whether it is possible for modern society to realize the democratic ideal—that every man shall have a chance and know that he has it. The author assumes that this ideal, which he terms ‘social democracy,’ can exist only where the plane of living is relatively high; and he investigates, from the ‘sociological’ standpoint, the effect of the growth of population upon the ‘plane of living.’”—Nation.
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“The sample given indicates the originality, foresightedness, and statesmanlike breadth of an essay that no scholar or public man can afford to overlook.” E: A. Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 571. Ja. ’08. 870w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 511. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“An able summary of the biological principles of population in their relation to modern democratic civilization.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 154. Je. ’08. 330w.
“With its combination of things obvious and things past finding out the monograph well illustrates certain tendencies in sociological writings of the day.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Terhune, Albert Payson.= World’s great events. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–24298.
From “Marathon, the first struggle between democracy and despotism,” “the half hundred chapters come on down through the ages, choosing here a decisive event, there a political movement, or again the life of a great man, but always aiming to present the crucial time or happening, and end with “Chinese” Gordon and Egypt.’ Each narrative is very brief, rarely exceeding five or six pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Each narrative ... is written in crisp, concise style, with the aim of giving the reader the gist of events and presenting to him an attractive birds-eye view of the progress of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
“They give the essential facts of each event in their proper historical setting, and they do this in a way calculated to interest the casual reader. The book makes excellent supplementary reading for high-school classes in history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 100w.
* =Terry, Ellen Alice.= Story of my life: recollections and reflections. **$3.50. McClure.
A frank autobiography, entirely tuned to the personal note, which in its history, stage gossip, and stage criticism merges into the life of the stage in England for the past fifty years. Actors, artists and men of letters cross and recross the stage of her book, where all are seen in the light of her emotional fervor. The illustrations cover the entire period of her stage life and show the actress in her great variety of characterizations.
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“Candid often to the point of indiscretion, they have the piquancy of good conversation—of a woman’s conversation, apt in its very inconsequence, intimate in its reserves, strangely shrewd even in its too expansive moments.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 411. O. 3. 1700w.
“The pages of her book are rich not only in anecdotes of the stage, but they deal to a large extent as well with the personages who have taken a leading part in the last half-century of England’s art, literature, and politics.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is an agreeable but disappointing volume: agreeable because characteristic in its butterfly style of one of the brightest personalities known to the modern stage; and disappointing because, abounding as it does in evidences of quick and shrewd observation, it is so comparatively poor in those revelations of close personal intimacies in which the memory of Miss Terry must be so rich. The whole book would be the better for judicious editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 1100w.
“It makes an interesting book, and in some way a remarkable one, for a large part of it is truly autobiographical, ingenuously self-revelatory. The book is so well written that it holds the reader’s attention for 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 753. D. 5, ’08. 2300w.
“Her writing is for the most part frankly the writing of an amateur. But when an amateur happens, like Miss Terry, to be a born writer, the result is always charming, and one may well be thankful for the lack of professionalism.” Max Beerbohm.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 449. O. 10, ’08. 1400w.
“Here we have some criticism of actors by an actress, and a great actress. That alone will give this book a permanent worth which belongs to very few works of its kind. The criticisms of Irving are, to our mind, the most interesting and instructive part.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 447. S. 26, ’08. 1900w.
=Terry, Hubert L.= India-rubber and its manufacture; with chapters on guttapercha and balata. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–26204.
Not a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer but rather a book of information for the general reader. It gives the history of the rubber industry, treats of the production of raw rubber, and rubber plantations, outlines the steps taken in preparing it for commercial purposes, treats of the manufacture of various mechanical goods, and discusses the subject of contracts for india-rubber goods.
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“Accurate yet popular. Not too technical for general use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08.
“Mr. Terry writes on these subjects with the authority of personal knowledge, though perhaps without the lightness of touch desirable in a work of this character.” C. Simmons.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 296. Ja. 30, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 270w.
“Though dealing with a distinctly technical field, the author has succeeded in making a very readable book, and this is due not a little to his pleasing style, occasional prolixity to the contrary notwithstanding. One experiences a slight feeling of disappointment in reading the first two chapters, those dealing with the history of the matter and with the botanical origin of crude rubber. It would have been justifiable to have dealt with these topics with greater liberality.” F. E. Loyd.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 890. D. 18, ’08. 730w.
=Terry, Milton Spenser.= Biblical dogmatics: an exposition of the principal doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. *$3.50. Meth. bk.
7–16991.
“An attempt, as the author says, to present ‘the old abiding truths’ in a manner somewhat new. In fact, he is careful not to exploit any ‘strange doctrines.’ His method of exposition is based on the persuasion that the Bible is ‘a remarkably self-interpreting book,’ when its different portions are studied in their proper historical connections and in the light of contemporary literature and circumstances, so that a single system of theology may be constructed out of it. The difference in view-point of the biblical writers is not overlooked, but they are regarded as mutually complementary, never as opposed.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The whole work exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the language of the Scriptures and a reverent submission to their teachings, without any of the bitterness toward opponent, which, unfortunately, so often appears in works similarly conceived. On the contrary, there is a frank acknowledgment of the value of critical studies. None the less it seems to the reviewer that the harmonistic purpose interferes at times with freedom of interpretation and a full recognition of differences in the writers, while at times they appear to be made to say more or less than they really do.” G: Cross.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 160. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Its tone and spirit are admirable—non-controversial, open-minded, alive with warm religious feeling. Dogmatizing is avoided, and some deep questions are left open with candid and cautious reserve.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
=Thayer, James Bradley.= Legal essays. *$3.50. Boston bk.
A collection of papers on a variety of subjects connected with legal theory and practice. “There are a few of a distinctly general interest, notably an essay on the origin and scope of the American doctrine of constitutional law, a second on legal tender, a third on Sir Frederick Pollock’s suggestion that the English House of Lords and Privy council and the United States supreme court might reciprocally consult for the settlement of difficult questions of common concern, a fourth on the legal stateus of the Indian, and a fifth on ‘Our new possessions.’” (Outlook.)
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“Like all posthumous collections, these essays lack the freshness given by the final touch of the author’s hand. The best of the contributions of the book are the critical chapters on authorities and decisions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 100w.
“While [the layman] cannot judge the learning of the author, he may at least admire his lucidity, and will come to the conclusion that Prof. Thayer is entitled to rank with such philosophical and literary expositors of the principles of the law as Sir Frederick Pollock, Prof. Maitland, and Prof. Dicey, a class of which the American representatives are rather surprisingly few.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“All of the essays, and particularly those dealing with constitutional topics, bear abundant testimony to the enthusiasm, insight and thoroughness with which Professor Thayer attacked the many problems that came before him as a student and exponent of law.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Italica: studies in Italian life and letters. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13685.
With the freshness, vividness and bias which the land inspires, these papers catch and hold passing aspects of Italian life and thought. The following essays are included: Fogazzaro and his masterpiece, Venetian legends and pageants, Mazzini’s centenary, Dante in America, Giordano Bruno’s “Expulsion of the beast triumphant,” Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, Leopardi’s home, Election of a pope, Thirty years of Italian progress, Luigi Chiala, Dante as lyric poet, Cardinal Hohenlohe—liberal, Italy in 1907, and Giosuè Carducci.
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“Recommended because of the comparative scarcity of material in book form on recent Italian literature and history. In the literary essays there are some surprising lapses.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“Altogether this is not a very serious contribution to the growing number of books on Italian subjects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 437. O. 10. 250w.
“The reflections and verdicts recorded in the volume are such as we should expect from a student and critic of Mr. Thayer’s standing.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thayer has earned a right to claim our attention on matters literary and historical relating to modern Italy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 450w.
“He writes with a zest often verging on passion, and at times, perhaps, allows his feelings to permeate his facts, tingeing them with strong colors of his own. Being interested himself, he interests the reader, but his method will not gratify those historians who demand documentary evidence at every step.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 540w.
“Mr. Thayer has a pleasing style, his knowledge is broad, his scholarship unquestioned, and his critical acumen satisfying to foreigners.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“No chapter of ‘Italica’ is uninteresting or unsuggestive, but the most impressive seem those in which the critic makes all Dante students his debtors.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 271. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
“Quite apart, however, from these fulminations of a fervent believer in the Italy of progress and taxation to the starving-point, there is much of great interest in the book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 747. S. ’08. 560w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Thibaudeau, Antoine Claire.= Bonaparte and the consulate; tr. and ed. by G. K. Fortescue. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–23294.
“The present memoir covers the four years of the Consulate from 1799 to 1804, when Napoleon became emperor. Their special character consists in their reporting the conversations and discourses of Napoleon on important questions in the Council of state or in private conversation and of conversations with Josephine on political events. They are not speeches but talk as in a committee round a table.”—Sat. R.
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“This volume will give the general reader a good insight into the administrative genius of Bonaparte, but the student will consult the original edition.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 320w.
“Dr. Fortescue’s introduction here and there invites criticism. Perhaps it is a desire for brevity which is accountable for exaggerations at some points and omissions at others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 430w.
“The [memoirs] certainly rank with the memoirs of Miot or Mollien. and the ‘Recollections’ of Chaptal. The volume has an unnecessary number of misprints or slight errors.” H: E: Bourne.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“It is a pity that the printing of [the notes] was not seen to with more care, as there are some annoying but not serious slips. The book is to be warmly welcomed.” L. G. W. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 832. O. ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Fortescue has done his work with the utmost care. All has been done that could be done to make the book useful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 560w.
“No one could have provided a more authoritative edition of the valuable Thibaudeau memoirs. The translation is splendidly done, and the introduction and notes provide admirable matter to supplement the text as it appears in the original work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 88. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1350w.
=Thomalen, Adolf.= Text-book of electrical engineering; translated from the German by George W. O. Howe. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–15869.
Covers “the whole range of electromagnetic phenomena usually taught to students of electrical engineering in high-grade colleges. Starting with the elementary principles of electrophysics and electrochemistry, and stating Ohm’s law in its simplest terms, the author leads the student into the involved electromagnetic relations in dynamos by way of the most easily traveled routes.” (Elec. World.)
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“[An] excellent treatise ... that will be welcomed alike by the student and the instructor in electrical engineering.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 310. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 299. Mr. 12, ’08. 950w.
“The treatment of the polyphase induction motor is unnecessarily complicated, but that of the single-phase motor is better. It is not a ‘popular’ book, but a substantial, scholarly work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The translator has done his work with marked success; it is sufficient to say that the book does not read like a translation from the German, and all who have done such work will agree that this is high praise.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 124. D. 12, ’07. 670w.
=Thomas, Augustus.= Witching hour. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30012.
Mr. Thomas has novelized his own play, so insuring no loss of the drama’s compelling interest that was due to telepathy, mental suggestion and hypnotism.
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“A story of considerable interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“A lively and interesting narrative of romantic events brought about under remarkable conditions, and whether you are disposed to grant the facts or not, it can hardly be denied that the conclusions are entirely in accordance with the promises the author has laid down.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 500w.
=Thomas, John M.= The Christian faith and the Old Testament. **$1. Crowell.
8–14748.
The author discusses the contributions of the Old Testament to Christianity in its moral, religious, and theological teaching and in affording Christians a sense of continuity with the life of the past; but he admits that in the allegorizing of the Old Testament, and in the acceptance of all as of equal value, the true spiritual significance of the Old and much of the New Testament was lost sight of. Modern criticism is rediscovering, restoring our Bible and of the process and results of this discovery the author gives a brief but comprehensive account.
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“Brief, reverent, logical; for the general reader not familiar with the achievements and benefits of higher criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The author’s point of view is scholarly and he is thoroughly in sympathy with modern thinking. To those who doubt whether anything of usefulness is left to the Old Testament as interpreted by the modern scholar, this volume may be warmly commended.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 50w.
“A serious and scholarly treatment of present-day religious problems and difficulties.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 40w.
“It represents frank, free and devout study of current biblical problems, by one who has the taste of study and the art of expression. We commend it heartily to thinking people.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Thomas will succeed, in our judgment, in stirring up in his readers the desire to study the Old Testament with intelligent appreciation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
“He combines a full acceptance of the modern point of view with a deep sense of the value of the Old Testament and shows clearly that these two attitudes are not opposed.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“This little book is, for plain readers with scant leisure, an admirable presentation of what all ought to know who care to understand the essential facts and their significance.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
* =Thomas, William Jenkyn.= Welsh fairy book. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–26193.
“This is the first English collection ever made of an excellent source of folk- and fairy-lore.... The stories are varied, derived from old writers like Giraldus Cambrensis and the stores of accomplished modern scholars like Sir John Rhys. ‘Nothing has been inserted which is not genuinely traditionary,’ adds the author, and the book shows the richness of the mine which he has opened for English readers.”—Ath.
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“‘The Welsh fairy book’ is worth reading for several reasons. The Welsh are spiritual and musical, and they have waited for their Grimm till to-day.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 218. D. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“Adults as well as young people will rejoice in ‘The Welsh fairy book.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 544. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“It will form a welcome and even necessary addition to any child’s collection of fairy-tales.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
“On the whole, there is much novelty about the collection.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 905. D. 7, ’07. 110w.
=Thompson, Charles Miner.= Calico cat: a rural detective story minus a detective. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–30016.
In attempting to rid his premises of a mocking calico cat, a respectable Yankee shoots a tramp, slips away from the scene of trouble, and allows an innocent boy to be sent to jail. He is chosen juror on the very jury that is to try the case when his conscience goads him to a confession. The clearing up of the tangle reveals that the victim, entirely unhurt, was posing for money; that the boy believed his father to have fired the shot and was shielding him; and that a termagant wife really did have a heart.
* =Thompson, Francis.= Selected poems; with a biographical note by Wilfrid Meynell. **$1.50. Lane.
Selections contained in this volume have been made from “Sister songs,” “Poems” and “New poems,” which with a biographical note and a number of “appreciations” are intended to bear witness to a fine quality of genius.
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“I feel much in him that is great. Even in this residue from which all the dross of his work has supposedly been drawn off, there is still so much to harass the ear and tease the mind.” P. E. M.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 486. N. 19, ’08. 3500w.
“Francis Thompson’s work is of such excellence in its own kind that no selection can be satisfactory except to those who have not time for more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 395. S. 26, ’08. 1250w.
=Thompson, Peter Anthony.= Lotus land; being an account of the country and the people of southern Siam. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37975.
“Opening with a chapter on the history of Siam which suggests that research might well be turned in that direction, Mr. Thompson gives an account of the capital and then takes us right into the country.” (Sat. R.) “The picture of country life among the people, the study of their habits and beliefs—where the Buddhist faith is laid over deep-seated superstitions, tree-worship, taboo, ghost-terrors, charms, and curious rites and precautions—the descriptions of their sport, fishing, elephant driving; these, to our mind, constitute the best part of Mr. Thompson’s volume.” (Ath.)
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“It is not easy to hit the mean between a globe-trotter’s transient impressions and a resident’s cumbrous statistics, but Mr. Thompson has achieved this. [An] admirable account of a singularly attractive people.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 506. O. 27. 1570w.
“The historical sketch of Siam will well repay a careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“No more intimate book on southern Siam has appeared than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A delightful picture of a people not overanxious to march in the van of progress and of a country the wealth of which lies at present almost dormant.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 230w.
* =Thomson, John Arthur.= Bible of nature: five lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross. (Bross lib. v. 4.) **$1. Scribner.
8–25139.
Five lectures which state “some of the lessons which man—minister and interpreter—may learn from Nature.” They are: The wonder of the world; The history of things; Organisms and their origin; The evolution of organism; and Man’s place in nature.
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“The book is a joy to read and is to be heartily commended to all religious persons who feel the difficulties caused by the present scientific situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 777. D. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Not only for its clarifying of many hazy ideas, but for its correction alike of dogmatic scientists and dogmatic theologians, this volume should be in every Sunday-school library.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Heredity. (Science ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
A thoroly practical exposition based upon conclusions reached thru microscopic study of the germ-cells, thru the application of statistical methods, and thru experiment. The aim is to expand the facts of heredity and inheritance as known at present, to give the securely established conclusions and the more important theories. The handling is impartial altho the author adheres to what is called Weismannism, or—to take a particular case—the conviction that we do not know of any instance of the transmission of an acquired character.
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“The best book on the subject for the general reader; comprehensive, scholarly and popular in the best sense of the word.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The English student will welcome a volume which places within his grasp an adequate summary of the work not only of leading English authorities but also of continental writers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 47. Jl. 11. 1000w.
“This newest work, strikingly like the older ‘Evolution of sex’ in method, may well attain the same high repute.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Is intelligible, pleasant to read, and distinguished by a broad outlook.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 59. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“It is ‘easy’ reading; the clearness and force of the style hold the reader’s attention so that he forgets for the moment that it is an abstruse scientific matter which is under discussion. The chief particular in which the book is open to criticism is in the matter of construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 376. Ag. 13. ’08. 900w.
“In spite of its condensation, this is the only book in the language which has methodically handled heredity from its origin in physical reproduction to its further development in social phenomena.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 350w.
“In addition to a clear statement of current theories, there is much instructive criticism and comment, often requiring very attentive perusal, which the reader will find most stimulating and suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 650w.
“The outstanding feature of the book is its great, perhaps its excessive, kindliness and toleration.” G. A. Reid.
+ =Nature.= 78: 361. Ag. 20, ’08. 2200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The volume, if not quite so readable and full of suggestion as Metchnikoff’s, is yet of more immediate application to the problems that confront them.” Charles De Kay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 236. N. ’08. 660w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 70w.
“It is in fact a vast encyclopaedia article, in which all the aspects of the subject are presented in orderly fashion and from many points of view, always with the historical development of each, and with its varying controversies summed up with clearness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 791. Je. 20, ’08. 1450w.
“The few imperfections that might be noticed do not interfere materially with the value of the book. It fulfils its purpose as an ‘introduction to the study of heredity’ excellently well, it is rich in illustrative facts and judicious criticism, and is written in a style which is clear, consecutive, forcible and at times, even picturesque.” J. P. McM.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 210. Ag. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Thomson, William Chase.= Design of typical steel railway bridges: an elementary course for engineering students and draftsmen. *$2. Eng. news.
8–11716.
A sequel to “Bridge and structural design.” “The present volume is devoted chiefly to the presentation of six examples in design of steel superstructures. An introduction gives the necessary extracts from a specification, with some annotations, tables and a moment diagram; and there is a final chapter on latticing of compression members. The examples are selected with good judgment and cover the range of average railway bridge superstructures in a way that may be called typical.” (Engin. N.)
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“The thoroughly practical character of the work would seem to make it well suited for use as a text-book in engineering schools and of marked value to junior draftsmen in bridge shops and to those who desire to fit themselves for such work.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Notwithstanding these shortcomings, which are mostly non-essentials ... the book is a commendable effort to fill a long-felt want. It should be in the possession of all the younger men engaged in structural steel work, and many older ones will find it useful.” A. W. Buel.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 73. Jl. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“Has the character of a set of rules for designing issued by a bridge company to its draftsmen.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 476. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
* =Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with introd. and il. by Clifton Johnson. **$2. Crowell.
8–22336.
A holiday edition of “Cape Cod” whose careful word pictures are aided by a series of illustrations produced by Mr. Johnson’s camera during a leisurely tramp over Thoreau’s own course.
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“An unusually attractive reprint of the work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Thorndike, Ashley Horace.= Tragedy. (Types of English literature ser.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–15303.
The third volume so far published in a literature series which disregards the usual chronological divisions and proceeds on the basis of a division according to types. This book traces the course of English tragedy from its beginning in England in 1562, the year of the production of “Gorboduc,” thru Marlowe and his contemporaries, Shakespeare, the later Elizabethans, the Restoration, the eighteenth century, and the romantic movement, to the middle of the nineteenth century. It indicates the part tragedy has played in the history of the theatre and of literature.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The interest of the book consists in its handling of familiar matter from this unifying point of view, rather than in its contribution of new facts to scholarship. On the whole he is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a piece of sound scholarly work.” C. M. Hathaway, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1, ’08. 640w.
“Professor Thorndike’s book, taken as a whole, is mildly disappointing. We find ourselves in constant agreement with him, but with no enthusiasm. The latter part of the work is somewhat breathless, as though the writer were acutely aware of the fact that the volume must not exceed a certain length, and that everything must somehow be mentioned.” W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 592. D. ’08. 1600w.
“We must insist then that a good deal of the present work is necessarily unsatisfactory. It is not complete enough in detail to serve the scholar; it is often too meagre to preserve human interest. But, within the limitations, Prof. Thorndike has succeeded commendably.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 830w.
“Comprehensive treatment of his large subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Able review of the tragic drama in England.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 266. Ag. 22, ’08. 480w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Fly on the wheel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–27495.
A determined young Irish councellor married five years to a placid, unthinking woman whose personality he completely dominates, attempts to break up the love affair of his youngest brother and a spirited young girl. He yields to the spell of this girl’s power, finds himself in love with her as she is with him, and in his madness confesses his love. The reaction comes, he knows his duty; but the girl, young, motherless, gives up to morbid despair and ends her life as did Oswald in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
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“It is a study of sexual passion rising at times to real power. It is a conscientious and clever piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 120w.
“Best work she has done thus far.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“As a story is less sensational than some former stories by this author, but it far exceeds any of them in perfection of development and in real interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
“The end is startlingly tragic, in what seems to us a forced, unlikely way. What she does well is the description of emotions, moods, and behaviour, her sense of ordinary character is true and perceptive, and is shown in one or two quite excellent sketches, notably that of Father James.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The story is well told and interesting in its way, but singularly lacking in elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 780w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold, and Kellogg, Louise Phelps=, eds. The revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775–1777. $1.50. Wis. hist. soc. Madison.
8–8546.
Compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin historical society, the events chronicled in this volume “immediately succeeded and in a considerable degree were the direct outgrowth of Dunmore’s war.... The documents chosen for publication herein do not afford a continuous history of any one campaign or group of men. They do, however, shed light upon the principal incidents and the prominent characters of the long frontier stretching from the Greenbrier region in Southwestern Virginia to the post at Kittanning on the upper Allegheny.” (Preface.)
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“Much credit is due the editors for the excellent compilation of these documents.” V. A. Lewis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 183. O. ’08. 630w.
=Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid, pseud.).= Princess Nadine. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–42008.
“A novel involving an heiress of American birth and her ambition for a European title. Nadine is everything exquisite, aristocratic, and fascinating. About to be betrothed by her American grandmother to a lovely prince who hopes to be king of ‘Serabia,’ she meets a money king from America, whose advent completely changes her future.... Of the complications between an imprudent and revolutionary young Russian, a daring American girl, and a diplomatic Slav, the reader must learn for himself.”—Outlook.
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“The character of Nadine is the artistic merit of the story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 150w.
“The game of intrigue, which brings about Nadine’s defiance of the Czar’s government, is played light-heartedly enough, hero and heroine holding the usual marked cards.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Upon the whole, the most fitting adjective for this novel is ‘elegant.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
=Tilden, Samuel Jones.= Letters and literary memorials of Samuel J. Tilden; ed. by John Bigelow. 2v. **$6. Harper.
8–4918.
From a vast collection of papers the executors of Mr. Tilden have selected speeches, public documents and letters which not only offer sidelights on the latter half of the last century’s history but give proper proportion to public services of this man whose party standards were “too high for the multitude.” His battles and their victories are traced thru these documents.
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“If we find somewhat too much of the genial editor in the volumes, he has good examples to quote, and we should be grateful for what he has given.” F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 152. O. ’08. 1500w.
“Necessary for the historian because of details of politics, especially in New York state, but not particularly valuable or interesting to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The work as a whole is an important and historically valuable supplement to Mr. Bigelow’s earlier publications in the same field.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 205. Ap. 1, ’08. 1650w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“There is less material of first-rate political importance in these volumes than one had hoped. Though these letters add but little to our knowledge of the man, they fall in perfectly with that conception of his character which those who have studied it most closely have slowly formed.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 600w.
“Absorbingly interesting volumes. They are of the highest class of ‘memoires pour servir.’” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 109. F. 29, ’08. 2450w.
“It aids in the understanding both of Tilden’s conduct of life and of the seemingly extravagant esteem in which he was held by his intimate friends.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 862. Ag. 15, ’08. 540w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 300w.
* =Tileston, Mary Wilder=, ed. Children’s treasure trove of pearls. †$1.50. Little.
Contains some forty stories rescued from oblivion for children from five to nine years to enjoy. Among them are: Fiama; Bean Flower and Pea Blossom; Tatterhood, Tom Tit Tot; Tom, nurse’s story, etc.
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Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Tipping, H. Avray=, ed. Gardens, old and new. 3d. series. *$12. Scribner.
8–23521.
=ser. 3.= Country house and its garden environment.
“Contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield house, Holland house, Lyme hall (Cheshire, belonging to Lord Newton), South Wraxall manor, Wilton house, and Wotton house (near Aylesbury). An introduction, itself fully illustrated, gives particulars of other places.”—Spec.
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“Notable addition to garden literature.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 320w (Review of ser. 3.)
“The volume has an interest extending quite beyond that of a guide to a house or garden building.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w. (Review of ser. 3.)
“This is a very handsome and interesting volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl, 18, ’08. 80w. (Review of ser. 3.)
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–21948.
“The book discusses analytically the ultimate mode of conceiving the nature of the fundamental psychological processes. For current usage as coins of the intellectual realm, the value of such terms as feeling, sensation, attention, is sufficiently understood; but an accurate essay is indispensable when technical definition and analysis are to be reached. As an example of the clarification of concepts, as a contribution to the mode of extracting the metal from the crude ore, the work may be strongly recommended to the student analyst.”—Dial.
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“The treatment suitable to a general audience is equally suitable to the general reader.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It cannot be said, however, that the writer is without his own bias. This bias in our author’s case is in favor of sensationalism. Collections of classroom lectures are not often inspiring, but this work is a welcome exception to this rule. It must add much to its author’s reputation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 630w.
“The entire treatment of attention as sensory clearness as set forth by Professor Titchener, however, is the best which has appeared thus far. His unbiased discussion of the leading authorities and his interesting style render the book worth reading apart from its psychological value, while the list of authorities which is given makes the volume probably the best of its kind for the research student.” Felix Arnold.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 367. N. 15, ’08. 730w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city. (Grafton historical series.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–36943.
A series of sketches brought forward from twenty years ago which describe types and conditions, landmarks and structures, that no longer exist.
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“It cannot supersede or compete with definite historical treatises on the state, but it offers interesting sketches and will prove of use for certain phases of old New York life.” E. K. Alden.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 655. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“What with text and pictures, an amusing little book to look over.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
“It is well that this valuable and curious information, at first prepared for more ephemeral publication, has been preserved and collected in this tasteful volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Camp-fire of Mad Anthony. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–29723.
Tells of a tea party which took place in Philadelphia, and involved the heroes of this story; also relates the adventures of the Pennsylvania troops under Anthony Wayne, from 1774 to 1776.
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“A story used as a vehicle becomes stereotyped and Mr. Tomlinson’s strength does not lie in his plots.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1482. D. 19, ’07. 150w.
“In his customary manner, Mr. Tomlinson bases his incident upon fact. In this respect he is a seasoned writer, but he falls short in the development of his plot, and his style is not irreproachable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Mad Anthony’s young scout: a story of the winter of 1777–78. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–20024.
Philadelphia, Valley Forge and the outlying country furnish the setting for this tale of exciting adventure based upon the happenings of the hard winter of 1777–78. Noah Dare is the hero, and into the story are introduced “Mad Anthony” Wayne, Washington, Lafayette and other revolutionary generals. Also there is among the historical sidelights a clear presentation of the division among the Quakers—one portion swearing allegiance to the British government, the other, to the cause of the colonists.
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“No boy who once begins the book will want to lay it down until it is finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12. ’08. 170w.
* =Tompkins, A. E.= Marine engineering: a text book. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Gives a very full history of the development of the steam engine from Savery in 1688 to the turbine and gas producer of to-day. Much information is given to the one wishing to practise the art of designing the different structures, but the most to those desiring to become skilled in the construction, operation and care of the marine engine, as the designing of such machinery demands a line of study outside of what can be given in a treatise of this kind.”—Science.
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“It deserves and will secure a good reception from all who are interested in the subjects of which it treats. The author has the courage of his opinions, and, in not a few instances, exception may be taken to his conclusions; but in all cases the materials for judging independently are given, and readers can claim no more.” W. H. White.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 598. O. 15, ’08. 800w.
“This single criticism [about his view of the combustion chamber in the cylindrical boiler] should not take from the value of the work as it abounds in so much that is good and valuable to one seeking information on the subject and desiring to be correctly informed as to the marine engine practise of to-day and the lines on which it may be extended in the future.” Horace See.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 686. N. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor.= Dr. Ellen. †$1.50. Baker.
8–2613.
The story of a stout-hearted struggle to care for a consumptive sister and to establish a reputation as a medical practitioner in a little town among the Sierras. “It is a love story, a character study and the history of a brave woman’s struggle against ignorant prejudice, all welded into a single narrative.” (Bookm.)
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“Has no particular strength nor depth but is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08.
“It is Dr. Ellen’s courageous and victorious struggle to retrieve her losses that makes the real strength and interest of the book; although the delicate and subtle love-story which is interwoven with it will have no small share in assuring the book the popularity it deserves.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 380w.
=Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“This new book is quite as sparkling as anything she has ever done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 320w.
“It is a privilege to meet a woman so noble in character, so well equipped in mind, and so essentially feminine in heart and soul as Dr. Ellen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Tonge, James.= Coal. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–17746.
“This book is a popular presentation of the latest facts regarding the origin, position and extent of coal seams throughout the world, together with particulars as to the economical utilization and application of this indispensable mineral fuel. It treats of the history and occurrence of coal, the mode of formation of coal seams and the fossils and botany of the coal measures.”—Engin. D.
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“The book should be interesting and instructive to students of various sciences, as well as to those who, though proud of the high commercial position of their country, are unaware as to how greatly this is due to an abundant supply of inexpensive fuel.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The work appears to have been hastily compiled, and the proofs carelessly revised.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 389. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Torbett, D.= Schemers. 75c. Doscher.
8–10856.
“This volume is frankly designed to provide an hour’s light entertainment. It tells of a quite preposterous cad, of a society widow unwilling to part with her youth, of that widow’s attractive daughter, and of the daughter’s loyal but impoverished suitor.” (Bookm.) “Positively harmless ... unless the author could be persuaded to give the name of the Paris doctor who produced such marvelous results in Mrs. Van Agan’s face.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“[The incidents] are certainly new and certainly amusing.”
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 242. My. ’08. 140w.
“It is written with a certain smartness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Tourville, Henri de.= Growth of modern nations: a history of the particularist form of society; tr. from the French of Henri de Tourville, by M. G. Loch. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5819.
“Not in any sense a history of western Europe. Rather it tells how far different our society is from the society of antiquity; how a certain human race became emancipated from that society of the past and how when settled in one corner of Europe its society received a special form. The most powerful modern nations, it is declared, have gradually evolved, not by public action, but by the free play of private initiative. From germanic and gothic origins to the constitution of the present great nations, the author carefully points out the steps.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is a mass of generalizations, of which many are based on hypotheses rather than upon ascertained facts, while few, if any, are supported by sufficient evidence. The book may be of some value in suggesting new points of view: but the method is so superficial that the conclusions carry slight weight.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 898. Jl. ’08. 520w.
“The volume is very suggestive and contains some especially interesting chapters.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 230w.
“To the historical student (as opposed perhaps to the student of social science), the detail and method of these essays will have more interest than their generalizations.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 900w.
“Not the least of the author’s peculiarities is the ease with which he bends each bit of evidence to conform to his theory. The chapter on the United States is childish in its ignorance.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 900w.
“It is fair to add that Mr. Loch has done his work as translator fairly well, quite as well as the original deserves.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Valuable, therefore, though it is a sort of dictionary of sociological growth, and delightful to dip into at odd moments both for entertainment and edification, this volume is lacking in compactness, and in that lucidity and vividness which compactness brings with it.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Red year: a story of the Indian mutiny. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–979.
More of a history of the mutiny than a story. “The hero, who begins as Lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, distinguished himself especially by riding across the risen country for relief, first from Lucknow to Allahabad, and again from Allahabad to Delhi. In the latter half of the book he has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel reader could wish.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Acad.= 73: 297. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
“Is really a very fair history of the Sepoy mutiny. But its value is slight as a novel.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 400w.
“The power of ‘The red year’—for ‘The red year’ is a powerful book—lies in the stern realism of its account of the never to be forgotten events of 1857.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25370.
A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and characterization.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.
“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a blind trail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Train, Arthur (Cheney).= True stories of crime. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17543.
Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author is a good story-teller.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.
=Tratman, E. E. Russell.= Railway track and track work. 3d ed. *$3.50. Eng. news.
8–23881.
“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.) “This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)
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“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the standard authority on railway track work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the subject.” J: F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer would desire to have left out.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.
8–17997.
In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.
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“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.
“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and thought.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.
=Travis, Thomas.= Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–12983.
A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by the widely-known authority on children’s courts emphasizes the necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow, the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual cases and causes.
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“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged, reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠
“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order, and repetitions are numerous.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.
“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.
“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.
“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a few parents.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.
“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained application in the development of these youths toward straight paths in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader and to those who are not students.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“A good study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.
“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple, direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
* =Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. **$3. Putnam.
A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.
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− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.
“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the reader’s eyes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50. Longmans.
=pt. 3.= Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778; Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of 1778 with France.
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Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders and the Americans as a nation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H. E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide, and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation. His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a slight contribution to historical knowledge.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s ‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but just as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.” C. H. Vantyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George Trevelyan’s history.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian, showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired another kind of charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)
+ =Yale R.= 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=Trevena, John.= Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.
“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.
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“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly a great book—almost a masterpiece.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.
“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.
“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.
“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of ‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.
8–21129.
Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.) “Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake, Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)
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“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.
“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he may spend a very pleasant hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.
“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.
“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts in picturesque English.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
* =Trowbridge, John.= Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–26832.
The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–41576.
A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a “demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life, and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title, Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good historical novel.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.
“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”
− =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography, and is not altogether successful.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.
“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many respects to have infected his latest biographer.”
− =Spec.= 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50. Brentano’s.
The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de Polignac, and Lola Montez.
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“A handsome volume against which much might be written without diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to attract.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.
“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C.= Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15326.
The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for a principle’s sake.
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“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.
“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never have been written.”
− − + =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the author’s point of view.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“A charmingly told emotional story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.
“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of southern life charmingly drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael.= Out of chaos: a personal story of the revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.
8–17556.
From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains, oppression must eventually cease.
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“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.
“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.
“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian, who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is sure to encounter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Trubetzkoi, Pierre.= Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.
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− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and unusual artistic insight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–18336.
The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with ‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.) “The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians themselves.” (Outlook.)
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“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s translation is far from satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.
“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.
“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the translation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A rather gossipy biography.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.
=Turley, Charles.= Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)
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“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.
“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in ‘Maitland Major’].”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose.= Principles of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.
7–36223.
Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete and the result of available tests of these principles are presented here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 85. Mr. ’08.
“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above, it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon their success.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.
* =Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman.= Public water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works; with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.
8–25128.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is on the construction of water works.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.
“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on water-supply.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.
“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water, and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography appended to each chapter.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Tuttle, Hudson.= Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.
8–31129.
A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B.= Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.
8–34713.
A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses made of this park, the associations with social and political life of England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The volume is illustrated from old engravings.
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“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a consecutive history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.
“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.
“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and description.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.
=Tyler, John Mason.= Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25. Appleton.
8–29749.
From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken by a professor of biology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.” H. W. Conn.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.= Williamsburg, the old colonial capital. $2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.
7–38428.
A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full information concerning “public buildings, political and social conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of ‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the interest is mainly local.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–5821.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one to those who don’t or can’t go there.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.
“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed to convey. We note some errors.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.
“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his text will have a special interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.
“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 341. Mr. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, George.= Medievalism: a reply to Cardinal Mercier. *$1.25. Longmans.
W8–175.
“Last Lent Cardinal Mercier issued a Pastoral to the diocese of Malines in which he condemned the errors of modernism; it was a document of no great ability, and its interest for English readers lay mainly in the fact that it branded Father Tyrrell as a typical Modernist. Father Tyrrell has not unnaturally taken up the gauntlet, and he now gives Cardinal Mercier his opinion of him, of the Roman church, and of the Modernist movement, with great freedom and at considerable length.”—Sat. R.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 340w.
“Personally courteous to the Cardinal, this reply is a fine and manly specimen of British straight-hitting at the power that backs him.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“We think that this reply would have gained in power had it been more restrained, and had the author been content to explain and defend his own position without denouncing the government and morality of Rome, or holding up to scorn the weaker paragraphs of the Cardinal’s pastoral.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
“In more than one respect ‘Medievalism’ may be compared to Newman’s ‘Apologia’; in its occasion, its fine literary form, and its crushing polemic it recalls that famous work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 329. S. 5, ’08. 1800w.
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=Underwood, Joseph Harding.= Distribution of ownership. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law.) pa. *$1.50. Longmans.
8–832.
“Dr. Underwood attempts to give the history of ownership from the most primitive times, thru the eras of Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Teutonic civilizations, to the present day conception of corporate ownership and the beginnings of a return to restrictions of individual ownership, not only of land, but also of chattles.” (Ind.)
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“It is to be regretted that it is not written in a clearer and more readable style, and that it is marred by a number of historical errors which, while perhaps not of serious consequence to the substance of the work, shake the reader’s confidence in its accuracy.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 435. Ag. 20, ’08. 370w.
“He makes indiscriminate use of a variety of works, good, bad, and indifferent, upon economics, jurisprudence, and sociology, but nowhere shows a firm grasp of his subject.”
− =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 450w.
“Without proposing any concrete reforms, and weakened at times by an unjudicial impatience, it at least indicates valid reasons for cheerfulness and confidence.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
=Unwin, William Cawthorne.= Treatise on hydraulics. *$4.25. Macmillan.
W8–47.
A thorogoing class text-book as well as a work of reference. The chapters are as follows: Properties of fluids, Distribution of pressure, Principles of hydraulics, Discharge from orifices, Notches and weirs, Compressible fluids, Fluid friction, Flow in pipes, Distribution of water, Later investigations of flow in pipes, Flow of compressible fluids in pipes, Uniform flow of water in canals, and conduits, Gaging of streams, and Impact and reaction of fluids.
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“Considered as a whole, the treatment, from the scientific point of view, is terse, accurate and concise, but the many admirers of Professor Unwin will close the book with a feeling of disappointment that the writing of it has been permitted to partake of the nature of pastime rather than of strenuous work.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 77. Ja. 16, ’08. 2930w.
“The book will answer the expectations of all but the most critical, for the mistakes, in it are very few and refer mainly to experimental results with which American readers are apparently more familiar than the author.”
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 960w.
=Updike, Wilkins.= History of the Episcopal church in Narragansett, R. I., including a history of other Episcopal churches in the state; 2d. ed. ed. by Daniel Goodwin. 3v. *$15. Updike.
8–266.
A revision of a work appearing in 1847. “Dr. Goodwin has retained the text of the original work in its entirety, merely making necessary corrections and dividing into chapters. The addition of new matter he has made in the form of notes, segregated in the back of each volume, and bulking as large as the original text. The book contains a history of the Episcopal church in Narragansett and of other Episcopal churches in Rhode Island, and of all the principal families of that region, a transcript of the parish register, and reprints of many interesting old documents, letters and diaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Dr. Goodwin’s editing of the present edition shows his eminent fitness for the work.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
“The work throws so much light upon the social and ecclesiastical history of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, and gives so many intimate, self-made pictures of the life of the time that it will be sure of a warm welcome from all students of that period.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 370w.
Upson, Arthur Wheelock. Tides of spring, and other poems. $1. Small.
8–3140.
The titular piece is a brief one-act drama for whose theme Mr. Upson “has gone to Scottish history, that almost unworked dramatic quarry; and about a picturesque incident in the early life of Malcolm Ceannmor, one of the ancient Scottish kings, has created an idyl of youth.... The contrast between the cautious wisdom of experience and the daring intuition of youth lies the philosophical motive of the play.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume also contains a group of lyrics to friends.
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“Mr. Upson’s lines are full of germinal thoughts.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 196. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=Upson, Henry Swift.= Insomnia and nerve strain. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–18289.
A discussion which urges physicians to hunt for a physical basis in the cause of mania, melancholia and dementia precox. The author’s main contention, supported by innumerable cases, is that the nerve strain of those cases almost always associated with insomnia is not degenerate and is not incurable. He describes in this connection the action of the nervous system, in vascular control, in inhibition, nutrition and shock; and he formulates the difference between vital and non-vital matter, and between nerve cells and lower tissues.
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“The author’s views concerning the action of the nervous system are not altogether clear and rest upon an interpretation of nervous phenomena which few students of these subjects are ready to accept.”
− =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A very wilderness of words and well up to the high standard of obscurity adopted by writers on psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Musical memories. *$2.75. McClurg.
8–30387.
“The ‘memories’ relate to those stars, of various magnitudes, and now chiefly extinct, that were in their glory, on the operatic stage and in the concert hall in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and that cast some rays of their effulgence on the Chicago of that period.” (Dial.) Patti, Ole Bull, Wieniawsky, Rubinstein, Christine Nilsson and Theodore Thomas are among the celebrities who call back from the past pleasant reminiscences. Five chapters treat of the history of musical societies in Chicago, beginning as far back as the year 1833.
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“Professional criticisms and judgments add to the value of the book, and there are many amusing anecdotes and crisp characterizations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“A book of unusual interest to those of his own community, and hardly less attractive to music-lovers and readers generally.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 206. O. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“Mr. Upton’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to American musical history ever issued, and the numerous personal sketches and anecdotes interspersed make it as interesting as a novel to music lovers.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 367. O. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“The ‘memories’ are on the whole entertaining. There are people and things about whom and which Mr. Upton feels impelled to write when he has little or nothing to say; some of his critical remarks will call forth doubt or dissent.” R: Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 543. O. 3, ’08. 950w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard concert guide: a handbook of the standard symphonies, oratorios, cantatas and symphonic poems for the concert goer. $1.75. McClurg.
8–23575.
A combination and condensation of the author’s “Standard oratorios,” “Standard symphonies,” and “Standard cantatas” in a single volume for concert and library purposes. New matter has been added to bring it down to date, including notices of works by Brücker, Cowen, Dvorák, Elgar, Franck, Mackenzie, Parker, Parry, Sinding, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. Contains portraits of the composers included.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 50w.
“[The reader] will be puzzled only by one strange thing. In the Index reference is made to ‘Bürckner.’ His real name is Bruckner.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 321. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The index appears to be quite full and serviceable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w.
“This ‘Guide’ is sufficiently safe and authoritative if one can accept the seemingly arbitrary method of selection.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 200w.
=Urusov, Sergiei Dmitrievich, kniaz.= Memoirs of a Russian governor; tr. by Herman Rosenthal. **$1.50. Harper.
8–3431.
“A prince of an ancient Russian family, a member of the first Duma, tells in these memoirs the secrets about czardom; lays bare the intricate machinery of the autocracy, the schemes of the police department, and the intrigues and corruption that underlie the fabric of government. Prince Urusov is not a revolutionist, not a destructive agitator, but a constructive patriot, typical of the new Russia “now rising from the wreckage of the old.” The memoirs form a permanent document of Russian history.”
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“An excellent book and of more value, though of limited scope, than half the books that set out to give the American reader a general idea of Russia and the Russians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08.
“Because of the light it throws upon the inmost workings of the Russian government it is a book which every one will read with interest.” L. W. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 464. S. ’08. 430w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 400w.
“Here is a book of rare interest written from a rare point of view—an account by a native official of the intricate workings of the Russian bureaucracy.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 274. My. ’08. 1300w.
“It is the details of this absurd and anarchic system which Prince Urusov sets forth most convincingly, and at times in a highly amusing manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 461. Jl. 27, ’07. 2500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A permanent and vitally valuable historical document.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“These records and impressions are bound to take their place among the permanent documents of Russian history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“This is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to say, by any other volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 332. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
=Urwick, W. E.= Child’s mind, its growth and training; being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching. $1.50. Longmans.
E 8–29.
“Mr. Urwick’s object is to found the right teaching and training of scholars from infancy (for which he substitutes the ungainly expression infanthood) to adolescence on the results of psychology and biology, so far as these sciences have explained the development of children’s minds.” (Ath.) “Mr. Urwick’s treatment is based upon the modern conception of connation. Human behavior can be analysed largely into connative processes which set towards or away from objects of positive or negative ‘immediate value.’” (Nature.)
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“We cannot admit that he has succeeded in setting forth ‘in simple and untechnical language’ the results obtained by the investigation of ‘mind-growth as an organic process’; but he has derived from them much sound advice to teachers in their practical work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 650w.
“We find in the book elementary matter set forth in a complicated and difficult style; in consequence, the reader who is in need of such a book will find this one obscure and perplexing, while those who can readily understand the book do not need to read it.” E: O. Sisson.
− =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 150w.
“One of the most useful pedagogical treatises of recent years.” T. P. N.
+ =Nature.= 77: 410. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is rather in its scattered suggestions and its point of view than in its completed statements that it has most value. The reader feels that the author is on a good trail but needs to follow it out further. Altogether we commend the book as a most suggestive presentation of certain phases of educational theory from the point of view of functional or activity psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 16: 686. D. ’08. 600w.
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=Vacandard, Elphege.= Inquisition: a critical and historical study of the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L. Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7862.
Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the inquisition.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.
“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an apologist afterward.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh.= Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–39197.
A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering example to school-mates and teachers.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–980.
The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them, hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.
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“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”
− =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read lately.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.
“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes himself too seriously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.
“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest borders of real literature.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Vandewalker, Nina Catharine.= Kindergarten in American education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10422.
A book for teachers and all students of social and educational problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.” (Nation.)
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“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and well organized.” F. A. Manny.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.
“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.
8–21627.
A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses. The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows true service, struggle and conquest.
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“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠
“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and religious essays of the year.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 260w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1. Scribner.
8–30293.
A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who, a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the prophet Elisha.
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“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax, but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman, the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.
“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply poetic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–29361.
The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that ‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions, but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)
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“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing and reverent.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on general popularity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a devout and poetic soul.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14734.
“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it all.’”—Outlook.
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Reviewed by I. A. Loos.
=Econ. Bull.= 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.
“Finely wrought chapters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however, must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very different nature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.
=Van Dyne, Frederick.= Treatise on the law of naturalization of the United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.
7–23477.
“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book will be found to be of great value to those having jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores every year.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.
“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.
“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst).= Cry of the children: a study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. **$1.25. Moffat.
8–4342.
A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts themselves are sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠
“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Interestingly told narrative.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
=Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10276.
Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N. Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.
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“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently agreeable reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.
“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more words than either.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S. Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown. *$4. Dutton.
8–12590.
This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned, this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance, Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding, about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)
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“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.
“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest when we consider its comprehensiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
* =Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII). **$4. Putnam.
“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.
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“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted, and the nature of his weakness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false notion of the renaissance as a whole.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing autobiography into the rest of his book.”
− =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.
8–21632.
A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul, Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull, Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey, Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.
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“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.
“This book should have a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Vedder, Henry Clay.= Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–35968.
A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term there was no such thing as a closed canon.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Methods and devices for bacterial treatment of sewage. $3. Wiley.
8–10451.
“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)
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“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.
“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound. However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Verschoyle, W. Denham.= Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.
8–28960.
“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us.... The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1) absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the _gyron_.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the existence of forces emanating from the _gyron_, but by means of them he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.
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“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to science.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.
“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses, which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left quite bewildered.”
− =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the imagination.”
− =Nature.= 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.
“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.
=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26196.
The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and charming.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.
“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.
“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.
“A love story full of amusing complications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Villari, Pasquale.= Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–38555.
Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello, Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)
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“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one, although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to the philosophy of history.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.
“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary reader. The translation is well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 214. Je. ’08.
“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in the essay.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.
“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential teaching.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study still prevails.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.
“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English dress it has lost distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= English society in the eleventh century: essays in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.
8–17763.
“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the population, and the relations of people and land. Under these general headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation, with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.
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“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English society at an important moment.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.
“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in seeing the work through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.
“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.
“Exhaustive enquiry.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w
“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.
* =Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement, an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem and the religious suggestiveness.
=Voogt, Gos de.= Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–40011.
“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style, with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.
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“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in connection with the schools.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 50. F. ’08.
“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Voorhees, Edward Burnett.= Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31477.
A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint, prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.
“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.
=Vorse, Mary Heaton.= Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–14521.
A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of infection.” (Dial.)
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“A charming summer book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether delightfully.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom presumably it was written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.
“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
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=Waddell, John A. L.= Specifications and contracts. *$1. Eng. news.
8–983.
Four chapters presenting a “very sound discussion of a number of typical contracts, embodying comments on many points of trouble or difficulty, comments drawn from long experience in engineering work.” (Engin. N.)
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“These lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their delivery, as condensing into small space the essentials of the subjects treated, and in a form particularly adapted to the instruction of students. The element of illustration and example embodied in this book will recommend it to professors in technical schools, giving as it does the results of the extended experience of two writers eminent respectively in the engineering and legal professions.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“The scanty literature of engineering contracts is measurably enriched by Waddell & Wait’s new work. A separation into specifications and contracts is attempted by Mr. Waddell, with not very good success.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 84. Ja. 16, ’08. 1530w.
=Waddington, Mary A.= King. Château and country life in France. **$2.50. Scribner.
8–28628.
An intimate account of life in the French châteaux written by one “who knows her subject thoroughly well, for a good portion of her life has been spent in rural France amid the scenes and among the people she writes about so charmingly.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“As a whole the book has less interest and charm than her ‘Italian letters.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“We fear that as little pains have been taken with the writing as with the revision. It contains many agreeable pages which make the reader regret that an author who has lived among interesting scenes, and possesses a real power of description, should not have taken pains to produce a book worthy of her material and her ability.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 1250w.
“It is the human element in Mme. Waddington’s book, rather than her references to architecture and landscape, that makes it especially enjoyable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Thoroughly familiar with the scenes she describes, yet with a certain freshness of view, due to her American origin, Madame Waddington paints a picture of rural life in France with a charming directness and simplicity.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“We get some delightful and authoritative impressions from the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 430w.
“Madame Waddington’s former books have led the reader confidently to expect from her writing agreeable impressions, large social knowledge, and charm of manner. The present volume confirms that expectation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 150w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Palace of danger. †$1.50. Funk.
8–27097.
A historical novel set in the reign of Louis XV whose ruling spirit is the fascinating Madame de Pompadour. Across the pages is a shadow of the Jesuit—Jansenist quarrel, simmered down to strife between church and parliament; but the story deals principally with Louis, his favorite, and the love of the Marquise’s protégée for a ruthless count.
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“Though not anything like so strong and compelling as the historical romances of the elder Dumas, is superior to many of the popular historical novels of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The author seems nowhere to have been opprest by the weight of her historical knowledge. It rather comes to the reader as a direct and spontaneous creation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 679. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
“Plenty of rapid action and many interesting and truthful pictures of the time enliven the course of the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is a thoroughly human tale and so well constructed that the interest holds one to the end. Perhaps there are too many dramatic surprises, but they are all of the kind that might really have happened.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 120w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Stars of the opera; revised and enlarged edition. **$1.20. Funk.
7–31432.
A new edition revised and enlarged. Personal interviews and life studies of Sembrich, Eames, Calvé, Nordica, Lehmann, Farrar and Melba are followed by critical studies of the operas with which their names are especially associated.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 230. Je. ’08.
+ =Arena.= 38: 682. D. ’07. 140w.
“The book is notable as a trustworthy guide to those who are unfamiliar with the operatic stage, while as a source of entertaining reading to others who in these matters are sophisticated, it makes further distinct claims.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 165. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
“These interviews are all in good taste and authentic, each having been proof-read by the singer who gave it.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Rhine-gold: a dramatic poem; freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
7–28637.
As in his “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal.” Dr. Huckel opens the “Rhine-gold” with a criticism and description of the story. “Then comes the magnificent rendition of the great poem. It is a free translation. The author has striven to present as perfectly as possible in rhythmic form the ideas and mental pictures as well as the words of Wagner.” (Arena.)
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“The present volume will be regarded as indispensable by lovers of the music-dramas of Richard Wagner.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 681. D. ’07. 120w.
“The most valuable part of the book is, perhaps, its careful and interesting foreword.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Waineman, Paul.= Summer tour in Finland. **$2.50. Pott.
8–34794.
A tour from Helsingfors to Tornea, at the north of the gulf of Bothnia, “where only a small river divides Finland from Sweden, and where one is in the luminous summer nights of the Arctic circle.” The author gives her impressions of the people tuned slightly to the personal note, because she herself is a Finn; gives word pictures of mountains, forests and lakes; takes the reader into peasants’ huts as well as princes’ abodes; and voices thru the whole a regret for the downfall of feudalism, “for no other reason than that it was more picturesque than democracy.”
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“The writer has the ‘seeing eye,’ and a gift of describing, in poetic, and sometimes ultrasentimental, language, a variety of scenery. The book is a little too long, and the account of the railway journey southward in western Finland rather lacking in interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 539. O. 31. 400w.
“A clever writer’s impression of a delightful country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Quite half the small facts she sets down have no relevance to the matter in hand, and therefore do not illuminate it.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 368. S. 12, ’08. 1650w.
* =Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past, present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.
An informing work which “brings home to every ‘thoughtful and honest man who can look further and rise higher than his own immediate hearthstone’ the high importance of investigating the ruins of these ancient cities and bringing to light their treasures of art. Referring to the fact that the work is to be carried on by the Italian government with the assistance of an international commission, Dr. Waldstein points out that it is working together ‘on the very soil on which our common civilization rests to restore the living testimonies of culture which belong to us all.’”—R. of Rs.
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“It is the most complete and most accessible account in English of the little that is actually known of Herculaneum in ancient, mediaeval and modern times. It is when we turn to the latter portion of the book,—the portion treating of Herculaneum’s future, that we find the author’s method of exposition not only unconventional, but even disconcerting in its flights of fancy that at times verge upon the grotesque.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 507. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Waldstein deals in grand projects. He likes to move before the footlights of the stage. It seems also wide of the mark to call the excavations of Olympia and Delphi in ‘the bow and arrow phase.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1242. N. 26, ’08. 760w.
“An interesting volume—especially interesting, indeed, because of the scope indicated in its title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“The volume contains a series of valuable appendices.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 400w.
“Part 2 can only be described as the sort of day-dream in which many people probably indulge, in church or on a solitary walk, but which they seldom print. Apart from these fantasies, the authors throw little new light on questions which they must have considered.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Wales, Hubert.= Old allegiance. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–17994.
The adventures of two Oxford graduates on an island sheltering and isolating a Jacobite society with whose leader it had become a hobby to foster the old allegiance. The descendant of the Stuarts was entertained here periodically. When James VI was expected and circumstance forbade his coming one of the Oxford men masqueraded as the Stuart ruler. The adventures of the masquerader including his clever foiling of a band of dynamiters are of the Anthony Hope order.
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“The author is to be congratulated on having made a story of adventure which, though dealing with familiar topics ... has yet contrived to get itself invested with a dewy freshness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“His tale is well constructed and well written, with a light touch, a sufficient realism and a lively fancy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“When we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a due appreciation of its undoubted merits, it was entitled, ‘Purple and fine linen: a tale of two centuries, by William Pigott.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 203. Ag. 8, ’08. 220w.
=Walk, Charles Edmonds.= Silver blade: the true chronicle of a double mystery. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9527.
A Spaniard’s vendetta is responsible for the duplex problem of murder involved in this story. Among an excited group of more or less unrelated characters, all of whom are well-drawn types, moves a detective, unagitated, endowed with the impassiveness of an Indian. His methods are his own and worth studying.
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“Mr. Walk has constructed a very complicated puzzle. There may be a bit of incredulity mixt with our marvel at Captain Converse, but his ingenuity keeps us entertained, and what more has one the right to ask from a story of this kind?”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Walker, Ernest.= History of music in England. *$2.50. Oxford.
8–12789.
A history whose purpose is to sketch the main features of English music from its earliest artistic manifestation to the close of the nineteenth century. “The book has been designed from the standpoint of a musician rather than from that of an antiquarian; and even then more for the general music-lover than for the technically erudite.” More stress is laid upon the art itself than upon biographical minutiæ.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 202. F. 15. 170w.
“The best and most useful results of research are embodied; and, what is more, opportunity is afforded the reader, by means of copious musical illustrations printed in the text, to form his own conclusions. We know of no chapter on Handel so luminous and unbiased as Dr. Walker’s.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 157. F. 13, ’08. 730w.
“Dr. Walker has made an original and important contribution to musical history in this volume.” R: Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“As a whole, the book deserves nothing but praise, and it is the only condensed history of English music which is at once competent, complete, and unprejudiced.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 44. Ja. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Not merely a masterly piece of condensation, based on intimate first-hand knowledge of the available material, but from beginning to end it is written with a conviction which commands respect, and with an incisive energy and felicity of phrase which render its perusal a most stimulating literary experience.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 338. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
* =Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.
Contains “descriptive matter of the kind usually found in such popular nature books. A few pages of desultory bird lore are as far as the author has gone in her endeavor ‘to get together the most important avian legends and superstitions, and also to discover in them evidences of apparent truth.’”—Ind.
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“Contains some good photographs of wild birds.” W. J. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Is illustrated in a very satisfactory way. The quotations are apt and succinct, and there is much information in the text.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 676. D. ’08. 30w.
=Walkley, Arthur Bingham.= Drama and life. *$1.75. Brentano’s.
W 8–65.
The collected studies and appreciations of the dramatic critic of the London Times. The volume “consists of revised dramatic reviews and essays taken from the London Times and two longer and more deliberate papers, the one on modern English and French drama and the other on selected French and English plays, which were printed originally in the Edinburgh Review.” (Nation.)
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“There is a lightness of touch about his pen that makes his notices of the dullest plays entertaining reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 140. F. 1. 800w.
“There is much entertaining and a considerable proportion of solid and instructive matter in this volume. With all his brilliancy Mr. Walkley is not always consistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Walkley’s humor, which we make bold to call his most delightful attribute, shines on many pages and is the book’s saving grace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 770w.
“He is not only the shrewdest English-speaking critic of the stage to-day, but so agreeable a writer that he can be read with pleasure by people who have little interest in his subject. His ‘Drama and Life’ is like some of the plays he enjoys, but condemns. It has in places broken the mould of current dramatic criticism. It is the better reading on that account, and may be commended even to those wise persons to whom the present English stage is a subject of little interest.” F. M. Colby.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 777. My. ’08. 1800w.
=Wall, Mary Virginia.= Daughter of Virginia Dare. $1.50. Neale.
8–16952.
A story based upon the supposition that Pocahontas was the daughter of Virginia Dare.
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“A story that will have considerable mild interest for those who have taken stock in the theory that Pocahontas was a Dare—and no interest at all to those who turn up their noses at that theory.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Wallace, Edgar.= Angel Esquire. †$1.50. Holt.
8–20673.
An eccentric man bequeaths his millions to the one of four people—a defenseless girl and three daring criminals—who shall first decipher a cryptic verse containing the combination of the safe where his gold reposes. By twos and threes they try to outwit the girl, and finally one of the three, the most unorthodox of detectives, becomes the girl’s champion and defends her not only against the other two possible heirs but also against an evil attorney who takes a hand in the game.
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“A detective story with some novel turns, which can be safely recommended to connoisseurs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is not a detective story, but that much rarer thing, a dime novel as well written as detective stories have been since Poe and Conan Doyle showed us how.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
“Certainly there is no lack of entertainment for the brief time spent—or squandered—in the perusal of this thoroughly modern story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Wallace’s story will certainly make the lover of tales of crime ‘sit up,’ and will also entertain him with its comedy-side—rare in this class of fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Walling, William English.= Russia’s message: the true world import of the revolution. **$3. Doubleday.
8–18337.
Setting out to show what Russia can offer us rather than to suggest what the world can do for Russia, the author, whose sympathies are with the revolutionists goes beyond the outrageous atrocities and presents the world import of the revolution. “This volume is first of all an indictment of the Russian government. It is not too severe; but that is only because it is not possible to draw a too severe indictment. The Russian bureaucracy is the worst government now on the face of the globe, unless that of the Congo surpasses it in atrocity.” (Outlook.)
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“It is indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of modern times.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
“The Russian revolution is a phenomenon so vast that no single mind or book can possibly compass it, but ‘Russia’s message’ is the best exposition of it that has yet appeared in our language.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 610. S. 10, ’08. 660w.
“We must credit the author with giving us a great deal of learned socialistic disquisition, yet the work is dry.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Walling, though he violates the law of historiography as it is handed down to us from Germany, has given us by far the most noteworthy study of the late Russian upheaval that has appeared in this country, and one of the very few first-rate books on the subject that have been written anywhere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 8, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Walling’s work covers the whole ground of the Russian revolution in a very interesting and instructive way, and though his book is not likely to convey the same message as his title seems to imply, it will be indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of modern times.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 409. Jl. 25. ’08. 870w.
“The book is a complete study of the whole situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His passionate devotion to what he regards as the rights of man gives interest to his book, but also contributes its chief defect. It has impelled him to make a volume much larger than it need to have been. It is the work of an avowed partisan.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 764. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“The struggle now going on in the czar’s empire has a vital significance for the future of human society, and Mr. Walling’s clear-cut style drives home this truth with great force.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Essays, political and biographical; ed. by Francis Holland. *$3. Dutton.
8–32327.
A volume of biographical and political essays, very many of which appeared originally in the Edinburgh review. Among them are essays on George Savile, first Lord Halifax, George Crabbe, Godolphin, The dining societies of London, and Croker papers.
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“Though hardly profound, they are always agreeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 208. Ag. 22. 360w.
“All the papers are interesting and readable—excellent specimens of the author’s genial style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 250w.
“We heartily commend this posthumous volume. We regret that the titles of the books which called forth Sir Spencer’s reviews, and the names of the periodicals in which they first appeared (with dates) have not been given. The essays themselves abound in interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
“One of the most enjoyable of the essays is a critical appreciation of George Crabbe, the East Anglian poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 80w.
“Will add nothing to the historian’s reputation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
“We have found a chapter of reminiscences by his daughter one of the most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 166. Ag. 1, ’08. 1300w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Popes and science: the history of the papal relations to science during the middle ages and down to our own time. *$2. Fordham univ. press.
8–15255.
The “brief of an advocate” which shows that popes are liberal patrons of science, and that they have encouraged medical research. “He collects many instances to show physicians in good standing in the Church did use dissection and make considerable progress in anatomy and medicine, and argues that the treatment of the sick and insane was not so heartless and irrational as we have been accustomed to believe. Finally, he brings forward Crookes, Wallace, Richet Lodge, Lombroso and the psychical researchers to prove that the tendency of science is away from materialism and toward the recognition of the spiritualistic interpretations that it used to sneer at.” (Ind.)
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“He is occasionally tempted to push the claims of his clients beyond bounds.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 830. S. ’08. 920w.
“His books are not more partisan than White’s ‘Warfare of science with theology,’ against which they are chiefly directed, and they should be read in connection with it by those who want to get both sides.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The book is well worth reading for its extensive learning and the vigor of its style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“The writer’s unbroken silence on the workings of inquisitors and the censorship is fatal to his arguments. He has vindicated some churchmen, but not the Church.”
− =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“He is no mean antagonist in debate, and in this case he comes armed with a wealth of information beyond the ordinary layman’s reach.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 580w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Thirteenth greatest of centuries. *$2.50. Catholic summer school press, 110 W. 74th st., N. Y.
7–26016.
“All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth century are reviewed at generous length—the rise and character, the curricula and the influences of the early universities; the steps taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the period; the Latin hymns of the church, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the Golden legend, the Romance of the rose, Joceylin of Brakeland, Matthew Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law; and the beginnings of modern commerce.”—Cath. World.
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“Dr. Walsh, who is both a student and a popular lecturer, comes forward in this volume, laden with the results of omnivorous reading, and lays his treasures, in almost boundless profusion, at the feet of his audience.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 532. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“We respectfully commend to the open-minded his presentation of that great epoch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Walsh’s book, maintaining that the thirteenth is the greatest century in human annals, is, of course, not scientific, but interesting it certainly is, and, because of its abundant information, it is valuable too.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 639. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“As an interesting and accurate account of medievalism, with its intensity, its enthusiasm, its devotion, as well as its narrowness and exclusiveness, this volume may be read with pleasure and profit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 419. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
“This dull, thoughtless and styleless volume contains a mass of interesting facts, most of which were doubtless novel to the lecturer’s audience; and if we cannot commend his manner of presenting them, which resembles, on an elephantine scale, that of our snippet press, we cannot doubt that in many of his hearers he has started the train of profitable thought.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 175. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
=Walsh, William Shepard.= International encyclopedia of prose and poetical quotations. $5. Winston.
8–18548.
“Differs from most books of its class in the kind of quotations included and in the treatment. It in fact combines with ordinary collections of ‘elegant extracts’ something of the book of phrase and fable and something of an author book.” (Nation.) “There are selections from many languages, but all under one alphabet, and all thoroughly indexed.” (Outlook.)
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“Altogether a cursory inspection of the work gives the impression that it may be more than ordinarily useful. The indexes are full, the printing careful except for the occasional Greek passages which show a sovereign contempt for the rules of accent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“So far as it goes [it] is an excellent book of reference. Its arrangement is such that it is a very easy matter to find what one is looking for if the matter is among the quotations included in the book. It is rather startling to discover that a considerable percentage of the American and English writers of note of our time are quite ignored in Mr. Walsh’s compilation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
“The volume is a welcome addition to the literature of its class.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 70w.
=Walton, George Lincoln.= Why worry? *$1. Lippincott.
8–16562.
“The author discusses worry and obsession from the standpoint of the neurologist, devoting most of his attention to how absurd and dangerous is the mental attitude of those who can’t stop tapping with the fingers or can’t endure such tapping; who must have the head of their bed to the north or will not sit with the face to the wall; who go back three times to see if they locked the door or wash the hands after touching anything.”-=Outlook.=
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“A practical, readable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 140w.
“From this little volume ... it is quite possible for a reasonably ‘fussy’ person or hypochondriac to extract extremely beneficial prescriptions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Though life us do part. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–26679.
A story which teaches a lesson of inviolable love. Love-making and marriage under the most promising of circumstances are followed by disagreement and separation. The husband, a young physician, enlists in the Cuban war, and after a short period of service is reported dead. In reality he is not dead, and as a much scarred and wounded stranger, comes back to his town unrecognized even by his wife, leases from her his old office, and, thru service, wins her love. Important also in the negative-lesson sense is the vengeance of a collie upon a vivisector whose hand on the point of offering a sacrifice to science, was staid by searchers for the lost dog.
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− =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“With the exception of her heroine, she introduces her people to the reader before she has made intimate acquaintance with them herself.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
“There is a happy working out of the skillful and original plot.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“A story that will interest, if it does not reform, readers who enjoy Mrs. Ward’s cleverness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“This author still retains a sweetness of the mind in describing natural scenery or even garden scenery.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“If she were a young writer we might be tempted to say of her recent work that it has shown increased promise. It seems to contain more sentiment and less sentimentality, less appeal to the sensibilities of the schoolgirl and the shoplady, than marked the ‘Confessions of a wife,’ and (in less degree) its successors.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 600w.
“A love story that will not add to its author’s literary reputation or give its readers a shock of delight.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ward, John J.= Some nature biographies: plant—insect—marine—mineral; with upwards of 200 illustrations reproduced from photographs and photo-micrographs taken by the author. *$1.50. Lane.
8–12203.
A series of nature studies, originally published in the Strand, Pall Mall, and other magazines which deal with the observations in the English woods and field. It “may be regarded as a kind of kinematograph in book form.” (Nature.) It presents the life history of certain butterflies and moths, the descriptive material being aided by some fine photographic work.
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“Is one of the best of its class that can be put into the hands of any boy or girl who loves nature and seeks to be told more about her.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 197. F. 15. 380w.
“Are of interest to American readers, not only because of the painstaking care with which the author has gathered his facts and his illustrations, and the pleasing manner in which he has narrated them, but also because of the fact that some of the chapters ... have no limitations of locality to circumscribe their interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Interesting and well written, and give evidence both of a sound knowledge of the best authorities and considerable independent observation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A better book of its class we have never seen.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 147. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“He writes also in the same pleasant and informing manner on the development of buds, the decay and fall of leaves, the senses of insects, and the story of a piece of coal.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 907. D. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Testing of Diana Mallory. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26683.
In the world of her book Mrs. Ward has once more placed strong men and weak, and intimately inspects manners and motives, settings and atmosphere. Her heroine is adorable; her hero, weak of will and an unconscionable cad. Oliver Marsham confesses his love for Diana Mallory. He soon learns that she is the daughter of one Janet Sparling, gambler and murderer. He retreats, leaves the girl to suffer, pursues his way to parliament, mismanages his campaign, is hit by an enemy’s missile, and, when failure and death stare him in the face, turns to Diana, who ministers to him, marries him, and woes him back to life. Not overcome by the revelation of her mother’s crime, not resentful when Oliver deserts her, not shrinking when love and duty send her to Oliver’s bedside, Diana seems to have transcended the sense of distorted forms to the realities that constitute the life principle.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“Marsham must be regarded as the weak point in the story. Neither his position as a rising politician nor his personal charm and brilliancy impress us as they are intended to do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3, 460w.
“Is not a great novel; it is a moving tale.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 149. O. ’08. 1050w.
“It is all so extremely well informed, and so thoroughly well done, that it is difficult to understand why we should not be more deeply moved by it and why it should not make a more lasting impression.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 454. D. 16, ’08. 500w.
“There is not a thrilling scene in the book, nor a single character of extraordinary fascination; but it is written with a fineness of perception, a delicacy of expression, that redeems it from the commonplace.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 896. O. 15, ’08. 970w.
=Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“To its readers’ deepest and highest human feeling it appeals with the irresistible power of truth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
“Our respect for Diana is put under an almost intolerable strain. Are such people quite worth presenting to us on so large a canvas?”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Considered as a novel of society, ‘Diana Mallory’ is fascinating and authoritative; considered as the story of a young woman pathetically situated, it is moving and satisfying.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 505. S. 19, ’08. 770w.
“A romantic story in Mrs. Ward’s best style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by C. L. Rudyard.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 779. N. ’08. 2400w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“Has an assured welcome in the library, and a space already waiting for it by the side of ‘Lady Rose’s daughter’ and ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 697 N. 28, 08. 480w.
“It is not a great novel, but Diana is almost a great figure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 970w.
“Judged by the test of originality, the book stands on a much higher plane than any of its three predecessors, while the story, regarded merely as a story, is at least as engrossing, as well furnished with incident, and as strong in dramatic interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 506. O. 3, ’08. 1300w.
=Ward, Robert De Courcy.= Climate—considered especially in relation to man. (Science ser., no. 19.) **$2. Putnam.
8–12801.
With the needs of both teacher and student kept in mind the author co-ordinates and sets forth clearly and systematically the broader facts of climate. The work is intended to be supplementary to the first volume of Dr. Julius Hann’s “Handbuch der klimatologie,” translated into English in 1903.
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“The book contains a good deal of interesting historical material as well as a very clear-cut and informing presentation of the facts of climate as they are now known.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 524. D. ’08. 80w.
“A fit supplement to Hann’s, presenting clearly and reducing to its simplest terms a subject over which first-hand knowledge and research and a cumulative experience in teaching have given him the mastery.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
“An important volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Ward has succeeded in presenting a well-written volume, suitable for the classroom, being methodical in arrangement, and clear and direct in statement.” O. L. F.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 841. D. 11, ’08. 820w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 783. N. 14, ’08. 420w.
=Ware, Richard Darwin.= In the woods and on the shore. $2. Page.
8–17814.
A record of several seasons of hunting and fishing in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the eastern coast of Massachusetts. “The book has a human side, for there seems no better way to become acquainted with one’s fellows—not even the French method, of dividing an inheritance with them—than by camping out in the wilds with them for a season. On some of his longest expeditions, Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working company; so that this book, unlike most of its fellows, has a feminine touch added to its other desirable features.” (Dial.)
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“The influence of the woods, coupled with the single-mindedness of the sportsman, has given a simplicity and directness to the style that is good to meet, and the pages may be aptly described as spacious.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
“Written in a pleasant style by a hunter of experience.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Warfield, Rev. Benjamin Breckinridge.= Lord of glory: a study of the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial reference to his deity. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–38253.
“An examination of the designations applied to Jesus in the synoptics, John, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the Catholic epistles, and the Apocalypse satisfies Professor Warfield that all the New Testament writers, beginning with Mark, held His person to be supernatural and divine in the fullest sense. The result is ‘to throw into prominence the unitary presupposition by the entire New Testament of the deity of our Lord.’”—Bib. World.
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“Throughout the book interpretation is strained, yet it is fair to add that the author’s purpose, to examine the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial reference to His deity, is useful, and that he has shown wide acquaintance with the writings of New Testament commentators.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 500w.
“In some matters, one feels that Professor Warfield has been too easily convinced, e. g., in his treatment of ‘lord,’ and that his finding is too sweeping in consequence.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 160. F. ’08. 100w.
“The result is the most exhaustive monograph which has appeared in English on the subject.” I. F. Wood.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 75. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“To one already holding to it, it seems conclusive. To an inquiring mind, indisposed or unable to scrutinize the argument very closely, it may carry some conviction.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja, 4, ’08. 260w.
=Waring, Eleanor Howard.= White path. $1.50. Neale.
7–41587.
A story with a problem which deals with a man and a woman each of whom has lived thru the agonies of an unhappy marriage. Their friendship terminates in love, but their legal ties prevent marriage, so they are content to walk in a white path of idealism, eliminating entirely all material relations.
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=Lit. D.= 36: 97. Ja. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Warren, Maude Radford.= Land of the living. †$1.50. Harper.
8–20711.
Chicago is the scene of this story of love and city politics. An Irish political boss, who winks at questionable practices that are profitable, adopts a sturdy little youngster of the streets, and attempts to bring him up as a machine. The lad’s genius and goodness foil the machine methods of the ‘boss,’ no less than the corrupt agencies of reform thru which a rival hoped to win both a bride and an election.
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“The characters are well conceived and contrasted; there is, however, a trace of weakness in construction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“A book to be cordially commended and read with quiet enjoyment.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 280w.
“Into the oft-told tale of ward politics in Chicago the author has infused some new effects by making it at the same time a study of two phases of the Celtic nature—the idealizing and the domineering.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“The book as a whole, while neither deep nor large, has movement and variety, so that it is readable in more than an ordinary degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 70w.
=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Danton and the French revolution. **$2.50. Jacobs.
8–15330.
A popular history of the French revolution in the midst of whose war of ideas the figure of Danton is traced as he rose to sudden power, was cut off in the heyday of his manhood, and sent to the scaffold in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 216. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A book on a great topic, and worthy of it. In but one respect does the writer mar his reader’s pleasure—he quotes frequently and copiously without naming his authority. Clergymen who join socialists and anarchists in prating of revolution, justifying the latter by allusion to the French revolution, should read Mr. Warwick’s book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“Mr. Warwick shows no evidence of having made any study of original materials. He shows no remarkable dramatic insight.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 40w.
=Washburn, Margaret Floy.= Animal mind: a text-book of comparative psychology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–6095.
The facts set forth in this book have been deduced from experimental work in comparative psychology. The author shows the difficulties besetting the student who desires to know the contents of minds below the human level. Knowledge must be obtained by way of inference from behavior. The questions then confronting the comparative psychologist are: By what method shall he find out how an animal behaves? and How shall he interpret the conscious aspect of that behavior? These questions are answered scientifically thruout the study.
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“While the book offers nothing new to the scientist and psychologist, it is a careful, sane, reliable piece of work.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Renders accessible to student as well as to the studious layman the kind of data, the critical interpretation of results, and the source of the guiding principles, that in the modern view are likely to bring some systematic understanding of animal psychology.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 39. Jl. 16, ’08. 620w.
=Ind.= 64: 758. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“It will be found indispensable to all workers in the subject of animal behavior, and ought to be read extensively by physiologists.” S. O. Mast.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 467. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“Psychologists will be unanimous in their gratitude to Miss Washburn for the very thorough way in which she has accomplished her task.” W: Brown.
+ =Nature.= 78: 269. Jl. 23, ’08. 480w.
“The author does not juggle with facts; she is sternly scientific in the matter of deductions and conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 153. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“The strong feature of the work is the systematization and correlation of facts.” K: T. Waugh.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 205. Je. 15, ’08. 1650w.
“In the chapter on hearing, the author, while giving a good résumé of the field, makes the mistake of saying that birds have no cochlea. The book as a whole is so well done that we venture the opinion that its usefulness will continue for several years to come.” J: B. Watson.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 275. Ag. 28, ’08. 1050w.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Mother’s yearbook: being a practical application of the results of scientific child-study to the problems of the first year of childhood. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–16420.
Each month of a baby’s first twelve is carefully followed, the possible development outlined, and the mother’s preparation and responsibility dwelt upon; the educational principles of Froebel, Preyer, and others being applied after a manner that will assure the most healthful and rational results. The book is a common sense mother’s book based upon thoroly tested scientific principles.
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“For the young mother to whom her new baby is more than merely a pretty plaything, we have seen no book better than this.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 40w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Negro in business. $1.50. Hertel, Jenkins & co.
7–37616.
Furnishes some record of the business awakening among the negro people in the United States. “Part 1 is devoted to accounts of the success different members of the race have achieved in various lines of business, the material being mainly biographical in its nature....