Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as

portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr. Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.” There will be a final volume devoted to an index.

+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 928. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising amount of it is reprinted from other books.”

+ — =Dial.= 38: 322. My. 1, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 390w.

“A model of what an index should be.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 16.)

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.

“[The index] is model work of its kind.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 838. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)

=Hume, Fergus.= Mandarin’s fan. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl. Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women from which to select the real criminal.

“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in lively contrast to each other.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 70w.

“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w.

“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”

— =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Secret passage. †$1.25. Dillingham.

The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of people become involved in it; several love stories past and present serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the guilty one.

“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w.

=Hume, Martin Andrew S.= Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.

Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of our own country.”

“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”

— =Acad.= 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w.

“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in every chapter.”

— — — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w.

“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the importance of its thesis.”

— =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”

— — =Nation.= 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w.

“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters somewhat more convincing.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w.

“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great reading crowd.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 2020w.

“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr. Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 514. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1180w.

* =Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.

Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature, the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about him who worked solely to further their own religious and political aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great intelligence.” (Acad.)

* “The latest and by far the clearest account of these six queens.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1196. N. 18, ‘05. 1500w.

* “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to make us feel that he is human.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4. 1420w.

* “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is all really there.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ‘05. 1410w.

=Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte.= Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Doubleday.

“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory letter.”—Outlook.

Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 380. Je. ‘05. 2200w.

“Admirably translated into English.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.

“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs, manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just and much less bitter.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 782. Ap. 6, ‘05. 480w.

“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.

“His description of English manners is not without humour and incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is marked by sympathy and insight.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.

“Brilliant and lightsome pages.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 592. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2210w.

=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.

A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts. The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of Indian chiefs.

* “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the most of it.”

— =Ind.= 59: 1231. N. 23, ‘05. 410w.

“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 210w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 668. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.

=Humphreys, Alexander Crombie.= Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.

“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin. N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes, Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.

“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the start, and it not allowed to lag.”

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 860w.

=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists. **$1.50. Scribner.

Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann, Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances of enduring success would be better.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w.

“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 841. Je. ‘05. 1100w.

“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 89. Jl. ‘05. 380w.

“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.

“His style is not exactly engaging, and we hold some of his admirations to be misplaced; but, when all is said, ‘Iconoclasts’ is a capital book, lively, informing, suggestive.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1040w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 450w.

“Mr. Huneker’s style is brilliant, audacious, often paradoxical, and full of sweeping generalizations. He knows his subject thoroughly.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.

=Hunt, Agnes.= Provincial committees of safety of the American revolution. $1. Western reserve university, Cleveland, O.

“The present work comprises five chapters. In the first three the committees or councils of safety in the New England, the middle, and the southern colonies respectively are dealt with; the fourth presents a general view of the character and work of these bodies; while the fifth and last seeks their origin in preceding English and colonial experience. The investigation rests almost wholly upon the sources; and the result is thoroughly enlightening for many important questions connected with the struggle for independence.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Every special student of the American revolution will find this work very useful for its collection of facts, its table of the powers of the committees in the several states, and its convenient bibliography of works relating to the subject.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

Reviewed by George Elliott Howard.

+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 689. Ap. ‘05. 390w.

“Is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 110w.

* =Hunt, Violet.= Cat. *$2. Macmillan.

“The cat’s story of the women folk with whom she lived, and whose sentimental attitude toward herself she inwardly despised while she endured it for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Of course it is a story for girls.... It deals with a cat and her family of kittens and with Auntie May, who is still young, and a love affair of Auntie’s.... Miss Hunt ... arranges it so that the young man who loves Auntie May shall hate cats—hate them so that the very presence of one in the room makes him frantic. And Auntie May, when it come to the test, prefers her man to her cats.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.

* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 490w.

* “Good reading and wholesome.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 6, ‘05. 230w.

* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.

* =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

* =Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.

This twelve volume work on English political history is announced under the following authorship: Volume I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II. 1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 1216-1377, T. F. Tout; IV. 1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A. F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge; IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI. 1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotherham; XII. 1837-1901, Sidney J. Low.

* “The professed student will revel in this book, in its accurate scholarship, in its clearness of style and arrangement, in its maps and indexes, and, above all, in the invaluable appendix which Dr. Hunt’s unique knowledge of the original authorities of the period has enabled him to draw up.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1097. O. 21, ‘05. 510w. (Review of v. 10.)

* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 1050w. (Review of v. 10.)

* “There is not much that is new or startling either in Mr. Hunt’s narrative or in his opinions; it is on his sober and wholesome common sense that the reputation of this book will depend, and this is not the least important recommendation of such a series as the present.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 346. O. 20, ‘05. 1380w. (Review of v. 10.)

* “A very useful book, in which the sense of proportion, the volume of information, and the continuity of narrative are good.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. (Review of v. 10.)

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 10.)

=Hunter, (Wiles) Robert.= Poverty, **$1.50. Macmillan.

The author has been actively engaged for ten years in university-settlement work in New York, Chicago, and London, and his book aims to awaken the unthinking and unseeing to a realization of the grim and terrible conditions existing among our poor. He describes evils, points out remedies, and sets forth the pitiful struggles of the underpaid and underfed wage-earners. The book is divided into seven chapters: Poverty, The pauper, The vagrant, The sick, The child, The immigrant, and Conclusions.

=Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.

“In his volume, entitled ‘Poverty,’ Robert Hunter has rendered for the United States the same service that Frederick Engels rendered to England sixty years ago by the publication of his volume on ‘The condition of the working class.’ No student of philanthropy, or of sociology, can afford to ignore this book. But when all deductions on the ground of inclusiveness have been made, the arsenal of facts here brought to the attention of the critic must command the respect of the candid.” Florence Kelley.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 555. Ja. ‘05. 370w.

“The conscience literature of social progress receives an important contribution in ‘Poverty.’ This work, within certain limits, is strong, fine and deserving of great praise. Mr. Hunter’s remedial measures are for the most part sane, reasonable, just and necessary, and they will appeal to tens of thousands who would be frightened if one proposed more fundamental measures. Books like this are of immense value at the present period in our conflict against the sordid materialism that is ranging itself with reaction and subtly, when not aggressively, opposing the ideal of democracy and social progress.”

+ + =Arena.= 33: 219. F. ‘05. 1480w.

“There is a certain literary quality to Mr. Hunter’s book which will insure it a wide vogue. Mr. Hunter’s book is not one that commands our confidence.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ — =Atlan.= 95: 555. Ap. ‘05. 320w.

“While it will meet with objections and while there is room for differing with many statements of the author, the work is a distinct contribution to the literature of sociology.”

+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. ‘05. 590w.

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 399. Je. ‘05. 580w.

“The author shows a wide and intimate knowledge of his subject, and he has recorded his observations and conclusions in a scholarly, frank, and sympathetic spirit. When he speaks of the cure of the difficulty, his position is necessarily less strong and less satisfactory.” Constant Huntington.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 90. Ja. ‘05. 660w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 340w.

“Mr. Hunter has head as well as heart, and his book both convinces and inspires. The best chapter is that on ‘The child.’ The poorest chapter is that on ‘Immigrants.’ ‘Poverty’ is fairly well written and will undoubtedly be a standard book on the subject for the next few years.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 97. Ja. 12, ‘05. 970w.

* “Impressions are quite elaborately reinforced throughout by statistics and authorities, and, to this extent, they are calculated to mislead the unwary.” Mary E. Richmond.

+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 506. Jl. ‘05. 490w.

“The author has faced a grave problem resolutely. He has stated it in clear terms. He has gathered together the best and most intelligent thought upon the subject. Mr. Hunter’s book is a landmark in the American literature upon the subject.” S. G. Lindholm.

+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 277. Mr. ‘05. 1160w.

“Such a book as this stands in deplorable contrast with Mr. Rowntree’s study of poverty in York.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 70. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w.

“The book as a whole, has one aim—namely, to show the grievous need of certain social measures calculated to prevent the ruin and degradation of those working people who are on the verge of poverty. Mr. Hunter’s book on ‘Poverty’ is the most impressive and important book of the year. Every page is crowded with vital matter. There is no high coloring; only a plain, quiet statement of the frightful facts. The book should attract national attention. It should have a million readers.” E. Markham.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 1. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2090w.

“His volume is sympathetic rather than scientific—the work of one who is first a philanthropist, and second a student. It is human—intensely so. It has the defects of its qualities. Looking at the problem of poverty from the view point of the poor, it is somewhat too somber in its interpretation of existing conditions.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 540w.

“The most telling facts that he presents are facts drawn, not from official reports, but from actual experience and observation. As a record of such data his book is an extremely valuable contribution to sociology.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w. (States scope of book).

“It is to be regretted that Mr. Hunter did not make a more judicious and careful use of his statistical material. There is much else that is of interest and value in the books.” J. E. Cutler.

+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 86. My. ‘05. 1290w.

* =Hurll, Estelle May.= Bible beautiful: a history of Biblical art. **$2. Page.

“The book aims to trace the development of Bible illustration from the crude pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art of the mediaeval mosaics, cathedral façades, stained glass windows, and mural frescoes, and finally to the modern work, mostly English, of the last two centuries. Three special indices are provided; one of artists, for the art student; one of places, for the tourist; and one of Bible subjects for Bible students.” The volume is uniform with the “Art lover’s series” and about fifty half-tones of various types of sacred art. (Dial.)

* “An interesting and comprehensive, though distinctly popular, study of Biblical art.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.

* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “She well describes the pictures which themselves describe the Bible.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Husband, T. F., and Husband, M. F. A.= Punctuation: its principles and practice. **75c. Dutton.

The first part of this book is historical and, beginning with the earliest inscriptions which had no separation of words or punctuation, it traces the development of punctuation and shows why it is needed. How it should be used is the subject of the second part which gives a full discussion of the uses of each stop.

“Messrs. Husband appear to be too sensitive to the look of stops, to the suggestion of a skeleton, and their own sparing use of them is the one fault in a good book.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 978. S. 23, ‘05. 1150w.

“A practical little volume, which is also strong on the theoretical side, and may be commended as a guide to a neglected subject.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 469. O. 7. 260w.

“The book seems to us both widely useful and entertaining.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 520w.

“The book does good service in showing the growth of our system of punctuation, and most of the authors’ positions are well taken and carefully reasoned out.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 100w.

=Hussey, Eyre.= Miss Badsworth, M. F. H. †$1.50. Longmans.

Hugo Badsworth, master of Cranston Hounds has an old-maid sister and a niece, both of the same name, Lavinia. Upon his death, a will, made in jest, is discovered stipulating that unless Miss Lavinia Badsworth follows the hounds upon certain occasions his money is to go to a reprobate nephew. The niece fulfills the terms of this will for her aunt and all is well.

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w.

“Although somewhat diffuse it is pleasantly told.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.

“The book ... can best be described by the adjective ‘breezy.’”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 200w.

* =Hutchinson, Horace Gordon,= ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.

“The ‘Country life’ volumes on Big game shooting under the competent editorship of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, contain an exhaustive account of all the larger game animals of the world, from the Scottish red-deer to the African elephant. The first volume deals with Europe and America.”—Spec.

* “The style is graceful, easy, and animated, and the interest never flags, because the author is unaffectedly interested in the subject.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 580w.

* + =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 410w.

=Hutchinson, Horace G.= Two moods of a man. †$1.50. Putnam.

The two moods which war for the ascendancy in young Hood are one which compels allegiance to the gypsy wife whom he had married after the Romany rite, and another which bids him desert the gypsy and marry a high minded Philadelphian. His philosophy which claims the divine right of the Greek “daemon” to guide him is a cloak for his selfishness. Intense enthusiasm and reactionary suffering show him to be absolutely without poise.

“This is an extremely interesting, yet deceptive story, in which the cleverness of the telling often dazzles and obscures the true significance of incidents and motives.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 390w.

“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr. Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing but praise.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15, 330w.

* “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 80w.

“A book of almost startling originality and of very unusual interest.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 790w.

* “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession of scenes.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 320w.

“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 150w.

=Hutten, Baroness von.= He and Hecuba. †$1.50. Appleton.

A poor English rector who is atoning for the passionate past by faithful service to his flock at the expense of himself, his invalid wife, and his neglected children, meets a beautiful southern woman who awakens in him his buried youth, and he takes up his pen and writes an anonymous book of his young days and of his downfall. The book sells, but he is obliged to denounce it from the pulpit because of his bishop’s crusade against it. Unhappy complications follow and other characters bring into the story all the elements of tragedy.

* “There are excellent bits of portraiture in this story,—bits which make one regret that the book as a whole should be stamped as frankly and crudely melodramatic.”

— + =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 120w.

* “This novel is uneven, with some good touches, but, as whole, painfully harrowing, cheaply melodramatic, and decidedly unwholesome in its treatment of love. In an obvious attempt to achieve strength, the author has only compassed a cheap and florid rankness.”

— =Lit. D.= 31: 965. D. 23, ‘05. 580w.

“She mars, too, by faults of taste, which belong to the current school of fashionable fiction, a story which in its elements is true and strongly human and developed with no little skill and cleverness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 460w.

“There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for this reason to like ‘Pam,’ with all its cleverness, will feel the same objection here.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.

=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam. †$1.50. Dodd.

The story of Pamela Yeoland whose mother, Lord Yeoland’s daughter, outrages her family by eloping with a popular tenor who deserted his wife and family for her. They live happily, however, in Bohemia, among disreputable and brilliant associates. Little Pam, at the age of ten, is taken from these surroundings by an apparently respectable grandfather, and her observations of her new and conventional life lead her to the conclusion that marriage is both undesirable and unhappy. This belief colors her own love affairs. The book closes when she is still young and her future is undetermined.

“A novel of considerable psychological insight. The book, though written with a light touch, deals subtly with some deep questions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 233. N. ‘05. 580w.

“The novel is artistic to the last degree, and absorbing as a play by Shaw.” Carolyn Shipman.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 590w.

=Ind.= 58: 615. Mr. 16, ‘05. 290w.

“Is quite as interesting from its logical working out of a problem in social ethics as it is for its strong character sketching and literary style.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.

=Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“It is interesting, even sinfully interesting. To the thoughtful reader ‘Pam’ holds both an immoral and a moral.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 206. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.

“The figure of the quaint little girl and her talk are decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary. We care much less for her when she is a young woman.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.

“It is the most daring story that has appeared in many months. It is an interesting book of artistic purpose, and therefore a book to be read by the liberal-minded.”

+ + — =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 410w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 240w.

“‘Pam’ belongs in the main to the category of the ‘emancipation novel.’ To describe it as dangerous or immoral in tendency would be unfair and unjust, for, while it is emphatically not suitable for the consumption of the young person, no grown man or woman could take harm from its perusal. Yet the lesson ... of the story of Pamela Yeoland is so sound and obvious that, beyond the reserves already made, we are not disposed to insist on the freedom with which it is handled.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 144. Ja. 28, ‘05. 900w.

=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.

Mr. Hutton “tells of the cities of Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Urbino, and others less known; of the art of Umbria, with its great names, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and of Umbria Mystica, the Umbria of Assisi, St. Francis and Brother Elias, of Sta. Clara and Joachim di Flore.... His book is illustrated in color after drawings by Mr. A. Pisa, and a number of photographs of pictures to illustrate the section on Umbrian art.”—Acad.

“There is so much solid backbone of historical and artistic knowledge to support his raptures that they are not merely rapturous.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.

“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr. Berenson.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 269. Ag. 25, ‘05. 630w.

“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 246. S. 21, ‘05. 1190w.

“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete and firmly to be taken hold of.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 590w.

“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems to us in the main unoriginal.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w.

=Hutton, Laurence.= Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore. **$2.50. Putnam.

Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks, play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 783. Je. 24. 220w.

“One of the most interesting books of its class that has been written in a long time is ‘Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton.’” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 510. Je. ‘05. 770w.

“On the whole, for its wealth of literary, dramatic, and miscellaneous reminiscences the book is one of the best of its kind. The editor deserves a warm word of praise for her part in the work.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w.

“Are likely, no doubt, to be found entertaining by those who care for the more gossipy, intimate sort of confidences about public characters.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 120w.

“It is a miscellaneous collection of literary and personal gossip, a good deal of which is new and most of it decidedly interesting.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.

“As the last word, and the very characteristic word, of a cultivated, genial observer with a genius for friendship, it will give much pleasure.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 325. My. 20, ‘05. 970w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“This is a very informal book, and gains by its unpretentious intimacy of style.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 270w.

“One of the most readable books of the year.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 460w.

“The book is rich in stories, and if he sometimes points a moral we suspect he can often adorn a tale.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 900w.

“An eminently readable book. He is always interesting, always natural, always kindly.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 300w.

=Hyde, William DeWitt.= From Epicurus to Christ: a study in the principles of personality. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“A lucid exposition of the fundamental principles of the Epicurean, Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelean, and Christian philosophies.... The book is made up of extracts from the founders of each system, together with quotations from modern writers on the subject, as well as scholarly comments on both by President Hyde.”—R. of Rs.

=Atlan.= 95: 704. My. ‘05. 410w.

“An extremely interesting presentation of old principles in a new setting, together with keen suggestions of their modern exponents, tend to convince the reader that Mr. Hyde himself is far from lacking in certain principles of personality.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w.

“Here discourses on ethics and philosophy in a familiar and breezy sort of way.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1075. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.

* =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“The book is hortatory and not historical. The only serious criticism to be made on the book is the order of the chapters.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.

“The book fulfills its purpose admirably. The author has a firm grasp on the fundamental principles of the systems which he discusses and, in addition, a remarkable insight into the practical merits of the different theories. He writes forcibly and with an abundance of illustration. For general reading the book is interesting, suggestive, and helpful.” H. W. Wright.

+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 373. My. ‘05. 530w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w.

“Professor Hyde has produced a very readable book on Greek and Christian ethics; it is clear and popular.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.

“Is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 420w.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Ethics of Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. $2. Higgins.

An essay first given as a lecture before the Brooklyn ethical association (1896-7). It treats of the teachings and influence of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and is illustrated with their portraits. Copious editorial notes by Mr. Higgins and extracts from the works of the philosophers show their close relation to modern thought. The volume concludes with a brief life of Socrates.

“It would be difficult to find a better brief presentation of the matter.” Gerald B. Smith.

+ + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 396. Ap. ‘05. 170w.

“The conspicuous absence of historic insight, of breadth and impartiality of view, of even an approach to scholarly discrimination, forms strange qualifications for the editing of a volume bearing the ambitious title, ‘The evolution of ethics.’”

— — =Ind.= 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 290w.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

“An attempt to popularize and condense the evidence buried in the Society for psychical research’s voluminous reports on Mrs. Piper’s trances, for one of the bulkiest and most detailed of which Dr. Hyslop was himself responsible.”—Nation.

“Is the most important critical book relating to psychical research that has appeared during the present year.”

+ + + =Arena.= 34: 325. S. ‘05. 3250w.

“It belongs therefore with a group of books, numerable on the fingers of one hand, which, treating of matters occult, articulate with a body of fact and doctrine in aspect at least scientific.” E. T. Brewster.

+ =Atlan.= 96: 689. N. ‘05. 680w.

“To those who cherish as something precious the reputation of science and the worth and ideals of the votaries thereof, equally with those who draw from religious faith a sensitiveness and a healthy-mindedness that make for intellectual refinement and stability, the volume is nothing less than offensive.”

— =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 480w.

* + =Lit. D.= 31: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1580w.

“He has added to his extracts some sensible comments and a careful comparison of the telepathic and the spiritistic explanation, the latter of which he prefers.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.

“Altogether, Prof. Hyslop’s book is the broadest and most understandable work in accord with an intelligent ambition for what this new science can and will do that we have read up to date.” Pendennis.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 690w.

=Outlook.= 80: 1068. Ag. 26, ‘05. 860w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

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=Ihlseng, Magnus C., and Wilson. Eugene Benjamin.= Manual of mining. *$5. Wiley.

“Based on the course of lectures delivered at the school of mines of Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng’s book, which is regarded in America as the best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining.... The book is divided into two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining, power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water power ... underground haulage systems, ... pumping, mine gases, ventilation, ... and accidents in mines. The second part deals with shafts, ... tunnels and gangways, drilling and boring machines for explorations, miner’s tools, channelers, drills and coal-cutters, and blasting.”—Nature.

“The book has no American competitor, and it is superior to any other book in the English language covering the same broad field.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 293. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1060w.

“The book contains much useful information, but the lack of method in the arrangement cannot fail to militate against its use as a textbook.”

+ + — =Nature.= 72: 53. My. 18, ‘05. 360w.

Indian stories retold from St. Nicholas. 65c. Century.

The best of the stories of Indian life and legend contributed to St. Nicholas by well-known travelers and writers have been collected here for “out of hours” reading for young children. The book is the first of a series of historical stories, now in preparation, which in order will include “Colonial stories,” “Revolutionary stories,” “Civil war stories,” and “Our national holidays.”

“Capital tales of Indian legend and adventure.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 7w.

=Inge, William Ralph.= Faith and knowledge. *$1.50. Scribner.

“Mr. Inge’s sermons are chiefly doctrinal.... The subject most frequently recurring is the dependence of faith upon knowledge, the author opposing the Ritschlian view that faith is independent and master in her own sphere.”—Ind.

“A series of well-written sermons of rather more than ordinary power.”

+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

“They disappoint the reader by an absence of intellectual virility and ‘grip,’ and a certain passionate enthusiasm which sweeps the interest of the reader into its current.” F. E. Dewhurst.

+ — =Bib. World.= 26: 74. Jl. ‘05. 490w.

=Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 70w.

“These sermons are thoughtful, scholarly, finely spiritual. I should not think of calling them great or powerful. But they are good—at times quite suggestive, though in places tolerably commonplace. The author is not merely preacher and rhetorician but, one is pleased to find, a capable spiritual thinker. The style is always clear and good.” James Lindsay.

+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 385. Ap. ‘05. 1220w.

=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Island in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Fifty years ago some plucky resourceful young people were cut off from their elders, as they all travelled westward to found a new home, by a landslide which held them fast upon a bit of table land, an island in a sea of air. The story tells of their adventures with Indians and wild animals and their final escape. There is also much information upon archaeology, geology, and the use of drugs.

“Exactly the sort of narrative to please adventurous boys and girls.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 60w.

* =Innes, Arthur Donald.= England under the Tudors. *$3. Putnam.

“‘England under the Tudors’ ... is the fourth (the second in order of publication) of Professor Oman’s ‘History of England’ in six volumes, and is, therefore, a companion volume to Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’ ... Mr. Innes ... has produced a competent book on this troubled epoch.”—Lond. Times.

* “Mr. Innes has carefully interpreted each reign in the light of these views and they give to his narrative a consistency and unity which will make his book especially valuable to the younger student and to the general reader, to whom it is more particularly intended to appeal.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 419. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.

* “Mr. Innes’s work has not the brilliance of Mr. Trevelyan’s installment, but it is thoroughly adequate for its purpose, and shows even greater signs of sound judgment. If it is not so readable, it is perhaps more trustworthy. It is this sane judgment which characterizes Mr. Innes’s treatment of difficult and disputed questions, and makes his book so valuable an introduction to the study of the whole period. If the other volumes of the series are executed as well as the two already at hand, the reading public will at last have an adequate history of England.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 869 D. 9, ‘05. 1550w.

International catalogue of scientific literature: First annual issue. N-Zoology. pt. 1, Author catalog: pt. 2, Subject catalog, ea. *$8.40. imp. Blakiston.

“The work is planned to include the zoölogical literature for the year 1901, altho one is compelled to analyze the preface in order to determine the period covered since no record of its extent appears on title page of either part.... Part I. contains the general explanations, with the scheme of classification and an index thereto in English; and this matter is repeated in French, German and Italian. Following these, the author catalog fills 260 pages and lists 5,918 titles. Part II., which is about three times as voluminous, contains at the close a list of journals with abbreviated titles and the topographical classification. More than 1100 pages are filled with the subject references proper. The addition to each phylum of a list of names of new genera and species will commend itself to all as a most desirable feature.”—Science.

“With respect to promptness, completeness and accuracy the results are distinctly inferior to those already achieved for zoölogy by several bibliographic agencies.” Henry B. Ward.

+ — =Science=, n. s. 21: 147. Ja. 27, ‘05. 1380w.

=Ireland, Alleyne.= Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.

The author spent many months in the Far East in the service of the University of Chicago, and the present volume contains carefully collected data and studies of the governments and commercial conditions of the tropical dependencies of Great Britain, Holland, France, and the United States, also a new map of southeastern Asia prepared by Mr. Ireland, himself, and an appendix containing statistics.

“We should like to recommend it as a very able study in comparative colonization in the tropics.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 937. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

* “It is for the most part clearly written in an interesting style, it gives just the facts which an American might wish to know, and its conclusions are given with an impartiality, honesty and forcefulness which must carry the greatest weight in the minds of the unprejudiced.” James T. Young.

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 755. N. ‘05. 860w.

“He is courageous in his outspoken comment upon all that he finds wrong.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 740w.

“Mr. Ireland has wit and vision, and in his style are clearness and force. He has made a difficult subject interesting.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w.

“There is every evidence of careful and painstaking study; and the book has the unusual merit of being on the whole, definite and precise in its statements.” H. Parker Willis.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 36. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1660w.

+ — =Ind=, 58: 1363. Je. 15, ‘05. 770w.

“It stands out from a copious literature as a valuable contribution to the study of comparative colonization.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 230. Jl. 21, ‘05. 1300w.

“Mr. Ireland is an effective writer, clear, vigorous, and direct, putting his points in a broad way. Mr. Ireland strikes us as being rather too sweeping in his views, and rather too confidently positive in his expression of them.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 2950w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.

“Altogether, it is the most satisfactory work on tropical dependencies that has yet been published, and is indispensable both because of its first-hand information and its acute suggestions.” Stanhope Sams.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 512. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2020w.

“It is safe to say that nowhere else can be found so many facts, or facts so clearly stated, about the particular places and problems concerned as are gathered in this book.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.

“On the whole it is a well-considered work.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.

“Sound knowledge and deep care disclosed.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 890w.

+ + =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1650w.

=Irving, Edward.= How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.

“An introduction to the study of astronomy, written, not as a text-book, but with the intention of arousing the reader’s interest in this great subject, and stimulating him to the study of text-books.”—Outlook.

“On the whole, the book may be characterized as a fresh, up-to-date, and stimulating series of short essays on the worlds that people space.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 320w.

“The diction, moreover, is simple and direct. In all respects it is a book admirably adapted for the average reader.”

+ + =Ind.= 38: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.

“The wonders of the universe are described in a fascinating way.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 50w.

=Irving, Washington.= Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.

Five tiny volumes each measuring about two inches by an inch and a half include selections from “Tales of a traveller,” “Christmas sketches,” “The Alhambra,” “The sketch book,” and “Bracebridge hall” respectively. The books are perfect little models in thin paper, clear type and limp leather binding.

* + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 80w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 60w.

=Irving, Washington.= Rip Van Winkle. **$5. Doubleday.

Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color. “Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)

* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 250w.

“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 340w.

“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a hint of the theatrical quality.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 640. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

* “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an ordinary child.”

— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.

=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= At the sign of the dollar. $1. Fox.

In this cleverly slangy book of verses

“Statesman, lawyer, business man Rob-as-rob-will or catch-as-catch-can, At the jolly old sign of the Dollar.”

The topics are strictly American and up to date, and the verses in their own satirical way point a few morals. Niagara be damned, Frenzied finance, To the pure all food is pure, To an Indian skull, and Fall styles in faces, are fair samples.

* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “It is humorous, fresh and glib.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.

* =Isham, Samuel.= History of American painting. *$5. Macmillan.

In this volume the development of art in this country is traced from its beginning and the conditions which influence it, the social aspects of art, and the personality of the artists are discussed. Much space is given to the lives of some of the earlier painters, the rise and development of the National academy of design is described, also early institutions now dead and forgotten. There are twelve full-page photogravures and 100 text illustrations.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* “The book is interesting to read now, and should prove of great value in the future.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 530w.

* “The truth is that Mr. Isham has written a book about New York painters with passive sympathy for tradition and convention and with some reference to the development of art in the whole country.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 760w.

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=Jabez, Brother, pseud.= See =Koons, U. S.=

=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Tucker Dan. †$1.25. Dillingham.

Tucker Dan and his chum, Mickey, indulge in a series of pranks and practical jokes thru-out these pages. Good old Uncle Binny is the usual victim altho the village doctor and a rival for the affections of the pretty Martin twins also suffer.

“The style is simple, with here and there little bits of homely humor and philosophy, though the latter is well-nigh lost and soon forgotten.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w,

“It is one continual laugh from beginning to end.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.

* =Jackson, Charles Tenney.= Loser’s luck. †$1.50. Holt.

A Central American princess, the last of the line of Montezuma, leads what would have been a farce comedy revolution had not the brave lads who believed in her and her dream, died fighting for her. A young American millionaire, his yacht, and a college professor who chances to be his guest are all stolen by this daring young woman, whose personal charm wins these prisoners to champion her forlorn cause. The story is pathetically humorous, but it is also most unreal.

* “On the whole, a readable and briskly moving, if far from natural story.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 100w.

* “An unusually readable tale.” H. I. Brock.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 900w.

* “A lively romance of whim and adventure.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* =Jackson, E. L.= St. Helena, the historic island from its discovery to the present time. *$3. Whittaker.

“We naturally expect that Napoleon’s sojourn at St. Helena would be made much of; instead, we have an orderly description of the island and a chronological account of the events which have happened there.” (Outlook.) “The photographic illustrations have a curious worth. Some of these were taken shortly after the Boer war, and show the Boers yet interned in the island.” (Nation.)

* “For a book of reference, in spite of its lack of an index, it has its utility.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 70w.

* “This volume is strangely matter-of-fact, but on that very account has a certain restful charm.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.

* =Jackson, Edward Oscar.= Love sonnets to Ermingarde. $1. Badger, R: G.

These love sonnets “are exactly one hundred in number, and their recipient has reason to be proud of the imagery and emotion which she evokes in the soul of her poet. It is the Shakespearean model that Mr. Jackson follows, both as to form and to diction.”—Dial.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

* + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1, ‘05. 200w.

* “They are refined in form, rich in feeling, and swarm with suggestions that appeal to the bookish mind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 170w.

=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Mother and daughter. **$1.25. Harper.

Twenty short chapters for mothers upon the management and training of their daughters.

“The style of the essay is simple and straightforward, and the matter itself bears favorable comparison with any other book of its kind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.

=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.

=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Tommy Postoffice: the true story of a cat. *75c. McClurg.

The adventures of Tommy Postoffice were many and all cat-lovers will read with interest how Tommy came to the Hartford postoffice in a mail sack, how he aided Cupid, what he did at the cat and poultry show, and what an important place he filled in the postoffice where all the gray-coated men were his fast friends and defenders.

* “It is brightly told, and will interest children, and their elders who like cats.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.

* =Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Wee Winkles and Wideawake, †$1.25. Harper.

“One of the nicest stories possible about a nice little girl and her brother, whose real names are not Winkles and Wideawake at all. They are six and eight years at the time of the story, which tells about the nice times they have together playing house, playing that papa is a whale in the water and taking a swim on his back; having birthday parties, and doing other interesting things. Mary Theresa Hart has made the pictures.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.

* “To the little folks of six to nine, the stories being plainly told, will appeal more directly.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Jackson, Helen Hunt.= Ramona. $2. Little.

A new edition of this picturesque story of American life, with an introduction by Susan Coolidge and illustrations by Henry Sandham.

* “A popular but not in any sense a cheap edition.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.

+ + =N.Y. Times.= 10: 658. O. 7, ‘05. 280w.

* “A very satisfactory edition.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.

=Jackson, Mrs. Margaret Doyle.= When love is king. †$1.50. Dillingham.

Todhunter Payson, who as a child philosophizes over his homely face thus:—“I was born that way.... You know nothing makes the way you’re born. It just happens an’ then you have to stay that way all your life,” and Luke Lyttle “gentleman to his small finger tips” are chums in boyhood, rivals in love, friends all the way. The development of the sturdy Tod from a homeless waif into a man who sways his world is not overdrawn but is true to the principles of a self-made career.

“The book is well worth reading. The people are natural and consistent, the story is well told and interesting.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“A well-written, excellently constructed novel.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

“It is real, vivid, and compelling.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 120w.

=Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough.= Helen of Troy, N. Y. $1.50. Lane.

“The story concerns two young men of London, who have been engaged in a duel with a German, arising from a quarrel caused by their mutual love for a young American heiress. The plot turns on the efforts which the Englishmen and the hero of the tale, a chance passerby, who has been induced to be a second, make to flee from the consequences of a supposedly serious wound sustained by the German. The disordered state of affairs existing during the recovery of the wounded man furnish amusement to the story.”—Bookm.

“It is a rollicking farce. He has style, observation and a pretty gift of dialogue, so that his characters talk with a naturalness which immensely heightens for the moment the plausibility of his widely impossible plot. Mr. Jackson appears to have entrusted the reading of his proofs to unskilled hands.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 260w.

“It is a pity that Mr. Jackson, whose style is otherwise good and virile, should help to mar the English language by certain small mannerisms.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 237. F. 25, ‘05. 310w.

“Mr. Jackson has deft wit and an unforced originality.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05 80w.

“This very lively and entertaining book. The thing has a sort of tang of ‘The new Arabian nights’ of Mr. Stevenson, a prankish irresponsible air, combined with a style decidedly precious and deliberate.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 23. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. (Outline of plot).

+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.

=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Golden heart and other fairy stories, **$1.25. Doubleday.

All who love good old-fashioned fairy tales will enjoy these eight new stories, and will be eager to know how, in Golden heart, the ugly prince rescued a bewitched princess from a rock in the sea; how Grimaçon, the dwarf, helped the Princess Moonflower, and how Ella wished for the peacock’s tail and got it. Other stories are: The sorcerer’s sons and the two princesses of Japan; The dovecote; The pelican; The cherry trees; and, Jack Frost—a story for very little children. The volume is illustrated with drawings by May Sandheim.

* “The tales by no means conform to the modern insipid and bloodless standard for juvenile fairy stories and ought to make a direct and lively appeal to the eager imagination of any healthy child.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.

=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Interloper. $1.50. Doubleday.

Mrs. Arthur Jacob, who made a sudden reputation in her former novel, “The sheep stealers,” now writes a story of country life in Scotland. The interloper is a young man who returns to his mother’s old home from a sojourn in Spain with the man who has always passed as his father,—all unconscious of the blot on his birth, the suspicions of the neighbors, and the presence of his real father in the vicinity. The situation is well handled and the social tragedy skilfully averted. There are many well-drawn characters in the book, the loyal heroine, the grand dame, the villainous family lawyer and many interesting villagers.

“When you lay down ‘The interloper’ you feel that you know intimately a half-dozen interesting people whom you did not know before. Mrs. Jacob is rich in the supreme gift of the novelist—character depiction. A melodramatic ending, trite in conception, and ill-fitting. Mrs. Jacob did not set out to tell an emotional story. She set out to reflect life in a small, old-fashioned Scotch town and its environs, and she has succeeded in masterly fashion. She has given us a delightful comedy of manners written in a style remarkable for power, simplicity and grasp. Out of the ruck of cheap fiction this book rises to real, permanent value. It is not only worth reading, it is worth a place on the book-shelf.”

+ + — =Reader.= 5: 383. F. ‘05. 370w.

=Jacobi, Charles Thomas.= Printing: a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books, *$2.50. Macmillan.

“A third revised and enlarged edition.... The completeness of the book will be apparent from a brief list of its chapters, which number thirty-five. They are in seven divisions, and deal with typefounding, composition (thirteen chapters), proofreading, hand-press work (six chapters), illustrated and color work, motive power, machine printing (six chapters), and warehouse work (four chapters).”—N. Y. Times.

+ =Nation.= 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.

* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Captains all. †$1.50. Scribner.

This new collection contains “half a score of the tales this author has taught laughter-loving English readers to expect from his pen. This brand is well-known and well-liked.” (Ath.) They include amusing stories of sailormen, longshoremen, and the people of a little English village.

* “The book is thoroughly enjoyable.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 170w.

* “Adds notably to the world’s stock of humorous enjoyment.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.

* “The stories are not all as good as the earlier ones, the humor often growing out of situations that are forced, and the characters lack their old delightful naïveté.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 829. D. 23, ‘05. 160w.

* “The book is merely a collection of magazine stories, and their cumulative effect is a little disappointing.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* “Mr. Jacobs is an artist with a literary conscience as well as a most engaging humourist, and, to borrow the familiar saying, though his genre is not great, he is great in his genre.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 740w.

=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared; the Gould prize essays. 50c. Bible teachers’ training school, N. Y.

“In 1903 Miss Helen Gould offered three prizes for popular, brief essays on ‘The origin and history of the Bible approved by the Roman Catholic church’ and ‘of the American revised version.’ Two hundred and sixty-five essays were presented. The prizes were won by Rev. William Whitely, L.L.M., LL.D., Rev. Gerald Hamilton Beard, B.D., Ph.D., and Charles B. Dalton, Esq. These three essays are published in this volume. Of course, they cover much the same ground. The limits of space imposed were such that the authors could give only a somewhat bare and crowded statement of facts.”—Am. J. Theol.

“The first two essays are very full, accurate, and well proportioned. The third leaves something to be desired in accuracy, especially regarding the exactness of the present biblical text (p. 140). The chief value of the third essay lies in certain quotations from contemporary Catholic sources.” Irving F. Wood.

+ + — =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 743. O. ‘05. 300w.

“These three constitute what must now be regarded as the standard work on a theme of controversy that greatly needed enlightenment.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.

=James, Bartlett Burleigh.= History of North America, Vol. V. $6. Barrie.

The fifth volume of the series edited by Professor Guy Carleton Lee, treats of the colonization of New England and was written by Professor James of Western Maryland university. The chronological table begins with the sailing of the Mayflower and is brought down to the passage of the Stamp act. There is a careful examination of the motives of the Puritans in coming to New England, and the founding of the settlements of Connecticut and Rhode Island is given in detail. The closing chapter is devoted to the causes which led to the Revolution. There are many excellent illustrations.

“The work is of the most comprehensive character. The treatment of an extended topic is carefully and philosophically worked out.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.

* =James, George Wharton.= In and out of the old missions of California: an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3. Little.

This interesting volume covers a broad field successfully. It begins with the founding of the California missions, then gives a chapter upon Junipero Serra and his coadjutors, followed by a discussion of the Indians at the coming of the padres and at the present time. An especially noteworthy chapter deals with the secularization of the missions, and in twenty-one chapters is given an account of as many individual missions, followed by a chapter upon nine mission chapels or Aristencias. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the volume is its treatment of mission architecture and interior decoration. A careful survey of the mural decorations of the missions is followed by a pictorial account of the furniture, pulpits, doors, and other woodwork, crosses, candlesticks, and other silver and brass ware, and of the various figures of the saints found at the missions. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs made expressly for this book.

* “An interesting and adequate treatment of a fascinating theme.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 340w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 130w.

* =James, Henry.= English hours. *$5. Houghton.

“This reprint of some of Mr. James’ essays descriptive of England is happily illustrated by the drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell. The essays include London; Browning in Westminster abbey; Chester; Lichfield and Warwick; North Devon; Wells and Salisbury; An English Easter; London at midsummer; Two excursions; In Warwickshire; Abbeys and castles; English vignettes; An English New Year; An English watering-place; Winchelsea, Rye and ‘Denis Duval;’ Old Suffolk.”

* + =Acad.= 68: 1225. N. 25, ‘05. 800w.

* “Mr. James is like his simple original self in this charming book.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “These interpretations of English life carry the reader with them by their quality of tonic freshness, which takes the place of the bewildering curiosity about everything and nothing characteristic of the late novels.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 260w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 8, ‘05. 220w.

* “But these lapses though apparent are rare—more apparent, indeed, on account of their rarity—and it is impossible to resist the engaging enthusiasm, the fine freshness of mind which he brings to bear on the variety of topics and places about which he chatters in the fugitive papers bound up in this volume.”

+ + — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ‘05. 730w.

=James, Henry.= Golden bowl. $2.50. Scribner.

“Four principals and two particularly diverting subordinates make up the role of characters” in this story whose action centers about the marriage of an American girl to an impoverished foreigner. “The four are Adam Verver, widower, and his daughter, Maggie, Americans,—the husband of Maggie, an Italian prince, and Charlotte Stant, a young woman of exquisite intelligence, and paramount charm, American by birth, cosmopolitan by nature.” The elements of tragedy are fostered thru the prince’s yielding to his former love for Charlotte Stant, the princess’ friend, and now Adam Verver’s wife. The strength of the story is embodied in the princess’ determination to win back the love of her husband, “which she vows must be as complete and perfect as the original crystal of the broken bowl, that picturesque property of the story that takes so unique a part in the development of the plot.” (Reader).

“The intellectuality overpowers the sensuous and objective traits proper to a novel, until one has the impression of reading an abstruse treatise of psychology rather than a tale. Despite exasperations of detail, the novel in the main is masterly. The three leading women are differentiated with the nicest skill: each is living and persuasive. But it fairly ranks as a master-work—if a master-work flawed by some of his obscurest later mannerisms.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 1020w.

“The book is clear to those who think Mr. James worth a little trouble. The method, in spite of its inwardness, is detached, cold, and, if the word is possible, a little cruel. But its mental agility, its likeliness, its atmosphere, are perfect.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 530w.

=Atlan.= 95: 696. My. ‘05. 190w.

“Another two volumes of abstruseness, another long discussion of a situation that only scandal mongers are supposed to discuss; again the same old heavy respectability where nothing is bad because it is not named; again the heroic sweetness of two characters, that is always his saving grace, that makes us read him.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 153. Ja. 19, ‘05. 700w.

“In the end you have your reward—a story, a situation, which, as you think about it, pierces the obscurities and strikes you in the eyes, like the low red autumn sun pushing out of a mass of black clouds.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1380w.

“A book of mixed ugly and charming aspects. Never has the art of description been brought nearer to that of painting.”

+ + — =Reader.= 5: 380. F. ‘05. 1290w.

“A book so pregnant with fundamental brainwork, so rich in suggestiveness, and so accomplished in execution. The book is clearer, and, for that very reason, more vital, than the works of what one may call his middle period.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

* =James, Henry.= Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two lectures, **$1. Houghton.

“In the first essay, delivered as a commencement address at Bryn Mawr, Mr. James has well emphasized the overlooked needs in America of ‘a virtual consensus of educated people to impart to our speech a coherent culture.’ ... The second essay in the volume, ‘The lesson of Balzac,’ is a notable piece of literary criticism in its concentrated vigor, its elucidation of the novelist’s art, and its nicety of phrase. Recognizing in Balzac the master-artist of modern fiction.”—Dial.

* “These essays will raise a divergence of opinion, as does all of Mr. James’s literary work; but however widely readers may differ from his point of view, all will recognize the stimulating intellectual quality.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 620w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.

=James, Montague Rhodes.= Ghost stories of an antiquary. $1.50. Longmans.

Eight old fashioned ghost stories with all the gruesome and hair-raising qualities which a story of their kind could possess. The eight are Canon Alberic’s scrap-book, Lost hearts, The mezzotint, The ash tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, “Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad,” and The treasure of Abbot Thomas.

“Mr. James manages at times to give you a pretty well-defined creepy feeling—but his ghost stories are not quite the real thing in spite of the pains he takes to pile up detail in the setting and leave the horror itself as undefined, shapeless, and elusive as may be.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 483. Jl. 22, ‘05. 580w.

“There can be no question about the literary merit of these eight stories, and of the ingenuity which Dr. James has shown in their construction.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 170w.

=Jamison, Cecilia Viets (Mrs. Samuel Jamison).= Penhallow family; a story. †$1.50. Wilde.

A little wanderer, back from India to her father’s old home, is dropped into an uncle’s family where three self-centered, noisy youngsters ruled by a hard task-mistress, “Aunt Gordon,” make life miserable for the new-comer. Her brave helpfulness in bringing happiness out of the confused and warring forces of the household frames a lesson for every young reader to profit by.

=Jane, L. Cecil.= Coming of Parliament, 1350-1660. (Story of the nations, no. 73.) **$1.35. Putnam.

“The general scheme of this volume is indicated by its title. It deals more especially with the development of the Constitution within the three centuries with which it is concerned, and it is an attempt to trace the steps by which Parliament attained to a permanently important share in the government of England. While stress is laid upon this theme, other sides of the national life have not been ignored.” (N. Y. Times.) There are many illustrations, a map of England, and a chronology.

“What Mr. Jane has really written is an English history of a period. But, while its accuracy it notable, it has other merits which are astonishing. The events of the period, particularly towards the close, were many and complex and stirring; yet, although this book is almost as compact as an encyclopaedia, it is so fluent and fascinating that one reads it with the delight which is given by great romance. Mr. Jane, it is true, is not without predilections. His imagination is attracted by the navy. In all other respects, though invariably he arrests attention, he is coldly judicial. Besides being exceptionally well-informed, our historian brought to his task a fresh, independent and penetrating intellect.” W. Earl Hodgson.

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 840w.

“As a book professedly concerned with ‘the coming of parliament’ and the place of parliament in national life, it cannot be said to have any particular merit or value, or to render of less service any of the accepted histories of English constitutional development.” Edward Porritt.

— — + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 917. Jl. ‘05. 230w.

“We have failed to find in the latest issue of this well-known series any general connexion with the subject of parliamentary government or the least pretension to originality of thought or vigour of delineation; whilst research is wanting.”

— — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 200w.

Reviewed by Edward Fuller.

+ — — =Bookm.= 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

“It is obvious from the text that Mr. Jane has broken no new ground in the research for the Parliamentary side of his book.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 212. Jl. 27, ‘05. 420w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 350w.

“Mr. Jane’s book is interesting reading, even if he sometimes tangles the thread of his story of Parliament.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 1190w.

“Adds little or nothing to the history of Parliament which cannot be found in any of the accepted works on the English constitution. There is nothing, moreover, that is attractive about Mr. Jane’s literary style.”

— — =Outlook.= 79: 1057. Ap. 29. ‘05. 710w.

“Mr. Jane’s book is not always ‘easy reading,’ but is reliable, a quality which will conceal many literary sins.”

+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.

“The volume will have its uses, but we should have preferred something more to the purpose.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.

=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the middle ages; tr. from the Germ, by A. M. Christie. v. 7-8. *$6.25. Herder.

“These two volumes cover the period between the years 1550-1580.... Within those thirty years fell such events as: The religious conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany, and the concluding sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. These great events and many others of similar moment are treated with Janssen’s well-known fulness of detail, abundance of scholarship, and sturdy Catholic spirit.”—Cath. World.

+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 117. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Review of vols. VII. and VIII.)

=Japp, Alexander H.= Robert Louis Stevenson; a record, an estimate, and a memorial. *$1.50. Scribner.

The author who, thru a common interest in Thoreau, came to know Stevenson well in his early Edinburgh days, gives a critical discussion of his life and works, with some new facts and some newly published letters.

“It contains a good deal of valuable matter presented in the most scrappy and disjointed way; as well as some matter which is not valuable at all.” H. W. Boynton.

+ — =Atlan.= 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 200w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 480w.

“The criticism on Stevenson’s various styles in his varied work is often acute and just. Altogether the book in parts has a strong interest for the Stevenson enthusiast, but will hardly attract the general reading public.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.

“This is a very informing book, a contribution of distinct value to our knowledge of R. L. Stevenson.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 146. Ja. 28, ‘05. 330w.

=Javal, Emile.= On becoming blind: advice for the use of persons losing their sight; tr. by Carroll E. Edson. **$1.25. Macmillan.

Dr. Javal, who lost his sight at the age of 62, writes to the families of those who are blind or in danger of becoming so. He gives advice as to their treatment, suggestions on amusement, and there are chapters upon memory, marriage, the psychology of the blind and the sixth sense.

“The style of the book is simple, direct and scholarly.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 220w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.

“The book is a pleasure to read even on the part of those whose interest is not immediately claimed by the subject.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. My. 20, ‘05. 710w.

=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Dynamical theory of gases, *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Jeans ... in the first seven chapters, follows fairly closely on conventional lines, and deduces the Boltzmann-Maxwell law of distribution, the minimum theorem, the law of partition of energy, and the isothermal equations according to the Boyle-Mariotte and van der Waals’s laws. In chapter VIII the author throws over the principle of conservation of energy and assumes that his gas is a dissipative system in which loss of energy occurs by radiation.... In chapters IX and X, Mr. Jeans considers application of the theory of a non-conservative gas, particularly in connection with rates of dissipation of energy and ratios of specific heats. We thus have a definite attempt to break away from traditional methods and boldly introduce the notion of dissipation into the kinetic theory.... In the remaining chapters Mr. Jeans deals with ‘free path phenomena’ such as diffusion, conduction of heat, viscosity, and the escape of gases from planetary atmospheres. In this work he is more on the ordinary lines.”—Nature.

“Misprints and minor errors are delightfully few. The book is a piece of conscientious work by one who has already made valuable contributions to this subject. It belongs rather with the classical work of Burbury and of Boltzmann than with any of the attempts at a simple or more popular presentation.” W. P. Boynton.

+ + + =Astrophys. J.= 22: 224. O. ‘05. 780w.

Reviewed by G. H. Bryan.

=Nature.= 71: 601. Ap. 27, ‘05. 870w.

=Jebb, Richard.= Studies in colonial nationalism. *$3.50. Longmans.

“An attempt ... to present a modern view of imperial evolution, ... the result of three years’ travel and study among the self-governing states of the empire ... which should be studied by all who wish to understand the trend of colonial aspirations, whether they agree with them or not.”—Acad.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 469. Ap. 29, ‘05. 570w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 170w.

“His observations on America, though justly calling attention to many undoubted and serious faults indicate on the whole an exaggerated and distorted view of our public life.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 607. S. ‘05. 640w.

=Ath.= 1905. 1: 494. Ap. 15. 730w.

“Mr. Jebb’s book has no small originality. His book contains not a few inconsistencies. Almost every page of it is instructive.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 940w.

“Everything he says is stated with a confidence that dreams not of the possibility of contradiction. This makes the book attractive.” Charles W. Thompson.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2880w.

“It is essentially a work that will be welcomed, not derided in Canada and Australasia. And that is to say no small thing of its merits, and of the success with which its author has achieved his object.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 897. Je. 17, ‘05. 1720w.

=Jefferies, (John) Richard.= Bevis; the story of a boy. $1.50. Button.

A new edition of a book for boys written many years ago and founded upon Mr. Jefferies’ own boy-hood idealized. Mr. E. V. Lucas states in his introduction that it is “a long and eloquent, and, I think, successful argument in favor of the wisdom of leaving boys to themselves, and allowing independence and self-reliance to oust for the time being school books and tutors.”

“‘Bevis’ is a wholesome and delightful book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.

“Full of his intimate knowledge of nature, and full also of sympathy with and knowledge of the interests and characteristics of boys.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.

=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Faith and life. **30c. Crowell.

Under the text “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen” (Heb. xi. 1), Dr. Jefferson discusses the relation which faith bears to life. The booklet is attractively bound in white, with gold lettering and a holly design in green and belongs to the “What is worth while series.”

=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Minister as prophet, **90c. Crowell.

Originally given as a series of lectures before the Bangor theological seminary, these talks are “clear, luminous, pithy, cogent, full of practical suggestions” for ministers, students and the general public. The following chapters show the minister’s present position in general affairs; The dimension of the work, The three men involved (the physical man, the mental man, the spiritual man). The growing of sermons, Form and manner, The place of dogma in preaching.

“There are many books on the Christian ministry, and few are smaller than this and few more valuable.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.

“The general tone and spirit of these lectures is uplifting, clarifying, and stimulating to high endeavor.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.

=Jelliffe, Smith Ely.= Introduction to pharmacognosy. *$2.50. Saunders.

This is the first adequate English treatment of pharmacognosy, and will be welcomed by the special student. “The work falls into three divisions, animal drugs, vegetable drugs without organic structure, and vegetable drugs with organic structure. The first division is appropriately small, and the last constitutes the major portion of the work. A goodly treatise on each drug is found, embracing references to its origin; discussions of its gross structure, microscopic structure and features recognizable in its powder; and mention of constituent substances present.... Excellent original illustrations accompany a large number of the descriptions.” (Science.)

“The discussions are in the main botanically correct and the style is fairly clear. Imperfections aside, however, it is well within the truth to say that this volume is the nearest approach which has yet appeared towards filling the need of the day in this country.” Charles H. Shaw.

+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 625. Ap. 21, ‘05. 290w.

=Jenks, Tudor.= Captain Myles Standish. *$1.20. Century.

A biography of Myles Standish, the Pilgrim’s captain, which tells the story of the people of the Mayflower and of their captain’s service to them as leader, lawgiver, trader, and physician. The account is accurate to the sacrifice of many romantic traditions.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w.

“It is intended, perhaps, more for youthful than for mature readers, although we imagine it will interest these as well. Is practically a history of the Plymouth settlement.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.

“Mr. Jenks’s account gives an impression of accuracy and care, but it lacks picturesqueness and any romantic quality.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 210w.

=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Milton, **$1. Barnes.

Uniform with “The lives of great writers” series this volume contains a popular description of the conditions in England during the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, of Puritan and Cavalier, and of the life of the blind poet himself and his relation to these surroundings. There is a frontispiece portrait of Milton, a bibliography and a chronological table.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.

“The author is luminous rather than critical, gives a touch of imagination to the accuracy of facts, and inspires with fresh human interest a national movement commonly thought of as only bitter and austere.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 230w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.

“The book is both instructive and readable.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 715. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

* “It will be found extremely helpful to an understanding of the Puritan period in English history.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 140w.

=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Shakespeare; with introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie. **$1. Barnes.

“One of the series of ‘Lives of great writers.’ ... This little volume consists of a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the London actor and man of affairs. There is also a helpful explanation of some of the principal plays, with suggestive comments.”—R. of Rs.

“For the purpose for which it is intended—that is, as a literary substitute for the textual and verbal approach to the subject which has hitherto prevailed—it is to be commended.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 50w.

“The book is readable and will likely give the ordinary reader a much better idea of what the playwriting business was in Elizabeth’s reign, what the work Shakespeare actually did was, than many much more pretentious volumes can do.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w.

“Proceeds, as an open-minded student, to unroll a fascinating panorama.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 260w.

“Mr. Jenks has handled his material well.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 670w.

“A new and ‘worth while’ Shakespeare book.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

=Jephson, Lady.= Letters to a debutante. *$1.25. Lippincott.

These letters are addressed to Violet, who is gently told how to be sweet and happy in chapters upon The art of happiness, The need for controlling the tongue, The ethics of dress, On country house visiting, The choice of literature, Are elopements justifiable? Concerning wit, The advisability of friendships with men, and other subjects of interest to the young girl who longs to be a social success.

* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.

“On the whole, however, the lady gives wholesome enough advice—albeit most of it has been given to other debutantes many times before.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 450w.

“While Lady Jephson’s form is throughout aphoristic, she lacks the gift of saying the inwardly true thing in memorable words, and that is the particular gift one looks for in a book of this sort.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ‘05. 740w.

=Jepson, Edgar.= Lady Noggs, peeress. †$1.50. McClure.

“Lady Noggs, properly called Lady Felicia Grandison, is the small niece and ward of a prime minister, whose peace of mind is continually disturbed by pranks and escapades of the most extraordinary nature.... A background romance between the governess and the secretary is engaging and real by way of contrast.”—Outlook.

“The object of these few remarks is to cordially commend Felicia, within her suitable literary bounds, as a pleasant holiday companion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 560w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.

=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China in law and commerce. *$2. Macmillan.

From these pages “one may glean not merely knowledge of the political and commercial life of the country, but a better understanding of the Oriental mind. The physical features, the resources, the people of China; the state, provincial, district, town, and family organization, the anomalies between legal theory and business customs, the native banking system, the weights, measures, and currency employed, the Empire’s transportation facilities” (Outlook) are all fully treated.

“Mr. Jernigan is not an inspiring writer. But there is a great deal that is valuable in his book, and his statements are accurate and apposite.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 398. S. 23. 820w.

“A volume which will be indispensable to every student of the civilization of the Far East.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 550w.

“The thing essential in compiling a book of this kind is sympathetic perception, and Mr. Jernigan has evidently cultivated this faculty, during his residence in China, with no little success.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 800w.

“Here in one handy book is choice and exact information, carefully sifted, tested, and arranged concisely and in an orderly manner. There is a good index to this noteworthy book.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 84. Jl. 27, ‘05. 780w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.

“The subjects ... find exhaustive discussion, and ... are treated carefully and intelligently.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 220w.

“A scholarly volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 100w.

* “An unpretentious book, containing a large amount of well-selected and well arranged information.”

+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.

=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China’s business methods and policy, *$3.60. Wessels.

The author, ex-consul general of the United States at Shanghai, prefaces his book with the statement that he has sought to find “some of the elementary principles which base and influence business and social China and to present them without unnecessary detail.” His papers give a clear and accurate treatment of China’s administrative system, land tenure, sources of revenue, law courts, finances, social regulations, commercial trend, educational and consular systems, and foreign relations.

“There is a want of cohesion about this work; it seems more a collection of papers than a treatise. The work will be found useful when any important event takes place in China in connection either with its foreign or with its internal policy, as a sort of reference-book.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 220w.

=Jervey, Theodore D.= Elder brother. $1.50. Neale.

“A novel in which are presented the vital questions confronting the South growing out of the Reconstruction, and in which the author defines the true relations now existing between the races in the South.” Specifically, it presents the political, social, and economic history of a southern city during this period. There are many characters of all classes but interest centers about two brothers who become social and political leaders.

“The book, if it is not a novel to carry the reader along—it is not that—is an exceedingly valuable, truthful, and interesting study. There is certainly no other picture of the period which approaches it in these vital points.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.

“It is a good picture of conditions—and perhaps, after all, its solution of the problems confronting the South is the only practical one.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.

=Jessel, Frederick.= comp. Bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming. *$4.40. Longmans.

“Gaming in this sense includes dominoes, conjuring, card-tricks and so forth. Mr. Jessel has described the title of every work he has found, however slight, on cards or gaming; and he has included all books which contain allusions of sufficient importance to be recorded, even works of fiction which depend on gaming for their plots or contain scenes which illustrate the mode of playing some particular game. Periodicals have not been forgotten.... The bibliography is in alphabetical order of the names of authors, but the index at the end enables subjects to be searched for without difficulty.”—Acad.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

* “We can recommend it not only to libraries, but also to clubs for card-room reference, and to all who wish for a ready means of finding out what has been written in our language about cards and gaming.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 683. N. 18. 630w.

=Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.

* “Probably as complete as any other in English.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.

=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The fragment in a mere outline, but it comes from a master hand and is doubly welcome at a time when the need for restatement of definitions is particularly evident.”—Acad.

“The volume is one that we cordially welcome, and it is bound to meet with the high appreciation of a discriminating public.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1290w.

“Probably much that is already printed would have been greatly revised before it appeared, and yet, imperfect as it is, the careful student of economics will lose a great deal if he does not master this volume.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 362. S. 16. 1470w.

“The book may be said to be well justified, even though it be equally clear that the form and title and bulk of it fall somewhere between the questionable and the indefensible.” H. J. Davenport.

+ — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 600. S. ‘05. 1180w.

“A word of gratitude is due to the editor, who has spared no pains to elucidate what the author left unfinished and obscure.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 780w.

“It cannot be said that the fragments now published offer anything of great value. Mr. Higgs has performed his editorial labors in an admirable manner.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 245. S. 21, ‘05. 1330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.

* =Jewett, John Howard (Hannah Warner, pseud.).= Con the wizard, †50c. Stokes.

This little volume in the Christmas stocking series, tells how the wizard-bird, Con, changed Teddy Mann and the pets of Mistress May into the form of the man or beast they envied most, and how they were glad, after a time, to be changed back and become themselves again. There are eight illustrations in color by Edward R. Little, and numerous illustrations in black and white by Oliver Herford.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.

Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. per v. $6. Funk.

Everything which in any way concerns the ancient or modern life of the Jewish people and which has either historical or literary value can be found in this “Descriptive record of the history, religion, literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest time to the present day.” Prepared by more than four hundred scholars and specialists under the direction of Cyrus Adler, I. K. Funk, F. H. Vizeletly and others. There are twelve massive volumes and two thousand illustrations.

“In spite of some minor defects, should prove a valuable work of reference to all interested in Jewish history.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 170. F. 25, ‘05. 880w. (Outlines scope of Vol. VIII.).

“Has much the same merits and defects as its predecessor.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w. (Review of Vol. IX.)

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 10.)

“The enterprise has now gone far enough to leave no doubt that the high standard of excellence set up by the editors will be reached.”

+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 523. Jl. ‘05, 580w. (Review of v. 1-10.)

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 610w. (Review of v. 9.)

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)

+ =Bib. World.= 26: 159. Ag. ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 10.)

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 577. S. 7, ‘05. 620w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. (Review of v. 9-11.)

* “This encyclopaedia will be essential in any well equipped library.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1484. D. 21, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 11.)

“The standard cannot be said to be rising. Still, if only for its wealth of biography, especially English and American, the book is indispensable for reference.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 110w. (Review of Vol. IX.)

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1730w. (Survey of contents of Vol. IX.)

“The tenth volume is as valuable as any of its predecessors.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 10.)

“As a work of world-wide comprehensiveness this is one to enrich any library.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 190w. (Outlines scope of volume IX).

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)

* “This great work, the joint product of Jewish and Christian writers, fully sustains its early promise as it nears its completion.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Nearly all subjects mentioned [in volume IX] are treated at great length, in good spirit, with thorough scholarship.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 389. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 260w. (Review of v. 10.)

* “Volume XI. is exceptionally rich in politico-economic material.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 730. D. 2, ‘05. 320w. (Review of v. 11.)

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 270w. (Outlines scope of volumes VII and VIII).

* “It can be affirmed without hesitation that, taken as a whole, the work is a contribution to general knowledge which, for the future, will be nothing less than indispensable.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 790. N. 18, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of v. 8-10.)

=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of America on land and sea. **$3. Houghton.

A simple story of the author’s conflicts and conquests as he hunted with his camera “the wild hardy birds of the sea, whose strong wings make them masters of the elements.” His search took him from the Magdalen islands to the Florida keys and he gives pictures of pelicans, kittiwakes and gannets, of laughing gulls, cormorants and auks, of plovers brooding their young, and of the great horned owl mothering her owlet. There are 160 of these photographs.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.

“No such collection of ‘portraits’ can be found anywhere else.” May Estelle Cook.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 440w.

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1251. Je. 11, ‘05. 340w.

“His book should appeal to a large circle of readers, especially the ornithologist, the sportsman, and the nature-lover, as well as the omnipresent camera fiend.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 620w.

* “Despite its somewhat pedantic title, this book is much above the average of works of the same general nature.”

+ + =Nature.= 73: 123. D. 7, ‘05. 500w.

“‘Wild wings’ should not only appeal to nature and bird lovers, but there is much in its pages to interest sportsmen as well.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.

“Without doubt this book is a contribution to the world’s sanity, while at the same time its science is duly respected.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 410w.

=Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 60w.

“Quite as entertaining as most hunters’ stories.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 180w.

John Van Buren, politician, †$1.50. Harper.

“‘John Van Buren, politician,’ is a young up-state lawyer, who comes to New York, joins Tammany hall, wins the favor of Boss ‘Coulter,’ and is sent to the state legislature, where he is speedily made acquainted with the darker aspects of legislative life. The story of his adventure in politics and of his lovemaking ... is told in a volume that is a curious combination of novel and guide to the sights of New York.”—Outlook.

“The book has no style, and but slight interest considered as a story. Its implied ethics, moreover, are of a highly dubious character.” Wm. M. Payne.

— =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.

“Were it not for its intimate portrayal of the methods whereby Tammany achieves political success, it would be of little value or interest.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11. ‘05. 140w.

“The picture of the sessions of the general assembly at Albany is graphic and possibly true to the life, although the coloring is probably too strong and the lines too heavy.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w.

“The book does not preach anything, clean politics or foul; it simply reflects conditions as a keen observer would find them.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 594. O. ‘05. 180w.

* =Johnson, Burges.= Pleasant tragedies of childhood. †$1.50. Harper.

“Experiences more or less tragical to babies and children, but pleasantly told in Mr. Johnson’s verses and humorously depicted in Miss Cory’s sketches. Fathers and mothers will be amused by them, and the juvenile victims—some of them at least—will enjoy the pictures.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 70w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 50w.

* “This is an exceedingly attractive picture book.”

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.

* “One of the really delightful books about children of the present season.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.

* “Some of the verses are very witty.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 90w.

=Johnson, Burges.= Rhymes of little boys. **$1. Crowell.

A truly charming book of little boy verses, which little girls and grown-ups will enjoy also Goin’ barefoot, Bein’ sick; Gettin’ well; Cookin’ things; Makin’ things; Gettin’ washed; and two score others set forth little boy philosophy in little boy language, and following these are some verses to or about little boys, among them an exquisite tribute to Frank R. Stockton. The volume is bound in plaid gingham, with decorative title and end leaves by Mrs. John Carpenter.

* “The naïveté of small-boy egotisms, generosities, rivalries, has never been, and, it would seem to us, could never be, better done than in Mr. Johnson’s clever and sympathetic verses.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 150w.

* “This volume is sure to win for its author a wider appreciation of his really unique work.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

“The introductory poems strike a note of tenderness and reverence of unusual purity and beauty.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

* “We like his verse for its insight, literal though it often is.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.

* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Oak-tree fairy book; il. by Willard Bonte. $1.75. Little.

Here are the old favorites reproduced in wholesome form with the savagery, harrowing details and abnormal pathos eliminated, and with the charm retained.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 60w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

=Johnson, Owen.= In the name of liberty. $1.50. Century.

A story of the French revolution in which the personal struggles of the actors are silhouetted against the greater struggle of the nation in the background. Barabant, a young enthusiast, allies himself with the Girondins and falls with them, to be saved from the guillotine only by the sacrifice of Nicole, a flower-girl, whom he has made his wife in prison, and who gives up her life for his. The course of the story runs subjectively close to the people; their whims, their morbid curiosity, their unrestrained impulse and anger, and their hatred for the aristocrats distort their vision thru the bloody days of the terror which is followed in grewsome detail.

“Mr. Johnson has devised a fresh and unhackneyed story, with a heroine quite apart from the usual types.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

“Owen Johnson has written a good story, with several unusual points about it that entitle it to notice.” Priscilla Leonard.

+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 371. Ap. ‘05. 1440w.

“A fresh and interesting view of a subject that would seem to have been exhausted of all novelty. One can but admire the cleverness with which he has made reality and fiction supplement and sustain each other while keeping the reader’s attention wholly engrossed by the very simple and pathetic love story of Nicole and Barabant. A vivid and vigorous handling of a subject that has been used to the point of threadbareness.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 610w.

“A rather unusually spirited tale. Mr. Johnson has created two or three flesh-and-blood characters, has put them into trying crises, and has made them work out their own moral salvation or ruin as they respond or fail to respond to the test. The book has life and energy.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 90w.

“The sure touch of the confident master is lacking. There is over-emphasis, a too great insistence on the individual when the mass should have been brought into the foreground. Viewed as a whole the book is an effective piece of word painting.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 710w.

“Mr. Johnson’s story has merits of its own unborrowed from Dickens or any one else. One of them is a saving sanity of expression.”

+ + =Reader.= 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 370w.

“Well and swiftly told, and probably of breathless interest to the unsophisticated mind.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 30w.

=Johnson, Sidona Viola.= Short history of Oregon, **$1. McClurg.

This book covers the early discoveries, the Lewis and Clark explorations, settlement, government, Indian wars, and progress. In concise form it gives a full account of that interesting region. It is illustrated with numerous halftones.

“A short but comprehensive account of the state.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 60w.

=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50. Little.

The author has made his narrative suitable in every respect to young readers. He tells of the discoveries and adventures of such men as Cartier, Jean Ribaut, Rene de Laudonnière, Champlain, Nicollet, Joliet, La Salle, and Father Hennepin, in an interesting fashion, basing his story, upon standard authorities; he has provided notes upon Indian tribal connections and customs, and introductory chapters which deal with the origin and distribution of the Indian race and give a view of Indian society.

* =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.

* “Mr. Johnson’s descriptions of the great French explorers are calculated to serve the purposes he had in view and to stimulate curiosity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 450w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France, †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor, that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is subordinated to the forest love story.

* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 10w.

* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 300w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

=Johnson, Wolcott.= An old man’s idyl. *$1. McClurg.

A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl, and a prayer.

“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent, speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved dreamers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10. ‘05. 220w.

“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one. Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr. Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of this unpretentious little volume.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 106. Je. ‘05. 230w.

=Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita.= Ireland’s story; a short history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers. **$1.40; school ed. *$1.10. Houghton.

Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America, on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views, portraits and maps.

“Written in a quiet, almost gentle style, the narrative moves calmly forward and is easily followed. The treatment is sufficiently fair and charitable to satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tolerance is properly developed.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 411. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w.

“The writers of the present work have managed to condense a vast amount of information into their sketch of some 400 pages.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 250w.

“The first five chapters ... absolutely worthless for any purpose whatever. The rest of the volume, however, appears to be of some value.”

+ — =N. Y.= Times. 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 590w.

“A well-arranged outline history of Ireland. The authors, while frankly revealing both their political and their religious sympathies, write with moderation and fair-mindedness.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.

“All in all, this volume gives an excellent epitome of Irish history.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 150w.

“A book which ought to have a place in the libraries of our high schools.”

+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 70w.

=Johnston, Rev. John Octavius.= Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon, canon of St. Paul’s cathedral and sometime Ireland professor of exegesis in the University of Oxford. $5. Longmans.

A detailed and sympathetic account of the life and character of the late Dean Liddon, strict ritualist and devoted Puseyite who was almost constantly involved in controversy. It is a faithful record of unfaltering devotion to duty and his steady advancement to well-earned success; his friendly relations with Gladstone and Salisbury and his refusal to accept a bishopric from either; his success as a pulpit orator; his famous sermons; his pleasing personality, high scholarship and untiring energy.

“A worthy addition to the literature of biography.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 234. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2020w.

=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 400w.

=Jones, Amanda Theodosia.= Rubáiyát of Solomon, and other poems. $1.25. Alden bros.

One-third of this new volume of poems “is given up to versification, in the familiar rubáiyát form, of certain of the sayings of Solomon and Koheleth.... It is elsewhere in Miss Jones’s volume that we must look for her most meritorious verse. We find it, for example, in the group of ‘Kansas bird songs,’ in the lyrics of childhood, the tender personal tributes, and the pieces that touch on contemporary history.” (Dial.)

“It can truly be said that she has looked upon the sun and has been undismayed; for, at intervals ... the clear voice of this fearless and fiery-hearted Deborah has been heard and heeded by those who may be reckoned as the jealous custodians of the gates of song.” Edith M. Thomas.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 412. N. ‘05. 1650w.

“There is in the book always a first-hand view of nature,—often a touch of mysticism. Some of the experiments are not fortunate, but now and again there is a narrative poem, or a lyric that clings to the memory.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 414. N. ‘05. 290w.

“After a long silence, Miss Jones has put forth a new volume of poems, which may perhaps secure for her work something of the appreciation which has long been its due.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.

* “The variety of achievement in this modest volume is in pleasing contrast to that offered in most collections of its size.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 802. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.

* =Jones, E. Griffith-.= Economics of Jesus; or, Work and wages in the kingdom of God. *35c. Meth. bk.

A study of the money parables,—“a series of problems arising out of the deep-seated and manifold inequalities of life.” The little volume belongs to the “Freedom of faith” series.

=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Manoeuvres of Jane: an original comedy in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.

“Mr. Nangle, a wealthy widower, places his wilful daughter in charge of Mrs. Beechinor, retired matron of a young ladies’ boarding-school, in the hope that she will transfer her affections from a man who is in moderate circumstances to Lord Bapchild, a nephew of Mrs. Beechinor’s, Jane arranges matters to suit herself and marries the man whom she loves.”—Bookm.

“The situations are the work of an undoubted expert, and the dialog is skilfully written. Now that Oscar Wilde is dead, Mr. Jones has only one equal in England, the Ibsenized Pinero.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 140w.

“It reads well, although the literary form emphasizes the fact that it is really more of a farce than a comedy.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 30w.

=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Mrs. Dane’s defence. **75c. Macmillan.

This four-act play was given in New York in the years 1901-1902. It concerns a woman with a past and a skilful lawyer who forces the truth from Mrs. Dane.

“Undeniably clever.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 20w.

=Jones, Rev. J. D.= Elims of life, and other sermons. *$1. Revell.

“These are discourses by a prominent Congregational pastor in England.... The spiritual and ethical element predominates, the form is plain and lucid, the aim is practical.”—Outlook.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 100w.

=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Dying message of Paracelsus. pa. 50c. Unity pub.

“Appropriate as an Easter gift, and dedicated as such by the [author] to his Browning classes, is this elegantly printed pamphlet, illustrated by Albrecht Dürer’s picture of ‘Melancholia.’ ... A few paragraphs of Mr. Jones’s lecture on Paracelsus accompany Browning’s text as introduction and commentary.”—Outlook.

=Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

=Jones, Paul.= Commercial power of Congress. $5. priv. ptd. C. S. Nathan, N. Y.

The object of this book “is to trace the history and show the present authoritative interpretation of that pregnant declaration of the constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall have power ... to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.’” (N. Y. Times.) Present interest centers about the application of this provision to trusts and railway rates.

“It is carefully done, but lacks a table of cases.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 258. S. 28, ‘05. 80w.

“It bears evidence of a lot of painstaking work, is written in a style excellent for its purpose, and offers very few of those slips of the pen or the proofreader that are apt to invade in force the pages of the amateur.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 312. My. 13, ‘05. 900w.

=Jones, Rufus Matthew.= Social law in the spiritual world, **$1.25. Winston.

“While the title at once suggests the famous work of the late Henry Drummond, and the book is in a way an attempt to deal with the same problems as those discussed in his Natural law in the spiritual world,’ Professor Jones is concerned rather with the psychological aspects of the subject than with the biological. In his view, there is a greater stress to-day in the psychological than in the so-called natural sciences.”—R. of Rs.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w. (Outlines scope).

“Professor Jones very tersely sums up the present-day meaning of personality and social relationship. His discussion of the modern religious problem is from a somewhat novel point of view.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 180w.

=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.

Thirty-eight letters originally dictated by Mayor Jones, Golden Rule Jones, to his stenographer and delivered to his women with their wages. Each letter begins, Dear Friends, and closes, Very faithfully yours, and in each the master and man meet on common ground as brothers. Equality, coöperation, harmony, fellowship, patriotism and even picnics and vacations are advocated in these letters, and many other subjects of general interest are discussed.

=Jonson, Ben.= Plays and poems, *$1.25. imp. Scribner.

“This latest addition to the irresistible ‘Caxton’ series is the representative work of Jonson as a dramatist and as a poet.... The frontispieces and the title-pages in this series ... are often as in the case of this volume, admirable pieces of typographical and illustrative work.”—Outlook.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.

A contribution to the “Yale studies in English.”

=Jonson, Ben.= Poetaster; a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Dr. of philosophy; ed. by Herbert S. Mallory. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This 27th volume in the “Yale studies of English” series, contains the text of the play, a long critical introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.

=Jonson, Ben.= Staple of news: a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of philosophy; ed. by Dr. De Winter. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This twenty-eighth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series contains the critical text of Jonson’s play, with elaborate notes, a glossary, and an introduction.

=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“The least satisfactory part of the work is that devoted to bibliography, which contains, as usual, a number of inaccuracies.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.

=Jonson, G. C. Ashton.= Handbook to Chopin’s works, **$1.50. Doubleday.

“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.

Reviewed by Ingram A. Pyle.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.

“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte music should have at hand for daily reference.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.

“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.

=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.

Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed, those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored to their place in the series and discussed along with those still extant.” (Dial.)

“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 84. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1680w.

“There is no thorough classification or system. The table of contents of the chapters make matters only worse. A single page with an outline of the arrangement would be a boon.” H. C.

+ + — =Nature.= 72: 625. O. 26, ‘05. 1600w.

=Jordan, Kate (Mrs. F. M. Vermilye).= Time the comedian. †$1.50. Appleton.

A man who was about to elope with a woman who is to desert for him her husband and child is shocked on the eve of their departure by the suicide of the husband with one of his wife’s guilty letters in his hand. He will not marry her now, but gives her a liberal allowance, and years later when he has come to love her daughter, his old letters to her mother keep them forever apart.

* “The characters are well drawn and the plot worked out logically ... and the story is written with a sureness of touch and a briskness that keeps the interest unflagging throughout.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 90w.

“A bright, entertaining society novel, not without a moral for light, frivolous, and selfish people of both sexes.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

Jubilee gems of the Visitation order. Sisters of the visitation of Holy Mary. *$1. Christian press.

“The present publication aims successfully at giving, in clear and simple language, an authentic account of the foundation of the order, and a picture of the ideals which have obtained in the community and borne fruit in the saintly lives of its members.... It will help to fill the lamentable lack of books suitable for Catholic school premiums.”—Cath. World.

“The volume is well gotten up and attractively written.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 406. Je. ‘05. 350w.

=Judd, Sylvester.= History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Mass. *$6. H. R. Huntting & co., Springfield, Mass.

This work was originally published in 1863. It is now reprinted with an introduction by Geo. Sheldon and family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood.

“Introduction is, by the way, decidedly more interesting than Mr. Judd’s ‘History.’”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 320w.

“His compilation is replete with authentic information as to manners and customs, and is highly browsable.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 330w.

“The new edition will find a wider field than the first met, and should create and fill a demand for itself.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1010w.

Judith: an old English epic fragment, ed. by Albert S. Cook. 40c. Heath.

This volume is section I of the “Belles-lettres” series contains the text of Judith, passages from the Vulgate Judith, an introduction, bibliography, and glossary.

* =Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.

“The volume is divided into two parts, the first part, comprising about one-fourth of the book, deals briefly with the power of the federal government over interstate commerce and with the statutes that have been enacted in the exercise of that power. Part two discusses in more detail the interstate commerce act of 1887, the anti-trust law of 1890, the safety appliance legislation of 1893 and 1896, and various other minor acts of legislation regarding interstate commerce. The latter part of the book is devoted to the presentation of information regarding ‘procedure before the Interstate commerce commission.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* “The volume is systematically arranged, it is well proportioned and carefully written. It is both a good treatise and a valuable book of reference. Neither the lawyer nor the economist interested in transportation can afford to neglect part two of Mr. Judson’s book.” Emory R. Johnson.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 756. N. ‘05. 310w.

* “Mr. Judson has a good power of statement, and his volume is a valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 230w.

Juliana, ed. by William Strunk. 40c. Heath.

A volume in section I of the “Belles-lettres” series, English literature from its beginning to the year 1100. The original text of the Exeter manuscript is given, all deviations being indicated in the variants. An introduction discusses the text, the author, and the legend, and complete notes, bibliography, and glossary are provided.

“The notes have been most carefully edited, the type is clear, and the notes and glossary are adequate.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 340w.

=Jungman, Beatrice.= Norway: text by Beatrice Jungman; with 75 il. in col. by Nico Jungman. *$6. Macmillan.

“Mrs. Jungman does not concern herself ... with the past history of Norway, except with a few of its legends; nor does she allude to the present unsettled state of its politics. But the fact of Norwegian unrest ... makes ... an interesting background to her brilliant series of passing impressions.... Mr. Jungman is a charming artist, ... and he has done nothing more attractive than these portraits of Norwegian girls and children.... His sketches of Norwegian landscape are also most characteristic.”—Spec.

“She is always readable,—partly, no doubt, because she is so absolutely unpretentious; and the book is a welcome addition to an interesting and valuable series.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 645. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.

“The limited scope of his work suffers considerably by comparison with the comprehensive title of the book.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 791. Je. 24. 660w.

“The ‘text’ is friendly gossip about a trip in Norway, quite natural, with no straining after effect. The colour of the pictures is gay; it is too vivid for our liking.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w.

“Mrs. Jungman’s ‘text’ is quite as interesting, in its way as her husband’s pictures.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.

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=Kasson, John A.= Evolution of the constitution of the United States of America and history of the Monroe doctrine. **$1.50. Houghton.

An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original ‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)

Reviewed by C. L. Raper.

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 150w.

“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook, and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s well-known treatise.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 188. Ag. 31, ‘05. 900w.

Reviewed by R. L. S.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 530w.(States scope of book).

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 150w. (States scope of book).

=Katherine, pseud.= See =Stephens, Louise G.=

=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.

In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and Results.

=Keats, John.= Poems; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt. $2.25. Dodd.

“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.

* “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s ideas untouched.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 326. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1420w.

“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his introduction and notes to this edition.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 534. O. 21. 3260w.

* “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 150w.

“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical student of poetry as a fine art.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 310w.

“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems that it has really done that.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.

“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.

=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.

The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader. Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”

“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness, though without the technical language.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 484. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.

“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical profession.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.

=Keith, Marian.= Duncan Polite, the watchman of Glenoro. †$1.50. Revell.

Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found. Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new things.

“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.

“Anyhow, it wad hae made a bonnie, wee short story.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 470w.

=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.

“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on ‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just now.”—Outlook.

“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 110w.

“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof. Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 164. S. 16, ‘05. 690w.

“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 340w.

“In general, entomologists will agree with the schemes of classification.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 207. S. 7, ‘05. 690w.

“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... contains much interesting reading for any nature-lover.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 100w.

“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt

+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 563. N. 3, ‘05. 1160w.

=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.

“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies, their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.

“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 558. Ja. ‘05. 110w.

“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly set forth.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 220w.

“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned; and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 580w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“The volume is worthy of high praise and it should be widely read.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 290w.

Reviewed by S. P. B.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 295. Mr. ‘05. 530w.

“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in American cities.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.

=Kelly, Myra.= Little citizens. †$1.50. McClure.

Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She “shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school. Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty. Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous and entertaining.” (Acad.)

“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and with a convincing sympathy.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 480w.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.

“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 210w.

“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present prodigiously amusing.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.

“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent. Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously, unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect is picturesquely and easily handled.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 623. Ap. ‘05. 380w.

“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an original and attractive kind.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 150w.

=Kendrick, A. F.= English embroidery. *$2.50. Scribner.

“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.

“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 500w.

“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and readable throughout.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 60. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.

=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.

=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia, 1773-1776. *$10. Putnam.

The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.

“The work of editing the volume has been ably done.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.

“A very satisfactory introduction.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the state.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 770w.

=Kennedy, Sidney Robinson.= Lodestar. †$1.50. Macmillan.

In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the story, and there are many amusing complications.

“One of the pleasantest of summer books.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.

“Something of a disappointment.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w.

“Clever and readable novel.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.

=Kent, Arminie Thomas.= Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. **$1.25. Lane.

Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric, which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.

“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”

— =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w.

“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute defects.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 540w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.

“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very little to be desired.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 93. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w.

=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.

“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4) ‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’ (6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.

“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it with discrimination.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1060w.

“It is a credit to the university served by Professor Kent.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.

=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history, from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75. Scribner.

Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses, laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.

“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 530w.

“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit, its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.

+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 309. Ap. ‘05. 1020w.

=Ker, William Paton.= Dark ages, **$1.50. Scribner.

“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term.... Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts, treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast field.”—Am. Hist. R.

“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 628. Ap. ‘05. 410w.

“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w.

=Kerr, Robert Pollok.= Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.

The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly presented in this little book which is intended for class study in Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of questions is given at the close of the volume.

* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Beethoven: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human observations.

* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together “an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic, intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”

* =Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.

This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of its characters take us at times to the far West with the forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young, to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are associated.”—Dial.

* “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of brilliancy.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.

* “The chief merit of the story lies in its character drawing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s strongest qualities.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.

=Ketcham, Heber D.= Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The Methodist pulpit. Second series, *50c. Meth. bk.

In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the seasons.

=Key, A. Cooper-.= Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors and dealers. *35c. Macmillan.

“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing, and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after they have left the manufactory the book should be equally valuable.”—Nature.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w.

“Is what such a handbook should be.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w.

“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.

=Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid.= With the pilgrims to Mecca, *$3.50. Lane.

An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.

“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry, jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave, with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense of accuracy.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w.

“A welcome book for our libraries.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 220w.

“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.

“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of truth.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 560w.

“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 820w.

“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that increases one’s interest.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 300w.

=Kielland, Alexander L.= Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by Rebecca Blair Flandrau. *$1.25. Turner, H. B.

“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper places.”—Bookm.

“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all horribly futile and Scandinavian.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 250w. (Outline of plot).

=Kildare, Owen.= My Mamie Rose: the story of my regeneration. $1. Baker.

A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.

“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker with greater hope.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 975. S. ‘05. 280w.

=Kinealy, John Henry.= Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low pressures. *$5. Spon.

“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.

“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.

— =Engin. N.= 53: 644. Je. 15, ‘05. 2060w.

=King, Charles.= Medal of honor: a story of peace and war. *$1.25. Hobart.

This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point, and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in military tactics at a western university. There are many complications and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out again.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.

* =King, Charles Francis.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.

A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers. There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army stories.

=King, Henry Churchill.= Personal and ideal elements in education. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes.... The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college course.”—Dial.

Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.

=Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology, **$1.25. Macmillan.

“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character, happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be actual.’”—Outlook.

* “A serious and amazingly comprehensive study.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 100w.

“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding writer.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.

Kingdom of Siam. See =Carter, A. Cecil=, ed.

=Kingsbury, Sara.= Atonement, $1. Eastern pub.

The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor. Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.

=Kingsley, Charles.= Hypatia. $1.25. Crowell.

A new volume in that pleasing pocket edition: the “Thin paper classics.”

=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50. Dodd.

Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow, cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and an old lover.

* “Clever and pleasant tale.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7. ‘05. 290w.

=Kinzbrunner, Charles.= Testing the continuous current machine in laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and engineers. $2. Wiley.

“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the exercises with a view to their practical application and has endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to students.”—Engin. N.

“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.

+ + + =Engin.= N. 53: 638. Je. 15. ‘05. 820w.

=Kipling, Rudyard.= Seven seas. * *$2. Appleton.

“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with decorative borders in green.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 70w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

=Kirk, William Frederick.= Norsk nightingale: being the lyrics of a “Lumberyack.” **75c. Small.

“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.

“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute us in this volume of dialect verse.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 190w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.

=Kiser, S. E.= Charles the chauffeur. $1. Stokes.

“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.

“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be just the kind of story they will like.”

+ =Sat. R.= 10: 342. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w.

=Kitton, Frederic George.= Dickens country. $2. Macmillan.

A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.

“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant travelling-companion.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11, ‘05. 1140w.

“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never be attempted again.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 430w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11. ‘05. 280w.

“The book is coherent and accurate.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 870w.

“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a well-filled mind.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.

=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.

Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter.

“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in the capacious index.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1160w.

“A highly interesting book.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 436. S. 28, ‘05. 240w.

=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.

Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his successful French work.

* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 110w.

“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 162. S. 16, ‘05. 2210w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 719. O. 21, ‘05. 210w.

“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record, and will attract many readers.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 190w.

=Knapp, Oswald G.=, ed. Artist’s love story. *$3.50. Longmans.

The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.

+ =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w.

“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom or intelligence.”

+ + =Ind.= 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w.

=Knight, William A.= Retrospects. Vol. I. *$2.25. Scribner.

“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading.... After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided, fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D. Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.

“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents).

“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents).

* =Knipe, Emilie Benson=, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.

=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.

A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and love of country.

“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”

+ + + =Arena.= 33: 557. My. ‘05. 3050w.

“Graceful workmanship.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are also some very bad ones.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 150w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature, making reference and identification easy.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w.

=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w.

“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the heart.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w.

“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.

“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when, abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells simply some little story with feeling in it.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w.

=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.

“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.

* “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we have read for several years.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1264. D. 2, ‘05. 320w.

“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.

=Knowles, W. Pitcairn.= Dutch pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.

A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed. Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.” (Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”

“Our author is a reliable, as well as an entertaining guide.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 460w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 840w.

“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.

=Knox, George William.= Japanese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.

“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.

Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.

* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely achieved.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.

Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Loves of great composers. *$2.50. Crowell.

In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.

* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w.

* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “Two charmingly written volumes.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.

=Kobbe, Gustav.= Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.

“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of Rs.

“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

* =Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.

“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced herein.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.

* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some interesting commentary from the composer.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.

* =Kolle, Frederick Strange.= Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland, †$1.50. Grafton press.

“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are in keeping.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w.

* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w.

* =Konody, Paul G.= Filippino Lippi. $1.25. Warne.

This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.

* + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w.

* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this series have offered us.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w.

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.

=Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.).= Tale of the kloster: a romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico. †$1.50. Am. Bapt.

A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata, where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.

“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the strange community the story has its own value. It is written with simplicity and grace.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w.

“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.

=Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’.= Russian literature. **$2. McClure.

A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal information about its great figures and copious extracts from its masterpieces.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w.

“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w.

“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w.

“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w.

“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w.

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.

“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w.

L

=La Colonie, Jean Martin de.= Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.

“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits and other illustrations.”—Outlook.

“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a copious index are duly provided.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w.

“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w.

“This book contains little information regarding politics or society, but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as an art.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w.

“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.

* =La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide.= Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.

“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.

* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.

* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.

=Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de.= New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.

Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.

“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w.

“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr. Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w.

Reviewed by John J. Halsey.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w.

+ + =Ind.= 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.

“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.

“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w.

* =Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.

* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale, Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w.

* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original work and restorations.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters, v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.

“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition of the ‘Letters’.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.)

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w.

“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’; yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.

+ + =Critic.= 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.

=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but unknown to us.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w.

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w.

* =Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne.= Tales from Shakespeare. *$2.50. Scribner.

“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price. These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself.... The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.

* + + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in London.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w.

* “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w.

* =Lamb, Osborn Rennie.= Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.

This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so often found in newspaper criticism.

=Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn.= Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.

Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.

=Lamia, pseud.= See =Austin, Alfred.=

=Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard.= What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25. Macmillan.

One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.

“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w.

“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w.

“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w.

“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w.

+ =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w.

“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the obscurities of the original.” A. G.

+ — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w.

“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good psychology, it certainly is not history.”

+ — — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w.

“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.

“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard to get at.”

— =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w.

“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than to the historian proper.”

+ =Yale R.= 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w.

=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.

A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)

“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.

* “Lively reading—and informative as well.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w.

“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of Wi.’”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w.

=Lancaster, R. V.= Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c. Presbyterian com.

The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan; Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory, and Kindred subjects.

“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w.

=Landon, Percival.= The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.

“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.” (N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who headed the mission to the Forbidden land.

“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art, religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w.

“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into the earlier and historical pages of the work.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w.

“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s work throughout.”

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w.

“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w.

“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.

+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w.

“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or index.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w.

“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w.

“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr. Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w.

“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w.

=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.= Tibet and Nepal. *$5. Macmillan.

“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches, animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.

“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too, for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w.

“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it impossible to follow his tour geographically.”

— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w.

“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H. Addington Bruce.

— =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.

“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The colored pictures are striking and effective.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.

“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader; but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters far behind him.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w.

=Lang, Andrew.= Adventures among books. *$1.60. Longmans.

Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w.

“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w.

“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w.

“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w.

“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.

“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up this volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w.

=Lang, Andrew.= History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3, *$3.50. Dodd.

The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St. Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland, finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr. Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.” (Outlook).

“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls, Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w.

“The impression received from this work is that the author is not attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w.

“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr. Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in his story.”

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w.

“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant leader [Montrose].”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w.

“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s ‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”

— + + =Spec.= 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w.

=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.

In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much gentle irony.

“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon, gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think, rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w.

“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w.

“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w.

“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.

— =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w.

“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w.

“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits history.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w.

* =Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.

“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines, Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need discussion now.”—Acad.

* “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w.

* =Lang, Andrew,= ed. Red book of romance. **$1.60. Longmans.

“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’ says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces, perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.

* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its compiler.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.

* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w.

* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s Christmas books.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.

* “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w.

* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old person with a young heart.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.

* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has done it admirably.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w.

* + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.

=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.

“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution, London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs of specimens in the Natural history museum.

* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’ there has been published no book on this subject combining so successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w.

“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers to its pages.”

+ + + =Nature.= 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w.

“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy, somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific readers.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w.

=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.

“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.

“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w.

* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w.

=Larson, Laurence Marcellus.= King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.

A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.

“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas, lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w.

“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr. Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”

+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w.

=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.

“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham.... These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)

* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once comprehensive and suggestive.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w.

“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr. Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great, that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied by plans.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w.

“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy realization of her work.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w.

* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.

=Laurvik, John Nilsen=, tr. See =Michaelis, Karin.=

=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Pathfinders of the West. **$2. Macmillan.

This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an historical appendix and an index.

“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first, Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much of Radisson’s narrative.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w.

“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w.

“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w.

=Nation.= 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w.

“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her characteristically clear style.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w.

=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.

Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he took part is stirring.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w.

“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society, and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.

=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.

An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up as the son of a half-breed.

“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references. He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”

— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w.

“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking, Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical mysteries.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.

=Leach, Albert Ernest.= Food inspection and analysis, for the use of public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. $7.50. Wiley.

“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants, etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.

“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is the best manual on its special subject in the English language, possibly in any language.” William Frear.

+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w.

* =Learned, Arthur G.= Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G. Learned. $1.75. Estes.

“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ... about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude, the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well. The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous illustrations are not.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w.

* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.

* “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Songs from the silent land. **$2. Brentano’s.

An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.

“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’ rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w.

“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.

“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

=Lee, E. Markham.= Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.

The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses, summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music, orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn with illustrations of the principal themes.

“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.

=Lee, Rev. Frank T.= Bible study popularized. *$1.25. Winona pub.

“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib. World.

“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w.

Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.

+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w.

=Lee, Robert Edward, Capt.= Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee, by his son. **$2.50. Doubleday.

“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy, seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The reconstruction period.”

“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced hand.” John R. Ficklen.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w.

Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w.

“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt Lee.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w.

* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of peace.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w.

“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w.

“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w.

=Lee, Sidney Lazarus.= Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. **$1.75. Scribner.

The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire activity of the age.” (Dial).

“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w.

“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”

+ + + =Cath. World=, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w.

“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w.

“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w.

“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w.

=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.

A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)

“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a delightful companion.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w.

“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages, and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers and engaging of companions.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal equation, the temperamental interpretation.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w.

“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause thought in those who read them.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w.

“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at the genius of places.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.

“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w.

=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.

A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.

* =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the legend is necessary for the smile.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.

“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a collection of John Leech’s pictures.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.

=Lefevre, Edwin.= Golden flood. †$1. McClure.

The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.

“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and its excellent character touches.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.

“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w.

“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very simplicity of which lies its strength.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers, Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w.

=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.

These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive. There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in literature.

“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr. Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life, his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.

+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w.

“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”

— + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w.

“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w.

“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.

+ =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w.

=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Romances of old France. **$1.50. Baker.

Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile; The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions and comments.

* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w.

* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited, without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most readers will care to hear.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.

* =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.

* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an undoubted interpretative value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w.

=Le Gallienne, Richard,= tr. See =Hafiz.= Odes from the Divan of.

=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4. Oxford.

The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the appendix.” (Dial.)

“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects. The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w.

“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w.

“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has lavished upon them.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w.

“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the serious student of the French revolution.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w.

=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Ford, The. †$1.50. Lane.

“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say, indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne, unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike in politics and love.”—Sat. R.

“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of work.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w.

“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w.

“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily, and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious epigrams.”

— + =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.

“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w.

=Lent, Edward Burcham.= Being done good. *$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.

“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”

+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w.

“In genuine humorous style.”

=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

=Leonard, Mary Finley.= Story of the big front door. 75c. Crowell.

This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.

* =Leonard, William Samuel.= Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.

A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.

* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.

=Le Poer, John Patrick.= Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.

A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the ‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).

“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth reading.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.

“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils attendant upon armed strife.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w.

* =Le Queux, William.= Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love. 50c. Smart set.

A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland, Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots. The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.

* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

* =Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family organization, and their social status. On questions which are still undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing judgment.”—Pub. Opin.

* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w.

* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.

=Le Strange, Guy.= Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4. Macmillan.

“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.

“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has already given us.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w.

“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of suggestion.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w.

“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w.

“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of Arabian geography.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.

=Lethaby, William Richard.= Mediaeval art from the peace of the church to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.

“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text cuts.”—Nation.

“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 758. Je. 17. 1260w.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 130w.

“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.

— =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 430w.

“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school, and the western, or Gothic.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 260w.

=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 50w.

“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1230w.

“His book is crowded with illustrations, yet there is not one too many.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 110w.

“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources referred to.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1700w.

“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 270w.

=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.

Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz., production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation, forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.) The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.

“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement other books. The translators’ work is well done.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 110w.

“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 180w.

“Levasseur’s ‘Elements’ is fluent, commonplace, eclectic.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 190w.

“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to several good textbooks which already exist in English.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 910w.

“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.

“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear discrimination in dealing with new theories.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.

=Levetus, A. S.= Imperial Vienna. *$5. Lane.

An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416), an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages) about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre, dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches, palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected, and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).

“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most interesting of European capitals.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”

+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 369. F. ‘05. 220w.

“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the most careless proof-reader.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 140. F. 16, ‘05. 710w.

=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.

Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region, furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by killing seven Indians before her eyes.

* “The book is not compelling in interest.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 130w.

“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well developed humor of their own.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western tales.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 368. Je. 3, ‘05. 330w.

“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known ‘Wolfville days.’”

— =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.

“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and gun play.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 210w.

“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 270w.

=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra. **$6. Putnam.

Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the city.

* “Many interesting, unique, and valuable features.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 380. D. 1, ‘05. 750w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.

“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good description of the present condition of the country through which the Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 1290w.

“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 450w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 210w.

=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman. †$1.50. McClurg.

The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its ground away.

=Lilly, William Samuel.= Studies in religion and literature. *$3.25. Herder.

“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are: ‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’; ‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.

“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s work is always interesting and instructive reading.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 160w.

=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Partners of the tide. †$1.50. Barnes.

A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business success.” (Dial.)

“Without being remarkable, the book inspires a hearty liking.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 70w.

“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 90w.

“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old and the rather young.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 290w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 433. Jl. 1, ‘05. 630w.

“Honest fun and oddity of character make the tale lively reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.

“A salty story, full of quaint characters with quaint turns of speech.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.

Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.

Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency, choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.

=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).= Good form for men. **$1. Winston.

The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in treatment.

“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has appeared in America.”

+ + + =Arena.= 34: 553. N. ‘05. 180w.

“What he says as a rule is to the point and unexaggerated.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 70w.

“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints that should be helpful.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 940w.

* Liquor problem, **$1. Houghton.

“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.

* “For the general reader this little book is the most important treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 150w.

* “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp criticism made upon the work of the committee.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 871. O. 12, ‘05. 880w.

* “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 310w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 160w.

=Litsey, Edwin Carlile.= Race of the swift. †$1.25. Little.

Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated by Charles L. Bull.

* “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.

“These seven tales ... are unusually interesting reading.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 300w.

=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.

“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various approaches to that land.”—Spec.

“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are vivified by their connexion with human history.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 361. S. 16, ‘05. 2400w.

“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some time.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 380w.

“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 140w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 1900w.

“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume, full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading public.”

+ + =Nature.= 72: 626. O. 26, ‘05. 780w.

“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 2510w.

“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 409. S. 23, ‘05. 1720w.

“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an accomplished geographer.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 528. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

=Littlefield, Walter=, tr. See =Noussanne, H. de.= Kaiser as he is.

=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.

“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 775. Je. 24. 1590w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 264. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)

* “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make this section complete.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 604. N. 4. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)

“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work commend itself to those who have to do with books.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 622. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)

* “The value of the work will increase.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 843. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 947. Je. 24, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)

“There is nothing very remarkable in this portion.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, †$1. Scribner.

A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs, her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in the story, which overflows with good humor.

“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is written by one who knows his ground.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 260w.

“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very bright reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.

“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully subtle thrusts at modern American society.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 100w.

=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.

A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.

“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an essential—vitality.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 664. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.

“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth. Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”

+ =Arena.= 34: 107. Jl. ‘05. 430w.

“It is clever throughout, despite the sentimentalism.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13. 280w.

“It is a refreshingly whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — =Bookm.= 21: 364. Je. ‘05. 670w.

“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 820w.

=Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 60w.

“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 710w.

“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 220w.

“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant, and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”

+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 190w.

“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well written.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 812. Je. 17, ‘05. 510w.

=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Robert Burns. *60c. McClurg.

Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and readers.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 30w.

=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Sir Walter Scott. *60c. McClurg.

The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the “Library of standard biographies.”

=Lodge, George Cabot.= Cain: a drama. **$1. Houghton.

A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:

“The power of life, the glory of rebellion. The fire and love of liberty, the pride Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”

He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”

“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 740w.

“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression of reversed dynamics.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.

“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise. There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward attention.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 420w.

“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly formalist.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.

=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.

A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival “the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism, both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.

“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter of style.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 809. Ag. 5, ‘05. 300w.

“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 138. Jl. 29. 300w.

“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”

+ + + =Bookm.= 22:35. S. ‘05. 620w.

“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”

— — =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 110w.

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element and outside of the verities.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.

“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality, and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w.

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.

“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.

=London, Jack.= The sea wolf. $1.50. Macmillan.

“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish, but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf Larsen.”—R. of Rs.

“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and brutality.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 310w.

“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C. Rich.

+ + =Arena.= 33: 452. Ap. ‘05. 610w.

“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.” W. M. Payne.

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Outline of plot).

“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale, yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 39. Ja. 5, ‘05. 820w.

“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power. Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr. London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before him.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 378. F. ‘05. 600w.

“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr. London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and strength.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 500w.

=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but dramatically.”—Outlook.

“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others as well.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.

* “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its heroism.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.

* “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show first-hand work.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 140w.

=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.

The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to “enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.

“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is scarcely a safe guide.”

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 100w.

“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.” Robert C. Brooks.

+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 61. S. ‘05. 1990w.

“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in the text have not been more carefully edited.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1190. My. 25, ‘05. 140w.

* “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 550w.

“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of conditions or its proposals for remedies.”

— + =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 520w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.

+ — =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 390w.

+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 130w.

=Loney, S. L.= Elements of trigonometry; with answers. *90c. Macmillan.

This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.

“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 130w.

“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call for special mention.”

+ =Nature.= 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 110w.

* =Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories, †$1.50. Macmillan.

“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who, at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;” “Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.

* “His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 686. N. 18. 280w.

* “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent them from being wholly bad.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 50w.

* “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.

* “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.

* =Long, John Luther.= Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. †$2.50. Lippincott.

A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins, Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new and subtle charm.

* “In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.

* “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his well-known style.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* “Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.

* =Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed, tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart. Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.

* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.

=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the far north. *$1.50. Ginn.

“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family, that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild, unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr. Long has made so popular.”—Ind.

* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for children attain.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.

* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.

“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the reasonableness of his inferences.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.

* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.

Long day. See =Richardson, Dorothy.=

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.

A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book, stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.

* + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w.

“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a time.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w.

* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in Minerva.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w.

* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis offers. They are surely worth a reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w.

“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.

=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.

“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and, thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and thinking.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w.

“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w.

“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.

“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w.

“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w.

“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w.

“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.

=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller, *$2.50. Revell.

A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco, Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps and pictures.

“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not been done by a classical expert.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w.

“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and misprints.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w.

“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.

“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what elsewhere must be picked out of several.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w.

=Loring, Andrew.= Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.

“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.

“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger still without being any better.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.

“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.

“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but truly scientific.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.

“This may be a very useful book.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.

=Loring, J. Alden.= Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.

“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.

=Outlook.= 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w.

* =Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)= Ben Pepper. †$1.50. Lothrop.

This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy. Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand, Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks, and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the features of the story.”—Outlook.

* “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper family.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Lott, Noah, pseud.= See =Hobart, George Vere.=

* =Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.

A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox, mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and others.

=Lovett, W. J.= Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions. *$2.50. Longmans.

“This work is intended primarily for British students attending technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture, theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.

“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited, and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.

+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w.

=Low, Berthe Julienne.= French home cooking. **$1.20. McClure.

The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants, hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their cookery.

+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w.

“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.

=Low, Sidney.= The governance of England. *$2.25. Putnam.

“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)

“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally available, he has mastered.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w.

“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w.

“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but, in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w.

“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent comparisons instituted between the English and American political systems.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w.

“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

* =Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson=, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.

“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante, Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.” (Ind.)

* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’ is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.

* =Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.

“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.

* “Scholarly work.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the vexed themes involved.”

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.

* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of distinct value to the historical student.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

=Lowrie, Rev. Walter.= Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.

Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice, confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services, and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.

=Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.

* =Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.

“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths, she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.

* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.

* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w.

=Lucas, Abner H.= Call of to-day. *50c. Meth. bk.

Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.

Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.

“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w.

* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries.... At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips, Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived.... For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two volumes.”—Lond. Times.

* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something like over-confidence in his minute research.”

+ + — =Acad.= 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w.

* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from travesty.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w.

* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of ‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote, much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely fresh.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w.

* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w.

* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so generously told the story of both lives in the language of his subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and indexed in a masterly manner.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w.

* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly delightful writer and admirable man.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$1.75. Macmillan.

“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr. Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.

“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w.

“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume should have a warm welcome.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.

“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.

* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.

“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.

“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.

* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original qualities.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.

“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise reflection.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.

“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.

=Luccock, Rev. Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c. Meth. bk.

Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.

=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.

Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.

* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.

“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.

“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.

“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of their translations.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.

“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.

“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive, of ancient authors.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.

=Lucke, Charles Edward.= Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.

“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.

“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.” Storm Bull.

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.

=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.

The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)

“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.

“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.

=Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn.= Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.

The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.

“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that have been going on during the last thirty years.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.

“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.

=Ind.= 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.

* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by delicacy of perception.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.

Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.

“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes, dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct value to the historical student, and of interest to the general reader.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.

“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.

=Lydston, G. Frank.= Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.

“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.

“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.

“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.

“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.

“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.

“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”

— + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.

“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.

=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.

Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.

* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.

“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — =Bookm.= 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.

“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.

“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.

“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.

* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast importance and fairly accurate.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.

=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.

The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman, lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a biography.” (N. Y. Times.)

“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary of dates.”

+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.

=Lynch, Frederick.= Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.

A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life eternal.

=Lytton, Lord Bulwer-.= Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather, and contains a frontispiece of the author.

M

=Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz).= My poor relations. †$1.50. Appleton.

Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother” Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,” “The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost too real.

“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”

— =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to tragedy.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.

“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.

“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.

=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Fairy tales every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.

Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.

=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.

“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.

* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.

* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright,= ed. Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.

“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.

* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.

* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”

* + — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.

* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”

— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.

=McAlilly, Alice.= Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.

Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.

=McAlilly, Alice.= Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.

“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.

“The story is told with many touches of humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.

=Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron.= Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.

These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.

“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.

“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.

=Macbean, L., and Brown, John.= Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.

The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.

* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious possession.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.

“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of her.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.

+ =Dial.= 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.

=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.

Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.

“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.

“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.

“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.

“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.

“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.

=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.

“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.

“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later English politics.” E. D. Adams.

+ =Dial.= 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry, tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism to say that he has not written a weighty history.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of recent events.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The English is slovenly.”

— =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* + — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.

=McCarthy, Justin.= Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.

An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work, his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902), covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up of the Nationalist party.

“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.

“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr. Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.

“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”

+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 820w.

“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.

“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed. There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles, enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.

“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”

— =Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.

“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.

+ — =Ind.= 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.

“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather pleasing piece of make-believe.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.

“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.

“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.

“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his descriptions of the forest.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.

“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.

=Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.

“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping, happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”

+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.

“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.

=McCaul, Ethel.= Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50. Cassell.

An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical of the land and the people.

“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.

“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a tonic.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume under review cannot be questioned.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.

“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.

“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.

=McClain, Emlin.= Constitutional law in the United States. *$2. Longmans.

“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the “American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ... first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government. The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a fairly satisfactory index.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.

“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for classes of civics or history in our schools.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.

“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail, and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.

=McClellan, Elizabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles, commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic sources.”—Reader.

“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more frequent.”

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.

“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on the subject.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.

* “A valuable book of reference.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.

“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been offered.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.

+ =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.

=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Our presidents and how we make them. $2. Harper.

The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a narrative of its various conventions.

“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of American national politics, and only here and there does the author make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.

+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.

“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and to the point.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.

“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w.

“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.

=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.= Senator: a threnody. **$1.25. Jacobs.

This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend. It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes; Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.

“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic experience.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w.

=McCrackan, William Denison.= Fair land Tyrol. **$1.60. Page.

An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The traveller is shown where to find interesting sights and scenes and is given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.

“The book is readable and interesting.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.

+ + — =Ath. 1905=, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w.

“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European districts.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country, the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the country.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w.

“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following Mr. McCracken as a guide.”

— + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w.

“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes slipshod.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w.

=McCracken, Elizabeth.= Women of America. **$1.50. Macmillan.

As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States, Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.

“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O. H. D.

— — =Critic.= 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w.

“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise, illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them well.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w.

“The book has far too wide a title.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w.

“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of their occupations.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w.

“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50. Dodd.

The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister, forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he has rescued by mistake.

“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.

“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.

“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Purple parasol; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25. Dodd.

The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.

+ =Bookm.= 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w.

“A slight and rather foolish story.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=McCutcheon, John Tinney.= Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. *$1.50. McClure.

Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume. The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent interest because of the great historical importance of the period they encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and glad-hander, and satires of child life.

* “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than the pages of a daily newspaper.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the whole we find the collection rather dreary.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w.

=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.

The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State, and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).

“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”

— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w.

=Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w.

“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as a record it may possess.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

* =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.

=McDougall, W.= Physiological psychology. *40c. Macmillan.

This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to date.”—Acad.

“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.

* =McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75. Armstrong.

“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been arrived at.”—Acad.

* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the several books.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.

=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.

“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a Congregational minister.

“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this newer treatise.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w.

* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old Testament prophecy.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of religious values.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.

=Macfarlane, Isabella.= Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other, loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate. Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft. Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor Maximilian, all ends happily.

=N. Y. Times.= 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.

=Macfarlane, Walter.= Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.

“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.

+ =Engin. N.= 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w.

“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and can be recommended for their use.”

+ + — =Nature.= 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w.

=MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.

In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)

“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic novels of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w.

* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w.

“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w.

“A capital tale of love and adventure.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w.

“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.

“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the whole picture excellently drawn.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w.

“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.

“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of picturesqueness enters more effectively.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Enchantment. †75c. Bobbs.

A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper, “Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.

“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and entertainment.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.

“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.

* =MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up, furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.

* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.”

+ =Dial.= 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.

* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure enough to last a lifetime.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Princess elopes. †75c. Bobbs.

The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn. That she finds the young American with her on this journey is certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.

“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly real.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.

=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. *$1.50. Bureau of University travel.

“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved, and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.

“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He states his conclusions boldly and independently.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.

“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great service to the student.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w.

=McIvor, Allan, pseud.= Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.

This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the “Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat “Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands when England is finally defeated.

“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w.

“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot).

=Mackaye, Harold Steele.= Winged helmet. †$1.50. Page.

France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.

“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.

“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w.

“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.

=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.

+ =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w.

“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or that we might see it acted.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w.

“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be nothing but admiration.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w.

=McKean, Thomas.= Vortex. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply designing nature.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w.

“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in expression, and quite unnecessary.”

— — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.

=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, after which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.

“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry Lewis Cannon.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w.

“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w.

* “Very readable book.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w.

“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w.

“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.

“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w.

=McKibben, Julia Baldwin.= Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.

Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.

* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.

=Mackie, Pauline Bradford.= Girl and the kaiser. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland, and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.

“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”

+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.

=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.

The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”

“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w.

“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w.

=McKinley, Charles E.= Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay, which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as to how the church may meet them.

“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.

“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of thoughtful consideration.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w.

=McKinley, William.= Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.

“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully justify its being put into book form.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w.

=McLain, John Scudder.= Alaska and the Klondike. **$2. McClure.

The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.

“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be believable.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w.

“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its class that has appeared up to the present time.”

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w.

“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.

“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations, resources, and problems.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w.

“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are mostly of slight importance.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.

“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and trustworthiness of a public document.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w.

“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the treatment is adequate.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w.

“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is broadly comprehensive.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

=McMahon, Anna Benneson=, ed. See =Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=

=McManus, Thomas J. Luke.= Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.

The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.

“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w.

=Macphail, Andrew.= Essays in Puritanism. **$1.50. Houghton.

Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.

“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.

+ — =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.

“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w.

“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his style, is journalistic.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.

“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real greatness of the men whom he describes.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w.

=Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden.= Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria.... The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by describing their physical characteristics and relating their conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w.

* “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many tastes.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.

“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the fifty original illustrations.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.

* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting anecdotes.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w.

“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them alone.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w.

“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative style.” Walter Littlefield.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w.

=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.

“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’ comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660 to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but to art students interested in wood-carving.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.)

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts. 1-2.)

+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.)

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I, pts. 1-3.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1. pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.)

* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts. 6 and 7.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)

* =McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the ‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’ ‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.

* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a capital little book.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.

* =McVickar, Henry Whitney.= Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.

“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which frequently leaves something to be desired.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.

* “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.

=Macy, Jesse.= Party organization and machinery. *$1.25. Century.

Party organization is described in its relation to presidential, congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party development pathologically rather than historically from its real beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county organization, up through state, congressional, and national committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and the differing party management in various states are fully treated.

“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as a fact.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

=Atlan.= 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w.

“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the books available to the student of political science. There seems to be nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party methods or management could possibly wish to know.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w.

“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his work.”

+ — =Outlook.= 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w.

=Madison, James.= Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. *$5. Putnam.

“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin Jameson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w.

“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and judicious.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w.

* =Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. **$1.20. Dodd.

“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they express.”—Dial.

* “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”

+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

* “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment which have given all his books subtle individuality.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w.

=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Prince of lovers. †$1.50. Little.

A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an unscrupulous villain add to the plot.

“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”

— =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.

+ =Ath. 1905,= 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w.

“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.

“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.

“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time, that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w.

=Magnus, Hugo.= Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.

A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the days of ancient Rome to the present time.

=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits. He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.

“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w.

“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr. Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.

+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w.

“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w.

“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any save finished scholars.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w.

=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812. 2v. **$7. Little.

The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from government and private documents, has treated with special clearness the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.

“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w.

* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best we know of anywhere.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w.

* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.

=Mahler, Arthur.= Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.

“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.

“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”

— =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w.

* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.

“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.

* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this commentary are quite readable.”

+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w.

* =Maitland, John Alexander Fuller.= Joseph Joachim. *$1. Lane.

This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions, each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner.... Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one, is well summed up.”—Acad.

* “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.

=Maitland, J. A. Fuller=, ed. See =Grove, George.=

=Major, Charles.= Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. * †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

* “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.

* “Is a very good story of its kind.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.

* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he attempts ‘Yolande.’”

— =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Malcolm, Napier.= Five years in a Persian town. *$3. Dutton.

“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as it is rare.”—Ath.

“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.

“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.

“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.

“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.

* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75. Harper.

“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.

* “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w.

* “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w.

* “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his concluding book.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w.

* “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading leaves something to be desired.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w.

* “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to logical issue.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w.

=Mann, Henry.= Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.

“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story, tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family progresses.

“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less good for incipient anarchists.”

(Outline of plan).

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w.

“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than broaden the thoughtless.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.

=Mann, Hugh.= Bound and Free: two dramas. *50c. Badger, R: G.

An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will consider this book immoral.

* =Mannix, Mary Ella.= Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.

A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the missions played in it.

=Manzoni, Alessandro.= Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham. *$3. Oxford.

The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical introductions and critical notes.

“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the original, one can recognize that he has given an equivalent for many of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.

“We have nothing with this rendering.”

— =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.

* =Mar, Alice=, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

* “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.

=Marble, Annie Russell.= Books in their seasons. **30c. Crowell.

Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.

=Marchmont, Arthur William.= Courier of fortune. †$1.50. Stokes.

“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly, viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in plenty.”—Pub. Opin.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.

The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.

* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Making of a man. †$1.25. Lothrop.

“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success, ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.

* “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry, thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 400w.

* “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 60w.

=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35. Putnam.

This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)

+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 310w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 510w.

“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 230w.

* =Marks, G. Croyden.= Hydraulic power engineering. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been fully revised.

=Marriott, Charles.= Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.

This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn with pathetic humor.

“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 230w.

“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his previous book notable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w.

=Marshall, Archibald.= House of Merrilees. †$1.50. Turner.

A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly, his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is also a love interest.

“Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at the finish.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 198. Mr. 4, ‘05. 200w.

“This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its inevitableness.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 555. My. 6, 180w.

* “It all makes exciting reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.

* “Is surprisingly good reading.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.

“Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 260w.

“The book will while away an unoccupied hour very pleasantly.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.

=Marshall, Beatrice.= Queen’s knight errant. †$1.50. Dutton.

A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of the queen.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.

“Too high-flown in style to suit the present taste.”

— =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 20w.

* =Marsland, Frank.= Occupations in life; a fund of practical information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E. Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.

The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company, draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.

=Martin, Edward Sanford.= Courtship of a careful man. †$1.25. Harper.

“A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.

“In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is his wont, but as always, excellent company.”

+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 240w.

* “Clever and disappointing book.” Frances Duncan.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 454. N. ‘05. 260w.

“Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 470w.

“The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and easy and attractive reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.

“Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as alluring.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert.= Homer Martin; a reminiscence. *$1.50. W: Macbeth, N. Y.

This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known paintings.

“In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 550. Ja. ‘05. 150w.

“This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done, Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 70w.

=Martin, Helen Reimensnyder.= Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25. Century.

Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him. Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 644. S. 30, ‘05. 260w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.

“Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second book does not equal the first.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 130w.

=Martin, Hiram=, ed. See =Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of.

=Martindell, Mrs. Charlotte S.= Diary of a bride. **$1. Crowell.

“If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.

=Martineau, James.= Tides of the Spirit. *$1. Am. Unitar.

“Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the human.’”—Dial.

=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 60w.

=Marvin, Frederic Rowland.= Companionship of books, and other papers. **$1.50. Putnam.

The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles, which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and the brevity of their treatment make the book one which may be profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.

* “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous mass.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 917. D. 23, ‘05. 300w.

* Mary the queen. 50c. Benziger.

A story of the virgin Mary for little people.

=Maskell, Alfred.= Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.

A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful illustrations in photogravure and half tone.

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 247. Ag. 19. 1540w.

“The first compendious account in any language of the progress of ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick W. Goodkin.

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 239. O. 16, ‘05. 1750w.

“The present volume will be found satisfactory and very comprehensive.”

+ + =Ind.= 59:696. S. 21, ‘05. 240w.

“If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 284. S. 8, ‘05. 1120w.

“While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display of pictures.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1070w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.

“In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information, Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations on the significance of the various epochs.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.

“One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and arrangement is to be found throughout.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1490w.

=Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley.= Truants. $1.50. Harper.

An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby find their own happiness.

“There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“He writes in a prosaic manner of the most romantic passions.”

— =Ind.= 59: 216. Jl. 27, ‘05. 80w.

“‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”

+ + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 420w.

“Sure to awaken the reader’s interest.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 120w.

=Mason, Arthur James.= Historic martyrs of the primitive church. *$3.20. Longmans.

The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 230w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

“The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has accomplished a most interesting task.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 653. My. 27. 460w.

“Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and scholarly competence.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 397. Je. ‘05. 210w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 160w.

“Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 810. Je. 17, ‘05. 1270w.

“A most valuable contribution to the history of Christian life.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 340w.

=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Beethoven and his forerunners. **$2. Macmillan.

Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on ‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.” (Dial.)

“Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.

“The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece of writing than its predecessor.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 41. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.

“The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 530w.

“One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of musical development in its relation to the general progress of the world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its greatness.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 110w.

* =Masson, Thomas Lansing (Tom Masson).= Corner in women. **$1.60. Moffat.

“A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other pictures.”—Outlook.

* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.

* “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in both subject and manner of treatment.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1383. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 160w.

* “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many really funny things.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.

* =Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

“Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his writing.”—Ath.

* “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style. His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 38. Jl. 8. 1430w.

* “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive, rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s defects are the defects of his qualities.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 1480w.

* “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s essays.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1260w.

=Matarazzo, Francisco.= Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503, tr. by Edward S. Morgan. *$1.25. Dutton.

“Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni, that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as good as the Italian.”—Nation.

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 634. Je. 17, ‘05. 1250w.

* “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”

+ + — =Cath. World.= 82: 412. D. ‘05. 530w.

“A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.

“We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the spirit of the original.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.

“A careful English translation.” Walter Littlefield.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 170w.

“In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

=Mather, Persis.= Counsels of a worldly godmother. †$1.50. Houghton.

“We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham, snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.

“No less wise than witty are these ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 550w.

“While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.

=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)

“On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 216. Ag. 12. 840w.

“Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or Mr. Walker painted.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 460w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

“He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it interesting to others.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 280w.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Billy Duane. †$1.50. Dodd.

A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and numerous friends of their type form the plot, which works out happily, ending with a reconciliation.

“With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability in character-drawing seems to warrant.”

+ — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 30w.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 570w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.

“A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern and strenuous American writers.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 70w.

“It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to read.”

+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Marquise’s millions. **$1. Funk.

An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate, learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life alone.

* “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause, light, readable and effective rather than well written.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1033. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.

=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

“This is a sprightly tale.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 490w.

“An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made much of.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

“A really delightful story.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Mathews, Shailer.= Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

“The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body; the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion there is shown the distinction between the essential and the formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.

* “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet thoro in research.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“Is the best monograph on the subject with which we are acquainted.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 982. Ag. 19, ‘05. 620w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 360w.

=Mathot, R. E.= Gas engines and producer gas plants. tr. from the French by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.

A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.

“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w.

=Matthews, (James) Brander=, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 3.

=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Recreations of an anthologist. **$1. Dodd.

Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest feat in modern magic.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

“A volume of pleasant literary essays.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w.

“Entertaining little volume.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 600w.

=Matthews, Mary Anderson.= Love vs. law. $1.50. Broadway pub.

The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case, becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress of her profession.

=Mauclair, Camille.= Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work. $4. Dutton.

In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon the education of other sculptors.

“Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book, if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of genuine interest.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 407. Ap. 1. 1360w.

“A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of sculpture and his methods of work.”

+ + — =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 160w.

“M. Mauclair is ... a violent partisan.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 439. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.

“M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 257. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1630w.

“From its pages a just appreciation of the artist can be gained.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 227. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1340w.

=Maude, Aylmer.= The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.

Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his having helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.

=Acad.= 68: 608. Je. 10, ‘05. 810w.

“To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as a pendant.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 103. Jl. 22. 1190w.

“The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 460w.

“At last we have a work from which the student of sociological experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly ‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or erroneous has been written.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 1470w. (Abstract of book).

“Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting study of ‘a peculiar people.’”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 410w.

“His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 635. My. 13, ‘05. 700w.

=Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 560w.

=Maule, Francis I.= Only letters. **$1. Jacobs.

“In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.

“He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.

=Maurer, Edward R.= Technical mechanics. $4. Wiley.

“The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of units.”—Science.

“As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.

+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1300w.

=Maxwell, Donald.= Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the Alps to the Thames. **$2.50. Lane.

The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps, and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the unique cruise.

“An agreeable novelty in the well-worn ways of European travel.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

“Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 200w.

“The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 130w.

“Capital reading.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Condensed narrative.)

=Maxwell, Joseph.= Metapsychical phenomena, tr. by J. I. Finch. $3.50. Putnam.

The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet, and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.

“One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.

+ — =Acad.= 68: 898. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.

— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 693. Je. 3. 1570w.

“It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many disfiguring gallicisms.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 285. O. 5, ‘05. 780w.

“Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.” Pendennis.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 429. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1200w.

“Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 210w.

“The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is unquestionably very high.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 249. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1220w.

— =Spec.= 95: 496. O. 7, ‘05. 2230w.

=Maxwell, W. B.= Ragged messenger. **$1.20. Putnam.

“A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices. The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.

“The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 80w.

“The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking to himself.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 300w.

“As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable, the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired. But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one somewhat daringly planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing eye.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.

“A powerful story.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

=Maxwell, W. B.= Vivien. †$1.50. Appleton.

“The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine.... The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom.... At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.

“Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for rendering that humour effective.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 856. Ag. 19, ‘05. 890w.

“The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 640w.

“In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour; he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention through a very long and unevenly handled story.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 340w.

“Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 1160w.

“A novel of more than usual interest and strength.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.

“It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of life.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 378. S. 16, ‘05. 410w.

“The book is fluently written, and judged by its own standard, is clever.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.

=Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler).= Mrs. Maybrick’s own story. **$1.20. Funk.

The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal digest of the case is appended.

“Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true. To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while avoiding.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

=Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.

+ + =New England Magazine,= n.s. 31: 622. Ja. ‘05. 5830w. (Condensed narrative of book.)

“There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of appeals in criminal cases.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w.

=Meeker, Royal.= History of shipping subsidies. *$1. Published for the American economic association by the Macmillan co.