The cumulative book review digest, Volume 01, 1905

Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement

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of the people and their political history, wars, industries and agriculture, religions and social conditions, and contemporaneous European history.

“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour, written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better than any other work yet produced the various phases and aspects of that surprising development—the birth of a new race.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 851. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1230w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is to be regretted that a work so attractively got up should thus far exhibit so slight intrinsic merit of either substance or form.”

— =Nation.= 80: 435. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)

“In short, the style of Messrs. Chancellor and Hewes grows monotonous and fatiguing. They occasionally get hopelessly entangled in the meshes of inaccuracy and irrelevancy. Historical errors are extremely common.”

— — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 750w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is defective in almost every essential.”

— — =Outlook.= 81: 42. S. 2, ‘05. 610w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

“Full of great and varied interest.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 900. Je. 17. ‘05. 270w.

=Chandler, Mrs. Izora Cecilia, and Montgomery, Mary W.= Told in the gardens of Araby. *75c. Meth. bk.

Nine stories translated from the Turkish. The emerald roc; The story of the beautiful girl who had her wish; The story of the beautiful one who did not have her desire; Story of the crying pomegranate and the laughing bear; Story of the bird of affliction; Story of the water-carrier; Story of the coffee-maker’s apprentice; The crystal kiosk and the diamond ship. A prelude gives a description of the manners and customs of the people with whom the stories deal.

“Told with varying success.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15. ‘05. 310w.

“Neither very good nor very bad.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3. ‘05. 290w.

=Chandler, Katherine.= In the reign of coyote. 40c. Ginn.

A little book of folk-lore from the Pacific coast, in which the coyote, the wisest and most efficient of the four-footed creatures, occupies the chief place. The setting of the book gives a glimpse of child life in colonial California.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w.

=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. v. I, Planting of a nation in the New world. **$2.50. Macmillan.