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THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
FOURTH ANNUAL CUMULATION
BOOK REVIEWS OF 1908 IN ONE ALPHABET
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS SELECTED BY
CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING
MINNEAPOLIS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1908
PREFACE
With this annual cumulation the BOOK REVIEW DIGEST completes its fourth
year. The volume includes principally the books of 1908 that have been
reviewed by expert book critics in America and England. It aims first to
record with unprejudiced exactness the scope, character and subject
content of books as they appear; and further, to supplement this
descriptive information from month to month with excerpts culled from
the current reviews appearing in fifty-one American and English
magazines that give prominence to book criticism. Thus it furnishes to
the librarian a basis for the valuation of books. As the best reviews of
a book often appear during the year following its publication, there
will be found in this volume supplementary excerpts relating to books
which were entered in the 1907 annual. It will be observed that a few
entries include only the descriptive note, reviews for these books
having not yet appeared; 1909 will furnish the material for
appraisement, and excerpts will be included in current numbers of the
DIGEST as fast as reviews are published.
Good, bad, and indifferent books fall into the hands of reviewers who,
in the main, honestly reveal the good, bad, and indifferent qualities.
The DIGEST then, in making reviews the basis of its selection of books,
includes accredited books, doubtful books, and some books altogether
profitless. It is quite as important for a librarian or bookseller to
know why he rejects some volumes from a list of new books as it is to
have a reason for including others. To aid intelligent book selection is
the sole purpose of this bibliography.
J. L. W.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 66
Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34
Newbury St., Boston.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Beatty & Adeline Sts., Trenton, N.
J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2.50. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $7. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Class. J.—Classical Journal. $1.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Class Philol.—Classical Philology. $2.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, 203 Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
Econ. Bull.—Economic Bulletin. $2. American Economic Association.
Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Eng Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, & Co., 39
Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street, New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $2.50. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 110–114 West 32d
Street, New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
$3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature. 31s. 6d. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co.,
Franklin Sq., New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
Lancaster, Pa.
Putnam’s.—Putnam’s and the Reader. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 & 29 W.
23d St., New York.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor
Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, London.
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Science Press, Sub-Station 84,
New York.
Spec.—Spectator $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Univ. Rec.—University Record. $1. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill. (Incorporated into University of Chicago Magazine on N.
1, 1908. $2. U. of Chicago Press.)
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven, Conn.
From the following publications, digests of reviews are frequently made:
Elec. World—Electrical World. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West 39th
st., New York.
Engin. D.—Engineering Digest. $2. Technical Literature Co., 220
Broadway, New York.
Engin. Rec.—Engineering Record. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West
39th st., New York.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
=Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
=An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to
the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a
double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain
the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed
at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.
=The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines
indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
=In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the
volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
=Books noticed for the first time= this month have an asterisk (*)
immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.
=A Maltese Cross= (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests
the books for first purchase. The letter =S= indicates that the
same publication recommends the book for small libraries.
* * * * *
The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading
reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to
subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with
comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be
culled. For this reason the digests will be of greater value to the
small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient
form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would
not otherwise be available.
We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and
the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have
access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at
substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books
reviewed.
This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which
are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library, we shall
endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there
will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.
Chapter
PREFACE
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
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Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
January-December, 1908
A
=Abbott, Ernest Hamlin.= On the training of parents. **$1. Houghton.
8–12208.
The first chapter on Spasm and habit urges mothers to forsake the
collision and spasm methods of governing children. The author preaches
the practice of regularity to insure health, contentment, and that
obedience which marks the beginning of the child’s moral training.
Other chapters follow on The will and the way, By rule of wit, Peace
at a price, For it is their nature to [quarrel], and The beginning of
wisdom.
* * * * *
“A popular but sound book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Abbott’s pleasant and profitable little book illustrates this
truth [that ‘self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,—these three
alone lead life to sovereign power’] with much shrewdness, humor, good
sense, and evidence of actual and often perplexing experience.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 450w.
“There is an hour of genial reading, not without its minutes of
instruction and more sober reflection, in Mr. Abbott’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“It should be in the hand of every parent and teacher of the young.
The tone is genial, and a vein of pleasant, sympathetic humor lightens
every page. Mr. Abbott’s little book cannot be too heartily
commended.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Abbott has a keen power of observation and the faculty of being
serious without being dull.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Abbott, George Frederick.= Israel in Europe. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–37533.
A synopsis of the history of the Jews in Europe, from the earliest to
the present times, which tells the “story of suffering, partial
degradation, and petty general victory of the better elements of
humanity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“With this reservation, the author may be praised for a concise and
brightly written presentment of a singularly tragic and often
repulsive story, a presentment which only degenerates into special
pleading when the latter-day developments of the Jewish question are
approached.” Rowland Strong.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 730. Jl. 27, ’07. 1650w.
“Obsessed by his idea of persecution, the author can not spare the
space to recount the positive labors of the Jew in the field of
letters, journalism, finance, invention and pure science. These
defects are offset by a personal enthusiasm and vivacity of tone
unusual in a work of encyclopedic character.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 320. Ja. ’08. 740w.
“An excellent history, only slightly biased (because of association in
modern questions with the English Jew’s viewpoint). Does not replace
Graetz, but is more readable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 253. N. ’08.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 174. Ag. 17. 580w.
“Admirable as are its tone and purpose, suffers from the fact that the
authorities consulted are chiefly those on the Jewish side; that, in
fact, what is needed is again to return to original authorities,
whether Latin or Hebrew, and from them to reconstruct the history to
which this book serves as a finger-post. Mr. Abbott also is unfair in
his attitude to the medieval church.” E. R. Y.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 823. O. ’07. 200w.
“It is interesting in subject, comprehensive in material, and lucid in
expression.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 270. S. 6, ’07. 690w.
“As to the future, Mr. Abbott is not hopeful—he believes that ‘there
is no rest for Israel.’ This note of hopelessness is the only
unsatisfactory feature in a work which will do much to popularize the
knowledge of Jewish history and lead to a juster and kindlier estimate
of the Jew’s place in modern civilization.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It has knowledge, fairness, industry, and a lucid, pleasant style.
And many besides those who can claim descent from the unconquerable
race whose tribulations it chronicles will be glad to have a summary
of Jewish history in a form so easy to handle and so agreeable to
consult.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 530. O. 12, ’07. 1260w.
=Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England
border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–40881.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Miss Abbott is anxious to relate, not what actually occurred, but
what the country-folk have believed or fancied as occurring; and, in
pursuing this end she pours out a lavish store of things amusing,
pathetic, often in a high degree romantic.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 210w.
“It would be impossible to find, probably impossible to create, a book
more fully saturated with the spirit of old New England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
“To any one in the least interested in the old days of our Yankee
ancestors this volume would prove an extremely satisfying gift.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Abbott, Leonard D.= Ernest Howard Crosby: a valuation and tribute.
*50c. Ariel press.
A tribute to a Tolstoyan reformer whose life of service was the
outgrowth of a rebirth experienced on the way from “stolid
conservatism to extreme radicalism.” By profession, a judge, Mr.
Crosby ceased to care to judge men but wished rather to love and serve
them. His life was broad, sane, spiritual: he studied real values; his
creed, if creed it may be called, seems to be summed up in the
following:
“Love others; love them calmly, strongly, profoundly,
And you will find your immortal soul.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Abbott has rendered a service to the cause of human progress by
writing this beautiful and worthy tribute.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 500. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ind.= 64: 260. Ja. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Home builder. **75c. Houghton.
8–30941.
Short chapters portraying in the highest sense of idealism the
daughter, the bride, the wife, the mother, the housekeeper, the
philanthropist, the saint and the grandmother. This ideal woman is
capable of sure practical results; is spiritual, wise, provident;
obeys Heaven’s laws of order and cleanliness; in short, rises to the
stature of Solomon’s word portrait of the virtuous woman.
=Abercrombie, Lascelles.= Interludes and poems. **$1.25. Lane.
“The chief poems in the book are tales in verse after Browning’s
fashion,—the story of the girl turned by God into His own likeness,
the tale of the sophist Peregrinus from Lucian, a beautiful little
eclogue called An escape, and Blind, which tells a hideous tale with
uncommon power. This last is the story of a woman and her blind son
who wander through the world looking for the boy’s father.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is ‘Sordello’ uninspired; full of wanton tortuosities of syntax,
vain gleaning of rare and obsolescent words, and a versification which
congratulates itself upon flouting scansion. The book leaves an
impression of Buddhistic philosophy, seeming to preach the dissolution
of self-mannerism hymning Nirvana.” Brian Hooker.
− =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“This book is interesting aside from its failure, for some human
nature shows in it, despite a turgid diffuseness of language, an
apparently willful avoidance of simplicity.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
“He has no prettinesses; he has a most defective ear; he works to
death the trick of the extra syllable in the pentameter line; he is a
true ‘spasmodic,’ and takes a delight in saying the simplest thing in
the most extravagant way, with the result that he is as often as not
forcible-feeble. Yet he has great merits. He has thought, imagination,
and a rude gusto of style.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Abraham, George D.= Complete mountaineer. **$4.80. Doubleday.
8–16910.
Full of hints and rules and suggestions for accoutrement, this is a
book for beginners in mountain climbing which is occupied with a
detailed description of the footholds of the celebrated peaks of Great
Britain and the Continent.
* * * * *
“A very readable and admirable survey of the principal climbing
districts in the world.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“His style is of the journalistic order, in which a cow is called ‘a
bovine quadruped,’ and so forth. The ‘greased pole’ aspect of a
mountain was never so remorselessly set forth.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 900w.
“Written with a great intimacy of detail. The philosophy of choice of
guides especially, and when to do without them, is set forth with
gratifying lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“We have never before seen so many faithful and beautiful mountain
pictures in one volume. The technical information is sound, and
luminously set out, and the point of view throughout will secure the
approbation of all climbers. The one fault is a tendency to minor
jocularities. But the author is surely insufficiently appreciative of
the merits of a good guide.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 900. D. 7, ’07. 1500w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= Historical essays and studies; ed. by J:
Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2757.
A volume of bibliographical and biographical essays consisting of
articles and reviews contributed to magazines and societies during the
period between 1858 and 1892. “The two types may best be illustrated
by the masterly article on German schools of history ... and the
pronouncement on Cavour contributed to The Rambler in 1861.” (Ath.)
Other topics are dealt with such as Wolsey and the divorce of Henry
VIII. The secret history of Charles II. The causes of the
Franco-Prussian war, and the war of 1870. A particularly scholarly
essay is the one on George Eliot.
* * * * *
“They may be divided roughly into bibliographical and biographical
essays, the former excellently instructive to the student, the latter
often rather dull reading for scholar and layman alike.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 220. F. 22. 1100w.
“The editors have contributed an interesting introduction, but they
have not done much besides. The actual words of Lord Acton had to be
retained; but some small inconsistencies might have been remedied.” P.
V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Not only give us glimpses of the awe-inspiring scholarship of Lord
Acton, but diffuse some quality of biography and reveal the
personality of the man.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= History of freedom and other essays; ed.
with an introd. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence.
*$3. Macmillan.
8–2560.
In the introduction the editors have summed up Lord Acton’s
personality, the character of his work, and the influence which he
exerted upon historical scholarship. The body of the book gives all
that was realized of a projected work on the history of liberty. It
consists of an address on The history of freedom in antiquity, and one
on The history of freedom in Christianity, to which has been added an
article on Erskine May’s “Democracy in Europe.”
* * * * *
“It is a book which does more than add to our information: it
strengthens and inspires.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 68. Ja. 18. 1450w.
“The greater part of the work shows those characteristics which are
generally associated with the late Lord Acton: reading that seems to
be limitless, and elusive style which is the despair of the ordinary
man.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“What is remarkable in these generalizations is not so much their
inconsistencies as their air of unreality. They are the work of a man
with a passion for truth, indeed, but a one-sided passion.” Sydney
Waterlow.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 506. Jl. ’08. 1150w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 220w.
“Sufficient to convince us, if we had needed conviction, of the
prodigious learning, the consummate literary ability, and the
unfailing candour of the writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 265. F. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Adam, James.= Religious teachers of Greece: being Gifford lectures
on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen; ed. with a memoir by
his wife, Adela Marion Adam. *$4. Scribner.
8–25723.
“A splendid piece of work on the great thinkers of Greece from Homer
to Plato. Five lectures are devoted to the latter, two each to Homer,
Heraclitus, Socrates, and Euripides, and one each to Pindar,
Aeschylus, and Sophocles.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Exhibit throughout the fine qualities which mark all Adam’s work:
soundness of scholarship, fullness and accuracy of knowledge,
clearness and vigour of expression. Apart from a few slips of
printing, the revision has been executed ... with commendable care.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 146. Ag. 8. 1050w.
“The lectures display the master’s control of the subject and its
literature, a fine literary charm and distinction, and profound
appreciation of the problems of the religious view of the world.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 152. Ag. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Adam’s book is likely to hold its place for long, not only
because of its learning and philosophic insight, but as a complete and
worthy memorial of a life of constant and conspicuous devotion to the
study of Greek literature and thought.” G. F. Barbour.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 7: 198. O. ’08. 2850w.
“A work of unusual merit, the opus magnum of a man who literally put
his life into it.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 450w.
“Not the least of Professor Adam’s merits then has been his steadfast
hold upon common sense, even at the risk occasionally of appearing
commonplace. His comparisons, as far as they go, are generally
excellent, but we could wish that he had not confined one side of his
parallel so closely to a Christianity of Anglican hue. Once or twice
this tendency draws him, we think, into false or forged analogies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 55. Jl. 16, ’08. 1550w.
“[His method of taking each author singly] is defective, inasmuch as
it fails to bring out satisfactorily the general trend of Greek
religious thought, to show how one system is connected with another.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 272. Ag. 29, ’08. 1750w.
* =Adams, Elizabeth Kemper.= Aesthetic experience: its meaning in a
functional psychology: a dissertation. pa. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–2424.
“From data furnished by analytic psychology and descriptive sociology,
the author of this excellent monograph attempts a philosophical
interpretation and estimate of the aesthetic experience from a single
and definite point of view. Among the important topics treated with
special suggestiveness are: The relation of the aesthetic to the
intellectual; its relation to fundamental life interests, instincts,
and activities; its social characteristics; and a reinterpretation of
the aesthetic categories from the functional and social point of
view.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“Among its commendable features are its arrangement, its
connectedness, its grasp of essential problems in their bearings. The
monograph should have considerable value for all who are interested in
aesthetics or functional psychology.” E. L. Norton.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 660. N. ’07. 400w.
“The reviewer is unable to harmonize the conclusions of the final part
of the monograph with the preceding parts.” W. D. Furry.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 363. N. 15, ’08. 1650w.
=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in syntax; or, Studies in the Hebrew
text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–5282.
A guide to students who desire “to gain a clear insight into the
varied and often picturesque use of verbal forms in Hebrew, and to
employ the knowledge thus obtained for homiletical purposes.... The
first chapter treats of the value of Hebrew study; the second gives a
brief account of Hebrew grammarians, Jewish and Christian; and the
remaining twelve deal with the Hebrew tenses in all their forms and
moods.... It is in the elucidation of the special texts introduced to
illustrate the grammatical propositions that the expository and
homiletical element of the treatise appears.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“We have rarely seen a book which, under a title apparently stiff and
uninviting, provides valuable instruction in so attractive a manner.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 230w.
“The non-Hebraist even will often obtain here illuminative hints for
the treatment of biblical texts.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w.
“It offers sermon-stuff to all expositors who care for the finer lines
of thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“The student of Hebrew will doubtless find in it a valuable supplement
to the grammar which he may be in the habit of using.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 193. F. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.
7–37737.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“An excellent book for the ordinary boy who has only ordinary
resources.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The boy who goes through this admirable book with vim and zest stands
an excellent chance of making a good electrical engineer in the long
run.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
“The book is not so historical as Mr. Jenks’s; on the other hand, it
is more practical.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s indoor book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
8–12775.
A companion to Harper’s outdoor book for boys which, equally practical
and comprehensive, shows how leisure time indoors may be spent
pleasantly and profitably. Clear instruction and simple equipment
commend the book to every active boy. Work is outlined under four
general headings: Wood-working, Metalworking, Household arts, Round
about the house.
* * * * *
“A practical and comprehensive book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Ought to be in every school library and wherever else there are boys
who like to make things.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Is even a better handbook of its kind than the ‘Outdoor book.’”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 20w.
“It is quite up to the high mark set by its predecessors. A world of
boys could be kept busy and interested with the help and instruction
afforded by this thick volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 368. D. ’08. 320w.
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v.
ea. *$5. Putnam.
4–18620 Additions.
These volumes contain an accurate collection of the writings of Samuel
Adams during the first ten years of his public career, and afford the
student of history “the opportunity of examining critically the work
of the foremost democratic leader of the great democratic movement of
the last century.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The productions of his pen were
among the most powerful and persistently active forces that brought
about the American revolution.... [And his opinions are recorded in]
legislative reports, in instructions of the Boston town meeting, in
circular letters to the other colonies, in controversies over
constitutional points with the governors, in petitions and protests to
the home government, in elaborate statements of principles to the
agents of Massachusetts resident in England, and in trenchant
newspaper articles.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
* * * * *
“There was in fact no wisdom in hoping that this third volume would
contain the wealth of material found in the earlier ones. The private
letters are in a good many instances, if not in all, not very
illuminating.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 367. Ja. ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The usefulness of the four volumes is much diminished by the very
imperfect index, which is, in fact, all an index should not be.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)
“There are a good many interesting and instructive letters in this
volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The absence of an adequate topical index is to be regretted.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 174. Mr. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Flying death. †$1.50. McClure.
8–3520.
Montauk Point, the tip-end of Long Island is the scene of a series of
casualties which baffle the guests at Third House. After a sailor, an
aeronaut, a newspaper man, and a coast-guard are stretched upon the
sands, with evidence of having suffered a similar fate, a crusade is
instituted to solve the mystery of the ravages. A pteranadon, a huge
arrow-beaked bird, known only to the beginning of the race, is laid
low after an encounter which results in the loss of one man of the
party. In addition to thrilling adventure there are two romances which
relieve the weight of the tragedy.
* * * * *
“One smells the lamp here and there; the effort the book has cost is
perceptible.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Adams has written quite an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 72. F. 8, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Adams has written a readable story, and has offered for his
mystery an explanation at the same time impossible and eminently
satisfying.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 20, ’08. 140w.
=Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a
description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments
of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in
the early renaissance. $3. Page.
8–19089.
Examines mediaeval artistic crafts for the original processes which
are being restored in the great handicraft revival in America to-day.
Fully illustrated, the chapters touch upon gold and silver work,
jewelry and precious stones, enamel, tapestry, embroideries, sculpture
in stone, carving in wood and ivory, inlay and mosaic, illumination of
books. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“Necessarily, the accounts are fragmentary, but they serve their
purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
* =Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Mrs. John Vernon: a study of a social
situation. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
8–32645.
When Mrs. John Vernon faces the question of consenting to the marriage
of her daughter, born out of wedlock, with the young scion of a Boston
family, she takes her secret to her clergyman, asks advice and is
counseled on the side of silence. Tho the author intimates little good
from a disclosure, the secret comes to light thru outside sources, the
lover is constant, the daughter dies ignorant of the cloud, and the
mother purges her life thru hard work and good deeds.
* =Adventures= at sea, by F. H. Converse and others. (Harper’s adventure
ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–32331.
A story for boys and girls which reproduces the fascination of the
sea. There are fourteen chapters including strange stories of
whale-hunts, shark-encounters, wrecks, fires, storms, castaways and
heroic rescues whose dramatic incidents are actual facts.
* * * * *
“A number of stories, all worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 20w.
=Adventures= of pirates and sea-rovers, by Howard Pyle, Rear-Admiral
J: H: Upshur, Paul Hull and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.)
†60c. Harper.
8–18406.
The wild life of the seventeenth-century buccaneers pictured vividly
by Howard Pyle, Rear-admiral Upshur, Paul Hull and others. The first
part gives strange glimpses of colonial conditions along our Atlantic
seaboard from New England to Carthagena, with colonial pirates bent
upon treasure hunts; the second part gives a series of pictures of the
great sea-rovers in the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I.
* * * * *
“Satisfy the demand for pirate stories without being too sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 272. N. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Adventures= with Indians, by Philip V. Mighels and others. il.
†60c. Harper.
8–3518.
Pioneer life in the middle west is pictured here in stirring tales of
ambush, battle, and adventure in which the wit and courage of the
white man struggle against the stealth and savage instinct of the
Indian. Many of the stories are based upon fact, and many contain
actual historical incidents, while together they reveal Indian life
and character as represented by tribes from the Montagnais of Canada
to the Seminoles of Florida and to the Piutes of the Rockies. The
contributors include eleven well known writers of stories.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
=Ady, Cecelia M.= History of Milan under the Sforza. (Historic
states of Italy.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–5826.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“As a monograph on the Sforza it seems to us one of the very best
books ever written by a foreigner about Italy. A bibliography at the
end of the volume, however full it may be, is not enough. We must have
notes.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 266. D. 21, ’07. 1350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In point of construction, narrative skill, and judgment on men and
matters, it would do credit to a far more experienced historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 316. Mr. 14. 950w.
“Miss Ady’s book will take a prominent place among the histories of
Italy in the English language, and this largely because of the care
and accuracy with which she has studied her subject. A few slips are
to be noticed.” K. H. Vickers.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 781. O. ’08. 1400w.
“With reasonable fulness, it is intended to be popular, but not
shallow.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 200w.
“Is the first in English to describe on an adequate scale the dramatic
events in Milan under the house of Sforza. It is to be hoped, however,
that future writers in this series will be more generous in their
notes and less chary of dispensing with authorities.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
“Here, if anywhere, one can find an account of a particular historical
period affecting one of the Italian states, an account as clear and
concise as it is brilliant and forceful.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 240w.
“This book is painstaking to a degree and full of information about
the Sforza dukes. But it does not kindle; it does not warm; it does
not incite to further study. If not exactly argumentative in itself,
yet the style has at times an argumentative cast which spoils its
narrative quality.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 271. F. 29, ’08. 1000w.
=Agger, Eugene E.= Budget in the American commonwealth. (Studies in
history, economics and public law, v. 25, no. 2.) *$1.50.
Longmans.
7–16495.
The misuse of public funds with attendant carelessness in auditing
them has sent many an economist to the root of evil. Dr. Agger’s book
brings together the constitutional and statutory provisions and the
various customs affecting the budget right. “He points out the
differences between American and European procedure; he describes the
budget as a report and as a project of law; he sets forth the
conditions of voting the budget, the collection of revenue and its
centralization, the safe-keeping of the public funds and their
disbursement; finally he treats of the control of the budget, in which
the subject of auditing is emphasized as above.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It will prove a very useful contribution to our knowledge of a much
confused and bewildering subject.” C. C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 142. Je. ’08. 570w.
“Dr. Agger’s book gives a valuable general survey of the American
system.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 612. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
=Aglionby, Francis Keyes.= Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, poet
and bishop. $2.50. Longmans.
A biography of the “poet and bishop” who is best known thru his two
hymns, “Peace, perfect peace,” and “Yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”
He is portrayed more as a saint than a man of intellectual powers. “It
will be said that by tradition and by choice Bishop Bickersteth was a
strong party man of the Evangelical persuasion, and that partisanship
is too often inimical to saintship. Some would reply that the
evangelicalism of a man whom Mr. Gladstone promoted twice within a few
weeks must have been of a doubtful quality. The true answer is to be
traced through this sketch of his life which shows how he was saved
from the perils of partisanship by a genius for friendship with men of
the opposite school.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 220w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 315. O. 18, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Aglionby draws an attractive picture of the man, of his zeal for
good works, his devoutness, his generous sympathy with all efforts
that made for the benefit of others.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Aitken, Robert.= Golden horseshoe. il. $1.50. McBride, J.
7–34306.
“A mysterious advertisement calling for adventurers willing to enter
blindly upon a hazardous undertaking [is answered by three young men],
an American, an Englishman and an Irishman—[who] get mixed up in the
villainous doings of a Central American dictator and his plots against
his beautiful niece.” (Ind.) “The predicaments are magnificently many
and ingenious, full of novelty to even the well-inured reader.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is distinctly American, and is full of exciting incident.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 270w.
=Ind.= 64: 209. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
“There is everything in the book to recommend it as a fantasy in
exploit. It may be added that it makes appeal mainly to the reader who
likes that kind of thing and likes a good deal of it.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Aitken, Thomas.= Road making and maintenance: a practical treatise
for engineers, surveyors, and others; with an historical sketch of
ancient and modern practice. 2d ed. *$6. Lippincott.
Agr 8–366.
This new edition has been prepared to keep pace with changed
conditions. The new matter relates chiefly to the question of damage
done to roads by motor-cars, and the nuisance arising from dust caused
by the speed at which these vehicles are driven. The author who has
been actively identified with the movement to prevent dust believes
that the system of tar macadam offers the best solution to the dust
problem.
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole might serve in many respects as a model for a
technical book. The book should find a place in every engineering
library which makes any pretense of including the best works on roads
and pavements.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 600w.
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“The book deals in an exhaustive and practical manner with [16]
subjects.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 244. Ja. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Aix, pseud.= Adventures of a nice young man. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26194.
The adventures of a genteel, pedantic youth, who, impressionable and
unqualified for struggle, goes to New York to seek his fortune. The
incidents of the story are strung together upon a slight thread of
plot relating to a valid will and a forged one.
* * * * *
“One reads it, a chapter at a time ... for the sake of the rather
whimsical humor of what happens from page to page.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 260w.
“The interest of the book is entirely in the manner of its telling,
which is whimsical, quaintly audacious in its irreverence for literary
tradition, sometimes as romantically impossible as a fairy tale in its
narrative of events, and again crudely realistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
* =Aked, Charles Frederic.= Old events and modern meanings, and other
sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–29641.
A group of sermons preached from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist church. “They are evangelical, and they are also distinctly
modern in their wide outlook upon the things and thoughts of the
world’s work, and play, and folly, and wrong. Their ethical tone and
temper are incisive and stirring. Their felicitously modernized
interpretation from an ethical and religious standpoint of Lord
Bacon’s famous aphorisms concerning the ‘idols of the tribe, the cave,
the market-place, and the theatre’ is thoroughly characteristic of the
preacher.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Aked occasionally offends against good taste. When all’s said Dr.
Aked is a strong man and has published a good book. The kind of
preaching in these sermons is not only what people want, but what they
need.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“The discourses in this volume are not merely sermons; they are also
literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 110w.
=Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria (Effie Adelaide Rowlands, pseud.).=
Forbidden road. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42010.
“The story of what happened to a man when wealth came to him at the
age of 30 and found him rather simple in his tastes, good looking,
intelligent, right meaning, and with an unspoiled capacity for
enjoyment. The two chief women characters are a gay, fascinating,
light-minded young widow and the capable and lovable young woman who
is the governess of the widow’s children.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is rather regrettable, a bit of shoddy sufficiently smooth of
surface to engage the eye, but with no real substance. The governess,
the baronet, the millionaire, all have human attributes, and even an
air of individuality; but they really are, and are meant to be,
nothing more than wax figures designed with sufficient cunning to
deceive the ignorant or indolent patron of the show.”
− =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Alden, Henry Mills.= Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2.
Harper.
8–28839.
Writing out of the fulness of fifty years of close association with
literature, forty years of which have been spent on the editorial
staff of Harper’s magazine, the author has two objects in view:
“First, to show the intimate relations of periodical to general
literature, as to authorship and aim; secondly, to present certain
characteristic features of a new life and literature, beginning two
centuries ago with the emergence, in the natural course of evolution,
of the distinctively modern physical era.” The keynote of the study is
the ever-developing relation of modern literature to life itself.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The present work is a symmetrical and impressive whole, a harmonious
composition, with a distinctive historical and critical meaning.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“Minor differences of opinion, however, and the intellectual effort
required in following the argument should prejudice no one against the
important and startling major conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 520w.
“If anything were needed to complete the extraordinary character of
the new volume by the editor of Harper’s magazine it would be supplied
by the fact that a veteran in letters, such as Mr. Alden, is the
author of it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 585. O. 24, ’08. 1350w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 90w.
=Aldis, Janet.= Queen of letter writers, Marquise de Sévigné, Dame
de Bourbilly, 1626–1696. *$3. Putnam.
8–9535.
The letters cover, as Sainte-Beuve said, “twenty-seven years of the
most delightful period of the most agreeable French society”—the time
of Corneille and La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine, the time when court
and society set the example of good breeding to all the world, when
“the church [was] rich in great preachers as she never was before or
since ... and the king [was] at last really on his throne and
preparing France for the only century of freedom from the civil war
she has ever known.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Shows in a lively way Madame de Sévigné’s relation to her times and
her connection with the important people and the events of her day.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08.
“Miss Aldis’s style lacks distinction and sometimes correctness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 205. Ag. 22. 640w.
“A full, readable, and altogether excellent account of Madame de
Sévigné and her times.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“Mrs. Aldis has gathered much of interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The fault of Mr. Lucas is that he has given nothing of this
‘delightful creature’; and of Miss Aldis that she has allowed her to
be too much buried under the pomps and vanities of a ‘Life and
times.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 380. D. 13, ’07. 970w.
=Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Miss Aldis evidently loves the image of the brilliant and amiable
Marquise, for she writes of her with a deft and understanding pen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 850w.
“The author has been wonderfully successful in throwing into relief
and rendering attractive to readers of our own day just those things
which made up the social and literary associations which surrounded
Madame de Sévigné and her friends. The story, as told here, is lively
and even brilliant.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“An excellent example of its class.” E. J. Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 364. Je. ’08. 400w.
“An excellent piece of work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 860w.
“With such a subject and such materials, of which she has made the
fullest use, it is no wonder that Mrs. Aldis should have written a
delightful book. To our mind, its defect is a necessary one: the
amount of translation from Madame de Sévigné’s letters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 66. Je. 11, ’08. 550w.
* =Aleramo, Sibilla, pseud.= A woman at bay; translation of the Italian
“Una donna” by M. H. Lansdale. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30133.
A woman’s troubled life revealed thru the process of subjective
analysis becomes a human document from very introspection. The story
depicts the agony resulting from marriage with a dull, brutal man, and
deals with the problem of separation which involves separation also
from her child, the one being she loves devotedly.
* * * * *
“The chief fault of the book is not merely that it is a purpose novel,
but that it flaunts its purpose rampantly on every page.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 280w.
“It is hard for an American woman, however she may pity the
protagonist of the book, to sympathize with this morbid,
‘oversexed’—if we may coin such a word—passionately complaining
creature; but the story of brutal physical tyranny and abuse, however
hysterically told, is not negligible when we consider that it
represents an actual condition of the present day, permitted—one might
almost say enforced—by law.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 330w.
“Signora Aleramo knows how to enlist the warmest human sympathies in
behalf of the wronged woman’s right to freedom and to support her view
of the matter by reason and the fervor of her eloquence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Of calm logic there is little; and hysteria flavors the emotional
passages.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
“It has been very happily rendered.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 100w.
=Alexander, Archibald B. D.= Short history of philosophy. *$2.60.
Macmillan.
8–1778.
A history of philosophy from the beginning to the present time,
showing the characterizing features of each system and its place and
influence in the evolution of thought. The plan involves “a very
cursory treatment of Greek, patristic, and scholastic philosophy; a
fairly extended treatment of that of the seventeenth century; and then
a very full account of the English, French, and German enlightenment,
of Kant, and of the movement, from Kant to Hegel. Post-Hegelian
thought is touched lightly.” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“As for Mr. Alexander’s method in particular the various philosophies
he expounds appear to us bereft of life and actuality in a peculiar
degree. The whole treatment of ancient philosophies strikes us as
uncritical.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 321. Mr. 14. 350w.
“One feels that the secondary sources have been the main inspiration
of the book. It can hardly be said that the book offers anything which
can not be had as well, if not better, in already existing works,
though written by Germans or even by Americans.” Norman Wilde.
− + =J. Philos.= 5: 527. S. 10, ’08. 1050w.
“For the most part the author’s explanations and criticisms are clear
and just. He is, however, less happy in his chapters on German
philosophy from Kant to Hegel than in any other part of his work.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 354. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“The accounts which Mr. Alexander gives of the various systems of
philosophy are clear and sound, and in all important cases have the
vital quality that comes from first-hand acquaintance with the
classics of his subject. The pages which we grudge to the lesser
Teutonic lights might well have been used to make more adequate the
author’s picture of recent philosophical discussion in this country.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 443. S. 10, ’08. 430w.
“In point of execution, the work is uneven. While the book is
unreliable on delicate matters throughout, candor demands the
recognition that much of it is instructive and effectively written,
and presents material not otherwise so readily available.” E. L.
Hinman.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 219. Mr. ’08. 1500w.
=Allaben, Frank.= John Watts de Peyster. (Allaben biographical ser.)
2v. *$2.50. Frank Allaben genealogical co., 3 W. 42 st., N. Y.
8–21542.
A complete biography of General de Peyster, “the first notable
military critic produced by America—the first to treat the battles and
campaigns of our great conflicts in the spirit of a true philosophy of
the art of war.” Ten chapters are devoted to his ancestors of Flemish
origin, nine to early recollections, ten to military career, and
twenty-three to literary work.
* * * * *
“A work which will prove of high interest to many countrymen of Gen.
de Peyster, especially if they are New Yorkers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 360w.
=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Phillips Brooks. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–41554.
An abridgment of the two volume biography which appeared six years
ago. It is authoritative and concise and “is a history of the
evolution of a character of a spirit, and that rather under the
influence of the events which affected all men whose allotted term of
life was the latter half of the nineteenth century, rather than under
that of the special events which befell the individual, Phillips
Brooks.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08. ✠
“It will be welcomed by many who found the two large volumes too
expensive.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 60w.
=Dial.= 44: 111. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The abridgment is of sufficient compass to tell the story of the man
and his work, and the most valuable and interesting portions of the
letters have been retained.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 81. Je. 23, ’08. 60w.
“Dr. Allen has allowed Phillips Brooks to furnish this explanation
largely in his own words, following discriminately revealing journals,
memoranda, and letters ... and the result is a personal revelation as
fascinating in its way as the ‘Confessions of Augustine’ or the
‘Journal intime of Amiel.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
“The process of condensation ... has not in any way detracted from the
clearness of the picture which Professor Allen draws of the man and
his ministry. This, like the more elaborate biography published eight
years ago, is an inspiring and compelling human portrait.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“We may commend it generally to our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Allen, Annie Winsor.= Home, school and vacation; a book of
suggestions. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–36254.
A book of detailed rules for bringing up children written for the
average parent who is not able to cope with the terminology of the new
psychology. “The opening chapters are devoted to generalities and
‘what to avoid’; and the rest is constructive, with appended tables
telling what should be accomplished at the various ages, both
physically and mentally. The underlying principle in Mrs. Allen’s
scheme of education is well expressed by her phrases: ‘Not a month
must be unheeded—the child will never come to that age again.’”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Rather dogmatic at times, and not thoroughly based in scientific
research, but on the whole, sane and wholesome, and will be read when
more critical books will be passed over.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“There are qualities which all will admire on all her pages—the sanity
of her judgment, the sincerity of her feeling, and the evidence
visible everywhere that the writer has gathered her conclusions from
an experience unusually rich and varied.” J. G. Croswell.
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 512. My. ’08. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Its suggestions, broadly conceived and evolved from a long and
valuable experience as a teacher, cannot fail to lead to saner
educational processes and to more fruitful results, if intelligently
grasped and applied in the homes and schools of to-day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 150w.
=Allen, Charles C.= Engineering workshop practice. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The first 30 odd pages are given up to a general discussion of
materials and kinematics, as involved in machine-shop practice....
About 20 pages hold descriptions of gages, micrometer and vernier
callipers, and their proper field and use. The following 18 pages
treat of tool steels and their manipulation, and the next few pages
contain practical directions for brazing, soldering, riveting, etc.
The rest of the book is mainly composed of chapters on chipping,
filing and scraping, on lathe work, boring, planing, milling,
grinding, screw cutting, gear cutting, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole may be indicative of British instruction in
metal working, but it cannot be taken as representative of American
methods and could not well serve as a guide in manual-training schools
and technical-school workshops on this side of the Atlantic.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“This book, good as it is, would have been much more useful if no
attempt had been made to write for the information of both the
beginner and the skilled workman; their needs are so different that
the result cannot be satisfactory to either class.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 28. N. 14, ’07. 450w.
=Allen, Grant.= Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.
An introductory chapter suggesting some of the forces affecting the
painters of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precedes
a detailed study of the set subjects of Italian art. In his study the
author shows “the stream of development by which, thru the hands of
various artists and various schools, the dry and lifeless picture in
the rude native manner was vivified and spiritualised into the art of
Fra Angelico, of Bellini, of Leonardo.” Some of the subjects studied
are the marriage of the Virgin, the visitation, the annunciation, the
madonna and child, the madonna and saints, the adoration of the Magi,
the presentation, and the Pietà.
* * * * *
“His cogent argument is pleasant to read and by the aid of a large
number of excellent illustrations is made easy to follow.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 395. O. 22, ’08. 170w.
“Evolution in art is of course taken into consideration by every
serious historian of art, but it has never been so systematically
studied as in the present volume.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 557. O. 10, ’08. 1650w.
“Whether one agrees with the Grant Allen idea or not, Mr.
Cruickshank’s introductory chapter is pertinent reading for anyone.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 570w.
=Allin, C. D.= Early federation movement of Australia. $1.50.
British Whig pub. co., Kingston, Ontario.
8–17801.
Deals with the beginnings of this movement in Australia, continuing to
1863. “Mr. Allin traces successively the federal policy of Lord Grey,
which he treats with great fulness and sympathy; the proposals of
constitutional committees in New South Wales and Victoria; and,
lastly, the conclusions arrived at in parliamentary reports.” (Eng.
Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Allin’s work is a clear exposition of his theme and has the merit
of being well written. It is not free of occasional slips, but the
only objection of consequence to which the volume as a whole appears
to be open, is a too exhaustive treatment.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 350w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 707. My. ’08. 200w.
“A sound and accurate, but somewhat arid survey.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 150w.
“Mr. Allin’s work is generally of a sound and trustworthy character,
but a few slips have found admission.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 389. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“The work will prove illuminating to those who have regarded
federation as a recent idea and who are unaware of the long and
arduous work which precedes any considerable political achievement.
Dr. Allin has marshaled the results of his thorough researches with
mature and sober judgment, while the vigor of his style lends color
and charm to a theme naturally lacking in these qualities.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=Allingham, William.= William Allingham: a diary; ed. by H.
Allingham and D. Radford. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–9512.
Literary small talk, quips and jests bring the reader into touch with
the companionable side of such men of letters as Tennyson, Browning,
Carlyle, and many of their contemporaries. “One does not see why this
diary is not the Boswell’s Johnson of its time, as authentic and
interesting a delineation of literary London during the Victorian as
the other during the Georgian period.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In literary charm the book suffers from being so largely a ‘rudis
indigestaque moles’—for which, however, no one is to blame, unless we
choose to quarrel with the dead poet for dropping so soon the
autobiography that he had begun to frame out of his diary material.
This too-short portion, indeed, does possess a very readable quality.
Mrs. Allingham and Mrs. Radford have done good editorial work.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 69. F. 1, ’08. 1470w.
“The volume might yield many more stories than those we have taken;
and most of them are true in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 820w.
“A good deal of this is entirely trivial, and ought to have been
suppressed. There would still be sufficient left to fill a fair-sized
volume.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 700w.
“A fascinating book as well as a most instructive document.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 841. D. 21, ’07. 3420w.
“This is a book with a pleasant literary flavour, though some of the
entries from Allingham’s diaries seem rather small beer.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The little sketches of the man [Tennyson], of his looks and ways, the
little scraps of his talk, have a convincing air of truth about them.
After Tennyson come Browning and Carlyle, and after these again a
multitude of literary men, every one being happily touched off.”
+ + =Spec.= 89: 713. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
=Almack, Edward.= Bookplates. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
8–34675.
An introduction treats of the different kinds of blocks or plates from
which bookplates were first produced and the styles of _ex libris_
early predominating in Germany, France and England. This is followed
by chapters on bookplates chronologically, bookplates with mantling,
some specimens found in the British museum, Chippendale and
crestplates, modern bookplates, various bookplates, and bookplates in
America.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Unfortunately the volume does not deserve the same commendation that
may freely be given to the rest of the series. Although it contains
much information, particularly concerning armorial book plates, it is
ill-balanced.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 60w.
=Alston, Leonard.= White man’s work in Asia and Africa: a discussion
of the main difficulties of the colour question. *$1. Longmans.
8–1381.
With a broad grasp of the situation, thru optimistic and eclectic
doctrines, Mr. Alston treats the political, social, and religious
factors which combine to make the color problem a complicated one.
* * * * *
“No one interested in civil administration of colonies, or in foreign
mission work can afford to overlook this modest essay.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 616. N. ’08. 130w.
“Leonard Alston considers the white man’s burden with as much
open-mindedness as is reconcilable with the nature of a thesis which
assumes that the white man is, on the whole, right and the child of
destiny.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 37. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“In style and in command of English the author displays a singular
ability; but the book is more noteworthy for these characteristics
than for any practical suggestion which it contains for the solution
of the most important question of the future.”
− + =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Ames, Joseph Bushnell.= Pete, cow-puncher: a story of the Texas
plains. †$1.50. Holt.
8–30533.
The experience of a young New Yorker who, much to the chagrin of his
father, preferred life in the Texas plains to Yale first and Wall
Street afterwards. It is the story of a clean, honest, resolute fight
against hardships and peril.
=Amundsen, Roald.= North-west passage: being a record of a voyage of
exploration of the ship Gjöa in the years 1903–7; with a
supplement by Lieut. Hansen. 2v. *$8. Dutton.
8–35750.
An account of the voyage which Captain Amundsen and his crew of seven
men made in exploration of the North-west passage. “Difficult
navigation, sledge excursions that were not exactly summer picnics,
meteorological and magnetic observations under trying conditions, the
exaction of some degree of respect and decorum from the swarming
Esquimaux that beset them in their winter quarters, and the continual
problem of food, fuel, and shelter in the cruel cold of these
latitudes—that, in brief, indicates the work that was cut out for
Captain Amundsen and his little crew.” Lieut. Hansen’s supplementary
chapter relates to his surveying expedition to the east coast of
Victoria Land.
* * * * *
“This record ... is written with sailorlike simplicity and with an
attractive enthusiasm for the subject. The arrangement leaves
something to be desired. Lieut. Hansen’s supplement should have been
inserted in the body of the narrative; and the historical survey of
previous exploration, which is slight and in some points inaccurate,
appears rather aimlessly in the tenth chapter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 33. Jl. 11. 1800w.
“Not the least interesting parts of the book are the stories of the
distinctly Scandinavian character of practical jokes which,
apparently, were everlastingly played on each other by all the members
of the party.” A. W. Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 276. N. ’08. 1200w.
“His straightforward narrative makes not only one of the best books of
Arctic exploration, but one of the best books of adventure of any sort
that have ever been written. The narrative is not free from
bewildering inconsistencies, which sometimes amount to positive
inaccuracies.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 80. Ag. 16, ’08. 1850w.
“It is difficult to realize that the book is a translation, so easy is
the style.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 950w.
“Though the book would not lose by condensation in places, it is
singularly free from the trivialities with which such volumes are
often loaded. But an appendix of scientific results would have given
more permanent value to these volumes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 478. S. 17, ’08. 1550w.
“With the skill of the true artist, the North-west passage is there,
the real hero of the story, behind all the humorous and sometimes
tragic adventures with which this excellent narrator entertains his
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 373. Jl. 4, ’08. 2050w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
“The observations which Captain Amundsen makes on the mode of life,
manners, and struggle for existence of the inhabitants near the
North-west passage are quite the most interesting and valuable in the
volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 840. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Anderson, Ada Woodruff.= Heart of the red firs. †$1.50. Little.
8–9815.
Set in the grim forest country of the Pacific northwest, this story
deals with the epoch that closed with the completion of the Northern
Pacific road thru to the coast. A charming heroine is portrayed who
has fearlessness, ability to command, the foresight and memory
necessary for the self protection of pioneers, and withal is feminine
to the core. The perils of the wilds are truthfully set down.
* * * * *
“For the most part one brings away from the reading an abiding sense
of splendid freedom, health and courage in a glorious setting of
fir-clad mountains.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is more effective in description than in narrative.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Is written very vigorously and authoritatively. The ‘story part,’ as
the children say, lags often, and, indeed, does not seem to have been
conceived in the first place with any marked conviction or
originality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
=Anderson, Galusha.= Story of a border city during the civil war.
**$1.50. Little.
8–27164.
A story of St. Louis during the civil war told by a man who was a
clergyman in that city from 1858 to 1866. It is an intimate sketch of
local conditions and local feeling recorded from personal observations
and experiences, revealing the struggle between the opposing factions
standing respectively for secession and for the union.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1250. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“Rich in the material of which history is made as well as most
interesting in itself. He writes with calmness and in a judicial,
objective sort of way that cannot carry any offense. On its literary
side his work would have been the better for more careful revision and
editing, for his style is often so slovenly as to be annoying.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Anderson, J. Wemyss.= Refrigeration: an elementary text-book.
*$2.25. Longmans.
8–28304.
“An exposition of the scientific principles involved in the production
of low temperatures, and descriptions of the apparatus by which they
are obtained. The work being an elementary one, questions relating to
the design of apparatus have been properly withheld for a succeeding
and more advanced volume.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The illustrations are good, the index is ample, and many instructive
and practical problems are given in their proper place for the further
use of the student.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 300w.
“This book differs and compares favorably with all other books on that
subject, inasmuch as examples are used for explaining the fundamental
principles. The book as a whole is all that is claimed for it and can
therefore be highly recommended.” J. C. Bertsch.
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 77. Jl. 16, ’08. 860w.
“The treatment of the subject is accurate and lucid, and in all cases
the necessary mathematical investigations are reduced to their
simplest elements, many numerical examples being added.” E. Edser.
+ =Nature.= 78: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 470w.
=Andreiyeff, Leonidas.= Silence: tr. from the Russian by John
Cournos. bds. 25c. Brown bros.
“A story, a melancholy poem, in which the reader is subjected to a
series of heart pangs, and is forced to listen to a music, in which
the dominant motif is a terrible, oppressive and crushing silence.”
(Translator’s preface.) The author who is linked in literary
sympathies with Gorky embodies “conscious artistry” while Gorky is
possessed of “crude blind force.”
* * * * *
“So painful a story does not make a favorable introduction to the
series.”
− =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 494. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
=Andrews, Eliza Frances.= War-time journal of a Georgia girl.
**$2.50. Appleton.
8–27163.
A spirited diary extending thru the year and a half that followed
December of 1864 and covering the last days of the war and the
beginning of the reconstruction era. “This diary, intended solely for
the author’s own eyes, gives an intimate picture of the intensity of
Southern feeling, at the same time that it describes the diversions in
which Southern society sought to forget the continual tragedy through
which the country was passing.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book is charmingly natural and lifelike, and will prove a
valuable addition to the diaries of the war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“It is, in fact, what one might call an original document in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 180w.
“The journal is a contribution of real merit to the literature of
Southern conditions at that time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 400w.
“An exceedingly interesting book to those who care for absolutely
truthful, unaffected pictures of life during the civil war.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
=Andrews, Hiram Bertrand.= Practical reinforced concrete standards
for the design of reinforced concrete buildings. $2. Simpson bros.
8–21937.
Contains chapters on the design of beams, with tables and diagrams,
and standardized sizes for buildings, together with sets of
specifications for concrete work.
* * * * *
“Allowing for the usual tendency to use a designing diagram without
regard for the varying conditions that must affect the design, this
book of standards must be of value.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
“A suggested standard building code for concrete work is published,
but it incorporates all of the author’s original ideas, thus making it
of questionable value without revision. Some of the author’s
statements ... do not agree with the opinions held by reinforced
concrete specialists.”
− =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Andrews, William Symes.= Magic squares and cubes. *$1.50. Open ct.
8–19276.
“Here may be found directions for making quadratic combinations that
surpass Benjamin Franklin’s famous sixteen puzzle, which he said was
‘the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any
magician.’ Dr. Paul Carus contributes a chapter on the importance of
magic squares in Hindu, Chinese and Greek philosophy.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 90w.
“To those who are interested in the subject, Mr. Andrews’s book will
be very acceptable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 101. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
=Anet, Claude.= Through Persia in a motorcar, by Russia and the
Caucasus; tr. by M. Beresford Ryley. *$4.50. Appleton.
A lively account of a tour by train, boat and motor-car. “The route
followed was through Bessarabia, the Crimea and the Caucasus; Persia
is reached on p. 84, but the motoring does not begin until p. 151. It
consisted of a run from Ispahan to Teheran. Ispahan is reached on p.
192. A week in that city which excites the enthusiasm of our
traveller, occupies thirty-eight pages. And then we have about fifty
pages in which the return is described.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Altogether a not uninteresting book, and ably translated; but as
there are no maps and no index, it is useless as a work of reference.
It might have been so much better done.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 59. O. 26, ’07. 420w.
“A book which has few dull pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 550w.
“A work in which veracity has not been sacrificed to imagination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 370w.
“M. Anet has written a lively and amusing account of the tour,
illustrated with photographs, and has been fortunate in his
translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Directions are given which should prove helpful to intending
travellers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Annesley, Maude.= Door of darkness. †$1.50. Lane.
A story built up around the unexplained mysteries of clairvoyance and
magic. “Miss Annesley secures her most striking effects by imagining
mysteries which she cannot attempt to explain; and the reader of a
novel, like the spectator at a manifestation, wants to know how things
are done. In this case the reader very soon perceives that the central
figure in the book is an ‘adept’ who has mastered the secret of
perpetual youth. The love of such a man for a girl bound by the normal
conditions of human life can be made, and here is made, into an
interesting romance.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“It needs some courage to write a novel upon the elixir of life, and
we can scarcely say that the enterprise is in this case justified. We
note also a large proportion of commonplace and uninteresting
padding.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 100w.
“While it does not lack complication, is a mixture of such unlike
parts that anything like a co-ordinated impression is out of the
question.” E. L. Cary.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 440w.
“The opening chapters of this novel are so good that we recognize with
disappointment the author’s failure to maintain the plausible
atmosphere of the supernatural which envelops them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Annunzio, Gabriele d’.= Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr.
by Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an
introd. by Miss Porter. *$1.50. Little.
7–37999.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The merely English reader will get little good from it, and will meet
with scarcely a line, certainly not with a passage of any length, that
will appeal to him as poetry.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 200w.
“It has something of the majesty of a classical drama and of the
inexorableness of fate. The play is wonderfully reproduced in
English.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 500w.
“Really remarkable dramatic work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Anthropological= essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honor
of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907, by H. Balfour, A. E. Crawley
[etc.] *$5. Oxford.
8–1439.
These nineteen essays contributed by eminent specialists are a
birthday offering to a distinguished Oxford scholar. See Cumulative
book index for contents.
* * * * *
“The arrangement of the essays is alphabetical, according to the
surnames of the authors. The result of this automatic distribution is
to produce a course of miscellaneous reading which is rather
bewildering.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 522. O. 26. 1400w.
“Contain a large mass of permanently important material.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 900w.
“The book will be a welcome addition to all anthropological libraries,
and we could not give it higher praise than to say that it is quite
worthy of the great scholar whose name it bears.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Archer, William, and Barker, Henry Granville.= Scheme and estimates
for a national theatre. *$2.50. Duffield.
Here are the scheme and estimates for the building of a national
theatre in Great Britain, but inclusive enough to apply to the
establishment of a similar institution in America. “The book
discusses, with a convincing array of facts and figures, every step in
the process of construction from the appointment of the first
committee to the raising of the curtain on the opening night.”
(Nation.) “They are ready with a scheme of decoration for the
entrance-hall of their hypothetical theatre; they have drawn up
elaborate lists and tables of the repertory of plays to be performed
there; they have even gone so far as to create a company of imaginary
actors with imaginary names, and to cast them for imaginary parts.”
(Spec.) The plans also include the founding of a dramatic college to
provide actors for the theatre.
* * * * *
“One cannot withhold from the authors the admiration which is due to a
lively faith. The estimates for the various branches of the theatre
collected here ... are the work of experts, and we may assume them to
be, on the whole, calculated with as much accuracy as the nature of
the case admits.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 139. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 488. Ap. 18. 700w.
“Both Mr. Archer and Mr. Barker are well qualified for the task which
they have undertaken, the one by his long study of dramatic literature
and the art of acting in England and on the continent, and the other
by his experience as a dramatist, as an actor, and a producing
manager. The bulky volume which they have compiled does infinite
credit to their enthusiasm, their industry, their technical knowledge
and their foresight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 178. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“For lovers of the theatre it will have all the attractiveness of a
fascinating romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 143. Mr. 14, ’08. 2300w.
“It would be difficult to conceive of two men better qualified to
prepare such a volume.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 235. My. ’08. 600w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume. [The authors] have thrown
themselves with gusto into the task of castle-building, and have
produced an airy edifice which for completeness of conception and
minuteness of execution it would be difficult to rival. But it would
be doing an injustice to the book to suggest that it is nothing more
than an ingenious Utopian ‘jeu d’esprit.’ It will be welcome to all
who are interested in the welfare of the theatre, if only on the score
of the quantity of information which it contains, and the light which
it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1093. D. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Armagnat, H.= Theory, design and construction of induction coils;
tr. and ed. by Otis Allen Kenyon. *$2. McGraw.
8–17739.
An exact and definite treatment of the theory relating to induction
coils and their practical uses. The translator has extended the
bibliography to include all contributions to the subject since 1904,
the date of the appearance of the original work.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 55 Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Until recently there has been in English no book adequately setting
forth the extent of our knowledge of this apparatus.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Armour, Frances J.= Brotherhood of wisdom. †$1.50. Lane.
A London professor discovers a combination of chemistry and
electricity which detaches the soul from the body. A member of the
Brotherhood of wisdom, an oriental occult society, works his way into
the professor’s confidence, persuades him to try the experiment upon
his niece; then kidnaps her astral body, when it has been set free,
and installs her as high priestess in one of the brotherhood’s secret
shrines. The adventures which the girl’s lover has in uniting soul and
body are as thrilling as they are ingeniously conceived.
* * * * *
“A fine theme for a pithy short story has been stretched by divers
expedients to the dimensions of a novel; and shows its resentment, as
ideas will, by declining to infuse with any of its own life the
mechanical effects that have been forced upon it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 240w.
“The author is to be congratulated upon having invented a new sort of
thrills and excitements. She has handled her weird matter very well,
and the interest, excitement, and general uncanniness accumulate and
intensify to a fitting climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
“Redeemed from the realm of the impossible for the reader who yields
himself to the spell, the tale is cleverly told.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“The book shows at times a certain unfamiliarity with the life
depicted. But against this inexperience must be set the valuable
qualities of energy and enthusiasm, a picturesque imagination, and a
style much above the average. Lastly, she must be congratulated on her
ability to excite the curiosity and retain the interest of her readers
without resorting to the repulsive realism into which she might easily
have been led by the somewhat macabre nature of her theme.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 382. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Immunochemistry; the application of the
principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological
antibodies. *$1.60. Macmillan.
7–34600.
A volume based upon a course of lectures given by the author at the
University of California. The object of the lectures was to illustrate
the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of
the theory of toxins and antitoxins. The idea is that the reciprocal
action of toxin and antitoxin is of the same nature as a chemical
reaction.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The book is to be recommended to all who have an elementary knowledge
of physical chemistry.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“Would especially call the attention of the younger biologists to the
importance of a study of Arrhenius’s books.” Jacques Loeb.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 343. F. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Worlds in the making. il. **$1.60.
Harper.
8–9543.
A new theory of the universe evolved from the principle of the
mechanical radiation pressure of light—that rays of light falling upon
a surface tend to push that surface back. The guiding principle in
this exposition of cosmogonic problems has been the conviction that
the universe in essence has always been what it is now. Matter,
energy, and life have only varied as to shape and position.
* * * * *
“A valuable treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
“It would be difficult to find a book which gives so well and in such
short compass a view of the modern developments of the science.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 130. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is to be regretted that neither the author, the translator, nor
the publisher of this thoughtful and stimulating book has provided it
with an index; for, though the work contains only 230 pages, it is
full of details many of which will be valuable for purposes of
reference.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Astronomers will question his conclusions at many points, here and
there holding his data insufficient and his assumptions unwarranted.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1401. Je. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“This throwing back of the life problem to the region of primal things
is carefully worked out, and though I, for one, cannot believe it is
forced by our present knowledge, or lack of it, there are no especial
objections to such a view, save in that it will probably be taken to
give a new lease of life to the Obscurantists—the people who want to
make a mystery of everything.” Carl Snyder.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 932. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Spec.= 100: 676. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Ashe, Sydney Whitmore.= Electric railways theoretically and
practically treated. v. 2. il. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
The second of a three volume series designed to cover the entire field
of electric railway operation. “The present volume contains two main
divisions. The first comprises the engineering studies which are made
before a railway project is undertaken. The second is descriptive of
the equipment and operation of sub-stations in which the electric
power is transformed from the standard, three-phase variety necessary
for transmission, to the direct-current form still used in most
railway systems.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book suffers from a lack of consistent editing. By far the best
part of the book is found in chapters 2, 3, and 4 on ‘Electrical
features,’ which contains much useful information presented in a
logical manner. In fact, it may be stated that the intrinsic value of
these chapters is sufficient to counterbalance the errors of
carelessness found elsewhere in the book.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Owing to the fact that the scissors are conspicuous in the make-up,
there is a certain lack of homogeneity in the treatment, but the
author is very careful to give proper credit for all quotations and
data. The authorities quoted are excellent, but they are not all in
agreement; in fact, some of the papers given aroused violent
opposition upon their original presentation.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 654. D. 12, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Contains some excellent articles ... but the author has not always
shown sound judgment in the selection of his illustrations or specific
examples. Taken as a whole, however, the work should be useful to the
student in showing the various factors which must be considered in the
simple layout of an electrical railroad system.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This is essentially a book for experts, and especially American
experts. Altogether the author’s mathematics is not characterised by
exactitude.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur Cary.= Lucy Gort: a study in
temperament. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“The minute details of the miserable existence of a young woman whose
discontent leads her to forsake her quiet but comfortable home in a
small English town and become a lady’s traveling companion are
recorded in this ‘study of temperament.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It merely deals with the imaginings of high life as set forth through
many years, one had supposed, for the edification of shop-girls and
serving-maids. It is full of sensationalism.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 409. Ap. 20. 90w.
“It is morbid, artificial, and meretricious.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 842. D. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Association= of American law schools. Select essays in
Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 1. set, *$12. Little.
7–26401.
=v. 1.= “Contains a series of twenty essays, by various authors, all
except one heretofore published in magazine or in book form, and an
autobiographical letter by James Kent. They are arranged in five
groups: 1, prior to the Norman conquest; 2, thence to the 18th
century; 3, the American colonial period; 4, development of law in the
19th century; and 5, a biographical survey of the bench and bar from
the Norman conquest to the present.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
“Present-day readers will welcome these volumes not alone because of
their diverting qualities, but also because of their informing,
guiding and inspiring qualities. The charm and spirit of the
year-books are in them, and so too are some of the most important
results of researches by the new historical school of English and
American lawyers.” H. D. Hazeltine.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 628. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is particularly well done. A volume that the casual reader with
only a few minutes to spare can dip into almost anywhere with pleasure
and profit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Good judgment is shown in the compilation and editing of this
volume.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 568. S. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The selection is certainly good, and the arrangement is such as to
give a certain unity and a tolerable continuity to the whole. This
unity and continuity, however, are disturbed by the numbers included
under part v, the substance and construction of which are scarcely in
harmony with the preceding parts. It is unquestionable that the
editing committee are performing a very valuable service to all who
are or may be led to become interested in legal history, in making
accessible the results of the best thought along this line.” A. L.
Corbin.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 99. My. ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
* =Astley, Rev. Hugh John Dunkinfield.= Prehistoric archaeology and the
Old Testament: being the Donnellan lectures delivered before the
University of Dublin in 1906–1907, enl. and ed. with notes and
appendices. *$2. Scribner.
8–26257.
“This is another eirenicon between science and religion and from the
pen of an episcopal clergyman who seems familiar with the main
outlines, at least, of both archaeological science and Old Testament
scholarship.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The book certainly deserves the careful reading of all interested in
this important theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 77. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“This volume, however, has distinctive interest in the support for the
conclusions of Biblical scholars which it adduces from the sciences of
archaeology and anthropology. Rather curiously, he combines with this
breadth of view a narrow sacramentalism. But only a few pages of a
really useful book are thus spoiled.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
* =Atherton, Gertrude Franklin.= Gorgeous isle: a romance; scene: Nevis,
B. W. I., 1842. **90c. Doubleday.
8–28995.
A story set in the West Indian island of Nevis. “The heroine, having
married a man to save him, arrives gradually at the conviction that
his creative power (he is a poet of the first rank) is irretrievably
dependent on unlimited alcohol, and that it is therefore her duty no
longer to stand between him and this noble source of inspiration—a
rather excessive concession to the principle ‘art for art’s sake.’ The
period is Early Victorian, and the language and customs of that day
are reproduced, on the whole, with accuracy, though perhaps with a
slight tendency to archaism.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It deals with a situation which is fresh and powerfully handled,
though not entirely exempt from a suspicion of grotesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 640. N. 21. 150w.
“Mrs. Atherton in her new novel launches an interesting ethical
problem, which she solves in her own way, but which will undoubtedly
suggest different solutions to her readers, according as the latter
differ in temperament and point of view from the author. One is
somewhat dubious over the possibility of the physiological theory,
advanced as fact, which is involved in Mrs. Atherton’s problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
=Atkey, Bertram.= Folk of the wild. il. $1.50. Lippincott.
8–19028.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Apart from its unoriginal mannerisms, this is an excellent book, and
entertaining throughout.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 130w.
“No British boy can read ‘Folk of the wild’ without understanding more
of the animals he may have the good fortune to see in the wilder spots
of his home. It is the kind of book that begets a desire for
sanctuaries of wild life.”
+ =Spec.= 99. sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Atkinson, Eleanor.= Boyhood of Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
8–30378.
An old man dozing between relays of reminiscences tells of the early
days when he, Dennis Hanks, cousin and playmate of Lincoln, stood in
uncomprehending awe of the crude stripling and his mighty ambition.
The little book is only a handful of memories, without philosophizing,
in which “tragedy and comedy mingle as only Shakespeare and real life
can bring them together.”
* * * * *
“Its inherent interest warrants its preservation in permanent form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 716. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. ea. $4. Little.
=v. 2.= Contains sketches of Lords St. Leonards, Cranworth,
Chelmsford, Campbell, Westbury, Cairus, Hatherley, Selborne, Halsbury,
and Herschell. “Mr. Atlay ... has surrounded his biographies with
their appropriate political, legal and social atmosphere; and he is so
well versed in the forensic traditions that his memoirs are as amusing
as they are instructive. The sketches of Lord St. Leonards, Lord
Campbell, and Lord Westbury are admirable of the generation which
preceded those later Victorian chancellors Lord Halsbury and Lord
Herschell.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“A want of proportion is the most noticeable defect of a valuable and
entertaining work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 358. S. 26. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His work is distinguished by conciseness, research, preëminent
fairness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 413. O. 29, ’08. 2500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though doubtless intended primarily for the delectation and
instruction of members of the legal profession, there is not a sketch
in the volume that ought not to attract the man of letters, and
especially the student of politics and English political history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 2)
“It is because Mr. Atlay fastens on the personality that his ‘Lives’
are never dull.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 86. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Atlay is a friendly critic of most chancellors; but we are
inclined to think that he is too severe in his final judgment on Lord
Westbury.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 939. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Atton, Henry, and Holland, Henry Hurst.= King’s customs: an account
of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland
and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800; with a
preface by F. S. Parry *$3.50. Dutton.
8–33017.
“A rich mine of good stories of desperate and resourceful smugglers,
and of ineptitude or connivance on the part of officials. The stories
are gathered from official records of the ports, from letters
addressed by customs house officers to their superiors, and from the
reports of cases in the law courts.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Rarely does a book make so many sided an appeal to readers as is made
by ‘The king’s customs.’ So much could scarcely be gathered into so
comparatively few pages and leave room for literary style. The
anecdotes and incidents are presented one after another tersely and
somewhat abruptly. To the ordinary reader also there is abundant
opportunity for judicious skipping; but the parts skipped by the
reader in search of entertainment are the parts most valuable to the
student and scholar.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 779. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“While the book cannot be accepted as a history of the customs, it
contains a certain amount of valuable new material, particularly upon
the subject of contraband trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 800w.
=Auerbacher, Louis John.= Electrical contracting; shop system,
estimating, wiring, construction methods, and hints on getting
business. *$2. McGraw.
8–21776.
A book for the wireman and contractor containing practical hints on
the latest construction methods, with suggestions concerning means of
increasing his income.
* * * * *
“Every branch of work which falls in the province of the average
electrical contractor is covered, and taken all in all the book is
well adapted to his needs.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 99. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
“The book is a very useful one and many of the men for whom it was
written could profit materially by it.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 180w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= Santa Lucia: a common story. †$1.50.
Harper.
8–11701.
When Serena Haven was wooed, she mistook chivalry for love. But she is
true to the bond and stands out in contrast—and here is the point of
the story—to Julia Maybury who marries, also without love, the college
biologist. Julia has not the character to be faithful to her vows and
a tragedy ensues.
* * * * *
“The story is told with leisureliness and sureness that raises it
decidedly above the average, but it is not characterized by the charm
of the author’s earlier work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“It is a pity that Mrs. Austin did not take more pains with her plot,
for she displays plenty of cleverness in her characterization as well
as her observation of life.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 664. My. 30. 140w.
“It is a substantial advance upon ‘Isidro’ and ‘The land of little
rain.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 180w.
“The interest of her story lies not in the plot, which is
conventional, but in her literalism, particularly in her understanding
of human nature constrained by a college campus environment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 154. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“She aims to present a fairly complete picture of life in this set of
Santa Lucia society; and to do this she does not hesitate to introduce
as many subordinate characters as she pleases. They are all distinct
and well drawn. The novel, as a whole, is decidedly above the
average.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“There is delightful art in the depiction of some of her characters,
both men and women, and her descriptions of nature are exquisitely
beautiful. But one grieves to note a falling off in that distinction
of style which has marked her previous work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It is painfully deficient in construction, and, as it nears its
culmination, positively depressing.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
=Aveling, Rev. Francis.= God of philosophy. *$1. Herder.
“A statement of the scholastic proofs of the existence of God. The
author, expanding by illustration and comment, the matter of the
ordinary text-book, presents the arguments in a form freed, as far as
may be, from technical language, and adapted to the minds not
possessed of much experience in metaphysical reflection.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“It would be well, we think, if the very meagre treatment of the claim
of the Roman church had been omitted. It is inadequate, to say the
least, and could not possibly convince any one not already persuaded.
We doubt if any one trained in modern philosophy will find the work at
all adequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 497. Ap. 6. 100w.
“The classic proofs could not be more lucidly set forth; and they are
formulated in their full strength.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 560. Ja. ’07. 180w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its
people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. ea.
*$6.25. Burrows.
=v. 4.= “Covers the comparatively short period in the middle decades
of the eighteenth century, during which took place the final contest
between England and France for the possession of North America.... An
important part of the story is the Indian warfare waged along the
border, including the remarkable conspiracy of Chief Pontiac. As in
the case of preceding volumes in this history, especial care has been
taken to obtain authentic portraits and reproductions of significant
documents.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Avery has not superseded Parkman. What Mr. Avery has done,
however, is to take Parkman’s material, study it carefully, cull from
it generously, and then add to it the rich findings of investigators
subsequent to Parkman. The result is par excellence.” A. H. Abel.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 252. O. 16, ’08. 960w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Informing, and as a whole readable, as the book is, one wonders
whether, after all, Dr. Avery takes his history seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [Indian warfare] period has never before been covered in just
this way by any American historian.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Ayscough, John.= Marotz. †$1.50. Putnam.
A story centering about a Sicilian nobleman’s family. “Much of the
scene passes in a convent of contemplative nuns, and the novel
generally is concerned with the higher problems of religion and the
mystical aspects of the Christian faith. The book is written from the
point of view of the Roman church, but it will not be found in any way
offensive to Protestant readers, and those who wish to take their
sermons disguised as stories will gain much edification from its
perusal.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Altogether ‘Marotz’ is a notable piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 568. My. 9. 230w.
“The novel is strong and striking, with one structural fault—it is
poorly knit together. Even with this fault, it stands high above the
average of the year’s fiction.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 111. O. ’08. 320w.
“One may be but languidly interested in the book as a whole, but he
cannot help liking the parts of which it is constructed.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is not a good novel—it is a chronicle, rather, ... slowly and
clumsily related, and delayed in its course by many elaborate studies
of eccentric character quite unnecessary to the plot.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“The simple story is delightfully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
“The purpose of the book is rather misty. The book has a spice of
fun.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 250w.
“The work though by no means faultless, is yet a remarkable
achievement, and the serious purpose which the author has obviously
set himself is fully attained.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 907. Je. 6, ’08. 400w.
B
=Babbitt, Irving.= Literature and the American college: essays in
defense of the humanities. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–8540.
A protest against a “vulgarly humanitarian” age. “The central thought
of the book is that the old-fashioned culture and discipline of the
American college (somewhat idealized perhaps in the retrospect) are
being crowded out of modern life and education by the encroachment of
the sentimental license of the kindergarten from below, and the
pressure from above of specialized pedantry in the graduate school.
The remedy is to be found in a return to humanism.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book that ought to be available in every community from which boys
go to college.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08. ✠
+ − =Nation.= 86: 403. Ap. 30, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“We welcome Mr. Babbitt as a powerful ally of the literary cause in
the great educational struggle of the time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Babcock, Maltbie Davenport.= Fragments that remain from the
ministry of Maltbie Davenport Babcock; reported and arranged by
Jessie B. Goetschius. **$1.25. Revell.
7–32160.
An enthusiastic member of Dr. Babcock’s congregation was in the habit
of taking notes during his sermons. Her notebook furnished the
material for these “fragments” which are inadequate in “producing the
power and effectiveness of his preaching.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Those who profited by Dr. Babcock’s spoken words will gladly refresh
their memories, while a much larger audience will be benefited by the
out-givings of such a rare personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Here and there flashes of the real man and of his unusual insight
into truth occur, but in general these so-called fragments are
disappointing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Bacher, Otto Henry.= With Whistler in Venice. **$4. Century.
8–27402.
Intimate friendship and frank admiration lie back of these pen
portraits of Whistler, the artist and the man. Whistler’s personal
characteristics, with anecdotes to emphasize them, his methods of
work, his success in oils, pastels, etchings and lithographs, and his
relations with fellow artists provide ample material for the text of
the book; while twenty-six Whistler etchings, three lithographs,
several facsimile letters and thirteen Bacher etchings and photographs
add to the value and beauty of the quarto volume.
* * * * *
“Especial interest attaches to these reminiscences because they deal
with a period in Whistler’s life about which comparatively little is
known.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Will be a pleasure to the admirers of both artists and important to
students of Whistler’s art and life.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 90w.
“This should be a favorite gift-book for those whose inclinations are
toward the higher realms of art.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 750w.
“The thread of reminiscences is spun out very thin.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 448. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Bacher is able to tell us a good deal that is interesting about
Whistler’s Venetian days and to give us a great many facts and
impressions which contribute to our knowledge of Whistler’s eccentric
character and of his artistic methods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
“A book of reminiscences thoroughly characteristic of the eccentric
painter and etcher.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 90w.
=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= Henry Hudson (American men of energy ser., v.
6.) **$1.35. Putnam.
7–38631.
A sketch of the life of Henry Hudson which is by no means restricted
to the discoverer’s exploration of the river which bears his name.
* * * * *
“A careful study throwing some new light upon the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“The author has made a creditable book, which, while unsatisfactory to
the severely critical student, will be warmly welcomed by the ordinary
reader.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 976. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“Much new light is thrown by this well-known author upon the
misunderstood personality of Hudson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Mr. Bacon has pieced the fragments [of Hudson’s biography] together
in admirable style, giving them their correct historical setting, and,
while recognizing fully the efforts of previous biographers, has
exposed their inaccuracies to a searching light.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Bacon has made careful studies of all of Hudson’s voyages, and
embodies in this work a great deal of information that will be new to
most American readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“We cannot say that this volume throws much new light on the obscure
subject of Hudson’s career and character.”
− + =Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= English voyages of adventure and discovery;
retold from Hakluyt. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27377.
A summary of the Hakluyt narrative of English exploration and
adventure from the earliest records to the establishment of the
English colonies in North America. The story extends from the earliest
adventures for conquest to those for discovery and expansion of trade
and on down to the settlement of Virginia. To the summary has been
added an account of the life of Hakluyt.
* * * * *
“As solid reading the book is not without adventurous interest; it
will not be popular, but it is more than a high school reference book,
though it should appeal to the high school boy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 250w.
“Should be an acceptable present to any young man of spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bacon, Francis.= Essays; edited, with introd. and notes by Mary
Augusta Scott. *$1.25. Scribner.
8–5190.
A student’s book very fully annotated. An introduction of nearly one
hundred pages gives first a fresh sketch of Bacon’s life, then
discusses the essays as a whole, showing their Elizabethan setting,
the universality of theme, the particular conditions and circumstances
that called each forth, and the method, literary style, and language
employed by Bacon.
* * * * *
“This excellently printed edition, with notes at the bottom of the
page, is a pleasant one to read.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 571. My. 9. 250w.
“Serviceable and inexpensive edition.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 280w.
“We think the editor in the desire to be complete, has loaded her
annotations with a good deal of dead matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Her introduction, which occupies about a quarter of the volume, is
worth reading. In the matter of annotation she errs on the side of
excess. But upon the whole, this is a fairly good edition of the
essays—possibly for some readers, the best. For all readers it is
immensely better than no edition at all.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
=Bacon, Josephine Daskam.= Ten to seventeen: a boarding school
diary. †$1.50. Harper.
8–2943.
In the language of a track meet these boarding school affairs of grown
ups, seen from a school girl’s point of view, are called events. A
group of shrewd girls allow nothing of interest among their elders and
teachers to escape them, especially love affairs over which sixteen
casts the glamour of “do or die” romance. The school girls are clever
and the diary is written in the confident, ne’er-to-be-repulsed style
of invincible youth.
* * * * *
“Will interest the grown-ups who have a taste for studies in
temperament. Will not appeal, one would fancy, to the young girl.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“It is amusing reading, in spite of a certain suggestion of coarseness
which makes one feel that while the Elmbank girls have apparently
never undergone the snickering age, their chronicler has not yet
outgrown it.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“We must thank her for her excellent portrayal of so difficult a
subject, while thoroughly enjoying the sense of fun which made her
success in achieving it possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 90w.
“A cleverly written composite diary of boarding-school girls, with a
sub-consciously humorous setting forth of the school-girl point of
view.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Lakes of northern Italy. $1.75. Macmillan.
8–431.
A new edition of a “semi-guide,” so called, “because it does not give
the material details which the tourist needs to know, but describes
fully and often picturesquely, all the main-travelled spots and many
of the out-of-the-way ones.” (Nation.) “Here the traveller may find
some excellent suggestions as to what he should look for and how he
should look.” (Spec.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08.
“He is lucid, simple and occasionally witty. Our grateful recognition
of these qualities, rare in a book of the kind under notice, increases
our regret that he should have permitted himself, in treating of
things religious and political, an acrid tone which detracts from its
charm as a traveling-companion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 834. D. 28. 530w.
“A real service has been done by his publishers in reissuing it, with
additional chapters, in a convenient pocket volume.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“A handy little volume. His pages are pleasantly written for the most
part, tho sometimes marred by expressions of the insular Britisher’s
insolent contempt for travelers from other lands—from Germany and
America, especially.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Bagot does for this region what the late Augustus Hare did for
Florence, Rome, and Venice; and he spices his descriptions with views
of his own on whatever subject comes up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 180w.
“The present edition will prove a pleasant text-book for anyone who
desires to know something of the associations, historical and
traditional, of the scenes he is visiting.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 676. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“The author brings knowledge of classical and medieval history to the
fulfilment of his task, and he has a keen appreciation of scenery, a
sufficient knowledge of art; in short, he has the qualifications of a
traveller’s friend.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 300w.
* =Baikie, Rev. James.= Story of the Pharaohs. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–35753.
A finely illustrated volume, concise and lucid, which covers the
history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest in
525 B. C. Not only does its monarch live again “but also the great men
who served them, its society, literature and art—rivaling the latter
fame of Rome, and stained by no excesses of wickedness.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It would have been a calamity if the author had modestly supprest his
work because the ground was already well covered. Every statement that
he makes is lucid and helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1306. D. 3, ’08. 860w.
“Mr. Baikie, while availing himself of the latest results of research,
writes for the general reader, and gives life and reality to his
picture of the first great world power in history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 593. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–34148.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A good and useful study, neither remarkable as to originality nor
masterly as to treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 6. Ja. ’08.
“In making [his classification, Mr. Bailey] analyzes the characters
and situations with true insight, appreciation, and restraint. He
clearly sees and feels Meredith’s high ideals, his strength, and his
beauty of temperament.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 480w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Bailey pursues his end with a grim determination
totally devoid of humor, and the result is sad to contemplate. The
only thing of worth in Mr. Bailey’s book is an alphabetical list of
Meredith’s characters, and some statistics as to their number.” E. C.
Marsh.
− + =Forum.= 39: 384. Ja. ’08. 500w.
“Of several attempts to treat his collected novels critically or to
furnish a guide to them, Mr. Bailey’s work is easily the best. It is
the fullest and the most philosophical, and it springs from a riper
study of nineteenth century fiction. It narrowly misses unquestioned
right to a place beside Mr. Trevelyan’s splendid study of Meredith’s
poetry and philosophy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Colonel Greatheart. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29002.
The setting for this story of “men and arms” is taken from the
stirring days of Cavaliers and Roundheads, of Puritans and
“malignants”; but the machines of war are rather in the background,
while in the fore is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a
marker of destinies. It tells of a woman’s ambition which urges
valiant men to perilous deeds.
* * * * *
“A particularly good story.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“A story of spirit, sure to hold the reader to the last page. It is a
pity that Mr. Bailey should have seen fit to burden it with a comic
French cook and Italian groom who delay the action without a
compensating return of amusement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Gentleman of fortune. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33910.
About one Raoul de Tout le Monde the author groups incidents and
battlefield struggles that happened during the time that Philip of
Spain was striving to crush the Netherlands.
* * * * *
“His English is good, nervous English, but his manner is too brusque.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 722. D. 7. 240w.
“Not, you understand, a strong book, but whimsical and full of
conversations so short and keen that the sparks of spirits fly between
retorts.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 923. Ap. 23, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Although these stories of the struggle between the Dutch and the
Spanish in the sixteenth century are written with much of Mr. Bailey’s
usual felicity of style, the reader cannot help feeling that such very
slight and rather theatrical sketches are unworthy of the pen of their
author.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 935. D. 7, ’07. 140w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= God of clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–30132.
“An episodic résumé of Napoleon’s career, as visualized by the
imagination. The thread of interest remains in the person of
Bonaparte, who connects the tales.... Out of the mass of incredible
events and incidents which Mr. Bailey does not even condescend to
explain, emerges nevertheless a vivid and powerful, and faithful
portrait of Napoleon.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The form of this work, we imagine, was dictated by serial
necessities, which have hampered the author. But the matter proves
that he is in the forefront of our historical novelists.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a
popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in
the United States and Canada. 4v. ea. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
=v. 3.= Deals with the subject of animals. Part 1 treats of the
physiology and breeding habits, feeding, diseases and management. Part
2 is devoted to the manufacture of animal products. Part 3 is
concerned with the description of North American farm animals, their
breeding, history, rearing, and the “general treatment towards
accomplishing the ends for which they were intended.” Bibliography
under each heading.
* * * * *
“A valuable reference work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3.)
“In spite of the fact that it is packed with technical information, it
is almost all of it comprehensible to any person of ordinary
education, and much of it is so well written that it could be read
aloud in the farmhouse to the whole family.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1569. D. 26, ’07. 870w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This cyclopedia is as complete and authoritative as any work can be
in the present state of science.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Hardly full enough to be of much value to the farmer who is already
engaged in that particular industry, and American conditions of
climate and labour render much of the information inapplicable to
British agriculture; but this volume of the ‘Cyclopedia’ would be of
the greatest service to any settler breaking ground in a new country,
and looking round for profitable crops outside the accepted routine.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 292. Ja. 30, ’08. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is only in the parts of the book dealing with the science of
breeding and in the descriptions of individual breeds that we would
suggest amendments.” James Wilson.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 657. O. 29, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22260.
The expansion of an address given before the Association of American
agricultural colleges and experiment stations in 1907. Professor
Bailey in discussing the political and economic status of the farmer,
examines for their merits and demerits present remedial services
rendered the farmer by government and society and offers suggestions
for progress toward a substantial betterment of conditions and
results.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“The book needs and deserves a very wide circle of readers. It must
not, however, be cursorily read and laid aside. The problems discussed
are very deep, and we close our review with an endorsement of the
statement that we must have a new sort of statesmanship as well as a
new sort of farmers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1068. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Bain, Francis William.= Incarnation of the snow; tr. from the
original manuscript by F. W. Bain. †$1.25. Putnam.
8–25743.
“The several little tales relating how the daughter of the mountain
quarreled with her husband, the Lord of Creatures, and went to sit and
grieve beside a lonely lake, and how, in various forms, he sought her
out and stayed with her until she was ready to make up the lovers’
quarrel, are very beautiful. They bring down to the plane of daily
living the Hindu attitude toward life and death, and by their very
simplicity transform it from a philosophical creed to a human,
sustaining faith.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is a tale of strange terrors and beauties, told in a style
rising to a kind of intoxication.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 330w.
“The stories are warm and bright with human passion, but they are
wonderfully tender in sentiment, while the exquisite delicacy of the
style in which they are written, or translated, combined with their
rich Oriental imagery, makes the reading of them an unmixed delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 531. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Bain shows the same captivating and delightful style that
distinguished his previous works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= Slavonic Europe: a political history of
Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796. (Cambridge historical ser.)
*$2. Putnam.
8–11486.
A political history of Poland and Russia from the middle of the
fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century which “concerns
itself almost entirely with the detailing of the progress of wars, the
intrigues and achievements of diplomacy, and the doings of monarchs
and statesmen.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“He has crowded his book with useless detail, probably as a result of
hasty writing which leaves too little time to discriminate between the
essential and the unessential. The use of sources does not strike a
reviewer as critical. Most of the old stories are accepted without the
least hesitation.” R. C. H. Catterall.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 110. O. ’08. 570w.
“On the institutional and social side it is not strong, while the
abundance of detail sometimes obscures the main course of the
narrative, and in any case does not make the volume entirely easy
reading. Russian and Polish names are at best stumbling-blocks to
Latins and Teutons, and Mr. Bain does not lessen the difficulty by his
preference for less usual forms of transliteration, as well as by some
inconsistency in their use.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Bain’s performance is interesting perhaps to the ordinary reader,
but is hardly worthy of his plan.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“Much of the history of eastern Europe is still unexplored; and we
cannot give Mr. Bain’s work higher praise than to say that out of the
tangle he has produced a singularly compact, clear, and
well-proportioned history that ought to be a safe and welcome guide to
thousands of readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 300. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
* =Baker, Ray Stannard.= Following the color line. **$2. Doubleday.
8–31180.
“The negro as he is in the South, as he is in the North, and as he is
in the nation at large defines the scope of the inquiry which Mr.
Baker has undertaken in the present work. While confining himself
largely to racial conditions as they exist to-day, the author
considers various tendencies as they have found expression in the past
and gives critical estimates of some of the views that have been
advanced as to the ultimate solution of the negro problem.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The unique value of the book lies in its presentation of certain
facts regarding the life of the negro in the United States, which the
author has collected during several years spent in personal
investigation which give to his work the quality of originality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Baker, Tarkington.= Yard and garden: a book of practical
information for the amateur gardener in city, town or suburb. il.
**$2. Bobbs.
8–11497.
Gives directions for the speediest and safest process of converting
the bit of ground allotted to a town or city house into a harmoniously
and effectively beautiful spot. It is devoted to the planting and care
of trees, shrubs, plants and vines that beautify and add luxury to the
little square of ground.
* * * * *
“Probably the best general, popular treatment of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Baldwin, Charles Sears.= Essays out of hours. **$1. Longmans.
7–36392.
These essays, some of which have appeared in the Atlantic monthly and
Putnam’s deal with such subjects as My friend Copperfield, Master
Vergil, Stearn’s influence on French literature, John Bunyan, and The
genesis of the short story.
* * * * *
“Brief, pleasant comments on various aspects of life or letters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Here we have the critic whose intellect delicately steers his taste.”
Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 712. My. ’08. 300w.
“Among this collection of papers ... are four or five that are good
examples of sound literary criticism of that old-fashioned type which,
with good taste and a knowledge of life as well as of books, exhibited
sound common sense, displaced now-a-days too frequently by crude
psychologising, or ambitious attempts at philosophic generalization.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 692. F. ’08. 340w.
“One is a little surprised to find the writer’s scholarship permitting
such blemishes as ‘unique’ in the superlative degree of comparison.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 20. Ja. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In all of these shorter disquisitions reprinted from magazines, the
author shows the true essayist’s capacity to say engaging things about
matters of little moment in themselves. The three distinctly literary
essays which form the bulk of Prof. Baldwin’s book are earnest pieces
of constructive criticism which go deep into their respective
subjects, discuss them with erudition, and are much more concerned
with saying something of import and interest than with the manner in
which it is said.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 76. F. 8, ’08. 450w.
=Baldwin, Edward Chauncey, and Paul, Harry G.=, eds. English poems.
*$1. Am. bk.
8–15301.
An anthology of more than four hundred pages containing poems from
Chaucer to Tennyson. The poems have been selected with a view to
presenting material which should be representative of the successive
periods of English history, of the chief types of poetry, and which
should lend themselves easily to comparative study. Abundant notes
including thought-stimulating questions are provided for the benefit
of teacher and pupil.
* * * * *
“The volume is without any very distinguishing characteristic, but is
useful nevertheless.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 521. D. ’08. 50w.
“While a convenient book, is in no wise superior to others already in
existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the
development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. ea.
*$2.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= Deals with Experimental logic, or Genetic theory of thought.
* * * * *
“If we have hardly done justice to the argument, the blame is not
wholly ours, but attaches likewise to the piecemeal method of
publication already deprecated, and, still more, to the extraordinary
obscurity of the phraseology and idiom employed. A thinker of great
vigour and ability has been content to express himself anyhow.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 268. S. 5, 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We can testify that, having gone through the whole with the utmost
care and with predilections not unfavorable to the author, we do not
think it worth our reader’s while to enter into the necessarily more
lengthy criticisms of the more difficult problems as treated in this
volume. We greatly regret our disappointment with it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 164. Ag. 20, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It presents on first reading a multitude of divisions and
distinctions in a terminology that is largely unfamiliar, but these
difficulties largely disappear on further acquaintance. It still
appears to me, indeed, that some of the author’s distinctions are not
of vital importance, and that he has an undue fondness for his own
terminology. But the comparatively new field which he is exploring,
together with the value of his results, would excuse more serious
defects than these.” J. E. Creighton.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 68. Ja. ’08. 3350w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Mysie: a Highland lassie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“This is a story of troubles in family life. Mysie and her little
brother come home from India, and there are differences between them
and the elder children. These differences become more serious than it
is easy to imagine possible. Hamish is a villain of the melodramatic
sort, and could hardly find his way into the home which Miss Baldwin
describes for us.” (Spec.).
* * * * *
“Another fat book with many interesting and exciting happenings.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 20w.
“It is a tale of an original, quite lovable small girl, with an
imagination too big for her. The style of the writing is a little
feeble except in the dialogue, which is always natural and unforced.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Spec.= 99: sup. 904. D. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Balet, Joseph W.= Analysis of elastic arches, three-hinged,
two-hinged, and hingeless, of steel, masonry, and reinforced
concrete. *$3. Eng. news.
8–4024.
“Sets forth principally a graphic method the author has developed,
largely based on the work of other investigators, into the properties
of masonry, concrete and steel arches.... Several useful tables are
given, relating to existing arches, formulas for safe stresses in
members, loads on bridges, impact coefficients and other subjects. The
appendix contains the mathematical analysis of the elastic arch which
the author believes most satisfactory.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The work shows a keen insight into the mathematics and the theory of
the arch, and the engineer who is well-versed in mathematics and
mechanics will derive benefit from studying the book, but the beginner
will find difficulty in following the subjects as here set forth.” F.
P. McKibben.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 415. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The book is very hard reading. [The author] knew his subject too
well, perhaps, to exercise due care in maintaining that rigid logic of
development and clearness of expression which the case demanded; and
he was evidently handicapped by lack of practice in writing.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 203. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“The author has evidently given the subject much study and deserves
credit for his investigations, but it is something of a pity that he
has not arranged his explanations of methods and their applications so
as to obviate constant reference to subsequent pages.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 224. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Ball, Eustace A. R.= Tourist’s India. *$2. Brentano’s.
8–14845.
“A sort of etherialized guide-book. It runs rapidly and lightly from
one place of interest to another—towns, caves and waterfalls—and all
the time keeps up a delightful chatter, in which anecdote and jest
sugar-coat the pill of dry information. It is just the thing needed,
to inform the traveler about hotels, snakebites, Babu English,
history, and the amount of alcohol he may imbibe without
danger.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is a well-systematized tour, and throws light on many different
aspects of life in the principal cities. The arrangement in chapters
devoted to particular towns is one to be commended for ready
reference, and will be of great help to a prospective tourist.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 200w.
“Not even Murray gives so much out-of-the-way wisdom, and Murray is
far from being so amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“A business like guide.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 61. Ja. 12, ’07. 50w.
* =Balleine, G. R.= History of the Evangelical party in the Church of
England. *$1.75. Longmans.
“In the moderate compass of some 300 pages the author sketches the
growth and progress of evangelical ideas within the Anglican
communion, and estimates the contribution of evangelical churchmen to
the cause of English religion. He starts with the Wesleys, Whitefield,
and the Oxford Holy club, and follows the fortunes of the party down
to Bishop Ryle and churchmen who are still living.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Evangelicalism within the Church of England has found a sympathetic
and worthy historian in the Rev. G. R. Balleine.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Balleine has found a somewhat neglected place in church history,
and has filled it with a book which is clearly the outcome of a
penetrating study of almost all the contemporary evidence. He presents
his facts in very readable form and with very little of party bias.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 460w.
“A really excellent book. He tells us not a few truths that have been
forgotten; he corrects not a few misrepresentations. One important
point that he makes is the distinction between the Evangelicals and
the Low Churchmen.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 360w.
=Bamford, Harry.= Moving loads on railway underbridges; including
diagrams of bending moments and shearing forces and tables of
equivalent uniform live loads. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“‘Moving loads’ is used in the sense of ‘wheel loads.’ The book gives
a demonstration of graphical and analytical methods for finding
maximum moments and shears under any given system of wheel loads.
Methods for girders or solid beams only are discussed, and nothing is
said of the modifications introduced by the paneling in truss
bridges.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“A book that will be found useful.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“Forms a concise and interesting discussion of the subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 251. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
=Bancroft, George.= Abraham Lincoln: a tribute. **60c. Wessels.
8–25391.
A review of the historical facts concerning slavery, the forces
favoring and opposing, lead up to a statement of the definite work of
Lincoln for slavery. The undertone of the brief tribute is Lincoln’s
perfect faith in the perpetuity of the union. The sketch closes with a
terse comparison of Lincoln and Palmerston, England’s prime minister
contemporary with Lincoln.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Genial idiot: his views and reviews. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–29647.
In which the Idiot of “Coffee and repartee” fame reappears. His wit
and shrewdness go hand in hand as he descants upon such themes as
ideal husbands, finance, a comic opera, fame, the decadence of
April-fool’s day, flat-hunting, the gentle art of boosting, the music
cure, campaign methods, short courses at college, the horse-show, etc.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 120w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Potted fiction: being a series of extracts
from the world’s best sellers, put up in thin slices for hurried
consumers, by the United States literary canning company. †50c.
Doubleday.
8–34602.
Literary products put up in such convenient form “that they may be
carried in the vest pocket or vanity bags, to be consumed as
opportunity presents, between courses at quick lunch counters, between
nibbles at bridge parties,” etc. The six sellers so condensed are:
Rollo in the metrolopus, by Dopeton Hotair; Six months, by Hellinor
Gryn; The lost secret, by E. Fillips Dopenheim; A pragmatic enigma, by
A. Conan Watson, M.D.; The stepdaughter of Peterson Jay, by George
Jarr McClutchem; Somehow long, by the author of Alice in wanderland.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Unless one is unduly grouchy and hard to suit, the book will
occasionally provide a laugh.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Sermons which have won souls. **$1.40.
Funk.
8–19116.
Sermons of a Denver preacher who believes in business-like methods for
soul-saving. The introductory chapter on The pastor as a soul-winner,
sets forth the evangelistic methods which he employs for the salvation
of souls. It is a good chapter on the demonstrable phases of church
principles. Mr. Banks believes in steady movement, in following up
people who have been awakened until their lives begin to express the
conviction in their hearts.
* * * * *
“If his sermons at times seem commonplace, they nevertheless, for the
most part, ring true. If the sermons at times seem like patchwork the
pieces are of good material.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 400w.
=Banks, Robert Webb.= Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the
bloodiest engagement of the war between the states. *$1.25. Neale.
8–30516.
An account of the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, from the Confederate
point of view.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Lead glazed pottery pt. 1. (Art primer.)
**90c. Doubleday.
8–854.
The fourth art primer in a series of industrial art. Historical data,
reviews of processes, descriptions of wares made in various countries
including the slip-decorated wares of Europe, are given with numerous
illustrations.
* * * * *
“A reliable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 280w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Harry’s Island. †$1.50. Century.
8–25995.
Another of Mr. Barbour’s lively, wholesome stories for young people
which tells of the adventures of Tom, Dick, Harriet and Roy, all well
known to the author’s readers, during a summer of camping on an island
in the Hudson river.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
“Save that it is much too long, shows surprising ingenuity in
invention; but it is like what he has done before.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 50w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= My lady of the fog. †$2. Lippincott.
8–25123.
A light-house island and the surrounding sea furnish the setting for
this romance of a New York heiress and a young Colorado engineer
loafing during a brief vacation. She has run away from Newport for a
season of quiet in which to decide the momentous question of marriage
with a foreign count. The intrepid youth finds her in a fog, rescues
her, restores her to her island, woos her, and wins her—all without
learning that she is his employer, the Judy Sypher whom from rodman to
chief he and his co-workers idealize.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Is an excellent sea story with a decidedly sentimental interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Barclay, Mrs. Florence Louisa.= Wheels of time. (What is worth
while ser.) **30c. Crowell.
8–23556.
A dramatic little story of a woman’s sudden awakening to a great love
for a husband for whom she had been in the habit of doling out
grudgingly her affection in small quantities.
=Barclay, Sir Thomas.= Problems of international practice and
diplomacy, with special reference to the Hague conferences and
conventions and other general international agreements. $6.50.
Boston bk.
7–42317.
Questions of international law and order are discussed with particular
emphasis on the ethical principles and the reasons of expediency
underlying them. Each topic is taken up separately with a full
historical record of what has been done in regard to it, its present
position and the authoritative attitude towards further developments.
* * * * *
“Sir Thomas Barclay has published a most valuable volume at the right
moment. It is difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of his chapters.
On the other hand, he will disappoint many of his friends in peace and
arbitration circles by the caution and the conservative tendency
displayed in the greater portion of his work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 68. Jl. 20. 1000w.
“We cannot doubt that this volume, with its full discussion of many
points and the richness of its suggestions as to details, will be
useful to representatives at The Hague. It is a book which the
international lawyer cannot dispense with.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Sir Thomas’s book is unsatisfying only if the reader expects too
much.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 608. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“The book is invaluable for all international lawyers, politicians,
and the higher ranks of journalism.”
+ =Sat R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 300w.
=Barham, Richard Harris (Thomas Ingoldsby, pseud.).= Ingoldsby
legends; il. by Arthur Rackham. *$6. Dutton.
An “edition definitive de luxe” of the “Ingoldsby legends” in whose
illustrations by Mr. Rackham appears the same quality of
interpretation as was found in his drawings for “Peter Pan” last year.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rackham has caught the fantastic humor of the ‘Legends’ so
perfectly that one feels for the first time his full power.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1471. D. 10, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Rackham enters so thoroughly into the spirit of these now classic
tales, and his drawings reveal such rare talents, that the success of
this new edition is assured. As a gift-book nothing could be better.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“Here is delicate art, excellent drawing, and a refined whimsicality
which might carry even a poor book to success. With such a setting
‘The Ingoldsby legends’ should gain many new friends, and enter on a
new era of popularity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 420w.
“The present is certainly an advance on the edition of the ‘Ingoldsby
legends’ published some years ago with illustrations by this very
artist. In paper, print, illustration, and binding the new volume
seems well-nigh ideal.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
=Baring, Maurice.= Year in Russia. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–11807.
Mr. Baring tells the story of the Moscow rising and of the first duma,
as well as of other important happenings of the year of revolution
from August, 1905 to August, 1906.
* * * * *
“It is not, however, so much for the political views expressed in it
that this book will be valued, as for the light which the author
throws on the life of the Russian people.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 900w.
“The author is a sane observer and tries to do justice to the various
opinions and political parties.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Baring’s sketch of the physical conditions of Russia is
admirable, but we doubt whether he has in fact a ‘clear idea’ as
regards its future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 650w.
“His modest purpose is achieved in an easy, graceful and interesting
manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“He has made it his aim to depict the ordinary instead of inventing
the extraordinary, and, as might perhaps have been expected, the
ordinary thus depicted proves to be vastly more entertaining as well
as more informing than the extraordinary.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 154. My. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book pretends to be nothing more than a jotting down in diary
form of hearsay, impression, and casual observation, and as such can
possess little permanent value, especially in the presence of more
elaborate and systematic presentations of the same subject.”
− =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 150w.
“The style is easy and amusing, with an undercurrent of humorous
good-natured chaff and raillery sown broadcast here and there, which
makes the book pleasant and instructive reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 786. Je. 22, ’07. 1020w.
“In no book which deals with the last few years of Russian history is
the inspiration of the interpreter so manifest, and none that we know,
whether in English or in Russian, contains such admirable material for
the study of Russian public opinion during one of the most momentous
years of Russian history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 943. Je. 15, ’07. 1650w.
=Barker, J. Ellis.= British socialism. *$3. Scribner.
“The author has consulted about a thousand socialistic works, and his
‘book is a summary of the whole literature of British socialism and a
key to it.’” (Spec.) “This volume enables one to obtain a conspectus
of the views of typical socialists upon the various concrete problems
to which they direct their attention, such as the family, the empire,
the land, the army, the railways, and a host of similar issues.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It cannot be said, unfortunately, that the critical thread of comment
which ties the illustrative extracts together is altogether fair or
discriminating. But he has collected an instructive and compendious
anthology.”
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A work of praiseworthy industry, which will be most useful to those
who wish to know the practical suggestions deduced from socialist
theories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
=Barnard, J. Lynn.= Factory legislation in Pennsylvania: its history
and administration. $1.50. Winston.
7–19757.
“The subject matter is divided almost evenly into the two fields of
history and administration. Under the former, the movement for the
legal regulation of women and child labor is carefully reviewed from
the days of 1824 until the present date. Allied movements, such as
sweatshop, fire-escape and bake-shop legislations are duly treated....
Under the subject of administration, the author shows an inside
knowledge of the conditions which make easy the violation of the
factory law.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The author has given a much needed and scholarly account of this
field of social progress in Pennsylvania. Books such as this, covering
all the large industrial states, would soon remove the criticism one
sometimes hears that college courses in social welfare would be very
good were they not ‘spread out so thin.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 263. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“His monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature dealing
with factory legislation in the United States, which is gradually
approaching that degree of completeness necessary for scientific
comparative study of our state codes.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 375. Je. ’07. 220w.
“It is much to be desired that similar studies for other states than
Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts may be undertaken by students
of social legislation, and for such studies Dr. Barnard’s work may
well serve as a model.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 160w.
=Yale R.= 16: 445. F. ’08. 200w.
=Barnes, James.= Clutch of circumstance. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–12555.
A young physician coming into a fortune returns from a prolonged
absence abroad to his western New York home. He finds that the girl
who had promised to marry him in his college days has become the wife
of his old chum, now a prominent minister. With the discovery that he
still loves the girl, comes the startling revelation that her husband
is in the clutches of morphine. During the physician’s attempt to save
the friend the latter dies and a murder charge results. Great love
triumphs over all obstacles in the end.
* * * * *
“The book is marred rather than made by its sensational ending.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“All the threads of his narrative appear clean and fine and well-dyed,
only they do not seem to belong together, and the fabric that has
resulted from their combination has certainly a few discordant colors
in its eminently dignified design.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The story is readable, but unpleasant.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Heart of Jessy Laurie: front, by Harrison
Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31283.
A fisher lass is the heroine of this story of simple Scotch life.
“Jessy Laurie is an Effie Deans of a sturdier mould. She abandons a
lover of her own class in response to the call of an aristocratic
young Lothario. He gains possession of her by a form of marriage which
he intends to be a mockery, but which turns out to be legal, so that
technically she is not betrayed. The child of the union becomes the
scapegrace’s heir, and the scapegrace, taking himself off by drowning,
leaves her free to marry the faithful and magnanimous lover.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“In itself, this is a good story by an experienced story-teller. If
the sum of all this is not a story of remarkable power, it is
certainly a story told with more than ordinary intelligence and
control.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Strawberry handkerchief. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–24302.
This little drama enacted in Stamp act times deals chiefly with two
romances in which Cupid plays at cross purposes with obdurate parents,
defies, too, taut political lines. The strawberry handkerchief is a
love token that plays an important part in righting misunderstandings,
and binding hearts even across the sea.
* * * * *
“A pleasing historical romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“If Mrs. Barr could alter the fixed form of her conversations, an
added charm would enliven her well-written pages.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Barr, James R.= Principles of direct-current electrical
engineering. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–32343.
Written primarily for the use of intermediate classes in universities
and technical colleges with the intention of bridging the gap between
elementary manuals and too highly specialized works. Problems to
illustrate principles and illustrations of machinery and instruments
are taken from modern practice.
* * * * *
“Two chapters treat of storage batteries and electric lighting, but
these are rather disappointing. The author is to be congratulated upon
the work which he has produced. It is not too practical or too
theoretical, but contains just the information which a second-year
student wants.” L. C.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 172. Je. 25, ’08. 720w.
“Should find a considerable application in colleges and technical
schools. The index of the book is complete enough to make it a ready
work of reference.” G: C. Shaad.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 411. S. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Barr, Robert.= Young Lord Stranleigh. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16950.
A story which will especially interest teachers; for it presents some
of the problems of coeducation in the American public schools. It also
shows the groping of a young man for the thing in life which he can do
best.
* * * * *
“From the unfamiliarity of its circumstances—if for no other
reason—the book is most interesting, and Mr. Barr’s well-known humour
has lost none of its power. The scope is naturally limited, but the
picture is so complete in itself that its narrowness is forgotten.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 299. D. 28, ’07. 200w.
“Full of pleasant turns of thought and mirthful incident.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 150w.
“As a study of the educational conditions of such an institution as is
described, the book has a puzzling interest for us.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The reader who does not find it rather solemn reading will probably
call it exceedingly humorous.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
“The author has chosen a singularly colorless phase of social life,
colorless at least so far as fictional uses are concerned. It does not
appear to be one of Mr. Barr’s happiest achievements.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“The novel is original in its subject and treatment, has plot
interest, and while not of tremendous power, is certainly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The merit of the present story lies in the unusually vivid
portraiture of two or three teachers and students, and though the plot
is commonplace the book has a real interest.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 458. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Barr, Robert.= The measure of the rule. †$1.50. Appleton.
The triumph of a British dandy, one Lord Stranleigh, suffering from
ennui and too many millions, over the hard bargainers of London high
finance. He becomes interested in a mine that is being taken from its
owner by stock gamblers’ tricks, and when the stock is at low water
mark he sends twenty buyers to as many sellers at the same instant,
taking all each will sell, thus overbuying the market. The mine
manager proceeds to steal the mine’s best ore but is outwitted by
Stranleigh whose yacht beats the thieves to the mine where he watches
them dig his ore. Later he buys their boat, trades captains, returns
to London with his gold in time to relieve the bank of England from
temporary stringency.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 140w.
“Is one of Mr. Barr’s better books—perhaps one of his best.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The charm of this book lies in its bland childlike preposterousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“There may be hardened story readers who can absorb this yarn by
installments, but most readers will do better not to tackle it until
they can read it through at a sitting. They will want to, for it is
easy, pleasant, and, at times, thrilling, reading. Withal it carries a
budget of useful morals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 550w.
=Barron, Edward.= Lost goddess. †$1.50. Holt.
8–9523.
A South American bent upon the villainy of wife-stealing draws a group
of idle New Yorkers into the adventurous undertaking of rescuing an
American girl from the captivity of the Tigrane Indians somewhere on
the headwaters of the Amazon. This story deals with their thrilling
experiences on board their yacht and in Brazilian wilds where the trap
into which they have been lured is sprung.
* * * * *
“An ingenious tale, whose greater merit lies in the deftness and
firmness with which the author handles a love interest that has depth
and strength.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The true spirit of romance, rare at best in the fiction of to-day, is
sadly lacking in Mr. Barron’s book, which in its execution is not
without merit.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Barrus, Clara.= Nursing the insane. **$2. Macmillan.
8–13623.
Advice chiefly for the care of women, based upon talks which the
author has given during a long experience in the hospital at
Middletown, New York. “The last chapter briefly notes the legal
requirements to be fulfilled in the admission of insane patients to
the hospitals of this state, and gives good advice concerning the
removal of such persons from their homes.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It may be said that the book contains too little for a nurse obliged
to work without constant direction, especially in private houses, and
often almost too much for those that have such supervision.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 20w.
=Barth, Fritz.= Gospel of St. John and the synoptic gospels.
(Foreign religious ser.) *40c. Meth. bk.
8–265.
“A vigorous apologetic for the credibility and authenticity of the
fourth Gospel, which, with the Apocalypse, is ascribed to the Apostle
John.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The style is sometimes obscure, and the treatment of early Christian
literature, e. g., Papias, is arbitrary.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“A vigorous brief.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 311. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“Unfortunately, the translation is often awkward. It is a translation
from German, but not always a translation into English!”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 70w.
=Barton, George Aaron.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Ecclesiastes. (International critical commentary.)
**$2.25. Scribner.
8–15777.
A commentary in which the author looks upon the unknown writer of
Ecclesiastes “as a skeptic who has outgrown his ancestral faith, but
has not abandoned such belief in God as an agnostic may cherish,
holding to which he ‘preaches a gospel of healthy work, and the full
enjoyment of life’s round of duties and opportunities.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The only defect in the makeup of the volume is the inexcusably bad
proof-reading. In every other respect the work constitutes a worthy
companion volume to those that have preceded it in this splendid
series.” J: M. P. Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 361. N. ’08. 600w.
“For the professional student we do not know of any commentary on
Ecclesiastes superior to this.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 492. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“In this volume the results of the most recent critical studies are
canvassed succinctly and thoroughly, with regard to the needs both of
specialists and of other intelligent readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Spec.= 100: 1037. Je. 27, ’08. 580w.
=Barton, James Levi.= Unfinished task of the Christian church:
introductory studies in the problem of the world’s evangelization.
50c. S. V. M.
8–20161.
An appeal to the student volunteers of American colleges. “The extent
of the task before the church, the obstacles to be overcome at home
and abroad, the partial success already achieved, and the resources
now available for it, are all so presented that the statement is
practically an argument for greater activity.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book is admirable in the selection and arrangement of very useful
material.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 527. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It is a plain, clear, crisp recital by a recognized authority, widely
traveled, and personally acquainted with the facts he relates
concerning existing conditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 160w.
=Barzini, Luigi.= Pekin to Paris: an account of Prince Borghese’s
journey across two continents in a motor car. *$5. Kennerley.
8–11793.
A full account of the motor-car journey undertaken by Prince Borghese
across Asia and Europe. “On June 10, five cars started on their eight
thousand mile course.... In the Chinese Empire the party met the
almost irresistible rocks of Ki-mi-ni; in the Mongolian deserts the
sands were almost too much for the machine; in the Russian Empire they
availed themselves of the rails of the Trans-Siberian railway. Thus
they came to the western borders of the Russian Empire, to the good
roads of Germany and the better ones of France, and to their journey’s
end.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is a straightforward, graphic piece of journalism, and provides a
full and detailed account of the adventurous journey. It may be
considered over-long by some, but the reviewer has found its interest
well sustained, and it has no ‘padding.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 550w.
“The volume contains an interesting and modest introduction by the
prince, a hundred good illustrations, and an excellent detailed map
showing the route traversed. Señor Barzini’s style, as translated by
Señor De Castelvecchio, is best described by Prince Borghese as
vivacious: no other style could possibly do justice to the subject.”
H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 500w.
“The narrative, written by the practiced hand of a journalist, reads
with the rush and excitement of the motor ride.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 527. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is much of general interest in Signor Barzini’s narrative. The
volume contains much wearisome detail of rescues from swamps and
broken bridges, and there are frequent poetic digressions which might
well have been omitted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
“He gives us the latest and the best pictures of the awakened East.”
Julius Chambers.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 618. Ap. ’08. 1600w.
“The book has been well translated and will appeal irresistibly to the
reader who loves to undertake adventures and enjoy novel experiences
by his own fireside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 242. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
“We are thrilled by the book as if it were some tale of wonderful
adventure; but we get more than that in much food for speculation and
thought.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 370w.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of recreation camps and parks.
$1. Wiley.
8–16540.
A practical hand book suggesting how to obviate improper sanitation in
camps, by screening the food, avoiding impure water, daily burning or
burying all the waste, solid and liquid, by treating with kerosene the
brooks and pools in mosquito infested districts, and keeping weeds and
grass cut around the camp. There is also advice on the location and
construction of camps.
* * * * *
“A very suggestive handbook in the elementary principles of
sanitation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“By the avoidance of technical terms and the presentation of the
subject in an interesting and pleasing style the writer has provided a
most readable and useful little work.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 366. Ag. 20, ’08. 340w.
“This little book ought to have a wide circulation during the summer
months.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Bates, Arlo.= Intoxicated ghost, and other stories. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–12556.
Nine short stories in Mr. Bates’s best vein. “The intoxicated ghost,”
the titular story, portrays a ghost-compelling young woman who, in
love with the impecunious scion of a New England house, is called by
his sister to communicate with the ghost of an ancestor who when upon
earth had hidden the family diamonds. After three separate visits from
the specter, during which the intrepid young woman has the novel
experience of seeing her ghost grow intoxicated on wraith wine, the
hiding place of the jewels is revealed.
* * * * *
“A collection of clever short stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“He is the well-bred and accomplished amateur of fiction, and the
pince-nez literature he produces is excellent in its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 370w.
“The author’s taste is as noteworthy as his versatility.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2.
Century.
7–32385.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A simple straight-forward narrative. It is a pity that errors of fact
should have crept into these entertaining pages.” Allen Johnson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“This work possesses a three-fold interest: as a narrative of
thrilling and momentous facts it appeals to the imagination in an
absorbing manner; as a contribution to history it is of real worth;
while its intimate pictures of Abraham Lincoln give it special value,
and the moral idealism that made the martyred president one with the
noblest patriots and statesmen of the earlier days of our republic
adds inestimably to its genuine worth.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 676. D. ’07. 580w.
“It is rather unfortunate that Mr. Bates undertakes to deal with
matters not related to his subject. About a third of the book is
padding, interesting but not always authentic. On pages 86 and 87,
pages 28 and 29 are repeated—a slip not to be expected in a work from
the De Vinne press.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 510w.
“There is much in this direct and incisive narrative, told in plain,
nervous English, that is of technical interest, but, fortunately, Mr.
Bates does not dwell on that aspect of the first great use of
telegraphy in actual warfare.”
+ =Elec. World.= 50: 1257. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
“An entertaining book of reminiscence in a comparatively unfamiliar
field.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Bates, Lindon Wallace.= Retrieval at Panama. $5. The Technical
literature co., 220 Broadway, N. Y.
8–8499.
A compilation of the Panama company’s “colossal blunders” obtained
from official reports, books, pamphlets, maps, and correspondence;
also from visits to the isthmus. “The design of the canal in its broad
aspects, its general details, its commercial aspects, and its
construction are discussed at great length.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Bates’s book is the most instructive work of constructive
criticism of the Panama canal that has ever been written. It is
thorough in its discussions and is written in a readable style
characteristic of the author.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 303. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“The literary style of these criticisms is unique. It reminds us at
once of Tom Lawson and Poultney Bigelow. Like the work of those
eminent authors, too, it somehow fails to carry conviction to the
minds of the readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 600w.
“The book is of a controversial nature, but is one of those works
which contain a great deal of interesting information and criticism.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 180w.
“A large part of his criticism is undeniably justified.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Batiffol, Louis.= Marie de Médicis and the French court in the
seventeenth century; tr. from the French by Mary King; ed. by H.
W. Carless Davis. *$2. Scribner.
8–20525.
A study of a phase of French society in which are set down the
intimate details of Marie de Médicis’ ten years of life at the French
court. “How the queen spent her days in her new residence, what she
ate, what she wore, how much she spent on her household, for her
stables, her jewels; what her relations were with her husband and his
mistresses, who her friends were, what influences ruled her, what sort
of interests she had; what she did to encourage art and artists; how
much money she received, how she used it—all that and much more is
told by a trained historian who has consulted first-hand documents and
gives us a most instructive chapter in the history of civilization.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“He has achieved his purpose within the somewhat narrow limits of the
subject, although the study will be read perhaps more for its lighter
interest than for its historical value. One of his judgments is
certainly open to criticism.” H: E. Bourne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 167. S. 16, ’08. 840w.
“It offers concrete and tangible facts, and gives us the kind of
information we are all hungering for. The translation by Miss King is
faithful as well as readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 430w.
“The editor of the book—which needed some editing for the English
public generally—appears to have done his work well.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1035. Je. 27, ’08. 520w.
=Battle, Kemp Plummer.= History of the University of North Carolina.
v. 1. *$3. K. P. Battle, Chapel Hill, N. C.
7–30472.
“The present volume traces the history of the university from its
first conception in 1776 (it was chartered in 1789) to the year 1868.
Its growth from modest beginnings is told, its inner life depicted,
its public occasions described, its influence in the affairs of the
state and the nation set forth.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“While the story centres in the campus it is by no means confined
there. There are many interesting side lights on manners and events;
much about the personalities and careers of the men who have touched
the institution’s life.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 426. Ja. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Battle’s history will prove both entertaining and instructive to
any student of the country’s educational growth.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An interesting narrative, of a very real value, because in a
considerable measure it is a history of the customs and people of the
South during the long period through which the university has passed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Battle= for the Pacific, and other adventures at sea, by Rowan
Stevens, Yates Stirling, jr., William J. Henderson, George E.
Walsh, Kirk Munroe, F. H. Spearman, and others. il. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–12227.
This little volume contains short stories by many writers. They treat
of imaginary battles upon the sea in which the United States has for
an antagonist sometimes Japan and sometimes England. They are the
purely fanciful creations of an active imagination.
* * * * *
“Thrilling enough to satisfy any appetite for the spice of
excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Ignaz Jan Paderewski. *$1. Lane.
8–35168.
A sketch of the musical career of the great pianist together with a
temperate interpretation of his genius. “The author considered
Paderewski’s technique not always clear; he found ‘too many spots of
virtuoso exaggeration of contrast,’ and so on. Yet, in spite of
shortcomings, Paderewski is for him ‘the greatest of living pianists,’
for in addition to strong individuality and ripe musicianship, he is
strongly emotional, and possesses that ‘curious magnetism which always
enchains the attention of the public.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“A good brief biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In judging Paderewski as a composer, the critic is very guarded in
his language. He finds, as many others do, much to praise in the
various works, yet he suspends judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 203. F. 15. 250w.
=Nation.= 85: 524. D. 5, ’07. 800w.
“Mr. Baughan’s critical attitude is judicious. He recognizes the
greatness of Paderewski, but he puts in clauses of limitation.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Bax, Ernest Belfort.= Roots of reality; being suggestions for a
philosophical reconstruction. *$2. Dodge, B. W.
8–8287.
From the idealist’s standpoint, Mr. Bax outlines the directions that
future philosophic thinking must take. The central topic of his book
is that in all mind and consciousness an alogical element stands out
against the logical element and can never be merged therein. The four
modes of opposition between the logical and alogical are the
antitheses between the universal and the particular, being and
appearance, infinite and finite, and chance and law.
* * * * *
“Professionalism is just as odious in philosophy as in athletics;
wherefore, if Mr. Bax handles metaphysics decidedly ‘en amateur,’ his
conscientious effort to get to the bottom of things merits respect and
attention none the less.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 1: 160. F. 8. 700w.
“As to the manner of exposition, most readers will probably complain
of a certain slowness in getting down to real issues; and the frequent
repetitions rather obscure the argument. Mr. Bax also has the rather
irritating habit of now and then patronizingly foisting his own
triumphant opinions upon Plato, Kant, or Hegel. As a whole, however,
the book is both timely and suggestive.” M. R. Cohen.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 78. Ja. 30, ’08. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
Reviewed by A. R. Gifford.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 162. My. 15, ’08. 1600w.
“The reader who is not to be daunted by a formidable phraseology will
find this book worth reading. But the author’s professed ‘purpose of
reaching the average intelligent man’ would have been better served by
his adopting a simpler style of diction.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 115. Jl. 27, ’07. 1250w.
=Baylor, Mrs. Edith M. H.= Little prospector. il. †$1. Lothrop.
7–23301.
The adventures of a patriotic little American who goes with his family
from Boston to the mining regions of Nevada. Pioneer life with its
fascinations and perils is portrayed in a manner to interest juvenile
readers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
=Bayne, Samuel Gamble.= Quicksteps through Scandinavia; with a
retreat from Moscow. **$1.25. Harper.
8–18339.
A short illustrated account of a trip thru Scandinavia and Russia
presented with the hope of aiding the tourist in selecting what to see
and what to avoid.
* * * * *
“Mr. Bayne is apparently an intelligent and well-informed man, as he
has the requisite facility for mental kodaking, and a share of a sense
of humor—the American kind—his book turns out to be a diverting affair
on the whole.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 630w.
=Bazin, René.= Coming harvest (Le blé qui levé); tr. by Edna K.
Hoyt. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–25122.
“A picture of some aspects of peasant life in France to-day ... the
hate of the laborer for the man of family and for the man of wealth,
the unreasonable demands which socialistic agitators have taught him
to make.... The chief character, an honest upright pagan, after a
varied experience of injustice and disloyalty at the hands of his
fellows, of ingratitude from his child, is, when he has almost fallen
into despair, drawn to religion, where he finds peace.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“In his own restrained, forcible manner, with a realism that convinces
but never descends to the repulsive, he allows us to see with our own
eyes, the narrow, hopeless, sordid view of life which unbelief and
materialism has forced upon the humbler rural class in France. The
translation is correct and idiomatic.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 258. N. ’08. 360w.
“Of the literary art of the novel it is necessary to speak highly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 820w.
“A powerful novel of life in the country in France to-day, full of
picturesque incidents, vivid characters, and descriptions of the
country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
* =Bazin, René.= Italians of to-day; tr. from the French by William
Marchant. **$1.25. Holt.
Keen observation and unprejudiced reflection characterize this
presentation of the Italian of to-day. A chapter on The northern
provinces—provincial life shows cause for the great poverty of the
Italian peasant, discusses his national characteristics of
hospitality, affection for home, his educational opportunities, and
literature. Other chapters are: Roman houses, and the Roman Campagna:
Southern Italy and A corner of Sicily—Aetna in eruption.
=Bazin, René.= The nun (L’isolée). $1. Scribner.
8–15729.
The story of five nuns living in a convent in Lyons. When the order
comes to disband their religious community, they abandon their work
among the children of the town and cast themselves upon the world.
Pascale, the youngest, prettiest and least experienced of them is
betrayed and is cast low in sin and suffering.
* * * * *
“The picture of convent life is vivid, and the characterization is
good, but the book is weakened by some exaggeration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“The book is excellent, but marred by exaggeration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 100w.
“We forget we are reading, and we actually see the drama pass us.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 679. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“The book is typically French in its clear construction and dramatic
curtness. The indicative mood prevails—things are explained,
demonstrated, or reasoned out rather than acted; and the
characterization is clever, but compressed for each individual into a
page or so of initial biography. It is probable that the large success
of ‘The nun’ abroad is due to a sympathy for the plight of the church,
impossible for many American readers to share.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“The picture of convent life is one well worth reading. Realism of
this kind can only do good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 600w.
“Has been excellently translated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No one but a Frenchman could have written this ... remarkable book.
It is a pitiful and poignant story, rich in real drama and arresting
by its fidelity to the truths of life.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Bazin, René.= Redemption. (De toute son âme); tr. by A. S.
Rappoport. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–30021.
Out of a background of shop women and fishermen, thick with the
atmosphere of unleavened toil there gradually emerges a saint-like
woman whose mission is to love much, to minister to the sin-burdened,
to console the misery-stricken, and to sacrifice self-gratification
for the sake of fellow mortals. The development of this character is
the serious business of the author thruout the story.
* * * * *
“The story is sweet, wholesome and worth while.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“The book, so full of honesty and kindliness, lacks conviction to the
Anglo-Saxon.” G: Middleton.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 48. S. ’08. 750w.
“Even in English, after much of its exquisite aroma has,
notwithstanding the high quality of the translator’s work, been,
necessarily, lost, it is a fascinating story. Simple in construction,
commonplace in incident, it is a superb delineation of the glory of
consecration and sacrifice exemplified in the life of a young girl of
the people.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 838. S. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“His logical French mind avoids the pitfalls of the too literal
realist, and co-ordinates the various facts and appearances that come
within his chosen field, presenting as a result a coherent and
expressive picture. The translation is clear but not distinguished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 399. Jl. 18, ’08. 1350w.
“The translation of this book, though marred by one or two blemishes,
is sufficiently flowing for the reader’s enjoyment of the story.
Remarkable novel.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 302. Ag. 29, ’08. 160w.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Barrier: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–10616.
A miners’ trading post in the Alaskan gold region is the scene of this
story which is not so full of brutality as “The spoilers.” Yet it has
its hard side, with rough, unscrupulous men in the background, against
which is enacted a drama of love and its hardships. The hero is a
Kentuckian, a young lieutenant, stationed at the post with some
soldiers; the heroine is a beautiful girl supposed to have Indian
blood in her veins which forms the barrier to marriage. The discovery
of who she really is sets matters straight in spite of the fact that
her foster father and her own father had been enemies for life.
* * * * *
“The main narrative is not obscured by a complexity of minor
characters as was ‘The spoilers,’ by the same author, nor does it
present quite so brutal an aspect of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“This is a virile story. Mr. Beach is here to confute the critic, with
a book innocent of construction, scornful of grammatical propriety,
callow and jejune in sentiment, but none the less successful in its
kind, because it is ‘elemental.’” Burton Bancroft.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 282. My. ’08. 500w.
“It is all good thrilling conventional melodrama, written by a man
with an eye for actuality and a sense of dramatic fitness.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“All the descriptions are given with a very evident knowledge of the
details, and information about the laws and customs of the land is
imparted in an interesting way.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 866. Ap. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Readers will begin the book in confident expectation of getting
another installment of glorified frontier history, and most of them,
it is to be feared, will lay it down with that natural, though
slightly unfair, expectation disappointed.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beach did much better in his first novel of Alaska.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Dan Beard’s animal book and camp-fire
stories. il. **$1.60. Moffat.
8–3274.
“This is not a natural history, neither is it a so-styled nature book.
It is simply a book of animals and is made up from the author’s
personal notes and sketches made in the fields and forests for his own
amusement and not with a view to publication; here and there scattered
through the volume will be found a few short camp-fire stories and
legends, some of which have already appeared in print.... These are
not intended to be taken as either strictly or scientifically true,
but the notes and sketches are as accurate as the author could make
them.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 55. F. ’08.
“A spirit of kindness and gentleness pervades the book and cannot fail
to exert a helpful influence on the minds of those who read it.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 502. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“A curious hodge-podge—a mass of undigested information about all
sorts of creatures ... the whole presented in a style a good deal of
which would be none the worse for a little editing. The entire spirit
of his book makes it a capital one to put into the hands of any boy.”
G: Gladden.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 607. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“This new volume will also undoubtedly hit the mark. The numerous
sketches by the author, some in color, are the most original and
valuable feature of the book.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catharine Mary.= Sister of Marie Antoinette: the
life-story of Maria Carolina, queen of Naples. *$3. Dutton.
8–11809.
In the main a sketch of Maria Carolina. It also furnishes side lights
on the history of the times. “The heroine herself is, in any
presentation, a striking type of woman in politics. Her hatred and
dread of Napoleon, the trouble she managed to give him, and her
embarrassment when she became his grandmother-in-law, form a dramatic
theme which hardly needs the enlivenment furnished by her entanglement
in the affairs of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. In her realm, as in that
of Prince Otto, politics and love affairs were hardly distinguishable
in method, in content, or in importance.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“An interesting and not uninstructive piece of historical biography,
which may easily be supplemented or corrected by those who wish to
pursue the subject further. The index is ludicrously inadequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 94. Ja. 25. 1250w.
“A story full of intrinsic interest is told in a style of vivacious
dulness, with a syntax of its own.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A good book of its class.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Valuable in more than one way.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1754–1765. **$2.
Macmillan.
7–30451.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A thorough, concise, scholarly piece of work; for the larger
libraries or special collections of history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 99. Ap. ’08.
“The book is very carefully written, but the style is not so
entertaining as one might desire.” E. R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 514. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“His book is not without defects, chiefly due to the fact that, in his
reaction against the school of Bancroft, he does rather more than
justice to the mother country and rather less to the colonies.” W. L.
Grant.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 371. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“No one before him has ever attempted to examine in detail or
systematically the evidence which the British archives furnish. Mr.
Beer has had the courage and patience to undertake a systematic search
of the British departmental records, volume by volume, page by page,
in the effort to discover exactly what ‘colonial policy’ meant to
those in whose hands lay its enforcement.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 1300w.
“Here and there are theses which challenge discussion, and details
which may be questioned. The essential thing is that Mr. Beer has
given us a well-reasoned, and in the main convincing, study of
eighteenth-century imperial problems. The book shows throughout
unusual mastery of printed and manuscript sources.” E. B. Greene.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 326. Je. ’08. 750w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 489. Jl. ’08. 650w.
=Beers, Clifford W.= A mind that found itself: an autobiography.
**$1.50. Longmans.
8–7899.
A record of the author’s own experience in a private sanitarium and in
an insane hospital. “The purposes of Mr. Beers’s book as he sets them
forth are three in number: to rob insanity of its terrors; to correct
existing abuses and to elevate the standard of treatment; and to
induce the benevolent rich to aid state and nation in supplying funds
for the erection and maintenance of model institutions for the care of
the mentally diseased.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“The book naturally carries with it ... much of the intensity of an
irritable temperament; yet with ample allowance for this trait, the
account rings true, and should do much to enlighten the public in
regard to what is needed in the way of practical reforms for the work
of ministering wisely to minds diseased.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“A striking psychological monograph.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Here are furnished the most invaluable data for a new order of social
reform.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beers has written a readable book. If he has failed to
subordinate the personal element to his ‘cause,’ he can be pardoned
because of his desire to stir up popular indignation for current
asylum abuses as he views them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“A most fascinatingly written human document.” Adolph Meyer.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 611. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is, both dramatically and psychologically, one of great
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“It aims to be constructive, and therein lies its superiority over
many other criticisms or defenses of existing conditions. To do this
and yet to retain the reading quality of a story is a feat denoting a
decided literary talent.” A. M.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 283. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Begbie, Harold.= Tables of stone. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Mr. Begbie’s hero is a young man from the country whose remarkable
simplicity engages the amused attention of fashionable people in
London, with the result that he is launched by means of a tutorship on
a successful career as a social philosopher. Having by somewhat
unsportsmanlike means obtained the hand of a girl immeasurably his
superior ... he proceeds to break her heart by his colossal
priggishness and egoism.” (Sat. R.) “Finding the task of spending a
lifetime with the Wrong Man too hard for her, she deliberately betrays
him, and on being discovered, kills herself and her child.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“The story is thoughtful and interesting, but obscure in purpose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 160w.
“A somewhat ponderous, conscientious piece of fiction. Altogether a
cheerless and unprofitable sort of book.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 360w.
“As a piece of literary work the ‘Tables of stone’ is extremely
creditable to its author, but it is not a pleasant story, and, so far
as is evident, there is no important lesson taught by it.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Begbie has grasped neither the tone of the political society
which he endeavours to portray, nor the character of the supra-mundane
problems which he handles so glibly.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Begbie, Harold.= The vigil. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9173.
A story in which a young clergyman, secure in the strongholds of
intellect and tradition and bound to celibacy by an oft-renewed vow,
learns thru the suffering of humanity that his religion is Christless.
A woman, the embodiment of love in its purest sense, keeps vigil over
the soul of the man knowing that in time the dawn will come. A number
of theological doctrines are advanced, prominent among them the belief
that a human being cannot sense the reality of Christ until he
realizes the enormity of hell.
* * * * *
“Mr. Begbie believes that the world is a wicked one and that few men
live as they should in the fear of the Lord. He is very much in
earnest and he makes his appeal with eloquence but not as it seems to
us with great success.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 400w.
“There is a good deal of sound theology as well as genuine human
nature in ‘The vigil.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 397. Je. ’08. 500w.
“A combination of the shrewd observation and humor of Dickens and
George Eliot is noticeable in many places, and makes the book worth
while, despite its heavy load of theological verbiage.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with the whole affair is that the man is a weakling. Also
the woman is a prig, with a horrid habit of being right. Several of
the minor figures, on the other hand, possess a good deal of vitality,
especially certain rustics, male and female, worthy to keep alive the
memory of Tabitha Bramble and Mrs. Poyser.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Begbie has given us a very good piece of religious fiction, which
should be interesting to persons of all creeds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“It is a strong story, and, for the general reader, is dexterously
managed.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“The book is a rare one in its quiet atmosphere, in its serene gaze
into eternity.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 640w.
“Mr. Begbie is ambitious, but does not convince us of his ability to
teach a philosophy of life through the medium of fiction. It is all
very painstaking and unconvincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 274. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Bell, Lady Florence (Mrs. Hugh Bell).= At the works: a study of a
manufacturing town. 3d impression. $2. Longmans.
8–3942.
“The author has ‘put a piece of prosperity under the microscope,’
giving a detailed account of conditions obtaining in a community of
ironworkers situated in the north of Yorkshire. The material for the
several descriptive chapters—dealing with The genesis of the town, The
process of ironmaking, The expenditures of workmen, Illness and
accidents, Old age, Recreation, Drink, Betting, Gambling—has been
gathered during a period of nearly thirty years’ intercourse with the
population, during which period ‘more than a thousand working-men’s
homes have been visited, many of them on terms of friendly and
continuous intercourse.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Possibly not so valuable a book as Rountree’s ‘Poverty’ but new,
sane, authentic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“She has done the patient, impartial investigation, the ordered
collection of results. She has at least stated the problem which needs
solution.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 930w.
“The study is of permanent value for those interested to know the
everyday life of a typical wage-earning community.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 130w.
“We note some omissions. The two subjects on which Lady Bell throws
most light are reading, and wives and daughters.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 109. Ap. 5, ’07. 800w.
“This book is emphatically worth reading; it is clear, restrained,
straightforward and sympathetic; no social reformer should be without
it, and still less any economist who wishes to see book terms
translated into facts of life.” H: W. Macrostv.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 526. S. ’07. 940w.
“It is essentially a social and domestic study of the working classes,
very sensible and sympathetic and founded on real knowledge.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.
“The student of social problems cannot possibly afford to miss it,
while the romance of industry has never been more vividly painted than
in her pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 534. Ap. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=Bell, John Joy.= Thou fool! †$1.50. Baker.
8–23530.
“Tells how a selfish, hard-headed young Scotchman, bent upon getting
on in the world, starts life as a grocer’s assistant, and walks a
straight path to opulence and a baronetcy, only to discover
despairingly that his commercial triumphs are powerless to win him the
woman whom he loves, and that he has missed all the real good in
life.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It makes entertaining enough reading, for it is agreeably written,
keeps up its interest well, and shows a good deal of pleasant, if
somewhat superficial observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 762. D. 14. 270w.
“A strong story, admirably told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 144. O. ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Bell has greater facility in the creation of character than in
the construction and development of plot. But he has written a good
story and one that is very characteristic of the time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Benedict, Francis Gano.= Influence of inanition on metabolism.
(Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 77.) $2.75.
Carnegie inst.
8–995.
“The book deals with fourteen fasts in which ten different persons
voluntarily went without food from two to seven days, but mostly only
for periods of two to four days.” (Nation.) “It consists mainly of the
protocols of the experiments, their ultimate valuation, and the
general results to be drawn from them being left for the future.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“The observations are given in great detail and with a fulness which
has never been attained in similar investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 36: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“It is a monument of prolonged and patient industry and
self-sacrifice, as well as of admirably planned experiments on a large
scale under careful and coordinated guidance. The book is to be
commended to all interested in physiological work, and especially to
those engaged in a study of nutrition.” W. D. H.
+ + + =Nature.= 77: 610. Ap. 30, ’08. 650w.
=Benedict, Leonard.= Waifs of the slums and their way out. **$1.
Revell.
7–28507.
From this account of Mr. J. F. Atkinson’s work among the waifs in his
Chicago Boys’ club one may catch the spirit of missionary work as
distinguished from social settlement work. Sin and not poverty is at
the bottom of the trouble as the missionary views it. The book
contains statistical matter about the condition of the Chicago slums,
the work and the present outlook.
* * * * *
“A well written book of information.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“The trouble with Mr. Benedict is the lack of that charity which is
almost always lacking in propagandists—even when their propaganda is
charity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 800w.
=Benham, W. Hamilton.= Trade and trade centers of history. Printed
for H. C. Swords at the DeVinne press.
7–19753.
A monograph which “gives a bird’s-eye view of the rise and fall of
nations as a result of the fortunes of their commerce, rather than of
the vigor or the weakness of their dynasties.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 550w.
“Its only justification is the excuse which it gives for including
some of the remarkable prints of prominent merchants and financiers in
the collection of Mr. Swords. As a contribution to, or exposition of,
the subject of trade centers it is of no significance.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 70w.
=Benjamin of Tudela.= Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; critical
text, tr. and commentary, by Marcus Nathan Adler. *$2. Oxford.
“The ‘Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela’ will always hold a high place
among the records of medieval travellers, and is of much interest not
only to the student of the history of the Jews in the middle ages, but
also to the student of the Crusades.... Mr. Adler was ‘fortunate
enough to be able to trace and examine three complete mss. of
Benjamin’s Travels, as well as large fragments belonging to two other
mss.’ The result of his study of these documents is the present
critical text, the basis for which he has used the manuscript
belonging to the British museum, the variants being noted in all
cases. Mr. Adler has added indexes to both the Hebrew text and to the
translation, the references being in all cases to the pages of Asher’s
edition.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“Ought to prove valuable both to those who use Asher’s edition and to
those unable to have access to it.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“Although it cannot be affirmed that the last word on everything has
now been said, the merit of a distinct advance in the critical study
of the ‘Itinerary’ must be cheerfully accorded to the new edition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 159. F. 8. 900w.
“In one or two instances Mr. Adler’s notes require correction.” G. Le
S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 193. Ja. ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Adler gives in a small compass excellent material for the
criticism of Benjamin’s text and of his historical statements.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Bennet, Robert Ames.= Into the primitive. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–12557.
A story of three persons, an English gentleman, an American heiress,
and an uncouth engineer, who were shipwrecked on a barren coast in the
tropics. With a rather lurid setting the writer has allowed these
three diverse characters to work out their natural development. The
story shows the effect upon human character of a journey back to
nature. All that is real in each individual comes out. The essential
manliness of the engineer triumphs over his lack of social training;
the Englishman proves himself a cad; while the woman retains her sweet
womanliness to the end.
* * * * *
“The quality of the book is not good enough to hold its own against
the handicap of a much overworked situation.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“That the story is not hopelessly damaged by the coarse
characterization is tribute to the immortal freshness of the
primitive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The author’s aim seems to be to prove that culture is a kind of
tommyrot that serves only to ruin a man or woman’s efficiency. But
there is a vital energy about his people and the story as a whole that
makes it unusual, even worth while.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Bennett, Ida D.= Vegetable garden. (Country home lib.) **$1.50.
McClure.
8–19599.
A thoroly practical exposition of vegetable gardening based upon
experiment directed by science and furthered by sound common sense.
Besides dealing with vegetables that form the staple of the small
garden, the book includes chapters on fertilizers, insecticides and
garden tools.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08. ✠
“The selection of vegetables here given might be improved in certain
ways but, on the whole, the choices are good, and the hints for the
kitchen are extremely suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The last word in vegetable gardening has surely been said by Miss
Bennett.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“Many practical directions which will be appreciated by the novice.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Bennett, James Robert S.= Life of William Sterndale Bennett, by his
son, J. R. Sterndale Bennett. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–6997.
The biography of an English musician who, while he does not rank among
the masters, deserves a place among sincere artists. “Bennett was a
man of mark in his time. He had a peculiarly winning nature, a gift
for friendship. He was the intimate of Schumann and of Mendelssohn,
and of many other nineteenth-century musicians, and their relations
with him, their correspondence with him, as well as the part he played
in the musical life of England, give a certain interest to these pages
which the present importance of their subject would not.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The conversations, letters quoted, and other matters give a picture
of the years especially connected with Mendelssohn more vivid than any
which have been drawn by historians who gathered information solely
from written records.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 138. F. 1. 600w.
“It is interesting at many points, and a contribution to the history
of music in the England of Victoria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 850w.
“The task has been done once and for all with a discretion and a
delicacy worthy of the subject, and with a filial piety that is never
disfigured by hero-worship.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1050. D. 21, ’07. 1600w.
=Bennett, John William.= Roosevelt and the republic. $1.50. Broadway
pub.
8–17978.
A sketch of President Roosevelt as a public man and office-holder,
with special emphasis given to the influence of his administration
upon the republic.
=Bennett, Rev. William Henry.= Life of Christ according to St. Mark.
**$1.75. Armstrong.
Aims to present the impression of Christ which would be derived from
St. Mark’s gospel by a reader who has no other source of information
and who knows nothing of Christian theology.
* * * * *
“His book is full of freshness and vigor, and is an interesting essay
in interpretation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“Is written with much of the beautiful simplicity that marks the
gospel narratives themselves.” W. J. Davis.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 938. Jl. ’08. 180w.
“Unfortunately the reader is left with questions on every page, and
the problems and difficulties presented by Mark’s Gospel are not
squarely faced.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“It is a most interesting and informing volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 644. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Bennett, William Henry.= Religion of the post-exilic prophets.
(Literature and religion of Israel.) *$2. Scribner.
8–19130.
The first of a series of ten volumes to be published upon the
development of religion in Israel up to the time of Christ. “In the
exemplification of this plan as worked out by Prof. Bennett, the
prophets (Ezekiel, the later Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, etc.) are
first treated individually, in chronological order; and in the second
part of the work the general teaching of the literature described ‘is
expounded in relation to the main subjects of dogmatics.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Professor Bennett is persuasive, candid, critical, and withal never
over-venturesome. He moves along the main line of the most recent
cautious scholarly investigation, but at the same time has special
views of his own on certain matters.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 400w.
“The book is a useful contribution to the popular knowledge of a
period concerning which altogether too little is known by the average
Bible student.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 80w.
“His book will be indispensable to Old Testament teachers, and to
ministers who desire a scholarly treatment of the prophetical
literature in this important period of Israel’s history. There is
nothing however of a technical character in the book to debar its use
from the layman.” Harlan Creelman.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 289. O. ’08. 1150w.
“‘Respectable’ is the word for Professor Bennett’s volume. The
occasion being given, the task is diligently and intelligently
performed.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“The book is neither exclusively doctrinal nor controversial, and if
not touched by the spirit of the higher criticism tries at least to be
in keeping with the development of scholarship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The chief complaint we have to make is that it is a trifle dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 520w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= At large. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–30590.
At large once more in the realm of thought, Mr. Benson only continues
to apply his well verified principles to new phases of life; achieving
what may be called “Mr. Benson’s view,” for instance, of optimism, of
shyness, of joy. Other essays bear upon contentment, friendship,
humor, travel, specialism, our lack of great men, equality, Kelmscott
and William Morris, literary finish, symbols and the love of God.
* * * * *
“His logic is as keen, his irony as delicate as ever; the flowing
cadences of his style woo us like quiet music; and always we are
conscious that our two chairs are quite close together, and that Mr.
Benson has a very friendly and companionable arm thrown lightly around
our shoulders.” M. A. Havens.
+ =Dial.= 45: 342. N. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“The unwholesome element of Mr. Benson’s convalescent optimism is its
intense self-consciousness. He makes the pursuit of happiness a
business. His flowers of felicity, like carnations, demand a hot-house
culture, and exhale their perfume only in a specially prepared soil
and climate.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“Whether the essays be called sermons or otherwise, ‘At large’ is
marked by the kindly, deliberate, tolerant wisdom which has already
won him so many friends.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 579. O. 17, ’08. 700w.
“The essays get on pleasantly to the end, eked out with personal
recollections and anecdotes and amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 548. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= The schoolmaster: a commentary upon
the aims and methods of an assistant-master in a public school.
*$1.25. Putnam.
E 8–323.
Published for the first time in America this book records frankly and
candidly the results of impressions and observations gained during
twenty years of teaching. Whatever recommendations it offers “have
been deduced from experience and tested by practice.” It treats such
subjects as training of teachers, discipline, teaching, work,
intellect, originality, praise, the boarding-house, athletics, time,
holidays, sociability, religion, moralities and devotion.
“Will prove readable, suggestive and inspiring.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 280w.
“The book is sure to be read with interest and profit on this side of
the Atlantic.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 402. O. ’08. 200w.
“Though we have no Etons here, we have many schoolmasters who tend to
fall into ruts, and who may receive from Mr. Benson’s suggestions a
new glow of enthusiasm.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 130w.
“Altogether ‘The schoolmaster’ is a very sensible and at the same time
a very readable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Blotting book. †$1. Doubleday.
8–23104.
“Describes the devilish ingenuity with which a middle-aged barrister
of hitherto spotless reputation, contrived to cast suspicion upon his
young client of having committed a murder which was in fact his own
work. He was exceeding clever, but, as the event turned out, too
clever for his own safety. Skillful detective work discovered the
truth by means of the very things he had done to conceal his traces.
The story deals chiefly with the crime and the trial.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Develops into a skilful portrayal of the character and self-deception
of a hypocritical egotist.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“Failing to hold us as a mystery, the tale fails of its purpose.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 234. Ag. 29. 120w.
“There is somewhat too much pretense of keeping up the mystery with
the reader, somewhat too strong a contention that a man may lie,
steal, and commit murder, and yet go about his cheerful way not seeing
himself for the villain that he is, but these defects in no wise
interfere with the interest of the story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 270w.
“We wish the detection of the criminal had been treated in a less
sketchy manner.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The little story is exciting, it marches rapidly to its conclusion,
and, further, it is singularly unlike the usual work of Mr. Benson,
the student of social manners.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 337. S. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Sheaves. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–29434.
In this story are discussed the problems that arise from marriage
entered into by a man of twenty-four and a woman of forty-two. “In
this union there is perfect harmony of tastes and mind and a
passionate mutual love; there is nothing to prevent its being an ideal
coupling of two human beings except the great gulf between twenty-four
and forty-two—with the seniority on the wrong side.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He has a definite claim now to be considered among our serious
novelists of rank.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 260w.
“Conversation and incident are alike natural, and the author’s
contribution of comment and analysis is temperate and pleasing. The
story is drawn out to tiresome length, and it demands much judicious
skipping if it is to provide tolerable entertainment.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“By the temper rather than the method of his treatment he has given
new life to an old story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 128. F. 6, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 12, ’07. 30w.
“Contains a story so full of the lyric joy of love and so strong with
the mightier elements that go to make real love that, swept along in
its fresh and beautiful current, the reader scarcely realizes how he
is being charmed, page after page, by the minor incidents and
characters that help to make the book complete.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Benson’s most admirable point as a writer is his hatred and
clever setting forth of cant and priggishness and his clear
contrasting of it with the real goodness it attempts to mimic.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Well knit novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“The author’s treatment of his main theme rises much above the level
of the rest of the book. The humour which he extracts from Mannington
society is very cheap, and he misses there and elsewhere all breadth
of effect by a wearying insistence on insignificant detail.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 112. Ja. 25, ’08. 950w.
“In his present novel he sets a problem, and then runs away from its
solution.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Benson, Ramsey.= Lord of lands. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24470.
Just how one man translated himself and family out of the cramped and
artificial environment which the city on fifty dollars per month
offered, into the free air of new Canadian country where they all
labored and learned to find peace and plenty is told with pioneer
simplicity and courage. The ethical value of country life is
emphasized.
* * * * *
“Its interest as fiction lies in the sustained note of simplicity, in
the fact that it is ostensibly told in the first person by a
workingman, an Irish brakeman, who never rises above a certain honest
and rather primitive outlook on life, and who tells his story with
something of the grave importance that characterises the narrator of
‘The Swiss family Robinson.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 330w.
“If any rich man with too many ignoble dollars to his credit wishes to
do the country a real service let him buy a hundred thousand copies of
this book and distribute them among the poor who have not yet
despaired.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 840. O. 8, ’08. 780w.
“Many, too, are the practical hints administered with an Irish
twinkle.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Manner aside, the matter of the story is well adapted to its object.
We congratulate the public upon having secured a bit of literature of
new and not clearly definable flavor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
“The book gains its interest from its definite statement of
difficulties encountered and the way in which they were surmounted.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Lord of the world. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–7386.
A novel with scenes laid partly in London. “Mr. Benson sees the world,
four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels,
and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of God.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Judged as fiction, it shows that an emotional brain of a distinctive
character is behind the writing; but its impassioned faith is the
prevalent note, and everything else is subjected to this.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 250w.
“The most interesting story of the ‘Looking backward’ type that has
appeared for years.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 284. My. ’08. 700w.
=Cath. World.= 87: 396. Je. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 970w.
“The whole thing is very well done and Father Benson is particularly
happy in his graphic and convincing descriptions of the great
inventions, now merely dreamed of, but then in common use.” M. K.
Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 404. O. ’08. 260w.
“Mr. Benson may assure us that he knows what he is up to and that he
is doing it with his eyes open, but we are left with the suspicion
that his sensationalism comes more easily to him than it should.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 550w.
“Interesting it must be to all to whom the deepest convictions of a
man’s heart are of moment. And in the artistic balance and taste of
Father Benson’s literary power every reader will find delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Notwithstanding the imaginative and literary skill evinced in the
construction of this chimera, it seems hardly more worth while than
the entertainment of the breakfast-table with the report of a
fantastic dream—except perhaps as a revelation of the absurdity of the
Pope’s fanatical campaign against ‘Modernism.’”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“It is the failure to endow all the characters equally with a definite
and vital personality that makes the effect upon the reader somewhat
indefinite. Yet the book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced,
deeply inspired, intelligently executed.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 616. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“His breadth of view really forms the most striking feature of the
book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 50w.
“The whole story is frankly sensational, and the picture of the cult
of humanity decidedly ingenious.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
* =Benson, Robert Hugh.= St. Thomas of Canterbury. *80c. Benziger.
A brief life of St. Thomas of Canterbury which forms one of the St.
Nicholas series of Roman Catholic biographies edited by Dom Bede Camm.
* * * * *
“It contains many picturesque touches, and will probably be welcomed
by the younger and less learned members of the Roman obedience. His
whole account is too biassed to deserve serious criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 120w.
“Enlivens the narrative with picturesque details that will impress the
reader with the feeling that he is witnessing real events and
observing real men, in contrast with the dry abstractions of his
historical text-book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 392. D. ’08. 130w.
“Father Benson tells the story of St. Thomas picturesquely and
effectively. His point of view is not ours; but we have no wish to
deny that some of the aspects of character and of principle which he
presents to us accord with the truth.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 204. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w.
=Bensusan, Samuel Levy.= Velazquez. (Masterpieces in color.) *65c.
Stokes.
W 8–31.
A brief but direct sketch including the conditioning facts of the life
and time of this artist. “The author has pointed out that Spain, in
spite of her recent great political decline, still exercises great
influence in the art world thru Diego de Silva Velazquez.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“By merely glancing thru the little volume under consideration it will
be possible to understand something of this influence and the reason
for it.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
“Without pretending to any great critical acumen the writer succeeds
in presenting to the reader a clear notion of the characteristic
qualities distinguishing the art of the great master of portraiture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 160w.
=Bentley, Arthur Fisher=. Process of government. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–10462.
A study of the theory of social dynamics, whose purpose is to fashion
a tool—“a tool which shall serve to analyze and measure all the
varieties of cause and effect which make up those processes of control
which are indicated approximately by the term government.... The first
part ‘To prepare the way’ arraigns a series of theorists, and charges
them with attempting to put into circulation each a particular variety
of false and futile interpretation of what actually occurs in society.
Part II, ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s
substitutes for these mischievous explanations.” (Am. J. Soc.)
* * * * *
“This is a real book. It is more genuine than it would be if it were
more attentive to the minor literary conventions.” A. W. Small.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 698. Mr. ’08. 3600w.
“Of value to the sociologist, but too technical for the general
reader. Brilliantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The second part of the book is more extensive, more readable, and
more useful than the introductory criticisms.” E: C. Hayes.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 13. Jl. 1, ’08. 730w.
“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often
flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to
be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of
chastening.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Bentley’s analysis is no more satisfying than that of other
theorists of the ‘group activity’ school, and less satisfying than
some, by reason of its impatient, unjudicial tone, to say nothing of
its utter elimination of the individual and of psychic elements as
causal factors in the social process.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Bentley’s attempt to get below formalism into the governing
process as a manifestation of social pressures deserves serious
consideration, even though he is at times tedious and at other times
unnecessarily rude to his predecessors in the field of politics.” C:
A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 739. D. ’08. 700w.
=Bentwich, Norman De Mattos.= Law of private property in war. $1.80.
Boston bk.
7–42501.
“In the main Mr. Bentwich’s essay is concerned with private property
in time of war, whether on land or at sea; the writer giving a fair
but not minute account of the present practice. His suggestions as to
the ‘temperamenta belli’ are few and cautious. He expects but little
from the action of conferences or from agreements between
belligerents. He does not countenance either the abolition of the
right of capture of private property or of contraband, the latter an
‘undesirable aspiration’ which, if adopted, would soon be abandoned in
the stress of war. But he makes several suggestions as to minor
changes, one being the establishment of a prize court of appeal,
another the relaxation of the old rule as to enemy domicile and the
adoption of the French rule as to nationality.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“One weakness of this interesting volume is that it slides over many
questions of moment. Another is that it gives paraphrases when a
fastidious reader will ask for texts.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Bentwich’s volume is quite thick enough to require, and should
have, a general index in addition to its admirable table of cases
cited.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 670w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
=Berenson, Bernhard.= North Italian painters of the renaissance.
**$1.50. Putnam.
7–36958.
“Except for Mantegna and Correggio, the volume treats of hardly any
artists approaching the first rank.... [Its] importance is that it is
the negative end of Mr. Berenson’s demonstration of his theory of art,
as its companion volumes were the positive end. He is now dealing with
the absence of his three great qualities, tactile values, movement,
and space-composition, as he has before dealt with their presence, and
the burden is ever the same—these are the things that make serious
art, and in their absence art ceases to become serious.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Discriminating, suggestive, stimulating criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 167. F. 8. 640w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book has all the characteristics of its predecessors, but it does
not deal with so interesting a subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 526. D. 5, ’07. 310w.
“[Has] many characteristically keen observations, expressed in a
rather more categorical style than Mr. Cox’s or Mr. Caffin’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Berenson has the artistic and not merely the archaeological
outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 901. Je. 6, ’08. 1550w.
=Berg, Ernst Julius.= Electrical energy, its generation,
transmission, and utilization: lectures given at Union university.
*$2.50. McGraw.
8–1719.
“Applications to engineering problems of the equations deduced from a
theoretical consideration of alternating-current phenomena.... There
are two sections to the book. Section 1 is devoted to the transmission
line, and section 2 to the generating station. The former section
contains what is probably the most easily applied accurate solution of
transmission line problems available in textbook literature....
Section 2 relates to generators, stationary transformers and station
instruments.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“To the student or the designer of electrical transmission systems,
the book will prove particularly valuable.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 266. F. 1, ’08. 270w.
“An authoritative book. The treatment is vivid for the theory is
applied in every case to the problem at hand.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Bergh, Louis de Coppet.= Safe building construction, a treatise
giving in simplest forms possible practical and theoretical rules
and formulae used in construction of buildings and general
instructions. **$5. Macmillan.
8–12772.
After twenty years this book has been thoroly revised to meet modern
needs. It is “practically a treatise on engineering, dealing
especially with those problems which the architect is called upon to
solve. Its simple rules for ‘those who do not understand
trigonometry,’ its diagrammatic illustrations, and its pages of tables
will be attractive to many an architect and builder.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is such unmistakable flavor of its early origin as to arouse
regret that the revision did not extend to scrapping the old text
entire.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“There are a great many useful tables and diagrams, but it is a pity
that so many of them relate to wrought iron, a material no longer
employed in building.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 90w.
=Berglund, Abraham.= United States steel corporation: a study of
growth and influence of combination in the iron and steel
industry. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–36147.
A study of the organization, the development and the policies of the
steel corporation. “Mr. Berglund’s important conclusions are: that the
company has never had—and is not likely to have—more than a qualified
monopoly of the steel trade; that its policy in respect to prices has
been one of moderation, but would probably not remain so moderate if
monopoly were ever assured; and that such control over markets as the
organization may wield in the future will probably be exercised ‘in
association with independent producers’ through such agencies as pools
or price agreements.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Berglund not only gives an excellent analysis of the world’s
greatest industrial combination, but also gives many interesting
points concerning the present and future of American iron and steel.”
W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The book is a valuable one, in that it treats the well known facts in
a different light than they have been treated in most works on the
subject.” J: C. Duncan.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 127. Je. ’08. 450w.
“There is often a vagueness of statement when he is writing of the
plants and of labor at the furnaces. Dr. Berglund is on much surer
ground when he is dealing with conditions in the iron and steel
industry which led to the organization of the Steel corporation in
1901; and when he is tracing with much detail, and with admirable
clearness, the developments which have marked the history of the trust
in the first six years of its existence.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 819. O. 3, ’07. 580w.
“It is the sort of detailed study that should be made of each of the
great industrial combinations—study that should have preceded much of
the generalizing in which economists have indulged.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 159. F. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal,
professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4.
Appleton.
7–34323.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Versatile, whimsical, egotistic, vivacious, eccentric, singularly
sincere, and always interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“These memoirs leave us with a very vivid sense of the qualities that
made their author what she was.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 748. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“The vividness of the narration, the sure sense of what was worth
telling and what was not, the sharp, salt vivacity of the style (which
not even the slip-shod English of the translator can obscure)—all
these virtues have to some pedants seemed incompatible with
authenticity.” Max Beerbohm.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 693. D. 7, ’07. 1650w.
=Bernier, Louis Leon.= Autogenous welding of metals. $1. The boiler
maker, N. Y.
8–17741.
“This work is translated from reports of the National school of arts
and trades of France, and describes the application of autogenous
welding to the manufacture of tanks, boilers, piping, etc., together
with its application to the manufacture of steel, brass, bars, plates,
etc.”—Elec. World.
* * * * *
“The book lacks specific instructions on how to perform the welding
operations and inasmuch as the oxyacetylene flame can be used for
repairing and cutting metals, such information would be of value.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 1296. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“There is much useful matter in the pamphlet, but it is all on
European practice. No mention is made of American apparatus and
methods. In view of this fact and the size of the pamphlet the price
seems far beyond reasonable bounds.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
* =Bertrin, Georges.= Lourdes: a history of its apparitions and cures;
tr. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$2. Benziger.
A book whose purpose is to set forth “with invincible clearness, the
evidence that exists to prove, in the first instance, the indisputably
miraculous character of the visions of Bernadette; and, in the second
place, the equally miraculous nature of some of the most remarkable
cures which have taken place at the Grotto of Lourdes, and in one
instance, at a shrine of our Lady of Lourdes in Belgium. His method is
to state the facts that are known to have occurred, to cite the
eyewitnesses who testified to them, and then to take up successively
the various explanations offered by those who refuse to believe in any
miraculous intervention.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“In many respects ... the most satisfactory work that we possess on
the subject. In many others an excess of emotionalism spoils the value
of their evidence to the miraculous.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 254. N. ’08. 820w.
“We shall say no more than that the book is a remarkable one from any
point of view.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
* =Besant, Sir Walter.= Early London: prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and
Norman. *$7.50. Macmillan.
8–28407.
The last volume in Sir Walter Besant’s “magnum opus.” He began with
London of the eighteenth century and in six volumes has traced back to
prehistoric times. This volume deals with London from the remotest
times to the middle of the twelfth century, and contains numerous
illustrations and a chapter on the geology of London by Professor T.
G. Bonney.
* * * * *
“The work is thoroughly readable. Doubtless Besant, if he had lived to
give the finishing touches to his book, would have made considerable
alterations and he would have prevented his work from appearing with
numerous misprints, especially in the Latin quotations, which are
badly mangled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 91. Jl. 25. 830w.
“The illustrations are numerous, and for the most part excellent,
largely from manuscripts of the period described.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, 08. 1300w.
“It is naturally full of out-of-the-way matter, giving an idea of the
beginnings of the greatest of cities, which no Londoner at least can
help but study with the most curious attention.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 56. Jl. 11, ’08. 450w.
“The story is made, as we might expect, highly interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 474. O. 3, ’08. 440w.
=Beven, Thomas.= Negligence in law. 3d ed. 2v. $18. Canada law bk.
8–15769.
This third edition not only brings the material of former editions up
to date but includes 1465 new cases. “A large proportion of, though
not nearly all, the new cases introduced into this book, is due to the
expansion of the subject and is the growth of ten years of active
legal work. The residue is to be put down to what was improvidently
omitted before, or what is material for new exemplification or is of
historical interest.”
=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= Meaning of the times, and other speeches.
**$1.50. Bobbs.
8–12769.
A volume of Senator Beveridge’s addresses made during the past ten
years. “Most of the subjects are current political topics, capital and
labour, the trusts, the Philippines, forestry, child labour,
nationalism and state rights. Mr. Beveridge’s main idea is an
unlimited, unsectional United States with Indiana as the centre and
the Republican party over all.” (Bookm.) See Cumulative book index for
contents.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The work is full of ingenious pleas for the corporation interests
that are calculated to throw dust in the eyes of unthinking and
undiscriminating readers who are prone to accept without question
presentations when made by statesmen who pose as Christian gentlemen.”
− =Arena.= 40: 389. O. ’08. 500w.
“If Mr. Beveridge knew what his words mean and if he meant what they
say, he would be a promising young writer.” J: A. Macy.
− =Bookm.= 27: 490. Jl. ’08. 970w.
“A reading of it is a tonic of citizenship.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 140w.
“The extracts from the debate in the Senate on child labor form one of
the most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 260w.
=Bianchi, Martha Gilbert.= Modern Prometheus. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–7596.
A story in which a Jesuit priest tries to draw into the Catholic
sisterhood an American girl saddened by an unfortunate marriage. “The
background is like other Umbrian backgrounds of story, with its many
touches of Italian life and its many figures of peasants, priests, and
tourists, its incidental legends, art-histories, and church dogma, its
landscape and birds, its fruits and flowers and stars.” (Nation.) The
author “develops two concurrent ideas: faith through blind
acquiescence and obedience conferring spiritual peace; doubt,
accompanied by sturdy resistance, and independence condemning to
internal tumult.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“The story itself is not commonplace, and the interest holds to the
end.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The writer of this book has succeeded in creating an atmosphere, an
atmosphere strong enough to distinctly affect the reader with its
dreamy softness, its vague color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 280w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the
German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam.
5–36314.
=v. 3.= This concluding volume covers the period of Goethe’s life from
the Congress of Vienna to the poet’s death, 1815–1832. “The biographer
makes the daring assertion that without Goethe the Germany of to-day
would not exist. ‘Without Goethe, no Bismarck; without Goethe, no
German empire.’ He made the whole people feel spiritually one nation.
But Prof. Bielschowsky does not claim his hero exclusively for
Germany. He exists, beside Homer and Shakespeare, for the whole
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Considered on the whole the most valuable biography of Goethe.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“Containing much excellent matter together with a good deal of
indifferent work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 301. S. 12. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He fails too ... in humor or decorum; the two are one in this sense.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 150. Jl. 16, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We note a serious defect in Bielschowsky’s plan; there has been no
provision for a separate chapter upon Goethe as critic.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bigelow, William Sturgis.= Buddhism and immortality. (Ingersoll
lecture for 1908.) **75c. Houghton.
8–30599.
An epitome of the teaching of the two Buddhist sects, the Tendai and
the Shingon in regard to the immortality of man.
* * * * *
“The lecture is a simple and lucid exposition of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 100w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= By right of purchase. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24466.
“Mr. Bindloss starts with a very hackneyed theme and familiar dramatis
personae, the haughty well-born girl with the impecunious father and
brother who force her into a marriage with a rich man of the honest,
simple, rugged type. By degrees of course the honest farmer wins the
love of the haughty wife, who endures in the most amazingly brave way
the appalling dullness and monotony of life in a remote and lonely
Canadian farm.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Is little more than a replica of his earlier stories of life in the
American Northwest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 240w.
“The characterization is of the crudest simplicity.”
− =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is no lack of action in Mr. Bindloss’s story, but we know so
well what the ending will be that we do not very much care what
happens along the road.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He is a better observer of nature than of men and women.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The story is made readable, though only mildly interesting, by
pictures of Canadian life.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Bindloss is always interesting on the subject of his own country,
but his present book does not quite reach the level of some of his
former works.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Delilah of the snows. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–15298.
“The nucleus of this story ... is the blindness of a young man to the
sterling worth of a girl in his own class, his mad infatuation for
another girl socially beyond his reach, and his final awakening to his
folly when the other girl betrays him, as wantonly as Delilah betrayed
Samson, into the hands of the authorities who demand his life. The
scene of the story, at least of such part of the story as really
counts, is the Klondike.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“The author’s power and grip of his subject seem to have deserted him,
and we miss his descriptions of colonial scenery and more particularly
of colonial life and character.”
− =Acad.= 73: 905. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
“The story begins at the wrong point; in other words, the lace pattern
of his plot lacks symmetry.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The narrative is vigorous and straightforward, without nicety of
style, but wholesome in tone, and moderately interesting.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 88. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
“In spite of a heavy-footed gait and a superfluity of scene, the book
is worth reading for the sincerity and picturesqueness of its
adventure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“One expects picturesque incident, thrilling adventure, novel
characters in a story that takes Northwest Canada for its setting, but
one will scarcely find these necessary qualities in ‘Delilah of the
snows.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 250w.
=Bindloss, Harold=. For Jacinta. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–2379.
A story of love and adventure which portrays “the savagery, fever,
damp heat, and general hatefulness of the coast where the hero is
trying to get by salvage the cargo of a wrecked steamer, and thereby
prove in his lady’s eyes his capacity to be something more than a
dawdler and dilettante.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Well told and wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08. ✠
“An excellent story of incident and adventure, reminiscent in plot of
Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s ‘The wrecker,’ and in scene and
treatment of Mr. A. J. Dawson’s ‘In the bight of Benin.’ But Mr.
Bindloss apparently will not take the trouble to do justice to his
undoubtedly lively invention, and distinct feeling for the picturesque
and romantic side of open-air life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 23. 170w.
“The story is capitally told, and takes us to an interesting part of
the world not much frequented by novelists. As in all the books by Mr.
Bindloss that we have read, the money motive is forced a little too
much, jarring the romantic sensibilities to which he particularly
endeavors to appeal.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Certain passages are written with the requisite fire, but there are
dead levels where the attention flags.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“An almost too realistic and minutely drawn picture. The narrative of
this adventure is too long drawn out, but there is some sincere effort
at character depiction.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“It is a straightforward, absolutely wholesome story of love and
adventure. And neither the love nor the adventure is in any way
commonplace.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Long odds. †$1.50. Small.
8–32330.
The hero of this tale is dismissed from colonial military service for
a fancied offence, and becomes stranded in the wilderness of
Portuguese West Africa. His perilous adventures in righting the wrongs
of a native bondswoman reveal many of the commercial and official
conditions in that country which hamper good deeds and generous
impulses.
* * * * *
“The vagueness of the descriptions and the want of individuality in
the characters betray the writer, who depends upon his reading and his
imagination to furnish forth his material.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 150w.
“He has not a little of the incisive power of Mr. Conrad in dealing
with this tropical material.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“It is to be regretted that the style is marred by mannerisms
evidently the result of sheer carelessness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The love story is of minor importance and is not well managed,
lacking warmth and color and impressiveness. But the story of the
wilderness and the brutal things that harbor there and of the man’s
grim fight with them is strong and realistic and vital.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
Bindloss, Harold. Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is a stirring story of real men and women, full of incident, and
fairly well written, although the style is now and then disfigured by
a slovenly touch.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. *$1.50. Dutton.
8–14339.
An intimate picture of Lincoln with only enough political history
included to interpret his character and development.
* * * * *
“A valuable presentation of the life and character of the man.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“One of the best-balanced and sanest of the innumerable lives of
Lincoln.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Must therefore take its place among the essays rather than the lives.
As such, and as the work of an Englishman, it is not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is Mr. Binns’s merit that he has shown so clearly how firmly,
reasonably, patiently, bravely, and wisely in the flood of these
controlling events the President steered.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 127. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Binns has done a very creditable work in welding into a connected
popular biography existing material about Lincoln’s life and career.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Binns has evidently taken great pains to sift his facts, and has
given a very full picture of Lincoln’s life before he became
president.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Birch, Walter de Gray.= Seals. (Connoisseur’s lib., v. 19.) *$7.50.
Putnam.
8–2185.
The author, a fully trustworthy guide in the field of antiquities,
confines himself mainly to a consideration of the heraldic seals of
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; several concluding chapters turn
to the Byzantine empire, Italy and France. “There is no mention of the
seals and stamps of the remote East, so much in question in studies of
Chinese painting and bronze casting; nothing about the engraved gems
of Greek and Greco-Roman antiquity, except as they appear in a few
mediæval settings.... The book [fully illustrated] has only four pages
of index for over three hundred of text. There is a glossary, but the
heraldic terms are not made plain—to the layman.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book is so handsome and well produced as to make us regret that
it was not written on a more definite plan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 75. Jl. 18. 340w.
“The complete history of the engraved stamp remains to be written; but
to that history Mr. Birch’s volume is a very notable contribution.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 80. N. ’08. 430w.
“The vast deal of interesting information in this work is limited in
range and hardly made accessible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 20. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“The only defect one notes is that excessive attention is paid to
English, or at least British examples, in contradistinction to those
of the continent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Birt, Rev. Henry Norbert.= Elizabethan religious settlement: a
study of contemporary documents. *$4.50. Macmillan.
8–13679.
Six hundred pages of careful discussion resulting from the digesting
of a huge mass of Elizabethan manuscripts, papers and documents,
showing the true relation which the church held to the social
development of the sixteenth century. The general purpose of the
volume is to put the best face possible on the Roman side, and the
worst face possible on the Protestant side, of the Elizabethan
controversy.
* * * * *
“We should recommend those who desire to know the truth with regard to
that memorable period to place this volume on their shelves by the
side of those of Bishop Creighton and of Dr. Gee, and to use all three
of them as correctives to Froude’s glowing, but untrustworthy
volumes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 574. N. 9. 2350w.
“Of first-class value, and must be given a place among books to be
read and studied on the subject.” W. H. Frere.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 571. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“Mr. Birt’s volume should be read side by side with Froude’s work on
the same period. Mr. Birt is far more accurate than his brilliant
predecessor in the field.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Welcome study.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 630w.
“His historical treatment of the Elizabethan settlement must be
reckoned with by all careful investigators of that period.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 300w.
“Dom Birt’s volume might be a good deal more one-sided than it is, and
it is a solid contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 18. Ja. 4, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Birt has conducted his inquiry [in] a manner which we had hoped
was obsolete. Mr. Birt writes history as Johnson wrote his
Parliamentary debates, with a determination that the Protestant dogs
shall not have the best of it. Mr. Birt is a controversialist first,
and an historian only in the second place. His methods all through are
those of the special pleader.”
− =Spec.= 100: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 1850w.
=Bishop, Avard Longley.= State works of Pennsylvania. (Publications
of Yale university.) $1.50. Yale univ., New Haven, Ct.
“The monograph contains six chapters and an equal number of
appendices, and there is also a good bibliography. The several parts
of the study deal, in turn, with the transportation improvements made
before 1823, with the popular agitation resulting in the state’s
adoption of the policy of public works, with the activities of the
state in constructing and financing the canals and railroads, with the
many corrupt practices connected therewith, and with the difficulties
in selling out the state works after they had shown themselves to be a
burden instead of a profit to the state.”
* * * * *
“It has been carefully done, and the result is a chapter in our
economic history which should prove very instructive reading to those
now interested in the problem of government ownership.” C. W. Wright.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 172. Mr. ’08. 470w.
“Dr. Bishop has made good use of the original material, still to be
found in Pennsylvania.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 561. S. ’08. 160w.
“The author has done his work thoroughly and most impartially. The
sources of information have been amply drawn upon, and the subject has
been presented with due conciseness and with good sense of
proportion.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 239. Ag. ’08. 360w.
=Bisset, Peter.= Book of water-gardening. *$2.50. De La Mare.
7–22907.
Mr. Bisset, superintendent of Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard’s estate, Twin
Oaks, Washington, D. C., places within the reach of amateurs the
information necessary to establish and conduct an inexpensive
water-garden. “It gives directions also for the cultivation of aquatic
plants upon the large scale demanded by parks and estates.” (Nation.)
“A chapter is devoted to gold and other fish for ponds, the different
types of fish being carefully described and illustrated.” (N. Y.
Times.) The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The value of a book of instruction and reference like this is much
enhanced by a full index, and perhaps one may be given in a second
edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 110w.
=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Christ’s service of love. **$1.25. Revell.
7–28618.
Urges Protestants to make more of the sacrament especially as a mark
of Christian unity. “While Priestism makes too much of this sacrament,
Protestantism makes too little of it, and is weakened thereby.
Sensible of this, Professor Black lays needed emphasis on various
aspects of the sacramental rite to secure it a more appreciative
observance.” (Outlook.)
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 20w.
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 170w.
=Blackie, John Stuart.= On self-culture. 75c. Funk.
Three scholarly essays written by the professor of Greek in the
University of Edinburgh. They are The culture of the intellect, On
physical culture, and On moral culture.
=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= Lorna Doone; with introd. and notes
by H. Snowden Ward. (Doonland ed.) $2.50. Harper.
8–28992.
An edition in which the principal new interest is topographical. Both
introduction and scenic illustration afford the reader an opportunity
to know his Doone-land well.
* * * * *
“Apart from the notes on the Doone controversy, this is an excellent
edition of a favourite book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1350w.
“It is hard to see how the work could have been better done. The
numerous views, even the wide landscapes, have an admirable clearness
and finish. The editor’s lore will please the curious, and will be at
least skimmed by the indifferent and careless.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
“This edition is particularly excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 692. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Stuff of a man. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–8301.
A drama enacted among southerners, dealing with the negro question and
revealing in the climax the “stuff of a man” which the negro possesses
in common with all humanity. Mrs. Blake peoples her stage with a
delightful group of men and women, whose inherited courtesy, grace,
hospitality and sincerity of heart are capable of expansion into
brotherhood magnanimity with which they face the vital racial problem.
The phases of this problem set forth and analyzed are the phases
confronting the entire South—negro lawlessness and crime that result
in mobs and lynchings. Mrs. Blake’s solution is found in the
development of the superman in black as well as white.
* * * * *
“It is one of the most wholesome, charming and human love romances of
the year, while at the same time it is the best study of the negro
question that has been made in fiction.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 660w.
“An example of what Mr. Thomas Dixon, jr., might have accomplished had
he possessed poise and the ability to present with equal judgment both
sides of a question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Enchanted castle.
†$1.25. Harper.
8–15327.
A fairy tale in which a group of natural, fun-loving children of very
up-to-date characteristics discover an enchanted castle and a magic
ring, instead of an Aladdin’s lamp, which once in their possession
makes possible a round of most exciting adventures.
* * * * *
“In its general character it is decidedly above the average run of
so-called juvenile literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Bland, Hubert.= Happy moralist. *$1.25. Kennerley.
Seventeen short chapters containing comments and opinions on
literature, art, music, socialism, love, marriage, manners, ethics,
with a concluding chapter on Ibsen and Mr. Shaw.
* * * * *
“His work is characterized by a lightness and a certainty of aim which
make it invariably pleasant reading, even when it is most frivolous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 230w.
“Mr. Bland’s style is piquant, now and then a little cynical,
characterized throughout by this-worldliness rather than
other-worldliness, but never other than light and bright and breezy
and thoroughly readable.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
“His chapters amuse a little, persuade a little, but refuse to nourish
and leave us somehow feeling emptier than we were before we read
them.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 184. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
“Each of the essays will have its charm for readers and particular
ones their special appeal to the individual.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
=Bleackley, Horace William.= Story of a beautiful duchess; being an
account of the life and times of Elizabeth Gunning, duchess of
Hamilton and Argyll. *$5. Dutton.
8–15741.
A sketch of the life of the good and beautiful Elizabeth Gunning whose
story is to a great extent the story of English society during the
latter half of the eighteenth century. “Her life, with a minute
account of the famous Douglas cause and a fair picture of the times,
is clearly end comfortably given in this volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“He is particularly to be commended for his researches into the
journalism of the eighteenth century, since, though his gleanings may
not contribute much to the elucidation of truth, they show, at any
rate, what was being said and thought by people like the ‘Tertium
quid’ of ‘The ring and the book.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 822. D. 28. 600w.
“After completing the book the reader is likely to ask if the author’s
efforts have really been worth while.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pity that honest industry should be marred by such ill taste.
So many anecdotal memoirs of the eighteenth century are turned out
these days upon the most superficial preparation that we should be
glad to commend more heartily a book that is, at least, thoroughly
documented, and, in its substance, not without human value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Bleackley gives us a good portrait of his heroine, enthusiastic,
as behooves a man writing of a beautiful woman, but careful, and based
on thorough research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“The story which extends to upwards of three hundred and fifty pages,
is not unusually enthralling or entertaining. However, it is better
than the ruck of modern six-shilling novels.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The book, though written in a too ornate and often awkward style,
gives a spirited picture of a time abounding in curious interest. The
book is very handsomely got up, and the portraits of the Duchess and
members of her family are charmingly reproduced and most attractive.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
=Bligh, William George.= Practical design of irrigation works. *$6.
Van Nostrand.
Agr 8–246.
“The object of this work is the presentation of the principles which
govern the design of irrigation works in such a manner that engineers
not specifically conversant with this branch of practice may, by means
of the information thus afforded, be enabled to solve suitable plans
for such improvements. In order to accomplish this the author has
adopted a novel procedure, which consists of analyzing the plans of
existing and projected works, pointing out their good and bad features
and then developing alternative plans in which improvements suggested
by the critical study are incorporated.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 191. F. ’08. 250w.
“The book is comparatively free from errors of consequence, except
possibly in the complicated formula given for submerged orifices (p.
116), and the incorrect reference to orifice formulas (p. 139), and in
the omission of an appropriate index. The author deserves the high
appreciation of the profession, however, as having published the most
important work yet issued on the design of irrigation works, and his
book should find a welcome and useful place in the library of every
engineer, and especially every designing engineer interested in the
subject of irrigation.” F. W. Hanna.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Bliss, William Dwight P.=, ed. New encyclopaedia of social reform;
ed. by W: D. P. Bliss, ed.-in-chief, and Rudolph M. Binder,
assistant ed., with the cooperation of many specialists; new ed.
*$7.50. Funk.
8–13953.
A new edition of a work which includes all social-reform movements and
activities and the economic, industrial, and sociological facts and
statistics of all countries and all social subjects. “This is a
completely new book, save for a few purely historical economic
articles, the subjects of which need no new treatment, but many even
of these are either revised or completely rewritten. A comparison of
this new edition with the old shows at once that a great improvement
has been made. Every article has been written by some specialist on
its particular subject.” (R. of Rs.) “The information is, as a rule,
remarkably comprehensive, accurate, recent, and judicial.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“It is in fact an evolution, being a far more comprehensive and a
vastly superior work to the preceding edition.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 120. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“It is useful in many cases, and we propose to mention, with a view to
future improvement, only a few points in which it falls short.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 761. Je. 20. 330w.
“Clippings have been too freely used. Articles evidently compiled some
years ago have not been revised so as to bring their dates up to the
approximate present. It would be much more highly valued if it were
really expert thru and thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 420w.
“All the excision, though at times detracting from the more permanent
value of the volume, has made room for a great deal of new and
up-to-date material, such as will greatly increase its usefulness for
reference on all present-day social reform.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 160w.
“In pithiness and objectivity the work shows a distinct improvement
over the first ‘Encyclopedia of social reform’ prepared by Dr. Bliss
several years ago. It ought to have a place in every reference
library.” E. A. Ross.
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
“In its way will prove as serviceable as its predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 9. Jl. 2, ’08. 420w.
“The book fills a special place regarding subjects in the thoughts of
almost everybody in active life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that in some cases what we might reasonably expect to find
is wanting. We can think of no reference library to which it would not
be an addition.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“Altogether, this book is invaluable to the journalist or the writer
upon sociological topics, and all who have occasion to read widely in
this field will find its bibliographical references indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Blok, Petrus Johannes.= History of the people of the Netherlands;
tr. by Oscar A. Bierstadt. 5 pts. ea. $2.50. Putnam.
=pt. 4.= Deals with the period intervening between the renewal of war
with Spain in 1621 and the death of William III. in 1702.
* * * * *
“We are glad that Professor Blok shows throughout great judicial
poise. His work is on the whole admirable.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 573. Ap. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 4.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Dr. Blok is neither a Motley nor a Macaulay, but for trustworthiness
he is a leader beyond these masters of rhetoric and erudite
scholarship. Happily, too, Dr. Blok’s decidedly modern Dutch style is
strongly and felicitously rendered by the translator, Mr. Oscar A.
Bierstadt, who, with his former collaborator, Miss Ruth Putnam,
deserves very high praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 103. F. 16, ’08. 840w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Professor Blok is an authority on questions of fact, and those in
search of information can get it from him. But one needs to employ the
cyanide process in extracting the ore.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 250w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Altogether this is an admirable piece of historical work well
deserving of being reproduced in English, as has been done by Mr.
Oscar A. Bierstadt in a very adequate manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“As a rule, Professor Blok’s judgments on men, measures, and events
are conspicuously fair and sober, though occasionally, in writing, of
foreign relations, he is a Dutchman first and a historian afterwards.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 4.)
=Bloomfield, Maurice.= Religion of the Veda: the ancient religion of
India, (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads). (American lectures on the
history of religions, 7th ser., 1906–1907.) **$1.50. Putnam.
8–5569.
Sketches “the motives and principles that underlie the remarkable
chain of religious ideas that leads from the ritual worship of the
great nature-gods of the Rig-Veda to the high theosophy of the
Upanishads.” The author gives an account of the gods worshiped, gives
various translations of Vedic hymns and philosophical works, then
turns to the Upanishads or philosophical writings, of the seventeenth
century B. C., and gives a description of the early search for truth
in the development of the monistic idea.
* * * * *
“A worthy successor to the list of notable volumes thus far included
in the series.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 40w.
“The lectures, on the whole, while offering little that is new to the
scholar, will prove a readable book to any one desiring to know the
latest opinions on several points connected with the history of Hindu
religion, and references are sufficiently frequent to enable the
reader to find out for himself in what particulars Professor
Bloomfield’s views differ from those of other scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 500w.
“In his interpretation of the Vedic hymns the author is inclined to
see only one side of religious expression. In the final lectures he
gives a good account of the Hindu’s religious life and the goal of
religious aspiration.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Unlike many scholarly discussions, these lectures have a personal
charm, for the author, despite the fact that he has devoted a lifetime
to research, has not lost his common sense, his humanity, or his sense
of humor. His quotations and his comments on them are always
delightful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The latest volume of a series of standard works [by] a foremost
authority on his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 656. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Bodine, William Budd.= Some hymns and hymn writers; representing
all who profess and call themselves Christians: short studies in
the hymnal of the Episcopal church. **$3. Winston.
7–38889.
A book of hymns and information about them. “While the material is not
sought outside of the choice hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal
church, this is sufficiently representative of the church, ancient and
modern, in the service of sacred song, in which all sectarian
distinctions are ignored.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book contains much that will interest a lover of hymns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“His grouping of the writers under the different denominations is not
a wise grouping. It does not give a clear principle of division. But
the book contains a great deal of material that will be prized by the
lover of hymns.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 100w.
=Bogart, Ernest Ludlow.= Economic history of the United States. *$1.75.
Longmans.
7–41061.
Written for “high-school as well as college students.” The book
contains four parts: (1) Colonial development, (2) The struggle for
commercial and economic independence (1763 to 1808), (3) The
industrial revolution and the westward movement (1808 to 1860), and
(4) Economic integration and industrial organization (1860 to 1906).
“The characteristics of the successive periods, the forces at work in
them, and the various phases of this mighty development, which, as the
author remarks, is the keynote of all American history, are saliently
outlined.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“For the general student it is the best on the subject yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. ✠
“To the student specializing in any particular branch of economic
history, the book is of less value than many others. Its value lies in
that it presents, in a connected form, the chief events which
constituted the economic development of the United States.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 350w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 113. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“Is the best text-book in its field. It stands the test of class-room
use.” C: H. Hull.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 26. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“Certainly great credit is due to Professor Bogart for having made a
distinct advance over anything yet written.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 458. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“The treatment as a whole is unduly objective, burdened by a multitude
of details, and it fails to convey the impression of organic
development.” Katharine Coman.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 332. Je. ’08. 450w.
“We may particularly mention the author’s treatment of the question of
slavery, which seems to us admirably concise and illuminating.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 792. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The book is greatly needed. While there are certain respects in which
it may show deficiencies, the wonder is that these are so few. It is
the best history of its kind for college classes. The style is simple
and plain, the explanations clear.” E. D. Fite.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 352. N. ’08. 740w.
=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from
the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
=v. 3.= This last volume describes the latter part of the reign of
Louis XVIII. and that of Charles X. and gives a first-hand account of
the revolution of July, 1830, which made Louis Philippe king. The
Comtesse de Boigne was closely associated with the courts of these
times and writes interestingly of such men as Talleyrand,
Chateaubriand, Guizot, the French royal family, Metternich, the Duc de
Richelieu, and other important personages.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The translation is generally competent, although it might in many
passages be improved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1, 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The entertaining author is wont to clothe the baldness of fact in the
embroidery of fancy. Much, therefore, that she records is to be taken
with reservations.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“She is so obviously honest a witness, so clearly desirous of telling
the truth, that her inaccuracies, though abundant, do not detract from
the value of her evidence. Her political sympathies were not strong
enough to blind her to facts nor to tempt her to misrepresent them.
The English translation is respectable and accurate. A book so
interesting in substance remains attractive even when it has lost the
graces of style and manner which charm us in the original.” P. F.
Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 179. Ja. ’08. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“The author carefully restricts herself to being ‘the careful
chronicler of the impressions of the moment,’ and resists the
temptation to interpret events in the light of after history.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The third volume, completing the work, deserves less consideration
[than the second]. The most vivid pages are those describing the
circumstances connected with the death of the Duc de Berry, but for
the larger part the volume is made up of small talk.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“They are all very charming and told with that intimate touch which
French writers alone seem capable at all times of imparting to their
narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 125. Mr. 7, ’08. 2100w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is a good deal of padding for a little lightness in these
volumes, but on the whole one is repaid.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 773. My. ’08. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 476. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bolton, Reginald Pelham.= Elevator service: operating conditions
and proportions; with diagrams, formulas, and tables for passenger
travel, schedule and express operation, with the relation of the
elevators to the building, and proportions and loads of cars. *$5.
Reginald P. Bolton, 527 5th av., N. Y.
8–7889.
“The book discusses in considerable detail the various features of the
problem of elevator service as it is affected by the floor area of the
building in relation to its height, the characteristic operating
conditions that ordinarily obtain in business buildings and the effect
of the personal equation of both operators and passengers upon the
service, and many suggestions are offered as a result of careful
studies of the problem.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 250w.
“It is to be regretted that a work of such range and value should be
marred by minor blemishes which will no doubt be corrected in later
editions. In spite of these the book is deserving of commendation.” W:
H. Bryan.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 436. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c.
Johns Hopkins.
7–22912.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Altogether, it is an interesting bit of history, and the author has
succeeded in shedding new light upon this episode.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 264. Ja. ’08. 220w.
=Bondurant, Bernard Camillus.= Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus: a
historical study. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–28562.
A dissertation offered for a doctor’s degree. “Dr. Bondurant begins by
giving an analysis of the text; then comes a list of dates of
important events connected with the career of Decimus Brutus after the
death of Caesar—i. e., from 15 March 44 B. C. to September 43 B.
C.—followed by a selected list of books, articles, and dissertations,
while at the end of the work there is a good index of proper names.
The work itself is a careful study of the period.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The work has been carefully done and the results arrived at are, in
general, sound.” H: A. Sanders.
+ =Class. Philol.= 13: 212. Ap. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Bondurant’s personal affection for Brutus has distinctly injured
his critical faculty. The treatise will be valued by students of this
period, on account of the scholarly care with which the authorities
are given for every statement.” W. A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 192. Ja. ’08. 260w.
=Booth, Edward C.= Post-girl. (Eng. title, Cliff end.) †$1.50.
Century.
8–20677.
A story set among the out-of-the-way cliffs of Yorkshire. To Cliff
Wrangham there comes a young composer bent upon the task of finishing
a concerto. He finds among the diverting natives a wonderful girl,
Pamela Searle, who in babyhood, had been dropped into this corner of
the world, and had grown to reflect, chameleon like, the glories of
sky and sea, and to exult in her elemental strength. She carries the
mail at six shillings a week; is the object of the somber passion of
the schoolmaster. When the “Spawer” comes he teaches her the beauty of
his world, the world of art which she has longed to know. The struggle
between the old influences and the new, the love which comes on apace,
and the mad determination of the schoolmaster to thwart it furnish
elements for an unusually strong story.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“The book will suggest Barrie’s ‘Little minister,’ but it is in no
sense an imitation.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 392. O. ’08. 1200w.
“The whole impression that you retain from the book, is of careful
workmanship, sincerity of purpose and that deep insight which comes
from a sympathetic interest in human life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“He has a manner almost Meredithian in its richness, but without the
Meredithian asperity.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 85. Ag. 16, ’08. 470w.
“The ‘Post-girl’ joins to freshness of atmosphere an artistic touch, a
technical felicity, which, gracefully light in its comedy, lacks
neither poetry nor strength in its sentiment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“There breathes no man or woman—or only the fewest at least admirable
of our race—who will not be glad to read this sweet and tender story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“It is surprisingly fresh and fine. To our taste the author lingers
too long over the talk of his characters, and sometimes the flow of
good spirits runs rather thin.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 160w.
=Borsa, Mario.= English stage of today; tr. by Selwyn Brinton.
*$2.50. Lane.
8–9149.
A concise treatment particularly illuminating to foreigners. “Among
the principal subjects which it passes in review, are the nature of
English playgoers, actors, and actor-managers, the leading dramatists
and critics, the Stratford-on-Avon celebrations; the work of the
various independent theatres, the realistic and the literary drama,
the Irish theatre, and the censorship.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Borsa’s survey of the contemporary British drama is a better book
in its English dress, as edited and translated by Mr. Selwyn Brinton
than it was in its original Italian form as published a year ago in
Milan. There are still some minor inaccuracies which should have been
corrected, but they are not sufficiently grave to destroy the value of
the book as a whole.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 250. D. 14, ’07. 460w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“Dr. Borsa’s book challenges attention. Dr. Borsa’s chapters are the
merest journalism. Some of his judgments on plays have a certain
piquancy as revealing an attitude of mind and a philosophy of life
other than our own; but the bulk of his matter is ephemeral, while his
criticism is too often marred by his tendency to exaggeration inherent
in ‘impressionism.’”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 204. F. 16. 540w.
“An attempt, on the whole a successful one, to analyze present
dramatic conditions and possibilities in England.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Not for a long time has there been published a more pertinent
treatise on current stage matters in England than that of Dr. Mario
Borsa.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“He has written a most attractive, instructive, and clear-headed work,
which will repay the study of all persons interested in theatrical
affairs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 594. D. 26, ’07. 1200w.
“The book is the work of a man who understands the human heart and who
can express himself with power. It is of value in excess of mere
criticism, for it constructs and explains, bringing that fresh eye and
open mind as necessary in life as in art. The translation by Selwyn
Brinton is felicitous.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 97. F. 22, ’08. 1500w.
“The book would be more helpful if its criticism were more
constructive, but as an attempt to diagnose the malady which afflicts
the drama in England it is singularly successful.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 234. My. ’08. 400w.
=Bosch, Mrs. Hermann.= Bridget. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–11700.
A prepossessing Irish girl is the heroine of this story. Her career
from the landing with immigrant companions on Ellis island to the end
of a romance with a footman in a millionaire establishment is sketched
with special detail given to the pitfalls along the servant’s way to
an honest living.
* * * * *
“Inartistic and exaggerated, but humorous, clean and rather unique.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“The book remains wholesome and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Comparative electro-physiology. *$5.75.
Longmans.
8–13638.
A work which is complementary to Professor Bose’s books on response in
the living and nonliving, and plant response. “[He generalizes] that
the responses of all living substances are similar, and that responses
are to be found even in inorganic substances. The similarity depends
on some common fundamental reaction of matter. The response is
recorded largely by electrical methods. Motor responses are also
considered, particularly in plants; but they are treated also rather
less fully in animals.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The author has made a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the
extremely difficult subject of electro-physiology, and whether or not
his conclusions prove to be accurate in detail, there can be no doubt
of their general truth. His observations, therefore, are useful alike
to the physiologist (concerned with animals or plants), the physicist,
and the psychologist, by all of whom his book should be read
carefully.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 357. Mr. 21. 1000w.
“The author herein shows the same peculiarities as in the preceding
volume. There is the same naïve interest in well-known phenomena, as
though they were quite novel; there is the same lack of effort to
connect his work with that of others, so far, at least, as citing
their researches or results is concerned. There is much repetition of
the earlier volume; the same tilting at windmills. This book shares
with its predecessor, also, the confusion between energy and stimulus,
a confusion that is possible because we know so little of plant
energetics. Bose seems to ignore, if he is not ignorant of, the
anatomy of the parts with which he is dealing. Out of these books we
look for someone to rescue many good observations, now apparently gone
awry.” C. R. B.
− + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 58. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“Prof. Bose has great ingenuity in device of experimental apparatus,
fertility in initiating new lines of observation, and a clear style of
setting forth his experimental results and theoretical deductions;
nevertheless, we feel far from satisfied with his performance. The
whole book abounds in interesting matter skilfully woven together, and
would be recommended as of great value if it did not continually
arouse our incredulity.” L. H.
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 3. Mr. 5, ’08. 1500w.
=Boulger, Demetrius C. de K.= Life of Sir Halliday Macartney. *$6.
Lane.
8–21787.
The story of forty-four years of useful service to the Chinese empire.
Sir Halliday Macartney commanded Li Hung Chang’s trained force in the
Taeping rebellion, founded the first Chinese arsenal, was secretary to
the first Chinese embassy to Europe, and secretary and councillor to
the Chinese legation in London for thirty years. The narrative is one
of historical interest. The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“Sir Halliday’s career was interesting, but not such as to furnish
material for a volume of 515 pages. Mr. Boulger has been driven to
surround his subject with essays on the political and other events
touched upon, and to invest his hero with an importance which did not
naturally belong to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 960w.
=Nation.= 87. 236. S. 10, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“He was a voluminous writer of letters and despatches, to many of
which Mr. Boulger has had access, and, which he quotes profusely in a
volume which is somewhat too much expanded by their aid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 302. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Bourget, Paul.= Weight of the name. †$1.50. Little.
8–9812.
A French marquis who proclaims his divine right to power and fame thru
his name and lineage, who has the pride and the religious veneration
of his race and of old France, faces the fact that his only son loves
the daughter of a provincial notary. Close in the wake of this
discovery comes the appalling revelation that this son is the child of
his dead wife and a trusted friend. The magic of lineage cannot set
straight this irregular fact and as his pride is humbled he grows more
amenable to influences that soften and lead to a more democratic
outlook on life.
* * * * *
“His ideas are so pronounced that for friends of democratic and
religious advance the book holds little or no interest.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 269. S. ’08. 140w.
“Though the elements of the story are few, and there is nothing
violent in the action, M. Bourget’s superb art and psychology
construct an intensely interesting story in which there are two or
three powerful situations.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 403. Je. ’08. 400w.
“This touching story keeps in its English dress much of the peculiar
charm, the quivering intensity of emotion never verging upon
mawkishness, of the original.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 550w.
“The character of this finely tempered and uncompromising old nobleman
is drawn with skill and affection; and while in the love passages the
novelist does not escape his tendency to be didactic, the story as a
whole gains immensely in vitality over his earlier work, because he
has put his heart into it.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“Monsieur Bourget sustains his reputation as scientific analyst by
exhibiting both the value to a country of a stable territorial
aristocracy and at the same time the evils springing from its ways of
thought.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.= What is religion? (Crown theological lib.)
*$1.50. Putnam.
8–12833.
“Bousset’s work in eight chapters deals, after the introduction, with
the religion of savages, with national, prophetic, legal, and
redemptive religions, and with the nature and future of Christianity.
It is an ambitious attempt, therefore, to review popularly all of
religion as at present understood, to show its origins and
development, its varieties, its present status and future prospects.
It reaches the conclusion that Christianity is the acme of development
in its union of the elements of morality, redemption, and assurance of
the future life.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
Reviewed by G: W. Gilmore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 322. Ap. ’08. 270w.
“This is an extremely interesting book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 520w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
=Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Professor Bousset is well equipped for his task, and writes here, as
always, in a limpidly clear and graphic manner, enabling the reader to
see a century in a sentence. He approaches his task sympathetically,
which cannot be said of all students of religion.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 682. Ap. ’08. 2300w.
“The book is not a thoro treatise, either in the philosophy of
religion or in its history, but as an introduction to the modern
science of comparative religion it is of much value.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“As a rapid survey of the field of comparative religion and a concise
and graphic description of the chief types of religion, Professor
Bousset’s lectures are of merit. In its English dress the book
scarcely does justice to the author of the learned and exhaustive
history of the Jewish religion in the age of the New Testament.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“The book is an excellent introduction to the study of the nature of
religion and its development into the religions of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 250w.
=Boutet de Monvel, Roger.= Beau Brummell and his times. **$2.50.
Lippincott.
8–34712.
“It is a strange mingling of comedy and tragedy, this story of the
Regent’s friend, the bully of society, the _arbiter elegantiarum_, and
then the broken-down exile, brave against all his enemies save,
disease and death.” (Nation.) “The book is a vivid picture of the
brilliant heartless, and witty society under the Regent. We get
glimpses of the court, its festivities, and its petty squabbles,
wherever Brummell brings his imposing figure, the ‘sublime dandy,’ the
ornament and leader of society.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“This is an altogether charming book. The notes, drawn from
contemporary sources, are brief and admirable, giving just the
information needed. The attitude throughout is French, and, on the
whole, sympathetic. There is no unnecessary moralizing.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 535. My. 2. 1400w.
“The author approaches his subject absolutely without prejudice. In
his attitude there is neither admiration nor contempt, but a kind of
blending of the two, and above all, wonder and sly amusement.” A. B.
Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 268. N. ’08. 1800w.
“A delightfully picturesque and sympathetic study, etched on the
background of contemporary English life.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“An entertaining brief account.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
“M. de Monvel’s work is exceedingly well done; it gives us strong and
clear impressions of the famous London dandy and the folk among whom
he lived his life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bovill, W. B. Forster.= Hungary and the Hungarians. **$2. McClure.
8–34714.
Mr. Bovill tells what the Hungarians are, what their resources and
short comings are, and how their institutions and ideals make them
“the most bewildering, fascinating, hospitable race in Europe.” He
admits they are lacking in the genius for practical organization which
insures a sound political basis for a government.
* * * * *
“A readable, and, above all, an informing book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“W. B. Forster Bovill has performed a good service in writing his
book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 420w.
“Some very vivid descriptive writing about a comparatively unknown
fascinating people makes this volume an unusually attractive work of
descriptive travels.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bowen, Edwin Winfield.= Makers of American literature: a class-book
on American literature. *$2.50. Neale.
8–5135.
Not a history but a guide to the study of American literature. “It
purports simply to discuss and consider the literary achievements of
our leading American authors,—those who stand out most conspicuously
in a general survey of our literature and who are recognized among the
foremost makers of American literature.” There are informing chapters
on Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Prescott, Hawthorne, Emerson,
Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell, Lanier and Whitman.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Sword decides. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10858.
The court of Naples in the 14th century is here depicted with much
local color. The life and evil deeds of Giovanna, the queen, and her
diplomatic relations with the principality of Hungary form a subject
around which is grouped much incident having a wealth of melodramatic
detail.
* * * * *
“Miss Bowen’s style has improved in directness and ease. It is still
highly coloured and fresh and young; she has still little thought of
restraint; but one accepts the wealth of material, and the profusion
even of horrors, for the sake of genuine promise. Her strong point is
not character, but she has one or two excellent portraits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 506. Ap. 25. 150w.
“When all is said there is nothing remarkable about the story except
the author’s youth, her evident reversion to type, and her
extraordinary use of words expressing color.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“Has none of the stiff, unreal quality of most very old-world tales,
and looms as vividly before us as if it concerned the passing events
of the present day. And still it never loses the spirit, never drops
the phraseology, never forgets the air and glamour of the time in
which it is set.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Not archaeological exactness and faithful portraiture of character
constitute the indispensable elements to fiction of this class, but
descriptive vividness and dramatic sharpness. These two requirements
are certainly reached by Miss Marjorie Bowen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“What pleases us most in Miss Bowen’s work is her freedom from any
pretentiousness in style or in reflection; she indulges but rarely in
intellectual flights of general comment on the mysteries of life, and
she is never precious.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 634. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Lure of the dim trails. †$1.50.
Dillingham. 7–32836.
Once again Mr. Bower writes a story of the west beyond the Mississippi
“where the trails of men are dim and far apart.” His hero is a cowboy
whose romance begins when the heroine of the tale calls him a coward.
* * * * *
“It may all have been done before, but probably there is little harm
in that, and it is done here as well as anywhere else.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Bower, Frederick Orpen.= Origin of a land flora: a theory based
upon the facts of alternation. *$5.50. Macmillan.
8–19077.
A technical study presented by the professor of botany in the Glasgow
university mainly concerned with the theories as to the origin of the
leafy fern-plant and of the moss-fruit. “Starting with the hypothesis
that the origin of our present land flora is to be found in an aquatic
ancestry, the author’s main object is to ascertain to what extent the
life histories of the higher plants justify such an assumption, and to
trace as far as possible the methods by which aquatic plants
specialised themselves in order to attain a land habit. Thus Professor
Bower makes a comparative study of plants from the point of view of
descent.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“It should be read by everyone interested in the evolution and
development of plant-life.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 880w.
“The scope of the volume is very broad and its spirit is admirable.
The volume is a monument to the research power and philosophical
insight of its distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 56. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“All botanists owe a debt of gratitude to the author for the theory
which he has so systematically worked out, as well as for the detailed
investigations to which it has been the guide. No more important
contribution to scientific botany has appeared in England since the
revival of botanical research in this country in the seventies of the
past century. Nothing can be better for English botany than the
appearance of such a book as this, a full and most original treatise
on an important branch of the science by one who is an acknowledged
master of his subject.” D. H. S.
+ + − =Nature.= 79: 1. N. 5, ’08. 2900w.
“Perhaps the most important contribution to the theoretical side of
botany during the present generation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 450w.
“It is in all ways a thoroughly satisfactory book.” C: E. Bessey.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 618. Ap. 17, ’08. 950w.
“It is a remarkable contribution to botanical literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 791. My. 16, ’08. 470w.
* =Bowie, Augustus Jesse, jr.= Practical irrigation, its value and cost;
with tables of comparative cost, relative soil production, reservoir
dimensions and capacities and other data of value to the practical
farmer. *$3. McGraw.
8–19875.
“Chapters 1 to 7 deal in a brief and more or less elementary manner
with some of the broad features of irrigation and the remaining nine
chapters deal almost wholly with irrigation pumping plants and the
construction of artificial reservoirs.... The book contains very
little information concerning irrigation farming, although its title
might be taken to indicate otherwise.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“From the viewpoint of the agriculturist the entire work will be found
of practical benefit, and from the viewpoint of the engineer the
treatment of pumping systems and of the artificial reservoirs will be
equally valuable.” F. W. Hanna.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 189. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“Throughout the whole treatment of these subjects the author is
distinctly ‘practical,’ in that he dwells insistently on the cost of
the different classes of work and on the total cost of the service
they will perform.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Personalism. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–6100.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1907, Northwestern university. Professor
Bowne discusses the subject of personal metaphysics; shows the
relation of sound philosophy to science and to common sense; points
out that the field of science is empirical phenomena, while
philosophy’s realm is that of causality and purpose behind experience;
and agrees with Comte that abstract and impersonal metaphysics is a
mirage of formal ideas which begin, continue and end in abstraction
and confusion. He stands for a personal idealism in philosophy and the
possibility of an enlightened orthodoxy in religion.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 169. Je. ’08.
“His metaphysics is likely to provoke amusement in many minds, rather
than serious consideration.”
− =Nation.= 86: 559. Je. 18, ’08. 1150w.
“His style is beautifully, even amazingly, simple and lucid, and
though of course his chapters are not what is called easy reading,
that is the reader’s fault, not Dr. Bowne’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 700w.
“For a thorough exposure of radical fallacies in philosophic and
popular thought, and for clear pragmatic thinking toward the ultimate
reality of an all-embracing Intelligence and Will, as the ground of
this personal world, beginners in philosophy will find this an
eminently serviceable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Boxall, George E.= Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“We fully appreciate this writer’s legitimate discontent with certain
aspects of our social life, and may agree with him, that it is
ignorance of human nature that underlies much of the evil. But Mr.
Boxall is himself not well informed, and his total inappreciation of
the inwardness of great religious and social problems renders his book
quite valueless for purposes of reform.”
− =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= The bond: a novel of
modern marriage. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–11083.
A story of the clashing of temperaments. A young artist weds an
idealistic young woman. Liking and interest seem to be the only
requirements of their bond. These elements prove incapable of
sustaining the two natures thru experiences of married life and they
“quarrel, jar and nag, as no two persons outside a comic paper could
ever be induced to do.” It is once more a study of the artistic
temperament suffering amid unsubordinated crass experiences.
* * * * *
“The volume is a frank and interesting study of the intimacies of
married life; but it contains, in our opinion, nothing that is
undesirable for clean-minded youth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 433. O. 10. 100w.
“We could wish that the author’s delicate talent had been employed
upon a worthier theme, or a theme, bearing a closer relation to normal
existence.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 260w.
“[The author] does her work faithfully and discerningly, and her story
rings true.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 550w.
“It is not at all a bad novel. Parts of it are written with insight
and skill, and there is very little that does not indicate both
feeling and intelligence. What dooms the book is not its construction,
not its phraseology, not its mental or artistic standpoint, but its
characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 248. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Boyle, Eleanor Vere.= Peacock’s pleasaunce. **$1.50. Lane.
“A bundle of papers lightly and fancifully connected through the
pretty, fantastic title. Her Prologue in explanation of this title is
characteristic of her style and manner, and well prepares the reader
for what follows. The peacock is merely a figure, a symbol standing
decoratively at the head of her page, to light the way into the
pleasaunce. E. V. B. writes of strange flowers and woods, of birds and
weeds, of art and insects—being catholic and benignant in her
taste.... The pages are scattered with iridescent fragments of old
myths and legends, showing the author’s often mystic leanings.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The only exception we can take to this pretty volume is that the
author has included two papers on ‘Art education’ which seem to us out
of place here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 765. Je. 20. 300w.
“In the semi-suggestions of the supernatural that sprinkle her pages,
as well as in the veil of mysticism thrown over all, there is
something almost Hawthornesque—a nameless charm that makes one forgive
the fine writing in which the author is prone to indulge.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 220w.
“To persons who share her delights the reading of her essays will
furnish a certain amount of pleasure, although it must be confessed
that other writers have treated her subjects more entertainingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 110w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Matthew Porter: a story of to-day. $1.50.
Page.
8–10859.
The social and political life of Boston forms the setting of this
story into which enter the conflict of personalities, character
development, and an appealing human element. The hero, a candidate for
governor, is a reformer; he holds to the belief that more power should
be vested in the governor and less in the legislature. The story
traces the influence of his liberal views upon a young woman belonging
to an aristocratic Boston family. She turns from her musicians,
sculptors, writers and painters and tries her hand at practical
campaigning. The hero wins both his office and the heroine.
* * * * *
“The narrative is cumbered with many irrelevant persons, and the
inevitable love-theme is a wearisome affair.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 500w.
“He has used the story as a peg upon which to hang a great many not
very novel lectures on what politics and government ought to be.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 318. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Round about Wiltshire. (Highways and
byways in England.) *$2. McClure.
W7–180.
A monograph which shows the author’s delight in his “rambles and his
topics—in the ancient camps and temples on the downs, in the deserted
abbeys and old manor houses of the slopes and the valleys, in the
thatched cottages and their rustic tenants, in the cornlands and the
meadows, in the streams and the trout.” (Sat. R.) It is illustrated
with fourteen reproductions of water-colors, and numerous halftones.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“This Marlburian chronicle is interesting, doubtless, but there is too
much of it; it throws the work out of scale and compels the omission
of divers famous local themes which might well have been illustrated.
Its chief charm lies in the ease and spontaneity of the narrative; in
the manifest gusto with which the author has set about his task.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 211. Jl. 5, ’07. 920w.
“It is full of information and full of appreciation of the peculiar
features of Wiltshire scenery and legend.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 146. Ag. 3, ’07. 1750w.
“Mr. Bradley handles his materials with judgment, and talks well about
them all, and his felicity in narrative is incontestable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
* =Bradley, Samuel Carlyle.= Jesus of Nazareth. *$2. Sherman, French &
co.
8–32494.
A life of Jesus that aims first to bring into prominence the
“Manliness of Jesus” by emphasizing the saying of Paul that Jesus was
in all points tempted like as we are; and second, to fill up the gap
in the record of Jesus’s life which includes the formative period that
prepared him for his later mission.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend=, comp. Northwestern fights and fighters.
†$1.50. McClure.
7–36235.
A collection of accounts of operations against Indians most of which
were written by army officers who took part in the engagements
described. “The general desire of Dr. Brady as editor seems to be to
vindicate the army, which has so often been under unjust critical
fire.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Are of use principally as entertaining reading for men and boys, and
offer nothing of any particular value to the student.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08. ✠
“The book as a whole is full of adventure and is real into the
bargain.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1478. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Brady’s own contribution to the history is clear and full of
patriotic fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 50w.
=Braid, James.= Advanced golf. **$3. Jacobs.
8–20687.
Instruction and advice combine to make this handbook valuable for
advanced golfers, especially, as the rudimentary details of the game
are omitted. Mr. Braid, a champion player, “writes intelligently of
the choice of clubs, gives sound instruction on such delicacies of
play as intentional pulling and slicing, as to play in wet weather and
against direct winds, as to putting, systems of practice, and the
‘science of the stroke.’ He has chapters on the planning of courses,
and relates frankly yet modestly some of his personal experiences.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Braid’s book will be generally welcomed by golfers. Its charm lies in
its lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 170. Ag. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“The biographical characters are highly entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Brainerd, Ira Hutchinson=, ed. Edwin Davis French: a memorial; his
life, his art. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
8–13734.
Deals authoritatively with the life and work of a noted book-plate
engraver. “The selection of biographical material has been painstaking
and discriminating; the plates used as illustrations cover a wide
range. The check list of the French plates, as published by Paul
Lemperly in 1899, has been continued, and the series brought to a
finish. A supplementary list of designs and engravings other than
bookplates has been included. The edition is limited to 475 copies, of
which 425 are on handmade paper and 50 are on imperial Japanese
vellum.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The biographical portion of the volume has been delightfully
written.” Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 49. S. ’08. 1100w.
“He has carefully avoided saying too much and has not left unsaid
anything vital.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=Brand, Jack.= By wild waves tossed; an ocean love story. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–13949.
A spirited romance which begins with the abduction of an English girl
by a profligate captain of the royal navy, and continues on board a
merchant ship whither an American naval officer, masquerading as a
common sailor, had conducted the rescued girl for passage to America
where relatives would claim her. The times are those just prior to the
war of 1812 and the frigate Constitution figures in the story.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A story of love, war, and the sea in the spirit of Sir Walter when he
deals with that romantic trinity of elements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“It is bright of its kind, clean and wholesome, and has never a
serious moment for the jaded reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Breasted, James Henry.= History of the ancient Egyptians.
(Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 5.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–15332.
An abridgment and condensation of Professor Breasted’s larger work to
which have been added such recent discoveries as the finding of
Gem-Atom in Nubia, and the discovery of the Hittite capital at Boghaz
Koi in Asia Minor. It is based directly on original monuments and is
adapted for class use.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08. ✠
“Notable book.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“Is as trustworthy as present study can make it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“The story is told in a plain and lucid style, without ornamentation,
and with the earnestness of a man who has something to tell and is
intent merely upon the telling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
“Is a history, the most reliable yet produced, not merely of Egypt,
but of the Egyptian people.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Brebner, Percy James.= Vayenne. $1.50. McBride, J.
8–7896.
A story charged to the brim with adventure in which an unlawful
successor to the Duchy of Montvilliers resorts to foul trickery to
push his claim, but is outwitted by a young soldier of fortune and a
court fool. The latter unite their energies and wits to put upon the
throne the rightful heir. Sword play, bloodshed, justice grown
eloquent to sway the multitude, sacrifice, and romance mingle in
dramatic variety.
* * * * *
“Of its class it is a member in good standing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“The action of ‘Vayenne’ is as rapid as any of its proto-types, and
dramatic episodes are born, flourish, and pass away on every page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 344. F. 29, ’08. 20w.
=Breck, Edward.= Way of the woods: a manual for sportsmen in
northeastern United States and Canada. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–11766.
A practical field manual containing concise, comprehensive and
authoritative information on all subjects of interest to the camper,
the fisherman and the hunter; not omitting the essentials of a
complete outfit, their place of purchase and approximate cost.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. ✠
“It ends with a good working bibliography wherefrom further knowledge
may be gained.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is an ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ of the woods. Our only criticism
of the book is that the outfits are inclined to be elaborate.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“As a sportsman’s manual [this book] would be hard to surpass in its
breadth and compactness of information, without sacrificing
readability altogether.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 32. Jl. 9, ’08. 350w.
“The interesting manner in which practical hints are presented and the
sterling good sense give Mr. Breck’s book a real value, which will be
appreciated alike by veterans of the woods and novices.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Brenan, Gerald, and Statham, Edward Phillips.= House of Howard.
*$6. Appleton.
8–15740.
A two volume work which sketches the history of this notable family
than which none in England “has been more concerned in the political,
social and religious developments of the English people: none shows to
greater advantage upon the rolls of the English nobility at the
present time. Messrs. Brenan and Statham do not undertake in their
book to take account of all the branches of the family that are now in
existence; what they give us is a historical record of the family
chiefly with regard to those members who have held the more prominent
positions and especially those who have enjoyed the highest hereditary
titles.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The style of the book is so well maintained that, if the facts were
not known, it would be difficult to differentiate one collaborator
from the other. No fault can be found with the historical portion of
the work, which is fairly and impartially written. These genealogical
tables are generally accurate, though misprints are occasionally to be
found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 721. D. 7. 1100w.
“Errors of detail in dates, spellings, and misinterpretations of
documents are to be found on nearly every page. Its virtues would have
been enormously enhanced, and its faults correspondingly diminished,
had the book enjoyed the advantage of systematic and scholarly
revision.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 524. N. 26, ’08. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
* =Brereton, Austin.= Life of Henry Irving. 2v. **6.50. Longmans.
“This biography is just a chronicle—admirably exact and faithful—of
its hero’s public life. All Irving’s professional experiences, from
his appearances in Sunderland, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester,
Birmingham, and Liverpool down to his farewell seasons at the Lyceum
and Drury Lane, and his final performance of ‘Becket’ at Bradford, are
here presented with a carefulness that merits enthusiastic
acknowledgment. If ever there was an object-lesson in what can be done
by an actor, through force of character, to overcome natural defects
and the obstacle of self-consciousness, it is surely afforded by
Irving’s career, and in Mr. Brereton’s chapters the moral is
consistently pointed.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The reader will search in vain for information as to what the man was
apart from his art. His writing, so far from having any distinction,
does not rise above the level of average journalism. Mr. Brereton’s
statistics are among the most important features of his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 551. O. 31. 1000w.
“The author is not impartial in his attitude toward his subject,
indiscriminating admiration being its keynote.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Its unexceptionable sources of information and capital index make it
an exceedingly useful work of reference for the student of the
theatre. Though on the historical side it is complete and accurate, on
the critical it is less trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 418. O. 29, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be accepted as the definitive life of Irving, published with
the sanction of his family and executors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 651. N. 7, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 280w.
“Contains many interesting passages. Yet one cannot but reflect how
much better it would have been as a book in its quiddity if the author
had but read and marked to practical purpose Isaac Disraeli’s comment
on biographies at large.” W. H. Pollock.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 605. N. 14, ’08. 1400w.
=Brewster, William Tenney.= Specimens of modern English literary
criticism; chosen and edited by W. T. Brewster. *$1. Macmillan.
7–33232.
Contains the following: Stephen’s Wood’s halfpence, Masson’s
DeQuincey’s writings, Johnson’s The metaphysical poets, Macaulay’s
Montgomery’s poems, Bagehot’s Dickens, Pater’s Wordsworth, Robertson’s
Poe, Dryden’s Preface to the fables, Harrison’s Ruskin as a master of
prose, Lamb’s Tragedies of Shakespeare, James’s The art of fiction,
Poe’s Philosophy of composition, Arnold’s Study of poetry, Coleridge’s
On poetry and poetic form, and Shelley’s Defense of poetry. “The
essays,” says the author, “proceed from the simplest, most matter of
fact and most easily demonstrable to the more general, more abstract,
and less easily provable.”
* * * * *
“What is particularly admirable in the execution of his plan is the
broad and generous introduction, which discusses freely and
interestingly not only the general type of literature included, but
also the particular selections themselves.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“To adapt a well-known dictum—by Augustine Birrill, we believe—a man
may talk like a gentleman and scholar for a year on the material
gathered from this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 16: 345. My. ’08. 340w.
=Brierley, Jonathan (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Sidelights on religion.
*$1.40. Whittaker.
A series of observations aiming to show that religion broadly
considered is the real and only explanation of the riddle of
existence.
=Briggs, Ernest Edward.= Angling and art in Scotland: some fishing
experiences related and illustrated. *$4. Longmans.
“Mr. Briggs shows us how companionable his two arts are, how each
serves the other, and how the man that is committed to them finds his
days in the woods and along the streams full of delight. Where Mr.
Briggs has fished in Scotland there also has he painted, and vice
versa, and his book gives us charming records of his achievements in
both respects.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A book with many charms; foremost among them are the thirty-two
coloured plates, but they are run close by the descriptions of
Galloway and the Highlands, and by the admirable production of the
volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 640w.
“His pictures, which are reproduced in color, are little gems. He
tells his fish stories beautifully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=Brinton, Christian.= Modern artists. il. **$6. Baker.
8–9098.
Fourteen artists are presented from Fragonard to Zuloaga. “Mr.
Christian Brinton does not state explicitly anywhere in his studies
what constitutes his idea of modernity and thereby his basis of
selection. But in general his test seems to be virility of insight and
workmanship, a compelling personality, above all the power to paint
realities, whether ideal realities like Watts, rococo realities like
Fragonard, or the stern reality of toil like Meunir and Segantini. Of
the fourteen artists discussed all are painters; eleven are still
living or have died within the present century; and all are figure
painters.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Brinton is able to approach each painter with open mind and ready
sympathy. His criticism is interesting in that it seizes so readily
upon salient features and phrases its conclusions so forcibly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“What the author writes of the people as well as of their art is
extremely entertaining, and much of it is informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Bristol, Frank Milton.= Life of Chaplain McCabe, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church. **$1.50. Revell.
8–23284.
A eulogistic record of the deeds of a man whose motto thru life was
“Ich dien.” He served as army chaplain during the civil war and was
loved for his cheerfulness, helpfulness and his sympathetic voice. For
thirty years after the war he labored to strengthen and extend mission
work in the Methodist church, being known as the most “irresistible
beggar” of his times; for ten years he served in the high
ecclesiastical office of bishop. “If his biographer’s style
occasionally reminds one of the hallelujahs and amens heard in
old-fashioned Methodist prayer-meetings, it is pardonable, as if
caught from the perfervid spirit of his subject.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“It is not pardonable in Bishop Bristol to inject into his memorial of
this Christian hero an accusation of ‘rationalism’ and ‘infidelity’
against the theological schools and university professors who teach
differently from the evangelists and class leaders.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Britton, Nathaniel Lord, and Shafer, John Adolph.= North American
trees; being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing
independently of cultivation in North America north of Mexico and
the West Indies. (American nature ser. Group 1. Classification of
nature.) **$7. Holt.
8–15485.
A splendid volume of nearly nine hundred pages devoted to descriptions
and to illustrations of all the kinds of trees known to grow
independently of planting in North America, north of Mexico and the
West Indies. The descriptions contain as few technical terms as
possible and are aided by the illustrations in rendering easy the
identification of trees by their foliage, flowers and fruit. There is
a general key to families, a glossary of special terms and an index to
English names.
* * * * *
“Libraries having Sargent will find Britton useful as meeting a
different need; those having Hough will perhaps not find Britton
necessary.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“The authors are in an exceptionally favorable position to make such a
book accurate rather than merely popular, and it is a good thing now
and then for men who have the facts to give to the public something
that can be relied upon.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of nomenclature, and all the
inconsistency of the disfiguring use of capitals in common and
scientific names, need not here detain us. Dr. Britton’s work is a
notable contribution to the science of his country and the world.” T:
H. Macbride.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 341. Je. 1, ’08. 600w.
“An impressive work which is an honor to American scholarship.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 80w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 120w.
“The authors have brought together a considerable amount of
trustworthy and valuable information relative to uses, pharmaceutical
and other.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Brodrick, Mary.= Trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
*$1.25. Longmans.
8–26255.
Three lectures based upon a careful study of Jewish law. They are The
arrest, The trial and condemnation and The crucifixion and the site of
the holy sepulchre.
* * * * *
“The three lectures, short though they are, are interesting in every
detail, and deserve the attention of the ordinary reader as well as
the New Testament student and scholar. Miss Brodrick has certainly
studied Jewish law to good purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 630w.
“One must utterly dissent from the conclusion of this book.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Bronson, Edgar Beecher.= Reminiscences of a ranchman. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–30304.
Here are set down the experiences of a New York newspaper man, who,
something of a physical wreck from illness, turns to the plains and
casts his lot among the “nervy nomads of the range” who are forced to
“make good or make tracks.” The trials and physical hardening process
that marked his course from tenderfoot cowboy to ranch owner are
interspersed with character sketches revealing brutal, domineering
traits, as well as the qualities of loyalty, honesty, human kindness.
* * * * *
“Thanks to his newspaper training he is able to tell his stories
exceedingly well; they come straight from the plains, full of vigor
and intensely graphic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Bronson, Walter Cochrane=, ed. English poems. 4v. library ed. ea.
*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–29843. Additions.
=v. 3.= Restoration and the eighteenth century, 1660–1800.
Uniform with the other volumes of the series, the method followed is
(1) to choose poems representing the different phases of the work of
poets and schools of poetry, (2) to print entire poems or entire parts
of poems, whenever possible, (3) to follow the latest accessible text
approved by the author, (4) to modernize spelling and punctuation as a
rule, but to retain the original form when change could affect rhythm
or rime, (5) in the notes to explain difficulties of expression and
allusion, give the poet’s view of poetry, furnish material
illustrating his mode of work and throw light upon the literary
standards of different periods.
* * * * *
“Professor Bronson’s long experience in teaching literature has
familiarized him with the needs of the average student in the matter
of elucidations.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
=Brooke, C. F. Tucker=, ed. Shakespeare apocrypha; being a
collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to
Shakespeare; ed., with introd., notes and bibliography. *$1.75.
Oxford.
8–34728.
The following plays reprinted in the original text and spelling with
an introduction and notes and a bibliography, constitute the doubtful
Shakespearian class: Arden of Feversham, Locrine, Edward III,
Mucedorus, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Lord Cromwell, The London
prodigal, The puritan, A Yorkshire tragedy, The merry devil of
Edmonton, Fair Em, Two noble kinsmen, The birth of Merlin and Sir
Thomas More.
* * * * *
“Though on the whole we must give praise to Mr. Brooke for some
excellent work, his book cannot, without considerable revision, take
its place as a final recension of the text of the plays included.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 446. O. 10. 1000w.
“Mr. Brooke’s collection meets a definite need. It is unfortunate that
the notes are so scanty: herein the volume fails of being definitive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 118. S. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The true Shakespeare will be the more relished after a study of Mr.
Brooke’s introduction and the reading of these apocryphal plays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“There is, indeed, only one fault to be found with an otherwise
admirable volume,—its exceedingly unattractive form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 298. Ag. 29, ’08. 1800w.
=Brooke, Stopford A.= Four Victorian poets: a study of Clough,
Arnold, Rossetti and Morris; with an introd. on the course of
poetry from 1822 to 1852. (English title, A study of four poets.)
**$1.75. Putnam.
8–14374.
The introductory chapter follows the steady course of English poetry
from the Byron and Shelley influence to the whirlpool of thoughts and
hopes and passions, political, social, ideal, democratic, but chiefly
religious and theological into which Clough and Arnold were cast. The
aim of the study is to show to what extent Clough, Arnold, Rossetti
and Morris influenced the poetic movement of the latter half of the
nineteenth century and to give an estimate of the quality and
importance of their work.
* * * * *
“Is rather tedious because it talks round and round its subject, never
saying anything essential.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 691. Je. 6. 1100w.
“This is not only a delightful but an encouraging book.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 599. Ag. ’08. 1550w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The best part of the volume is the introductory chapter.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“May be placed among the important minor studies of the Victorian
period.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“Whoever enjoys literary criticism welcomes a new book by Mr. Stopford
Brooke, and no one who reads ‘A study of four poets’ will be
disappointed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 697. My. 2, ’08. 1600w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Sea charm of Venice. *$1. Dutton.
W 7–160.
Here the author “blends impressions and emotions, history and art. He
is not the hasty tourist, who peers, and nods, and hurries on, but the
lover of Venice, who has returned to her again and again, seen her
under many aspects, thought upon her glories, and felt her
fascination.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“He has [a] smooth, flowing style.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 110w.
“He writes with genuine enthusiasm, but without gush, and displays
also an unusual skill in description.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 80w.
“An essay in which its sea-charm is analyzed as well as described is
justified by its radical deviation from familiar lines, if for nothing
else. A clear vision and appreciation of each aspect of Venetian life,
art, and poetry are combined with facility of expression.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 110w.
“This book will help. This fine bit of word-painting cannot fail to be
a delight.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 90w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Studies in poetry. *$1.75. Putnam.
8–5211.
An introductory essay on “Poetry as an art” is followed by six papers
three of which are devoted to Shelley, one to Blake, one to Walter
Scott and the last to Keats.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Stopford Brooke has achieved the skill of the craftsman, without
losing his individual traits as a critic with a keen perception of
literary art.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 65. Ag. 1, ’08. 580w.
“The book itself is not large enough for the subjects broached in it;
and its limits must be remembered, lest in speaking of its
imperfections we forget to be grateful to the writer for all that he
has given us.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 2020w.
“A pretty thin gleaning.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“American readers are familiar with Mr. Brooke’s critical work, always
sympathetic, based on sound knowledge, and not lacking in the finer
insight; but of late years somewhat too fluent, lacking exact
definition and sharp precision of statement, and inclining
occasionally to didacticism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“The only flaw that strikes us—a faintly sermonic touch here and
there, a hint of the pious platform cadence, coupled inevitably with
the note of conventional reticence or apology in dealing with big
people that comes of addressing the wierd sort of audience which likes
to feel assured of complete private respectability in its poets. His
style generally is purged of conventionality. As a whole he is
admirably sane and free from prejudice.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 696. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Perhaps the Scott lecture is the best. The Shelley lectures we like
the least of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
=Brooks, John Graham.= As others see us: a study of progress in the
United States. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–31147.
Here are woven into most readable and entertaining form the opinions
by way of approval, of censure, or of warning, which visiting foreign
critics have expressed concerning America since the beginning of
national life. In the light of these objective estimates the author
discusses topics and problems which bear upon present-day progress.
* * * * *
“The light and gossipy character of Mr. Brooks’s work will make it a
pleasant companion for snatches of reading in dull and idle days. We
cannot dismiss this review of it without acknowledging the
thoroughness with which the author has ranged through a wide field of
reading and furnished the completed book with a bibliography and an
index.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Brown, Abbie Farwell.= Friends and cousins. il. †$1. Houghton.
7–30835.
The sequel to “Brothers and sisters.” The fun of Kenneth and Rose is
continued, new friends are made with whom they play pirate, dig for
treasure, and experience other thrilling mock adventures as well as a
few of the real sort.
* * * * *
“But it is a relief to find ‘Friends and cousins’ less weak than
‘Brothers and sisters,’ tho the same tendency is evident in each to be
ethical in the midst of playing ‘treasure trove.’ We speak thus
plainly because Miss Brown has gained a library foothold thru her
verses and her myth tales. Her new vein lacks spontaneity and
imagination of a high character.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“The story is superior in style and plot to its predecessor, and will
probably amuse young readers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.
=Brown, Alice.= Rose MacLeod. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–12225.
Here are brought together two grandmothers, one sprightly with a
literary bent and the other saintly; Electra, a Puritan in conscience
and a Spartan in control of feelings; Markham McLeod, a
brotherhood-of-man agitator who worshipped Mammon and basked in its
material warmth; MacLeod’s daughter, the heroine, who had been a
victim of her father’s unrighteous theories and who alone understood
his whited-sepulchre practices; and two brothers, one an artist who
temporarily comes under the hypnotic spell of MacLeod, and the other a
gardener who through the purification of honest hard work has a right
perspective of life and straightens out the tangle of doubts and
misgivings.
* * * * *
“A tale of quite unusual workmanship, full of variety and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is a most skillful counterfeit of the real thing, and if it
fails of the highest excellence, that is all the more reason for
crediting it with all the lesser excellence that it indubitably
possesses.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 494. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“Miss Brown has contributed another distinct personality to the
portrait gallery of American women.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 132. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Is better than merely entertaining.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Miss Brown’s vein of whimsical romance still holds; it may be that
the whimsy gains upon her a trifle. In this story, indeed, it runs
pretty frankly into extravagance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a notable book and well worth reading, but it ought to have
been better.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The romantic interest of the book is thruout rather cool and thin,
and of far less rich and satisfying quality than its comedy.” O. H.
Dunbar.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 137. Jl. ’08. 1200w.
“The men in the story are highly vizualized, imaginary male persons.
They live in a rarefied atmosphere and they never by any accident come
to life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The book has an individuality of its own—a personal freshness in the
point of view that helps to compensate for the lack of personality in
its characters.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Brown, C. Campbell.= China in legend and story. **$1.25. Revell.
W8–68.
Abounding in broad fellowship, this narrative presents China,—“not the
willow-pattern country of our conventional ideas, but the living,
palpitating, human China.” The author’s “standpoint is neither that of
a missionary soliciting pity for an ‘afflicted people,’ nor of a
traveller describing the picturesque peculiarities of an alien and, by
implication, inferior race. It is that of a man who, in the course of
ten years’ residence among the people of whom he writes, has had
occasion to say of many of them, ‘You’re a better man than I am, Gunga
Din.’” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A well-written volume of stories.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 20w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“The influence of Christianity on character has seldom been more
impressively exemplified than in the tales which compose the latter
half of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 540. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Brown, Charles Rufus.= Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: an American
commentary on the Old Testament. *$2. Am. Bapt.
7–18189.
“A concise commentary upon the Book of Jeremiah” which fills “in part
the place of the German _kurzgefasste commentare_, a form of biblical
literature which, strangely enough, is still sadly lacking in our
language.... The book gives in the left-hand column of the page the
text of the authorized version; on the right, the author’s own
translation, the metric passages being presented typographically in
poetical form, but without any attempt to produce the exact rhythm of
the original. The commentary appears below the text.”
* * * * *
“Scholarly in character and structure, and withal adapted to the needs
of the intelligent reader, whether or not he be acquainted with the
Hebrew. The book is to be welcomed as capitally meeting its purpose
and filling a long-felt want.” J. A. Montgomery.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 455. Jl. ’08. 730w.
“The exegesis is sound and judicious. We know on the whole of no
better explanation in English of the prophecies of Jeremiah, and yet
at the same time we feel constrained to point out blemishes in this
work. The commentary seems padded. It is an anachronism also to
reproduce the authorized version—the American revision should take its
place if the author’s new one was not sufficient. The commentary is
also marred by occasional little homilies and common-place
observations which detract from its scholarly dignity. The work also
fails in a good English style.” E: L. Curtis.
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 396. My. ’08. 520w.
=Brown, Demetra, and Brown, Kenneth.= First secretary: a novel.
$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36248.
Constantinople is the scene of the romance in which Stephen Weir, an
attaché of the American legation, woos surreptitiously the daughter of
a pasha who is the promised wife of a young Turk. America’s red-handed
methods in matters of matrimony are strongly contrasted with
traditional oriental restraint.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 130w.
“It is a book to pass the time and it has the distinct merit of not
pretending to be anything else.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Brown, Gerard Baldwin.= Rembrandt. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
7–37526.
“Gives a great deal of information about the paintings, etchings, and
drawings, the technical methods, and the qualities of the art of the
great Dutchman, and what is really known or reasonably surmised as to
his life in a shape hardly to be so conveniently found elsewhere.”
(Nation.) “Professor Brown is particularly keen in pointing out the
painter’s arbitrary use of shadow.” (Outlook.) There are over forty
plates, representing every phase of the painter’s work.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“Prof. Brown has erred, perhaps, in including too many subjects for
discussion. The selection of illustrations is unconventional and good,
and the book is provided with such critical apparatus in the way of
analysis, notes, and indexes, as is suitable to its scope. It may be
commended as the best book on Rembrandt’s life and art for the general
reader that has been produced in England.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 200. F. 15. 600w.
“Seldom in a popular monograph does one meet with such scholarly
treatment, combined with breadth of vision and catholicity of
judgment.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 420w.
“That clearness about things which reigns in the author’s own mind is
communicated to the reader.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 169. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Especially for purposes of reference or for systematizing one’s
acquaintance with the known and inferred facts of the painter’s
career, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Without being a specially illuminating piece of criticism it is a
capable bit of work, and a pretty complete one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 44. Ja. 9, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Brown, Horatio F.= Studies in the history of Venice. 2v. *$6.
Dutton.
8–15744.
From the study of a bewildering mass of archives the author has
produced a work on the diplomacy, the constitution, and the finance of
Venice in relation to the republic’s formation, growth, and decline.
“The studies fall under two types,—the investigation of the
constitutional and economic policy of the State, and the retelling of
some of her famous tales.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Brown’s book is to be commended for its various light on our own
living problems.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1095. My. 14, ’08. 550w.
“We think it is a mistake that he introduces into his text
untranslated passages in Venetian or Latin; but this is a slight
blemish on so valuable a work.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 900w.
“These admirable volumes might well take the place of a more formal
history of Venice.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
=Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Brown’s essays are on wisely chosen subjects, and illustrate
almost continuously the development and growth of the city.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 81. Ja. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Brown’s scholarship is profound, but he wears his learning
lightly, and these essays are as remarkable for their grace of style
and vivid portraiture as for their sound historical judgment. The book
will be prized by all lovers of the enchanted city as an illuminating
guide to the essentials of her past.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 337. F. 29, ’08. 1700w.
=Brown, Rev. J. Wood.= Builders of Florence. il. *$6. Dutton.
8–35375.
“A scholarly study and interpretation of Florentine architecture as an
expression of the character of the Florentine people, illustrated more
in detail and specifically by the examination of twelve important and
monumental buildings possessing both architectural and historic
interest, ‘and such as lend themselves readily as illustrations of the
city’s life, whether commercial, ideal or political.’ An introductory
part, before taking up the characteristics of Florentine architecture,
provides an exposition of the ‘Substance of Florence.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“An art treasure as well as a delightful account of some aspects of
Florentine life and thought as expressed most vitally and most
permanently in the city’s buildings.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Among architectural treatises this work must take rank at once as
noteworthy for breadth of vision, insight and erudition. It is packed
with a wealth of historical material and that material is skilfully
used.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 620w.
“The whole book is indeed instinct with the very spirit of Florence.
As compared with the scholarly text with its impression of reserved
power the drawings of Mr. Railton cannot fail to appear sketchy and
inadequate.”
+ + − =Int. Studio.= 34: 344. Je. ’08. 300w.
“Not less valuable than his more elaborate studies are the stimulating
thoughts he sprinkles over his pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 650w.
=Brown, John.= Letters of Dr. John Brown; with letters from Ruskin,
Thackeray, and others; ed. by his son and D. W. Forrest; with
biographical introductions by Elizabeth T. M’Laren. *$4.
Macmillan.
8–2410.
The letters of a hard-working doctor, a practitioner of no little
fame, “with a great capacity for friendship and delight in simple
things.” His “Rab and his friends” immortalized him. His letters are
supplemented by nearly a hundred written to him by Ruskin, Thackeray,
Gladstone and others.
* * * * *
“Gaiety and gravity are alike characters of this good physician’s
mind, and neither is the gravity gloomy nor the cheerfulness tedious
or strained.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 720. D. 7. 1870w.
“In the near view thus afforded of a tender and beautiful, rather than
a brilliant and powerful, character the book is all that could have
been expected, and nearly all that could be desired.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 171. Mr. 16, ’08. 1950w.
“In spite of the three collaborators in the work of editing, very
little has been done either in the text or footnotes to connect the
letters, or to make the allusions to people and events intelligible.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“A general human and healthy interest in the things of the mind Dr.
Brown’s letters abundantly evince. A ‘rounded intelligence,’ the
correspondent of one of his correspondents called him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 103. F. 22, ’08. 2850w.
“Dr. Brown’s comments upon literary men, women, and their works are
keen and most engaging.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 793. Ap. 4, ’08. 1450w.
“Brown’s letters are just what one would expect—direct, terse,
humorous and tender. The collection has been well arranged and
edited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 150w.
“It is very good fare which his son and Dr. Forrest have provided for
us. These three hundred and twenty-seven letters are like a
continuation of the ‘Horae.’ The style is precisely the same,—the same
use of italics (dating from his twentieth year), the same rusty
rhetoric, the same careless phrases, as exquisite in their simplicity
as any you will find in Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 928. D. 7, ’07. 1420w.
=Brown, Sir Robert Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice
as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–4027.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book reflects wide reading on the part of the author and is
written in exceptionally good English for an engineering work. The
subject matter, on the whole, is logically and pleasingly presented.
The irrigation engineer will find pleasure and value in reading the
book but not in studying it. The engineer in other branches of
engineering will be able to obtain a comprehensive view of the subject
of irrigation from this book, and it is in this field that the
usefulness of the work mainly lies.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Standard books, indeed, have been previously issued dealing with
irrigation works on their grandest scale, in ‘The irrigation works of
India,’ by Mr. Buckley, and ‘Egyptian irrigation,’ by Sir William
Willcocks; but the book under review will be very valuable for all
persons interested in irrigation, by dealing in a single volume with
and contrasting the principal works and systems of irrigation in these
two great countries, and thus presenting a very comprehensive view of
that most important subject of irrigation for the development of arid
regions.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 513. S. 19, ’07. 1500w.
=Brown, Stewardson.= Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky mountains.
**$3. Putnam.
8–310.
A student’s manual of plants to be found in the region of the Canadian
Pacific railway between Banff and Glacier. “Mr. Stewardson Brown,
curator of the herbarium at the Philadelphia academy of natural
sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged in accordance with
their scientific relationships, and there are keys to the genera, a
general key to the families, a glossary, and an index to both common
and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, about half of
them in color, ... are the work of Mrs. Charles Schäffer, who proves
herself a botanical draughtsman of much ability.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Schäffer has shown exceptional skill in drawing and in
reproduction of color.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 90w.
“A complete and beautiful guide to the flora.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It will prove a vade mecum for the botanically inclined visitor to
the resorts along the Canadian Pacific railway, between Banff and
Glacier.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Brown’s descriptions appear to be clear and helpful, but it is to
be regretted that he has made use of a provincial nomenclature, which
is not in accord with the conclusions reached at the International
congress of botanists.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 40w.
=Browne, Abdullah, Haji.= Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of
to-day. *$3. Scribner.
7–42482.
A volume which aims “to familiarize Englishmen with the Egypt of
to-day, to outline its history, and to present its problems. Intimate
acquaintance with the oriental nature and mode of thought has begotten
in the author a keen sympathy with the people he is describing, though
he retains the broad outlook and enlightenment of the European.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story of Bonaparte in Egypt is excellently told, and gives one to
understand, better perhaps than any other of the many books on the
subject, the trend of his policy, especially as it was altered and
modified to suit the exigencies of the situation. The account is
naturally from the Egyptian point of view, but the conclusions are not
unfair, neither are the deductions unwarranted.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 865. S. 7, ’07. 570w.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 642. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“This is indeed a book that can hardly be taken seriously by anyone
but its author; as a whole, the work is worthless to the scholar, and,
for the most part, wearying to the general reader.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 300w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 357. S. 28. 1900w.
“In spite of its numerous faults, the book has distinct value.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We can recommend this book for the perusal of all who are interested
in the British occupation of Egypt.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 284. S. 20, ’07. 1200w.
“Haji Browne’s point of view is too personal to find a large audience,
too heterogeneous to convince, and too discursive to please. His hold
on fact is slight. There is further ground of complaint against the
Haji; his style is tedious, his egotism insistent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 39. Ja. 9, ’08. 500w.
“A remarkable work on modern Egypt.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“We fancy that Haji Browne could have written a fascinating personal
record, and we would willingly have forfeited for it all the not very
important stuff he has written about Bonaparte.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 362. S. 14, ’07. 1750w.
=Browne, Edith A.= W. S. Gilbert. il. (Stars of the stage.) *$1.
Lane. 7–32813.
“Interesting in the details which it gives of the brilliant humorist’s
youth and up-bringing, his early literary and theatrical tendencies,
his career at school and the London university, and his various
disappointments in seeking distinction in the army, the law, and civil
service. In these diverse pursuits he acquired the varied experience
of life which he was to put to such admirable satirical purpose later
on.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Of the man she paints so truthful and kindly a picture that we seem
to know Gilbert as we have never known him before; to be in touch with
him, to be holding a warm, generous hand that it is most pleasant to
grasp, but with the delineation of the author we have some quarrel.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 724. Jl. 27, ’07. 850w.
“Is not altogether destitute of sound critical appreciation, but is
written too much in the style of the feminine newspaper interviewer to
be quite worthy of its subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 370w.
=Bruce, Edwin Morris.= Detection of the common food adulterants.
*$1.25. Van Nostrand. 7–38618.
To aid in the pure food cause this little book brings together the
best and simplest qualitative tests for all the common food
adulterants. It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely
to be found and the reason for their use.
* * * * *
“As a collection of recipes the work is good; in other respects it
commands but qualified admiration. As a compendium of some of the best
qualitative tests for ordinary food-adulterants the book will be
useful, especially to the man who already knows how to apply the
processes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 28. My. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Historic ghosts and ghost hunters.
**$1.25. Moffat.
8–24447.
“A collection of fascinating and strange stories relating to famous
mysteries. Thus we have the tale of the ‘Devil of Loudun,’ of ‘Lord
Brougham’s ghost,’ of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth,’ of the ‘Cock Lane
ghost,’ in which Dr. Johnson was interested, and the less known story
of the relations to ghostland of the Wesleys; while coming down to our
day, the marvels alleged to have been done by Mr. Home (Browning’s
‘Mr. Sludge, the medium’) are related, and a chapter is devoted to
‘Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day,’ including a rather slight
sketch of what has been told more fully elsewhere by Mr.
Bruce.”—=Outlook.=
* * * * *
“The ghost stories he has told us are interesting and not easily
attainable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Many of the conversations and descriptions with which he enlivens
these tales, while increasing what may be called the interest of the
narratives, are so obviously imaginary as to detract somewhat from
their value. With this much of adverse criticism out of the way, it is
pleasant to admit that the author has done his work extremely well,
and certainly he is not to be blamed for attaining his intended object
instead of another.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 552. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
“Such a volume could hardly fail to be readable, and the author has
been successful in putting his narratives into a semi-fictional form
which has spirit and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Riddle of personality. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–6655.
See Cumulative book index for contents. “Mr. Bruce sketches the
progress of the problem from the magician Mesmer and his ‘doings’ down
to the latest American explorers of the sub-conscious world. His
account of the work of the Society for psychical research is
particularly interesting. His own conviction of departed spirits under
the theories of ‘spiritism’ (a more exact term than spiritualism) can
be equally well explained by the theory of telepathy.”
* * * * *
“The book may be ranked between the ultra-scientific and the ‘crank’
theories, and is of special interest as summing up what the scientific
study of personality has contributed to therapeutics and as an
estimate of the work of the Society for psychical research.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“Obviously, a safe elementary guide is needed for the study of a
subject so full of pitfalls for the uninstructed; and the need has
been admirably supplied by Mr. Bruce. He will be criticised by the
specialist, of whatever school, for a somewhat dogmatic method of
statement, for occasional simplification by the expedient of ignoring
troublesome factors.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 278. My. ’08. 900w.
“The man of science ... takes what comfort he can in the fact that the
presentation is temperate and not extravagant, and he finds further
comfort in the guidance offered by the author to prospective students,
who, if they follow it, may find the path toward an understanding of
personality, not as a mystery but as a profound natural development.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 350w.
“No other volume of its size gives such a complete survey of this
debatable ground or tells in such an interesting way of what is being
done to explore it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 25. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The worth of Mr. Bruce’s book is much increased by a critical
bibliography of his subject, admirably written and covering the whole
field fairly well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 900w.
“The book is one of great value, and written in a style that will
bring enlightenment to many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 796. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Social life of Virginia in the
seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher
planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs,
and diversions of the people. *$1.50. Bell bk.
7–21275.
A supplement to the author’s “Economic history of Virginia in the
seventeenth century.” It is an “attempt to reconstruct the social life
of Virginia during the seventeenth century. To the origin of the
higher planting class, and the causes of social distinctions, he
devotes more than half of his small volume; the amusements and
pastimes of his people occupy the remainder.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The reader will gain from the work a more vivid and adequate
understanding of the beginnings of the upper classes of Virginia
society in the period of lowland ascendancy.” F. J. T.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 609. Ap. ’08. 1100w.
“A careful piece of minute research, based throughout on original
authorities.” C. H. Firth.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 155. Ja. ’08. 760w.
“His picture of colonial life is clearly drawn, and his thesis of the
essential similarity between English and Virginia conditions well
maintained. At times Mr. Bruce’s local pride gets the better of his
logic, as when he follows up a statement of the superiority of
Virginia sobriety over that of England, with a series of quotations
and incidents which seem to us to point to the reverse of his
conclusion. In more serious matters his judgment is excellent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Bruce’s scholarship is well known, and this volume, like his work
in general, shows wide reading, an appreciation of historical values,
and a faculty for presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 410w.
=Brudno, Ezra S.= The tether. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–20348.
A subjective study of a Jewish boy’s struggle for education, freedom,
and the love of a Gentile maiden, while the inexorable prejudices and
decrees of his race withhold them from him. He goes the length of the
tether which the grim leniency of his race allows, and then is brought
to a standstill which is symbolized by a mortal sickness.
* * * * *
“The most dramatic and forceful parts of the book are those which deal
with the Hebrew relatives and friends of the hero, among whom the
author describes many varieties of the Jewish immigrant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Brudno writes with an ardent spirit, curbed by intelligence, and
effective to the end he seeks.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 270w.
=Bruner, James Dowden.= Studies in Victor Hugo’s dramatic
characters; with an introd. by R: G. Moulton. *$1. Ginn.
8–8836.
Following the method of sympathetic induction in his investigation,
the author has collected, arranged, weighed and harmonized into a
unity all the details of each character studied. He includes Hernani,
Don Ruy Gomez, Don Carlos, Doña Sol, Ruy Blas, the villain in “Ruy
Blas,” and Lucrezia Borgia.
* * * * *
“A volume of deeply interesting literary criticism.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 70w.
“A volume to which the word charming may properly be applied. The author
has very genuine insight into the creations of Hugo’s genius, and his
own style is attractive and readable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 50w.
“It must be scientific literary criticism, for it betrays no sign of
literary taste, no insight, no humor, and no charm.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
− =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 370w.
“The Introduction contributed by Professor Moulton illuminates the
entire field.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
=Bryant, Lorinda Munson.= Pictures and their painters; the history
of painting. *$3.50. Lane.
7–21729.
A book which appeals to the student, to the professional, or to the
lay reader. “The volume begins with the work of the ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Italian painting
from Cimabue to Giotto down to Vasari and Baroccio is then considered,
followed by several separate chapters on Venetian painters from
Giorgione and Titian down to Salvator Rosa. In the second part of the
book we are given the story of Irish painting and of the work of
Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, French, English and American
artists.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Throughout the book will be found bits of anecdote, history, and
legend giving additional interest to an artist, his painting, or the
times he worked in.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Is a compact series of notes on the art of the world with the stamp
of personal familiarity with the pictures discussed and with an
unusually keen sympathy with early schools.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 90w.
=Bryant, Walter William.= History of astronomy. *$3. Dutton.
8–9045.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It covers a wider range of time than Miss Clerke’s ‘Popular history
of astronomy,’ and though a good piece of work, hardly equals that
book in intrinsic merit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08.
“Terseness and sanity of scientific statement characterizes the work.
It is amply worth buying, reading and keeping.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The work is descriptive, and is characterized thruout by clearness
and directness of statement.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The book contains a few inaccuracies. Occasionally, too, there is
lack of lucidity of style, and a use of cryptic expressions or
unexplained technical terms. But in general the author’s opinions are
clearly expressed and are also sound.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 593. D. 26, ’07. 500w.
“To the more advanced reader it is likely to appear superficial, as
only touching with notelike brevity a few of the many chapters of the
science; to the reader merely interested in astronomical development,
however, it should appeal as a popular and very attractive account of
many interesting sections of nature-study.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 193. Jl. 2, ’08. 1450w.
“The subject is treated by one well able to deal with a wealth of
material almost overwhelming.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 460w.
“We have every reason to think Mr. Bryant an accomplished practical
astronomer, but he has not the gift of lucidity, and above all he is
no historian.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 632. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
“He writes lucidly enough, and his book may be recommended to the
beginner.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 124. Ja. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Bryson, Charles Lee.= Tan and Teckle. **$1.25. Revell.
8–23922.
Tan and Teckle are field mice, and these stories of their adventures
with neighbors, both friendly and hostile, will prove fascinating as
well as instructive to young readers.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38524.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The chief impression left by Mr. Buchanan’s ‘Real Australia’ is the
cleverness of the author. The book is undeniably interesting. It is a
book that, once begun, will be read to the last page; but when the
reader has finished, while he will certainly know a great deal more
about Mr. Buchanan, his views of life, and his powers and ability, it
is doubtful whether he will have a much better or fuller knowledge
than he had before of the real Australia.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“A welcome offset to the books which have dealt with the subject in
detached phases, more particularly with the political history of the
country and the socialistic experiments made there.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Buckman, David Lear.= Old steamboat days on the Hudson river.
(Grafton historical ser.) il. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–36976.
Tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the
introduction of steam navigation. It records “not merely a picturesque
episode in local experience, but the very beginnings of steam
navigation.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“On account of the lack of references the work can hardly be classed
among scholarly books. Furnishes pleasant reading and will prove a
useful book of reference for particular phases of the local life of
which it treats.” E. K. Alden.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08. ✠
“Is a book which one only wishes were longer, more lavish both of fact
and of legends.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 90w.
“An interesting account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This volume is full of entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes
relating to the development of steam navigation, with full
descriptions of the various mechanical improvements that have been
introduced in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 170w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Call of the deep; being some further
adventures of Frank Brown. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–30939.
“The writer professes to record incidents of actual sea life aboard
British sailing vessels twenty-five years ago. The rise of the hero
from common sailor to the rank of captain is the unifying element. The
narrative contains the usual wicked commanders, outrageous mutinies,
storms, and hair-breadth ’scapes, wherein our sense of security is
rarely joggled, because the idea that fair play ultimately succeeds is
early premised.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The spirit of manliness, the healthy contempt for ‘girls and
tea-parties,’ and the equally healthy love affair which crowns Frank’s
good fortune, will compensate, in the youthful minds, for a decided
lack of literary finish, and novelty of plot. The masters are
challenged, but they may rest easy.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Written in Mr. Bullen’s unaffected, breezy way, with capital
descriptive passages and an abundance of exciting incidents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“This will entrance all the youngsters, and as many of their elders as
love the smell of salt water.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 30w.
“Mr. Bullen’s new book is written avowedly for boys, and the more of
them who read it the better—it will do them nothing but good—but it
will please their elders too.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“The story is full of real life from beginning to end. Long ago John
Newton remarked that he did not know of any books ‘suitable for
mariners.’ Well, here they are; wholesome to the core; the work of an
expert, but with nothing which would ‘warn off’ the most absolute
landsman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25.
Ginn.
7–31981.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Admirable judgment has been shown in choice of subject and of
authorities.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
“One feels in reading each of the various chapters that he has before
him the last thing that has been said on the particular subject under
discussion. Such a book cannot fail to fill an important place in the
thorough presentation of a course in economics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The selections might have been made to better advantage and might
more thoroly represent the best modern reading on economics in England
and America, but just as it is, the book is useful.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 70w.
“The most serious omission appears to be the virtual neglect of the
more recent developments in economic theory commonly associated with
the Austrian school. It is doubtful whether any other equal group of
selected readings would prove more generally acceptable or
serviceable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 191. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“Every teacher will find in the book some material that he will be
very glad to have available for the use of his students.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 443. F. ’08. 200w.
=Bumpus, Thomas Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy,
their history and their architecture; together with much of
interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages
identified with them. (Cathedral series.) $2.50. Page.
8–21818.
An introductory chapter gives some insight into the principles which
guided the progress of North Italian church art, and describes some of
the distinguishing marks of the various schools. The body of the
volume is concerned with the cathedrals themselves, their
architecture, history and associations; while a concluding chapter
gives a list of the most remarkable pictures and wall paintings found
in the churches described. The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 410. D. ’08. 160w.
“Might be described as an ornate hand-book, so closely does it combine
the useful and the ornamental.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“To the reader interested in architecture, especially if he be able to
follow the author’s commentaries ‘in situ,’ this volume will prove a
valuable aid to intelligent comprehension.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 502. N. 19, ’08. 580w.
“An interesting as well as a handsome book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Burba, George Francis.= Our bird friends: containing many things
young folks ought to know—and likewise grownups. *$1. Outing pub.
8–14714.
Aside from four chapters devoted to facts about birds, how birds fly
and sing, and bird migration, each of nineteen short chapters deals in
a popular descriptive manner with a familiar bird neighbor. Facts
concerning appearance, habits, nest placing and building are
supplemented by full-page colored illustrations of ten birds.
* * * * *
“As a condensed account of interesting facts the book is well worth
one dollar and the time required to read it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The poorest and most colorless nature book that could well be
imagined. The illustrations so offend the artistic sense, the diction
is so flippant and uninteresting and the facts are thrown together in
such a purposeless, haphazard way as to repel the reader of any age.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 78. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Breezy and enthusiastic, with no sentimental twaddle, the volume is a
delight.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 50w.
=Burgess, Isaac Bronson.= Life of Christ; adapted from the life of
Christ by Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Mathews. $1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–29368.
An aid to constructive and historical Bible study for classes in
secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Leaven of love: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23559.
A story full of spiritual enlightenment whose situation grows out of
the separation of a jealous wife from her husband. The scene shifts
from Boston to Regina Beach, at which latter place the leavening work
progresses, presided over by a young girl whose activities are
marshalled into heavenly order by demonstrable principles of life. How
she shows the misery-burdened wife a sure way back to happiness, how
she stimulates and encourages the husband to hope and work for the
reconciliation, how the evil woman in the way vanishes, and how life
may be a living example of limitless freedom—are all shown with
reasonableness and skill.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 120w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Rather amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Burns, James.= Christ face in art. *$2. Dutton.
8–14762.
A survey extending from St. Luke to Ottilie Roederstein which traces
the growth and historical development of sacred art as expressed in
the face of Christ as conceived by the greatest painters of each age
and country.
* * * * *
“The criticism is superficial, and of little value to serious students
of art, but Mr. Burns has one indispensable qualification for the task
he has chosen: he writes always in a spirit of seriousness and
devotion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 260w.
“A valuable book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United
States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25.
Benziger.
8–18343.
A coherent view of the Catholic parish school movement in the United
States from the earliest times down to the great immigration period,
which began in about the year 1840. The author dwells upon the steady
effort to build and equip schools, to provide teachers and overcome
fundamental difficulties both from within and from without.
* * * * *
“A very attractive and instructive historical study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 548. Jl. ’08. 840w.
=Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone.= Search for the western sea. *$5.
Appleton.
8–23910.
The story of the exploration of Northwestern Canada during a period of
about three centuries. Mr. Burpee’s examination of manuscripts in the
Canadian archives has been painstaking and exhaustive. “The story
begins with the Northmen who a thousand years ago pushed across the
Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and America, ‘where they stood the
first of the white men on the shores of a new world,’ and
appropriately it ends with the Northmen who, still by Greenland,
Baffin bay and King William Land, succeeded where so many gallant
spirits had failed. Mr. Burpee does not confine himself to men like La
Verendrye, Jonathan Carver, Alexander Henry, Mackenzie, Fraser,
Thompson, and the rest whose work was mainly overland; he tells also
of the men who ‘with characteristic obstinacy’ clung to the idea that
the Western sea might be approached through Hudson strait.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Contains much of permanent interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 430w.
“He writes with very full knowledge of his subject and presents his
facts in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24. ’08. 20w.
“Mr. Burpee puts before us vividly the personality and the
achievements of the pathfinders of the Canadian west.” James White.
+ =Ottawa Evening J.= 4. Je. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“Valuable contribution to geographical knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton. 7–34309.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book is an example of that best type of realism, the type that
one instinctively accepts as plain, unvarnished reality.” F. T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 780w.
“It is a well-written story in point of style, but exhibits a low
degree of vitality, and is burdened with much inconsequential detail.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
“She has invented an ingenious plot, with a daring point of departure,
and peopled it with rather interesting, if not strikingly original,
characters, but her atmosphere is provincial, like her setting.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A novel may be without especial originality or significance in
itself, and yet possess interest as permitting the reader, as he
fancies, a peep into the psychic processes of the writer.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 140w.
=Burrell, Rev. David James.= Lure of the city: a book for young men.
**$1. Funk.
8–28413.
Twenty-three talks to young men, including the following chapters: The
call of the city; Going into business; The poor boy’s chance; The ten
o’clock man; The choosing of one’s friends; Amusements; Books and
reading; Dreams; Voices; How to spend Sunday; Temptation; The code of
honor; The doubter; The Christian; The quitter; The honest man; and
Opportunity. They aim to help the city youth to “tighten a buckle of
his harness.”
* * * * *
“Is not only full of good Christian sense, but is readable and lively,
just such talk as would appeal to those to whom it is addrest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
“Admirable series of essays, which make up a readable, wise, and
helpful volume, half homiletic, half of a guide-book character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“He writes here with his well-known vigor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 60w.
=Burroughs, John.= Leaf and tendril. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–11501.
A book of essays a part of which are nature sketches symbolized by the
“leaf,” and a part nature sermons in which Mr. Burroughs teaches the
trimming and high-culture gospel of the vine-dresser. The opening
essay on The art of seeing things imparts to the reader some of the
secrets of observation inherent in the “eye and ear, yea, in the mind
and soul” and presided over by a great love of nature.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual pleasant style and characterized by
careful observation and sympathetic treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08.
“His philosophy is of the wholesome and kindly sort which we like to
think belongs to those who live much out-of-doors.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1297. Je. 4, ’08. 320w.
“As a country summer companion, it will set one to study nature with
sharper and kindlier eyes. We may add that Mr. Burroughs’s
observations on natural history are of distinctly more value than his
utterances on philosophy and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“And those men and women who grow doubtful or bitter, scornful or
hopeless as the result of too much contemplation of man and his works,
can not find better medicine for their souls than these calm and
trustful pages, filled with the maturest thought of a venerable man
who loves and believes in life, his fellow-man, and the universe.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
=Burt, Mary Elizabeth=, ed. Prose that every child should know; a
selection of the best prose of all times for young people;
decorated with photographs by Eve Watson Schütze. (Every child
should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–11736.
This volume goes to increase the responsibility already rather
arbitrarily imposed upon children by the foregoing volumes in the
“Every child should know series.” None the less here are prose gems
for a child’s thought worth reckoning with. The selections range from
Homer and Esop to Lincoln, Ruskin, Cable, Stockton, Markham and
others. Articles are furnished on the absorbing questions of the
day—money, labor, reforms, etc.—so providing material for oratorical
and debating societies.
* * * * *
“An excellent collection of quotations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Burton, Frederick Russell.= Strongheart: a novel; founded on
William C. De Mille’s play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24461.
A story based upon the drama which adheres to the scheme of De Mille’s
play, while extending and broadening the treatment. The Strongheart of
the novel is identified with the Ojibways, about whom and whose tribal
characteristics the author has sound, first-hand knowledge. The
extending of the drama story consists of a prologue showing
Strongheart’s Ojibway surroundings and an epilogue in which Dorothy
wins the hearts of the Indians thru missionary work and gains their
consent to marry Strongheart.
* * * * *
“The chances against a novelised drama being anything more than a
piece of clumsy carpentry, makes it distinctly worth while to say a
few words in praise of ‘Strongheart.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 382. D. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Burton has written an entertaining novel, and he has also given
forcible dramatic and truthful presentation of the surroundings,
conditions, and sentiments of the Ojibway people, and of the
complicated matter of their relations with the whites.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 509. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The story is an entertaining one and gives the reader some idea of
the true Indian of to-day and his relations with the white man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.
8–26676.
A German violinist, a newsboy and a cocker spaniel constitute the
“top-floor trinity” of this story that tugs away at the heart strings.
In the foreground are the three comrades, unprosperous, struggling for
daily bread. Uniting the elements of the tale is a romance,
unfulfilled, hallowed thru years of the musician’s unworldly striving.
When the waif was revealed to be the child of the woman of the
violinist’s life of dreams, “he was gathered into an embrace that
reclaimed him forever from his homeless state and set him safe in the
harborage of a good man’s long-starved love.”
* * * * *
“It is good for man or boy; it will insure a happy hour; and it will
appeal especially to every one who loves, or has ever loved a dog.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Bury, Lady Charlotte.= Diary of a lady-in-waiting; being the diary
illustrative of the times of George the fourth; interspersed with
original letters from the late Queen Caroline and from various
other distinguished persons; new ed.; with an introd., by A.
Francis Steuart. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
8–29183.
A reprint of “a plain record of the follies of a princess.” The
chronicler was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and
traitorously divulged court secrets. “It was history of a sort, the
intrigues of the back stair and the evil or insipid gossip of snobs
and flunkies of all ranks of society. And Thackeray himself, as the
editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart points out, quoted ‘some of its most
pregnant passages when he desired to use them as brilliant
illustrations of his immortal “Four Georges”.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“We cannot help thinking that while Mr. Steuart was about it, he might
have accomplished his editing more thoroughly.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 182. Ag. 15. 360w.
“Of course the work as it stands is not continuously interesting to
readers who have no intimate knowledge of the history of the time. But
there is no livelier, or perhaps truer, picture of the wretched
consort of George IV in existence.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 270. N. ’08. 1400w.
=Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w.
“There is probably no better picture to be found of the social life of
the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 400w.
“In many ways this edition is improved and made more readable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“It should never have been written, and, having been written, it
cannot be read by the most callous without an absorbing and pitiful
interest.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 197. Ag. 8, ’08. 1550w.
=Bussell, Rev. Frederick William.= Christian theology and social
progress: the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
The author, rector of Sisland, Norfolk, prepared eight lectures for
delivery in St. Mary’s church, Oxford. These occupy about two-fifths
of the volume; the remaining lectures are eight “Supplementary
lectures.” “Mr. Bussell defends Christian doctrine on the ground of
its utility, seeking to show its value and necessity for the present
age.... He contends that Christian ethics cannot outlast Christian
dogma, and that the general welfare is bound up with the faiths and
hopes of Christian belief.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He conducts his argument on a high plane, meeting philosophical
objections with no small penetration and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 210. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“The discussions are stimulating and suggestive throughout; but owing
to the extent of the ground covered, and the manner of exposition
chosen by the author, it is very difficult to state shortly the exact
drift of the book.” S. H. M.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 524. Jl. ’08. 470w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Cheerful smugglers. †$1. Century.
8–11086.
The young parents of a year old baby evolve a scheme to provide a fund
for the child’s college education. A ten per cent tariff is imposed
upon everything that comes into the house, groceries, cigars, candy,
clothes, and even upon the belongings of their guests. The comedy of
the situation reaches its climax when everybody takes to
smuggling,—cook, guests and the parents themselves.
* * * * *
“The little book is very good fun.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“It is all very cheerful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Sheer nonsense, but amusing nonsense at least.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 20w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Kilo; being the love story of Eliph’
Hewlett, book agent. †$1. McClure.
7–36094.
Eliph’ Hewlett, the irrepressible, ne’er-to-be-downed book agent,
cannot detach himself from his “Jarby’s encyclopedia” even when he
goes a-wooing. “Peer Gynt did not divert his dying mother’s mind by
their imaginary ride more utterly than did this Iowa book agent with
his enthusiastic recital of the merits of ‘Jarby’s encyclopedia’; her
last words were: ‘Eliph’, you may put me down for a copy.’” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Certainly it is lively reading; but the persistent effort to be funny
thru 279 pages exhausts author and reader alike, and we may fail to
see some passages of genuine sincerity and a few veritable folks.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
* =Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan. 8–34126.
Three lectures delivered before the University of Copenhagen which aim
to set out some of the aspects of American life and to draw a picture
of that part of present-day civilization which the world knows as
American. The chapters are The American as a political type, The
American apart from his government, and The American and intellectual
life.
=Butterfield, Kenyon Leech.= Chapters in rural progress. *$1. Univ.
of Chicago press.
8–4449.
A book which emphasizes the social aspects of rural communities and
describes some of the newer movements resulting in the expansion of
country life. It “does not offer a complete analysis of the rural
problem; but attempts, in general, to present some of the more
significant phases of that problem, and, in particular, to describe
some of the agencies at work in solving it.”
* * * * *
“The book is a splendid introductory study to rural sociology and
should do much to call attention to the subject and to mark out the
lines for its study.” T: J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 127. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The book is written in an admirable spirit. The chief defect of it is
repetition of non-essentials due to being boiled down from several
separate compositions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08. ✠
“It should be in the hands of all who are in any way interested in
rural progress, from the farmer to the school trustee.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 340w.
“[These chapters] have already been presented to the public either in
the more serious magazines or from the platform. But they have all
been rewritten and combined so skillfully as to give a succinct view
of what the farm needs in order that it may have the highest
efficiency in the production of men and women as well as wheat and
corn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Buttles, Janet R.= Queens of Egypt. *$3. Appleton.
Miss Buttles “has gathered together from all available sources all
that Egyptology has known concerning the names, personalities, and
deeds of the women who shared the thrones of the Pharaohs, and has put
all this together into a readable, connected account of the feminine
side of the royal line.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book is carefully written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
“Her book is singularly free from inaccuracies or antiquated
theories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 960w.
“The portraits, the personal descriptions, the mass of detail to be
found in Miss Buttles’s attractive book are little short of amazing:
the extent to which this almost prehistoric history has been
disinterred can hardly be believed by any one who has not followed
modern study very closely. Queens of six thousand years ago are here
made to live again.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 371. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of Persian heroes. $1.50. Crowell.
8–24871.
From Persia’s book of kings, Shah-Nameh, have been drawn these tales
of Rustum, the Persian King Arthur, and his warriors and foes.
“Mingled with the crash of fierce battles we find other strange
accounts of enchanted gardens, snorting dragons, beleaguered forests,
imprisoned maidens, and knightly guests as fine as any ever inspired
by that other Eastern hero, Haroun-al-Raschid. In most of them Rustum
himself appears, mounted upon his wonderful horse, Rakush, whom every
boy will wish to have for his own.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Altogether delightful, a prize in a miscellaneous collection of books
for young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
=Byers, Morton Lewis.= Economics of railway operation. *$5. Eng.
news.
8–982.
The economics of railway operation are treated under seven heads: (1)
Organization; (2) Employment, education and discipline of forces; (3)
Accounts and accounting; (4) Reports; (5) Economic operation; (6)
Analysis of operations and control of expenses; and (7) Betterments.
“The book outlines briefly these main features of different aspects of
operating topics, shows their inter-relation, and goes into
considerable detail in explaining how the work done under each of
these features is controlled by instructions and reports submitted to
the higher railway officers.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“We must express our highest commendation of the work Mr. Byers has
done in the interest of railroad engineering as a whole and we feel
sure that there is hardly a man in the railway service who cannot
derive much benefit from a study of this book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 302. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“A good book for the student of railway affairs, but too detailed for
those who have but little time for reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 110. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
“The level of the book is a high one; and fullest recognition should
be given to the wide knowledge of railroad operation which it reveals,
and to the thoroughness and care with which its material is given to
the public.” Stuart Daggett.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 241. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Byron, Henry.= Day-dreamer’s harvest. $1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
7–20965.
“A modern key to the best that is in Marcus Aurelius and La
Rochefoucauld, which adds much besides as a result of the author’s own
observations and researches in human phenomena.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Byron has filled his pages with wisdom nuggets that makes the
book one into which to dip at odd moments.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
“Open the book where you may, you will always find something that
arrests the attention and invites thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 280w.
“A collection of thought-provoking ‘meditations.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.
C
=Cadogan, Edward Cecil G.= Life of Cavour. *$2. Scribner. 7–37531.
A life of the Italian statesman built upon a political structure
“revealing the causes that brought about, the influences which shaped,
and the political consequences ensuing from the cause of United
Italy.”
* * * * *
“Reading his book, with its pretense to learning which its author does
not possess; with its disregard on every page of honest historical
methods; and with its bluff at being a pioneer in a field which has
already been well explored, we are at a loss to decide whether
Jowett’s college has greater need of up-to-date instruction in history
or in the elements of ethics.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 800w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 450w.
“It is an example of a certain kind of false scholarship which ought
not to be tolerated in English universities or by English critics.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. Cadogan’s book should be read with interest; not, as we have
said, as a biography of Cavour, but as a political essay outlining the
story of his career and clearly defining and showing the development
of those forces which were combined to produce the Italy of the
present day.” Walter Littlefield.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 1330w.
“The story of how he had accomplished a work such as no statesman of
the century could show, with what helps and what hindrances, is well
told in these pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Child’s guide to pictures. **$1.25. Baker.
8–22108.
A book whose sole aim is to help young people find expression in words
for the feeling of beauty which pictures inspire in them, and to put
some idea into the reader’s head that will lead him to find more and
more beauty in pictures, in nature, and in life. The elementary
principles of art analysis are outlined as the basis of criticism, and
illustrations are furnished from the work of representative artists.
* * * * *
“Especially valuable for teachers and others who work with children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08.
“This attempt, in spite of an imperfect sympathy with the more formal
side of art as compared with its picturesque qualities, is so well
carried out that one feels inclined to advise Mr. Caffin to submit his
book to some slight revision—relieving it of an occasional air of
condescension.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 580w.
“Written for children, it seems to be quite beyond their capacities.
Its instruction is wonderfully clear and admirably simplified, but it
is an extremely ambitious book, undertaking to give the child a much
wider and deeper art education than he is capable of receiving.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 420w.
“The author assumes a great deal of authority in Ruskin-like
patronizing tones, and there is an excess of waste verbiage throughout
the volume. But Mr. Caffin is nearly always correct in his judgment
upon great pictures.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 70w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2.50.
Stokes.
7–36959.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Reliable as to information and rating of artists, founded apparently
on opinions of recognized authorities, but lacking in original
criticism.... Does not compare favorably with Isham’s admirable work
on the subject but has its place.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
“Merely as a picture book the volume will be both entertaining and
instructive. Mr. Caffin’s criticism, however, is not of the kind that
is subordinate to its illustrations.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“While Mr. Caffin’s contributions to art criticism contain little that
is new or original, he gleans his facts and opinions from
authoritative sources and he is in the main a perfectly safe guide.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 318. F. 6, ’08. 240w.
“If not an original critic, Mr. Caffin generally knows where to go for
opinions or information, and seldom makes serious mistakes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 21. Ja. 2, ’08. 120w.
“There has long been a need for a book on American art that would
trace its evolution in a manner at once popular and authoritative.
This need is now supplied by Mr. Charles H. Caffin.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“While his estimates of the American painters of the past is, in
general, just and forceful, when he discusses the qualities of his
contemporaries his estimates seem sometimes too eulogistic.
Nevertheless, the book is specially strong in dealing with
contemporary American painting, and upon that latest phase of which
Mr. Luks and Mr. Sloan are the apostles.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 430w.
* =Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A.= Appreciation of the
drama. **$1.50. Baker.
The sixth volume in the “Appreciation series.” The promise of good
things which the foreword, a little classic, gently intimates is
fulfilled in large measure in the chapters that follow it. The author
invites his reader at the start to take a comfortable seat in front of
the curtain, then proceeds from an analysis of the sensations of the
man in the audience to a review of some of the salient considerations
that affect the appreciation of the drama, viz., a brief history of
the drama, the art of acting and stage management, the building of a
drama technically; and from these facts of experience past and present
deduces principles for a basis of critical appreciation.
* * * * *
“He takes up the subject as a new thing, without prejudice, and he
says again many of the old, old things with a fresh buoyancy of
spirit. His historical chapters are exceedingly interesting and free
from tedious details, and his discussion of the pictorial side of the
contemporary stage, of the deficiencies in lighting in spite of the
modern machinery, and the need of what he calls plastic scenery, is
novel and suggestive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 697. N. 28, ’08. 1100w.
=Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.=. Petrarch: his life and times. *$3.50.
Putnam.
8–6038.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Two slight objections must find their way into our short criticism.
The one—the inappropriateness of the rhyme ... which Mr. Calthrop
places on the dedicatory page. And, secondly ... we deprecate Mr.
Calthrop’s references and allusions to the house of Stuart. Having
aired these grievances against Mr. Calthrop, we end as we began, by
saying his book is only too short.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 263. D. 21, ’07. 1270w.
“A discriminating yet enthusiastic guide who has made good use of the
material already published.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 379. Je. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“He writes clearly, without mannerism or particular distinction, and
he has put within reach of readers of English the best biography, so
far as we are aware, of Petrarch.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A literary hash in which there is little new material and in which
the old, frequently over or under done often defies identification.
The book is without references or footnotes of any sort. All this does
not mean that the author has not written an entertaining book.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 467. Ag. 29, ’08. 980w.
“The volume may very well be placed on the shelf which holds Mrs.
Ady’s ‘Beatrice of Milan’ as an equally picturesque account of
mediæval social conditions in Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
“It is so dull that considered as a work of the imagination it does
not exist at all. A book full of vain repetitions, of the vaguest
generalisation, inaccurate, untrustworthy, a mere arid interjection,
an ipse dixit, without any evidence to support it or indeed any
knowledge properly understood of the subject with which it deals.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1020w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Goya: an account of his life and works;
with 612 reproductions from his pictures, etchings and
lithographs. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13747.
A biographical sketch precedes a full list of the artist’s work
accompanied by descriptive notes which include information concerning
where the originals may be found.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 130. My. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The text accompanying the pictures is biographical rather than
critical, but contains some acute comment and is carefully prepared.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 390w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Granada: present and bygone. *$2.50.
Dutton.
8–21789.
Of interest alike to historian and artist, this volume in Mr.
Calvert’s “Spanish series” reflects the Moorish and Christian grandeur
of the “Mecca of every pilgrimage beyond the Pyrenees.” The volume is
finely illustrated.
* * * * *
“The text shows considerable research, and compares favorably with the
author’s earlier work in this series; it is, however, unfortunate that
he is not the master of a more attractive style of presentation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08.
“The most satisfactory section of the book is a supplementary chapter
written in collaboration with Miss C. Gasquoine Hartley, though Alonso
Cano’s talent is decidedly overrated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 140w.
“To all who have visited or hope to visit Granada, as well as to those
who are interested in Spanish art, we can confidently recommend
‘Granada.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Its æsthetic value is somewhat lessened by the juxtaposition of a
full-paged colored illustration and a large line drawing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
“Treats, perhaps, more fully of the town of Granada, as well as of the
Alhambra itself, than any other book upon the subject which is easily
attainable. It is not deficient in humour. There are one or two little
errors which might easily have been avoided.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 116. Jl. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“A specially good volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 871. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca: a
historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) 462 half-tones,
*$1.25. Lane.
8–35378.
A souvenir rather than a guide book which in its historical sketches
and descriptions provides information for the amateur on architecture
and archaeology.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The illustrations are plentiful, as in the other volumes of the
series, but the text, as usual, leaves a good deal to be desired.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Murillo. (Langham ser., v. 20.) 165 il.
$1. Scribner. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The entire work of Mr. Calvert tends to furnish the tourist with the
“royal roads to knowledge.” A biographical sketch of Murillo is
followed by a list of the artist’s works with brief descriptions.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08. 40w.
“He puts together the well-known facts with some skill, and his
narrative is pleasantly written. We notice a few inaccuracies.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Toledo: an historical and descriptive
account of the “City of generations;” with over 500 il. (Spanish
ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The author’s aim has been that of equipping the illustrations with
brief descriptive matter rather than of supplying new facts and
theories. “He gives us legend, as, for instance, the curious story of
the birth of Pelayo; history—when it can be distinguished from
legend—and this both local and national; art, in its various
development of architecture, sculpture, etc.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08.
“For the casual tourist a handbook of this sort is of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 441. S. ’08. 130w.
“The chapter on El Greco, in which Mr. Calvert has had the advantage
of a collaborator, is the most readable part of this volume. The rest
of the text is burdened with details which will seem excessive to the
average reader, and many of which will be found inaccurate by
scholars.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 352. Mr. 21. 420w.
=Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine G. (Hartley).=
Velazquez: an account of his life and works; with 136
reproductions from his most celebrated pictures. (Spanish ser.)
*$1.25. Lane.
8–13287.
“It is not an exhaustive treatise of the painter’s work, nor a full
biographical essay, still less is it a handbook to explain his
pictures. It is just an invitation, as it were, to look more carefully
at the pictures themselves.... The list of the paintings of Velasquez,
together with an indication of where the originals may be found, is in
itself a valuable guide to the student.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The principal value ... will be found in the almost unprecedented
fulness of illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 280w.
“The book gives the well-known information in a convenient form.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Walter M.= Cordova: a
city of the Moors. il. *$1.25. Lane.
7–41577.
“A historical sketch of three chapters gives the setting of the town
in the life of the peninsula, and another chapter introduces us to its
famous sons, Seneca, Lucan, El Gran Capitan and others less noted. One
hundred and fifty-nine excellent plates give an outlook upon the chief
objects of interest. These form almost half of the book and contribute
to its value in at least the same proportion.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a mischievously bad book. The larger works were, at least,
protected by their high price from falling into the hands of ordinary
students: this handbook is within the reach of all, and therefore able
to mislead a large number of readers. Even worse than his want of all
method is the mawkish clap-trap meant for poetical description. Mr.
Calvert has not the art of fine writing, and had better give up these
ungainly essays.”
− − =Acad.= 13: 917. S. 21, ’07. 1250w.
“The author has excellent powers of description, and leads us around
the city and through the mosque in a way that enables the reader to
catch the spirit of the place exceptionally well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 268. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Their labour in respect of the collection of plates which occupies a
good half of their book has been well bestowed. The book, is, on the
whole, well and agreeably written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 800w.
=Cambridge= history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward. 14v.
ea. *$2.50. Putnam.
7–40854.
A work covering the whole course of English literature from Beowulf to
the end of the Victorian age which is intended (a) to give a connected
account of the successive movements, both main and subsidiary, in
English literature; (b) to trace the progress of English as a vehicle
of English literature; (c) to take note of the influence of foreign
literature upon English literature and on foreign literatures; (d) to
provide each chapter with a sufficient bibliography.
=v. 1.= From the beginning to the cycle of romance.
The volume is composed of a number of essays contributed by different
writers whose scholarship and fitness have recommended them for the
service.
=v. 2.= Carries the treatment from the time of Chaucer to the end of
the middle ages.
* * * * *
“The authority of some of the many contributors to these two volumes
may be questioned, the treatment in the main is cyclopedic rather than
continuous, and the general trend linguistic more than literary, but
the work as a whole will from its scope and nature be a valuable tool
in larger libraries.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dealing with the book as a whole, we can commend it as an
astonishingly correct and well-printed handbook; but it falls short of
satisfaction as a history of English literature. It will not stand
comparison with ‘Petit de Julleville,’ the test which presents itself
naturally, either in quality of production or literary style. More
efforts might be made to prevent overlapping.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 719. D. 7. 3000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editors of this volume are to be congratulated on a much higher
level of achievement than its predecessor showed; they have produced a
book which is indispensable to any serious student of English
literature.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 325. S. 19. 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Not all the contributors are persons, we will not say of ripe
scholarship, but even of accurate and ordered knowledge.”
− + =Atlan.= 102: 692. N. ’08. 3000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Most of the bibliographies are well compiled, though there is a want
of uniformity in their plan. The volume as a whole deserves unstinted
admiration.” D.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 402. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first volume is altogether too encyclopedic for a thoroly
satisfactory literary history, which ought to be continuous and
expansive.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1094. My. 14, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We must look upon the present work as the first-fruits, albeit ripe
and perfect, of the new school of English scholarship, and we welcome
the present volume as a splendid specimen of taste, learning, and
research in this department. As an earnest of what is yet to come its
contents are remarkable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 400. S. 19, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The cooperative history of which we now have the first volume,
fulfils, to a respectable degree, our expectations. It is a pity,
however, that for so many chapters, the editors have been unable to
secure contributors of authority. On the other hand, actual errors of
statement are few.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A serious deficiency in the present volume is the want of a general
characterization of the period.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 74. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volume has an interest as well as a value, only the interest is
rather linguistic than literary.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To the reader of ordinary culture the second volume seems vastly more
interesting and instructive in the right sense, than the first. Its
array of essays represents sound and broad scholarship and they form a
collection of good literature by themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For the larger of these tasks some of the authors of this volume are
not very well qualified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 437. Ap. 4, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cambridge= modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by
Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea.
*$4. Macmillan.
=v. 5.= The age of Louis XIV.
“The government of Louis, his foreign policy, the Gallican church,
Molière and his contemporaries in letters, and the war of the Spanish
succession are here, but they have been taught their place in the
scheme of things. The revolution in England, the affairs of the small
but mighty United Provinces, the Anglo-Dutch rivalries, and Peter the
Great, Charles XII, the Great Elector and their respective enterprises
are justly estimated and printer’s space meted out to them
accordingly. The colonies and India also have a chapter.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The English edition of this volume, like its companions, is notably
free from such errors, but a considerable number of typographical
mistakes, sometimes quite serious ones, have found their way into the
American edition. Few more useful volumes, and, save for one
hopelessly confused contribution, few more eminently usable volumes on
this period have appeared or are likely to appear.” W. C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 863. Jl. ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“Contains a number of exceptionally good articles, but it leaves us
wondering how the editors would justify the inclusion of others.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 722. Je. 13. 1400w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Regarded as literature, this volume seems to us less effectively
written than the first two were, and there are fewer contributors of
first-rate eminence.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 11. Jl. 2, ’08. 1850w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Making allowances for deficiencies of the plan, it is a remarkable
contribution to historic science by its comprehensiveness, its almost
excessive fullness of detail, and its facilities for easy references.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A high standard of scholarship prevails, together perhaps with a
rather higher quality of literary excellence than usual.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 88: 657. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
Reviewed by J. T. Shotwell.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 529. S. ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 5 and
10.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Is fully equal to any of its predecessors. The chapter by M. Faguet
on French seventeenth-century literature and its influence in Europe
is disappointing. Making all allowances, this contribution remains
sketchy and unsatisfying.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 141. F. 1, ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
“By some mysterious process it has converted the excitement and the
significance of the seventeenth century into flatness and insipidity.
The book falls between two stools; it should have been either a great
deal longer or a great deal more condensed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 577. Ap. 11, ’08. 1700w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Cameron, Margaret.= Cat and the canary. †$1. Harper.
8–5576.
A suburban farce-comedy that grows out of a husband’s invitation to an
influential capitalist and his wife to spend the night at his home.
The wife suddenly bethinks herself of the fact that the necessary
lingerie garment to offer her guest is not forthcoming on account of a
series of accidents, chief among which being the baby’s overturning of
an ink bottle in the laundry basket. In desperation the husband robs
his neighbor’s wash, pins a five-dollar bill to the line, is caught,
extricates himself thru the prestidigitateur’s art and wins the
approval of his admiring neighbor.
* * * * *
“The humor is heightened by the plausibility of the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Campbell, Frances.= Shepherd of the stars. *$1.50. Dutton.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the East, beguiling in its invitation to
“embark immediately for Morocco,” this book is all about a maiden aunt
and two wonderful nieces, Felicia and Pickle, who journey and camp in
Morocco. “Felicia, who is always in the foreground of prettily studied
Eastern life and scenery, is a blend of alluring early-Victorian and
twentieth century models.... We can watch the wooing and winning of
her by that astonishingly splendid young duke in disguise without a
pang of envy, since for ourselves we prefer Pickle.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“No one but the most carping of readers would deny its cleverness and
quick sympathy and charm. And yet one has constantly to regret little
exaggerations, little pieces of carelessness, little shallownesses
more apparent, perhaps, than real.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 380w.
“For its unconscious humor, its ingenuous amateurishness, the book has
a value not to be ignored in this day of sophisticated
accomplishment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The author’s power of transmitting impressions of colors, sounds,
scents, moods, and a host of other delicate things usually
incommunicable is almost magical.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
=Campbell, James Mann.= Paul the mystic: a study in apostolic
experience. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–25728.
Paul’s experiences and teaching interpreted from the standpoint of the
mystic. “Even those who do not like mysticism will scarcely find any
violence done to the apostle here: Paul the mystic is Paul at his
best. In this respect I think that Dr. Campbell’s book is to be
welcomed: it awakens distrust of those rationalistic accounts of the
apostle’s character, in which everything really divine in his life and
doctrine is relegated to the irresponsible void of religious fancy,
where anything may happen.... Throughout the book, Paul’s mysticism is
shown to be the vital, originative, principle in religious experience;
it is, in fact, the highest expression of his faith.” (Hibbert J.)
* * * * *
“It is a pity that a volume of such character should be vitiated by
two well-defined flaws. Dr. Campbell is most rabidly anti-Roman. Side
by side with these unnecessary jibes are occasional lapses of taste in
diction.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 361. Ap. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“A stimulating and interesting study.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 20w.
“He shows a varied knowledge of books, especially of those on the
subject with which he deals, and has a sound grasp of the principles
of critical exegesis.” R. A. C. Macmillan.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 690. Ap. ’08. 660w.
“He has written a good deal that is true, and much that is important,
but he has hardly come at the heart of his subject or portrayed with
any clearness or satisfaction the mystical elements in Paul’s
religious faith.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 440w.
“Such a writer may convey much information on Paul the missionary, or
even Paul the maker of dogma, but he cannot deal successfully with
Paul the mystic.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“An interesting and thought-provoking volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Campbell, Norman Robert.= Modern electrical theory. (Cambridge
physical ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
8–16903.
“The present book might be called ‘The science of the electron.’ It is
not written for the expert. ‘It was begun with the idea of providing a
text-book from which students, well-grounded in the elementary
branches of physics, might obtain some knowledge of the later
developments’; and although this scheme has been departed from in some
respects, the above quotation from the preface represents fairly well
the general scope of the book.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Some few objections may be taken to the book. An honest and very able
book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 163. F. 8. 1230w.
=Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“His exposition would gain if the overbearing tone were modified. The
reader also resents the too colloquial character of some sentences.
Although we do not find ourselves in agreement with everything in this
book, it is undeniably a very invigorating study of the subject.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 73. My. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“The author has chosen his material wisely and combined it with skill.
The perspective is thoroughly good and the point of view is not that
of the popularizer of second-hand knowledge.” H. A. Bumstead.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 649. N. 6, ’08. 600w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= Christianity and the social order.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–41762.
An analysis which shows the correspondence between the principles of
Christianity and those of modern socialism—socialism in its best
sense. The book is written “from the point of view of one who believes
that the movement reprobated by the Pope on the one hand, and dogmatic
protestantism on the other, under the name of modernism really
represents a return to the primitive Christian evangel, freed from its
limitations and illusions.” Mr. Campbell believes that the present
spiritual movement is destined to rescue Christianity from
ecclesiasticism in all its forms.
* * * * *
“The writer cannot agree with the ultimate conclusions of this book.”
A. T. Burns.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 671. O. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 499. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“The volume is one of the most profoundly thoughtful popular treatises
dealing with the world-wide struggle and irrepressible conflict for
economic independence that has yet appeared from the pen of a moral
idealist. The Rev. R. J. Campbell is a worthy successor to Canon
Kingsley and Frederic D. Maurice.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 374. Mr. ’08. 4700w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 127. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“I do not know where a better general discussion of the subject may be
found; it is wholly sympathetic, yet not at the expense of truth, and
might well carry conviction to those who would not be moved by a
colder and more purely scientific treatment.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 164. S. 16, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1800w.
“It is an able work, free from the blemishes of style and sentiment
which make volumes of sermons the least popular of all forms of
literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 587. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 350w.
“Dr. Campbell is undoubtedly doing good, But his best work is as a
preacher of religion. He is not a success as theologian or economist.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“One reads a book like this with regret and misgiving. Not only is one
forced to disagree with very much that it contains, but one is also
compelled to think that it will inevitably cast a shadow on Mr.
Campbell’s earlier work.” C: Johnston.
− =No. Am.= 188: 140. Jl. ’08. 980w.
“Mr. Campbell’s volume illustrates that curious incoherence of thought
which seems to me to be a general characteristic of the radical
socialists.” Lyman Abbott.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
“It is not worth while to examine Mr. Campbell’s argument chapter by
chapter. He has nothing that is particularly striking or novel to
say.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= New theology sermons. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–33946.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“These sermons are a very interesting exhibition of the homiletic
possibilities of what Mr. Campbell reluctantly calls the new
theology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 120w.
“The controversial is subordinated to the practical ethics or the
spiritual message that glows in the light and warmth of the living
truth on every page.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 39: 113. Ja. ’08. 3850w.
“Many will find them altogether too theological, and too much of any
theology, old or new, is bad for sermons.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“With their endless confusions, their perfervid and narrow zeal for a
type of doctrine, their blindness to the most real distinctions, the
discourses of Mr. Campbell induce anything but the feeling of
religious calm and trustfulness.”
− =Nation.= 86: 81. Ja. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Hastily written, bad in style, and based on a rough mixture of
diluted Hegelianism and cheap nonism. He will make many men think whom
profounder theologians will leave untouched.”
− − + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“These sermons are characterized by insistence on reality, by care for
things rather than names, by warmth of human feeling and by confidence
in the invincibility of love. To the reader who shares in these
qualities they will prove broadening and uplifting, despite what we
regard as a theological one-sidedness.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 470w.
=Campbell, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; ed. by J. Logie
Robertson. (Oxford ed. of standard authors.) *75c. Oxford.
Mr. Robertson has collected Campbell’s poems and rearranged them
according to natural rather than chronological order. The author in
his preface “explains that he has ‘not printed everything metrical
that Campbell wrote,’ but that this edition contains more than any
previous one, and ‘nothing that deserved to be included has been
omitted.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book is a further specimen of the careful editing and arrangement
we associate with ‘The Oxford poets.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 200w.
=Dial.= 44: 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole Campbell deserves a high place among the second class of
poets because of his national poems.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Campbell, Rev. Thomas Joseph.= Pioneer priests of North America,
1642–1710. $1.60. Fordham univ. press.
8–22530.
Consists of eighteen monographs of the missionaries who labored among
the Iroquois Indians. From Isaac Jogues to Julien Garnier, the
sketches become a continued story of heroism and holy living as
revealed in the missionary cause. The book is profusely illustrated.
* * * * *
“In lasting popular form, a splendid story of heroic apostolic zeal,
and a valuable contribution to American ecclesiastical history.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 832. S. ’08. 170w.
“One may well wish for Father Campbell’s book the general circulation
in public and private historical libraries which it well deserves to
secure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Altogether Father Campbell’s book is one of permanent interest and
value. One may commend the numerous and well-chosen illustrations
quite as heartily as one must deplore the absence of any kind of
index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
=Campbell, W. S.= Passer-by in London. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–21786.
Largely based upon second hand information, characterized by ‘bare and
brief’ statements, this volume is devoted to points of interest to the
sight-seer in London. The fullest portion of the book is that offering
information about Wren’s city churches.
* * * * *
“His book does not tell inquirers much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 200w.
“For its carefully compiled contents rather than its style, of which,
indeed, it has little, the book may be recommended. It will be useful
to tourists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode.
†$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is so well written as to leave one distinctly depressed.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 480w.
“After seeking in vain for the purpose of the story, it ends in the
air.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Canfield, Dorothy Frances, and others.= What shall we do now? new
rev. Am. ed. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–36217.
Five hundred games and pastimes are included in this book for
children. Science underlies the suggestions for play so that children
may be instructed as well as amused.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1485. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“There is abundant fun in its pages, well grouped.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 70w.
=Canfield, Mrs. Flavia A.= Kidnapped campers: a story of
out-of-doors. †$1.25. Harper.
8–28985.
A story for boys which tells of a camping trip that changed a sickly,
fretful young son of wealthy parents into a sturdy, brown skinned
youngster who becomes the hero of a bear-hunt.
=Canning, Albert S. G.= British writers on classic lands: a literary
sketch. *$2.25. Wessels.
8–19258.
“A series of short—even abrupt—literary sketches, quite elementary in
their scope, [this volume] deals with the literary treatment of
classical lands and learning by British poets and prose-writers of
varying fame. Dean Farrar and Milton, Mangnall’s ‘Questions’ and
Macaulay’s ‘Essays,’ Lecky and Lemprière are all here.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The writing is pleasant and readable, but rather aimless. It is not
quite clear whether the author has any definite object in writing his
book.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 727. Jl. 27, ’07. 340w.
“The style of the book is loose to exasperation, and often
ungrammatical, and there is no evidence whatever of sound
scholarship.”
− =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Carden, Robert W.= City of Genoa. *$2.50. Pott.
Deals with the history, life and art of Genoa. The historical survey
extends from the early colonizing struggles of the people to the
alliance with Napoleon in 1797. The main portion of the book “is
devoted to a study of the principal civic monuments—the Church of S.
Siro, the cathedral, the harbor, the Palazzo di S. Giorgio, the
Palazzo Ducale, etc., etc.—and, in each and every instance, the dull
details of topography are illuminated by the associations of the sites
described.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Perhaps the weakest point in the book is to be found in the fact that
Mr. Carden studies his Genoa, as it were, in a vacuum, and rarely
draws an analogy from the history of other communes. The volume is one
which no visitor to Genoa can possibly afford to do without, and our
author is to be congratulated upon the production of what is at once a
learned and a readable book, serviceable alike to the student and the
tourist.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 780w.
“An admirable condensation of the history of the city and gives us in
a very satisfactory way the sum and substance of the information that
is available about the various objects of interest that are on view in
the city at the present time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“What he has to say he says concisely and well, and the visitor will
find his account of the art and architecture of the city more
extensively serviceable than anything to be got from the none the less
necessary guide-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
“He has worked the story out with unfailing industry, and has given it
all the interest of which it is capable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 360w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–26685.
A bright story of wholesome girlhood in which the daughter of a
typically English household strives cheerily through many vicissitudes
to sight the silver lining.
=Carlisle, George Lister.= Around the world in a year. $2. Cooke.
8–10289.
A book which exceeds in interest the ordinary book of travel. It is a
record of impressions, reproduced with humor, gained by an overworked
New York lawyer off for a year’s vacation. “The book may be read with
decided interest by all who want to know about those things which are
essential to national life the world over, and about industrial and
political conditions. There are many photographic illustrations.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Would merit but little attention were it not for the author’s genial
good sense, his freshness of observation, his odd turns of speech, his
delightful scorn of all things praised by those more scholastically
inclined, and his almost sinful disrespect for venerable objects, both
sacred and profane.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Carlisle is keenly and shrewdly observant as well as humorous.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 144. Mr. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Carlisle has a trained mind and decided facility in arranging and
placing in literary perspective his observations.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Carman, Bliss.= Making of personality. $1.50. Page.
8–12175.
A plea for self-culture. Mr. Bliss introduces ideas of reform in
bodies and raiment that shall make for better symbolism of soul
fitness and poise.
* * * * *
“Mr. Carman’s book is both philosophy and poetry, and its appeal is
twofold.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 480w.
“It is, thruout, a gospel of good cheer that the poet preaches,
kindly, hopeful and reasonable, with more spiritual import than
appears on the surface; the happy phrases run on so pleasantly that
the book might be called ‘light reading,’ but they are ‘good
sentences’ that ‘would be better if well followed.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
“The clear lyric utterance of the poet is apparent in many of his
sentences, and this work as a whole will be found by all readers of
taste at once a suggestive guide and a source of inspiration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“It is a beautiful philosophy, most delightfully set forth, and
whoever looks into it will feel impelled to do some of the things he
is invited to do.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Carman’s prose—if it be understood as his—is as clumsy and
cacophonous as his verse is nimble and sweet.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 5: 108. O. ’08. 550w.
=Carotti, Giulio.= History of art. 4v. ea. *$1.50. Dutton.
=v. 1.= Ancient art; ed. and rev. by Mrs. Arthur Strong; tr. by Alice
Todd.
“Professor Carotti has wished to do on a larger scale something like
what Solomon Reinach has done in his admirable ‘Apollo.’... The ground
covered in the present volume is that of Chapters 3 to 10, inclusive,
of ‘Apollo’ (Professor Carotti does not concern himself with
prehistoric art); and the 350 pages of text correspond to some 72 of
Reinach’s, the pages containing much the same amount of matter, while
there are 540 illustrations, against 128 in the ‘Apollo.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The translation is rather stiff, and not easy to read, but it appears
to be accurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With its very numerous illustrations the work should be of great
value to the student.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If Professor Carotti is thus enabled to give us more detail, he has
neither the grasp and lucidity nor the charm of Reinach. His book is
dryer reading and will hardly convey so definite a conception of the
character of the art discussed in it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 124. Ag. 6, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is crammed with information and cannot fail to be highly appreciated
as a textbook or work of reference. Despite the admirable translation
the style is conspicuous for it dryness. Dr. Carotti’s budget of
compressed information deserves all possible praise for the care with
which it has been brought together from authoritative sources and
arranged to throw light on the chronological development of ancient
art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first part of Signor Carotti’s volume seems more striking and
novel than does the second, which is in comparison more like the
treatment of classical art found in other histories.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 700w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The amount of information which has been compressed into this small
book is astonishing.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Carpenter, Charles U.= Profit making in shop and factory
management. (Works management library.) *$2. Eng. mag.
8–11463.
In the first part of the book not only does the author discuss “the
internal management, i. e., that which must secure maximum output,
minimum cost, elimination of delays, and stability as well as
progressiveness of manufacturing conditions, but he considers also the
direction of the external phases of the business, such as marketing
the product, keeping in touch with the demands of trade in order to
bring out new products to meet changing demand and the like.” (Engin.
N.) The second division considers for its principal topic the
upbuilding of a selling organization.
* * * * *
“Among the many and various writings ... on factory management, Mr.
Carpenter’s little book claims a high place for practical utility.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 549. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Altogether the book is one that can be studied by manufacturers, to
their benefit.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 380w.
“This well written and concise volume is full of sound and practical
advice that can scarcely fail to be of great value to all
manufacturers and students of industrial economics.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 160w.
“The book makes no appeal to literary or popular appreciation, but it
has considerable economic value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 180w.
=Carpenter, Edward.= Sketches from life in town and country, and
some verses. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16591.
“Sketches and notes, straight from life, with no stuffing or gilding,
from life chiefly in English villages, but also in a slum and in
Bombay. In addition there is a note on the International socialist
congress at Paris in 1889, a humorous piece of autobiography, a
chapter on weeds, and some poems.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Their power consists not in the style in which they are written so
much as in their evident truthfulness.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 340w.
“When he reflects on ‘civilization, its cause and cure,’ he is a
petulant child with the temper of the older Ruskin, and his mouth
echoing Rousellian fallacies. When he sets quietly to work depicting
the lives of the humble which have appealed to his imagination ... he
reveals a certain talent of his own, albeit slightly reminiscent of
Thomas Hardy.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Some of the notes are excellent, the work of patient observation, and
careful if not always vivid record.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 540w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.= My day and generation; with 63 il. **$3.
McClurg.
8–11659.
Reminiscences of an Illinois lawyer who has been active in every
pre-election campaign since 1856.
* * * * *
“Some of the best pages in the book treat of matters European, and
more particularly Danish. Colonel Carr’s pen is not so severely
correct as to be incapable of making an occasional slip.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 273. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“Colonel Carr has given us a really delightful and ever-valuable
article in ‘Journey to California in 1869 with governor Yates.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 170w.
“While Mr. Carr’s relations are sometimes scrappy, sometimes tell too
little and sometimes too much, they are worth reading, and will be
resorted to hereafter by historians on the lookout for character and
color.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 600w.
“A pleasant book of memoirs.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=Carrick, John Charles.= Wycliffe and the Lollards. $1.25. Scribner.
8–20493.
“A conventional treatment characterized throughout by a belligerent
attitude toward Romanism. The last part gives a very fine, concise
statement of the work of the reforming councils, which in the author’s
opinion are due to the ‘ne’er-ending influence of Wycliffe.’”—Am. J.
Theol.
* * * * *
“This is a scholarly treatment, condensed and highly attractive.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 50w.
“A slovenly index forms a worthy conclusion to a book which has no
real reason for being.”
− =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
* =Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H.
Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
A book which covers in a clear, cautious, intelligible way the real or
possible meaning and explanation of the main points of interest in the
problems which the psychic researcher attempts to solve. The Coming
science as the author views it is psychic research.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Vitality, fasting and nutrition: a
physiological study of the curative power of fasting; together
with a new theory of the relation of food to human vitality; with
an introd. by A. Rabagliati. *$5. Rebman co.
8–4583.
A book which refutes the whole system of orthodox medicine and all
accepted notions as to the nature of disease and maintains that life
is a thing apart from the body; that food merely replaces tissue; that
the cause of all disease is the presence of effete, morbid matter
within the organism; that to cure disease one must fast.
* * * * *
“He has written 650 pages in which a robust common sense struggles
with erroneous statements, perverted facts, and uncritical methods.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 860w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
“His book is a strange medley, and hardly merits serious consideration
in a scientific journal. The book is only remarkable as an instance of
the lengths to which a fad can be carried.” W. D. H.
− =Nature.= 79: 66. N. 19, ’08. 360w.
“Certainly a great book. Mr. Carrington knows a whole lot of things,
some of which are so and a few more of which may be, and his big book
can be read with profit and interest, even by those who will not
accept many of its main contentions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 169. Mr. 28, ’08. 850w.
=Carter, James Coolidge.= Law: its origin, growth and function.
**$2.50. Putnam.
7–31236.
A course of lectures prepared for delivery before the Harvard law
school. “The lectures, as would be anticipated from the proposed
occasion, are general in their nature and couched in non-technical
language. They make no contribution to legal history. Mr. Carter
adopts, for his purposes, the views and conclusions generally held by
others. These lectures make no such attempt to determine the province
of jurisprudence, as was the purpose of the painful and laborious
logic of John Austin. They contain no such searching analysis of legal
ideas as is to be found in the classical treatise of Professor
Holland. Their force is spent upon the general theorem, that ‘the
whole private law, which governs much the larger part of human
conduct, has arisen from and still stands upon custom, and is the
necessary product of the life of society, and therefore incapable of
being made at all.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Whether one agrees with him or not, the book is of great interest as
an expression of the deliberate and mature conviction of one of the
most thoroughly trained and powerful legal minds which this country
has yet produced.” F. R. Mechem.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 313. Ja. ’08. 660w.
“It is an honor to American literature, as well as to the American
bar, to have made such a contribution as this to the philosophy of
jurisprudence. It is hardly hazardous to predict that this posthumous
volume will prove to be an epochmaking work in the study of its
subject.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 717. N. 9, ’07. 2670w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 530w.
=Carter, John F., jr.= Destroyers. $1.50. Neale.
8–1780.
A novel which depicts the struggle of a young American capitalist
against organized labor. “A strong plea is made for the incorporation
of unions. But the argument throughout is for the victory of might,
not right, and presupposes that men are enemies and that society must
naturally be based on that supposition.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is the book of a man who has made up his mind hastily about some
of the greatest questions with which society is confronted. He has
seen the danger in the unions—he has overlooked much else.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Carter, Samuel T.= Wanted—a theology. *75c. Funk.
8–17230.
A continuation of Dr. Carter’s contention against scholastic theology.
It is a forcible arraignment of the old doctrine and a plea for the
religion as Christ taught it in the love of God and man.
* * * * *
“It is a vital work that merits the widest possible circulation among
orthodox Christians who yearn for something more than the husks of
scholastic or creedal theology.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 469. N. ’08. 2000w.
=Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=Nation.= 87: 73. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
“He writes incisively, but evidently out of a long experience of
gladsome faith in God.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Art of William Blake: his sketch-book, his
water-colors, his painted books. **$3.50. Moffat.
7–41109.
“The various phases of Blake’s art are discussed.... She bases part of
her information on Blake’s sketch book, to the manuscript copy of
which she had access. Many of the illustrations are published for the
first time.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The essay ... is a bit of unrestrained eulogy.” F: W. Gookin.
− + =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is notable for its penetration, its critical acumen, and the sanity
and breadth of its appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“To the general reader and, we think, to many a technician, Miss
Cary’s text may seem to be unduly emphatic as to the importance of
drawing as the true essence of great art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 278. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Honoré Daumier. **$3.75. Putnam.
7–36960.
Miss Cary says “If we care to look upon the France of the past century
with eyes that note not merely the surface view, but types,
characteristics, deep-seated principles, unconscious tendencies, with
a clear appreciation of their values and relations, we cannot do
better than turn page by page a collection of Daumier’s drawings if by
good fortune, such may have fallen in our way.” Here are reproduced
about seventy-five of Daumier’s social and political caricatures with
an introductory and explanatory essay on his art.
* * * * *
“Miss Cary’s introduction is critical and interpretative, and makes an
excellent basis for a study of the great cartoonist’s work.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a character-study, not only of an artworker, but also of his
times, Miss Cary’s ‘Honoré Daumier’ occupies a unique place.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand
millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Bright, interesting, and apparently reliable biographical sketches of
men in whom the public is interested. Not a great book, nor especially
educational, but answering the demands of a legitimate curiosity.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08. ✠
“It is decidedly readable, despite an occasional complication of
biographies. The title, however, may prove misleading. The person
seeking a scholarly, or even complete, history of the iron and steel
industry in this country will certainly be disappointed at the brief
mention accorded the early history of iron making. The book is to be
heartily recommended to all who would know the manner in which
America’s greatest industry came to be controlled by a relatively
small group of men.” W. S. Tower.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 290. Ja. ’08. 390w.
“His book is almost entirely free from the errors met with frequently
in works of this class.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 387. Mr. 28. 1200w.
“It may be of interest to the public, but is more likely to be highly
valued by the various steel magnates for whose greater glory it seems
to have been written. Its appropriate place seems to be among the
‘Fads and fancies’ of economic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 160. F. 13, ’08. 120w.
“Gives a popular and dramatic account of the development of the modern
iron industry.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of the reaper. **$1. Doubleday.
8–15470.
“The tenacious struggle of the inventors of the reaping machine, their
Titanic combats for supremacy, the succession of mechanical triumphs
that have produced the modern self-binder and the final development of
the harvester trust, together form a wonder tale of modern industry as
marvelous as a story from the ‘Arabian nights.’” (Ind.) “Beginning
with the story of the first practical reaper, which was completed in
1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the author traces its growth through the
improvements made from time to time by other inventors up to the
present harvester, a machine almost human in its workings.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Its slightly sensational style may attract older boys, for whom it is
particularly suitable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. ✠
“At times the vivid imagination of Mr. Casson seems to take possession
of his mental machinery.”
− =Arena.= 40: 381. O. ’08. 1200w.
“Reading a chapter by Mr. Casson is like holding the handle of an
electric machine—one gets a series of shocks that make the nerves
tingle.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 220w.
“A bright, entertainingly written, and popular account of the
development and importance of the American harvester.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 464. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“He tells the history of the International course, for the book is at
bottom a piece of trust publicity—but most of all vitally and in a
very interesting manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 160w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Flower o’ the
orange. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–5883.
A collection of short stories written during the years since 1900.
They are tales of the sort of daring that wins love, and are set in
times all the way from the days of Elizabethan chivalry to the
nineteenth century. There are eight as follows: Flower o’ the orange,
The young conspiracy, The great white deeps, My rapier and my
daughter, The great Todescan’s secret thrust, Pomona, and The mirror
of the faithful heart.
* * * * *
“Light, pleasant, rather graceful, love stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
“Unflagging spirits mark the volume, and sometimes tend to screw up
the key slightly above the requisite pitch. The tales, being the issue
of deft craftsmanship, are far above the average short story, and may
be read with pleasure by the discriminating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 448. Ap. 11. 200w.
“All have merit; if one must choose, the one which gives its title to
the volume seems to have a rather special claim.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 185. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The stories are thin, absurd, and uninteresting, composed upon
half-made plots.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A courtly book, and good for a fireside evening.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Such stories are meant for nothing more than the entertainment of an
idle hour, and when they are as well told as are these they serve
their purpose very well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In point of style and manner the authors have done nothing better,
and they have done much that is praiseworthy in story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
“They are very just in the conception of the material required by a
short story; they are well shaped and quite adequately contrived; the
writing is always polished and sometimes admirable; and the adventures
in many instances challenge one’s concern. Yet there is not from cover
to cover the least suggestion of character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 305. Mr. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Wroth. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–26197.
The Castles have hit upon an ingenious plot for their new story. A
young Englishwoman, the wife of an old Italian nobleman, cherishes the
memory of a brief moment of love-making when Lord Wroth swore that she
was the queen of his life. They go their separate ways, her husband
dies, she returns to England and learns that Lord Wroth is advertising
for a wife, whom he must wed within two days or lose a vast fortune.
Veiled, she presents herself with other candidates, is passed by, but
buys from the chosen woman the privilege of marrying Wroth, and is
wedded to him. The remainder of the story is concerned with her
reasons for withholding from him the fact that she is his wife, with
the conflict between love and pride.
* * * * *
“Told with the usual dash of these authors, but with little of that
delicate charm that made their earlier stories acceptable.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“It is atmosphere and incident that tell; and both are here. Moreover,
the style is vivid, and full of force and colour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 360. S. 26. 180w.
“There is in all the writing’s of the Castles a certain deliberate and
wilful note of exaggeration, an almost confessed intention to write as
glowingly as the resources of verbal colouring and rich imagery may
achieve.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 640w.
“Lord Wroth, is artificial and Ouida-esque. He is introduced in an
overwrought and almost hysterical piece of purple writing; and
throughout the story is peppered with exclamation points and has an
excess of sentiment and pseudo-passion.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 110w.
“The atmosphere of the footlights descends upon the story as it
advances, and it concludes in sheer theatricality.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 580w.
=Catholic= encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the
constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic
church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton,
Robert.
=v. 3.= “The contents of the present volume range between Brownson and
Clairvaux, and cover a subject-list of unusual interest to the
non-Catholic reader.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“A question that might be worth the consideration of the editorial
board is whether there are not too many biographical notices of
obscure and insignificant persons. One weakness is in the matter of
places and persons that have been concerned in events in modern
history which have had a grave bearing on the interests of Catholics
and Catholicism even up to our own day.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 88: 99. O. ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The silences of the book are more eloquent than its utterances. If
the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ is to be of this stamp thruout, it does
not deserve the name of scholarship.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ has more than fulfilled its
promises. It only remains to demand a slightly greater editorial care
and discretion in the choice of subject and allotment of space. In
comparison with other contemporary works of reference, neither authors
nor publishers have anything to fear.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 36: 163. F. 1, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + − =Lit. D.= 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 121. Ag. 6, ’08. 680w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In respect to candor and fairness, the editors deserve great
commendation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work has a value not only for Catholics, but for the general
reader of whatever religious belief.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When due allowance is made for the special difficulties likely to be
felt in the early volumes of any international undertaking, the
performance, though very unequal, seems to us to be distinctly high in
its general level.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. N. 21, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Cavanagh, Francis.= Care of the body. (New lib. of medicine.)
*$2.50. Dutton.
8–6051.
“In the series, as planned, all the great aspects of ‘preventive
medicine’ are dealt with from many standpoints. In ‘The care of the
body’ Dr. Cavanagh handles in a very popular yet fundamentally
scientific way the leading generalities of personal bodily
hygiene—sleep, baths, exercise, training, fatigue and massage,
clothing, skin, hair, teeth, feet and hands, light, eye, ear, nose.
Each of these has a chapter. The volume is completed by chapters on
position, habit, and the functions of the physician.”
* * * * *
“The author is well read, writes attractively and is original in his
method of presentation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08.
“The book may serve as a standard one for the subject with which it
deals; the information is accurate and useful.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 485. O. 19. 200w.
“The general criticism may be made that there is often lack of
explicitness as to the remedy for the evils which the reader is asked
to recognize; in fact, the book appeals to a rather well-bred and
somewhat limited class of readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The author succeeds in his effort to be simple, scientific and
vivacious.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 5. N. 7, ’07. 500w.
“It is a doctor’s book which every educated man and woman should read
who desires to follow such a health toilet as may keep the body and
mind comfortable and fit for everyday life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Cecil, Alicia-Margaret.= London parks and gardens. *$6. Dutton.
8–21790.
“It is the history of the irregular growth of open spaces with which
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil deals, beginning with Hyde, Green, and St. James’s
parks, and so through the municipal parks, the commons and open
spaces, to end among the squares and private gardens. But she has
written more than a mere history; she describes the parks and gardens
themselves, and especially deals with their horticultural
possibilities. This is the distinctive feature of the book.” (Spec.)
The illustrations are from water colors done by Lady Victoria Manners.
* * * * *
“It contains everything one could reasonably wish to know on the
subject, together with some details that seem unlikely to be of the
slightest possible interest to anyone.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“Altho written for English readers there is a fascination in the
perusal of the volume for us who have but the rare chance of seeing
the famous places here described.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 70w.
“There was room for a writer who should look at London apart from
streets and houses, and Mrs. Evelyn Cecil has filled the gap with an
engaging book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1097. D. 28, ’07. 680w.
=Cena, Giovanni.= Forewarners; tr. by Olivia Agresti Rossetti;
preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of a poor proof-reader in Turin. “Sorrow, toil, injustice,
all force the hero to brood upon a solution of the problems about him.
Some of the scenes are marvelously vivid, notably a company in the
etcher’s room, made up of the pathetic figure of the drunkard’s wife
and her imbecile child, a mad cobbler, a woman called the Salamander,
and the two men. One conclusion is reached by the author. The first
imperative duty of society is to favor and watch over birth—death
should not be the all-absorbing point of the thought of mankind.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The novel possesses little narrative interest, but holds the
attention by virtue of its compelling sincerity, and many of its
scenes and episodes are rich in artistic beauty. We should add that
the translation is excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 240w.
“It is well worth reading; it quickens thought, widens the horizon,
gives a living value to the ideal, and, best of all, it touches the
heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It moves on with irresistible force, carrying one away by its
picturesque and real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 330w.
“It presents a vivid picture of a part of the body politic in Italy
that has not been presented, at least to the outside world, by any
previous novelist.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 530w.
“As a close and poignant study of the life of the poor in an Italian
town the book is remarkable and depressing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 337. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“Signor Cena has described brilliantly the episodes of preternatural
gloom ... which he proposed to himself, but we ourselves can hardly
read the philosophy of Stanga as such with patience.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 63. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
=Chadwick, William Edward.= Pastoral teaching of St. Paul: his
ministerial ideals. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–19131.
“The principles, methods, and spirit of the great Apostle are
submitted to careful examination with a view to securing counsel for
ministerial, activity in the present day. The temptation in this sort
of essay is to let one’s feeling for present needs dominate his
research into the work of the exemplar, but Dr. Chadwick has evidently
studied Paul first, and subsequently applied conscientiously to
present needs the principles discovered.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is refreshing to see a book on the pastoral teaching of Paul,
sounding a note that has long been wanting.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 515. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“Though there is a taint of prolixity in the style, the book is to be
praised for the high conception of ministerial work which it reveals
and for its earnest treatment of that work. It may be safely commended
to men who desire to be helped in their spiritual labours by wise
advice and an assurance of their high calling.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 189. F. 16. 340w.
“A sympathetic inquiry into the pastoral aims and methods of the great
missionary ... which will help the pastor, or Christian worker, who is
in need of inspiration for his task.” H: B. Carré.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 145. Ag. ’08. 460w.
“The treatise is none the less practical because it is in the first
instance a careful piece of Christian biography.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 149. F. 13. ’08. 130w.
=Chaffers, William.= Keramic gallery. rev. ed. *$12.50. Scribner.
A pictorial supplement to the author’s “marks and monograms on pottery
and porcelain.” “In the present edition [the illustrations] have been
reproduced by the half-tone process, and are inserted with the
letterpress referring to them.... It has been found possible also,
notwithstanding the inclusion of a hundred additional illustrations
from important collections, to make one volume serve in place of two
bulky ones which were required for the first edition, and as this one
volume is not inconveniently large, the usefulness of the work is
increased.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Cundall’s letterpress is hopelessly antiquated: to enumerate the
inaccuracies which Mr. Cundall has not corrected would be practically
to re-write the book, and Mr. Cundall’s additions are mere unskilled
botching. But it is by sins of omission that Mr. Cundall’s inadequacy
is most clearly exposed.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 265. D. 21, ’07. 1650w.
“It includes both historical and descriptive matter, and it is both
exact and exhaustive.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 160w.
“A well-made and valuable, if somewhat colorless book.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“Unfortunately, the index is not ample enough for so exhaustive a
work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Conditions and tendencies of technical
education in Germany. 50c. Bardeen.
8–13346.
“A brief but very complete classification and account of the
industrial and technical continuation schools of Germany. The chief
function of the schools is viewed as vocational training. The
commercial demand for such training is naïvely accepted as the
sufficient reason for their being and the psychology of manual work in
the schools is not considered.”—El. School T.
* * * * *
“Mr. Chamberlain has brought together in small compass a great deal of
valuable material.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 50w.
“While we may not agree with Mr. Chamberlain in the very few
deductions which he makes, and though the book is very poorly printed,
it is an exceedingly valuable report of existing conditions in the
home of vocational schools.” W: C. Payne.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 218. D. ’08. 100w.
“Not only those interested in technical education, but all who are
interested in fundamental questions of education should read
Chamberlain’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia.= Coast of chance;
pictures by C. F. Underwood. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–13722.
A story of love and intrigue with an adorable heroine and two lovers
who are mysteriously involved in the theft of a famous ring. One is
the real thief, the other the owner of this remarkable craftsman’s
conceit; the two are made to change places, and upon the attending
confusion hangs the plot.
* * * * *
“Much better than most of the modern mystery tales.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 70w.
“It is new, vital, well written, and so crisp yet smooth of motion,
that it carries the most unwilling reader pell-mell to the finish.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 16, ’08. 100w.
* =Chamberlain, Jacob.= Kingdom in India. **$1.50. Revell.
8–16957.
“No man did more with his life than did Jacob Chamberlain, who was for
many years a missionary of the Reformed church in India. A great
preacher, an accomplished scholar, a business man of ability, a
medical practitioner of no mean skill, all his talents were devoted
with tremendous enthusiasm to the evangelization of India.” (Ind.)
“The volume itself consists of addresses, &c., on various aspects of
Christian work in India. In the first there is an appreciation of
Indian religions under the title of ‘The religions in the Orient:
their beauties and their fatal defects.’ Then comes a paper on the
Bible in India, followed by others on missionary topics, medical
missions and the work of women among them. Under this last heading
comes an interesting account of the high-caste Hindu girls’ schools.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“All the papers and addresses are interesting, but more so after
reading Dr. Cobb’s appreciation of the veteran.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Chamberlain was a diligent worker and a keen observer, and he
knew how to describe what he did and what he saw.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.= Ifs of history. **$1. Altemus.
7–42024.
Twenty-two “ifs” constitute a novel discussion, one which suggests a
process of construction that bears resemblance to the process of
restoration engaged in by sculptors who fashion arms for the Venus de
Milo and heads for the Samothracian Victory. If Charles the second had
accepted the kingship of Virginia, and If the Confederates had marched
on Washington after Bull Run, are two of the propositions fitted to
the then-existing structure of government and war, with the
well-rounded conclusions which a sense of proportion demands.
* * * * *
“The volume is well written and is a valuable work especially to place
before young people to stimulate a further interest in history.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 491. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Chamberlin writes agreeably and suggestively.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 313. Mr. ’08. 70w.
“It would be wearisome, and would spoil the romantic flavor of the
book, to point out all the technical inaccuracies in the different
chapters. The author writes with a charming disregard of all
probabilities, and limits his speculations by possibilities only.” S.
E. Thomas.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Firing line. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23561.
Palm Beach furnishes the setting for nearly all of the scenes in this
love drama. The heroine, clever, beautiful, with a heart and head
struggling with each other for mastery, finds at twenty that her heart
is in the ascendency and that she is hopelessly in love. A simple
enough fact had she not two years before in a moment of despondency
over the discovery that she was a foundling, secretly married a young
college student, whom she did not love, he returning the same day to
college and she to her foster-parents’ home. This secret lying at the
foundation of her happiness to menace it directs the course of the
story thru which run the anguish and heroism of two lovers who could
meet only as comrades on the firing line.
* * * * *
“The story, like other good stories, suffers from the fact that it is
based on a rather ancient situation.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 151. O. ’08. 1050w.
“The best thing about this rather cheap book is its semi-tropical
setting, which is the author’s opportunity for a great deal of
observant and loving description. The worst part of it is the slangy
talk of most of the characters.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Is not so good a novel as ‘The fighting chance’ because it lacks the
uplift of a great moral victory.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 553. S. 3, ’08. 330w.
− =Nation.= 87: 235. S. 10, ’08. 360w.
“It is hard to forgive a hundred pages of introductory drivel, but
Louis Malcourt more than atones even for that.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“The book may be best described as having in certain parts humor,
lively dialogue, and some charm, but as lacking compactness and a
continuously single situation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Some ladies in haste. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–13948.
In which a New York man of leisure discovers that he has hypnotic
power and exercises it upon a few of his acquaintances with the hope
of turning them from their frivolous society inanities to nature and
the open. Most astonishing things happen,—whimsical, curious,
surprising ones, not the least fantastic of which is the wooing of a
society girl by a club man in a tree-top.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A vastly amusing bit of whimsicality, of the recognized Chambers
variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The adventures have the Chambers spice, the adventurers—unreal as is
their world in many respects—have always nevertheless a certain warm
suggestion of being really human and delightfully alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Only a light touch would carry off this preposterous fun, but here,
as in ‘Iolanthe,’ Mr. Chambers has a fantastic fancy and the
suggestion at least of poetic feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9. ’08. 100w.
“Quite delightful, even if improbable.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 130w.
=Champney, Elizabeth.= Romance of Roman villas (the renaissance).
**$3.50. Putnam.
8–25384.
Here is given the most important chapter of the every day happenings
that history records concerning each of the following villas of the
great cardinals of the renaissance: Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere;
Villa Farnesina; Villa Madama; Villa Aldobrandini; Villa d’Este;
Villas Borghese and Mondragone; Villa Medici; Collona palace and
castle of Palliano; and Hadrian’s villa. The book deals with the life
more than the art of these villas. It is profusely illustrated with
photogravures and reproduced photographs.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Champney is not equal to the occasion, and is altogether at the
mercy of the difficult form she has adopted. Her English is careless,
and full of Americanisms; her Italian is inaccurate; and her book
exhibits a romanticism of speech that in truth was never heard on sea
or land.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 506. O. 24. 130w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 140w.
“She has told the stories of Raphael and Pauline particularly well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 220w.
“To turn its handsome pages and catch the names on them, to glance at
the illustrations is to make the least adventurous long to behold the
grandeur that was Rome’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5. ’08. 160w.
“Mrs. Champney is always an agreeable writer, and she has made in her
new volume excellent use of the abundant material in the field
indicated by the title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook.= Theory of motives, ideals and
values in education. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–33579.
“A really philosophical and ethical reflection upon the fundamental
bases of life, society, and education.... [The author] devotes himself
principally to the study of civilization—its nature, its institutions,
its tendency towards degeneracy under urban conditions, the requisites
for a stable and progressive civilization, and so on. For his
principles he draws on a large group of sciences—upon history,
psychology, physiology, anthropology, social science, theology, mental
development, pathology, biology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, philology,
and education in its history, theory and practice.”—Psychol. Bull.
* * * * *
“A stimulating, scholarly discussion of education as an integral part
of civilization.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“The book is not for all readers, but rather for those who can bring
to it some knowledge of philosophical as well as educational thought.
To such it will prove a stimulus and inspiration. Every teacher may
well feel a deep satisfaction in the production of so strong and able
a work on the deeper problem of his profession.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 275. My. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“Is rich in suggestion and on the whole is a broad and philosophic
treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 90w.
“While it is stimulating and will doubtless be read by many teachers,
it will have little influence upon the course of education.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The topics chosen for discussion, the point of view taken in treating
them, the extraordinary quality of the style, the absence of current
and conventional educational terms and phrases—all make this volume an
exceptional one in educational literature. Dealing in general
conceptions and in ideals as the book does, it is not likely that any
reader will endorse without question all that he reads, though I
believe that in the large it is in accord with contemporary scientific
thought.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 16. Ja. 15, ’08. 1000w.
=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English
literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Valuable to the special student, and probably interesting but not
valuable to the general reader of more than average education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“A very complete and admirable piece of synthetic work.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 533. Ap. ’08. 1900w.
“On the whole his book must be considered mainly as a collection of
materials never before gathered into one place, and, as such, a
useful, indeed, an indispensable, preliminary to further work in this
field.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book is one big bibliography; and as such it is not without its
value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 1020w.
“Mr. Chandler’s work is a very comprehensive and generally excellent
study.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 28. Ja. 4, ’08. 350w.
* =Chapman, Frank Michler.= Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3.
Appleton.
A volume of over four hundred pages which contains in text and
illustration the results of the author’s field study in preparation
for a series of “Habitat groups” of North American birds for the
American Museum of natural history. These groups including certain
birds from the West Indies to western Canada are designed to
illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also
the country in which they live. The reproduced illustrations contain
in the foreground the birds and nests with from sixty to one hundred
and sixty square feet of the locality in which they are found; while
sketches of the surrounding country have been painted from nature for
a background.
=Chapman, John Jay.= Four plays for children. **$1. Moffat.
8–18062.
Four plays in blank verse which lend themselves readily to children’s
acting. They are The lost prince, King Ithuriel, The hermits, and
Christmas in Leipsic.
* * * * *
“[Three of] the stories are in themselves sufficiently juvenile, but
the dialogue, written with a magniloquence often approaching
rhodomontade—in which all the little fishes talk like whales—is, as a
rule, quite unsuitable for childish entertainment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 540w.
“One may read thru many books of verse without the enjoyment to be
found in the perusal of these four brief plays. All the plays are
written in a blank verse that is decidedly worthy of comment, not for
great brilliancy, but for its almost classic simplicity and charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Chapman, Sydney John.= Work and wages; in continuation of Lord
Brassey’s “Work and wages” and “Foreign work and English wages.” 2
pt. ea. $4. Longmans.
=pt. 2.= Wages and employment; with an introd. by Lord Brassey.
“The present instalment is ‘largely in the nature of a report,’ but
‘attempts have been made to sum up evidence and to frame independent
judgments.’ These independent judgments cover some of the most
important controversies of the day.... Chapters deal with the
organisation of labour; the policy of trade-unions; industrial peace,
with some interesting information on arbitration and wage boards in
the Australasian colonies; unemployment; and lastly, workmen’s
insurance and old-age pensions.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Able, scientific in spirit, moderate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Granted the scope of the inquiry undertaken in this second volume, it
is difficult to see how it could have been made more exhaustive than
it is.” J: Cummings.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 462. Jl. ’08. 460w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 160w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“For a long time it will remain the chief storehouse of co-ordinated
facts regarding employment and unemployment, the organization of
labor, and the policies of trades unions, industrial insurance, and
pensions. Prof. Chapman writes in the scientific spirit, without bias
or faddism, seeking rather the true thing than the forwarding of any
hobby.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 228. Ap. 18, ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Unfortunately the very qualities that should commend it to English
readers render it of little value to readers in other lands. For them
its treatment of English conditions is, if anything, too full and its
treatment of the experience of other countries too meager and, it must
be added, not up-to-date.” H: R. Seager.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 727. D. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“By reason of its fulness of information and moderation of tone is not
unworthy of the honourable traditions of the Brassey family.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 370w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Charlton, Randal.= Virgin widow. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–9522.
A colorless, stolid, withal sensitive cripple, the brother-in-law of
the “virgin widow” tells the story. He stands between the woman and
the traps which her temperament sets for her. He shields her from a
blackmailing Italian with the same quality of patience that he uses in
protecting her from the agonies of her unrequited love. His is a work
of love, unappreciated, unrewarded. The book abounds in weird
atmosphere.
* * * * *
“Is as improbable and uncomfortable as the title suggests, but there
is no denying that he has a gift for inventing ingenious and dramatic
situations. His handling of these is as clumsy and unfinished as his
style; but he has a rude force that overrides improbability, and holds
the reader’s interest.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 170w.
=Cheetham, Samuel.= History of the Christian church since the
reformation. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–15779.
“Gives the history of three centuries and a half, to speak in round
numbers; it includes the great churches of the East and the West, the
Anglican church, and the dissident communities here and abroad.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book is learned, readable, and honest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 140w.
“Is full of miscellaneous information, carefully and accurately
compiled. The whole is written in so reasonable and sympathetic a
spirit that its merits as an interpretation add greatly to its value
as a narrative.” E. W. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 827. O. ’08. 420w.
“A very valuable book. It is impartial and it is comprehensive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
* =Chesson, W. H.= George Cruikshank. (Popular lib. of art.) *75c.
Dutton.
A sketch of Cruikshank’s career which was continued thru seventy-six
working years. More than fifty illustrations show the development of
his art.
* * * * *
“Any who are interested will wish for a more straight-forward and less
affected book.”
− =Nation.= 87: 533. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Chesson shows that he appreciates the artist, sees his merits,
and is aware of his limitations. But we have found the style in which
he sets forth his knowledge distinctly fatiguing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 374. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
=Chester, George Randolph.= Get-rich-quick Wallingford: a cheerful
account of the rise and fall of an American business buccaneer.
†$1.50. Altemus.
8–12804.
“This is a buoyant and blithesome account of the life and deeds of one
who would probably describe himself as the past grand master of the
gentle art of separating the gullible from their coin.” (N. Y. Times.)
It “shows an astonishing knowledge of the ways and tricks of American
‘financiers’ and swindlers of the class indicated by the title, and
the narrative is lively and amusing.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is a story that cannot fail to do good.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 30w.
“Behind ‘Get rich quick Wallingford’ is a larger significance than
that usually conveyed in a good yarn well told. Mr. Chester has put
his finger on a phase of our life that demands treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 570w.
“The narrative is lively and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
* =Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= All things considered. *$1.50. Lane.
8–34727.
Thirty-five essays upon topics ranging from fairy tales to phonetic
spelling from the death of Francis Thompson to the Communal kitchen.
* * * * *
“‘All things considered’ has, in its incoherence and scrappiness and
in its unrelieved joltiness of style, the Chestertonic quality
distilled to quintessential strength.”
− =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that these sparkling diatribes have a kind of journalistic
and temporal appositeness; but all will never be so well that they
will lose their point.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 270w.
“Coming into competition with ‘Orthodoxy’ it loses its raison d’être
altogether, so much is it overshadowed by its more vital fellow.” J.
B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 589. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“Whatever were the merits of his earlier writing, they are here
overlaid; whatever the faults, they are here accentuated.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 120w.
“Sincere, enthusiastic, endlessly witty little essays. He is so witty,
one must simply refuse, in sheer self-defence perhaps, to acknowledge
that he is always wise.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 709. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Man who was Thursday: a nightmare.
†$1.50. Dodd.
8–7893.
A story of fantastic fears, of “the huge devils that hide the stars,
yet fall at a pistol shot.” The chasers of evil are seven members of a
central anarchical council, mainly detectives in disguise, who are
named for the days of the week. “The actual change from the horrible
to the burlesque is happily contrived; but unluckily, once the transit
is completely effected, every semblance of realism is abandoned, and
we are committed to a carnival of incredible absurdity, out of which,
by an abrupt jerk of the kaleidoscope, we are suddenly projected into
an atmosphere of exalted allegory, in which the demon-Falstaff of the
plot assumes a role of mystical benevolence.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A fantasia faithfully modelled on Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’
Mr. Chesterton has not produced the eerieness or awesomeness of
Stevenson, and perhaps had no desire to do so. On the other hand, he
is very witty and amusing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 350. Mr. 21. 150w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 452. Jl. ’08. 1600w.
“A highly entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Is consistent with nothing but its author’s freakish inclination of
the moment.” E: C. Marsh.
− =Forum.= 40: 400. O. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Chesterton pays the penalty of the wit in not being taken
seriously, even when most serious.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 869. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Although the work is negligible as a piece of fiction, it has the
interest of Mr. Chesterton’s essays—a vivacious and clever style that
glitters with paradox, sometimes almost silly, and sometimes shrewd
and suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This story is told as Mr. Chesterton tells things, with wit and
paradox nudging you into frequent smiles, with felicitous phrase and
apt simile—quotable from page to page.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Chesterton is, in short, a master of fantastic fiction.”
Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“An ingenious fabric of topsy-turvey, written with all the dexterous
play of phrase and wit that might be expected from the author.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 100w.
“The story, viewed as a mere piece of narration, is up to certain
point quite first-rate. Mr. Chesterton cannot be blamed for failing to
achieve the impossible—to graft spiritual ecstasy on to riotous
extravaganza—but it is a pity that he should be so wanting in
self-criticism as to have made the attempt.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Essays which “are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the
central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles’
creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.”
* * * * *
“Lest any one should be tempted again to rediscover Christianity after
Mr. Chesterton’s fashion, we should like to point out that before
proceeding upon his explorations he should acquire a more satisfactory
equipment than Mr. Chesterton has had time to do.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 534. O. 31, 1000w.
“You may be startled, even shocked, by this novel book; but you must
admit that the heart of this witty Philistine is in the right place.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 588. O. 24, ’08. 2400w.
“This book is as funny as Punch, and it is a new and unusual type of
humorous theology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 842. D. 12, ’08. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. O. 24, ’08. 900w.
=Childs, Mary Fairfax.= De namin’ ob de twins, and other sketches
from the cotton land. *$1. Dodge, B. W.
8–14809.
In prose and rime these dialect sketches portray the old time negro
with his loyalty, irresponsibility, and humor truthfully accentuated.
The title piece depicts a grandmother’s indecision over selecting
names for her dead Ceely Ann’s twins, with the final choice of
“Neu-ral-gy” and “Hom-i-cide.”
* * * * *
“Embraces a sentiment so tender as to endow it with altogether a rare
and charming quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30. ’08. 250w.
=Chisholm, Louey=, comp. Golden staircase: poems and verses for
children. il. *$2.50. Putnam.
W7–200.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A well-selected anthology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08.
“There is a random choice and a random arrangement: some inclusions of
historic interest, other inclusions of undoubted beauty; but between
them there is a depression of the mediocre.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Churchill, Winston.= Mr. Crewe’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13723.
A state, presumably New Hampshire, is under the political domination
of a railway. Hilary Vane, chief counsel for the corrupt machine, has
a son, a young attorney, who dares to espouse the people’s cause and
to defend them against the corporation. Mr. Crewe, a bachelor
millionaire, uses the people’s newly aroused demand for rights as an
entering wedge into politics. The railroad president and his daughter,
a charmingly drawn heroine, play important parts in the story; but the
chief interest, in spite of the title, centers in the career of Austin
Vane as he stands unflinchingly for clean politics, and, not without a
struggle, quickens his father’s conscience to the point of resigning
his office.
* * * * *
“The tale possesses vitality and interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“It will hasten the great awakening that shall save democracy from the
night of reaction and despotism.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 122. Jl. ’08. 1900w.
“The human interest is even more poignant than in previous novels by
this author, whose present work marks a distinct advance.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 723. Je. 13. 250w.
“His book is too long, is rather loosely put together, and the manner
of its setting forth is almost slovenly at times, but it is a story
that has vitality, is informed by a fine idealism, and is possessed of
an interest that does not pall.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Crewe is a unique creation in American fiction.” James MacArthur.
+ =Forum.= 40: 60. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“The book has the accent of reality rather than fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1400. Je. 18, ’08. 800w.
“On the whole, it is clear that this popular novelist is growing in
power. His style is still quite without distinction, and often
slovenly. But his people are people (Humphrey Crewe being exaggerated
as the irony of his conception demands), and the atmosphere in which
they move is that of a ripened and really admirable humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 447. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“The book is not devoid of a fine tone of inspiration for the new
generation of voters, but, however steadily there may burn in it the
splendid determination of the author to do what he can to purify
politics, it lacks the fire of imagination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 261. My. 9, ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“All Mr. Churchill’s novels have been American to the core; none more
than this. As a story there are defects in its construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 323. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“The novel belongs to the minority that call into play the reader’s
mental faculties and provide agreeable exercise for them.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“A certain real phase of American life is exhibited, and, from many
points of view, it is a near approach to the American novel.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 350w.
“That one should thus criticise it as a pamphlet rather than as a work
of art is inevitable from the author’s almost avowed partiality.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 698. My. 30, ’08. 670w.
“The excellence of Mr. Churchill’s analysis of American politics is
shown by his refusal to label all those concerned in them as either
angels or devils.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 870. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
=Clark, Francis Edward.= Continent of opportunity: the South
American republics. **$1.50. Revell.
7–39011.
Their history, their resources, their outlook, together with a
traveler’s impressions of present day conditions. Of Dr. Clark’s
observations regarding the possibilities for intellectual and material
development in South America he says: “In all material matters, ... in
her mines and manufactures, in her forests and fisheries, in her
commerce and agriculture, in her schools and churches, in her politics
and business, South America is to-day pre-eminently the continent of
opportunity.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Clark’s descriptions are never dull and are often relieved in the
most pleasant way by a touch of humor; only as the author had no time,
in the course of his trip, to wander away from the beaten tracks and
to get a glimpse of the byways, those descriptions seldom reveal any
new aspects of life or of nature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
“He has an entertaining style, albeit his writing is sometimes
deplorably careless, and he has tried to consider justly both the
faults and the virtues of South American character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 120w.
* =Clark, Henry W.= Christian method of ethics. **$1.25. Revell.
8–25722.
The ultimate ideal of Christian ethics as stated by Mr. Clark is “an
automatic right adjustment to every circumstance, an instinctive right
bearing toward every question of duty and every temptation to wrong.”
“The presentation of religion as something worthy of supreme effort,
rather than the easing down and popularizing of Christianity which is
now the fashion of many churches, is Mr. Clark’s message, and such a
message makes a really far stronger appeal to young men and women than
can be made by any easy-going demands on their spiritual natures.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is perhaps unfortunate that the title of Mr. Clark’s new book is
one that is not likely to appeal to many who might find its chapters
most helpful.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5. ’08. 330w.
“This is largely a helpful book, partly an unhelpful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, 08. 240w.
=Clark, John Bates.= Essentials of economic theory as applied to
modern problems of industry and public policy. *$2. Macmillan.
7–36896.
“Consists, first, of a set of chapters restating ‘Economic statics’
and giving in summary form the doctrines already set forth in the
‘Distribution of wealth.’ A second part then gives the contributions
to ‘Economic dynamics.’ The chapters in this second part deal largely
with matters such as are sometimes grouped under the head of ‘applied
economics.’ As a whole the volume is expected by the author to be
‘available for use in classrooms not as a substitute for elementary
textbooks, but as supplementary to them. It omits a large part of what
such books contain, presents what they do not contain, and tries to be
of service to those who wish for more than a single introductory
volume can offer.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is written in readable style, being much less drawn out than
the author’s earlier work, ‘The distribution of wealth.’” F. D.
Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“An original and very able treatment of the more theoretical aspects
of his science. Some of the [special points in his treatment] require
further criticism before his exposition can be accepted, but all are
well worth study and show a sound theoretical and scientific genius.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 179. Ag. 15. 950w.
“Whether the style will be found simple by the persons whom the book
is designed to reach, I am not so sure.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 20. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It need hardly be said that in this volume Professor Clark shows
again the qualities which have won him so distinguished a place among
living economists. He is original and ingenious, and does not fear to
pioneer boldly into new fields of thought. Those who so adventure
deserve high praise, and not the less so if they themselves prove
sometimes to have made a start in the wrong direction. His style
retains all its grace and finish, his courtesy is unfailing, and a
fine personality shines through the pages.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 38. Ja. ’08. 1850w.
“Modern political economy is a study in dynamics rather than statics,
and the levels reached are the resultants of forces, rather than of
adjustments under the calm persistence of gravity. There is need for a
new political economy, designed to meet these conditions, and Prof.
Clark makes an illuminating attempt to supply the need.” E: A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“To the general reader, unacquainted with the complicated terminology
and finely drawn distinctions of most writers of modern economic
treatises, much of Professor Clark’s book will prove uncommonly hard
reading. Comprehensive and stimulating as his treatise is, it
necessarily fails to discuss in detail all of the many topics of
present-day interest on which it touches.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 780w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The student ... will find much that is acute and interesting in
Professor Clark’s presentment of the subject. He must, however, be
prepared to face mathematical diagrams, algebraic signs, and a few
cryptic headlines.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 541. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It can hardly be denied that, in certain respects, the work is
disappointing, and in the short space available here attention will be
mainly confined to some of the points as to which the reviewer takes
issue with the author.” A. W. Flux.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 228. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
* =Clark, L. Pierce, and Diefendorf, Allen Ross.= Neurological and
mental diagnosis. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–19607.
“A brief outline of essentials suited to the need of the practitioner
dealing with diseases of the nervous system or the mind.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It would perhaps have aided the student, especially, if the various
tests for determining the state of the motor functions had been placed
together, for the reason that all such tests, in a case where it is
necessary to use them, are more apt to be recalled if they are
associated in the student’s mind.” J. G. Fitzgerald.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 666. N. 19, ’08. 730w.
“As a whole the presentation is good and helpful.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 529. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Clarke, Sir George Sydenham.= Fortification: its past achievements,
recent development, and future progress. 2d ed. *$4.50. Dutton.
War 7–141.
A revision after seventeen years which includes the lessons bearing
upon national defence supplied by the four great contests between
nations which have occurred since the book first appeared. “Therefore
in this edition, [the author] has been enabled to start from the
ground which it had formerly been necessary to capture, to omit
certain passages which have become obvious, and to apply himself to
the fresh aspects of the problem which the flux of time has brought
with it.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Contains some new matter which will be found of interest both by
military and by naval students.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 370w.
“Another edition should correct the few misprints, especially in the
French quotations. The work naturally appeals directly to the officer,
and especially to the artilleryman and the engineer, but it should do
more than this in helping to shape an intelligent public opinion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 1100w.
“This book should be in the possession of every United States senator
and representative, as well as of all persons interested in our
national legislation. It is written by the greatest living authority
on the subject, the secretary of the imperial defence committee, from
whose views one may dissent only on grounds which will bear the most
rigorous investigation.”
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 289. F. ’08. 2650w.
“The later portions of the book, which to a large extent deal with
gun-mountings and other adjuncts, will be less appreciated.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 116. Jl. 27, ’07. 1200w.
“A most learned and intricate treatise on cupolas, reduits, enceintes,
gun-mountings, and explosives, while his study of the evolution of
modern battleships, as presented in pedigree form, is the most
illuminating guide to the mysteries of naval classification that has
ever delighted the eyes and understanding of a layman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 334. S. 7, ’07. 770w.
* =Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s England: a study of English
influences in Browning. **$2. Baker.
A review of the English influences that may be found reflected in the
poetry of Browning. The chapters are as follows: English poets,
friends and enthusiasms; Shakespeare’s portrait; A crucial period in
English history; Social aspects of English life; Religious thought in
the nineteenth century; and Art criticism inspired by the English
musician, Avison. The author studies separate poems and analyzes them
to show the direct poetical inspiration. An indispensable book for
classes in Browning.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s Italy. **$2. Baker.
7–37032.
Miss Clarke discusses Browning’s Italian interests in five chapters as
follows: “The dawn of the renaissance, Glimpses of political life, The
Italian scholar, The artist and his art, and Pictures of social life.
For each she supplies the needed background of history, connecting it
with the poetry by liberal quotations.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A conscientious piece of work which will undoubtedly prove helpful to
many students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“It is a conscientious piece of literary scholarship rather than a
book for travel lovers. The book ought to serve as a good introduction
to a knowledge of the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“The historical studies are complete enough to interest students of
Browning, because of the new light they cast on the sources of his
love for Italy and on the relation between the historic facts of the
records and his poetic interpretation of them.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 220w.
“It will be a great help to the reader by putting the poems into their
historical framework.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“We must, in justice, confess that Miss Clarke’s compilation is
admirably adapted to minds which have not yet thought for themselves;
and as there are many such minds, her book ought to be popular. We
have noted several misprints and solecisms. It lacks an index, which
is necessary, especially to the many extracts from Browning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 130w.
=Clarke, T. E. S.= Life of Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury: 1,
Scotland, 1643–1674, by T. E. S. Clarke; 2, England, 1674–1715,
with bibliographical appendices, by H. C. Foxcroft; with an
introd. by C. H. Firth. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–18697.
Three writers have co-operated in producing this life of Bishop
Burnet. C. H. Firth contributes an introduction, discussing Burnet’s
place “not as a moralist or a divine or a politician, but as an
historian.” T. E. S. Clarke describes his family, education, work at
Saltoun as parish minister, and at Glasgow as professor of divinity,
until in 1674 he began his work in the south. Miss Foxcroft carries
the history from his settlement work in London in 1674 to his death in
1715.
* * * * *
“This biography of Burnet is one of such substantial merit that it
will doubtless take its place as the final authority on the subject.”
A. L. Cross.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 857. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“As regards the main theme Mr. Clarke’s work is in all respects
satisfactory. Throughout the forty years of incessant activity which
compose the second portion of Burnet’s career, through every phase and
into every cranny, we are guided by Miss Foxcroft’s industry and deft
treatment. Prof. Firth’s [part of the work] is elaborately and
conclusively discussed. There is no side of this part of the subject
which is not treated with fullness and with his usual lucidity.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 121. F. 1. 1550w.
“The Scottish section has been ably and judiciously handled. Miss
Foxcroft’s work is a model for interesting fulness combined with
precision.” J. K. Hewison.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 582. Jl. ’08. 1850w.
“This life of Burnet will remain the permanent authority on the
subject; it is a great addition to our information, and it is a sound
and convincing defence of Burnet, when defence is necessary or
possible.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 388. D. 20, ’07. 1560w.
“The joint authors have accomplished their task admirably; they have
produced a book that is at once documented at every step, and
thoroughly interesting. They have both faced the weaknesses of
Burnet’s character without flinching, yet have avoided party
prejudice.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 150. F. 13, ’08. 2180w.
“Professor Firth has contributed an admirable introduction. The Rev.
T. E. S. Clarke ... contributes a careful and well-informed account of
Burnet’s early life. Miss Foxcroft’s work has the same solid and
enduring qualities as that of Mr. Clarke. It is admirably
well-informed, is commendably free from the lues Boswelliana which is
the besetting disease of the biographer, and treats a large subject on
an adequately large canvas. Perhaps it may be objected to both writers
that their work is now and then lacking in brightness and literary
sparkle.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 729. D. 14, ’07. 1680w.
“The whole picture of Burnet in this book gives just the right
impression of Shakespearean rotundity to the Bishop’s personality,
and, though it may seem paradoxical to say so, recalls that suggestion
of British vigour and directness which underlies all the amiable
foibles even of a Falstaff. Miss Foxcroft’s only fault comes from the
fact that she is so bubbling over with knowledge and sense of fun that
she sometimes makes allusive references to facts not so well known to
the uninstructed reader as to herself.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 150. Ja. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Claude, chef de la police de surete=, 1807–1880. Memoirs of
Monsieur Claude, chief of the police under the second empire; tr.
by Katharine P. Wormeley. **$4. Houghton.
7–36947.
“Miss Wormeley, well known as the translator of Balzac, has selected
from these memoirs for this volume those chapters and parts of
chapters which seem likely to have at this day a real interest for
English readers. She has rejected an immense amount of what must be
very dull reading indeed relating to police regulations, prisons, and
ephemeral subjects. But the episodes here described have to do with M.
Claude’s connection with political intrigues, and with mysteries and
remarkable crimes.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The translation is admirable but the book has no value for the
student of French history, though it may be of mild interest to the
lover of detective stories. The selections have evidently been made
with an eye to the picturesque. The style is melodramatic and
ejaculatory.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 644. Ap. ’08. 280w.
“A curious and uncommonly interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Miss Wormeley ... shows that she is capable of good work; but her
sceptical faculties should have been more frequently brought into play
in editing the ‘Memoirs.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 930w.
“The translation, as might be expected from Miss Wormeley, is spirited
and idiomatic.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 77. F. 1, ’08. 550w.
“After carefully reading this book, the reviewer can use the hackneyed
phrase in its literal sense, ‘There is not a dull line to be found in
it.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“There is no view more authentic and more interesting than that given
in these pages of the progress and the operations of the conspiracy of
which for twenty years France was the victim.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 34. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“The book is certainly good reading, and makes one wish for more, if
more material as good as this may be drawn from the French original.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21, ’07. 160w.
“His revelations have but little value except in relation to the spy
work of Germans before the war.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The narrative is told in the simple, direct style of the diary of a
simple, direct man of the world who yet has retained something of the
naïvete of the old-time soldier.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 444. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This volume will be found very interesting reading by every one who
cares for the byways and the wrong side of history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 750. My. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Clay, Grover.= Hester of the hills. $1.50. Page.
7–31284.
A tale of the Ozarks in which a northerner finding among the
“crackers” a physically perfect type of young woman, educates and
marries her. His failure to consider the question of love in a union
which should insure him against frail posterity results in various
surprises for him which play havoc with his plans.
* * * * *
“As a photograph of life among the cracker farmers and hunters of
Missouri, the book is not without significance. As a ‘romance’ it is
singularly uncouth.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“If the treatment of the theme of this novel were as novel as the
theme itself, the result would be a noteworthy piece of fiction
instead of one but mildly interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.= Bishop’s scapegoat. †$1.50. Lane.
8–14664.
An English vicar takes it upon himself to end the life of a French
scoundrel in Paris. He chokes him and leaves him for dead. A physician
whom the dying man had wronged, comes in upon him, but will not
resuscitate him. The physician is tried for murder, convicted and
transported to a penal colony in the South Pacific, where he is
ministered to by a devoted daughter. The vicar’s son, now a bishop of
the See of Capricornia, loves the daughter, but hesitates to marry her
because she is the child of a murderer. Explanations finally bring
events to a happy issue. “The story is inspired with a deep sense of
the beautiful in nature, the instinctive goodness of the human heart,
and the divine meaning of life.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The chief characters appear in telling situations, and we find for
the most part a fine balance and sense of proportion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 757. Je. 20. 130w.
“One is irritated by a series of rather inartistic surprises. The book
is worth reading; it is fresh, wholesome, and entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 360w.
“There are passages of description and narrative in this novel of
sufficient merit to raise it considerably above the average level.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1036. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Clergue, Helen.= The salon: a study of French society and
personalities in the 18th century. **$3. Putnam.
7–36984.
“Beginning with a careful study of the origin, growth, and influence
of that peculiarly French social development, the _salon_, Mrs.
Clergue proceeds to paint portraits of the better-known among those
women who were famous in the eighteenth century as the hostesses and
directing heads of these gatherings; Madame du Deffand, Madame
d’Epinay, Mlle. de Lespinasse, and the ‘Queen of the Rue St. Honoré’
and Madame Geoffrin.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08.
“It cannot be said that these studies add any facts to those already
known. They are marked, however, by a spirit of sympathetic
intelligence, and, on the whole, by a laudable regard for accuracy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 363. S. 26. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“All of the studies are decidedly interesting both from a
psychological and a sociological point of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“All of Miss Clergue’s characterizations are interesting.” E. J.
Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 365. Je. ’08. 450w.
“She is a diligent student of the period and her bibliography is
well-nigh exhaustive, but she does not tell us much which has not
already been said as well, and sometimes better, by others.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 238. F. 22, ’08. 1220w.
“These bright and impartial sketches are very helpful towards
realising the nature and effect of the various ‘salons’ in which the
Revolution, one may say, was talked into being. They also suggest
amusingly, with a clear and uncommon wideness of view, the
extraordinary changes of a hundred years.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 186. F. 1, ’08. 1500w.
=Clews, Henry.= Fifty years in Wall street. *$3. Henry Clews, 15
Broad st., N. Y.
8–18389.
Brings to date the author’s “Twenty-eight years in Wall street.” It is
a history of financial events told in conversational style by one who
in his long career has known personally the Wall street leaders. Pt.
1, Wall street; pt. 2, Speculation; pt. 3, Capitalists and
financiers—U. S.; pt. 4, Business.
* * * * *
“The new chapters add little of importance. It is not creditable for
an author or publisher, in re-issuing a book under a new title, to
neglect all changes in the older chapters.”
− =Nation.= 86: 543. Je. 11. ’08. 280w.
“It is difficult to name any other single book which gives the
narrative of financial affairs so well as Mr. Clews’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Clifford, Lucy Lane.= Proposals to Kathleen. †$1.50. Barnes.
8–7894.
A young woman pauses on the eve of her marriage to “a clever,
well-off, fairly well-off, that is, well-connected, well-placed” man
with whom she is not in love, and indulges in reminiscences, aided by
letters which she is about to destroy, of past lovers, their
love-making and proposals. It is her farewell to maidenhood and its
dreams.
* * * * *
“It is the clever portrayal of the heart of a woman whose idea is to
become entirely worldly, although she has not yet reached that state.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Her original whimsical ideas and forms of expression give the book a
piquant relish not to be found elsewhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Henry Raeburn. (Newnes art lib.) il. *$1.25.
Warne. W 8–53.
The seven pages of biographical and critical text are followed by
forty-eight full page reproductions of the more notable paintings of
this artist who is the pride of Scotland.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
=Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 279. F. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A. (Newnes art lib., no.
27.) il. *$1.25. Warne.
W 8–69.
As the son of an easygoing innkeeper, the early talents of this
self-taught painter had comparatively little guidance tho plenty of
encouragement. The biographical portion of the volume sketches the
steps that led to membership in the Royal academy, to a knighthood,
and finally to the presidency of the Academy. Forty-eight
reproductions of his pictures illustrate his range as well as his
“technical and temperamental” limitations.
* * * * *
“Valuable mainly because of the illustrations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 173. Je. ’08. ✠
“The text is of little importance.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Compact but suggestive estimate.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 170w.
=Cody, Grace Ethelwyn.= Jacquette: a sorority girl. †$1.25.
Duffield.
8–3429.
Whether secret societies in schools help or harm development on broad
lines is the problem dealt with in this story of high school life.
* * * * *
“While the appeal of the book must necessarily be somewhat limited,
its atmosphere is wholesome.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A charming tale told with simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
“An excellent story for girls and boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Cody, H. A.= Apostle of the North: the life and memoirs of William
Carpenter Bompas, D. D., first bishop of Athabasca, 1874–1884,
bishop of Mackenzie river, 1884–1891, bishop of Selkirk,
1891–1896; with an introd. by Rev. S. P. Mattheson. *$2.50.
Dutton.
The story of a devoted missionary’s hard work and self-sacrifice in
the wilderness of the far northwest. The sketch reveals strength,
purpose, steadfastness and great power of love.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book cannot be called quite broad and tolerant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“A saintly man, and a sympathetic, clearly drawn portrait of him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 430w.
=Coghill, Stanly.= Hathor. *75c. Robertson.
7–2749.
The work of a young western writer who died recently. An introductory
note contributed by a friend tells the reader that the poems are “the
overtone of a strangely beautiful soul that was always seeking for a
half-remembered and perhaps, in this world at least, unattainable
glory.”
* * * * *
“This little book is distinctly worth while. Its ideas are mostly
echoes, and it is too much tinged with the melancholy in which youth
is apt to revel, but it has harmony, and flowing rhythm, and something
of the historical imagination.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Cohen, Emily Solis-, jr.= David the giant killer, and other tales
of Grandma Lopez. $1.25. Jewish pub.
8–16561.
Bible stories retold for a group of story-hungry little people. They
are as follows: David the giant killer, In Shushan the capital, The
sacrifice at Modin, The hidden smithy, The fall of Michmash, At the
fork of the roads, Carmel, Amid the alien corn, How Daniel became
judge, and The golden image.
=Coke, Henry John.= Open hatchways. †$1.50. Lane.
“The development of character in a girl, vain, passionate, with a
taste for French novels, but at heart pure and true, under the stress
of being wooed by three typical lovers—the good prig, the stupid
guardsman, and the clever, fascinating adventurer—is the study which
has engaged Mr. Coke’s attention.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A curiously incongruous book. Well and carefully written, it is
interesting enough to carry the reader to the end of the thirty-four
chapters. There is a touch of George Meredith in the characters (as
well as the names) of Mrs. Boadle and Sir Ralph Wychard, though they
are, unfortunately, too slightly drawn to contain more than a very
faint hint.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 170. N. 23, ’07. 200w.
“He has not succeeded in chaining the attention of his readers. He
strikes no new note. The plot is threadbare; the characters are of a
well-known type; they act as we all know they will, and are not
endowed with any real individuality. The mild philosophy of the
heroine’s father, irrelevant to the action, is not a little boring.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 180w.
“Distinguished by a fresh and sincere handling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Coke knows something of Harrow and Cambridge life, and has
apparently read Schopenhauer and Kant, but such experience and
information are not uncommon, nor in themselves sufficient
justification for writing a novel.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Colby, Charles W.= Canadian types of the old régime, 1608–1698.
**$2.75. Holt.
Against a wilderness background into which crept historical interest
with the coming of Jacques Cartier, are set, each in turn, types of
the old régime, which stand for aspects of French colonisation. There
are Champlain, the explorer; Bribeuf, the missionary; Hébert, the
colonist; D’Iberville, the soldier; Du Lhut, the coureur de bois;
Talon, the intendant; Laval, the bishop; Frotenac, the governor; and
The woman.
* * * * *
“No one could call this book heavy, and yet even the erudite might
find much in it that would repay perusal.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 291. N. 1, ’08. 840w.
“The volume is written in light and graceful style, but with due
regard for firm historical bases. It not only makes interesting
reading, but gives perhaps as clear a notion of what the old régime in
Canada was at its best as may be found anywhere in a single volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 700w.
“Sympathetic and illuminating studies of old-time Canadian worthies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 200w.
* =Cole, William Morse.= Accounts, their construction and
interpretation. *$2. Houghton.
8–31984.
A handbook for business men and students of affairs prepared by the
assistant professor of accounting in Harvard university. It is not
meant for an encyclopaedia of book keeping forms and practice but it
is comprehensive for principles. Part 1 discusses book keeping
practice and the philosophic basis upon which it rests. Part 2 deals
with the analytical side of accounting, the last chapters making
general principles more concrete by applying them to the problems of
different lines of business in which they may be best illustrated.
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= Biographia literaria; ed. with his
aesthetical essays by J. Shawcross. 2v. *$2.75. Oxford.
8–28959.
A reprint of the original text with a valuable introduction and a
quantity of notes by Mr. Shawcross, to which have been added a few of
the lesser-known Coleridge essays on the principles of aesthetics.
* * * * *
“[Mr. Shawcross is] an artist who has made of that meat [Coleridge’s
prose] a savoury and wholesome dish to tempt the languid palate....
Plainly, Mr. Shawcross shuns all controversy, choosing rather to give
the fruits of a patient and expert study of Coleridge’s prose than to
enter into minute and, for his purpose, idle disputes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 247. F. 29. 2700w.
“Mr. Shawcross shows himself intimately in touch, not only with all
that Coleridge has written, and others have written about him, but
with most of what he read.” Basil de Sélincourt.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 944. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Shawcross’s introduction repays a careful reading; it not only
fulfils its first intention of clearing up the relation of Coleridge
to Kant and Schelling, but throws light on the whole international
movement of romanticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 850w.
“Its excellence lies in the variety of interesting subjects with which
it deals, in the mass of curious information it contains, in the
acuteness and originality so abundantly scattered over its pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 376. Mr. 7, ’08. 1600w.
=Collins, Varnum Lansing.= Continental congress at Princeton (1783).
*$3. University library, Princeton, N. J.
8–13283.
“A special study of the coming of the Congress to Princeton, New
Jersey, after the revolt of the Pennsylvania troops drove its members
from Philadelphia.... The chapter on Princeton in 1783, that on the
reception given the Congressional visitors, and on the presence of the
members of Congress at the annual commencement exercises of the
college, present a true picture of the accustomed quiet of the Jersey
village, broken by momentous incursion. Monotony of narrative is
prevented by the description of the visits of General Washington to
Congress, of the arrival of the Dutch minister, and of the theft from
the village postoffice of a mail-bag which contained the official
correspondence of the members of Congress.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Has fashioned his material into a readable narrative. The volume is
one that will appeal to the general reading public, and is yet of
value to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Well fills a vacant niche in the history of the confederacy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“The interest lies mainly in three directions: the story itself, with
its vivid portrayal of the personages concerned at work and at play;
the official activities of Congress and the business actually
transacted at Princeton; and, lastly, the significance of the events
from the point of view of our national development. Each of these
aspects is amply and admirably worked out.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 441. N. 5, ’08. 1200w.
=Colvill, Helen Hester.= Lady Julia’s emerald: a novel. †$1.50.
Lane.
A story with a London background. The emerald of the title with its
copper setting and its mystic charm enters into the plot of the tale
whose interest is centered about a wonderful girl of struggles and
dreams. “The story of Lesley’s cramped childhood, of her longed-for
and finally realized three months of work and freedom as an artist,
together with her love story have the same charm of freshness and
conviction which are inherent in herself, although one cannot but
doubt that such a girl would have evolved from a parentage and
up-bringing of the sort she suffered.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The writer’s shifting attitude as to the mysticism surrounding Lady
Julia and her emerald is disconcerting. All the characters are
convincing except the widow who pursues her formerly rejected suitor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
“Miss Colvill is the mistress of a firm and pleasant style through
which glimmers an agreeable humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Comstock, Harriet T.= Janet of the dunes. †$1.50. Little.
8–975.
Mrs. Comstock has woven about her unafraid, dream-filled heroine of
the dunes a story of simple shore life. It is interrupted only by the
inevitable summer boarder who with palette and brush attempts to catch
the glow of the hills and the deep beryl of the waves. Janet, the
adopted daughter of “Captain Billy” of the Life saving crew learns
from these same city folk the lesson that awakens her from childhood
to womanhood. A young artist teaches her the lesson of love, and a man
of the world who, she discovers, is her father, shows her some of the
tragedies of love. She comes thru her experience sane and unspoiled.
* * * * *
“It is quite an unpretentious story. But the book is worth reading,
not only for the sake of the story, but also because it contains a
dozen memorable characters of an unfamiliar type, whose acquaintance
it is a pleasure to make and to retain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 420w.
“But from the delighted reader’s point of view Janet is adorable and
logical, and most refreshing after the sophisticated heroines that
belong to modern fiction as fever belongs to the sick man.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“There is enough true sea charm in her descriptions to make one wish
that she had had the courage to celebrate her shore and her shore
worthies without recourse to the form of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Janet is quite a likable person in her own way. If her creator has
not managed to draw her after a very original pattern, still she is
likable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 90w.
“While some of the conversations and situations fail to ring true, the
heroine is a spirited and lovable girl, the surroundings and manners
of the life-savers on our coasts are described with the vividness that
comes from personal association, and the climax of the story rouses
real interest in the reader.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“A story of refreshing interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of banking: being the second
part, separately issued, of The principles of money and banking.
**$1.75. Harper.
8–15781.
The financial crisis of 1907 has made particularly opportune the
appearance of this second part of a work published three years ago.
The author’s hope in presenting the work is that it “will contribute
something to the development of sound financial knowledge and do its
share towards removing the fetters imposed by a defective currency
upon American commerce in its conquest for supremacy in the world’s
markets.” He treats the subjects under the following heads: The
principles of banking currency, The evolution of commercial banking,
and The co-operation of the factors of exchange.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“We think that even in these hard times the needed capital should have
been secured for providing a new index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Conant’s books are as well qualified for rereading as for
reprinting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Martha Pike.= Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth
century. (Columbia univ. studies in comparative literature.) *$2.
Macmillan.
8–3276.
A doctoral monograph which brings together in convenient form “brief
characterizations of the Oriental apologues, satires, and letters that
run all through the eighteenth century and form an integral part of
the romanticism of the nineteenth. Miss Conant makes this connection
with the romantic movement the guiding thread of her book, and in her
concluding chapter, ‘Literary estimate,’ deals with this theme
directly and convincingly.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“No adequate study of the influence of the Oriental tale in England
was ever compiled until Miss Martha Pike Conant, Ph. D., of Columbia
university, wrote her elaborate, yet thoroughly interesting little
volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 261. S. 5. 1350w.
“We will note but two questions concerning Dr. Conant’s conclusions.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 17. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, her work is useful, though pedestrian in tone.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Conant’s book will be attractive, not only to students of
literature, but to those who enjoy the occasional quaint and unusual
tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“An interesting by-product of literary scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Conder, Claude Reignier.= Rise of man. *$3.50. Dutton.
“It is mainly the political and religious progress of the race that is
described in this volume. There is a brief sketch of the development
of mathematical, astronomical, geographical, chemical, biological, and
archaeological knowledge; an account of early man (prehistoric
remains, language, race); a history of civilization, ancient,
mediaeval, and modern; and a description of the religions of the
world, more than half the book being devoted to this last
topic.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The scheme is defective in that it omits sociological and ethical
history, which was, perhaps, passed over from lack of space. The
immense mass of facts is handled with considerable skill: the points
described are in general wisely chosen, the style is easy and clear.
We miss in his exposition a clear statement of the ideas that have
controlled the progress of civilization.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 190. Ag. 27, ’08. 900w.
“Occasionally Col. Conder demonstrates an amazing ingenuousness and
naïveté. His book is one for scholars, by a scholar, but it is also
one for the general public, thanks largely to the lucidity and
elegance of its style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 740w.
“This bird’s-eye view of a vast field gives interesting distinctness
to a large variety of important details. It may be accepted in the
main as sufficiently accurate, though more recent research and
criticism occasionally correct it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Conley, Rev. John Wesley.= Young Christian and the early church.
(Christian culture courses. Baptist young people’s union of
America.) **50c. Am. Bapt.
8–20485.
A sketch of the history and literature of the apostolic age designed
for Baptist young people.
* * * * *
“The young people require a more modern treatment of the apostolic age
than Dr. Conley offers them.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 222. S. ’08. 100w.
=Connolly, James Brendan.= Olympic victor. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–23917.
“An expanded short story, having for hero the winner of the Marathon
race at the first revived Olympic games at Athens a few years ago. Mr.
Connolly was a member of the American team which took part in the
games, and he has evidently taken the incidents of the race as he saw
them and added enough of a romantic motive to make a story.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Alive with a fine Greek spirit of ancient and modern sport, which
will make it interesting to boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a well written and appealing story.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“It is quite as delightful as any of his Gloucester stories, though it
is of an entirely different sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mildly entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Conrad, Joseph.= Point of honor: a military tale. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27098.
A tale of the times of Napoleonic warfare which follows the private
contest of two officers in different regiments of hussars. A series of
duels, started upon a trifling provocation, is fought thru years of
military service, at intervals, according to military rulings when the
rank of the combatants was the same. The murderous hot-headedness of
the one is made but the more diabolical by the calm, reasoning honor
of the other who off the dueling ground never fails to do his
adversary a good turn.
* * * * *
“The charm of the tale consists in the lightness and humor with which
it is told.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The tale is swifter in movement and holds the attention better than
‘The secret agent’ or ‘Nostromo.’ The characters of the principals are
well delineated, with touches of quiet humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“The pleasure of the acquaintance of the hero of this little tale is
worth making at the expense of an hour’s agreeable reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Cook, Frederick Albert.= To the top of the continent: discovery,
exploration and adventure in sub-arctic Alaska; the first ascent
of Mt. McKinley, 1903–1906. il. **$2.50. Doubleday.
8–7371.
The entire story of Dr. Cook’s two expeditions, the one that failed
and the later one that was successful. Thousands of miles of trackless
wilderness were covered in reaching the foot of this Alaskan mountain,
then began an ascent “over glaciers, up almost perpendicular slopes of
crusted snow down which avalanches were continually thundering. Torrid
heat and polar cold were at times combined: for the bright burning
sunbeams caused to fall ‘from our faces big beads of perspiration
which froze in icy pinnacles on our garments.’” (Nation.) See
Cumulative book index for contents of appendices.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“The book is beautifully illustrated, and if a folding map in colors
had been added the volume would be beyond reproach.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 270w.
“The appendices prove that Dr. Cook is no amateur, for his geological,
biological, and economic notes on Alaska are of high scientific value
and enhance immensely the practical worth of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Uniqueness of adventure constitutes the special interest of this
account. It is to be regretted that there is no index, and that the
routes of the expeditions are not marked on the map, as it is
difficult from the narrative alone to trace them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 600w.
“For the general reader the book is of great interest, not only
because of its record of heroic struggles against discomforts,
dangers, and appalling obstacles and final achievement, but also
because Dr. Cook had time and skill to note by the way so many
fascinating things.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the most remarkable mountaineering narratives which we
have seen. The story is most graphically told, the descriptions of
scenery show considerable literary art.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 590. O. 17, ’08. 1550w.
=Cook, Joshua Flooce.= Old Kentucky; with papers by Theodore
Roosevelt, Champ Clark, and Reuben T. Durrett. *$3. Neale.
8–19876.
Based upon well authenticated facts this study portrays characters of
Kentucky, from the negro and poor white people to the makers of the
state; the mode of life, superstitions and peculiarities of the
humblest as well as the first citizens of the state.
=Cooke, George Willis=, comp. Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
*$5. Houghton.
8–14938.
“Prepared upon the same general plan as the same author’s
‘Bibliography of James Russell Lowell.’ The alphabetical list of
single titles giving the place and date of first appearance and
subsequent reprints, fills fifty pages. This is followed by the
chronological list of separate works, with their various editions;
lists of works edited by Emerson; collected works; volumes of
selections, or compilations containing poems or essays by him;
biographies, notices, poems addressed to Emerson, etc.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A notable piece of work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’08. 130w.
“From the point of view of the collector of first editions it is
unfortunate that there is no list of books and pamphlets such as make
up a set of first editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 283. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“As a piece of pure craftsmanship Mr. Cook’s ‘Bibliography’ is
admirable, making no claim to completeness, but arranged in an orderly
manner, covering a large amount of information, unchoked by mere
pedantic detail, in all respects what an intelligently constructed
book of reference should be.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 481. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Interrupted honeymoon. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–34774.
A honeymoon quarrel is followed by a separation. “The behavior of this
misguided pair is a fine example of the good old New England trait of
‘cussedness’: and the convalescence of their happiness is attended by
an exhausting number of relapses.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This story begins pleasantly—so pleasantly that for the sake of the
beginning one wades in exasperation through sloughs of despond,
doggedly determined to unearth the reason why Sarah left William on
their wedding journey.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The author of this story, has a pleasant style and the knack of
personality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Coolidge, Archibald Cary.= United States as a world power. **$2.
Macmillan.
8–19878.
A volume which has grown out of a series of lectures delivered at the
Sorbonne during 1906–07 as the Harvard lectures on the Hyde
foundation. It is a controversial study of the part which the United
States plays in the great drama of world politics. The author
discusses Formation and growth, Nationality and immigration, Race
questions, The Monroe doctrine, The Spanish war, The acquisition of
colonies, The Philippine question, and the United States in relation
to France, Germany, Russia, England, Canada, Latin America, China and
Japan, The Isthmian canal, and The United States in the Pacific.
* * * * *
“The book is not intended as a purely historical discussion but as an
interpretation and appreciation of our present international position.
It fulfils its object well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 250w.
“It is written with a studied moderation of statement and avoidance of
personal feeling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“The work of such an historian and publicist as Prof. Coolidge will be
an appreciable and grateful aid in the comprehension of the common
duty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 555. O. 10, ’08. 1450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“Minor errors of fact occur, but few controversial statements are
hazarded.” J. A. Le Roy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 719. D. ’08. 430w.
=Coolidge, William A. B.= Alps in nature and history. *$2.50.
Dutton.
8–34201.
“In this book the author gives us the harvest of forty years’
exploration and study. There is a most interesting account of the
political history of the range from the earliest days, and special
chapters on those high-roads of history, the great passes. There are
chapters on the animals, and a paper by Mr. Yeld on Alpine flowers.
There are several delightful chapters on the customs of the villagers,
especially during the long winters when they live their life
undisturbed by tourists. Finally, there is a complete explanation of
the whole topography of the range, which even to those who know the
Alps will reveal many new facts.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book contains some very valuable and interesting statistics about
the mountains and passes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 140w.
“It is a vast encyclopedia of Alpine knowledge, arranged in a
systematic, available form, and especially full in respect to
topographical detail.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 900w.
“It is a guidebook not only for the practical Alpine traveler, but for
the fireside tourist as well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The maps and illustrations in this volume are very helpful.
Particularly interesting are the chapters on ‘The Alpine folk,’ their
political allegiance, mother tongues, and religion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 60w.
“No other writer has the same intimate knowledge of the whole Alpine
mountain system. Not the least of the merits of Mr. Coolidge’s book is
the comprehensive appreciation which it shows for every phase and
season of the life of the mountains.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 406. S. 19, ’08. 1550w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Marquis and Pamela; pictures by Julia
Roper. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–8092.
A story whose scenes are enacted in the “smart set” of British
society. “‘Reading one day a novel of Ouida’s’ is the way in which Mr.
Cooper opens one of his chapters; and it is manifest under whose
influence he has written this lurid tale.... It is full of mistresses,
gambling, swindlers and vices of varying kinds; and its heroine is not
Ouida’s ingenue, but a very soiled and selfish young person.... There
are many lords and baronets in his pages; but the worst enemies of
that society have never painted it so black.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is compact of what is designed to be sordid realism. We do not,
however, think it convincing in this respect.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
“A good deal of sentimentality, some preaching, and a few French puns
masquerading as humor tend toward making a very dull piece of reading
matter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
=Copping, Arthur E.= Gotty and the guv’nor. $1.50. Kennerley.
Gotty is a fisherman of the Thames estuary and the “Guv’nor” is a
middle-aged business man who buys a fishing bawley at Leigh, appoints
Gotty its skipper, and makes a holiday cruise along the south coast of
Cornwall. Gotty is “thick-headed, but shrewd and entirely
captivating”; given to philosophical utterances, quick-witted comments
and droll humor.
* * * * *
“It is a genial light story, unstrained, effortless, wholly delightful
and without alloy.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
“His fisherfolk and water-side idlers ought to amuse many travelers at
this season; their talk is well managed, and makes good reading. The
narrator’s style is not so effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 92. Jl. 27. 240w.
“The book is a most delightful bit of character sketching of old Leigh
fishermen and ’longshoremen as the dramatis personae in a meandering
tale of mild adventure, fraught with genuine humor and beguiling
interest.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The text of this book is hardly worth the pictures.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The illustrations by Will Owen preserve the spirit of the story and
enhance its humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Coppo, Giovanni di.= Legend of the holy Fina, virgin of Santo
Gimignano, now first tr. from the trecento Italian: with introd.
and notes by M. Mansfield. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
This legend follows the life, penance, and good deeds of a saint of
medieval Italy. “It is offered to readers appreciative more of the
poetry of past days than of the mere dry bones of history.” The book
is bound in brown leather in antique style, with clasps.
* * * * *
“Is wholly unworthy of the good paper and press work expended upon
it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 180w.
“Students of Italian literature as well as of mediaeval history will
find much here to interest them.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3. ’08. 120w.
=Corbett, Julian Stafford.= England in the Seven years’ war: a study
in combined strategy. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
8–8464.
Shows that in order to understand the conduct of the war it should be
approached from the naval rather than from the military side. The war
has been viewed broadly, due care being given to the correlation of
all the elements brought into play during a campaign. “Mr. Corbett, as
far as we know, is the first to take a comprehensive view of the war,
and to disentangle the harmonious purpose running thru England’s
efforts.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The book is the result of careful investigation, offers some new
material and contains but few errors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“If it were possible to disentangle the narrative parts of the work
from the theories which Mr. Corbett advances as the result of his
investigations one would have nothing but praise for it; but as the
sub-title shows, it is quite as much a contribution to strategical
theory as to history, and on that side one feels, albeit reluctantly,
obliged to differ very considerably from Mr. Corbett.” C. T. Atkinson.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 585. Jl. ’08. 1950w.
“The history as a whole cannot be praised without reserve, for it
falls short of the highest class. From the first to the last page
there is a perceptible preoccupation with present-day conditions, and
an anxiety to measure events by the standard of naval principles that
are often over-elaborated and far from convincing. A certain
carelessness of style detracts considerably from the value of an
otherwise excellent piece of work.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 1100w.
“Within its self-imposed limitations however, the book in its entirety
is entitled to the highest praise. It is a distinct contribution to
our knowledge, and is doubly welcome because of the attractive form
wherein it is conveyed. While perhaps occasionally unduly rhetorical,
Mr. Corbett’s style is in general forcible, and above all clear.” G:
L: Beer.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Though his book is full of lessons in the art of war he never allows
himself to dogmatise, and the same legally trained instinct which
makes him chary of drawing conclusions from events prevents him from
passing harsh sentences on men’s actions. Mr. Corbett puts plenty of
life and movement into his history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 80. Ja. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“In his use of original materials the author shows himself a scholar,
but no pedant. There are a few omissions in this book. His style too,
is not always on a level quite worthy of the fine treatment of his
subject. As a whole this study is a book of great moment, and deserves
the attention, not merely of the naval officers to whom it was
originally addressed, but of all serious students of government.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 787. My. 16, ’08. 2000w.
=Corbin, John.= Which college for the boy? leading types in American
education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13754.
Presents the typical aims of the different colleges, shows what sort
of young men go to each, shows what its traditions are, what its
authorities aim to do and what they are actually doing. The chapter
headings are suggestive: Princeton, a collegiate university; Harvard,
a Germanized university; Michigan, a middle-eastern university;
Cornell, a technical university; Chicago, a university by enchantment;
Wisconsin, a utilitarian university; The farmer’s awakening; The small
college versus the university; and The question of expense.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“So much stress, indeed, is laid upon the defects that a conscientious
parent ... would almost inevitably lay it aside with the firm
conviction, ‘At all events, not one of these six.’” R. W. Kemp.
− =Bookm.= 28: 274. N. ’08. 1100w.
“If the careful parent wishes to learn something about the peculiar
temptations his son will be exposed to at any of the universities in
Mr. Corbin’s list, the social advantages he will enjoy, the athletic
sports most in vogue, and (in a general way) the departments of
learning most successfully cultivated, he will do well to read this
attractive, well-illustrated book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 67. Ag. 1, ’08. 230w.
“The book is all the more valuable from its frankly personal tone,
since this does not interfere with a fair appreciation of the
distinctive merits of each university.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 720. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 123. Jl. 25, ’08. 1300w.
“Its influence will be rather upon the colleges themselves than upon
prospective students.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 570w.
“A contribution of practical value to the educational problem which
must be solved by so many anxious parents and ambitious young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The book is specially to be commended because it comes from the hands
of a man who knows college life at first hand both in this country and
at Oxford.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“A reading of Mr. Corbin’s book will put the inquirer in possession of
a great deal of very useful information which he could not possibly
glean from the official publications of the colleges and universities
in question, and although Mr. Corbin refrains from giving advice to
parents as to where to send their sons he certainly presents many
facts which most parents would do well to take into account before
deciding such a question.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Corner, Mrs. Caroline.= Ceylon, the paradise of Adam: the record of
seven years’ residence in the island; with 16 full-page il. *$4.
Lane.
8–16439.
A book of fact and fiction well blended. “Having resided in the island
for seven years, the author writes of the many peculiar institutions,
customs, and manners of the Ceylonese. Much of the book is written in
dialogue, with comments in solution,—a method of composition which
calls the reader’s imagination into play, but which does not entirely
satisfy any desire he may have for an extended explanation of
Ceylonese life. If we are to believe the records of this volume, life
in Ceylon is more interesting and diverting than in any other part of
the world.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Miss Corner would have pleased the general reader more if she had
been more expository and less fictional in her narrative.” H. E.
Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“The reader is bored only by the authoress’s insistence on her own
gentility.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 100w.
“She has an eye for the picturesque and an unflagging wonder for the
striking and the unusual, and she has written about it all with a
constant sense of humor, a charming, whimsical vividness, and a never
failing perception of the dramatic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22. ’08. 130w.
“A very amusing book, not without some seriousness of meaning.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Cortes, Hernando.= Letters of Cortes: the five letters of relation
from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V; tr. and ed., with a
biographical introd. by Francis A: MacNutt. 2v. **$10. Putnam.
8–14522.
The first English edition of five lengthy letters in which is given an
authentic account of the conquest of Mexico from the standpoint of the
conqueror and of the conquered. Full explanatory notes accompany the
text, in addition to which are a biography of Cortes, and appendices
containing bibliographical material concerning Mexicans of prominence,
and historical matter relating to the civilization, origin, religion
of the ancient race.
* * * * *
“Mr. MacNutt has edited these valuable reports with care and ability.
The printer has not been uniformly successful in coping with Spanish
names and phrases, but the blemishes on the whole are few and slight.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. McNutt has done his work of translation in the way most
acceptable to both the special student and the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It is no small service that the editor has rendered to students of
history by bringing them together for the first time in an English
form.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 373. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Cortissoz, Royal.= Augustus Saint-Gaudens. **$7.50. Houghton.
7–40526.
A timely monograph handsomely illustrated which is in the main devoted
to criticism but which contains many a reminiscent passage. Mr.
Cortissoz pronounces Saint-Gaudens “not only our greatest sculptor,
but the first to break with the old epoch of insipid ideas and
hidebound academic style, giving the art a new lease of life and
fixing a new standard.”
* * * * *
“A brief but important monograph presenting discriminating and
authoritative criticism and slight but significant and interesting
biographical notes. Should be owned by all libraries that can afford
it, because of the importance of subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“Sympathetically written.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 233. F. 22. 280w.
“Altogether it must be ranked as the leading American art-book of the
year.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“A beautiful tribute, and yet there is a feeling of strain, of an
effort to make a book out of a monograph, and there is a suspicion of
padding in the makeup of the volume.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 692. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“There is no thought here of making a vulgar concession to the mob;
there is thought only of the sympathy, the emotion, by which the
greatest men of genius in all ages have been moved.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The little monograph is as interesting as it is scholarly and
convincing, an essay that is thoroughly enjoyable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“Mr. Cortissoz has delivered himself of valuable and illuminating
criticism in a style of singular grace and distinction.” H. S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 750. Mr. ’08. 650w.
“All the illustrations in the book are excellent, and show what care
has been bestowed upon them.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Cotes, Sara Jeannette.= Cousin Cinderella. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–24455.
A Canadian girl and her brother take a flat in London and the girl
tells, after a delightful fashion, how she succeeded in “becoming a
part of it all.” From Towse, the cook, and the grocery boy to a real
live Duke “seen on a hearth rug and not in a procession,” we have
interesting pictures of people and settings. “Miss Canada” furnishes
not only fresh viewpoints of things English and American but an
elucidation of some matters of sentiment involving a lord, an American
girl and a ruined ancestral estate.
* * * * *
“The girl’s criticisms of the people, conventionalities, traditions
and precedents are not only naïve and humorous but analytical and
penetrating. A book that will interest only a small proportion of
novel readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“There is a good deal of quiet laughter in ‘Cousin Cinderella’; and
the better one knows London, the more one will be inclined to enjoy
the book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 180w.
“The humor of the monologue is delightful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Its wit and social photography are what make the book entertaining,
as it undoubtedly is.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The book is delightful. The general sketches of society and the
drawings of the various personalities, great and small, are
admirable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Couch, Mabel Quiller-.= Troublesome Ursula. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a little girl “of the elder-sister type who is taken from
her baby charges and widowed mother to live with a stern grandmother.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is, we think, some improbability in the details of poor
Ursula’s closing adventure; but this is a trifling blemish in a
capital book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 180w.
“A very good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 70w.
“Is a charming little story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= Chaucer and his England. (Memoir ser.)
*$3.50. Putnam.
8–33921.
“After the briefest sketch of the rude England of Edward III, Mr.
Coulton takes up Chaucer’s boyhood and youth, and traces his career as
King’s squire, ambassador, and man of affairs to his last days. Then
he has some entertaining pages on the London and Westminster
neighborhood and institutions of Chaucer’s day, and devotes three
chapters to an admirable exposition of the ‘Canterbury tales.’ The
concluding chapters relate to influences and ideals of the times, the
poverty spread by the war, the relations of the priests to the people,
and the quality of the merriment in ‘Merry England.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The manner of quoting is puzzling, not to say irritating. The index
is insufficient for a book of such complexity.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Mr. Coulton’s chapters on the poem are lucid and readable. His
account of Chaucer’s times is well written. This is not a profound
work but it is surely an engaging one, that well repays perusal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 537. O. 3, ’08. 1200w.
“He really knows his sources and moves with some ease from one to
another. And we feel at the end of his book that it is bound to give
excellent food to the imaginations of numbers of unlearned readers and
to compel others to go to the fountain heads.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 366. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
“An unusually interesting book, certainly not the less so for being
occasionally provocative. Mr. Coulton has well-defined convictions,
and insists on them. He rides, a little too violently we think, a
hobby here and there.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 750w.
=Court= life of the second French empire, 1852–1870, by Le petit
homme rouge. *$2. Scribner.
7–36951.
The author hides behind “Le petit homme rouge,” the gossipy ghost that
is made responsible for history or myth, gossip or scandal, joke or
anecdote which are included here. “Among the many items of innocent
interest with which his pages are sprinkled may be mentioned the
account of the luxury indulged in by the imperial household. While the
Empire, all unsuspected by the pampered inmates of the Tuileries, was
tottering to its fall.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The principal defects are in matters of style, although in general
the book reaches the level of good journalistic writing.” F. M.
Anderson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, the writer is so accurate and so well-informed that his
book makes serious claim to be treated as history. It is at least the
backstairs view of the history of a period in which the backstairs
played the leading part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 759. Je. 22. 1070w.
“The book furnishes entertainment and amusement, which is probably its
prime purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16. ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 100w.
“His book is a delight to those who like their history well dashed
with the spice of personalities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 447. Ag. 15, ’08. 800w.
=Cox, John Charles, and Harvey, Alfred.= English church furniture;
with 121 il. (Antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–5837.
In this volume “the arrangement of the text and illustrations is
strictly systematic. Chapter 1 deals with the altar, and the
accompanying rails and screens; chapter 2 with church plate, chalice,
and paten, cruets and flagons, and even the leather cases in which
such plate is kept; chapter 3, with the piscina and the sedilla; and
chapter 4, with choir-screens and rood-lofts. Thus the whole book,
divided into thirteen chapters, offers a useful account of what one
needs to know when visiting ancient churches, or when preparing to
build and adorn a church.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is in many ways a completion of Parker’s well-known ‘Glossary,’
and a mine of carefully ordered information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 680w.
“The joint authors of this most useful book have managed to invest the
driest technical details with an interest that cannot fail to appeal
even to those who have never hitherto considered church furniture from
any but the prosaic point of view.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 171. Ap. ’08. 220w.
“There is a pleasant mixture of archaeology with modern criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 360w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Fair
Mississippian. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–29332.
The hero of Miss Murfree’s new story is a young man who having
completed an elaborate course of study abroad is obliged to dismiss
temporarily his dream of power on account of his father’s death and
shattered fortunes. He turns to pedagogical work and engages in
preparing three Southern boys for college. The story is concerned with
his life in this home on a cotton plantation, with his thrilling
adventures with river pirates and floods, and with his romance in
which a widow ten years his senior is the altogether charming heroine.
=Cradle= of the rose. **$1.50. Harper.
8–30708.
Brittany is the scene of this story which bears upon the present
church and state crisis in France. The wife of an English ambassador,
during the latter’s absence in the Orient on diplomatic business,
returns to Brittany, the land of her birth, there receives the homage
which her wealth and ancestors command, and, aided by a young Breton
nobleman, organizes a Royalist insurrection, is betrayed by a servant,
and prefers a watery grave to capture and death at the hands of
enemies.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The story is developed skillfully and with constant appreciation for
whatever is beautiful or interesting in the Breton country or in its
people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 360w.
=Crane, Walter.= India impressions. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–5823.
A book for the general reader which may serve as “an addendum to the
lately published reminiscences” (Dial.) full of anecdotes illustrated
by comic drawings.
* * * * *
“The volume may nevertheless be recommended to these who do not desire
scientific truth, but rather wish for an artist’s opinion on the
beauties of Indian landscape and architecture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The illustrations by the author could not fail in themselves to make
the book attractive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The work is, in short, without sufficient excuse for being, but
having been written, does no harm. At any rate the pen-and-ink
sketches are new and some of them are funny.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 80w.
“An artist with this opportunity of travel has naturally much that is
interesting to tell us. About political matters Mr. Crane does not say
much, nor does he make us wish that he had been more copious in his
deliverances on this subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 260w.
=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Re-birth of religion; being an account
of the passing of the old and coming of the new dogmatic. **$1.50.
Lane.
8–1487.
Dr. Crapsey condemns the current system of religion as antiquated and
outworn and substitutes a new system entirely away from Christian
creeds. The “new dogmatic will instruct in all that concerns the
ethical life, and will seek to bring the soul in contact with that
which is good, so that the evil shall not be in the mind at all.”
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“His work is constructive rather than destructive and is worthy of a
place in every library where there is no fear of truth.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 490. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“The author is as sure of his ground as he is earnest and courageous,
and we cannot otherwise than wish him well; but at several points we
find ourselves asking whether we are not escaping from one crassness
to fall into another.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 212. Ap. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Very little is found in these pages which is not often heard, in
somewhat less piquant style, from the more liberal pulpits of the
orthodox churches.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“If the truth be spoken, the book is utterly devoid both of
scholarship and of theological insight. It is hardly more than a
combination of the commonplace and the untrue. The book abounds in
inaccuracies and misstatements. They show loose thinking, lack of
scholarship, and carelessness of expression. The volume would attract
no attention and would not be worthy of serious notice were it not for
the prominence in which circumstances have placed its author.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
“It appears to us to be characterized in many places by inconsistency,
inaccuracy, and superficiality. There is much that is admirable in the
volume, especially in the author’s presentation of the doctrine of
social salvation, but as an interpretation of the new dogmatic it is
inferior to other volumes by other authors of the broad school who
have preceded him.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’67. 630w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Diva’s ruby. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26829.
Completes the trilogy of which “Fair Margaret” is the first volume and
“The primadonna” is the second. Mr. Crawford tells a whole story in
his prologue, the while he is affording his tale an artistic
preparation. He takes the reader into a ruby mine, where is enacted a
weird drama in which an oriental maiden for the love of a
golden-bearded Englishman divulges the hidden cave’s secret of rubies,
and is deserted for her pains. The plot of the story proper grows out
of the theft of a ruby and the final struggle in which the Greek
financier, Logotheti, and the American millionaire, Van Torp, do
battle for the hand of Margaret.
* * * * *
“She remains one of Mr. Crawford’s most consistently drawn
characters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 130w.
“Frankly, it is the best story Mr. Crawford has given us in a number
of years.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 261. N. ’08. 650w.
“Is far and away the most readable of the three books devoted to the
lady.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Really, there is little to be said of such storytelling as this; an
able-bodied, intelligent, grown man ought to be in better business.”
− =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“There is mystery enough for a detective story, love within love,
murder, wealth. There are also Crawford’s shrewd and felicitous
characterizations, and his sparkling wit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 540w.
“It is possibly the most dramatic tale in the series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“May be read and enjoyed independently or as a sequel to the other
members of the trilogy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is entertaining, and it holds the attention to the very end. It
does not belong, however, with Mr. Crawford’s really good work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of Hope: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Macmillan.
7–38261.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A pretty story, obviously padded.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“A pretty, graceful story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 80w.
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 550. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“Pessimists ought to read it, and optimists will enjoy it.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is a story which will delight both children and grown-ups, it is
so exquisitely told.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 40w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Primadonna: a sequel to “Fair Margaret.”
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13275.
A well developed sequel to “Fair Margaret.” Two years have passed and
Margaret Donne who made her debut on the lyric stage has become
submerged in Margarita da Cordova, a full-fledged primadonna,
unspoiled by contact with “coarse-fibered colleagues and cynical
impressarios.” Characters of musical Bohemia and men of literary and
commercial fame unite to furnish a setting for this heroine, whose
character development is consistently drawn to its maturity with due
emphasis placed upon the value of temperament.
* * * * *
“Though a story of crime and mystery, it is not, perhaps, the kind of
mystery which gives the best scope to Mr. Crawford’s powers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 200w.
“The book at best does not rise above the Wilkie Collins type.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Crawford is drawing some very real characters in this triptych of
portraits.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Crawford’s hand becomes not less deft but more nonchalant as the
years go by.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 650w.
“It would be impossible for Marion Crawford to write anything but a
good novel. But in the midst of his spell weaving we seem nowadays to
fall on blanks and pauses, digressions and explanations, well written
in themselves, but unworthy of the witch-stuff that we have grown to
expect from the pen of the much-loved novelist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The second half shows relaxation of grip.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“When he is not soliloquizing or moralizing he is very entertaining
and bright.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“There are also occasional lapses into that bad faith with his
readers, to intensify their interest or perplexity, which the writer
of the sensational should be very careful to avoid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
“‘The primadonna’ has not the charm of the best of Mr. Marion
Crawford’s novels of modern Italian life, but by its judicious
blending of sensational incident with careful character-drawing it
makes a wide appeal, and is eminently calculated to maintain the
popularity of its indefatigable author.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 850w.
=Crawford, Mary Caroline.= Among old New England inns. $2. Page.
7–36234.
Here Miss Crawford tells of her visits to old New England inns and
recalls their peculiar part in the public life of “the brave days of
old.” It is a matter for special comment that colonial inns were bound
up with the church, frequently being located next door to the places
of worship. The reasons for this, the “part inns played in early
history, their social and political associations, and the odd
characters who frequented them” are set forth in chatty and informing
manner.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 38. F. ’08.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“The book is crowded with interesting lore.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“All of which Miss Crawford puts down with good taste and
diligence.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
“This is one of the many interesting popular books which reproduce the
habits of life and the homes of the older America. One of the minor
foot-notes to New England history.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
* =Crawford, Mary Caroline.= St. Botolph’s town: an account of old
Boston in colonial days. $2.50. Page.
8–28847.
A history of old Boston from the first settlement down to the
revolution which is embodied in a series of portraits of prominent men
and women.
* * * * *
“A work full of zealous research and written in an agreeable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
“There are some repetitions from the former volumes. And the style
leaves something to be desired, being, to say the least, neither
original nor distinguished.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Handsomely gotten up and written in interesting style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 260w.
=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= Fifteen decisive battles of the
world, from Marathon to Waterloo; new ed. $1.25. Harper.
8–30944.
A new edition containing the complete text of Creasy’s “Fifteen
decisive battles” and eight additional battles as follows: Quebec,
Yorktown, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sedan, Manila bay, Santiago and
Tsu-Shima. The battles are described by well-known historians and are
accompanied by chronological lists of important events.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 120w.
=Creed= of Buddha, by the author of “The creed of Christ.” *$1.50.
Lane.
8–15891.
“In addition to the several chapters in which the author sets forth
and discusses the teachings of Buddha, he enters into a comparison of
the view-points of the East and the West.... In another chapter he
discusses ‘the bankruptcy of Western thought,’ by which he means that
the higher thought of the Western world has come to a point where it
no longer has anything to offer in response to its own demands. In the
final chapter he sets forward the theory that it remains for Western
intellect to borrow and assimilate the ethical ideas of the East and
evolve from these ‘a science of the soul’ that will enrich the Western
poverty of thought.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The layman who wishes to get a clear idea of the ethical teaching of
Buddha, apart from his philosophy, will find a concise and
illuminating discussion and interpretation of ‘The creed of Buddha,’
by this anonymous author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 220w.
“It is suggestive and stimulating, and even if we doubt its being a
correct representation of the philosophy of the Buddha, it contains
much that will do the European reader no harm to keep in mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
=Creel, George.= Quatrains of Christ; preface by Julian Hawthorne.
**75c. Elder.
8–22554.
The esoteric meaning of Christ’s life and mission gleams forth from
these quatrains which tell the wonderful and radiant story with
reverence and spiritual insight. The quatrains “are in form, the
Rubaiyat of Omar over again; but save that they are full of veritable
poetry they are as different from them in purpose and issue as light
is different from shadow.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“This new poet seems a real interpreter of the religious life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
=Cresson, William Penn.= Persia; the awakening East. **$3.50.
Lippincott.
8–17797.
“The author, who is a prominent architect of Washington. D. C., and a
fellow of the Royal geographical society, tells the story of a caravan
journey across Persia, old Kurdistan, and the countries of the middle
east taken by himself and his brother. His book, however, is more than
a description of the country, for he pays especial attention to the
political condition of the countries through which he passed, and
throws a great deal of light upon the so-called awakening of Persia
and upon the diplomatic complications caused by the rivalries and
conflicting interests of Russia, England, and Germany in that remote
part of the world. The book is profusely illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A volume well written and well illustrated, but Mr. Cresson does not
live up to his avowed purpose as indicated by his title and his
introductory statements.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 220w.
“The value of the volume is not impaired because its politics, is a
little out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 557. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Notwithstanding the somewhat superficial character of the book, it is
instructive, and the author’s style makes it easy reading, while the
photographic illustrations add much to its interest and
attractiveness. We regret that there is neither map nor index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 189. Ag. 27, ’08. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“While not so exhaustive, scholarly, or authoritative as is Professor
Jackson’s recently published book, Mr. Cresson’s may prove to be even
more popularly instructive; certainly it is a good preparatory book to
read before attempting the other.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Well and interestingly written account of the present condition of
the Shah’s empire.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Crocker, Francis Bacon.= Dynamo-electric machinery: an
authoritative treatise on the theory, constructive details,
calculation, characteristic curves, and design of dynamo-electric
machinery. $1.50. American school of correspondence.
8–23578.
“The book is intended for correspondence instruction, and is well
arranged for this purpose. There are four sections to the book
covering the fundamental principles and various classes of generators,
calculations and characteristic curves. A valuable feature of the work
is a well-selected list of problems relating to the design,
construction and operation of such generators, appropriate solutions
being given in outline.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Good as his previous work has been, he may be said in this work to
have crystallized clearly and summarized succinctly the fruitful
results of study, practice and didactic disquisition, and is to be
congratulated upon a book that to a certain extent does him justice
and that cannot fail to be a helpful guide to the aspiring electrical
engineer.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 362. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
“Anyone who is seeking a lucid and logical presentation of the very
elements of the design of direct-current generators will not be
disappointed with this text.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“Overlooking [several] shortcomings, the book may be considered as an
excellent elementary text relating to standard low-speed
direct-current generators.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 280w.
=Crockett, Charles Winthrop.= Methods for earthwork computations.
*$1.50. Wiley.
8–10844.
“The author formulates a series of rules by means of which the terms
requisite for the numerical computation of volumes by the prismoidal
formula and the average end area method may be written directly from
the notes, without any intermediate steps and without drawing any
figures, the symbolized form of the rules enabling the computer to
apply them without difficulty.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 230w.
“The book as a whole presents the subject of the computation of
earthwork quite clearly and fully. The rules derived could be more
readily understood by the student if expressed in words as well as by
formulas, as the notation used in some of the special cases is not
evident even by reference to the summary. In general, however, the
statements are clearly made and the methods easily followed.” C: L.
Crandall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Deep moat grange. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9175.
A tale of murder and mystery with a north of England setting.
* * * * *
“Great skill is shown in the handling of so numerous a company. We
fancy, however, in spite of this and the excellence of the local
colouring, that the tragic element is a trifle too lurid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 150w.
“A soufflé of slang and shudders.”
− =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“The plot is well managed and the style is sprightly and vivid,
although Mr. Crockett is prone, as usual, to be amazingly long-winded
and to use three times as many words as are necessary for the telling
of his story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 256. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
“A crazy tale about crazy people.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Iron lord. (English title, Vida; or,
The iron lord of Kirktown.) il. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–274.
An unscrupulous ironmaster sends his wife and daughter to sea with
orders for the ship to be scuttled at a suitable moment. The child is
rescued and unknown to her father grows to womanhood in his mining
village. The story introduces a variety of characters and situations
that are more or less identified with the final achievement of the
father’s repentance.
* * * * *
“Let the reader read if he chooses. The book will not injure his
feeblest virtues, but do not let him purchase it under the impression
that he is buying one of S. R. Crockett’s dark o’ the moon tales.”
− =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 320w.
“The plot of the story, if its sequence of incidents can be called a
plot, is loose and struggling, and conventional enough to be worthy of
the respect due to age. There are a number of exciting incidents very
well related, and there are some excellent scenes portraying the life
and work of the employes of the Incubus mines. These last are, indeed,
the best part of the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Is it possible that Mr. Crockett is trying how far a well-established
favourite can presume on the indulgence of the fiction-reading public?
Mr. Crockett has a masterful way of picturing women and their ways
that recalls Charles Reade, and the dialogue is as vigorous as ever.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Redcap adventures. †$1.75. Macmillan.
8–24454.
A continuation of “Red cap tales.” They are drawn from “Ivanhoe,” “The
fortunes of Nigel,” “Quentin Durward,” “The pirate,” and “A legend of
Montrose,” the portions being retold in a manner simple enough to
interest children.
* * * * *
“Will be sure to hold his young readers.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 50w.
“The connecting links are excellent, while the stories are told with
spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The volume is attractive in every way. For itself, and as a foretaste
of the great teller of tales, whom many people do still read, the book
is most acceptable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Cromer, Earl of.= Modern Egypt. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
8–8125.
A two-volume work which sets forth “how this ancient land has been
policed, financed, and irrigated after the latest European models.”
(Lit. D.) It makes its appeal to the Englishman for its detailed story
of General Gordon and his mission to Khartoum; to the student of
history for the light thrown on European diplomacy and politics; to
the student of political science for the manner of solving difficult
problems and handling troublesome policies; to the student of
ethnology for the light thrown upon the race development question.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“Earl Cromer’s volumes are at once thorough, scholarly and
sympathetic.” C. L. Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 725. My. ’08. 600w.
“He writes with a largeness of view, a generosity of temper, and a
sense of responsibility which belong characteristically to the man who
has been at the helm of Egypt through his eventful and fruitful
quarter of a century.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 345. Mr. 21. 1750w.
“The opinions of so acute and well-informed a statesman, even when not
on the scene, are of great value.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 376. Mr. 28. 3300w.
“It is and will continue to be the most reliable and illuminating
history of a momentous epoch in British foreign politics.” J: W:
Russell.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 492. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“No one has [told the story of English rule] so well, as Lord Cromer.”
J. W. Garner.
+ =Dial.= 44: 237. Ap. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Since the days of Cæsar, Lord Cromer is the first great ruler who has
written his own story in such vigorous, clear and noble language.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 747. Ap. 2, ’08. 1200w.
“It is the highest tribute we can pay to this book to declare that he
has manifestly carried out his noble purpose and he has related his
experiences with modesty, succinctness, and eloquence.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 490. Ap. 4, ’08. 850w.
“Teachers of English would do well to weigh the style of these
volumes. A master of lucid statement and apt phrase, able to convey
his thought vividly and precisely in language which yet attracts no
more attention to itself than the dress of a woman of perfect taste.
The book is so noteworthy because the intellect and the character
which have gone to its making are so exceptional.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 235. Mr. 12, ’08. 1550w.
“We are confident that Lord Cromer’s book, as a whole, would have left
a better impression upon candid minds had he refrained from his too
evidently labored attempt to justify his course in respect to the
governor generalship appointment and the Zobeir episode.” C. R.
Miller.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 149. Mr. 21, ’08. 5000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Should be read and re-read by all who have aught to do with the
government of dependent races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 2550w.
“His story of his achievements is well worth reading, well worth
studying.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“The chapters dealing with the financial and economic reforms in Egypt
are most interesting, and the whole is one of the most noteworthy
historical works of the past decade.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 70w.
“Without attempting to pose as a political philosopher, he yet gives
us ... a number of principles of political action, which are all
marked by that sanity and simplicity of judgment, that broad and
masculine good sense, which has been the foundation of his success.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 374. Mr. 21, ’08. 3200w.
“Valuable in a high degree from the historical side.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 374. Mr. 7, ’08. 2400w.
“He sees how the oriental mind works, and takes the necessary steps to
keep his own mind free from either prejudice or entanglement. [The
book] is throughout written, not only with the force, directness, and
good sense which would be expected from its author, but also with no
little insight and literary charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 420. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Cronson, Bernard.= Pupil self-government: its theory and practice.
*90c. Macmillan.
7–36886.
The scheme for pupil self-government as outlined, developed and
operated by a New York principal. Ethical as well as civic training is
insured through the author’s methods. The book is fully illustrated,
and furnished with blank pages for notes.
* * * * *
“Not entirely satisfactory because of its scrappy character, but
suggestive and especially useful as there are no other books on the
subject and only occasional brief magazine articles.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 175. Je. ’08.
“The principal who is interested in the subject will find in this book
a very definite statement as to methods and as to conditions essential
for success.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
=Crooker, Rev. Joseph Henry.= Church of today: a plea. *75c. Pilgrim
press.
8–12536.
A practical treatment of the church problem, of the obstacles in the
way of the attainment of the church’s ideals, of religion as a
corporate life, of the church’s contribution to modern life and
inspiration, and of the functions of the church as a social
institution.
* * * * *
“Though the author is a liberal thinker, his work is quite
conservative in tone. It is a strong, able and earnest plea for closer
union of men and women for the carrying forward of the fundamental
truths of religion and the elevation of society to a higher and nobler
plane of existence.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 300w.
“Is remarkable both for comprehensiveness and sobriety. The author
works up to the line of truth, and rarely if ever transcends it.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 370w.
“A modern and candid statement of the problem before the church.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 160w.
=Cross, Victoria.= Religion of Evelyn Hastings. $1.50. Kennerley.
Evelyn Hastings’ religion evolved from childhood and girlhood
experiences is the religion of living, constant prayer. It is
materialistic inasmuch as it limits the omnipotence of God, and it
permits of dream communion with absent loved ones.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= By the Christmas fire. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–33150.
A collection of wise and humorous essays by the author of “The gentle
reader” and “The pardoner’s wallet,” which will incite in the reader
as he smiles and chuckles a feeling of peace and good will toward all
his fellows. Besides the Bayonet-poker, Christmas and the literature
of disillusion, Christmas and the spirit of democracy, with their
hopeful and kindly Christmas philosophy, the book contains the essays,
The ignominy of being grown-up and On being a doctrinaire.
* * * * *
“A new volume of those charming, humorous, observant papers of his,
which often lead one nowhere in particular, but benefit him none the
less all the way.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1173. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Although the spirit of Dr. Crother’s style is optimistic and hopeful,
there is an undercurrent of whimsical warning for the contented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One finds a wealth of entertainment which is not the less delightful
because it carries with it an abundance of intellectual profit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is quite good enough to take its place in the ‘Standard library of
pleasant books’ which some wise publisher will some day bring out.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
=Crouch, Frances.= Feminine finance. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36412.
Here are set forth in amusing fashion the high-handed methods to which
two bachelor maids resort in bringing about the payment of a
promissory note which an unfortunate woman holds against her cousin.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Entertainment of the lightest variety may be found by easily pleased
readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 843. D. 21, ’07. 100w.
=Crowninshield, Francis W.= Manners for the metropolis: an entrance
key to the fantastic life of the 400. **$1. Appleton.
8–31014.
A humorous Baedeker to the social realm. It contains concise rules of
deportment for all the more important social ceremonies—“from a
tete-à-tete to a betrothal, a picnic to a funeral, a partié-carrée to
a divorce, an ushers’ dinner to a Turkish bath, and a piano recital to
a rout. It also contains excellent advice on the choice of a motor
car, a summer residence, a wife, or a brand of cigar.” (Preface.)
=Crowninshield, Frederic.= Under the laurel. **$1.50. Dodd.
7–34589.
A book of poems divided into three groups as follows: Miscellaneous
poems, Sonnets, and Character studies and narrative poems.
* * * * *
“Contain little that is distinctive, such qualities of sincerity and
imagination as they do possess are much obscured by faulty
expression.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 310w.
“It is a source of real joy to meet with a collection deserving, as
does Mr. Crowninshield’s, a generous welcome from the world of
culture.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 200w.
“He is not sure enough of his rhythms, and is somewhat too fond of
unusual words to set the sensuous chords within us vibrating, but, as
a seeker after the meaning of life, perplexed at times, often
indignant, always courageous, he stands notably apart from the crowd.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 260w.
“In his shorter pieces, where he is more narrowly impelled by his
idea, he is most nearly successful.” Christian Gauss.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Crozier, Alfred Owen.= The magnet. †$1.50. Funk.
8–1779.
A novel which embodies the Wilmington lawyer’s methods of winning out
in a campaign against predatory wealth now looking for its greatest
triumph in a central government bank. Mr. Crozier’s aim is not to
injure Wall street’s useful and harmless business but to purge it of
its dangerous powers and practices, to end margin gambling, and the
demand for usurious interest rates. The book thrills with such
problems, and portrays a tigerish, conscienceless Wall street magnate
pitted against an honest, daring, invincible United States senator.
The battle is to the strong—the strong in courage and principle.
* * * * *
“‘The magnet’ is a book that should be bought, read and circulated by
every patriotic American between now and the coming election. This we
say in spite of the author’s amazing protection views and in spite of
his failure to realize that the more the government seeks to regulate
criminal corporations, the more those corporations will debauch
politics for the sake of the enormous revenue that can be wrested from
the people so long as they control the regulating force of government
and are able to continue their career of lawlessness.” B. O. Flower.
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 479. Ap. ’08. 5300w.
“His moral purpose in exposing financial iniquities in high places is
deep-seated and throughout the story it remains persuasive.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Of course it should never have been written under the head of
fiction ... but as a treatise on stock gambling the book has genuine
force, and perhaps is even not without its message.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the churches and minor
museums of Florence: a critical catalogue with quotations from
Vasari. (Art collections of Europe ser.) *$1.25. Dutton.
8–18753.
A critical guide book, illustrated with numerous miniature
reproductions of pictures and frescoes.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 64: 1300. Je. 4, ’08. 40w.
“It is a painstaking and apparently accurate piece of work, and should
prove of great value to the traveller interested in art.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 41. Jl. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The criticism is helpful to the tyro as well as to the advanced
student.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Cuenot, G.= Deformations of railroad tracks, and the means for
remedying them. *$2. Railway gazette.
8–3513.
“Gives the results of many experiments on the lines of the
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean railway. The deformations studied include
creeping, the reduction of gauge on tangents, the spreading of gauge
on curves, the compression of tie at its supports, the tearing out of
screw spikes, the poor holding of the joints, and the vertical
deformation of the rail.” Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The various matters are discussed scientifically and in detail. The
mechanical work on the book is rather poor. The translation is also
somewhat awkward at times. A more serious matter is the entire
omission of an index.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 661. D. 12, ’07. 700w.
“The monograph is such a valuable contribution to the subject of track
deformation that it deserves a very careful study.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 721. D. 28, ’07. 430w.
* =Culbreth, David M. R.= University of Virginia: memories of her
student-life and professors. *$5. Neale.
A volume of reminiscences written by a “casual alumnus” who entered
the University of Virginia in 1872. He gives intimate pictures of the
working of the inner life of the institution—of its class room and
debating society, social and religious life, of its students and
professors, and its environment and ideals. Across the whole moves the
spirit of Jefferson, its founder and supporter.
=Cunningham, Brysson.= Treatise on the principles and practice of
harbour engineering; with 18 pl. and 220 il. in the text. *$5.
Lippincott.
8–21779.
“The book on ‘Harbor engineering’ is introduced by an historical
chapter tracing the growth of navigation with its necessary
concomitant, the harbor.... The second chapter is devoted to harbor
design and the effect upon such design of the configuration of the
land, the tides and winds and the climatic conditions of the place.
The next six chapters take up the methods and materials of harbor
construction.... Finally a chapter is given to channel demarcation,
signals and lighthouses.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“To the profession in general the discussion of the behavior of
structural materials in and about sea-water will be the most valuable
part of the book. In particular the study of the effect of sea-water
on concrete is worthy of separate publication.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 430w.
=Curle, Richard H. P.= Aspects of George Meredith. il. *$2. Dutton.
8–16941.
After an introduction which estimates Meredith as novelist and poet
and defines afresh idealism, realism and poetry, the author deals with
the following subjects: Meredith’s personality explained by atmosphere
and style, Philosophy of nature, Lyrical view of nature, Philosophic
conception of social problems, Insight into character, The eloquence
of Meredith, etc.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“A blend of fun and poetry, and, especially, youth.” F. M. Colby.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Curle’s careful nuances of definition at times weary the reader
without pleasurably enlightening him.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Much, perhaps most, of Mr. Curle’s philosophy is true enough, and not
a little of his criticism is substantial and helpful; but, judging the
book as a whole, we frankly do not take pleasure in this tone of
literary religiosity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 464. My. 21, ’08. 400w.
“There is nothing much to ridicule in Mr. Curle’s book, and much to
honestly admire. The analyses of the various novels are suggestive and
illuminative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Currency= problem and the present financial situation: a series of
addresses delivered at Columbia university, 1907–1908. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–8335.
A series of addresses thru which run “an unexpected harmony of
thought, and a close agreement not only as to the ultimate ideal to be
attained in our financial relations, but as to the next step to be
taken in the legislative reform of our currency.” (J. Pol. Econ.) See
Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
“No more timely or important treatment of the problems which now
confront the American people has appeared anywhere than will be found
in this volume.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 520. My. ’08. 100w.
“Some of the most prominent men of affairs in New York have
contributed to the volume and it is evident that they are speaking out
of the fulness of practical experience, and have thought deeply on
various subtle points of theory.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 463. Jl. ’08. 160w.
=Curriculum= of the elementary school; reprinted from Teachers
college record. (v. 7, nos. 1 and 4; v. 8. nos. 1, 3 and 4.) $2.
Teachers college, Columbia univ.
A curriculum for the first seven grades of the public school. “As an
indication of how means may be adjusted to ends, of how teachers of
widely differing temperaments may be united in purpose, and of how a
norm may be utilized to direct concerted action throughout a large
institution, the study of the curriculum herein given is particularly
worthy of attention.”
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols: a history; with a foreword by Theodore
Roosevelt. **$3. Little.
7–40050.
Mr. Curtin’s panoramic view is epic in its sweep of “vital historical
events” which have had so large a share in aiding or marring the
development of Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a closely written,
illuminating history of the rise of the Mongol empire and its
decadence, popular in treatment yet scholarly in its authenticity and
choice of material.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding the imperfections of this work ... it puts before the
public the outlines, at least, of an epic of such wonderful interest
and which is so little known to us, that we must be thankful that it
has seen the light.” W. W. Rockhill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 562. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Nothing in this volume is so readable as the seven animated pages of
‘Foreword.’”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 528. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A scholarly, comprehensive, authentic work upon the rise and fall of
the Mongolian empire.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“The volume is one of the most important historical works of recent
years.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 497. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Valuable to the ordinary reader, and with its index and map will be a
useful addition to the library. In its composition, Mr. Curtin has
followed the bent of his genius; but it cannot accurately be called a
history.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Dial.= 44: 178. Mr. 16, ’08. 850w.
“Will be eagerly read, particularly at the present time, as a
contribution of first importance to the literature which aids us to
comprehend, if not to understand, the Orient.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 80w.
“It fulfills none of the conditions demanded by modern historical
methods. Fact and fable are mingled without any attempt at criticism
and without reference to sources, and the essential relations of cause
and effect are entirely ignored. It is a monotonous and repulsive
narrative of battles and sieges, devastation and slaughter.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
“One can not say that this is the ideal book on the Mongols, and yet
it is probably the best single work on the subject yet published in
English.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Complexity is an almost insuperable fault of the book from the
unlearned reader’s point of view, though chapters like that which
deals with the so-called Assassin commonwealth ... are of great
interest, and the whole volume is of immense value.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 1900w.
“Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have
few.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 650. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 230w.
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols in Russia. **$3. Little.
8–30035.
A continuation of “The Mongols.” Beginning with a detailed history of
Russia previous to the Mongol invasion, the author proceeds to a study
of the domination of the Mongols in Russia after their expulsion from
China by the founders of the Ming dynasty. From the Mongol invasion
the history continues thru two hundred and forty years of Mongol rule
and oppression to the breakup of the Golden Horde at Sarai in 1505.
* * * * *
“Fills a gap in English historic literature and fills it well.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 320w.
“When you have waded through the 481 pages you have no more ordered
idea of the relations of Russian and Mongol than you had when you
opened the volume, though you have perhaps learned many names and
incidents.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 669. N. 14, ’08. 1300w.
=Curtis, Carlton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants.
**$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“That this book successfully meets the demand intended to be supplied
by the author is certain, and this is abundant justification for
anyone who has the courage to run the gauntlet with a new book.” R. H.
Pond.
+ + − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 455. D. ’07. 590w.
“The author, meanwhile avoiding the more technical sides of his
subject, carries his argument forward in a style so clear and simple
that the most inexperienced reader may easily follow the fascinating
story.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Quite the best general text-book of botany that has recently come to
our attention. The book is beautifully made as well as well
proportioned, clearly written, and attractively illustrated.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“A careful examination has shown the treatise to be trustworthy. It
is, moreover, interesting, and it should be very useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Curtis has produced an excellent and readable book which may be
confidently recommended for the use of junior classes in this
country.” J. B. F.
+ =Nature.= 77: 436. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Curwood, James Oliver.= Courage of Captain Plum. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30131.
A stirring tale of the Mormon colony on Beaver Island, in Lake
Michigan. At the center of the plot lies the perfidy of James Jesse
Strang who as self proclaimed king ruled the island during the
administration of Franklin Pierce. Captain Plum, who visits the island
in the interests of righting a grievance of piracy, is plunged into
the thick of a revolt, and, at the peril of death, snatches two
persecuted young women from the meshes of the Mormon net.
* * * * *
“The tale is well told and abounds in exciting, melodramatic scenes.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Curwood is to be congratulated upon having utilized an
insignificant crumb of national history for the making of a
well-constructed and interesting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 320w.
* =Curwood, James Oliver.= Wolf hunters: a tale of adventure in the
wilderness. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–20578.
A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness. A young
half-breed, his tenderfoot friend, and a toughened Indian pathfinder,
share perilous dangers in the north country during a winter of
trapping, wolf hunting and Indian fighting. The gruesome find of a
cabin containing the skeletons of two men, who from all evidences, had
fought to death, results in the discovery of the location of a gold
mine. The author ends his story with the return to the post. The hunt
for the gold mine, postponed until spring, would furnish good material
for a sequel.
=Cushing, Otho.= Teddyssey. $1. Life pub.
7–33618.
Humorous drawings after the “mock heroic order” which picture eleven
episodes in the life of President Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“The President is the subject of perennial interest to all good
Americans, and whatever may be their political affiliations they will
find Mr. Cushing’s pictorial account of the particularly strenuous
moments in a strenuous career entertaining and possibly not without
food for thought.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 430. D. 16, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Cuthell, Edith E.= Wilhelmina, margravine of Baireuth. 2v. *$6.
Appleton.
6–33598.
A biography of Wilhelmina, sister of Frederick the Great. “Miss
Cuthell follows the fortunes of her heroine, using for the most part
the Margravine’s own pencil, as traced in her memoirs and in her
voluminous correspondence with the king, her brother, and with her
literary father-confessor Voltaire.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Miss Cuthell, although her method is at times too crude and
colloquial to be altogether pleasing, has given us a picturesque and
readable account of a woman who is invariably interesting.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 35. Ja. 13, ’06. 1700w.
“These deductions [poor style and deplorable Latin] from the value of
an entertaining and not unimportant historical biography are
regrettable, especially as most of them might have been avoided by a
little more care in the correction of the press.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 858. D. 23. 1230w.
“Except where it touches on the English marriages and, on the war, the
book is very interesting, though it is written in a vulgar, slipshod
style that seriously mars its attractiveness and sometimes, as in the
symbolic allusion to music at the outset, degenerates into pure
nonsense. Some of the illustrations are good.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 44. F. 9, ’06. 1170w.
“Miss Cuthell has performed a valuable service to literature in
presenting in vivid and masculine English a new life of the Margravine
of Baireuth, who will always remain one of the most fascinating
characters in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 620w.
“As a biography the book is inclined to err on the side of length, and
the style is occasionally slipshod, while a number of obvious blunders
should be corrected, but the author deserves praise for giving us a
thorough and always brightly written account of a really interesting
personality.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 82. Ja. 20, ’06. 2860w.
“The ideal biographer should be first artisan, then artist. Miss
Cuthell shows well in the former capacity by her skill in quarrying
the extensive material of her subject and her industrious archival
researches in Berlin and London, and also by her examinations of
certain controversial questions touching the authenticity of the
Margravine’s memoirs. But as artist the lady leaves something to
desire.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 621. Ap. 21, ’06. 2400w.
=Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Seems almost too purposeful for the caliber of the characters
involved.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 312. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“There is a similarity about Mrs. Cutting’s suburban ladies that makes
them seem as if they had been cut out after the same pattern and
provided with different coloring and wardrobes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 390w.
“The author’s humorous appreciation of certain disadvantages of such
place of residence enliven her serious and forceful consideration of
some of the causes that make for marital infelicity in town and
country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 126. Ja. ’08. 160w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= The wayfarers. †$1.50. McClure.
8–19022.
Another story dealing with the problems of married life. The lure of
wealth induces a young suburbanite to assume a trying factory
managership under a coarse, greedy taskmaster. It is the shadow of the
struggle to “make good” that darkens the home for a time and in this
half-light the true-as-steel character of the wife is revealed and the
essential manhood of the husband.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is full of careful portraiture, luminous little flashes of
sympathetic understanding ... but according to the strict requirements
of construction, the novel as a whole lacks cohesion.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 576. Ag. ’08. 760w.
“She presents understandingly both sides of a very intricate problem
of human existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A book of close appeal to those who study life and to those who
live.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 330w.
“Mrs. Cutting presents a set of exasperating characters in her clever
novel and casts them in a domestic drama that is distinctly depressing
and at times extremely harrowing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 660w.
D
=Daggett, Stuart.= Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies,
v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
“This four-hundred-page work is the result of an investigation
extending over a period of several years, during which the author
collected, classified, and carefully studied the facts concerning a
large number of railroad reorganizations. Nine chapters are devoted to
the study of the reorganization of some of the greatest railroad
systems in this country.... The tenth and concluding chapter
constitutes a general treatment of railway reorganizations in which
are framed rules and general principles deduced from the preceding
study.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Mr. Daggett’s work on ‘Railroad reorganization’ is doing an
inestimable service in discussing one of the most recondite as well as
most important phases of railway management—and mismanagement.” J: J.
Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 45: 165. S. 16, ’08. 980w.
“The work should be of great aid to the investor who is involved in
any of the current reorganizations, as well as an important source of
materials for class-room study.” T: W. Mitchell.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 535. O. ’08. 1800w.
“While these studies show great attention to accuracy of statement and
an unusual grasp of the sources of information, yet the reader is not
burdened with unnecessary detail. Excellent judgment has been
displayed in the selection of the significant events and in the
omission of irrelevant material. Too much praise cannot be ascribed to
this scholarly book. It approaches the study of corporation finance
from the right direction.” F. H. Dixon.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 721. D. ’08. 1100w.
=Dahlgren, Ulric, and Kepner, William Allison.= Text-book of the
principles of animal histology. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–19603.
“After seven introductory chapters dealing with protoplasm, the cell,
multicellular organization viewed from the phylogenetic and from the
ontogenetic standpoints, mitosis and amitosis, epithelium and glands,
connecting, supporting and filling tissues, there are taken up in
order, tissues for the production of motion, electricity, light and
heat; tissues connected with circulation, sensation, pigmentation,
alimentation, ductless glands; tissues concerned with respiration, gas
secretion, excretion, protection, reproduction, accessory reproductive
tissues and tissues for the nourishment of the young.”—Science.
* * * * *
“The most careful scrutiny reveals almost no defects. It easily takes
first place among histologies, chiefly because of the invaluable
comparative element.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 144. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“The work as a whole is much more than a text-book, for it contains a
large amount of original observation here published for the first
time. This applies to every chapter, but particularly to those which
deal with the production of light and electricity, and with the sense
organs. In the opinion of the writer the most serious criticism of the
work for use as a text-book is that it ‘falls between two stools’; it
can be used advantageously only by advanced students who have had a
pretty thorough training in zoology, while much of the material
described is quite inaccessible to average classes.” E. G. Conklin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 520. O. 16, ’08. 1150w.
=Dalliba, Gerda.= Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by
Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
“An earth poem” sets forth man’s needs, capabilities and progress thru
long eons of evolution from materialism to spiritual understanding.
“In the first part, Children of sod, man is seen in his mere
sense-hunger and earth-wrestle; in the second part, Children of air,
man begins to wonder over life and to send his restless heart across
the stars; in the last part, Children of sun, man dreams of the long
purpose of God and fares forth in daring adventures of spirit.” (Edwin
Markham’s introd.)
=Darwin, Leonard.= Municipal ownership. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–16481.
A series of four lectures delivered at Harvard in 1905 which reveal
England’s attitude towards the relations of taxation, wages, direct
employment, and subjects allied to the question of public ownership.
He maintains that the great evil of municipal ownership lies in the
indirect results of municipal employment, and shows the influence a
local policy exerted even by a small body of municipal employees. “His
own remedy for existing evils is not municipal ownership, but a
continuance of the system of private ownership, with insistence on
short-term franchises and wise restrictions.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Recommended for libraries which do not have Major Darwin’s larger
work entitled ‘Municipal trading.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“Attempting to present the arguments, both for and against municipal
ownership, it fails to command the respect of either advocates or
opponents of increased functions for the municipality, nor does it
deal with the subject in a sufficiently scholarly manner to raise it
above the necessity of taking sides.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 160w.
“We take pleasure in commending the book as a fair presentation of
most of the stronger of the arguments against municipal ownership,
while at the same time reviewing, often with approval, some of the
arguments for municipal ownership.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 542. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“With a naive generosity he supplies his own reductio ad absurdum.”
− =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“As well worth reading as an example of scholarly argument as to
obtain a concise statement of opinion from the most unprejudiced and
authoritative writer on the subject of municipal ownership.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Darwin’s treatment is far less partisan and far more convincing
than Professor Meyer’s. It may fairly be described as a calm and
judicious discussion, having for its object the pointing out of better
ways of controlling public utilities than have obtained in the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Darwin is so well known as a great fighter against municipal
extravagance that his views must be of interest. Disappointingly here
he comes to no conclusion, and consequently gives little help in
solving what has now become an essentially practical question. He
treats the question of municipal corruption too complacently.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 801. D. 28, ’07. 570w.
“Contains scholarly and dispassionate arguments.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 640. Ap. 25, ’08. 1800w.
=Dasent, Arthur Irwin.= John Thadeus Delane, 1817–1879, editor of
“The London times”: his life and correspondence; compiled from
hitherto unpublished letters by his nephew, Arthur Irwin Dasent.
2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
8–20731.
A sketch of the working life of Delane who at the age of twenty-three
became editor of The London times—“a biography which, unlike some
others, keeps documentary evidence carefully separate from gossip.”
(Ath.) “We ascribe his ascendancy in politics and society to the fact
that he was an honourable English gentleman, endowed with a double
dose of mother-wit, and, placed by accident in a commanding position,
with the strength to be just, to tell the truth, and, above all, to be
master of his own house.... It is surely a rare combination of moral
qualities that makes a man loved and hated, feared and trusted, and
that made John Delane ‘the greatest editor the world has ever seen, or
is ever likely to see.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“In editing his uncle’s correspondence Mr. Dasent, we consider, should
have been much more liberal with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 501. Ap. 25. 1800w.
“An extremely clear picture of an extraordinary man.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 43. S. ’08. 1400w.
“Written in a style that comes so near to being good as almost to
tantalize the reader. We must bestow a word of praise upon the
excellent index and occasional footnotes, and the two clear portraits
of Delane.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 56. Ag. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“To pass swiftly over the defects of these volumes, they are diffuse
and padded, yet leave much lacking. We are let very little into the
inner life of Delane.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 467. My. 21, ’08. 1350w.
“Of eulogy there is no lack, even if it is not always discriminating.”
E: Porritt.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 296. Ag. ’08. 1750w.
“It is, indeed, something more than a biography, for Delane was so
conspicuous a part of the history of his time that Mr. Dasent
necessarily reviews that history in considerable detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 480w.
“The biography of such a man is bound to be of absorbing interest; and
Mr. Dasent’s only difficulty has been that of selection.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 533. Ap. 25, ’08. 2400w.
“Mr. Dasent’s style is not light nor easy; he distracts the reader
with numerous unnecessary footnotes, and he has not bent the materials
to his will, but has rather let them take charge of him. The tokens of
his industry, however, are everywhere, and nothing can disguise the
instructiveness of these volumes.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 619. Ap. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Daulton, Agnes McClelland.= Fritzi, or The Princess Perhaps, il.
†$1.50. Century.
8–8100.
A story for children whose little heroine loses her mother in a New
York accident, and, too young to remember her home and father in
Germany, is taken by a blind musician and his wife, who develop her
young genius for the violin and train her in matters of self reliance.
Later she becomes the temporary possession of a palmist who deserts
her; then chance drops her into a Staten Island “eyrie” with a nest
full of frolicsome boys and girls. Here she experiences her first home
happiness, and thru the aid of her kind friends finds her long-lost
father.
* * * * *
“Is written with such knowledge of human nature of all ages that it
will appeal to their elders quite as much as to the youthful members
of the family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Daulton has a charming narrative style, and manages to make her
readers as much in love with the characters she draws as they were
with Fritzi.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Davenport, Cyril James.= Book: its history and development.
(Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–18737.
Written from the craftsman’s point of view, this study begins with a
chapter on Early records in which the author follows the steps in the
evolution of true writing from the chaos of inscription. In like
manner he follows the steps that mark the evolution of bindings,
paper, type and printing, and illustrations: after which are chapters
devoted to the perfection and ornamentation of bindings, and to
book-binding materials and tools. There is a bibliography following
each chapter, and an index at the end of the book.
* * * * *
“Probably no other Englishman possesses so wide and detailed a
knowledge of the history of bookbinding and the commercial and
artistic development of the art. On other aspects of his subject he
writes with much less authority, and occasionally with some confusion
of thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 370w.
“The volume is remarkably free from technical terms, and the
interested reader who desires to inform himself as to the history and
development of book-making, as well as the many processes through
which a volume passes, cannot afford to miss this excellent
contribution.”
+ =Bookm.= 28: 51. S. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“All lovers of books may find pleasure in this skillful but
untechnical account of their history and manufacture. Mr. Davenport’s
style is clear and attractive, and the book is profusely illustrated
in the best meaning of the word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 50w.
=Davenport, Cyril J. H.= Jewellery. (Little books on art.) *$1.
McClurg.
A twenty-five page introduction tells something of the work of
Eligius, the patron saint of jewellery, and of Cellini; of early
jewellery in various countries; and of the treatment of precious
stones. The chapters of the body of the book are: Necklaces; Pendants;
Diadems; Earrings, nose-rings, labrets; Bracelets; Finger rings; Pins
and brooches. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“Is as general in its application, and as critical in its comparison
of the habits of many nations and many times, as could be desired.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 110w.
“Has the double value of practical usefulness to the craftsman and
interest to the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
* =Davenport, Cyril James.= Miniatures, ancient and modern. (Little
books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
An introductory chapter treats of miniature painting of antiquity,
following which are three chapters devoted to English miniatures, one
on foreign miniatures, one on enamels and one on wax miniatures.
Illustrations, bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“A sound explanation of this minute and delicate portrait painting. It
is desirable that the title of his book should be changed so as to
describe more exactly its contents.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 170w.
“Combines artistic criticism with practical detail in an
extraordinarily compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Davenport, Eugene.= Principles of breeding: a treatise on
thremmatology; or, The principles and practices involved in the
economic improvement of domesticated animals and plants; with
appendix by H. L. Rietz. $2.50. Ginn.
7–32122.
Seeks its audience among the students of agriculture in colleges and
experiment stations and practical breeders upon the farm. It aims to
define the problems involved in animal and plant improvement, to free
the subject from the prejudice and tradition that have always befogged
it, to bring to the study whatever facts are known to biological
science, to recognize and define present limitations of knowledge and
to indicate directions from which understanding is to come. It urges
exact methods of study and practice.
* * * * *
“The only book published on the general subject of reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“The index is very full. Prof. Davenport is to be congratulated on so
happily combining scientific accuracy with practical advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“If it has failings the book has great merit.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 51. My. 21, ’08. 650w.
=Davenport, Herbert Joseph.= Value and distribution: a critical and
constructive study. *$3.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–6683.
The author explains that there is nothing new in his entrepreneur
point of view in the computation of costs and in the analysis of the
process by which distributive shares are assigned, that it need be
only “clearly distinguished, consistently held and fully developed.”
To this end he rids the science of the doctrines that do not belong to
it and selects, articulates and expands the necessary propositions
bearing upon the subjects of value, demand and cost.
* * * * *
“This is an excellent technical book on economic theory which, while
it is exceedingly well done and ought to be in all libraries large
enough to buy books for the academic student of economics, is beyond
the understanding of the general public.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“A lengthy and ponderous volume leading to no practical conclusions.
It is certain that he has placed before the economic world a book
which will be read only by a few because of its difficult phraseology,
unnecessary indulgence in detail quotations and involved
investigations into the questions which do not concern even the
average economist.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 260w.
“The chief objection to the author’s own views are that they lean too
much in the direction of the impressionistic school of economics which
frequently mistakes figures of speech for facts, and the quantitative
expression of a thing, or, rather, the expression of the quantity of a
thing for the thing itself.” T. N. Carver.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 115. Je. ’08. 600w.
“This book, the reviewer believes, will in future years rank as the
best and ripest fruit of a period of intensive critical study of
economic theory.” A. S. Johnson.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 380. Je. ’08. 2350w.
“It is the irony of fate that the work must be a sealed book except to
that inconsiderable number of trained economists who have followed the
windings of the higher economic analysis of the past two decades. To
read the book is altogether too much like trying to follow Lasker
playing three games of chess at the same time.”
− =Nation.= 87: 416. O. 29, ’08. 460w.
“The book is profound and technical and not well suited to popular
reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
“Undoubtedly an original and in some ways a stimulating work, it is
unduly elaborate, distressingly wordy, and cumbered with a most
formidable terminology.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 330w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 161. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=Davey, John.= Tree doctor: the care of trees and plants. *$2.
Saalfield.
7–36735.
A book of judicious advice and instruction based upon a study of
trees, their injuries, diseases and methods of preservation.
* * * * *
“From first to last, the author presents the whole matter just as an
enthusiastic tree-doctor might talk to a sympathetic audience. But we
must express regret that so good a book should be without index or
even table of contents. Even the two hundred photographic
reproductions, most of them good and well-chosen, cannot make up for
this unnecessary defect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 383. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Some readers may be disappointed that Mr. Davey does not go more
thoroughly into the science of tree doctoring, but what the volume
lacks in this respect is more than compensated for in the
well-directed appeal for intelligent education in the principles of
tree life instead of merely emotional admiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=Davidson, Augusta M. C.= Present-day Japan. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Founded upon a study of the ethical forces and the national religion
of the Japanese, their daily goings in and comings out,—their social
life, and their amusements.” (Dial.) It touches “lightly the surface
of Japanese life, or if seriously attempting to enter the arcana of
thought and inheritance, shows little acquaintance with the historic
monuments or the native literature except through translations. For
this very reason, it may be, the work will be attractive to those who
prefer to know about the Japan of to-day and do not care to probe
phenomena for reasons. The text is based on letters written at the
time and on the spot, and afterwards topically arranged.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There are few books about Japan more illuminating and entertaining
than this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
“As sympathy is itself a key to interpretation, many of the popular
customs, festivals, and daily acts are made more intelligible to us by
this educated English woman than by the average traveler who writes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 180w.
“Her book is reminiscent of letters written from foreign lands for
publication in a village weekly newspaper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Davidson, Lillias Campbell.= Catherine of Braganca: infanta of
Portugal and queen consort of England. *$5. Dutton.
8–21033.
Five hundred pages which aim to “trace the blameless life of Catherine
of Bragança and to unfold the wrappings that leave long hidden the
character refined and ennobled by much unnecessary suffering; to
unwind webs, and to disentangle threads.” It is a biography based upon
long research, and becomes a defense and an apology for the life of
the unhappy queen of Charles the second.
* * * * *
“We have felt bound to call attention to the lapses in taste and
judgment which are the outstanding features of a book claiming notice
as a serious contribution to historical learning.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 174. Ag. 15. 2000w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
“The book should take its place alongside those other books of good
women, Maud Jerrold’s ‘Vittoria Colonna,’ for instance, and Sidney
Lee’s ‘Queen Victoria.’”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book gives an excellent, picturesque account of
England, and especially of London during Charles’s reign. We think a
biographer’s chief end has been successfully reached: Catherine
herself is and remains the central figure.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 234. Ag. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Davies, F. H.= Electric power and traction. (Westminster ser.) *$2.
Van Nostrand.
8–21956.
This book is intended to appeal to members of trades allied with
electrical engineering. “Four chapters deal with the generation and
distribution of power.... Two chapters are devoted to D. C. and A. C.
motors, and their principles are expounded.... The chapters on the
application of electric power are the best in the book, and the
advantages of electric driving are clearly brought out.... The last
ten chapters of the book are devoted to electric traction.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“It is devoted to English methods and machinery when the minor, but
notable, departures from well-known American practice are noted.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
“It contains a good deal of sound practical information, and can be
recommended to the class of readers for whom it is intended.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 74. N. 28, ’07. 660w.
“It covers practical ground, and at the same time is technical enough
to meet with the approval of those who are fairly well grounded in the
study of electrical science.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 60w.
=Davies, Randall.= English society of the eighteenth century in
contemporary art. (Portfolio monographs.) *$2. Dutton.
7–37521.
To the impressions of eighteenth century society gained from books and
letters, Mr. Davies has added the “oddities and characteristic
features” that the art of the century reveals. He sees the eighteenth
century thru the paintings of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley,
Zoffany, Rolandson, Stubbs and others.
* * * * *
“The idea of this volume is a good one, and the result should not be
missed by anyone interested in old manners and old pictures.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 162. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“From the scanty materials at his disposal, he has succeeded in
producing an agreeable book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 640w.
“May be called a happy vade mecum for readers of the novels and
letters of the period. It is not an erudite book. The charm of the
book lies in the parallel reproduction of eighteenth century life in
text and illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
“Throws an interesting light on the gay life of a time in English
history that was far from being commonplace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 70w
“His book is something of a curiosity in literature, and is worth
having, not only because of the pictures, which are beautifully
reproduced, but because the chapters in which the phases of the day
are described have been written with knowledge and sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 590. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil=, comps. Stories of the English
artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
A book for the general reader not well versed in art but who may be
“interested to learn what manner of men they were who founded the art
of painting in England or who worthily sustained the traditions of
their greater predecessors.” The man himself is the theme in each
instance; so there are given personal details, anecdotes, scraps of
gossip, and bits of conversation to guide the reader in forming an
idea of the character, habits and thoughts of the painters introduced.
* * * * *
“Within the narrow field chosen the work is acceptably accomplished by
the free and acknowledged use of material gathered by others. It is,
therefore, not surprising to find an almost equal meed of praise
bestowed upon each artist in turn, and the uninformed reader will have
to look elsewhere for anything like discrimination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 726. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
=Davis, Charles Belmont.= Stage door. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–15297.
Ten stories of New York stage life. “The stories are alike in taking
their savor from the stage, and generally develop the idea that the
people of the theatre are much like other folks, having their own
failings, to be sure, but developing unsuspected virtues under trial
as well.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Realistic and well written stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study is the triumph of atmosphere, the triumph of
environment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“The tales are slender in texture, but they are entertaining, with
much atmosphere of newspaper life as well as dramatic, and both
touched with the pen of a familiar.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 250w.
“Stories which have originality, plot-invention, and unusual skill in
narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 40w.
“Without preoccupying himself overmuch with the graces of style, Mr.
Davis creates a very satisfactory and convincing atmosphere for the
up-to-date characters introduced in these clever tales.” Charlotte
Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Davis, Charles H. S.= Consumption: its prevention and cure without
medicine. *$1. Treat.
A new edition which contains additional chapters on bovine
tuberculosis, the use of milk, general tuberculosis, marriage and
offspring, and a list of institutions in the United States where
tuberculosis patients are received.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 80w.
=Davis, George Breckenridge.= Elements of international law: with an
account of its origin, sources and historical development. 3d ed.
$3. Harper.
8–23585.
The third edition of a text-book for students into which have been
incorporated the results of the work of the second Peace conference.
The appendix includes the texts of the several treaties and
declarations concluded at the Hague, on October 18, 1907, and such
notation and comment as will enable them to be understood readily. A
number of chapters have been recast and amplified.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 276. N. ’08.
“Mr. Davis has put under obligation not only every student of law, but
every publicist and newspaper editor who needs a reliable book of
reference on the international questions of the hour.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Davis, Nathaniel Newnham-.= Gourmet’s guide to Europe. 2d ed.
*$1.50. Brentano’s.
The second edition of a book devoted to the interests of the epicurean
tourist through Europe. There are directions for luxury-loving people
concerning where to eat, what to eat and what to avoid.
* * * * *
“Should be appreciated by many travellers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Ap. 11. 120w.
“The greater part of our way lies through a succession of menus and
national tastes that is instructive, interesting, and valuable from
the practical point of view, but lacks the touch that makes
literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 330w.
“A veritable masterwork of its own genre.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 970w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Congo and coasts of Africa. **$1.50.
Scribner.
7–37527.
Mr. Davis records what he saw and heard in the Congo region, picturing
much of the former and vouching astutely for the latter. He writes
entertainingly of the Berlin conference, the “stewardship” of King
Leopold, the failure of the latter to fulfil the letter of his
promises, and the resulting present state and outlook of the Congo
situation.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual graphic style. Will appeal to some
readers, familiar with his other books, who would not read a valuable
and reliable work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The reader who wishes to be entertained will find this book one hard
to lay down. He who reads to get information on the subjects covered
by the title will be greatly disappointed.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 500. Mr. ’08. 180w.
“A ‘good work’ in other than a literary sense.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 180. Ag. 15. 780w.
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 823. Mr. ’08. 270w.
“This is an interesting record.” E. D. Jones.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 134. Je. ’08. 320w.
“It certainly contains nothing that is new or authoritative.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Has made no noticeable contribution to our knowledge of a question on
which issue has been joined so sharply. Even as journalism the book is
slovenly.”
− =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 270w.
“His ignorance of the political history and origin of the Congo Free
State is abysmal, and the amount of his geographical misinformation
stupendous.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 1120w.
“Has made a very readable travel book out of his experiences in
equatorial Africa.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Vera the medium. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17791.
Whether Stephen Hallowell, at the point of death, shall return his
millions to their rightful owner or leave them to a charitable
institution—the latter being the scheme of a legal adviser to throw
the control of the fortune into his own unscrupulous hands—is to be
decided during a séance conducted by Vera the medium. She has been
instructed to decide in favor of the tricksters, but under the
influence of the man who had bared to her view the falsity of her
life, at the crucial moment of the séance, she repudiates the fraud
and dishonesty of her seamy profession.
* * * * *
“Of more than ordinary interest, written in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“There is in it scarcely a trace of Mr. Davis’s former power of vivid
narration.”
− =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 60w.
“The material is not of a durable kind, but it is well-tailored.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The book has a certain interest, but it is of an artificial and not
elevated sort. Possibly the book’s strongest merit is the distaste it
inspires with the sort of life which it describes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 330w.
“Must be regarded as a short story of double the average length rather
than as a novel. So looked at, it has pith, life, and plot interest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The movement is as brisk and the style as crisp as usual.” Charlotte
Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 120w.
=Davis, Theodore M.= Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou. *$12.50. Dutton.
8–20521.
Including The finding of the tomb, by Theodore M. Davis; Notes on
Iouiya and Touiyou, by Gaston Maspero; Description of the objects
found in the tomb, by Percy E. Newberry; and Illustrations of the
objects, by Howard Carter.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the most important part of the book [is] in the shape of a
catalogue with full descriptions of the different objects found in the
tomb from the capable pen of Prof. Newberry. One of the handsomest
publications we have seen for some time.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 724. D. 7. 1150w.
“The publication takes its place at once as a valuable contribution
and as a definitive work.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 410w.
=Dawson, Mrs. Nelson.= Enamels. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A helpful little volume for the handicraft student and general reader.
An introduction touching briefly upon the origin, history and
development of enameling precedes the following chapters: Cloisonné
enamels; Champlevé enamels; Painted enamels; Oriental enamels; Irish
enamels; and Modern enamels. A list of books and articles on enamels
and an index complete the volume.
* * * * *
“This breach in logical sequence is a matter of regret, for nothing is
more to be desired than a treatise which shall insist upon the unity
of design and of processes between East and West, the middle ages and
modern times. In short, the value of the book ceases with page 140,
and the close of the discussion of European enamels.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 360w.
“The history and the description of different methods are given with
care and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 220w.
=Dawson, William James.= Prophet in Babylon: a story of social
service. †$1.50.
Revell. 7–31420.
John Gaunt, the rector of a prosperous New York church, awakens from
the preaching which has been along the line of least resistance,
“speaks out, consequently incurring the wrath of his fat flock, and
finally [goes] out into the highways and byways,—according to his
Master’s bidding,—and establishes a great, unselfish League of
universal service, a new social force, that ‘League of universal
service, whose emblem is the cross, whose motto is the union of all
who love in the service of all who suffer.’” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is not without flaws in treatment and taste, and to some readers
will be unconvincing, but its sincerity and strength will as certainly
attract others.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 708. My. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Dawson ... seems to be suffering from religious, if not moral,
megalomania. The methods used for his propaganda are evangelistic,
sensational, and meretricious. And we cannot think Dr. Dawson’s novel
a serious contribution to the solution of the question.”
− =Ind.= 64: 370. F. 13, ’08. 620w.
“A serious attempt to express in the form of fiction the upshot of his
speculations as to the connection between religion and modern life.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 700w.
“This story will be widely read, and with good desert. It will miss
its appeal to a certain class of minds because of the strain of
mysticism and miraculousness that runs thru it. The Hellenists will be
repelled by its abounding Hebraism. But on the whole it is well suited
to find the hearts of all those who love a story of purpose and moral
passion.” C: Ferguson. “I have read every word of it, and I doubt if
anyone who starts the book can help going through it to the end. It is
strong, vital, and it handles a great theme that is bound to attract
attention and do good.” C: H. Parkhurst. “I think so much of Dr.
Dawson’s book that I have already recommended it to my congregation as
a good book to read, and I expect personally to give away quite a
number of copies of it.” P. S. Grant.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 857. D. 28, ’07. 3350w.
“Dramatic situations, striking personalities, pathetic and tragic
incidents, domestic love and sacrifice, are interwoven with literary
skill, and the whole is suffused with religious passion and enthusiasm
for humanity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The whole story shows Dr. Dawson’s keen analysis of character, his
sympathetic and high-minded idealism, and his fine English style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
“We do not assert Dr. Dawson’s novel to shine forth as a literary
masterpiece; far from this we could point out bad flaws in treatment,
technique, taste. But we do affirm that here before us lies a book
inspiring and uplifting through its clean, direct sincerity,
integrity, virility.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 127. Ja. ’08. 360w.
=Day, Clive.= History of commerce. (Longmans’ commercial
text-books.) *$2. Longmans.
7–22933.
Professor Clive “begins his story with thirty pages on antiquities,
but gets down to serious business in his description of medieval
commerce—town, sea and levant trade, gilds, fairs, economic theory and
exploration. Modern commerce begins with the opening of the sea
routes, and here our author reviews the origins of commercial
enterprise, mercantilism and the development of credit—taking up each
European nation after a general survey of economic principles. The
industrial revolution—machinery, international trade and recent
economic transformations—receives the proportion of space which its
importance warrants, and for the benefit of the American student
nearly one-third of the volume is devoted to the commercial history of
the United States.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The best general treatise on the subject in English.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“This is the best single-volume treatise that has thus far appeared in
English on the history of commerce. From the bibliographical
standpoint the book is a model.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 517. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Writing as he does from a great university in the United States, he
takes a point of view which coincides with that of his own country,
but those who are not his fellow-citizens may also read his volume
with pleasure and advantage.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 820. D. 28. 730w.
“A work of this kind, in the production of which the author has had
but little help from similar attempts by predecessors in the endeavor,
cannot be expected to attain anything like perfection before it
reaches a second or a third, or even a fourth edition, a success to
which this one will, no doubt, attain.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 548. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Will undoubtedly take front rank in the all too meager text-book
literature of the subject, tho one cannot help regretting that the
author, who is well equipped for the task, had not undertaken a more
monumental work. The chief features of the book are excellence of
arrangement, proportion, clearness of presentation and extensive
bibliographical apparatus.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14. ’07. 160w.
“Some shortcomings may be noticed. The author, in pitching the key of
his discourse, sometimes strikes too low. Some indefiniteness is
permissible in so general a text, yet it would often be a good
investment to have the exact fact.” J. P. Goode.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 309. My. ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 120w.
“This work is an interesting specimen of the new textbooks which the
subject requires.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Eagle badge; or The Skokums of the Allagash.
†$1.25. Harper.
8–29336.
The Maine lumber tracts are once more the scene of a wilderness sketch
which is a companion piece to “King spruce.” The young hero is a
gritty lad who joins a driving crew, who by hard knocks develops the
muscle and alacrity necessary for facing a jam’s toils and perils, and
who eventually thru heroic service succeeds the retiring Andy Tedd as
master of the drive.
* * * * *
“Boys who like stories of out-of-door adventure will be apt to read
this tale of the Maine forests a second time. The story is wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= King Spruce: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11702.
A strong story of the Maine timber regions in which Dwight Wade, a
young college man, invincible in the might of essential manhood, is
pitted against a timber-baron personified in King Spruce. For daring
to love the magnate’s daughter, Wade receives from him only anathemas
and curses. He plunges into the hard life of the woods, where his
winning struggles against fire and flood, tyrants and bosses,
treachery in ambush and in the open elicit the “well done” alike of
friend and foe.
* * * * *
“The descriptions are vivid, the situations often verge on the
melodramatic, and the love story is inadequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“It is too much technical speech for easy reading, but we do not need
to understand all the terms employed to enjoy the tale, which is both
virile and exciting.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Day’s story stands up like a mountain peak among lesser fellows
for its large proportions and virile treatment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“It has the breath of the woods in it, not nature faking woods, but
the real thing, and is moreover an excellent tale, with love that
suits the wild setting, rough humor and a philosophy that has the
merit of vitality. There is a sense of bigness about it, whether of
muscle or environment; a deep breath taken into lusty lungs, the full
sound of a man’s voice.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Like all Mr. Day’s stories and poems, it is fresh and is inspired by
honest love of the woods and the woods-people. It is sure to be widely
read.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Presents a side of the vital question of trusts on which little is
written, and is, therefore, useful for debates particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The chancellor of the Syracuse university has made himself a foremost
champion of the Standard oil company and its confederates, with the
result that public antagonism has roused his temper, and his style has
become furious. Dr. Day must produce a substitute policy more
consistent with economic progress and actual conditions if he is to
command the respect we would fain give to all college presidents.”
− =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“It is not argument at all. It is extreme glorification on the one
hand, and bitter denunciation on the other.”
− =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Day, Lewis Forman.= Enameling: a comparative account of the
development and practice of the art. *$3. Scribner.
W8–71.
“In this volume enameling is dealt with from its historic rather than
from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the
art in early times as the result of the goldsmith calling in the
glassmaker to help him. The different varieties of Champlevé,
Cloisonné, Limoges, and other enamels are all clearly described in
separate chapters of the book.” (Spec.) “To quote almost his own
words, he has sought to put in a handy, readable, and intelligible
shape the gist of what he has learnt from the works of many able
specialists; to write a book for the beginner which shall smooth his
way to understanding; and to point out the progress of one of the most
ancient of the arts.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lewis Day ... avoids, on the one hand, the appearance—it is often
no more—of great learning; on the other, triviality and misleading
platitude.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 805. D. 21. 870w.
=Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 50w.
“In this book he has produced a model work of its kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 70w.
=Dean, Sara.= Travers: a story of the San Francisco earthquake.
†$1.50. Stokes.
7–24768.
Travers, driven from service as a British army officer under suspicion
of theft, tires of braving the odium of his accusation and determines
to reap the profits of his reputation. He turns burglar and is in the
act of robbing a Palace hotel guest of her diamonds when the
earthquake shocks him to his better senses and effects a moral
revolution. He rescues the girl, administers to her wants during the
days following, and even wins her love through service.
* * * * *
“That the author has a big theme, one may even say without fear of
contradiction, a tremendous theme, becomes evident before we are a
third of the way through the volume. That she has handled certain
phases of it with real power and an intelligent recognition of what
she is trying to do must also be conceded. And if, at the end, we are
forced to admit that the plot was bigger than the execution of it,
that is not to the author’s discredit, because only one of the giants
among the makers of fiction could have told that story as it deserves
to have been told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 700w.
“The relation of the man and the girl, however fancifully brought
about, is a sound and credible one. In short, though the tale is not
of power, it is of interest both as a story and a document.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dearmer, Mabel White (Mrs. Percy Dearmer).= The sisters. (English
title, The alien sisters.) †$1.50. McClure.
8–8089.
“The two sisters of the title are daughters of one father; one the
delicately nurtured and fine-natured child of a wife of supreme
sweetness and beauty of character; the other the illegitimate daughter
of a vulgar and avaricious courtesan, who is presented only too
realistically. The two love the same man. Hypnotism and the subliminal
consciousness are dragged in to give a modern touch.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“With bolder handling the story, which is full of incident, might well
have been dramatic; from a coarser pen it would certainly have been
offensive; but Mrs. Dearmer’s work is neither the one nor the other.
The plot is evolved with too great elaboration of detail to be
specially effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 200w.
“The scenes that hurt are not introduced in the detestably ‘knowing
and showing’ manner of lesser novels, but a greater writer, we think,
would have conveyed the moral with less offence.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The study of the two characters is detailed and interesting. The
story is told with much strength and skill and shows a good deal of
power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“Most painful in character, and the undoubted intellectual ability of
the author, and even her genuine moral intention, do not compensate
the reader for the sorrow and suffering he is called on vicariously to
suffer.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Dearmer’s new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound
enough, probes the seamy side of nature too deeply to suit the
requirements of all readers, and cannot be recommended without
reserves.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 674. Ap. 25, ’08. 550w.
=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bertrand of Brittany. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12223.
This is a story of mediaeval adventure. The hero is the neglected son
of an unloving mother who blasts his youth with her heartless taunts.
The faith and trust of a little maid of seven spurs him on at last to
a vindication of himself in a tournament at Rennes. After that through
the changing fortunes of war Bertrand carries with him this memory
which causes him to perform deeds of heroism by which his manhood is
finally triumphantly revealed.
* * * * *
“The book gives a faithful picture of the times, but is neither
inspired nor has it much atmosphere.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Deeping has a good story to tell and he tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 90w.
“This is the author’s success that he has created an illusion of the
life in ancient Brittany that is faithful to the modern imagination of
that period.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
“It has a certain youthful gusto which should commend it to the honest
citizen.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The action is rapid, and the coloring rich and vivid. Warwick Deeping
does this sort of thing better than he does stories of modern life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Deering, John Richard.= Lee and his cause; or, The why and how of
the war between the states. *$1.50. Neale.
7–41770.
Historical items “more or less involved in the solution of questions
which have arisen as to the rightfulness of secession; the origin and
conduct of its cause; the character, motives and sentiments of the
people who espoused and defended it as well as of those who forced
them to fields of blood.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“The book belongs to that increasing group of works by Confederate
veterans in which, thru iteration and allusion to the perfect
character of General Lee, the attempt is made to save the South from
infamy in history.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Perhaps this little volume of memorial day sentiment and of countless
purple patches made up of fancy and fact, is not entirely worthless.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
=De Guerin, E. W.= Malice of the stars. †$1.50. Lane.
A woman somewhat inclined towards a crooked path is wooed and won by a
man who believes her to be good and honest. “Thankful to be rescued
from all that impended, she was a good wife, and a good mother both to
their own children and to his by a former marriage. But finally came
the time of revelation and retribution for the misdeeds of her youth.
Then her husband’s love saved the day, and out of something that came
near to being wreckage for every one concerned, his devotion wrought a
salvation that turned out to be ‘somehow good.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is much that is good in this story and a little that is bad. It
is written with a charming humour and a real and sympathetic knowledge
of, at any rate, womankind. The plot is weak and sensational and
smacks strongly of a serial in a halfpenny paper, and even a marked
unconventionality of treatment ... does not save it from mediocrity.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 298. D. 28, ’07. 100w.
“He offers us no little entertainment: a story of mystery and
complexity of motives, of unhappy passion and abiding repentance,
woven around a plot of cunning structure, told, too, with much
delightful humour and some real insight into human character. Defects
of style ... will, we trust, be remedied in future volumes from the
same pen.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 684. N. 30. 90w.
“Related with much lifelikeness and with a certain mastery of touch
and charm of manner that make it a very readable tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Here is the generous one, the impulsive one, the good one, the shoddy
one. With such characters it is not a surprise to find the narrative
developing mechanically—a striving to be clever.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is very interestingly told; the characters depicted in it are
natural and are developed in a lifelike manner. There is plenty of
incident, and the author evidently understands girls and school-girl
life thoroughly.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=Deland, Margaret Wade.= R. J.’s mother, and some other people.
†$1.50. Harper.
8–15300.
Six short stories as follows: R. J.’s mother, The Mormon, Many waters,
The house of Rimmon, A black drop, and The white feather. Here are
portrayed the simple tho deep things of common experience that lie
close to universal suffering and awaken in the reader a sense of
sympathy and kinship.
* * * * *
“None, with the possible exception of the title story, comes up to her
best work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08. ✠
“Skill and invention are shown in all but one of the six stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 695. Je. 6. 150w.
“If ‘R. J.’s mother’ has its shortcomings, they are more than offset
by the fine workmanship in such a story as ‘Many waters.’” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 577. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“The tear they bring to the easy eye is not, one reflects, a tear to
be proud of. The fact of artifice is too readily apparent, the means
employed too patent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The stories may be taken very seriously by serious persons, or they
may be read merely for their interest by the frivolous. But the tales
will live in memory even as did the story of Helena Ritchie’s
temptation and her triumph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 600w.
“The new volume holds a bit of quiet tragedy, more than a hint of
comedy, and an insight into silent grief and an outlook upon final
joy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 40w.
“A book of delightful short stories.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 220w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Deborah of Tods. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23924.
An American edition of the author’s first book written before “Peter’s
mother” and “The lonely lady of Grosvenor square.” “A self-reliant
Devonshire young woman, who owns and works her own farm, marries an
elderly Major, a typical clubman and worldling. Under the glamour of
the fact that he knew her father as a brother officer, and even lent
him money, poor Deborah takes her Major for a noble soul. The tale of
her disillusionment is told with simplicity, and she is to the end a
wholesome, large-hearted, lovable woman.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The character is unusual and well drawn, and the delicacy and
refinement of the author’s earlier stories are prominent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“In stories like this, with their naïve waiver of those psychological
and pathological problems which encumber our fiction, there is much to
content and soothe, if not profoundly edify, the old-fashioned reader
who resents, now and then, the increasing claims of the story-teller
to be guide and philosopher as well as friend.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“There is, however, no sign of immaturity in the workmanship, no
indication of extreme youth in the tale as a whole—unless a certain
sober freshness, a clear-eyed idealism be thus accepted. The entire
novel leaves behind it a scent as sweet and comfortable as wild herbs
and balsam, young grass and ripe fruit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A little compression would have improved the book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 130w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Grey knight. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–15880.
The story of a titled Englishman of sixty who weds the woman of
thirty-three who in the capacity of trained nurse had cared for him
thru a critical illness. Family oppositions and misunderstandings run
their course before affairs are turned into a placid channel. “The
most attractive parts of the story are the descriptions of the Welsh
country in which most of the action passes, and of the fine old Norman
castle which is the property of Sir Harry Gwynne, the elderly hero.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“The descriptions of Wales and of life in an old manor house are
good.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08. ✠
“Though constructed from unpromising materials, the story has much of
Mrs. de la Pasture’s usual charm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 130w.
“Depends for its interest on delineation of character rather than on
construction of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 250w.
“An excellent field for her delicate scrutiny of human motives in the
everyday relations of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“The author has proved herself so unmistakably serious by her previous
work as to deepen the sense of disappointment in her lack of
craftsmanship.” E. L. Cary.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“The sketches of the ordinary persons in the book are drawn with Mrs.
de la Pasture’s accustomed skill, and the whole volume is eminently
readable.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=De la Pasture, Elizabeth.= Unlucky family. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–8101.
Thirteen members constitute the family whose misfortunes are amusingly
set down in this story. They inherit a country estate and a deal of
money and enter upon a course of blunders in assuming the
responsibilities of their luxurious surroundings “with dukes and
admirals and mayors as calling neighbors.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The humor is rather English, and of the kind that will be
irresistible to one and tiresome to another, as humor is apt to be,
English or American.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“Her gifts of delicate humour and characterization are thrown away in
the region of broad farce, and the conjunction with Mr. E. T. Reed
seems to us unfortunate.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 100w.
“Capital fun.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The series of ridiculous contretemps involved have the kind of
virtual plausibility which distinguishes good nonsense from mere
inanity.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“A humorous story which smiles and chuckles.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“A diverting blend of extravaganza and reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Of course, neither the story nor the pictures can be said to have
much to do with life or nature; but this does not prevent them from
being amusing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
=De la Ramée, Louise (Ouida, pseud.).= Helianthus. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–26831.
Ouida’s last story, published, as she left it, in its incomplete form.
Helianthus is a land, supposedly Italy, in which is enacted an
international drama whose poignant note is liberty. The characters
include the royal family; the action turns on the situation of Prince
Elim, the people’s idol, when he finds himself brought by accident
into the direct succession to the throne at a time when he is
engrossed in the cause of the revolutionists. Many rulers of Europe
figure in the story.
* * * * *
“Resembles her earlier books in many of its flamboyant qualities, its
exaggeration, but also in its revelation of a continued power of a
beautiful talent.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“In spite of defects, perhaps because of them, it smacks of ‘Ouida’ on
every page, and is another interesting revelation of her remarkable
talent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=De La Warr, Constance, countess.= Twice crowned queen. *$3.
Appleton.
7–42478.
The life story of Anne Duchess of Brittany, wife first of Charles
VIII. of France and afterwards of Louis XII. Her rather dull life
takes something of color from its settings, but first to last she was
conceded to be a great lady.
* * * * *
“Although Lady De La Warr has made diligent use of the best available
material, the result of her efforts is a somewhat pale presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 610. N. 17. 1570w.
“The Countess De La Warr is not a very lively historian, though she
describes the costumes and trappings worn at pageants with great
accuracy and particularity, and records faithfully all the essential
facts.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Lady De La Warr has written a pleasant and careful monograph vividly
reproducing contemporary life, on one of the most interesting
personalities of the period when the Borgias reigned at Rome.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 780w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= Ashes; tr. from the Italian by Helen. H. Colvill.
†$1.50. Lane.
A Sardinian story of peasant life in which the hero, illegitimate of
birth and deserted by his mother, is brought up in his father’s
household. “He grows up ardent, ambitious, and idealistic, the two
great aims of his life being to win a position which shall enable him
to marry his patron’s daughter, and to find and reclaim the mother who
had deserted him in his childhood. The conflict of these aims makes up
the drama of ‘Ashes.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A profoundly melancholy book, but its sadness is tempered by many
passages of great idyllic charm, and it would be unjust to call it
morbid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.
“Most readers will feel that the story wanders through its fascinating
setting too slowly, with too many dreamy pauses and backward looks. It
is, as a whole, a readable and adequate rendering of ‘Cenere.’”
− + =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 340w.
“Is tense with the tragedies born of love and of hate and of the
destiny man makes for himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
* =Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the
second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and
the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–30303.
A narrative of a government expedition which is practically a
continuation of the author’s “Romance of the Colorado river.” It
contains the full story of the Powell’s second expedition under the
direction of the Smithsonian institution, and gives the daily
experiences and actual camp life of the explorers at the same time
furnishing in its accuracy of statement a trustworthy guide for
navigating the river as far as Kanab canyon. The book is handsomely
illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 260w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Somehow good. †$1.75. Holt.
8–4365.
A headstrong girl had gone from London to India to marry a young
officer. On her way she falls into evil hands and is betrayed. She
continues her journey, marries her lover who is awaiting her; after
the ceremony, the truth of her wrong to him becomes known and a
separation follows. After nearly twenty years of absence from his
wife, during a complete suspension of memory and loss of identity, the
husband, thru an accident, finds shelter in the wife’s home, now in
London. At this point the story opens, and is an intimate analysis of
the peculiar situations that would attend such a lapse of memory no
less than a handling of the Magdalene’s wrong, from the standpoint of
him who for spiritual charity’s sake would not cast the stone rather
than from the scribes’ and Pharisees’ condemnatory point of view.
* * * * *
“It is characterized by deliberation, quiet, often quaint, humor,
remarkable character drawing, and delightful literary style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The book has real charm. One of the good things in it is the
description of a London fog. This is so well done that the seasoned
Londoner may almost catch his breath.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 252. F. 29. 500w.
“‘Somehow good’ makes me fully aware of Mr. De Morgan’s as a solid
corporeal head and shoulders, set square and calm above the fiddling
impatience and impotence which shrills its wares in the popular market
place of letters.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 176. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The plot, while simple in one sense, is extremely ingenious and
complicated in another. And the writer’s style—simple and natural,
freighted alternately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy—is
so enjoyable on its own account that it makes garrulity a virtue, and
gives point to the most pointless of digressions.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 132. Mr. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The book is not one to be swallowed at a gulp like most novels of the
day. It is to be leisurely sipped, so as to enjoy the flavor. Every
paragraph has its charm, and after reading it one wants to read it
aloud to those few friends who share one’s own good taste in
literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 369. F. 13, ’08. 860w.
“The fact that we have to record is that on this theme Mr. De Morgan
has written a book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any
in the range of fiction.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 900w.
“If you are of those that know not Joseph, the son of Christopher
(builder, drains promptly attended to) and Alice that was short for
Alicia, yet love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and
have your reward. If you know Joseph and Alice you do not need to be
told anything more.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 67. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“Those who like leisurely narrative, shrewd observation, and gentle
satire will find the novel mellow and quietly entertaining. It is a
book to read at one’s ease, not to rush through in order to kill an
idle hour.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“An extraordinary example of creative power.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 617. Ag. ’08. 350w.
“Though granting his style to be lightly touched by Meredithian
eccentricity, one must avow of this man that the distinction belongs
to him of having written some real English literature.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
“It is formless, it is prolix, it is magnificently old-fashioned, it
is built up on improbabilities and coincidences.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 450w.
“To define the secret of Mr. De Morgan’s success is not easy. But we
should be inclined to attribute it, first and foremost, to his
unfeigned and wholehearted enjoyment in the exercise of his great
gifts as a born storyteller. He loves his characters.... He is an
inveterate optimist.... He is an _improvisatore_ with a touch of the
clairvoyant; and as he is entirely on the side of the angels, and at
the same time a most entertaining companion, the popularity of such a
benefactor may be welcomed without misgiving or reserve.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 230. F. 8, ’08. 570w.
=Dennis, Rev. James Shepard.= New horoscope of missions. (The John
H. Converse lectures on missions, 1907.) **$1. Revell.
8–15498.
Lectures which summarize from a missionary point of view the
significance of the awakening and development in principal mission
fields. The titles are as follows: A new world consciousness;
Strategic aspects of the missionary outlook; A new cloud of witnesses;
Fresh annals of the kingdom; The message of Christianity to other
religions. Index.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Such a book as this should be put especially into decadent churches,
of which there are far too many. It might rouse them from shameful
stagnation.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
“Students of the subject will find interesting and valuable this
summary.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
* =Dennistoun, James.= Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the
arms, art and literature of Italy from 1440–1630; new ed., with notes by
Edward Hutton. 3v. **$12. Lane.
Reprinted verbatim in the original three-volume form. While finding
most of Dennistoun’s facts sound, the editor disagrees as to critical
estimates. “In the divisions dealing with art Mr. Hutton has found it
necessary frequently to disagree both with the facts and views
expressed by Dennistoun. When the work was first published, it was
these divisions which called forth most praise from critics, but many
of the opinions he gave utterance to, especially those concerning
modern tendencies, will fail to find general acceptance now.” (Int.
Studio.)
* * * * *
“The work as a whole, containing as it does much matter of interest
that cannot easily be found elsewhere, will prove a desirable
acquisition to the library of the student of Italian history.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 166. D. ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hutton’s notes, written as they are with wide knowledge and with
the greater steadiness of the present day, add so much to the value of
the work as to increase one’s regret that he did not produce an
original volume. Pleader though he may be, and not always in the best
cause, Dennistoun is still a charming writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 669. N. 28, ’08. 1500w.
“Dennistoun’s book is valuable chiefly as a storehouse of curious and
varied information, collected with great industry from a multitude of
out-of-the-way sources; and it has the additional merit of being
written in a distinguished and pleasant, though a slightly pompous,
style. As Mr. Hutton points out, the chapters upon art are the weakest
part of the book. Not only do they suffer from inevitable deficiencies
in knowledge, but their whole point of view strikes the modern reader
as curiously out of date.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 838. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Denys, Nicolas.= Description and natural history of the coasts of
North America (Acadia); tr. and ed., with a memoir of the author,
collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by W: F.
Ganong. (Publications of the Champlain society, v. 2.) Champlain
society, Toronto.
8–19184.
One of a series of reprints elucidating the history of French
exploration and occupation of what is now British North America.
* * * * *
“We are under especial obligations to Professor Ganong for this
excellent translation of Denys’s work, and for the painstaking and
scholarly manner in which he has accomplished his difficult task. Some
readers will doubtless wish that the bracketed English words intended
to clear passages from ambiguity, as well as the French words likewise
in brackets, which are readily found in the French text, had been left
out altogether or placed at the bottom of the page, leaving the page
clear. These however are minor blemishes in a good piece of work.” J.
P. Baxter.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 161. O. ’08. 830w.
“Denys gives admirable simple descriptions.” J. P. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 828. O. ’08. 150w.
“Denys’s book possesses no charm of style; but his omnivorous eye and
his painstaking, businesslike method of observation and narrative have
resulted in a mass of information in regard to the geography,
resources, and fauna of the old Acadia.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=De Saix, Tyler.= Man without a head. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22800.
A detective story which “has to do with two murders widely separated
in time and place, but strikingly similar in method. The victim’s head
is removed with surgical skill and taken away by the murderer. In each
case a respectable and honored gentleman is suspected of the crime,
but each time he has disappeared.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is good of its class.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 160w.
“It is not only ingenious to the _nth_ degree, but it is written with
a knowledge of human nature and a touch of imagination rarely found in
these stories of murder and mystery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 270w.
“The story is gruesome but readable.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Great Ralegh; being the life and times of Sir
Walter Ralegh. (Memoir ser. v. 40.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–34204.
Written for the general reader this biography aims “to make the
character of Ralegh live again, and draw a picture of the times in as
lively a manner as the author sees it.” “There are several chapters in
the book which alone would make its perusal worth while—particularly
the chapters dealing with the friendship of Ralegh and Spenser,
Ralegh’s trial, and his life in the Tower.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a most readable
contribution to the lighter side of Elizabethan history; and some
peculiarities of style and taste should not be allowed to depreciate
the excellent work of selection, and, we may add, criticism, which it
represents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 327. S. 19. 880w.
“The liveliness with which the story is told will recommend it to one
already familiar with the facts.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 260w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 566. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
“A book which is written professedly for the general reader rather
than for the special student must be judged as a piece of literature,
and as such the present work is typical of the times in its failure to
distinguish between vivacity and a cheap smartness and between
legitimate illustration and irrelevance.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 750w.
“It is not critical ... and it is spun out to an unconscionable
length. Yet it is impossible to read it without real enjoyment, so
full is it of ‘atmosphere,’ so rich in philosophic touches and flashes
of terse, vivid characterization.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
“We cannot say that the author before us has added anything of value
to the controversy. He gives us no new facts.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 1950w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= High adventure. †$1.50. Lane.
“In intention, this is a delicate and very serious study of an
idealistic temperament perplexed by the facts of sex till, under the
stress of an innocent love and marriage, the problem solves
itself.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The disjointed quotations from the classics have an air of being
dragged in, and the various specimens of gush would come more aptly
from the lips of an Early Victorian maiden than an advanced folk here
portrayed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 150w.
“From no point of view can much be said for it as a novel.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. De Selincourt is a very thoughtful writer. He is, indeed, rather
too thoughtful, like his hero, who is apt occasionally to bore us with
his perpetual concern about his state of mind and his lack of
purpose.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 90w.
=Desmond, Harry W., and Frohne, H. W.= Building a home. **$1.80.
Baker.
8–35360.
A book of fundamental advice for the layman about to build. In a
thoroly practical manner the authors discuss the selection of a site,
the respective duties of architect and builder, materials, methods of
construction, details of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating,
ventilating, and decoration.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 177. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a strong presentation of the architect’s side of the
case.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The work seems to us indispensable to a home seeker who intends to
build for himself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“In general, it may be said that estimates of cost can scarcely be
held to be of value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 475. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“A book brimming full of sensible, practical, and most wholesome
advice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 281. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
“A book which will be invaluable to any one who purposes to build a
home now or hopes to do so at some future time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The suggestions made are practical and based upon sound architectural
principles.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
* =Dewe, Rev. Juhl Adalbert.= History of economics; or, Economics as a
factor in the making of history. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–14737.
“An elementary textbook on general economic history, and economic
thought.... The writer declares that the influences which shape the
events of history, may be summed up under three categories: physical
surroundings, religion, and economics; and he seeks to show how the
first and last named (for religion is rather slighted) have affected
history from Greek and Roman times to the present.” J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“It is scarcely adequate as a history of economics; there is too much
vagueness in the facts collected; their significance and correlation
are not brought out with the fullness required by even an introductory
scientific study of economics.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It will be of service as a companion to the ordinary textbooks in
which, especially in the older ones, this feature is almost entirely
neglected.”
− + =Cath. World.= 88: 263. N. ’08. 120w.
“His style is clear and succinct, and his scholarship admirable. The
book may be found valuable either for general reading or for a
textbook.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 80w.
“It would be difficult to say much in favor of the volume. Though of
the most elementary character, it shows a lack, not only of
scholarship, but even a fair knowledge and grasp of the subject,
besides being poorly written, especially as regards arrangement.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 120w.
=De Weese, Truman A.= Principles of practical publicity; being a
treatise on the art of advertising. 2d ed. **$2. Jacobs.
8–31176.
A valuable practical complement to W. D. Scott’s “Psychology of
advertising.” It is a treatise on the successful adaptation of
advertising to all lines of commercial enterprise. “Its aim is to
cover the broad field of commercial publicity, showing the relation of
advertising to modern business without elaborating any abstruse or
far-fetched theories that are advanced to explain its influence upon
the public mind.” (Preface.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
A text whose significance lies in its effort to awaken a vital
conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of
reflective thought in dealing with them objectively and definitely.
Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of
morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical
interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic
problems which characterize the present.
* * * * *
“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been
waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it.
These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the
general utility of the work both as to form and content. The
references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of
contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal
not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics,
politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.
“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material
are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general
direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the
work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third
divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.
“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing
in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample
treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society,
amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=Dewey, Thomas Emmet.= Poetry in song, and some other studies in
literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M.
Harger, Abilene, Kan.
7–41998.
“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended
piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s
recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and
the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and
stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems
which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with
great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The
selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest
and best.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Diamant, Sidney.= Curves for calculating beams, channels and
reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers,
draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.
8–21493.
A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and
channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate
diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range
from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for
using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are
stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined
live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such
computations to make.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.
“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as
he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and,
since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite
economical.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo.
il. *$1.25. Jacobs.
7–42350.
“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the
graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the
life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book
is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet
one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight
into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of
double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the
tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Light but interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight
descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of
word-painting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political
dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.
Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a
philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and
Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the
practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the
Platonic type, which is founded on status, or hereditary caste....
Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy
nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality
of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making
everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their
faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all
property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals,
if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the
timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of
parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The
cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets
that it was founded on slavery.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= True story of my life: an autobiography.
**$3.50. Lane.
Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her
precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England
where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her
growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her
mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and
triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity
that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which
chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must
rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in
Mme. Diehl’s stories.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.
“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a
‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her
notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been
better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us
about the stormy period of her marriage.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.
=Dillon, John M.= Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.
8–20148.
An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of
England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book
with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal
enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture
and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings,
sacred and profane, of historical interest.
* * * * *
“There is no justification for its being offered to the general
public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and
historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks
on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations
familiar.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
“A document of considerable general interest, with informing
descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of
literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer
will want to know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dinger, Henry C.= Handbook for the care and operation of naval
machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–8476.
A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very
complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering
department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information
as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the
navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and
auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it
deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks,
feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant,
gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or
fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for
whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with
naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young
teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving
his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research
and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the
organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals
and worthiness for the profession of teaching.
* * * * *
“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its
practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Charm of the English village. *$3.
Scribner.
8–20520.
A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns,
mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even
such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and
pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation
of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the
reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as
heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as
adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author
pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is
disjointed and scrappy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.
“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright
dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it
comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr.
Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.
=Diver, Maud.= Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an
artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their
wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such
wider issues as frontier warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera
camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy
and power.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and
women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people;
and her style shows refinement and distinction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.
“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria
rather than realism.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Dixon, E.=, ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250.
Putnam.
Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous
illustrations by John D. Batten.
* * * * *
“A capital selection of fairy tales.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Dobson, (Henry) Austin.= De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30143.
A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books,
interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon
the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books
and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book
illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh
facts about Fielding.
* * * * *
“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and
sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing
from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.
“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack
distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the
standard.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most
agreeable prose writers of our time.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Dock, Christopher.= Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s
pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into
the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S.
W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.
8–17821.
“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about
school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the
admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of
an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule
of force, long before the change had been made in the school
world.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in
educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones
of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+ =Dial.= 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.
“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of
Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt
to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the
making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster
he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.
=Dodd, Anna Bowman.= On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3428.
A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the
romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion
come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is
captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has
been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that
she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.
* * * * *
“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some
errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
− =Nation.= 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.
“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there
is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies
the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages
and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough
feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman
Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.
“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of
living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have
been left to the imagination of the reader.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Dodd, William Edward.= Jefferson Davis. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–820.
A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend
the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply
to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate
his career to the main current of American history.”
* * * * *
“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of
wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not
adequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed
lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own
destruction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly
sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing
sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet
not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= Napoleon: a history of the art of war.
(Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.
4–13231.
=v. 3.= Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of
the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.
=v. 4.= Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of
Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.
* * * * *
“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature;
certainly there is nothing else in English possessing the same scope
and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the
student may search every other language in vain for a general military
history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better
than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
“A scholarly work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent
even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity.
In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his
powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.
+ =Dial.= 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The author lacks the balanced judgment, wide information, and sense
of preciseness in language, without which the attempt at framing
historical generalities becomes a snare.”
− =Nation.= 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a
military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and
maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general
merits of the book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study
of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be
found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 836. Ap. 11, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa.
$2.50. Dole.
7–42340.
The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of
the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried
thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or
passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their
pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as
presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution
or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of
short poems complete the volume.
* * * * *
“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of
lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything
characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for
more than an entertaining experiment.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.
“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which
transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.”
Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Teacher of Dante, and other studies in
Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.
8–11089.
Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the
volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in
“The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque,
Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the
Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.
* * * * *
“Seven delightful chapters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for
we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much
more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 130w.
“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or
as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little
value.”
− =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 270w.
“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and
political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the
characteristic forms of literary expression.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 170w.
“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Dorland, W. A. Newman.= Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the
records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers.
**$1. Century.
8–26841.
In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the
acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of
modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of
400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average
initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies
between forty and sixty.
* * * * *
“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite
inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements,
of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive
activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a
realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.
=Dorner, Herman B.= Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.
8–11765.
A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in
handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will
enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of
success.
* * * * *
“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little
volume will be a real help.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 352: Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“The instructions are succinct and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Doubleday, Roman.= Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.
8–6663.
A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney
comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy
killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in
the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident
was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter
unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible
for.
* * * * *
“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author
that has appeared in recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to
disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not
depend on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in
the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding
there was no murder at all.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed
and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.
=Doughty, Charles Montagu.= Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of
“Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett.
*$4.50. Scribner.
8–21785.
An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago.
The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the
author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the
original volume.
* * * * *
“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr.
Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot
be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more
ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the
literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr.
Doughty’s book belongs.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.
“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct
and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his
insight.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from
its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.
“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of
desert life ever written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.
“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it
either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually
might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Douglas, Hugh A.= Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 8–12.
Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the
usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores
bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to
palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to
the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover
very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks,
each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at
his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than
by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.”
(Bookm.)
* * * * *
“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is
clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to
Venice should be without it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.
“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple
truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether
instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.
“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of
ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Dow, Earle Wilbur.= Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.
7–29562.
Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This
atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the
different peoples of Europe.
* * * * *
“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not
entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠
“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of
one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best
historical map making.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 270. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.
“Excellent work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable
undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in
connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.
+ − =School R.= 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.
=Dowd, Jerome.= Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
7–40054.
=v. 1.= The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a
sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This
instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black
races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the
Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the
Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).
* * * * *
“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint
is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on
economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of
high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes
up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of
great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in
brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all
who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in
social studies.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“It is in high degree valuable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.
“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of
the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic
life of these primitive races.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult
and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted
scholar.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in
completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz
Boas.
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.
“An important work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as
accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50.
Harper.
7–38206.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the
comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they
are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 49. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28056.
“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the
light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might
well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with
the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the
following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The
club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost
special.
* * * * *
“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one
regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and
highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his
quite seriously conceived tales.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.
“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his
admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders,
ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur
reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity
in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of
his genre, he should not attempt them.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough
thrills to last him for some time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.
8–16226.
The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer
world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and
aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never”
fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new
role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it
because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even
the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠
“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but
from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of
the author’s own literary history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.
“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s
‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this
kind.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not
very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and
what he does not like.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.
“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome
mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound.
A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of
reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline
and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by
pedantry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than
greatness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 350w.
=Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Drake, Allison Emery.= Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon,
Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental
kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic
tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.
8–448.
A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists
in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from
which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.
* * * * *
“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’
will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves
consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear,
disappointed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.
“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every
scientific student of comparative philology.”
− =Bib. World.= 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.
“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to
resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify
the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the
vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”
− =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is
unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its
being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a
certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”
− =Nature.= 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Draper, George Otis.= More: a study of financial conditions now
prevalent. **$1. Little.
8–8153.
A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience
in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such
subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of
profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism
to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts,
tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence,
public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible
perfection.
* * * * *
“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are
just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in
making either a readable or very helpful book.”
− + =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.
“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.
“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or
whoever buys or sells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
=Draper, William Franklin.= Recollections of a varied career. **$3.
Little.
8–26882.
Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following
excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member
of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a
diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my
private life covers invention in important lines, and a business
career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large
industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is
owned by its managers.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to
the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to
the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 700w.
“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.
=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the
spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a
supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.
8–16563.
“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and
advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the
higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the
dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.
* =Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.
8–30363.
A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become
physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of
his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are
as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting
self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to
a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The
true Christian science.
* * * * *
“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable,
and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one
of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A.
Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Drewitt, Frederick G. D.= Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs
of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its
conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished
documents. $3.50. Longmans.
8–3992.
“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian
history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive
government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The
present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public.
It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was
the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist.
R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr.
Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in
the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ.
Bull.)
* * * * *
“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a
conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the
name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.
“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in
the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts
from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which
Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this
respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.
=Drucker, Aaron P.= Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.
8–10427.
“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ
from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict
those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned
Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court,
that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the
Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“Highly interesting brochure.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with
a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–28424.
A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained
unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with
his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are
in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others
relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a
biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his
poems.
* * * * *
“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of
‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Du Bois, Mary R. J.=, comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.
8–33902.
Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated
with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.
“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic
old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.
=Duncan, David.= Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5.
Appleton.
8–17798.
By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan
supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective
study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the
philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in
the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about
one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The
rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt
with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer
entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found
its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The
filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08.
“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work
that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.
“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid
or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic
record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era
of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.
“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does
succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of
Spencer’s character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well
worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened
paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.
“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in
the just proportion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.
“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with
admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.
“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included
and excluded.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
7–40289.
Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of
Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart
period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint
Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the
time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an
interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of
minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old
songs.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious
information about minstrelsy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history,
but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little
fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic
curiosity.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without
parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always
accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26677.
Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained
strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human
kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is
“The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan,
tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in
fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’
this, now: that I _is_. An’ if I _is_, I _was_ an’ _will be_. But
sometimes I misdoubt the _was_; an’ if I loses my grip on the _was_,
Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the _will be_?”
* * * * *
“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and
haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of
‘slow Jim Tool.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the
compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of
steady faith in God and man.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to
healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’
characterize these tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
=Duncon, John.= Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd.
by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.
W8–115.
A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649
edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady
Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter
is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady
Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief
and comfort.
* * * * *
“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity,
of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to
all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and
interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout
churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.
“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little
narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his
religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful
and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.
=Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics.= 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.
W 8–14.
=v. 1.= Hydraulic machinery.
This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The
flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines;
Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and
Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.
=v. 2.= Resistance and propulsion of ships.
“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of
stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental
investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of
certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition
to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will
doubtless be corrected in future printings.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 71. Ja. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in
pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having
access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is
worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and
proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the
material it contains.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of
the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a
cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the
original papers by Rankine and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that
has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie
in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical
of the state of engineering at present.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable
recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats.
Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should
be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book
was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no
account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last
two or three years in this country and the United States.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy
of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
7–39520.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not detailed, but an unprejudiced, comprehensive, and scholarly
summary of arguments on a subject of great present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“A well-balanced, carefully-written book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 174. My. ’08. 170w.
“The value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his lucid and careful
examination and summary of the causes which led to the loss of the
place which the United States once held in the ocean carrying trade,
and of the arguments for and against further government aid to the
ocean transport business.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 400w.
“To speak in general terms, the discussion is largely a summary of
arguments upon the question at issue—a summary which is convenient
because of arrangement, (this is marred by typographical errors in
part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of
materials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must
be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even
as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 119. F. ’08. 420w.
“His narrative is as convincing as his argument.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his answer to the
question, How shall we increase our foreign trade marine?”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 81. My. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“It is a meritorious work, painstaking and unbiased, though brief and
necessarily incomplete.” Royal Meeker.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 720. D. ’08. 700w.
=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day in Palestine. **$2.50. Pott.
7–38636.
“Substantially a reproduction in print of the information which the
author gives to the parties whom he takes through the country,
together with descriptions of the scenery and the present condition of
the places visited. As the result of observations of ten journeys
during the last fifteen years, he has a high opinion of the character
and capabilities of the people.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His chapters are too condensed to be of great value to the student or
interest to the general reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08.
“The want of an index detracts much from its usefulness as a book of
reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“The necessary condensation of the subject matter, of which there is
too much for the size of the book, gives it the haste generally
associated with such reading matter.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Durham, Robert Lee.= Call of the south. $1.50. Page.
8–9811.
A race-problem story whose purpose “is plainly to enforce by a
horrible example the argument that any attempt to give social
recognition to the negro must needs result in the mingling of the
races.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Durham has created a disagreeable situation, and made the most of
it.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The situation ... might have been made to yield an interesting
picture of human life, if there had been a more successful effort to
show us the complex workings of the human mind.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year
in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“An interesting book less sensational and better written than Fraser’s
‘Red Russia’; but neither of them to be compared in permanent value
with Pares’ ‘Russia and reform.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 40. F. ’08. ✠
“This book will rank as one of the most important as well as most
interesting of recent accounts of conditions in Russia.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 519. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“This is a work that will interest all students of present-day
conditions, and especially those who have at heart the cause of social
justice and free government.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 38: 671. D. ’07. 970w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 120w.
“Mr. Durland seems to us the ideal newspaper reporter—born, not
made—with an unfailing sense for the thrilling, the striking, the
pathetic, the place, and the persons.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1034. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Illustrated, indexed, written carefully, each sentence judicially
weighed, this is the book of the hour about Russia.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 460w.
“The best book on present-day Russia that has so far been written, for
completeness, clearness, and picturesqueness of treatment.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 270w.
“Worthy of more than casual reading. Written in a graphic, nervous,
journalistic style which holds the attention throughout.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 130w.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Tortoise and the geese, and other fables of
Bidpai. †$1. Houghton.
8–28835.
The fables here translated into English were written about 300 B. C.
They embody the moral wisdom and philosophy of Bidpai, a sage of
India. Starting in Sanscrit, they have passed into Pehlevi, Arabic,
Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and on to modern languages. They take
their place beside Esop’s fables.
* * * * *
“La Fontaine and Aesop drew from this Indian philosopher, and we
should imagine, to judge by the present book, surpassed him in
liveliness.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=Dyar, Muriel Campbell.= Davie and Elisabeth, wonderful adventures.
†$1. Harper.
8–29338.
The simple happenings of a quaint, sweet spirited, contented couple
who try daily to make up to each other for their childless estate.
E
=Earhart, Lida Belle.= Systematic study in the elementary schools.
(Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college
series, no. 18.) Teachers college.
8–22123.
A thoughtful discussion based upon long experience. The divisions of
the study are as follows: The nature of logical study, Relation of
logical study to the study of the text-book, The ability of children
in the elementary school to study, Are pupils being taught to study
systematically in the elementary schools? and Can pupils in the
elementary school be taught to study systematically?
=Earp, Edwin Lee.= Social aspects of religious institutions. *75c.
Meth. bk.
8–2648.
“Prepared as a syllabus for the studies of theological students in a
department of thought not familiar in divinity schools. It was natural
that a wide territory should be covered, as religion touches all forms
of life. From the technical standpoint no one subject could be
exhaustively treated in such a plan, but the young minister is brought
into sight of numerous problems and stimulated to follow them under
the guidance of specialists.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
Reviewed by C. R. Henderson.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 858. My. ’08. 80w.
“He shows that he fails to distinguish between the duties which a man
can discharge to another man and those which he can discharge only
through or to a social group. It is no wonder then that this book
makes little concrete contribution to the supply of the most insistent
demand made upon the church.” A. T. Burns.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 667. O. ’08. 640w.
=Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The light which the author throws upon Indian motive and sentiment,
for he always shows how and why the Indian’s action is reasonable,
from the Indian’s point of view, makes his book very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 560w.
“For simplicity and modesty the book has a charm not found in many
Caucasian authors, and Dr. Eastman’s contribution to good storytelling
is conspicuous and his principles well worthy of imitation by white
writers.” I. L. Bridgman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 621. F. ’08. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Eaton, John.= Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen: reminiscences of
the civil war with special reference to the work for the
contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley, from Jan.
1862–1865; Ethel Osgood Mason, collaborator. *$2. Longmans.
7–38431.
“These reminiscences have to do chiefly with the civil war, having
special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the
Mississippi valley. An interesting biographical sketch of General
Eaton, prepared by Miss Ethel Osgood Mason, serves as an introduction
to the volume.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The memoirs are well-planned, well-written and interesting
throughout. By way of introduction and setting, Miss Mason, who has
shared in their preparation, adds an admirable biographical sketch and
appreciation of the author.” P. S. Peirce.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 657. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“It is a distinct contribution to history and a very interesting book
for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
“The most valuable part of the book is a summary of Eaton’s work among
the blacks of the Mississippi valley during the war.” W. L. Fleming.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 520. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A work of much interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 226. F. 22. 850w.
“Is an interesting and valuable addition to the historical literature
of the civil war period.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The book contains an unusual number of good stories of Lincoln and of
Grant.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 70w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 360w.
“This book makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the actual
processes of emancipation and of the two men who did most to compass
it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“There is something altogether winning about the tone and temper of
this book. Next to the account of the work among the freedmen, Eaton’s
narrative of his intercourse with Grant is the most suggestive part of
the volume.” W. A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 320. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“The story which he tells is one of great interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 231. F. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Eaton, Walter Prichard.= American stage of to-day. *$1.50. Small.
8–31171.
Contains chiefly articles which the author as dramatic critic for the
New York sun has contributed to that paper. A chapter on Our infant
industry (the creating of an American drama) shows that the authors
who are at the fore in the movement are dramatists who connect our
drama with life, who are leading our stage on toward better things by
making it a vital force in the community. Informing descriptive and
critical chapters follow which measure up some of the successful
present-day plays.
* * * * *
“If not of any importance or weight, the book is certainly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Eaton is a young man of much natural ability, fortified by
extensive reading, who has a copious vocabulary, a fluent and
attractive style, a pretty wit, the courage of his opinions, and a
fine contempt for those who do not happen to agree with them. But he
is lacking in catholicity of taste, breadth of view, and power of
comparison.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 471. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The book is not quite as large as the title. It will not circulate in
so many states. But it is all readable. It is a cheerful and buoyant
little work, which is rare when the subject is theatrical.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 880w.
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Ganton & co.: a story of Chicago commercial
and social life. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–28058.
A story built up around the indefatigable energy and industry of one
Ganton of a mammoth meat-packing concern. Social and labor problems
abound, with a full characterization of the self-made man of low
ideals whose god is money and whose highest aim is commercial power.
* * * * *
“Because the ponderous indomitable far-seeing figure of old Ganton is
never out of our sight for a moment, whether he is on the scene or
not; because his mood controls at all time the mood of the book;
because in short the tempo of the story is so admirably sustained from
first to last,—because of this the comings and goings of a little
world of rather unimportant people becomes fraught with a rather vital
interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 380. D. ’08. 530w.
“He has attempted only to make a study of life, customs, and character
against the background of a huge business concern. On the whole, the
task has been rather too large for him, but he must be credited with
remarkable success in his delineation of the personality of old man
Ganton.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 670w.
=Edminster, Clothier Franklin.= Structural drawing. $2.50. Pub. by
the author; for sale by Williams.
7–38620.
“The book opens with the usual instructions concerning drafting
materials, which are followed by a collection of geometrical problems.
Simple projection such as is used in preparing working drawings is
then explained, after which structural drafting is taken up in
detail.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The mechanical draftsman who may have, from time to time, structural
drawing to do, as well as the student and mechanic interested in
structural drawing, will find this work of value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 420. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“As a portfolio of plates supplementary to oral instruction the book
may have some value to a beginner, but the paucity of explanatory text
deprives the drawings of much of their usefulness. The drawings
themselves would be clearer if they had been drawn with a view to
reproduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 120w.
“The book as a whole is an excellent outline of the somewhat special
class of drafting necessary for steel.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Edwards, Alba M.= Labor legislation of Connecticut. (Publications
of the American economic assn. Third ser., v. 7, no. 3.) pa. $1.
Macmillan.
7–30620.
The purpose of the author is “to discuss the labor legislation of
Connecticut historically and critically, and ... to trace the economic
effects of the different laws.” “In scope the work covers factory
legislation (including child labor), the employment contract,
employers’ liability, boycotting and blacklisting, free public
employment bureaus, mediation and arbitration, the union label, the
barbers’ license law, and convict labor, with a separate chapter on
the State bureau of labor statistics.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature of social legislation.” J.
L. Barnard.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“May be placed side by side with Miss Whittlesey’s work on the labor
legislation of Massachusetts. The information is valuable, and
generally it is presented in a plain, straightforward manner, though
at times the main points are somewhat obscured by a mass of historical
detail.” J: C. Kennedy.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 120. F. ’08. 850w.
=Edwards, John Harrington.= God and music. *$1.25. Baker.
A new edition which corrects errors and eliminates the more fanciful
portions. The object is still to “give reasonable proof that music, by
its constitution, correlations, and effects, discloses a Supreme
Being.”
* * * * *
“Vague, dogmatic, diffuse, and rather tiresome.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 474. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
* =Egerton, Hakluyt.= Liberal theology and the ground of faith: essays
towards a conservative re-statement of apologetic. **$1.25. Dutton.
“A contribution towards a conservative restatement of religious
thought” which is directed in part against the “new theology” of Dr.
Campbell. There are two essays, Liberal theology and The ground of
faith. “His attitude toward science and toward the Bible is
distinctively liberal. The apostolic presentation of Christian
doctrine is viewed as ‘temporal,’ changeable in changed times. The
conservatism he stands for is contrasted with liberalism, not as
non-progressive, rather as not preoccupied with ‘novelty.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Egerton has written a brilliant and valuable essay [Ground of
faith]. It deserves to be published by itself, and not to be
discounted by being bound up with the longer and greatly inferior
treatment of ‘Liberal theology.’” E. S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 670w.
“With no unkindly words for his opponents, he reasons in a calm,
irenic style against all modernists of the Ritschlian and Hegelian
type.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Two gentlemen of Virginia. †$1.50.
Lothrop.
8–22541.
“Mr. Eggleston, scion of an excellent Virginia family, brought up in
the west, and domiciled in the North these many years, writes of
Virginians specifically for the New England reader—his book Virginians
have the same relation to the real Virginian that the black-faced
comedian in the minstrel show—of which Northern audiences are so
fond—has to the real cornfield darky.... This particular story deals
with a pretty girl who was saved from a convent in New Orleans, with
an old gentleman of the old school, with a grand dame of the old
school, and with two young men who are in love with the pretty
girl.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The book fails of its purpose, because it has not enough virility to
save the men of the book from mere foppishness.”
− =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“By and large Mr. Eggleston’s Virginians are fantastic figments—the
delicacy of his heroines and the theatricality of his heroes is all of
melodrama and none of life.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Warrens of Virginia: a novel founded on
the play of William C. De Mille. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–22798.
A story based upon the play whose subject “belongs to Mr. Eggleston’s
chosen field, but the spirit sought in the play was the spirit of
Thomas Nelson Page—of ‘Marse Chan’ and ‘Meh Lady’—not the spirit of
‘Dorothy South.’... The love story is the old story—the story of ‘Meh
Lady’—of the girl of the South and her lover of the North—of battles,
scoutings, captures, life in prison, chivalrous conduct on both sides,
(and the reverse,) misunderstandings, bitterness, and reconciliation.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Belasco’s atmosphere is romance, his instrument illusion. Mr.
Eggleston produces no illusions.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Egypt= and how to see it; il. by A. O. Lamplough. **$1.40.
Doubleday.
8–35364.
A handy little guide for the Egyptian tourist, whose aim is to point
out the things most worth seeing, and to help the traveler to
economize time, money and fatigue. “The text is written in a style
considerably less impersonal than that of the out-and-out guide-book,
but it is systematically arranged, and there are outlines of tours of
various length, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of hotels and
banks, time-tables of the Egyptian state railway, and much other
useful information for travellers. And a traveller through Egypt
everyone who looks at Mr. Lamplough’s pictures will long to become.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“Appears to be a practical, useful guidebook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= In the potter’s house. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–4438.
“This exhibition of shapes of clay includes the wide extremes that may
be met in a Maine village untouched by modern thought. It embraces the
minister who is of the oldest theological type, and the particularly
unpleasant and explicit primitive man. Between these are to be found
every shade of the godless and the hell-fearing; deacons and
Dogberries with varyingly elastic views of theology and
conduct.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“While certain incidents may be classed as ‘powerful’ the really
strong is outweighed by the repellant.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Though the author has failed in creating the impression he presumably
intended to create, he has written with sincerity, and he succeeds in
holding the reader’s interest in the thread of his story. The book is
a promise rather than a performance.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“It will be admitted that there is a great deal of strength in [the
book].”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Meryl. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9814.
A story of kidnapping and theft planned for the purpose of depriving a
young girl of her heritage. The drama is enacted on the shores of
Winnepesaukee lake, and one Bob Hernald, booked for a rest at a club
house, chances all unwittingly to play into the hands of the
kidnappers. Straightway he learns of his mistake, and atones for his
blunder by proving most useful in solving a mystery and rounding up a
villain. He does not go unrewarded by the heroine.
* * * * *
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Elgood, George S.= Italian gardens, after drawings by G: S. Elgood,
R. I., with notes by the artist. *$12. Longmans.
8–14727.
The descriptive and historical bits concerning the formal,
time-honored gardens of Italy here so handsomely pictured have been
subordinated to the drawings. The gardens reproduced are those
surrounding Roman, Florentine and Tuscan villas, villas of Frascati,
Viterbo and northern Italy. Fountains, clipped trees and hedges,
foliage in masses, and flowers of varied hues all test the artist’s
skill for reproduction.
* * * * *
“His strength lies in detail, whether it be a blaze of colour, as in
the group of crimson azaleas, or some beautiful spot with an
architectural feature as a centre; but the garden in its broader and
serener aspects is hardly represented here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 768. Je. 20. 560w.
“A fitting companion to the delightful book on English gardens which
Mr. Elgood brought out some four years ago.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 250. Ja. ’08. 360w.
“The artist has studied his subject exhaustively, but, we regret to
say, prosaically, for in these water-colours the wonderful poetry and
romance of the villa gardens of Italy have escaped the painter.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
* =Eliot, Charles William.= University of administration. **$1.50.
Houghton.
8–32425.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1908. They compass all the branches of
university administration in its numerous departments of teaching, in
its financial and maintenance departments, its museums, laboratories,
and libraries, in its extensive grounds and numerous buildings, and in
its social organization. The chapters are: University trustees; An
inspecting and consenting body—alumni influence; The university
faculty; The elective system; Methods of instruction; Social
organization—the president—general administration.
* * * * *
“We may look upon this volume as an epitome, or record, of a life
devoted to the service of Harvard, and, through Harvard, of the nation
and the world—a devotion and a service for which the fitting reward is
the gratitude and regard of thousands of men and women and the
approval of conscience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 2000w.
=Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural
features, products, commerce and present conditions; with an
introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
7–40116.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“There has been little attempt to go back to the original sources.
Indeed the great collections of documents do not appear to have come
within Mr. Elliot’s horizon. The book should really be judged simply
as an entertaining handbook. From this standpoint the work has been
well although rather hastily done.” Hiram Bingham.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 919. Jl. ’08. 550w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The account of economic conditions will be of greatest value to the
more general reader rather than the economist.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 122. F. 29, ’08. 170w.
“The only thing that can be suggested as an improvement to this work
is the addition of a smaller and more easily handled map for frequent
reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 290w.
“A perusal of Mr. Elliot’s book certainly leaves the impression that
it is a compilation made at home rather than a digest of data acquired
personally on the spot. It is not devoid of interest and, so far as it
goes, it does justice to the Chileans, but it is too deficient in
selection, proportion and topical arrangement to be of much value to
the public.” W: R. Shepherd.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 348. Je. ’08. 650w.
“He has produced a clear and readable narrative. Mr. Scott Elliot’s
book should prove invaluable to those who want to know something about
the most virile and the most law-abiding of all the South American
peoples.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 103. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Fair Moon of Bath. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–8093.
Bath is the scene of this story of the times of the Jacobite uprising.
The hero is an intrepid youth who readily enlists his wits and sword
in the cause of romance and whose Hanovarian sympathies are never
allowed to come between him and his friendship for friends pledged to
the House of Stuart. The heroine, the Moon of Bath, is less exacting
and more charming than the usual cloak-and-sword story heroine.
* * * * *
“A light, pleasant book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“A good example of the fiction produced by the theory that its
ultimate and highest function is merely to entertain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 280w.
“Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her success in dealing freshly
with this well-worn theme.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 180w.
“The motive power is neither history nor human nature, and, except for
a pleasant touch here and there of fancy, the story left us
uninterested and unmoved. If the author would try another branch of
the art the result might be very different, for the book shows
dramatic power and a sense of humour.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 381. D. 13, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is an excellent specimen of its sort, light and daintily
written, with verve and taste to attract any one who likes work well
done, aside from the mere story interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Ellis, Havelock.= Soul of Spain. **$2. Houghton.
8–17935.
Twenty years of close study and close scrutiny lie back of Mr. Ellis’
impressions which offer a series of inductions and psychological
conclusions. Some of his sixteen chapters are the Spain of old
romance, The women of Spain (in which he refutes the “Carmen” idea of
the woman of Spain), The art of Spain, Velasquez, Spanish dancing, Don
Quixote, The gardens of Granada, Seville in spring, and Spanish ideals
of to-day.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“It is unquestionably one of the best books on Spain published during
the last few years. We have noted a few oversights for correction,
apart from misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 820w.
“There is perhaps little that is new in the book, yet the discussion,
being philosophical and suggestive, forms interesting reading.” G: G.
Brownell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 113. S. 1, ’08. 400w.
“His latest book is a delightful blend of the comments of a thoroly
informed and appreciative traveler and the observations of a keen
student of races and social affairs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book, as a whole, both pleases and stimulates.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 480w.
“One of the best and most enlightening books on Spain and the
Spaniards that have ever appeared. Mr. Ellis is that rare combination,
a scientist who is also a poet, and he is sensitive of much that
scientists, as such, never feel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 1070w.
“We may be grateful to him for his careful and often profound study of
the character of the people.” A. J. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 500w.
“Seldom, if ever, we are persuaded has there been written a more
closely woven, subtle, and fascinating analysis of a national
character and type by a writer of another widely different stock than
Havelock Ellis’ ‘Soul of Spain.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Arkinsaw cousins: a story of the Ozarks.
†$1.50. Holt.
8–5878.
The Thornberry cousins whose “little nothingnesses” of every-day life
make up this story include individuals differing in occupation and
standing, but clannish in family relations and loyal to their
cousinship claims. It is the homely, intimate pictures of humdrum
village life, enlivened by clear cut characters that give the book a
touch of realism and charm.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 600w.
“‘Arkinsaw cousins’ is striking among stories of its kind for its
spontaneity, its zest born of affectionate intimacy with the subject.
Consequently, though it is not without crudity of detail, the affair
as a whole is unusually refreshing.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It is a sprightly narrative, told with a good deal of humor,
especially in its portrayal of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Not an inviting picture. The effect of the narrative is crude, though
there is good material in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Elson, Arthur.= Music club programs from all nations. $1.25.
Ditson.
7–39405.
Giving an historical outline of each national school of music, with
questions for study, and a series of programs for the use of clubs and
other organizations. In arranging his programs, Mr. Elson offers three
grades: easy, medium and difficult.
* * * * *
“The selections have been made with judgment, and the whole work will
prove a distinctly practical help to students of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The distinct value of this publication lies in its direct appeal to
common sense and ordinary intelligence. Stripped of the mystifying
‘shibboleth’ of the average singing master, the treatise well deserves
study from either professional or amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 120w.
“Undoubtedly meets a genuine need.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Such a book, undoubtedly, has been a desideratum. Excellent judgment
is shown in the choice of pieces. Mr. Elson’s book might also be used
as a brief sketch of the history of concert music.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Modern studies. *$2.10. Longmans.
8–5194.
These essays characterized by “their good sense and compendious
material” include informing studies on Tennyson, Swinburne, George
Meredith, Henry James, Living Irish literature, Recent Shakespeare
criticism, The meaning of literary history, Giordano Bruno in England,
Literary fame, Color and imagery in Spenser and A word on mysticism.
* * * * *
“Without the vigour of poetic originality, he has the beautiful
correctness of poetic sensibility. If we say, then, that his critical
work is not very great work, we must add that it is very fine
work—work that, in the present condition of our civilization, is
becoming dangerously rare.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1000w.
“His traditions of literary criticism are the best; his appreciation
of the growing importance of natural science in the literary field is
significant of his keen and forward vision; his advocacy of
comparative literature must win unhesitating approval; his outlook on
life is clear and wide; his sympathies are at once advanced and
catholic.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 206. Ap. 1, ’08. 2800w.
“Altogether this is a book of erudition and insight, although its
materials are not always fused into complete uniformity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 530w.
“Is a wholly delightful book, scholarly, acute, and invariably
interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“Solid and versatile attainment is the principal quality that strikes
us in reading these reprinted essays. In respect of illumination their
merits are patchy. Above all—to state at once the most serious defect
and so have done with it—they rather lack that first of critical
virtues, simplicity. To read these essays is to breathe the atmosphere
of enlightened but rather thick quarterlies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 766. D. 21, ’07. 1420w.
“Each ‘study’ appears to us to be a masterpiece of compressed and
accurate knowledge.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Eltzbacher, Paul.= Anarchism; tr. by Steven T. Byington. $1.50.
Tucker, B: R.
8–5260.
“Through extracts from the writings of anarchists we have a methodical
presentation of the views of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Balcuim,
Kropotkin, Tucker, and Tolstoi, as well as summarizing chapters giving
the opinion of the author. The translator, a follower of Tucker, adds
a critical preface pointing out the strong and weak points in the book
and some critical notes especially in the chapter on Tucker, which has
also been augmented by him.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is particularly timely. The style is scientific in the
extreme, heavy and uninteresting, yet to the student in search of the
fundamental principles underlying the science of anarchy, the facts
are presented in a masterful way, worthy of the highest commendation.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Eltzbacher deserves great credit, not only for his own fair and
luminous exposition of the philosophy of anarchy, but also for the
manner in which he has presented the thoughts of the greatest
anarchistic masters in their own words. The work ... should find a
place in the libraries of all thinkers interested in political, social
and economic philosophy.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 380. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“Every public library should have for completeness’ sake some
representative of this school of thought, and this small volume
presents it in its most authoritative and least objectionable form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
“This translation makes available for English readers one of the most
complete and concise accounts of the teachings of the leading
anarchists.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 247. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The weakest part of the book is the preliminary statement of Dr.
Eltzbacher’s own views on law, the state, and property—views presented
with needless wordiness and repetition, difficult to grasp and made
more difficult by a fondness for terms of many syllables.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“This is perhaps the handiest and most satisfactory manual on the
teachings of leading anarchists. The book should be in the hands of
all students of modern movements who have not time to investigate for
themselves.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 558. S. ’08. 130w.
=Emerald= and ermine: a tale of the Argoat by the author of “The
martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50. Harper.
7–33591.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Is a reversion to type, absurd because it is out of drawing with the
mind of the times.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“There is a vivid quality to these pages, and the characters are drawn
with an intense sympathy, a sympathy that communicates itself to the
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 180w.
=England, Minnie Throop.= Statistical inquiry into the influence of
credit upon the level of prices. (In Nebraska. University.
University studies. v. 7, no. 1.) pa. $1. Univ. of Neb.
7–19450.
“A monograph inspired by the question ‘does business create money or
money create business.’ It is a statistical argument in favor of the
quantity theory of money, or rather of the influence of credit on
prices, in opposition to the views held by Professor Laughlin, who has
maintained that this is a reversal to cause and effect. The method
employed by Miss England ... consists in noting the years of lowest
and highest points for prices, clearings, loans, note circulations,
deposits, etc.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 571. N. ’07. 200w.
“The tables which Miss England has constructed are of much value and
interest to the economist even though we may not all concur in some of
the conclusions she draws from them. These criticisms, however, relate
more to the form of the statement than to the contentions of Miss
England, against whose statistics, and the general conclusions from
them, we have no fundamental objections.” I. F.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 238. Ag. ’08. 640w.
=Enock, C. Reginald.= Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru.
*$5. Scribner.
7–38359.
The Peru of romance gives way in this treatment to the Peru of present
day practicalism. The author is a mining engineer who in the light of
modern progress discusses with professional keenness the mineral
wealth, the undeveloped resources of the country, the prospects of
creating means of access to the interior, and the facilities of
communication for commercial purposes. Good maps illustrate, and an
index adds to the value of the book.
* * * * *
“It should be of service to those whose interests, commercial,
scientific or geographical, are concerned with that wonderful part of
the world.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
“In describing the Peru of to-day, Mr. Enock is at his best. His
philosophy is not deep, but his statements are often interesting.
There is little that throws any light on modern Peruvian history or
politics.” Hiram Bingham.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Enock’s criticism of the various institutions and his comments on
South American relations are essentially different from those of a
citizen of the United States, nevertheless they do not detract from
the utility of the book.” H: R. Ringe.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 728. My. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock’s book presents a sufficiently graphic picture of some
aspects of the country in an early transitional stage, but its
treatment is too slight and unscientific to make it of much permanent
value. To the general reader it may be more confidently recommended,
for it contains hardly a dull page.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 679. N. 30. 1650w.
“His rovings were conducted in such a hearty spirit, with such a
commendable leisure, and are written down in such a pleasing manner,
that his book adds much to our rapidly accumulating library on South
American affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 200w.
“It is as a scientific engineer and a mining expert that Mr. Enock is
especially strong. On the subject of the church in Peru he shows he
can write in a spirit of pure prejudice on a subject of which he has
no first-hand knowledge.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 1150w.
“Every student of Spanish America owes him a debt of gratitude, for he
has made a study of modern Peru such as no other foreigner has ever
attempted.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“One of the best of recent books about South America. Mr. Enock is a
good traveler, whose records of his travels is blemished only by an
occasional and unsuccessful attempt at fine writing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 851. D. 21, ’07. 370w.
“Informative text.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Although Mr. Enock’s book is entertaining and in many respects
instructive, it is too desultory to give the reader anything like a
complete view of Peruvian conditions. As literature, its value is
seriously impaired by an irresistible bent toward fine writing.” W: R.
Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 349. Je. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock writes with a fullness of knowledge—and a superfluity of
words—gained by much travel across the mountains into the Montana. He
is but slightly historical, though he has not a little to tell of the
vestiges of Inca civilisation; and the chief interest of the book lies
in its graphic sketches of scenes and people.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
=Erman, Adolf.= Handbook of Egyptian religion; tr. from the original
German by A. S. Griffith. *$3. Dutton.
8–35517.
A popular manual which serves as a guide to the Berlin Imperial
museums. During more than thirty years the author has studied the
monuments of Egyptian religion and his conclusions set down here
represent the working basis of the Berlin school’s theories.
* * * * *
“An excellent popular presentation by an authority on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Perhaps the greatest inversion of facts to fit the author’s theories
occurs in Prof. Erman’s constant resort to punning or assonance as a
link between unrelated words. The book is an excellent guide to the
rich Egyptian museum of Berlin.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 117. Ag. 3. 1000w.
=Essays=, philosophical and psychological, in honor of William
James, professor in Harvard university, by his colleagues at
Columbia university. **$3. Longmans.
8–12972.
These nineteen essays “diverse in point of view, in subject, and in
quality,” (Nation.) contributed by nineteen expounders of philosophy
and psychology, treat of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic,
psychology, and the history of philosophy. The book is a tribute to
Professor James’s work and his influence on his colleagues.
* * * * *
“This sort of book is the delight of the reader and the despair of the
reviewer.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 830w.
“The present papers are on a high level of excellence.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 160w.
“The book, as a whole, is easy and pleasant reading, and shows serious
attempts to grapple with some of the most important problems of
philosophy. The method of short essays has the drawback that no really
difficult subject can be treated as fully as would be necessary for an
adequate discussion; but, within the inevitable limitation, many of
the essays will be found stimulating and highly suggestive.” B.
Russell.
+ =Hibbert, J.= 7: 203. O. ’08. 1700w.
“For those interested in the development of philosophy in America, and
qualified to do serious reading on the subject, a more excellent index
to the present status could hardly be found. It is to be regretted
that none of these admirers of Professor James is capable of imitating
his light and lively style.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 780. O. 1, ’08. 670w.
“This beautiful volume is an honor not only to William James, but to
the contributors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“It is a book whose tone is distinguished for breadth and tolerance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 422. Ag. 1, ’08. 660w.
“Apart from all personal association ... this volume has a distinctive
value.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 170w.
“Remarkable volume of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Their interest is less their positive contribution to thought than
the light which they cast upon the directions in which American
thought is moving.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1500w.
=Eve, George W.= Heraldry as art: an account of its development and
practice, chiefly in England. *$5. Scribner.
8–15734.
“A ‘trade catalogue’ of the well-known engraver of book-plates and
designer of heraldic decorations whose name appears on the title-page,
a considerable percentage of the large illustrations being from
examples of his own works. The book contains some three hundred pages,
mostly made up of the elementary chapters which appear in the work of
every writer on heraldry who has not got beyond the limits of the
current handbooks.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“In many ways it is as good a work as any other manual at present in
the field for the beginner in heraldic art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 230w.
“Will prove extremely useful to designers who have occasion to
introduce heraldic symbols into their work. Mr. Eve is thoroughly at
home in the subject, and his exposition of the rules governing the use
of heraldic figures is both lucid and exhaustive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 70w.
“The utility of such a popular treatise as this must lie in its
illustrations, unless indeed it is wrought into a rather dull book of
reference, a mere glossary of technical terms.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 219. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 829. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Everts, Katherine Jewell.= Speaking voice: principles of training
simplified and condensed. **$1. Harper.
A practical handbook whose aim is to furnish simple, practical
instruction in the training of the speaking voice. Miss Everts demands
only fifteen minutes each day for the training which will convert “our
high-pitched, harsh, hard American instrument of torture into the
low-toned, efficient agent of personality it was intended by nature to
be.” The divisions of the study are the following: The tuning of the
instrument; Learning to re-enforce the tone; The technique of the
instrument; and Studies in the vocal interpretation of literature.
* * * * *
“A vivacious discussion of the proper management of the voice in
ordinary conversation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Miss Everts’s interesting and thoroughly usable book combines in rare
degree the knowledge of the mechanism of the voice with skill in
making practical suggestions for individual study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 611. N. 21, ’08. 500w.
=Everyman=: a morality play; ed. with an introduction, notes and
bibliography by Montrose J. Moses. *$1. Kennerley.
8–20701.
A student’s “Everyman” furnished with an eighty-page introduction
tracing the dramatic development of which it is a part; with notes;
and with a bibliography of works concerning the different periods
surveyed in the introduction.
=Ewald, Carl.= Old room; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–10275.
“A study of domestic tragedy, complicated by the strange moods of an
abnormal man and a still more abnormal woman. Over all hovers the
furtive shadow of that madness which gives to the story its dreadful
climax. The old room is a secret chamber which sturdy ancestors
consecrated as the altar of the family and the home.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“If one is strongly addicted to Ibsen, and delights in allopathic
doses of the dismal, ‘The old room’ may be very heartily endorsed. For
what Carl Ewald started out to do has been very admirably done.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 350w.
“This searching allegory probes deeper than all the ‘divorce novels’
ever written. The little volume is as full of suggestive symbolism as
an Ibsen play, and its simple but illusive language will be as
variously interpreted by different readers.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 809. Ap. 3, ’08. 550w.
=Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. An. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as modern, as openly significant, and as puzzling and
elusive in its significance as an Ibsen drama, and far more
beautifully and poetically imagined and worked out. The translation
seems to have preserved to a remarkable degree the unique flavor of
the original. It possesses the welcome distinction of not being
illustrated.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 650w.
“We do not see in it the great beauty of form or thought claimed for
it by its admirers, and especially by the translator. It will appeal
to readers who crave the somber excitement offered by several
continental writers of dramatic fiction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Ewart, John S.= Kingdom of Canada, imperial federation, the
colonial conferences, the Alaska boundary, and other essays.
$2.50. Morang & co.
8–19240.
“John S. Ewart, the Canadian lawyer and publicist, has brought
together in a volume of some 370 pages a number of public addresses
and several essays—all devoted to the large problems of Canada’s
political destiny. Independence is not the goal toward which Mr. Ewart
would point the way—that is to say, not independence in the sense of
political separation from the British empire.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“While there may, therefore, be differences of opinion as to the
correctness of all Mr. Ewart’s conclusions, his essays may be taken as
representative of the views of at least one strong and growing school
of thought in Canada; and to that extent they are of distinct interest
and value.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 210. O. 1, ’08. 850w.
=Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
=Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Excerpta= Cypria; tr. and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham.
*$6.30. Putnam.
“The book, of over 500 quarto pages, is made up of extracts in English
dress concerning the character, history, and antiquities of the
island, gathered from the works of eighty different travelers of
varied nationality, ranging in date from Strabo to the second half of
the last century. A few documents are included, and a rather full
bibliography appended, including one on the not yet forgotten Cesnola
controversy.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The book is eminently readable, and the translations are made in good
style, and, so far as tests have been possible, with reasonable
accuracy. But the compiler’s assertion that within the range of the
individual excerpts nothing has been omitted which directly concerns
the island is not quite true, at any rate of the quotation from
Strabo.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Cyprus is a treasure island for historical research. A guide for this
terra incognita has now been found in Mr. C. D. Cobham. No one could
be better fitted to point out its sights.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 518. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
F
=F., C. R. L.= Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, 1890. *$1. Dutton.
Simply an account of a visit which Mr. Gladstone paid to Oxford late
in life as a guest of the Fellows of All Soul’s college. “Odds and
ends on all sorts of subjects, history, the classics, the personal
side of politics, life ‘then and now,’ art and music, are given.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The little book gives glimpses of Gladstone that one is thankful not
to have missed.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“If we can imagine Boswell become a self-conscious Oxford don,
extremely afraid of his eminent friend and yet privately aware of
being better informed than he on all topics, we should have had a
document like the present instead of his master-piece.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 750w.
“The author ... has, perhaps, given us a more intimate view of the
great English stateman’s recreation hours than any work of the kind
previously attempted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately C. R. L. F. seems somewhat wanting in the imagination
that rekindles. Let us agree that some of the scraps here given are
very entertaining. It is not easy to put the book down till most of it
has been read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 1050w.
“Not only a very pleasant narrative, but a real contribution to our
knowledge of the man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 367. S. 12, ’08. 1500w.
=Fagan, James O.= Confessions of a railroad signalman. **$1.
Houghton.
8–25159.
Mr. Fagan’s confessions are the outgrowth of his experience as a
signalman during twenty years. His shrewd observations and logical
deductions regarding mismanagement of railroads and incompetency of
employes may well cause railroad officials disquieting moments. The
book aims to stimulate reform. “He does not content himself with an
idealist’s statement of what ought to be, but takes into account
existing conditions in the operative departments of our great
railroads, and attempts to show how with all the recognized
difficulties of administration there may yet be worked out a scheme
that will assure a far smaller proportion of fatalities in the running
of our trains.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Clear, thoughtful papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fagan, in his present book, forcefully discusses, with more than
ordinary intelligence, some of the problems in American railroading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1005. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“One cannot feel sure, after reading this book, that the case for the
employee has been fully presented, or that officials have been charged
with their proper share of responsibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 350w.
“His book certainly deserves the attention of railroad men of all
kinds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“To the layman Mr. Fagan’s writings on the subject of railroad
accidents impress themselves as singularly judicious, fair, and well
considered.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 240w.
=Faguet, Emile.= Literary history of France. (Library of literary
history.) $4. Scribner.
7–36933.
An authoritative survey of French writers and their works from the
origin of French literature in the middle ages to the end of the
nineteenth century. M. Faguet makes a point of the influences in
French literature directly traceable to English literature.
* * * * *
“Poor as his book is on the whole, and even mischievous in parts, it
yet has a redeeming feature in the liberal tribute which the author
pays to the greatness of England’s greatest novelist, Samuel
Richardson.” Rowland Strong.
− + =Acad.= 73: 142. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“Scholarly, enthusiastic, independent in judgment, suggestive, and
readable. A defect in the book is the lack of English rendering of
many of the extracts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“The facts are right; and the inferences from them often right; but
where are the ideas, the personal views of things, which give value to
a living book?”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 435. O. 12. 1350w.
“Is not only the newest, but one of the best. What is professedly
translation, the history itself, is very well done by the anonymous
translator, and either for reference as to literary and biographical
facts, or for critical disquisitions on the work of particular
authors, the English reader may go with complete satisfaction to the
history of M. Faguet.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
“After the publication of such a volume as this, ignorance or neglect
is indeed without excuse. It is literally crammed with information;
every page is interesting and valuable. We must, however, express our
regret that the translation is hardly on so high a level.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in
glaze varnish on a white ground. (Univ. of Michigan studies.
Humanistic ser., v. 6.) *$4. Macmillan.
8–852.
“The white Athenian lekythoi, or oil-jugs form a distinct class in the
history of Greek vase-painting. The two large classes into which the
author divides his material are lekythoi in which the lines of the
drawing are in glaze, and lekythoi in which the lines are in dull
color. The present volume deals with the glaze-outline lekythoi; the
second class is reserved for another occasion.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The present monograph supplies a much-felt need.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 408. Ap. 30, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 60w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Essays in municipal administration.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
8–2954.
“The author has here gathered together various of his public addresses
and a number of valuable articles, now in many cases revised, which
had previously appeared in different periodicals, besides adding a few
new ones. Of two of the groups of essays one centers around ‘the
problems of organization and the legal relations of the cities to the
state’ and the other deals with ‘municipal functions and activities.’
A third group contains the portion of the volume which is new (about
one-sixth), and gives brief sketches of various municipal activities
in Europe, among which may be mentioned rather neglected Vienna.”—J.
Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“It is well up to Professor Fairlie’s former standard. Only two errors
of any consequence have been noted.” A. R. Hatton.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 409. N. ’08. 1100w.
“The essays are helpful and instructive, the facts are reliable, and
the book plainly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“The make-up of the book is good, it is provided with a usable index
and its contents are such as to make it well worthy of ownership by
any and all serious-minded students of one of our greatest problems,
the government and the proper functions of municipalities.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Some of the chapters are worth preservation in a book, but others are
already out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
“The essays of the third group are hardly more than ‘observations,’ as
the writer calls them, and are inferior to the rest of the volume in
value.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“In general it is a serviceable and informing compend, touching
various phases of city history, organization, and administration.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“It is a pity that Prof. Fairlie is unlikely to have a numerous circle
of readers, owing to the nature of his topics, but the judicious will
recognize the thoroughness of his work, and the industrious will find
in the book a storehouse of facts, and ample references to original
authorities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 270. My. 9, ’08. 400w.
“In outline form, Professor Fairlie’s work covers a wide range, and
students of municipal government will find it helpful in many ways.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
“All the papers are worth reprinting in their present form.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 571. S. ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Farman, Elbert Eli.= Egypt and its betrayal: an account of country
during the periods of Ismâil and Tewfik pashas, and of how England
acquired a new empire. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–10621.
A discussion based upon personal experiences of the author while
United States consul-general at Cairo, and Judge of the International
court of appeals at Alexandria. The author attacks England’s policy
and points out the possibilities and short-comings of the Cromer
administration.
* * * * *
“The book is decidedly well worth reading, especially for those
already somewhat familiar with the subject, to hear ‘the other side,’
if for no other reason.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 623. N. ’08. 240w.
“We should have liked the book better if Cromer and his administration
had been left out and treated of in a separate work.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Farrar, James M.= Junior congregation. 1884–1908. **$1.20. Funk.
8–29743.
Outlines in a practical way Dr. Farrar’s methods used in perfecting
his young people’s organization known as the “Junior congregation.”
=Farrington, Herbert M.= Gates that shall not prevail. †$1.50. Lane.
“In this volume the limelight is always in evidence. It plays round
the head of the modern St. Anthony, who is a famous preacher in the
East End, and poses for the picture which is to set all London
talking; it dances round Violetta, frail and fair; and lights her path
to a public confession; and it envelopes both the prologue, where the
story of his mother’s dishonour is related to the schoolboy whom we
next meet as Brother Paul of Hoxton, and the equally dramatic close,
where he discovers a father in the peerage.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A strong, inspiring and uplifting romance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“The picture is too highly coloured to afford sustained pleasure, but
should appeal—and that not unsuccessfully—to the popular taste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 120w.
“The author of this book is not devoid of humour.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Farrington, Margaret Vere.= Fra Lippo Lippi: a romance. **$1.75.
Putnam.
Set in the atmosphere of Fra Lippo Lippi’s art and its inspiration,
this is the pathetic story of his love for the beautiful nun of Santa
Margherita, Lucrezia Buti, and of the shadow cast upon it by the
venomous interference of the jealous princess Beatrice. The book
contains four photogravure illustrations.
=Faulkner, John Alfred.= Erasmus, the scholar. (Men of the kingdom.)
*$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–5815.
Erasmus the scholar, the impartial friend and critic of Catholic and
Lutheran alike, is portrayed thruout the course of his great labor of
love to bring both bodies to a mutual concession. The study is an
important one because in the light of modernism freed from theological
difference one may best interpret this great Erasmian spirit which is
coming to its own.
* * * * *
“The frequency of acknowledged quotation gives an air of frankness to
the work which is hardly borne out by an examination of the many
unacknowledged quotations, especially in the translations, which are
not only freely borrowed, but are mangled at discretion in a way to
make their defenseless authors wince. The best parts of Professor
Faulkner’s work are his little summaries of Erasmus’s supposed views
on doctrinal points.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 170. O. ’08. 320w.
“Professor Faulkner’s memoir is not only adequately appreciative of
his subject, but also duly critical, not wanting in humor, and
illuminated by ample extracts from Erasmus’s famous works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Faunce, Rev. Daniel W.= Mature man’s difficulties with his Bible.
*75c. Am. Bapt.
8–9798.
Addressed not so much to theologians, nor yet to men of leisure who
may read extended treatises, but to busy men who still find time to
read the newer books and magazines which raise questions concerning
biblical facts. The chapters treat the Bible in relation to
mathematical certainty; scientific spirit; historical spirit; the
morality and method of the Bible; and the biblical Christ and human
thinking.
* * * * *
“A book containing many good things. But on the whole it must be
pronounced inadequate to its purpose. The author does not fully grasp
the difficulties occasioned to the Bible student by the modern
scientific world-view.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Contains much sensible counsel concerning Scripture.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Fay, Charles Ryle.= Co-operation at home and abroad; a description
and analysis. *$3. Macmillan.
8–33820.
“An English university scholar, a research student in the London
School of economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable
information covering the entire field of co-operative activity in
European countries—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for
production, sale, and land tenure, (3) in workers’ societies for
production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and
industrial, concluding with an account of co-operative law, and a
large bibliography.... It is ‘not the herald of socialism, nor is it a
means to combat it,’ but simply a natural outworking of the
associative instinct in a line of self-help not cultivated by
socialism.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 267. S. 5. 170w.
“A work of wide and varied practical interest for social workers is
this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 220w.
“It does not detract at all, but in our judgment rather enhances, the
value of Mr. Fay’s work, if we see reason to demur to some of the
distinctions which he draws.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 806. N. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Fea, Allan.= Nooks and corners of old England. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–227.
Away from beaten tracks “the author covers with pencil and camera
counties as widely apart as Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcestershire,
Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, and he has
reproduced over fifty excellent photographs of both known and unknown
manor-houses, churches, hamlets, and interiors. One can only be
grateful to him for his notes on Beckington castle, Croscombe church,
with its wonderful canopied pulpit, Melplash court, said to have been
a residence of Nell Gwyn, Postlip hall, with its Elizabethan gables,
and Hautboys hall, a beautiful old Tudor house, a few miles to the
south-east of Oxford. In no sense a guide-book proper.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“A sensible, chatty record of devious wanderings in the byways of old
England, and as such may be honestly recommended to those who are not
in a hurry and who love old England.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“The most we can say of the book is that it may prove attractive to
those who are content with cursory descriptions of attractive places,
and may lead the ordinary tourist to things of particular interest in
his own country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 237. Ag. 31. 280w.
“Mr. Fea has a large store of curious information.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 530w.
=Fenn, George Manville.= Trapped by the Malays. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A book which recommends itself to girls as well as boys. It is the
story “of a young English officer, not much more than a boy, and his
exciting experiences in the English dominions on the other side of the
world. Captured by treachery by a native prince, he and one of his
soldiers escape on the rajah’s elephant, with which they have made
friends.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Manville Fenn continues to deserve well of the youth of England.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 652. N. 23. 130w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
“In this tale of bayonet and kris Mr. Manville Fenn shows all the
spirit, the humor and the knowledge of character and place which have
made his stories so popular with both young readers and those whose
business it is to select books for them.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Ferris, George Hooper.= Formation of the New Testament. **90c. Am.
Bapt.
7–28619.
A “study of the rise of the books of the New Testament to pre-eminence
among early Christian works, and the causes contributing to it.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ferris sketches the rise of the New Testament canon with bold and
telling strokes.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 274. Ap. ’08. 350w.
“An able and intelligent study. The presentation is popular and at the
same time scholarly.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“He has given the results of his study in clear flexible English, that
never declines and never wearies the reader. This is a piece of
excellent theological writing.” E: A. Wicher.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 138. Ag. ’08. 980w.
“A forceful and enlightening study. It should establish the author’s
reputation as a writer on religious history who can at the same time
master facts and exhibit their vital bearing.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“There can be no question, however, but that Mr. Ferris has put his
finger upon the source of endless confusion of mind and barrenness of
doctrine.... Awakening to the facts which Mr. Ferris has brought into
the clear must serve as an emancipation to not a few.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 241. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“A careful, scholarly, courageous work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 795. Ap. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Fessenden, Francis.= Life and public services of William Pitt
Fessenden. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
7–37243.
A biography of a man “best entitled to rank as Maine’s prime
contribution to American statesmanship.” It is the “story of a public
man who never ‘put his ear to the ground’ to listen for the voice of
duty, never ‘climbed into the band-wagon’ in search of office, never
chose to go against his conscientious judgment a hair’s breadth rather
than ‘get left.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“To such a hero, this book is a fitting tribute.” D: M. DeWitt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 622. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“William Pitt Fessenden was a great senator and deserved a proper
biography, but it cannot be said that the volumes by his son fulfil
the need. The author shows slight acquaintance with the historical
literature of his period.” W. L. Fleming.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A piece of biography so morally invigorating as to deserve, in its
own very different way, a place alongside the reminiscences of Carl
Schurz.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 73. F. 1, ’08. 500w.
“A good life.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The literary form and method of this work mark it as a real addition
to the historic literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 450w.
“The arrangement of the matter is defective, but the matter itself is
of the first class.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 127. F. 6, ’08. 2650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 630w.
“A work which, if in parts rather dry reading, is a distinct
contribution to American political biography. Some of the numerous
letters and autobiographical statements which it contains throw fresh
and really helpful light on civil war men and measures.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
“Few biographies written by relatives show less bias—less of what
Macaulay was fond of calling the ‘lues Boswelliana’. The narrative
sometimes backs and fills in a manner that is confusing, and exception
could easily be taken to some of the statements; yet, as a whole, the
work has been well done.” P. L. Haworth.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 132. Mr. ’08. 850w.
“Full and very satisfactory account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Field, Louise Maunsell.= Katharine Trevalyan. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10431.
Against the unhealthy background furnished by craven types selected
from fashionable New York, the author places his unworldly-minded
heroine. She is drawn into a net of matrimony by a contemptible
fortune hunter, frees herself from its meshes, and slips away
disillusioned, having discovered that reciprocity—a thing she had
never experienced—is at the foundation of the human bond. Her supreme
moment comes when real love proves the truth of her theory and she is
no longer outside of life.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 370w.
“It has plenty of flesh-and-blood characters, and an easy style, but
it falls short of absorbing the attention.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 242. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Field, Michael, pseud. (Catherine Bradley and Edith Cooper).= Wild
honey from various thyme. *$1.65. Wessels.
“A collection of sonnets and lyrics of which, the inspiration is
mainly classical, but which show an unclassical luxuriance of
imagery.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The undoubted poetical taste and feeling displayed ... are largely
discounted by a serious lack of discriminating power.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 414. Ap. 4. 330w.
“Here are nearly two hundred lyrics and sonnets, packed with thought,
and arresting in their originality of expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“Each of the poems in the present collection conveys to the mind a
picture with color and design and atmosphere.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is always musical and accomplished, and now and then, as in
‘Chariclo,’ it attains real distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 40w.
=Figgis, John Neville.= Studies of political thought from Gerson to
Grotius, 1414–1625; the Birkbeck lectures delivered in Trinity
college, 1900. *$1.10. Putnam.
7–32802.
A literary revision of the Birkbeck lectures, delivered nearly ten
years ago. The author discusses the transition of political thought
from the province of the church to that of the state. “The nature and
source of all authority is the final object of political research.
From this everything else flows easily: communication is established
on this basis with all the controversies that distracted medieval
society and that form the subject of this book. The relationship of
church and state—involving of necessity interminable arguments about
the nature of a state, its rights, its moral code—the position of the
individual in society: such are some of the catchwords of dispute
throughout this fruitful period of political theorising.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 145. Ag. 10. 2200w.
“In detail, unfortunately, the volume leaves a good deal to be
desired.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 352. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“This is an extremely valuable contribution to historical and
political science. It embodies broad suggestion rather than detailed
information; it is philosophical, not descriptive. A deep and accurate
scholarship is revealed on every page, and the insight that gives life
and usefulness to mere learning is not less conspicuous. There are
very few points on which a critic familiar with the subject would
venture to question the accuracy of Mr. Figgis in either his facts or
his interpretations.” W: A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 708. D. ’07. 1320w.
“We congratulate Mr. Figgis on the publication of these lectures, and we
hope that the wider audience will appreciate their value.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 455. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
* =Filippi, Filippo de.= Ruwenzori: being an account of the expedition
of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, to the
snow ranges situated between the equatorial lakes of Central Africa; tr.
by Caroline de Filippi. *$8. Dutton.
“The volume is introduced with a preface written by the Duke himself.
As compiled and written Signor de Filippi’s book is a narrative
describing the adventures as well as the scientific researches of the
Duke’s party from Mombasa to those snow-capped peaks in the interior,
which were called by the ancients ‘Mountains of the moon.’”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The translation is satisfactory, and the illustrations fully deserve
this second mention in so brief and general a notice as the present
one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 665. N. 14, ’08. 980w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fillmore, Millard.= Millard Fillmore papers; ed. by Frank H.
Severance. (Buffalo historical soc. Publications, v. 10–11.) 2v.
*$7. Buffalo hist. soc.
A memorial prepared to perpetuate the name of the organizer and first
president of the Buffalo historical society. “Besides the ‘Fillmore
papers’ there are biographical introductions, an historical address by
General J. G. Wilson, some interesting reminiscences and a dozen or
more portraits. The papers themselves are arranged by Mr. Severance
chronologically under appropriate headings and consist chiefly of
legislative speeches, political addresses and private correspondence.”
(Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The editor has shown excellent judgment, excluding the trivial or
local matter which is too often allowed to cumber the pages of
historical society publications. In both volumes few errata have been
noticed and only a few slight errors. On the whole, one derives from
these papers an increased respect for the honest conservatism of the
man’s character and a deepened sense of his limitations as a
statesman.” T. C. Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 876. Jl. ’08. 600w.
“While Mr. Severance has evidently spared no pains, and has collected
in his introduction and notes a mass of data for which some future
biographer will be grateful, his editorial work cannot be
unqualifiedly praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 700w.
=Finley, William Lovell.= American birds, studied and photographed
from life. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36870.
“The text is divided into twenty-one chapters, each treating some one
species or group of species, from the hummingbird to the golden eagle.
Most of the studies were made in the extreme west ... but with few
exceptions all have closely related eastern representatives, with
habits differing but slightly. The facts relate chiefly to the conduct
of parents at the breeding season and to the appearance, growth, and
general characteristics of the young.” (Nation.) The illustrations,
chiefly from Herman T. Bohlman’s photographs, are numerous and
excellent.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“One is tempted to dare a superlative and call this the most
delightful bird book that has been written.” M. E. Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, 07. 300w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“Fortunately, whatever errors the text might contain, the pictures can
be trusted.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 240w.
“The text is uneven. Some chapters are excellent and thoroughly
enjoyable; others are spoiled by a padding of unimportant details of
uninteresting actions. The work is accurate as to observation and
forms a real addition to our knowledge of Western bird life. It is,
however, as a splendid record of the photographer’s skill in
portraying the more intimate home life of wild birds that the volume
deserves especial mention.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 440w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text is delightful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The chapters on the ‘Hummingbirds’ and the ‘Barn owls’ are especially
interesting and instructive.” R. W. Hegner.
+ =School R.= 16: 272. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In spite of the criticisms of such matters as are here suggested, the
volume is a fresh contribution to popular ornithology, and is both
interesting and informing in an unusual degree.” F. H. Herrick.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 182. Ja. 31, ’08. 2450w.
=Fisher, Herbert Albert L.= Bonapartism: six lectures delivered in
the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
8–19594.
Six lectures which show that the Bonapartist governments of both First
and Second empires “were to a large extent inspired by the same
principles, rested upon the support of the same intellectual and
social forces, ... and shared in the same kind of ruin.” The lectures
are as follows: The bequest of the revolution, The growth of a legend,
The Napoleonic state, Napoleon and Europe, The rise of the Second
empire, and The downfall.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 686. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“That the author has telling gifts of historical presentation is clear
on every page; his lucidity and power of summary are aided by a
constant attention to literary form, and by a skilful use of some
striking bits of literary material.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 870. Jl. ’08. 960w.
“Deftness of touch and a happy choice of illustrative details are
among the attractions of this volume. Among the chief defects of his
method of treatment is that it tends to undue emphasis; and at several
points we think that Mr. Fisher’s statements are strained, just as his
style is occasionally tense and overloaded with adjectives.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 279. Mr. 7. 1400w.
“Vigorous and suggestive in grasp of matter and style of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“He ranges from the campaign of Italy to that of Sedan with a strong
grasp of fact and a power of generalization that never flags. The book
has the true historic ring, and should be useful for students of the
period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 150w.
“He writes about ‘Bonapartism,’ a word which he does not define, the
existence of which he does not prove, and he has consequently produced
by a tour de force a work of coruscating phrases, of high lights and
deep shadows, but one which will not command the assent of the
historian, the politician, or the man of common sense.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 303. Mr. 7, ’08. 1200w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Rate of interest: its nature, determination and
relation to economic phenomena. *$3. Macmillan.
7–36195.
Professor Fisher of Yale bases his thesis largely upon the theories of
Rae, Boehm-Bawerk and Landry. He expands these former versions of the
theory by the introduction of an “income concept.” The solution he
offers is that the rate of interest be made to depend upon the
character of the income stream.
* * * * *
“This is a notable work. Professor Fisher has made an enduring
contribution to the progress of economic thought in emphasizing the
peculiar psychical relation which the value of income sustains,
through the principle of discount, to the value of capital.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The treatise throughout is ‘Fisheresque’ ... that is to say, it is
worked out with the author’s well known and unflinching thoroughness
and his merciless (from the reader’s point of view) marshalling of
details. It is also characterized throughout by a certain scientific
hard-headedness which is not always found nowadays in writings upon
capital and allied topics.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 25. Ap. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 635. D. ’07. 3050w.
Reviewed by E. A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 820w.
=Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Fisher, Sydney George.= Struggle for American independence. 2v.
**$4. Lippincott.
8–14831.
A continuation and enlargement of “The true history of the American
revolution” with which, a few years since, the author startled out of
their complacency people who were willing to avoid “their own
country’s birth pangs.” Rejecting tradition and substituting facts
ascertained from original sources, the volumes become “an excellent
corrective, worthy of careful study by all who would know of the
revolution as it was.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He has gone to the original sources for information; his citations
and references are numerous and valuable; the arrangement of his
material is good, and his style is readable and attractive. Yet
however creditable his work, it must be confessed that the author
seems excessively ‘otherwise-minded,’ and his spirit of criticism and
correction seem, in a measure, to outrun his spirit of historical
impartiality and fairness.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 143. O. ’08. 1150w.
“Gives a full, detailed, interesting account but is written in a bad
spirit and sometimes places wrong interpretations and emphasis upon
accepted facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“His ‘true’ history of the American revolution does not differ in
large degree from those heretofore written.” E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 45: 110. S. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The story here told is interesting and convincing. Mr. Fisher has
good literary ability and the faculty of knowing a point when he sees
it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 96. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“Whether Mr. Fisher’s position be admitted or rejected, his volumes
cannot be overlooked by any who wish to be well informed upon the
origins and fundamentals of our nation or the future of England’s
colonial relations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 160w.
“However he may have erred in detail, he has taken a large view of a
large subject, has explored it with painstaking, honest effort, and,
despite his unfortunate preface, has written a book that will be
enjoyed even by those most inclined to dissent from its conclusions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 39. S. 5, ’08. 1700w.
“He has made a commendable attempt to deal frankly with this
evidence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“There is no end to the histories of the war of independence, but Mr.
Sydney Fisher can give a good reason for writing his.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 870w.
=Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with
special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s
lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39069.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 102. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The work is valuable for its clear English, its direct statements and
its rounded treatment of a broad subject within the compass of a
text-book of less than three hundred pages, including the excellent
bibliographies appended to each chapter.” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 522. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“On the whole the book is a worthy addition to the ‘Citizens’
library,’ and will prove stimulating to college students taking
courses in commerce or economics.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 495. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
“Throughout the book the treatment is concise—possibly, at times, too
concise—and is descriptive and expository rather than controversial.
The book is especially strong on its pedagogical side.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 168. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 564. S. ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 60w.
=Fitzpatrick, Samuel A. O.= Dublin: a historical and topographical
account of the city; il. by W. Curtis Green. (Ancient cities.)
*$1.75. Dutton.
8–3118.
“Six of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s eleven chapters are given to the different
periods of the city’s life; another deals with Trinity college. The
social life of the city from the time when records of the subject
begin to be available, the municipal history, the theatre, which has
achieved no small distinction, are successively treated, and there is
a separate account of ‘Historic houses and distinguished Dubliners.’
The cathedrals of Christ church and St. Patrick are duly
described.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Is not only the best book that has so far been written on Dublin—it
is the best volume which has yet appeared in the series.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“The author is a careful man, and has learnt a great deal about his
subject.... In recording so many facts an author cannot be infallible,
and we add some suggestions, which may be of use when a new edition is
in sight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 754. Je. 22. 1080w.
“The volume is not so attractive in style or dress as Mr. Chart’s, but
as a guide to Dublin, old and new, it is equally exact and useful.
There is no modern map.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23. ’08. 100w.
“To many the most interesting part of the text will be its account of
early history. That of Dublin is specially interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
“A carefully written and interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 169. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
=Flammarion, Camille.= Mysterious psychic forces. **$2.50. Small.
7–30610.
The author “describes his first experiences at seances, his own
experiments, with Eusapia Paiadino, the experiments of the Dialectical
society of London and of Sir William Crookes and others, drawing from
them his own theories and conclusions.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 60w.
“An honest record of long and careful scientific study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
“A complete account of the like investigations on the continent of
Europe has as yet been wanting. This book comes nearer than any other
to filling the gap.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 846. D. 21, ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 40w.
=Flandrau, Charles Macomb.= Viva, Mexico! **$1.25. Appleton.
8–28075.
A description of Mexico and the Mexicans which gives an intimate
insight into the social, political, religious, and commercial life. It
is the traveler’s Mexico that is projected in panorama upon the
author’s canvas with the certain details that catch the tourist’s eye
but which are too often omitted from guide books.
* * * * *
“An entertaining book in which the author with unrestrained frankness
quaintly discusses Mexican things that interest him. It touches upon
social, religious, political, and business topics, and handles them
all in bold, independent fashion and with as much carefulness as a
writer with a whimsical and somewhat humorous disposition could be
expected to exhibit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
=Fleming, John Dick.= Israel’s golden age: a story of the United
kingdom. (Handbooks for Bible classes.) *45c. imp. Scribner.
8–32325.
“The standpoint of the author is historical, his spirit is profoundly
religious.... The difficulties of the narratives of this early period
are frankly recognized and the religious limitations of the time are
fully allowed for, but the emphasis of the book is on the positive and
progressive elements in the history, rather than upon its defects and
weaknesses.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“A student who works through the period of Saul and David under
Professor Fleming’s guidance will have a new conception of Old
Testament history and religion.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The author possesses interpretative insight in a marked degree, and
is master of a pleasing style. The historical judgment of the author
is well balanced and his book may be highly commended to all teachers
of Bible classes.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 79. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Fleming has treated it in a scholarly manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 60w.
“Professor Fleming has found his way through the conflicting sources
with no small skill, and his manual affords sufficient help for the
serious student to form his own opinions intelligently.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 110w.
=Fleshman, Arthur Cary.= Educational process. (Lippincott’s
educational ser.) $1.25. Lippincott.
An attempt, the author says, to organize a new doctrine of education
out of an old theory of thought. The author yields to the latter-day
conclusions that life is a spiritual process; that activity is
spiritual. He takes the problems of education out of the domain of the
mechanical, experimental, physiological, physical and psycho-physical
and explains them as spiritual processes.
* * * * *
“Is neither original in method nor brilliant in style.”
− =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Fletcher, Beaumont.= Richard Wilson. (Makers of British art ser.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
8–33825.
A sketch which aims to give proper prominence to a famous landscape
painter whose merit during the century and more since his death has
been overlooked. The sketch takes into account the conditioning
factors of his life, his education, and his place in art. The volume
is made complete by reproductions of his pictures, a list of
authorities consulted, and an index.
* * * * *
“It is quite time something of the sort should have appeared.” E: E.
Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 208. O. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“That the facts are so few may well be no fault of the author, but as
much cannot be said for the paucity of ideas.”
− =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“To those interested either in his work or in the larger question of
the development of landscape art the book can be recommended. Whether
agreeing with the author’s estimate of the artist’s importance or not,
the facts presented and the opinions of other writers freely drawn
upon give value and interest to the biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 312. My. 30, ’08. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Law of the rhythmic breath: teaching the
generation, conservation, and control of vital force. *$1. Fenno.
Explains the bare truths of the rhythmic breath as taught in ancient
Hindu philosophy and developed by the author.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 170w.
=Fletcher, Horace.= Optimism, a real remedy; with a foreword by
William Dana Orcutt. **75c. McClurg.
8–1690.
Horace Fletcher, identified with furthering the Gladstonian doctrine
of excessive chewing, shows the life-prolonging influence of
physiologic optimism. He discusses the passing of medicine, optimism
as opportunism, and happiness after fifty.
=Fletcher, J. S.= Book about Yorkshire. *$2. McClure.
“A book about Yorkshire, with thirty-two illustrations, half of which
are attractive sketches in colour, covers the wide field of things
worth seeing and saying as well as a single volume could. Much more
might, of course, be said about scenery, and charms of wood and water;
but these things are in the guide-books, and we think the author was
well advised in laying stress rather on Yorkshire dialect, customs,
folk-lore, and oddities as well as the churches, castles, and
great-houses which always figure in these county records.”—Ath.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 130w.
“All in all, his book is an important contribution to the literature
of his country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 540w.
“He has selected and arranged his material admirably.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has used his eyes and the historical records with judgment, and
has done his best to give us a real notion of the wealth of interest
and association that lies in the great shire.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 65. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Harringtons of Highcroft farm. il. $1.50.
Dodge, B. W.
8–8308.
The story of a Yorkshire homestead which introduces an over worked,
much abused young hero. “There is something pleasant about the air of
the sixties, which is the period of this tale. Uncle Benjamin stands
for what villain there is, and Uncle Dick is that misunderstood and
self-sacrificing artist whom we may remember even further back than
the sixties. And is not the wilful daughter of an earl who weds in due
time with the yeoman’s son a creature of that bygone generation?”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“The very headings of the chapters acquaint us that we are committed
to an old-fashioned and somewhat dull story.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 150w.
“Chronicle is a better name than novel for this book. Its interest is
not so much in how it all turns out as in the personality of every
separate member of the Harrington family.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“The manner of the book is charming, quiet, placid, but with much
depth and richness of feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 233. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Mothers in Israel: a study in rustic
amenities. †$1.25. Moffat.
8–19023.
The two “mothers in Israel” are two Yorkshire farmers’ wives with
marriageable daughters. They begin their backbiting when they learn
that the young minister has become engaged to the schoolmistress. The
rustic amenities referred to in the sub-title are lying, slander,
evil-speaking, and malice. “There are not wanting graphic touches of
village landscape and figures, and if some readers feel cheated out of
tragedy, others will take comfort in comedy, for the curtain falls on
backbiters thoroughly frustrated, if not in the least reformed.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“He handles [Yorkshire village life] tenderly and with a sense of
humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 130w.
“The study is made with the utmost seriousness of intention, and the
utmost solemnity of belief.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The book is redolent of fresh Yorkshire butter, sun-baked fields, and
blooming chestnuts, and it makes amusing and restful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author has managed to invest his characters with reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 342. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from the special purpose of the book, ‘Mothers in Israel’ is a
well-constructed picture of life in a Yorkshire village, and the
portraits of the two principal characters and of the clergyman’s
housekeeper, Elizabeth, are drawn in a very clear and lifelike
manner.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 383. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Flexner, Abraham.= American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
An analysis of the educational procedure of the American college from
the moment when it tells the secondary school how the boy is to be
made ready for college to the day when he receives his bachelor’s
degree. The chapters are as follows: The problem defined, The
development of the college, The college and the secondary school, The
elective system, Graduate and undergraduate and The way out.
* * * * *
“The author’s tone is very dogmatic, far more so than either his
experience or his knowledge of the subject would seem to justify. What
he has chiefly done is to record his impressions of the impressions of
other people. Mr. Flexner’s aims are of the best but his diagnosis is
faulty and his information is neither sufficient nor exact.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 513. D. ’08. 720w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Mirabeau and the French revolution. 3v. v. 1.
**$3.50. Putnam.
8–25730.
=v. 1.= The youth of Mirabeau.
The first instalment of a three part biography. The divisions as
outlined for the three volumes accord with the well marked phases of
Mirabeau’s life, and are as follows: (1) His youth; (2) His public
career to the beginning of the revolutionary crisis; (3) His
activities in the assembly. The aim is to study Mirabeau as a product
of his times, to follow his emergence from a background of historical
conditioning forces. In this first volume the sketch of his first
twenty-five years is preceded by a presentation of the struggle
against arbitrary government in France, and of the origin and rise of
the Riqueti, also by four chapters on the direct antecedents of
Mirabeau.
* * * * *
“It is careful, learned, and rich in bibliographical references.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 809. N. 28, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is characterized by a large and coherent plan, a mastery of
voluminous material, a power of presenting characters in just relief
against the background of the age, by moderation of judgment and
detachment of view. The style is marred by an occasional awkwardness
of phrase and a translation at times too literal. The note at the
bottom of page 153 contains some errors of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Prof. Fling has achieved something very like a masterpiece in [its]
kind. If the forthcoming volumes are as interesting and valuable as
the first they will be welcome to all students and to the general
reader as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Floy, Henry.= Compilation of the records of the Colorado Springs
lighting controversy; with an introd. and epitome. *$4.
Illuminating engineering pub. co., N. Y.
8–3931.
“In an introductory section, the author gives a historical résumé of
the case, together with comments on its main features and
conclusions.... The report of the testimony comprises the great part
of the contents of the book.”—Elec. World.
* * * * *
“The book will be of particular value to central stations having
municipal contracts for street lighting.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 730. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It is a work that will be of permanent value to electrical engineers
and lawyers throughout the country.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 300w.
“The immediate interest of the book to engineers lies in the
statements under oath of several men generally recognized as experts
in arc-lamp illumination.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Flynt, Josiah.= My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2.
Outing. pub.
8–30135.
The self-written “life” of the man, who, instinct with human
curiosity, sounded the depths of the under-world and brought back
experiences which he casts in the human document form. Early life, his
rebellion against order, his days in a reform school, his escape and
early tramping experiences, his voyage to Germany as a coal-passer,
his life and wanderings in Europe, the friendship with Arthur Symons
whom he called his literary god-father, his meeting with Tolstoy are
all full of human interest.
* * * * *
“His narrative is all the more characteristic from its lack of polish.
Like all that he has written, it is extremely interesting, even though
far less interesting than his talk is said to have been.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 338. N. 16, ’08. 1850w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“The book will perhaps sufficiently appeal to those who care for
autobiography for its own sake. There is much of the joy of
vagabondage in it, little of achievement. The telling of the story is
easy, in spite of its disjointed quality. In the latter part of the
book coherence is lacking, and its anecdotal quality is but mildly
interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Politician; being the English tr. of his
“Daniele Cortis,” done by G. Mantellini. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
8–4034.
A strongly emotional story of a young Italian politician’s love for
the wife of a thoroly bad senator. Duty prevails to the point of
renunciation, grief is quelled by the call to work, and one must be
satisfied with the triumph of moral justice.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The American reader who happens to possess no special knowledge of
the affairs of church and state in modern Italy may find it more
readable than the novels of the trilogy. Not only is the English
thoroughly shiftless and awkward, nowhere rising to the plane of
Fogazzaro’s Italian, but the pages are sown thick with the most
astonishing errors in translation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Translated into excellent and sympathetic English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 96. F. 15, ’08. 60w.
“A keen, fond eye for natural scenery, and the passionate Italian
temperament of the interlocutors, pervade the narrator. This, as well
as ‘The sinner,’ while not lacking in dramatic situations and tragic
interest, has little of that significance for the neo-Catholic
movement which gave such popularity to ‘The saint.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Folwell, William Watts.= Minnesota, the North star state. (American
commonwealths.) **$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
A concise narrative, based upon original sources, in which events are
unfolded in their relation to the political and economic development
of the state without diminution of their dramatic interest. The author
has been identified with the public interests of the state for the
past forty years, holding for many years the chair of Political
Science at the state university.
* * * * *
“Mr. Folwell offers a readable compend of the state’s history, and by
reason of having had access to several sources of original information
not previously available he has made considerable additions to those
already before the public. The final chapter would have been of more
interest and value had it treated more fully recent political
developments.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 653. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Folwell writes with considerable dash and vigor, and with a
frankness that will scarcely be relished by the survivors among the
land and timber manipulators and other corruptionists who were so much
in evidence in Minnesota during its formative period. This frankness,
however, and an uncompromising insistence on viewing the facts of
history from the standpoint of a sturdy morality, far more than
compensate for certain minor defects in treatment and construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 789. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Fontaine, Lamar.= My life and my lectures. *$3. Neale.
8–16524.
The experiences of an invincible hero who as school boy, Indian,
hunter, or civil engineer, escaped the arrows aimed at the vulnerable
heel. During sixteen years he wandered in China, Egypt, India,
Palestine and South America after which he enlisted with the Fourth
Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army.
* * * * *
“In spite of the savage delight he had in killing and fighting and in
writing about it ad nauseam, the author has a graphic way in relating
details of adventure that is often admirable. The book with all its
brutality, bad grammar, and conceit, was well worth while as
presenting a character the like of which may never be seen again. One
ought to be sufficient.”
− + =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“He tells of [his adventures] interestingly and with happy, pleasant,
humorous touches that serve to lighten the narrative of peril and of
suffering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 140w.
=Forbes, Henry Prentiss.= Johannine literature and the Acts of the
apostles. (International handbooks to the New Testament, no. 4.)
**$2. Putnam.
7–15616.
“The general view taken of the Acts is that ‘it is history in the
ancient, Oriental, religious, not in the modern, Occidental, critical
sense.’ The Fourth gospel is regarded as an idealization of material
more or less historical by ‘an Asian Christian’ of the second century,
and is presented as such with the remark, ‘The truth of fiction may be
most lifegiving; it is the ideal which endures.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“One will find much suggestive treatment of important passages without
the confusion of encyclopedic detail. A bibliography might have been
added without defeating the object of the series and one finds the
index to the four volumes too compact.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 479. Jl. ’08. 670w.
“Concise and useful introductions and commentaries prepared from the
critical point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 480. Je. ’07. 30w.
“The author contrives to inspire faith in his guidance as a
well-equipped interpreter, with stores of learning of which he makes
no parade, and sufficient warmth of religious sympathy to prevent
anyone from being wounded by his clearcut decision.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 460. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“Mastery of critical material, however it be interpreted, and
spiritual appreciation of Jesus are alike conspicuous in this volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 190w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Side-stepping with Shorty. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–12803.
Sprightliness, sympathy with human nature and an abounding sense of
humor are the requisites for “side-stepping with Shorty.” When once
the reader has acquired the necessary momentum, there is no stopping
until he reaches the last page. For Shorty makes no pauses for
observation; he sees in transit, thinks while on the move, and
delivers himself of his wit at every breath. The twenty skits present
people with their foibles lying close to their saner ideals.
* * * * *
“The substance has that essential vulgarity of which a sound realism,
however unflinching, is never really in danger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
“Shorty sees a good deal of life and tells about it with a zest and an
unconventionality of expression that make his stories as breezy as the
sidewalks round about the Times building on a windy day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 90w.
“A very humorous story, containing some of the mirthful qualities of
‘Mr. Dooley,’ Dickens’s Sam Weller, and the dry wit and shrewdness of
Mark Twain.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 80w.
=Forel, August Henri.= Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and
disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert
Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.
7–20717.
The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view
of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a
singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and
physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of
development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the
mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology
of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is
treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of translation well and
faithfully, and there is a good index.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.
“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any
notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate
acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain
language a convenient survey of the data now available for the
understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.
“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved,
and deserves to be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.
=Forster, Hugh O. A-.= English socialism of to-day: its teachings
and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–17762.
A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the
point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his
liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the
constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his
liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf
of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the
socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his
practices however right his theories may be.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic
principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is
as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets
which he criticises.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.
“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly
that the result is far from satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.
“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little
more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not
desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when
it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the
selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original
additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing
which much needed doing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.
“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with
which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in
particular.” W. A. Bruce.
− + =Outlook.= 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most
effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate
references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.
=Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor.= Positive preaching and modern mind:
the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907.
*$1.75. Armstrong.
8–9053.
“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It
is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for
the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern,
taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach
these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus,
theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine
Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy
God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.
“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read
by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour
of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral
earnestness or their intellectual grip.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.
“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been
approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious
earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes
humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is
to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very
agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of
the discarded ‘period.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism,
these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to
the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their
defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout
these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and
other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.
8–30937.
The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which
was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.
=Foster, William Trufant.= Argumentation and debating. **$1.25.
Houghton.
8–19899.
A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of
debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it
insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone
of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and
terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A
copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for
briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for
instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league,
together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Four-Pools= mystery. †$1.50. Century.
8–8103.
The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern
plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a
vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy,
involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of
Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man,
a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and fear
of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly
portrayed.
* * * * *
“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but
with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so
frequently attend the tale of mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing.
The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of
Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality;
potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has
appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive
dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue
penciled’ to the skeleton.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many
crime-tales, and original in its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
* =Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= Miss
Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29869.
A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a
clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband
too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived
her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son.
The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of
the husband furnish incidents in plenty.
* * * * *
“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place
improbabilities.”
− =Ath.= 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author
has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are
woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A
strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced
melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid
persons.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed
story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such
interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the
extreme.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Fox, Edgar Alonzo.= Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the
Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–39010.
In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent
writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school
work.
=Fox, John, jr.= Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27497.
“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a
particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver,
a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training
of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her
mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of
triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the
stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the
arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order
through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with
an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and
heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the
plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on
the local colour.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.
“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life,
even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight
errantry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous
an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an
hour of uncritical pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of
the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very
winning charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of
writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this
autumn.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.
=Outlook.= 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.
“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the
strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Francis of Assisi, St.= Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi;
newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold.
(Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.
A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the
seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and
mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and
charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is
able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal
legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced
from a fourteenth century manuscript.
* * * * *
“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of
this classic of religious literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.
“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Frank, Henry.= Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.
8–24255.
A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force,
telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical
requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the
psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the
third to the moral agents.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.
=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Heart of a child.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11080.
From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in
London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm
with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown
of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her
eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the
pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London
music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she
was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously
works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with
his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of
her truth and simplicity.
* * * * *
“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and
improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the
girl shows originality of conception.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.
“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a
thesis.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.
“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often
come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a
few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for
its wholesome tone.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w
“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting
thoroughness.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but
otherwise the story is cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more
closely.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her
case, because she is an impossible creature.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of
character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it
well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an
acquisition to her new station.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see
away is in chap. 21.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Franklin, Fabian.= People and problems: a collection of addresses
and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.
8–14656.
Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the
chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of
the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty
editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed,
but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of
the last decade and more.
* * * * *
“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put
forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.
“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a
whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’
as to make the entire volume attractive.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“These comments on current events are not merely of historical
interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American
editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and
readable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must
be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and
fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.
“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the
work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent
form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American
student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them
conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good
newspaper editorial writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry.= Elements of
mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–23872.
“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to
bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student
keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the
laundry it is the force, 4π^2n^2rm which wrings the water from the
clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can
tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his
hands.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point,
the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that
inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific
principles are numerous.” E. G. C.
− =Nature.= 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.
7–39017.
Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other
houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the
highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing
kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural
characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations
add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s
“Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of
old Navarre.”
* * * * *
“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and
convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be
found by consulting many books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find
an eager welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war
and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.
W8–35.
“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men
who through the centuries since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a
long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still
carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen
herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd
policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet
in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for
Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous
ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full
and skilful use of local colour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has
certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on
others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute
to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Fraser, Edward.= “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the
enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us
to-day. *$1.50. Lane.
“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the
name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII.
Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of
fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.
“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting
information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services
and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history
of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of
ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt,
running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our
appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18373.
Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays
another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry
Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry
had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent;
there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old
mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief
career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the
altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East
Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival,
a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for
others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of
conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.
* * * * *
“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book
is full of human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.
“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s
other dramas of conscience and of New England.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.
“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of
her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.
“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will
interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes
of the book already mentioned.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type
and individual.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin.= World’s
commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants
of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by
T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–22708.
“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic
plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more
clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The
work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of
statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored
plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the
chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.
“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a
good general summary of information concerning the more important
economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.
“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and
exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The
maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the
letterpress itself.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Freemantle, Elizabeth.= One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–23925.
In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and
misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes
that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to
marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the
elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the
“big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices
of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with
simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.
* * * * *
“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital
woman.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times=. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.
8–26824.
Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial
story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New
Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an
advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.”
His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a
trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his
assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of
the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.
* * * * *
“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s
books.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.
“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her
characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent
unconsciousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
* =French, Anne Warner.= The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25.
Small.
8–29870.
An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a
furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing
struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.
* * * * *
=Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50.
Century.
8–8098.
A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a
companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college
professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee,
now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and
name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the
niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’
romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John
authenticates in his inimitable way.”
* * * * *
“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular
author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor
characters are a little overdone.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore
inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor,
one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should
be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the
very last chapter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.
“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France
with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should
not be read at one sitting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
* =French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its
arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.
8–28317.
A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the
important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes.
“The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts
of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces,
windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole
house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different
plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and
followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated
in the mean.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a
narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the
consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–23712.
“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval
corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is
sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in
Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to
quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the
march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like
looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the
outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern
action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial
times.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly
interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of
romantic or sentimental appeal.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.
“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale
for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the
unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that
ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause
of peace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every
reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is
worthy of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.
“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the
questions which it suggests.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Frothingham, Paul Revere.= Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–29414.
“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude]
by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained
and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls
attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all,
love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right
living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with
occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen,
Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers,
ancient and modern.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail,
and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume
can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can
be digested piecemeal.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much
persuasiveness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
=Frye, Prosser Hall.= Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–27523.
Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing
with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand,
Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with
Hardy’s naturalism, Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden
and Emerson.
* * * * *
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.
“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think
impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from
the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance
of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from
the deeper consistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his
subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One
cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr.
Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and
profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as
Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
* =Fuller, Henry Blake.= Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23926.
Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence,
Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains
his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza
Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4; 269. N. ’08.
“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation
of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in
vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work
than this; he has done it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr.
Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much
cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest
and sparkle.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Fuller, Robert Hart.= South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22497.
“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is
evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the
conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing
present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers
a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and
town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and
industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his
temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous,
without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of
the Boers.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.
“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the
knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that
his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who
would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is
in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Government by the people: laws and
customs regulating the election system and the formation and
control of political parties in the United States. **$1.
Macmillan.
8–13760.
“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as
it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It
consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing
the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and
means of control of political parties in the United States. It
contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information
expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the
qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary
elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties
in our public life.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠
“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every
voter.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.
“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American
citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.
“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a
part of the instruction in civil government.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in
college courses in government.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to
the state of New York, it has general value.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American
citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.
=Fulton, Charles Herman.= Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.
7–37731.
This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to
students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an
office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best
order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores,
and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest
degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and
silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that
has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which
is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a
character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to
scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.”
Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.
=Furnival, Frederick James.= Babees’ book: medieval manners for the
young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith
Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and
meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on
courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is
bound in brown leather with clasps.
* * * * *
“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.
“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor
of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good
manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
* =Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John.= Shakespeare’s life and
work. Cassell.
An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals
with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the
chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary
activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in
Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”
* * * * *
“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice,
writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the
different spelling we give above.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.
“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively,
picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great
dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition
of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or
for private reading cannot be found.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration
gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the
literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept
all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–13276.
A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with
another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best
of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side,
that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed
persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which
are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and
his automobile unconsciously aid.
* * * * *
“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an
occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9816.
A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van
Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a
game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of
exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never
played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after
a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim
“you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever
“thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective
marvels.
* * * * *
“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the
earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather
the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R.
A. Whay.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment;
with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very
obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the
subject, but not to the average reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 12. Ja. ’08.
“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove
decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy
entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable
contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic
control of racial development.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.
“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students
for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian.
Both the text and illustrations are good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold
of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of
primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and
capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book
for popular consumption.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.
“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader
as well as to the student of anthropology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
G
* =Gaige, Roscoe Crosby, and Harcourt, Alfred=, comps. Books and
reading. (Humanity essays.) **$1.50. Baker.
8–29755.
An anthology of the “most human things said about books” including
some eighty odd contributions. The groups into which the selections
are gathered are as follows: By way of preface; My book and heart;
Friends in council; The little ships; Some ancient worthies; The
glorious court; Philobiblon; To those who write; Beside the fire; and
Complete essays.
* * * * *
“Has been compiled with care and devotion, and contains some of the
choicest passages in literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 170w.
* =Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an
historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–34724.
An historical survey which is made under the following heads: The
Lollards, Royal supremacy, The fall of the monasteries, and The reign
of the English Bible. “The first of these deals, in a fairly full and
entertaining fashion, with the rise, spread, and subsequent decline of
Lollardy, and the general position of affairs on the eve of the
reformation.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The most severe critic would find it difficult to catch Dr. Gairdner
tripping on his own ground; but there is a curious lapse with regard
to an important religious house which played a significant part in the
story of the suppression. A work of the highest standard, wherein is
marshalled, with innate honesty of purpose, an abundance of facts
concerning a most complex and perplexing period of English history in
Church and State.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 499. O. 24. 2300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“In most cases we disagree with his interpretation, and we have spoken
of his work as biassed. But his bias, while it governs his argument,
has not led him into anything of the nature of misrepresentation of
facts. His work is careful, conscientious, and learned.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 883. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
* =Gale, Zona.= Friendship village. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30534.
A village of no definite geographical location is the scene of
happenings which are recorded by one who drops quietly into the life
and ways of the towns-folk for a short season. From the lowliest to
the village autocrat, the chronicler selects her types, and gathers
them into a sheaf for the reader. The volume has a large
brotherhood-of-man value in its lessons of neighborly kindness and
charity, in its substitution of the spirit of simplicity and
genuineness for superficial worldliness.
* * * * *
“We close the book, lingeringly, just as we should leave so friendly a
town, with the feeling that America is sound at the core, while it is
possible to recognize the truth of such affectionate portraiture.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“We mean no offense by comparing the book with ‘David Harum,’ Calliope
being a feminine David, and many of the scenes being similar. This
book especially makes for higher thinking and better living, and
emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as
high.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 470w.
“Miss Gale is a newcomer who has quietly taken her place with those
who can bring a smile on the face of life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
“There are genuine every-day Christian faith and hearty fellowship in
these pretty, homely, and decidedly clever sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Sorceress of Rome. il. $1.50. Page.
7–36915.
The second volume in the author’s trilogy of romances on the medieval
life of Italy. Old monkish chronicles have furnished the material for
the story which in the main tells of impassioned love of Otto III, the
boy emperor, for Stephania, the wife of Crescentius, their deeds to
outwit friend and foe, the tragedy of their life and death.
* * * * *
“Undoubtedly the author is giving us only such facts as he deems
necessary to a clear understanding of the times and the events he
chronicles; but the average reader would have been better satisfied to
be somewhat less instructed and somewhat more entertained.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 673. F. ’08. 290w.
“Fantastic, over-drawn, surfeited with the extreme and the erotic, the
production was not worth the labor and research expended upon it.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 834. Mr. ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“It is a well-written tale, full of color and action, whose pages teem
with weird wonders and gruesome surprises.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Galsworthy, John.= A commentary. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–33812.
“A series of little pictures, or idylls, strangely disquieting, of
misery and comfort, satiric, ironic, tragic. The chapters bear such
captions as ‘Old age,’ ‘Fear,’ ‘Fashion,’ ‘Sport,’ ‘Justice’; but
these abstractions are the shadows cast by characters of flesh and
blood.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“These sketches are determined etchings from life, but have been
bitten-in without much regard to art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 126. Ag. 1, 120w.
“A series of stories that really deserve to be preserved because of
their literary merit, and because of the curious light they shed upon
the two natures of poverty.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s animating motive, a desire to puncture the
thoughtless complacency of the comfortable classes, has produced in
this volume of organically related sketches a work of original
distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1. ’08. 370w.
“He puts these reflections into various mouths, they occasionally miss
any particular illumination, they do not favor continuous reading, and
here and there they too obviously suggest the notebook. Yet there is
throughout the volume a clearness of thought, a fine treatment of
circumstance, a sane, sardonic humour which would atone for much more
serious defects and interest us even more in the author than in his
present material.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Island Pharisees. Revised and rewritten. †$1.50.
Putnam.
8–27808.
Richard Shelton, a young Englishman born to the “ninety desiring peace
and comfort for their spirit ... who will have it that the fashions
need not change, that morality is fixed, that all is ordered and
immutable” joins the ten Pharisees who grope for a philosophy to
uphold the conviction that “All things that are, are wrong” in place
of “All things that are, are right.” This story depicts subjectively
the struggle of Shelton as he is torn between social conventionality
and allegiance to the tramp with whom and with whose philosophy his
whole nature sympathizes.
* * * * *
“Shelton falls immeasurably short of his purpose; he is too weak a
vessel for his message, emotionally and intellectually. Wishing to
strike at the fundamental evils of society, he succeeds only in
impeaching order and respectability. He is not virile, but puerile.”
− =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 420w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Villa Rubein. $1.50. Putnam.
8–20136.
A highborn English girl and a poor peasant artist are the principal
characters in this story whose incidents grow out of the struggle
between class tradition and the will of youth that knows no allegiance
to convention.
* * * * *
“Whether judged by itself or as a measure of his subsequent
advancement, ‘Villa Rubein’s’ publication in this country can only
heighten, not diminish, the reputation Mr. Galsworthy has already
won.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 47. S. ’08. 950w.
“One wonders what is the motive of the book. It is so much like life
as to be meaningless. The absolutely tame ending obscures its drift.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 119. Ag. 6, ’08. 360w.
“It is a sustained story of human emotion and absorbing incident.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13. ’08. 200w.
“It is good enough to make one wish it were better.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Purple and homespun. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12767.
With scenes shifting from Washington to the East Side of New York and
to London this story portrays the determination of a young, self-made
United States senator to show himself worthy to marry the daughter of
a British ambassador, in spite of the fact that he traces his origin
to the slums of New York. The willingness to recognize American
democratic true worth is opposed by the English traditional demand
that every god have his Olympian corner.
* * * * *
“Mr. Gardenhire’s book has the merit of originality, but he needs to
free himself from artificiality, and his knowledge of English society
is evidently slight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Gardenhire’s style is stodgy, but he has packed a good deal of
experience into his pages, and thereby made them quite readable.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Gardenhire has somewhat disorganized his story by hypodermically
injecting an East Side romance, together with a touch of socialism.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 140w.
“On the whole, the affair is labored and inconclusive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= World and the woman. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–38265.
“The story is that of a woman who tries to make her way in Washington
society without money, and of the desperate straits into which she
fell.... The main part of the tale is concerned with her life there,
the devious ways into which her struggles force her, the daughter’s
social success and final marriage.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Here is another novel which quite ruthlessly unmasks the
double-dealing, pretence, and petty spite which play so sinister a
part in the social life of the capital.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“The pictures of Washington society are written with much color and
cleverness and many a touch of cynicism. The characters stand out very
distinctly, although a bit weak in some places, and the story is
developed with a good deal of intensity and charm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Gardner, Edmund Garratt.= Saint Catherine of Siena: a study in the
religion, literature and history of the XIV century in Italy, with
some unpublished letters of St. Catherine. *$4. Dutton.
8–14840.
A study from original sources of Italian life and thought as reflected
in the work and personality of Saint Catherine of Siena, “the
successor of Dante in the literature and religious thought of Italy,
and the connecting link between St. Francis of Assisi and Savonarola.”
* * * * *
“A book which gives for the first time a satisfactory chronology,
rectifies many misconceptions, and leaves us with a full and rational
account of the progress of events.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 845. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“An admirable work, both scholarly and interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Gardner has told Catherine’s story with a completeness scarcely
attempted by any of his predecessors.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 500. O. 24. 780w.
“Here indeed is the full story of Catherine’s activities from the
beginning, narrated with sympathy and reverence only equalled by
historical acumen and literary skill.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 452. Jl. ’08. 3700w.
“The orderly arrangement of the book is particularly noteworthy;
notwithstanding the wealth of detail, clearness is never sacrificed.”
L: J. Block.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 83. Ag. 16, ’08. 2400w.
“Scholarly in an old-fashioned way, and well written. Obviously the
work of a devout Roman Catholic scholar, not a scientific investigator
of history, it is inevitably colored by the habit of mind of the
believer. Yet the book is rich in documentary value for the student of
the times.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
“Rarely do we find the critical faculty so happily blended with
enthusiasm. The book is perhaps, the best which has been written about
Italy by an Englishman since the death of John Addington Symonds; and
indubitably it is the best ever written about St. Catherine.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Into the pitfall [of copious detail] Mr. Gardner has fallen with
ready feet. Nevertheless, his study of Catherine and her times is full
of interesting glimpses and suggestions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 360w.
“The volume under consideration, apart from its value to students and
to all intelligent readers, has a peculiar charm of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Gardner, however, insists upon the times rather than the life.
Not that we quarrel with the scholarly writer for this: he has set
himself a certain task; he has clearly defined it; and he has carried
it to an end with an orderly sequence and a wealth of erudition that
excite our warmest praise and liveliest admiration.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 208. F. 15, ’08. 1250w.
=Gardner, William Amory.= In Greece with the classics. **$1.50.
Little.
8–14834.
“On a slight thread of pleasant narrative of the author’s own hasty
spring tour in Greece are strung original translations of the passages
from the Greek poets, which one would wish to recall, upon the
Acropolis, at Conolos, Marathon, Aegina, Eleusis, Mycenae, Delphi,
Olympia, or Corfu. The original texts are given in a convenient
appendix.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Our author, having come with a thirst, has drunk his draft to the
full, not at Dirce’s or Arethusa’s fount, but at that well undefiled
the Greek spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1148. My. 21, ’08. 240w.
“Is the kind of guide book for which the sentimental traveller, bored
to extinction by archaeology, has been yearning. There is no attempt
at completeness, and the relevancy of some of the selections is
questionable. The translations, while lacking distinction, are
readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Shadow world. †$1.35. Harper.
8–29371.
Here are recorded a series of surprising experiments with psychical
phenomena conducted by Mr. Garland among a group of his friends, some
half-afraid, some avowedly skeptical, while all were curious and
earnest. A number of the actual sessions of this group with a psychic
present are given in detail for the purpose of showing evidence
concerning the process of mediumship. Then follow experiments throwing
light upon the more elusive part of the problem—the question of
identity. The volume records dignified, serious investigation that was
conducted in the interests of science.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“It is the nature of a crank to go off on any tangent, and Mr. Garland
has offered the largest tangent ever provided for a soul-sniffing
public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Offers practically nothing new for consideration and investigation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 586. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“For the benefit of those inclined to take his book at all seriously
it may be added that the ‘phase’ of mediumship with which it is almost
wholly concerned is precisely that which has been most conclusively
demonstrated to be permeated through and through with fraud.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Garnett, Porter.= Bohemian jinks: a treatise. *$1.50. Porter
Garnett, Bohemian club, San Francisco.
8–21800.
An account of the woodland midsummer dramatic and musical performances
given, one a year, by the Bohemian club of San Francisco at the close
of a two-weeks’ encampment.
* * * * *
“The book makes very interesting reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Porter Garnett has put a great many of us under obligations to him by
giving us his little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5. ’08. 760w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 367. D. ’08. 470w.
=Garnett, Theodore Stanford.= J. E. B. Stuart (major-general)
commander of the cavalry corps, Army of northern Virginia, C. S.
A. *$1. Neale.
7–42107.
An address delivered at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of
General Stuart, at Richmond, May 30, 1907. It furnishes a suggestive
outline for a fuller biography which it is hoped the author will soon
undertake.
* * * * *
“The address by Judge Garnett furnishes a good outline of Stuart’s
career.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 140w.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Studies in the inner life of Jesus. *$2.25.
Armstrong.
8–19128.
A study of the mind, heart, and will of Jesus as portrayed in the
Gospels. “Two men constantly struggle for the mastery in this
volume—the Scotsman and the German, the dogmatic theologian and the
religious psychologist, and when the balance is not maintained it is
the latter that usually goes under.” (Hibbert J.) In justifying his
study of the inner life of Jesus Dr. Garvie says “an exaggerated
importance is attached to a knowledge of contemporary customs and
costume” and that “enough has been written about the scenery, the
upholstery, and drapery of the life of Jesus.”
* * * * *
“Dr. Garvie’s studies ... are not only the work of a scholar, but of a
spiritual seer; of a man who thinks deeply as well as widely. The
outlook is modern, but is balanced by distinctly conservative
leanings.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 934. Jl. ’08. 1500w.
“Principal Garvie will have a wide hearing, but his work would have
gained from greater conciseness.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Garvie’s conclusions are conservative.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 210w.
* =Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis Aidan.= Greater abbeys of England. *$3–50.
Dodd.
8–27782.
“Here we have brief histories of [thirty-one] abbeys, beginning with
St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and ending with Whitby. Every name among
the [thirty-one] is more or less famous, but among the most celebrated
are St. Albans, Battle, Furness, Fountains, Glastonbury, Rievaulx,
Sherborne, and Tintern.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“These pictures are for the most part full of charm and supply
accurate ideas of the condition of a large number of the ruined and
dismantled abbeys of England. He has managed to write in a bright and
interesting fashion on each of the thirty-one greater abbeys herein
described. His selection of information for this series of short
essays shows a thorough mastery of the subject, and in several cases
details are supplied which have seldom, if ever, found their way into
print.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 767. Je. 20. 1300w.
“The book is written from a strongly sympathetic standpoint, which is
not the least of its charms, and with its mine of information and
admirable illustrations, commends itself to the reader as a valuable
contribution.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“The stories of the various abbeys are told in good English and with
the same ripeness of knowledge as in his other works on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 170w.
“The task of setting these beautiful ruins and their history before
American readers has been well done. The fireside traveler is likely
to enjoy the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“The illustrations would alone make the book valuable. We could wish,
indeed, that they had stood by themselves, or been accompanied by a
neutral account.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 793. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Cupid, the cow punch. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37708.
“This is not so much a novel as a collection of magazine stories,
loosely connected and numbered as chapters. Cupid is the name of Alec
Lloyd, a cowboy, who, besides being a philosopher and sentimentalist,
has a local reputation as a matchmaker. The narrative comes from him
and is in dialect.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Overdone, but will interest a good many.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08.
“Is clean, wholesome, and amusing—in other words, not commonplace.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book shows an intimate knowledge of the western plains, and is
full of good, honest fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“While Cupid’s good nature and clever turns of phrase are infectiously
amusing, one is left rather breathless at the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 39. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Gause, Isaac.= Four years with five armies. *$2. Neale.
8–3950.
A short history of campaigns, privations and engagements within the
experience of one who served in the armies of the Frontier, of the
Potomac, of the Missouri, of the Ohio and of the Shenandoah.
=Gauss, Henry Colford.= American government: organization and
officials; with the duties and powers of federal office holders:
an original summarization; with a compilation of data from
original sources. $5. Hamersly.
8–6616.
A standard work of reference on the structure and regulations of the
American government and the duties and powers of federal officials
whose aim is to make federal practice “less of a mystery to the
millions who are at once the sovereigns of the respective states and
of the federal nation.”
* * * * *
“The information is complete, encyclopedic in scope, but without
literary pretension. Not for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“There are serious limitations upon the usefulness of the book,
because no sense of proportion is maintained.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 120w.
“The fault of the book is that its policy in matters of detail is not
at all uniform. In general, the expository matter is clear and
accurate, treating of actual practice rather than theory.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The compilation contains nearly nine hundred pages, and every one of
them is informative, giving just the sort of information which a busy
publicist, journalist, lawyer, or merchant often requires at short
notice.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 250w.
* =Gebhardt, George Frederick.= Steam power plant engineering. *$6.
Wiley.
8–27111.
“The author devotes chapters to fuels, boilers, furnaces,
superheaters, coal and ash handling, chimneys, mechanical draft, steam
engines, turbines, condensers, feed water and feed heaters, pumps,
separators and traps, piping lubrication, general costs, testing and
typical specifications. In each chapter a rather elementary
description is made to lead up to a condensed discussion of the most
recent practice.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“But slight adverse criticism can be made on the book, and that only
in a few minor details. The whole work seems modern, comprehensive and
reliable and, while professedly prepared for students, it should serve
as a good memory aid for the older engineer and a guide for the
younger. Its bibliographies alone make it a valuable reference.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 534. N. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Cannot fail to be of value to engineers in general, and, as a
reference, will prove useful to steam specialists.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Gehring, Albert.= Racial contrasts: distinguishing traits of the
Graeco-Latins and Teuton’s. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–26696.
A study in race psychology made with the purpose of differentiating
the moral, intellectual and spiritual qualities revealed in the
literature, life, and art of the Græco-Latin people from the
characteristics of the Teutonic race as seen in the same fields. The
following divisions are made in the study: Racial contrasts, The
fluctuations of beauty and morality, On homology of thought and
action, On temporal expansion and contraction, and Organic evolution
in the light of comparative philology.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“These essays promote breadth of intellectual view, hospitality to new
ideas, freedom from provincialism and prejudice, generosity of spirit
toward all men.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=George, Edward Augustus.= Seventeenth century men of latitude;
forerunners of the new theology. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–14321.
The life and writings of some broad-minded men in a century of
narrowness constitute the theme of this study. Among them are John
Hales, William Chillingworth, Benjamin Whichcote. John Smith, Henry
More, Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Richard Baxter.
* * * * *
“While not a contribution to scholarship, the general reader may find
this little labor of love a helpful supplement to the closely-packed
article on latitudinarianism and Cambridge Platonism in volume 5 of
the ‘Cambridge modern history.’” A. L. C.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 171. O. ’08. 340w.
“It shows no philosophical grasp and makes little or no pretense to
connect these English writers with the great currents of European
thought. It is written with enthusiasm. It ought to have great
refreshment for those to whom Tulloch’s work is too long and too
solid.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 190w.
“In Mr. George’s story of their lives and varied experiences,
illuminated with ample citations from their writings, one recognizes a
work of loving and careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
* =George, W. L.= France in the twentieth century. **$1.75. Lane.
A discussion of conditions in France of today, bearing upon church and
state, social life, and literature and the drama.
* * * * *
“The author is too prone to generalization which is not always
accurate. His inaccuracy also extends to specific facts.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 36. Jl. 11. 740w.
“In the great political struggle between Church and State he is openly
and avowedly on the side of the latter. It is the one topic on which
he loses his attitude of careful, cold analysis and becomes a militant
partisan. Throughout this part of the book the reader sees the English
part of Mr. George in conflict with the French part. He gives both a
chance to be heard, and the self-revelation of the conflict between
the two adds no little to the charm of a thoughtful, comprehensive,
and eminently readable book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 970w.
“On the whole his views are sensible if not very original.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
* =Gerhard, William Paul.= American practice of gas piping and gas
lighting in buildings. *$3. McGraw.
8–17561.
“Chapters of greatest interest to engineers are on (1) the arrangement
of gas pipes in buildings, (2) specifications, tables, rules and
regulations of companies in regard to piping generally, (3) piping
systems for coal, water, natural, air and acetylene gases, (4) testing
of piping installations, (5) burners, (6) pressure regulators, (7)
globes and holders, (8) fixtures, (9) bibliography. The chapters more
easily read by laymen are on topics like prejudices against and
fallacies of using gas, advantages of gas as an illuminant and for
heat and power, gas meters and gas-meter stories, interior
illumination, lighting of country houses, relations of gas companies
to consumers, practical hints for consumers, accidents and dangers to
public health.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“For the ordinary householder probably a half of the book will be a
little too technical and too tedious to hold his attention until he
gets well into the back half and finds there the general hints,
suggestions and discussions which he can more readily grasp.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 660w.
“The book is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative in its
special field, the use of gas by the consumer. It should be a great
help to the architect in answering the many questions clients ask
regarding gas supply, for it is a book that may be safely recommended
to any house owner as a guide.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Modern baths and bath houses. *$3. Wiley.
8–3516.
“A comprehensive treatment of water baths for private dwellings,
municipalities, schools, factories, military barracks, prisons,
hospitals, clubhouses, etc. The classes of baths named are, of course,
indoor establishments. In addition there is a chapter on river and sea
baths. Besides water baths, the author treats in considerable detail
of air and sun baths, and medical and electric-light baths.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“An excellent book on different forms of baths.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Altogether the book is a very useful addition to the literature of
sanitation and of social welfare. It contains more repetitions than
are pleasant to a person who reads the book from beginning to end. It
is a far more comprehensive work than ‘Public baths and wash-houses,’
by Alfred W. S. Cross.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 207. F. 20, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 40w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Sanitation of public buildings. $1.50.
Wiley.
7–37728.
“The public buildings here considered are hospitals, theaters,
churches and schools. In addition, the various buildings and
accessories of markets and abbatoirs are taken up. The selection of
sites, some of the elements of general design, water supply, lighting,
heating, ventilating, cleansing, plumbing, sewage and refuse disposal
are the main divisions under which each class of buildings is treated.
Fire protection is also given a prominent place.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is well written, and the layman who is interested in civic
affairs will find it easy reading and not so technical in its
terminology as to be tedious.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 69. Ja. ’08. 340w.
“As a manual in the true sense of the word ... the volume deserves
commendation. It would serve admirably for the use of boards of health
and their inspectors.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 655. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“What he has to say on school sanitation and his detailed advice for
the care and cleansing of schoolrooms should be studied by parents,
teachers, superintendents, and school boards, while his chapters upon
church, theatre, and hospital sanitation are of import to all who
frequent these edifices.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 190w.
“A useful little work. It is believed that this is the first American
book to treat these subjects in a practical way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Gerry, Margarita Spalding.= Toy-shop: a romantic story of Lincoln
the man. **50c. Harper.
8–25742.
A child’s lisped request for tin soldiers sent Lincoln, burdened with
the nation’s troubles, one day to a toy shop. While selecting them,
and marshaling them quite unconsciously into drilling order, and
listening to the French shop-keeper’s eulogies of Napoleon’s methods
of warfare, the inspiration comes to Lincoln to put Grant at the head
of the Union army. It is with this incident that the little volume
deals.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“A study of Lincoln the man which is very human and tender.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Gibbs, George Fort.= Medusa emerald. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35622.
An “emerald unaccountably disappears while being displayed to the
guests on [board Alexander Wharton’s] yacht one evening, suspicion
falls on a young man, Edward Dillingham, who refuses to empty his
pockets, as all the other men insist on doing. After this the evil
powers of the stone certainly appear to wreak themselves upon the
suspected youth. However, all’s well that ends well; the matter is
finally cleared up satisfactorily, after many adventures by sea and
land that follow with kaleidoscopic variety and rapidity.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Romance of George Villiers, first duke of
Buckingham and some men and women of the Stuart court. *$3.50.
Putnam.
8–12964.
This favorite of James I. and Charles I. who in history and in fiction
figures so courageously and so daringly is here portrayed in the light
of patriot, egotist, and friend—always the darling of fortune. His
many-sided nature now gleams out on the side of virtue and again
close-linked with vice. He stands out as the “greatest and last
example and victim of a political system which may fairly be called in
his case a system of favoritism tempered by assassination.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“He has written one of the brightest, cheeriest, and most readable
books that have come under our notice for a long time. The inevitable
passages of special pleading do not offend us, because in every case
Mr. Gibbs is honest enough to emphasize the saving clauses, and
because it is perfectly clear that he does not realize that it is
special pleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 595. My. 16. 2400w.
“He has got his materials well together, and has made a book that can
be read with interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 218. Mr. 5, ’08. 500w.
“Not by any means ignoring the larger historical issues, English and
European, of Buckingham’s career, he shows a special sensibility to
its human and picturesque aspects. The result is a book both readable
and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 126. Mr. 7, ’08. 800w.
“We are not surprised that Mr. Gibbs, who has the right touch for work
of this kind, has made a very readable book on the subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 474. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“He can hardly be said to have made a cool or unbiassed study of
Buckingham.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 133. Jl. 25, ’08. 1450w.
* =Gibson, Adam H.= Hydraulics and its applications. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“An attempt has been made to consider the science, and its application
to the design of hydraulic machinery, in a manner suitable for a
student who has some initial knowledge of mechanics.”
* * * * *
“The book stands in much the same relation to the works of Merriman
and Church that Cotterill’s does to the ordinary treatise on
mechanics. The subject matter is not handled with uniform discretion,
some parts being excellent and others rather loosely thrown together,
and the language in places is that of a lecturer rather than of a
writer, and worst of all, the citations of experimental data are not
always accurate.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 90: 534. N. 12, ’08. 1700w.
“We think that in one or two cases the matter might have been arranged
to rather better advantage, but, on the whole, we have no hesitation
in saying that the book is an excellent contribution to the literature
of the subject, and embodies the result of no little personal
investigation and research. It is specially a student’s book, and will
appeal more particularly to those who are already equipped with some
fundamental knowledge of hydraulics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 218. Jl. 9, ’08. 800w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Interpretation of the Bible: a short
history. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–6097.
“Beginning with the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament, Dr.
Gilbert traces the history of the interpretation of the Scriptures
through the Catholic and the Alexandrian Fathers, the mediaevals, the
reformers, the movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
down to the birth of scientific interpretation in the nineteenth.”
(Bib. World.) It “deserves commendation to all Bible readers who are
concerned for reality, for the facts inlaid in the Scriptures, and for
their meaning.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Covers a large field which has been but lightly touched upon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“The careful reading of this book would be a liberal education for the
average man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Its defects are due chiefly to its brevity. Within so brief a compass
the author could not do justice to many phases of this important and
interesting subject. The book lacks the fulness and ornateness of
language, the wealth and variety of illustration, the suggestiveness
and brilliancy of Farrar’s; but as a brief, clear, strong and careful
presentation it occupies a field all its own and will serve a useful
purpose.” J: C. Granbery.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 214. S. ’08. 870w.
“This treatise keeps the salient and noteworthy to the front, and
allows one to follow interestingly a remarkable and instructive
history.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 95. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Gilbert has made an interesting contribution to the
curiosities of literature in his numerous citations of Biblical
interpretations from Philo Judæus to Jonathan Edwards.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the
Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“On the whole the book is entertaining, especially in the bits of
naive moralizing on every subject from the cleanliness of the poor to
Christian Science, that cling like mistletoe to the trunk of the
story, and appeal potently, if unconsciously, to the reader’s sense of
humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2. ’08. 110w.
=Gilbey, Sir Walter, and Cuming, Edward W. D.= George Morland: his
life and works, il. *$6. Macmillan.
8–17200.
An authoritative biography which makes its appeal to the lay reader as
well as to the student. “We have for the first time a plain,
unvarnished Morland, a just estimate of his character as an artist and
a man.” (Ath.) Fifty reproductions of Morland’s pictures add to the
value of the volume.
* * * * *
“It is far and away the best of the many books on Morland. The weakest
feature of the book is the apology for an index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 1000w.
“This admirable volume forms a valuable and important acquisition to
art literature on account of the completeness of the biographical
portion and the excellence and number of the illustrations.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: 83. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Morland’s warm brown tone, however agreeable in the original oil
paintings, does not harmonize with white paper and printer’s ink, and
as colored book illustrations the plates are singularly ineffective,
not to say unpleasant.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Gilbreth, Frank B.= Field system. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–2205.
A work which gives in detail the open methods for proper, prompt and
economical execution of work which have made Mr. Gilbreth’s contract
business so successful. “The various forms employed throughout the
different stages of work are given, with explicit instructions for
their use in ordering materials, checking work, keeping time sheets,
etc. Instructions are also given on the mixing of cement and concrete,
the handling of forms, use of drills, care of engines, air compressors
and hoists, pumping, etc. Throughout the work are interspersed tables
and formulas.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 189. F. ’08. 350w.
“It should prove stimulating to every one concerned in the conduct of
engineering work, [tho] its arrangement is heterogeneous and confused,
in parts.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. *$1. Century.
7–32169.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“This volume is one of the very few books of verse that have appeared
in recent years that is worthy of a place in the library of lovers of
poetry instinct with the ethical spirit.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 675. D. ’07. 460w.
“Now and then, irregular rhythms are essayed in this volume, and even
poems in prose, but these experiments we cannot regard as upon the
level of the work done in accordance with the rules of the poetic
art.” W: M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 76. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“On the whole, it is, perhaps, these rhythmic intermissions of Mr.
Gilder’s on one subject and another which give his book a kind of
distinction or difference, lending it a bold, adventurous. innovating
air, among the increasing legions of mildly meritorious versifiers,
whose names have outgrown enumeration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 180w.
“This latest book by Richard Watson Gilder, who holds an
unchallengeable place among the poets of to-day, is above all a poet’s
book. There is much else, genius of the féministe type, vital and
large-hearted, if not rugged technique as fluent and varied as it is
delightful, nobility of ideal, and a reality of feeling that lifts the
product it permeates to the summits of enduring poesy.” Florence
Wilkinson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 1200w.
“In this volume he also continues his experiments with relaxed meters;
not always with success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 143. Ja. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A complete edition of Gilder’s poems containing the substance of his
nine books of verse and also additional pieces which have not appeared
in a collection. Mr. Gilder’s versatility due to broad sympathies,
love of mankind, human instinct, and the dreamer’s idealism accounts
for his wide range of verse. There are poems dealing with the affairs
of every day life; poems characterizing men of worth and genius; and
poems which bring to the consciousness the immortal value of certain
monuments of music and art.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron.= Government regulation of the
Elizabethan drama. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–24263.
Based upon official documents of the time, this monograph “deals first
with the general regulation of the drama by the central government
then traces the rise of the master of the revels and of the extensive
powers which finally came into his hands, and follows this with a
study of the censorship of which the master was the official
administrator. Then follows a detailed account of the local
regulations in London and of the long and bitter strife which was
waged between the municipal government and the royal authority as to
whether the drama should or should not be enacted in the city. A
chapter upon the Puritan victory ends the study.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A very thorough piece of work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 218. O. 1, ’08. 40w.
“The author has gone into the subject very thoroughly and presented in
clear and succinct form, although perhaps a little dry in manner, an
immense accumulation of facts.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Gill, Augustus Herman.= Engine-room chemistry. *$1. Hill pub.
8–813.
“Aims to give such information concerning oils, fuels and the
phenomena of combustion and steam-raising, all expressed in fairly
nontechnical language, as will enable the average reader to understand
what is necessary from the point of view of chemistry to obtain the
maximum efficiency in the power plant.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Accurate little book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“The book is not intended to appeal to the chemist or technical man.
It is too elementary to do this. On the other hand, it is hardly
practical to give the uneducated man a volume which, in one hundred
pages, tries to give him sufficient knowledge to enable him to
undertake analyses which the student of chemistry never performs until
he has studied the fundamental principles on which such analysis is
based, for at least a year or a year and a half.”
− + =Engin. D.= 3: 72. Ja. ’08. 320w.
“If there is any criticism to be made of the book it is that to read
or study it intelligently probably somewhat better knowledge of
inorganic chemistry is necessary than even a good engineman or the
superintendent of a small shop may be expected to possess.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“A little book, professedly written for the engineer and engine man,
but useful for a much wider circle of readers.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gill, George Creswell.= Beyond the blue-grass; a Kentucky novel.
$1.50. Neale.
8–12785.
A picture of the life of the people among the hills of Ginseng county,
beyond the Blue-Grass region. “Almost all of his characters are rural
Kentuckians, and we see them in their homes, at work on their farms,
and congregated in their villages, all of them picturesque and all of
them more or less interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is not thrilling and his style is quite lacking in literary quality:
but there is a certain merit in his book in spite of its
shortcomings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 441. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Gillette, Halbert Powers, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Concrete
construction: methods and cost. *$5. Clark, M. C.
8–13350.
Treated from the viewpoint of the builder of concrete structures. “The
authors have collected ... a vast number of examples of concrete work.
These are presented in concise form, with the unimportant details
removed; there is an attempt to preserve a certain uniformity of
treatment so as to permit comparison between similar constructions. In
addition to these specific examples the authors have added, in
connection with every branch of work, general instructions deduced
from observation and formulas for quantity and cost estimates.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work should prove of exceeding value not only to contractors and
engineers ... but to designing engineers and architects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 420w.
“On the whole, the book is a welcome addition to concrete literature.
It is frankly a compilation and suffers from some of the ordinary
faults of a compilation, but the work of compiling has been done with
so much more care than is usual in such books and so much original
matter has been added that the statistical nature, often the bane of
collated material, is largely lost. We believe every concrete designer
and constructor should have a copy.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 950w.
“While the expert engineer may glean some points from the book, it is
liable to prove dangerous in the hands of inexperienced men,
especially as to its cost features.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Gillmore, Inez Haynes.= June jeopardy. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–17784.
Around a diamond necklace worth a half million and its paste
counterpart is woven a story whose exciting events are all crowded
into a single night. The character cast includes maids and their
lovers, robbers, scheming servants, and the dog Veritas.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story puts very little strain on one’s mental powers, and, with
the added attraction of a quick-moving plot, ought to find favor with
summer readers:”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande: a guide to the
opera; with musical examples from the score. *$1. Schirmer.
7–41522.
Complete instruction with full consideration for the inspirational
side is offered in this little volume. Mr. Gilman discusses Debussy
and his art, The play—its qualities and its action, and The music—a
revolutionary score, and the themes and their treatment.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Stories of symphonic music: a guide to the
meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from
Beethoven to the present day. **$1.25. Harper.
7–35627.
A practical handbook for the concert-goer which offers in compact,
accessible form, information which will enable him to listen
intelligently to orchestral music. “It tells stories which underlie
the most important works in the orchestra repertoire, describing the
drama, legend, picture, mood, or poem which the music expresses. It
presents clearly and without technical analysis the basis of every
considerable descriptive work in the symphonic repertoire.”
* * * * *
“A compact little book, for intelligent concert goers rather than
professional musicians. Scrappy and journalistic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08.
“The comment is of a highly intelligent character, providing real
information and avoiding the meaningless rhapsodizing into which
writers upon music are tempted to fall.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 433. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is a compilation from many sources, but it is well made, and the
book will serve a useful purpose—it is in all respects worthy of place
on the music-lover’s shelves besides Mr. George P. Upton’s series on
the ‘Standard’ operas, oratorios and so on.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 106. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Gilman has covered the field well, and collated thoroughly all
the annotators.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“The information contained in his volume really ought to be printed in
the programmes distributed in the concert-halls. Is one of Mr.
Gilman’s most useful and readable contributions to musical
literature.” H: T. Finck.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 281. F. ’08. 1650w.
“A useful handbook for the opera and concert goer.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 30w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Church and modern life. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–9795.
A practical as well as inspirational study, seeking an audience among
pastors and teachers but aiming to arouse to activity the young men
and women to whom the future of the church is committed. The author
shows that the roots of religion are in human nature; that like all
living things, religion grows; that our religion is Christianity; that
Christianity is a social religion; that as the life of religion is
nurtured in social worship and service, so its fruit is gathered in
the transformation of society; that the church has imperfectly
performed its function; that a new reformation is called for; that the
church is called to redeem society; and that for the redemption of
society a new evangelism is needed.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a good one to put into the hands of those who are
inclined to be discouraged over the outlook for the church.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 280w.
“Dr. Gladden’s essay will make for sanity as well as earnestness in
the current debate on the relation of religion and the church to
social reform.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 160w.
“The book is interpretative of the present movement in the American
churches, and will add to that movement both guidance and new
impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 80w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson G.= Ancient law. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–2945.
The hero of this novel is a modern Jean Valjean, who goes wrong on the
stock exchange and after five years of imprisonment seeks refuge in a
southern town under the name of Smith. “It is a long, weary, beaten
road that he travels, and he is but the concrete embodiment of a
world-old tragedy and world-old problem which has survived crumbling
ages. What makes him distinct among many of his brothers is an
all-encompassing vision that comprehends both the letter and the
spirit of the law that enchains him. Herein is the keynote of an
absorbing and convincing story.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The characters are drawn with a sure, skilful hand, the story
uncommonly well told.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08. ✠
“In spite of these drawbacks the book is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 180w.
“Its figures, with one exception, are puppets, not human beings. They
have no blood or breath of their own. We may be thankful for the lack
of funny business in Miss Glasgow’s book, but we have still to regret
its lack of proportion, of perspective, of that indefinable
circumambient atmosphere, of insight and sympathy with which true
humour surrounds its material.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 59. Mr. ’08. 860w.
“Miss Glasgow’s latest novel has both dignity and charm, although
certain almost melodramatic happenings, huddled into the closing
chapters, do not seem quite in keeping with the sincerity and
restraint of what has gone before.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 14: 134. Mr. 1, ’08. 520w.
“But Ellen Glasgow has ascended. She has omitted the family portraits
and most of the pedigrees in her new story and made ready for a long,
wide sweep of the wings. She has not parted company with the populace.
She has simply assumed a nobler attitude to it.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 720w.
“Miss Glasgow writes, as always, with fluency, gravity, and a species
of ‘empressment’ which may go a long way toward achieving the effects
of depth and subtlety. [The story has an] anti-climax, and [it] sinks
through chapters of crude melodrama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 480w.
“It is a book calculated to make you pause in the survey of rapid-fire
fiction and realize that here is the real note of study, of character,
and of observation. It is indeed a novel of dignity and of
distinction.” I. F. Marcosson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 53. F. 1, ’08. 1480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“There are many fine and haunting passages.” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 445. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“The book is eminently dignified and worthy. In its nature it is less
entertaining than other novels by Miss Glasgow, but it is a fine piece
of literary work notwithstanding.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“She has silhouetted several characters with extreme cleverness, but,
more than this, she has chosen a situation and developed it up to an
interesting point with some of Mr. Howells’ skill, concluding the
story where it is evidently impossible for her to go on. There are
very grave defects in her hero’s character, defects that are
inconsistencies, for whose weakening influence on the story Miss
Glasgow alone is responsible.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 80w.
“The story is founded on a basis of false sentiment and false
psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Though written in a different vein from some of Miss Glasgow’s other
books, none the less this story furnishes very excellent reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Glover, Ellye Howell.= “Dame Curtsey’s” book of novel
entertainments. **$1. McClurg.
7–34781.
A veritable mine of suggestion for the hostess who entertains a great
deal. The plans for parties, dinners, luncheons, and games have been
thoroly tested and are offered in so great variety that there is
something for every day of the year.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“[Contains] many things that are exceedingly valuable in the way of
suggestion to the entertaining hostess.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Goddard, Harold Clarke.= Studies in New England transcendentalism.
(Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1. Macmillan.
8–14677.
A doctoral thesis. “Taking these five—Channing, Alcott, Emerson,
Parker, and Margaret Fuller—as the foremost representatives of the
movement in New England from traditionalism to free thought, Dr.
Goddard goes into a minutely inductive study of its genesis and
nature, beginning with an investigation of the intellectual and
literary influences that affected each of the five in their
environment, their reading and studies, and their influence on each
other; after which he discusses their relations, severally, to
practical life.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He has the true scholarly spirit and a certain aptness for getting
the ear of his audience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 380. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The grasp of general ideas, the sound and penetrating criticism, the
orderly marshalling of material, and the literary virtues ... lift
this thesis above the mass of ephemeral doctoral dissertations, and
give it permanent and substantial value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 500w.
“This monograph is rich in its personal portrayals of the notable
characters it is concerned with, and is also a most valuable
contribution to the religious and philosophical history of the first
half of the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering. bk. 2, Concrete. lea.
*$2.50. Edward Godfrey, Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
“The book starts with a chapter headed ‘A survey of the field of
concrete design and construction, in which will be found some theses,’
which is a rapid survey of the scheme of the book. This is followed by
a short treatment of the materials which go to make up concrete
structures, and the methods of handling, finishing and constructing
the concrete. Next there are given some isolated cost figures of no
exact value, as the conditions under which the work was carried on are
omitted. This completes the original portion of the book. There follow
articles selected from Engineering news, and thirty pages of
cuts.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Altogether Mr. Godfrey’s work is a valuable contribution to the
literature of concrete and concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“In his theory the author is sound; the main objection to his
presentation ... is an almost too apparent didacticism and a slight
intolerance of any other views but his own. The plan is ambitious and
it seems a pity to have it fall so far short of its proper usefulness
on account of easily-corrected details of arrangement and composition.
The physical make-up of the book only adds to the confusion.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 543. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Hollis.= Man who ended war. †$1.50. Little.
8–28057.
A stirring novel which exploits an ingenious scientific achievement. A
man who conceals his identity informs nations that he is destined to
stop all war. He orders disarmament, gives a year for it, and, at its
end, when no move is made, proceeds single handed to destroy one
battleship after another making use of his remarkable and mysterious
invention.
* * * * *
“It is a very interesting and wholly manly story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Godrycz, John.= Doctrine of modernism and its refutation. *75c.
McVey.
8–17779.
The author “follows the text of the Papal encyclical against
modernism, and first gives his statement of what modernism is in a
form for easy reply, and then follows it by a ‘Refutation.’... His
refutation begins by asserting that modernism is based on positivism,
which is rationalistic and irreligious.... He supports his attacks on
the modernists by quotations from Newman Smyth and George Washington,
and concludes that ‘one of the greatest persecutions that ever swept
over the church is preparing in Europe.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 686. Ag. ’08. 700w.
− =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Interesting is it to thoughtful Protestants.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 330w.
=Goerens, Paul.= Introduction to metallography; tr. by Fred
Ibbotson. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–21497.
A study of the structure of metals which contains much information
quite inaccessible to the American student. The first section deals
with the physical properties of matter, including allotrophy, cooling
curves, and pyrometry; the second, on the physical mixture, deals with
the theories of solutions and freezing-point curves of aqueous
solutions, fused salts and alloys; the third and fourth are concerned
respectively with practical microscopy of metals and the metallography
of iron and its alloys.
* * * * *
“We believe it will find important service as a text-book, and as side
reading for practicing metallurgists. The lack of lucidity is, we
think, the fault rather of the form and substance of the original text
than of the translator.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 79. Jl. 16, ’08. 920w.
“In the whole, the book is hardly more than an introduction into the
subject, but as such it is valuable and will prove useful to students
of this subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
“Enough has been said to show that the standard work on metallography
is yet to be written, but that students will find Dr. Goerens’s book
admirable as affording them a glimpse of the methods of investigating
metals and alloys.” T. K. R.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 387. Ag. 27, ’08. 630w.
“The exposition of the theoretical side of the subject is not as
complete as it might have been but it will give the beginner an
excellent idea of equilibrium phenomena. The explanations of the
freezing-point diagrams have been duplicated unnecessarily, perhaps
not for the beginner, but certainly for those using the book for
reference. For the latter class of readers there is too much detail.”
H: Fay.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 489. O. 9, ’08. 420w.
=Goodrich, Albert Moses.= Cruise and captures of the Alabama. *75c.
Wilson, H. W.
7–27369.
Material that came to light with the publication of the naval records
of the rebellion has been supplemented here by Captain Semmes’ diary,
which after the war was expanded into a memoir, by diaries of the
Alabama’s officers, and by various consular reports. The material
worked over with care has been presented in a trustworthy form,
readable and informing.
* * * * *
“A graphic, impartial, and trustworthy résumé, based upon the
documents of what was perhaps the most picturesque and important
episode of the ocean warfare.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27. ’08. 140w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Gleam o’ Dawn. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–17835.
A story of the Canadian border whose hero is a young half-breed, a
poet in feeling and an artist in expression. The spiritual within him
wars against the elemental savage desire to avenge the death of his
mother, Gleam o’Dawn, who had been deserted by his white father. On
the side of vengeance he is spurred on by an Indian who had been his
father’s rival; the white path of forgiveness is urged by the “li’l
brown girl” whom he loves. Repentance, revenge, tragedy and conquest
are the subjective notes of the book.
* * * * *
“The plot is slight, and the story somewhat sensational, but it is
breezy, graceful, full of the charm of outdoor life, and contains some
excellent characterizations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08.
“Mr. Goodrich is to be congratulated upon having first designed a
worthy pattern, and then upon having woven it with delicate and
skilful art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 503. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“One is tempted to think that a masterly short story has been partly
sacrificed to the mistaken call of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The plot has many threads, yet it never becomes tangled, and it is
brought to a powerful climax, in the virility and tenseness of which
there is no touch of melodrama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Gordon, Alexander R.= Early traditions of Genesis. *$2.25.
Scribner.
8–9521.
“Embodies a reverent and at the same time thoroughly scientific
reconstruction of the traditions and historical facts recorded in the
earlier portions of the book of Genesis.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This book cannot be praised too highly for its scientific method and
its thoroughness. It is written with full mastery of the earlier
literature and brings many new and valuable suggestions to the
solution of the problems. It may unhesitatingly be recommended as the
best book in English on the subject, and it is doubtful whether there
is a better treatise in any other language.” L: B. Paton.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 466. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“The author is fully abreast of the most recent discoveries and
speculations, and he also possesses the power of lucid and attractive
exposition. Valuable additions to the work are the appendixes. The
index is inadequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 500w.
“The method is thoroughly critical and historical, and excellent use
has been made of the best literature. The results achieved indicate
breadth of view, sanity of judgment, and a competent independence of
opinion. This is certainly all in all the best book in English on the
early stories of Genesis.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“This book is a valuable and welcome piece of constructive criticism
by one who has a sympathetic appreciation of all that is elevating in
Hebrew tradition.” A. A. Madsden.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 140. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
“He is content to walk mainly in trodden paths; but he has seen things
for himself by the way.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“This is one of the best books we have read for a long time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“We must be content with saying that Professor Gordon’s theories show
great learning and ingenuity, and that the whole book is well worth
careful study. This or that theory may fail to satisfy us, but the
effect of the whole study is largely to widen our outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 156. Ja. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Robin Aroon: a comedy of manners. *$1.25.
Neale.
8–28989.
A story of the South just before the revolution in which the spirit,
grace, hospitality and glory of old colonial days are happily
depicted. Captain Paul Jones figures in the tale.
* * * * *
“An interesting and amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, 08. 100w.
=Gordon, C. H. C. Pirie-.= Innocent the Great. *$3. Longmans.
8–3997.
“The essay is divided into ten chapters, which deal with the period of
Pope Innocent’s pontificate, the person and family of the Pontiff, his
dealings with the empire, the fourth crusade, the Pope and Sicily, his
dealings with the Albigensians. Innocent III. and England,
difficulties with the city of Rome, etc., and the character of the
Pope. Besides these chapters, the book contains six appendices, four
maps, and eight genealogical tables.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Our author has brought to his work some important qualities of a real
historian; he endeavours, for example, to guage the spirit of the
times about which he writes, and to judge the deeds and opinion of the
chief actors by the standards of the days in which they lived, and not
too hastily to condemn them by measuring their works and sayings by
the principles or practices of more modern times. He has also
obviously taken great pains to understand his materials, although
perhaps in some cases he has given himself unnecessary trouble.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 55. O. 26, ’07. 1680w.
“The essay is an undigested product. The diction of the book is fairly
startling by its affectation. A more serious criticism of the work is
its inaccuracy.” E: B. Krehbiel.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“This is a portentous work eked out with appendixes, but of little
real value.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 200w.
“Though it does not add to historic knowledge, it contains much that
has not hitherto been easily accessible to English readers. It is
provided, too, with many references to original authorities, with
useful appendices, and good maps.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 379. D. 13, ’07. 1440w.
“A hopeless style might be excused if the things it was intended to
convey were worth the telling; but at no point of his narrative does
Mr. Pirie-Gordon rise to the height of even a modest demand for
historical soundness.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 470w.
“It cannot honestly be said that he throws any new light on a baffling
period, or brings us to any more vivid understanding of the pontiff
under whose sway papal pretensions reached their high-water mark. The
author would do well in the future to prune his style of its very
irritating classicisms and other affectations.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Gordon, William John.= Round about the North Pole. *$5. Dutton.
8–10293.
An account of the heroes of arctic exploration. “In telling the story
of the different expeditions from that of Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553,
to Robert Peary’s in 1906, the author has divided the region into
sections, beginning with Spitsbergen and following the circle to
Greenland, describing the exploration of each section by itself. The
main incidents and achievements of the various expeditions are grouped
together with numerous extracts from journals and anecdotes.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“As a popular account of Arctic adventure the book has its use; but
the serious history of Arctic exploration is still to seek.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 820w.
“A more inspiring record of bravery, endurance, sacrifice of self for
the sake of one’s comrades, unflinching devotion to duty in the face
of deathly peril, it would be difficult to find.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“As an introduction to Arctic travel for the use of those to whom
references to original sources are unnecessary we do not know a better
book, nor do we think that a work of this kind, where a vast amount of
a material is condensed within a few pages, could on the whole be made
lighter or more readable without sacrificing its serious character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 538. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
“We recommend this volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Gore, Charles.= New theology and old religion: being eight
lectures, together with five sermons. *$2. Dutton.
8–14749.
These lectures and sermons constitute an apologetic which places the
new and the old side by side, and on the one hand points to the
benefits to be derived from a study of the new, while on the other
maintains that the old contains scientific beliefs which cannot be
abandoned but which are integral to the creed of Christianity.
* * * * *
“The five sermons at the end, to our thinking are the most valuable
part of the volume. Like all Bishop Gore’s writings, they are a little
unattractive and hard. His style is lucid without grace, and strong
without elasticity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 183. F. 15. 2000w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 128. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“In maintaining these views, Bishop Gore represents the sane,
sensible, English attitude which is to be expected of him. While his
treatment will not satisfy all who are in sympathy with modern
science, yet on the whole it is reasonable and helpful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 500w.
“This volume might be described as a kind of Anglican Catholic
encyclical on Modernism: interesting but inconclusive to the man who
is animated by the modern spirit.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“His weak point is his style; he tries to be simple and impressive,
but only succeeds in being heavy. At present he treats his hearers as
if they were children, and not very good ones.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 796. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
* =Gorky, Maxim.= The spy: the story of a superfluous man. $1.50.
Huebsch.
A realistic story of revolutionary Russia which depicts the workings
of the secret service and the bitter trials of the revolutionist in
his struggle for liberty. In the portrayal of the “superfluous man”
from stunted childhood to weak, anaemic manhood the author reveals in
all their flagrant hideousness the abortive influences rife in Russia
to terminate manhood development and to produce betrayers of the Judas
type.
* * * * *
“The reader may have to set his teeth, not to say to hold his nose, as
he reads—but he will be convinced if he sticks it out that this life
of which Gorky writes is a fact.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 1000w.
“In his characteristic vivid manner the author realistically describes
revolutionary Russia of the present day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“One of the most fascinating and interesting pieces of literature that
has been issued of recent years. It is a great book, but for our part
we scarcely like this close anatomisation by a son of a father.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“Written with great charm, with delicacy of feeling, poetic insight,
and not a little humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 41. F. ’08.
“If the writer should achieve anything like lasting remembrance, it
will be due to this work rather than to any of the studies, essays, or
verse in which his learning and versatility have won praise. This book
is unique.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 6. Ja. 4. 1800w.
“As a personal revelation, this book must take its place in the small
group that includes such vital records of the soul as Amiel’s
‘Journal’ and ‘The story of an African farm.’” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 527. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“No book could better show the vast difference between plausible but
wholly imaginary biography and autobiography ... on the one hand, and
the actual record of a human soul on the other, than this detailed
account of the warring of two discordant temperaments.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 96. F. 16, ’08. 1520w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 315. F. 6, ’08. 470w.
“If it be not a document, as the writer calls it, is, we admit, an
extremely subtile and fascinating analysis of two human minds.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 197. F. 27, ’08. 1850w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 694. My. 30, ’08. 1250w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Henrik Ibsen. (Literary lives.) **$1.
Scribner.
7–41565.
A biography which sketches the influences, positive and negative, that
set the great poet to weaving such an individual life tapestry.
Ibsen’s adventures as an author are recorded with an idea single to
their unity. There is no attempt to set forth the plots of his dramas,
nor to treat the spurious “lessons” and supposititious “problems”
which so many look for in Ibsen, but to recognize among the
“irregularities and audacities,” qualities of merit Mr. Gosse says
that it has been Ibsen’s misfortune to attract people who “treat all
tulips and roses as if they were cabbages for the pot of didactic
morality.” The closing chapters deal with his last years, and his
personal and intellectual characteristics.
* * * * *
“A compact, agreeable, informing biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Gosse has rarely given such proof of his vivacity as in this
biography.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 364. Mr. 21. 400w.
“Mr. Gosse has drawn an admirable portrait of Ibsen—from a definite
point of view; and it goes without saying that this point of view is
entirely Mr. Gosse’s own.” Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 260. Ag. ’08. 580w.
“Mr. Gosse has by no means, as he seems to think, made ‘obsolete’ the
standard biography of Ibsen by Henrik Jaeger. That solid performance
is likely to outlast many such books as the one Mr. Gosse has given
us, agreeable and informing as it is, and it hardly becomes him to
belittle a work which is so much more searching and philosophical than
his own.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 108. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Gosse’s life of Ibsen is well fitted to supplement the running
commentary of Mr. Archer’s introduction. We have in English no other
book which gives what we need to know about the man and his methods to
understand his achievements.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 921. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Gosse’s book is more complete than those of Jaeger and Rudolph
Lothar, and it is also more concise; but it falls short of both in
understanding and in sympathy. The figure of Ibsen reflected by the
curved mirror of Mr. Gosse’s mind is almost a caricature. Still the
book is not without merits. It is briskly written, though not always
in good taste, and it gives a fairly just estimate of the plays.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 660w.
“To humanize this sphinx is plainly Mr. Gosse’s aim; if he has not
wholly succeeded, he has at least given us a most interesting, sane,
and authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“To be noted as of curious interest is the fact that, while Mr. Gosse
sometimes adopts the statements of certain Norwegian authorities on
Ibsen and his work, he sometimes ignores no less authoritative
assertions when they happen to conflict with his pet theories on the
subject.” S. R. Cook.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
“His sense of character is too strong to be hushed down by his natural
instinct for hero-worship. Just as he sees Ibsen, so does he display
him. And the irrepressible sense of character is enforced by a not
less active sense of humour.” Max Beerbohm.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 330. Mr. 14, ’08. 1600w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Borderland studies. 2v. v. 2. *$1.50.
Blakiston.
7–20140†.
Miscellaneous addresses and essays pertaining to medicine and the
medical profession, and their relations to general science and
thought. Some of the chapters are: The history of the house, The seven
deadly sins of civilization, Disease and sin, Some intellectual weeds
of American growth, and Concerning crank, megalomaniac,
morphinomaniac, dotard, criminal and insane physicians.
* * * * *
“While the author commonly has the professional reader in mind, the
layman will find much of interest besides getting a good idea of the
cleverness of the writer, of his fondness for mannerisms, which are
almost sophomoric, and of his use of the sledge-hammer even when a
tack-hammer seems quite sufficient.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; with a
bibliography by Laura Stedman. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14835.
A series of impressions intended to be of service to anyone who may
undertake the task of furnishing a critical estimate of the methods
and development of Hearn’s imaginative power and literary development.
They deal “with the young man as we find him, uneducated, friendless,
without formed character, with a lot of heathenish and unrestrained
appetites, crippled as to the most important of the senses,
poverty-stricken, improvident, of peculiar and unprepossessing
appearance and manners, flung into an alien world in many ways more
morbid than himself.”
* * * * *
“On the whole, the picture of Hearn drawn by Dr. Gould does not differ
materially from that to which we were accustomed. It is a little
sharper in outline, a little more explicit in detail, that is all.” F:
W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 44: 300. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“The reader of the book will desire rather less repetition and a few
more authoritative facts.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1348. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“In the actual details of Hearn’s life Dr. Gould presents not much
that is new. By far the most valuable parts of the book are those in
which Hearn’s literary activities are traced.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 1100w.
“We have not had enough stylists to be able to afford to neglect the
memory of Hearn, and Dr. Gould has done a welcome service in so
efficiently covering the ground while avoiding the miry and
unwholesome places.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 950w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 250w.
“Some readers, we are sure, will be sorry that these pages have been
written. They are singularly painful. Many things were against Hearn.
And yet we cannot find fault with the book. It presents a very curious
picture; and if it leaves a painful impression, one feels at the same
time that it makes, or ought to make, for righteousness.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-=, ed. Book of nursery songs and rhymes.
**$1.50. McClurg.
With short introductions and ten pages of historical notes there are
given here seventy-seven songs, ten game rhymes, a hundred and more
jingles. The illustrations and borders are the work of members of the
Birmingham art school.
* * * * *
“I cannot believe in half-hearted scholarship and on the other hand I
fail to recognize the need for scholarship in relation to rhymes and
jingles in a book for young folks.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1484. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 50w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Devonshire characters and strange
events. *$7. Lane.
8–32992.
Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr.
Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There
are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to
erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called
Devonshire “oddities,” and the author portrays them with their
peculiarities on the outside.
* * * * *
“This book is thus frankly a book of gossip, and, as we have said,
makes capital reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 550w.
“Scrappily put together, to be sure, but containing a good store of
entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“This is an odd book. The compiler has managed to bring within his
covers much curious information, both about characters and events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w.
“We can promise our readers many happy hours in the perusal of this
volume, for it contains eight hundred pages, has some excellent
portraits, and is a mine of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Graham, David.= Grammar of philosophy. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–26258.
“A robustious apology, by a Scotch barrister, for the philosophy of
the Scottish school.... In the blessed and reverently capitalized name
of Common Sense, all the great non-Caledonian thinkers and even the
heterodox Scots—Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Mill, Darwin, Leslie,
Stephen—are quite simply shown to be intellectually akin to the
inmates of Bedlam, though less consistent than the latter in the
matter of practice. Intuitive ethical truths like those of
mathematics; the argument from design; the foundation of the legal
institution of the dock in the eternal nature of things—these and many
similar archaisms are triumphantly demonstrated.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The philosopher may find other lay contributions to philosophy that
are as anachronistic and as absurd; but he will not in many summers
find another so breezily refreshing in its anachronism and so
consistently amusing in its absurdity.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w.
“The author is an ingenious, though not convincing barrister-at-law.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Graham, Harry.= Group of Scottish women. *$3.50. Duffield.
A series of biographical portraits of Scotswomen of the past who by
reason of their heroism, courage, piety or wit, have affected their
generation and lent to it the strength of their individuality. Among
the women so treated are Dervorguilla; “Black Agnes of Dunbar”; Jane,
Countess of Sutherland; Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale; Lady Grisell
Baillie; Ann, Duchess Buccleuch and Monmouth; Catherine, Duchess of
Queensberry; Mrs. Alison Cockburn; Elspeth Buchan; Jane, Duchess of
Gordon; Lady Anne Barnard; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Lady Louisa Stuart;
and Mrs. Clementina Stirling Graham.
* * * * *
“This is a lively and entertaining book, dealing at its best with the
leisure and gaiety of bygone days, and written in a style appropriate
to so light a theme.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 2: 359. S. 26. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 630w.
“A reaction takes place in the reader’s mind when he ... discovers
that the author is selecting among materials for the purpose merely of
amusing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 470w.
“The Captain writes with brilliancy and ease, is of an epigrammatic
habit, and has many a shrewd or amusing comment to make on his
heroines and their times, which he indicates in each case, and
succeeds in making real enough to excite interest.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“The book is eminently entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 180w.
“A series of lively and sympathetic sketches.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 70w.
“As biography the book before us is of average quality. That is to
say, the early part is worse and the end is better than the common run
of such books. It is no exaggerated praise to say that Mr. Harry
Graham tells us as much about our own age as the past.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“He feels it his duty to give a sentence a humorous turn even when the
subject does not demand it. and the result is sometimes a galvanized
gaiety which is a little trying. There are a few trifling blunders of
fact and a few odd opinions. Captain Graham has written an
entertaining hook, which, unlike so many gossiping biographies,
suffers from no faults of taste. He has also the gift, which is
becoming painfully rare to-day, of writing Scottish dialect in its
correct and classical form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 330. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
* =Grahame, Kenneth.= Wind in the willows. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–29339.
“A simple-hearted Mole, a Water Rat of a poetical temperament, and a
wealthy, boastful, and extravagant Toad, with a fine Tudor mansion and
a passion for motor-cars, are the principal personages in Mr. Kenneth
Grahame’s story.” (Ath.) “From broad farce and the most grotesque
combinations of animals and things and speech this book now and again
touches poetry as one touches it in life, incidentally, and by the
way.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The author seems not to have given himself up whole-heartedly to his
fantasy, and is apt to hinder the charm of his incongruities by
spasmodic efforts to make them congruous. These cavillings apart, the
book, with its scenes of river, forest, and field, and its whimsical
incursions into the human world, forms an all but perfect blending of
idyll and inconsequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 200w.
“Some may call it nature faking of the baldest sort, but such pedantry
carries its own punishment. The book is not easily classified—it is
simply destined to be one of those dog-eared volumes which one laughs
over and loves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Quaker and courtier: the life and work of
William Penn. *$3–50. Dutton.
8–16919.
“The book is not strictly a history. It is a ... study of Penn’s
character and career by ‘a direct descendant,’ with considerable
citation of letters and contemporaneous writing and an agreeably woven
web of comment on the men and manners and conditions of the time.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Subject to a few reservations, the book is written pleasantly and
unaffectedly enough. It contains, indeed, we think, nothing that is at
once new and important.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 477. Ap. 18. 1000w.
“Mrs. Grant tells her story pleasantly, and throws about the events of
her great ancestor’s life a good deal of the historic framework that
such a narrative requires; but apart from the use she has made of a
few hitherto unpublished letters, she cannot be said to have produced
an original work or one that fills any aching void in literature.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“It seems a pity that, with such good material at hand, and with her
sympathetic interest in her hero, the author has not given us, in a
less sketchy way, some account of Penn’s relations to the political
and religious parties of his time, the development of his own
opinions, his schemes, and his failure in colonial government.” A. G.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 618. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“In Mrs. Grant’s book the reader will find much not altogether new,
but freshly pieced out with new material.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 600w.
“Simple and candid and sympathetic.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 181. Ap. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“By no means a superfluous addition to the existing memoirs of a great
figure in our colonial history. Mrs. Grant’s work is evidently the
fruit of careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
“A good bit of work. The story of a life very full of interest is told
in a sensible, businesslike fashion, without any rhetoric, perhaps
without any distinction of style, but in a way which does justice to
the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Grant, Elihu.= Peasantry of Palestine: the life, manners and
customs of the village. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–37961.
During Mr. Grant’s residence as missionary teacher at Ramallah, near
Jerusalem, he visited the mission stations and schools in central
Palestine. “Intensely interested in the village folk, Dr. Grant
recorded with camera and pencil the details and surroundings of their
life—utensils, houses, songs, customs, superstitions, linguistic
peculiarities, antiquities.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Peculiarly valuable, not only because of the region in which he
worked and from which his material is mainly derived, but also because
of a singular combination of painstaking care and sympathetic feeling
for the ways and habits of the people of the land. Moreover, he asked
himself very practical questions, and in answering them for himself he
has gathered material which answers just those questions which the
average intelligent man or woman would like to put to the Palestinian
explorer, if he could reach him personally.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 146. Ag. ’08. 1050w.
“A really valuable addition to the literature on Palestine, and the
Bible scholar will find it helpful in the study and in the classroom.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“Charmingly written and abundantly illustrated. Convenient foot-notes,
referring to passages in both the Old and the New Testaments, which
are illuminated or illustrated by the book, make it a useful manual
for the Bible student.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Written with the utmost simplicity and straightforwardness, and will
doubtless be of much interest and value to all who are concerned with
the study of folk-life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 70w.
=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Search of Belisarius: a Byzantine legend.
**$1.25. Brentano’s.
7–42002.
A poem written in the Spenserian stanza based upon the legend of
Belisarius in which the interest is concentrated on the acts and
emotions of a single character, “the deus ex machina of an impressive
and emotional drama of Byzantine times.”
* * * * *
“Told in verse which is neither marked by special virtue nor flagrant
fault, which, not offending, yet does not linger in the memory. The
book has the dignity of a sincere effort and an appreciation of
beauty. Tells you a legend, touching, lovely. But it does not add to
your understanding of life, because it is written from the outside and
not the inside of its author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 56. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“A noble poem, whether we consider it from the point of view of
Arnold, that true poetry is but a criticism of life and the highest
expression of the best literature, or from the other extreme of Poe,
that poetry is merely ‘the rhythmic creation of the beautiful.’ The
appreciative reader will have keen enjoyment in this work of a man of
rare intellectual attainments and spiritual insight, and on laying
down the volume will find it no easy task to call to mind another
living author equally capable of writing such a poem.” J. S. Auerbach.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 293. F. ’08. 1200w.
=Granville, Roger.= King’s general in the West: the life of Sir
Richard Granville. **$4. Lane.
8–34202.
A life which is important for the light it throws on “the drama of the
Puritan revolution.” It records the military achievements and domestic
short-comings of a man who, “loyal, brave, obstinate, contentious,
wrongheaded, rash, overbearing, at times cruel, quarreled with his
family, his wife, his friends, his fellow-officers and his superiors
to the end, scarcely less of a terror to his own side than to his
enemies, yet with a certain curious hold on his followers through it
all.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 120. O. ’08. 440w.
“One gets vivid glimpses of the age, but we have already many books
which are more illuminative.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Grasset, Joseph.= Semi-insane and the semi-responsible: authorized
American ed. tr. by Smith Ely Jelliffe. **$2.50. Funk.
7–41081.
A work which makes its appeal to the physician, alienist, lawyer and
layman. The author believes in responsibility for the diseased as much
as for the criminal, and maintains that the question, Should the
accused be punished or should he be treated? ought to be considered.
The object of the book is to demonstrate that to this burning question
the magistrate, assisted by the physician, may make three different
replies according to the case in hand: (1) The accused criminal is
entirely responsible ... he ought to be put into prison; (2) The
accused criminal is entirely irresponsible ... he ought to be treated
and placed in a hospital; (3) The accused criminal has attenuated
responsibility ... he ought to be both punished and treated.
* * * * *
“The book is primarily a practical one. In spite of a somewhat loose
style and too frequent controversial digressions, the volume arouses
interest in its topic.” W. B. Pitkin.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 132. F. 27, ’08. 1070w.
“The work as a whole raises many large and difficult questions. Its
main thesis, however, is a thoroughly defensible one, in the light of
modern science. It is an indication of a point of view, and a method
of approach to all problems growing out of mental and moral
aberrations which are certain to command increasing attention and
respect.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 235. F. 15, ’08. 750w.
“The volume is well written and is destined to become the expert’s
vade mecum in future medico-legal discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Most interesting to the layman, no doubt, is Dr. Grasset’s cumulative
clinic of eminent historical instances of demifous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 55. F. 1, ’08. 1320w.
=Gray, Andrew.= Lord Kelvin: an account of his scientific life and
work. (English men of science ser.) *$1. Dutton.
“Not strictly a biography, but aims to give a survey of Lord Kelvin’s
scientific work with a mere sketch of his personality. The sections
describing his methods in the classroom and laboratory will be found
the more interesting.... The author gives clearly the impression of
the originality and of the enormous vitality and energy of this
intellectual giant who ranks with Galileo and Newton.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 307. S. 12. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the well posted scientist, who has made it a point to keep
in touch with the minute data of investigation, much that the book
contains will be new.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15. ’08. 1250w.
“This book is admirable for scientific students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 430w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 474. O. 3, ’08. 420w.
=Gray, Rev. James M.= Antidote to Christian science. **$75c. Revell.
7–23291.
“The author here tries to show wherein Christian Science fails as a
religion and where the Bible and Christian Science clash. He closes
with a chapter on what the church may learn from Mrs. Eddy’s
teachings.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A little book marked with a sweet temper, a forebearing spirit, and a
familiarity with Biblical texts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 863. D. 28, ’07. 210w.
=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett).= Suspicions of Mrs.
Allonby. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23105.
Mrs. Allonby, the wife of a London novelist, tiring of fogs, and
piqued over her husband’s failure to regard as necessities five new
chic and costly hats, finds fault with his relations with his
stenographer, and goes off in a huff to the Riviera. Out of motives of
protection he bids the stenographer, quite unrecognized by the wife,
travel in the latter’s company; and he follows in disguise. A comedy
of suspicions ensues, all harmless and without foundation. The story
is sprightly and abounds in local color.
* * * * *
“Whoever, remembering that well-told and interesting story, ‘The
silence of Dean Maitland,’ takes up this book with pleasant
expectations, is doomed to severe disappointment.”
− =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
“The author hardly does herself full justice in writing a novel so
entirely pleasing to the young ladies who gossip around soda fountains
or at the matinees.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
=Grayson, David.= Adventures in contentment. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–40003.
“Mr. David Grayson in these papers dwells on country life, its
broadening and elevating influences. He describes the beautiful things
of nature—the smell of freshly plowed loam on a spring day, when the
clouds hang low and the birds are calling from the budding trees; the
joy of seeing the little green blades pushing up, of watching them
grow and grow till the bearded heads wave with every breath of wind in
billows over the field; and, finally, the delight of harvesting the
goodly crop. He is fair, too; he admits that country life has its
disadvantages.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“David Grayson’s merry, commonplace adventures with the book-agent,
the millionaire, the infidel, will nourish dozens of earnest readers
to whom Mr. Benson’s exquisite interpretation of the one hundred and
nineteenth psalm must still be as husks.” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 107: 711. My. ’08. 200w.
“So sweet-tempered and wholesome is Mr. Grayson himself, so much the
most interesting thing about his book, that we feel sure that he must
have got the best out of life anywhere, and could have adventured
quite as contentedly in a three-room flat a folding-bed and a
fire-escape.” M. S. Watts.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 7. Ja. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“His enthusiasm is such that he almost infects a millionaire with his
views.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Grayson, William John.= Selected poems; selected and compiled by
Mrs. W: H. Armstrong. $1.25. Neale.
7–36212.
Mrs. Armstrong’s aim has been that of rescuing from the forgotten past
a few of her father’s poems which should live for the character and
ideals revealed in them typical of his genius and of times in the
south before the war.
* * * * *
“He was not one of the grand old masters, yet lovers of American verse
will remember him gratefully, and should be glad now to salute him who
was about to die.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23. ’08. 350w.
=Green, Alice S. A. (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Making of
Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The main theses of Mrs. Green’s vigorous and freshly written work are
two. The first is that in the course of the three centuries ... the
Norman and the Gaelic elements in the population had coalesced so as
to produce a race practically homogeneous and a civilisation
distinctly national. The second is that the independent national life
thus evolved was wantonly arrested from unworthy motives of mercantile
jealousy by the policy of the Tudors, and trampled underfoot by the
violence of their agents in the Irish wars of the sixteenth
century.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“A remarkable book—a history in name, a French pamphlet in nature. It
would require a long time to verify her references, and so far as we
have done this, we have found the statements on which she relies. But
the interpretation of them is another matter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 117. Ag. 1. 1600w.
“Not a few of Mrs. Green’s generalizations, it is true, appear to rest
on insufficient data, giving occasion for the criticism that she
inclines to take an over-roseate view. But the great corrective value
of her work to students of Irish history is unquestionable, and it
should also prove of practical benefit in assisting to uproot
prejudices that have long operated to the disadvantage of the Irish
people.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 330w.
“If it is impossible not to feel gratitude to Mrs. Green for a book
which, whatever else is to be said of it, is undeniably stimulating
and informing, it is equally impossible not to regret the spirit of
acute partisanship in which it has been written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 50. Jl. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Green, F. E.= Small holding. (Country handbooks.) **$1. Lane.
Shows how a small farm of twenty acres or more may be obtained and
worked to the owner’s profit.
* * * * *
“While he has a wide knowledge of conditions as they exist in England,
it is extremely doubtful if all his theories could be applied to
practical use in this country.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Thoughtful and practical little book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 450. S. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Green, W. Curtis.= Old cottages and farm houses in Surrey; with
introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green. $7.50.
Helburn.
One hundred collotype reproductions of typical surviving examples of
Gothic domestic architecture in Surrey, an introduction emphasizing
the vitality of the architectural designs of old cottages, and notes
and sketches describing and analysing the details of construction
constitute a noteworthy contribution to the series of “old cottage”
books.
* * * * *
“Naturally, most of the interest is the photographer’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 247. Ag. 29. 360w.
“Mr. Green gives the result of much original research.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 241. S. ’08. 350w.
“While this very beautiful book is primarily intended for the
practical architect or student of architecture, the photographs and
descriptions will be found full of charm for any one to whom a house
means an opportunity to exercise the imagination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 560w.
=Greenslet, Ferris.= Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. **$3. Houghton.
8–27511.
Material from a wide range of sources has entered into the structure
of this biography. While letters and memorials form the ground work of
the sketch, the author’s personal knowledge of Mr. Aldrich, gained
during a period of close friendship, form the basis for estimates
concerning his career, temperament and character, which narrative is
supplemented by reminiscences. The biography in addition to being an
authoritative “life,” sets Aldrich among a group of his
contemporaries.
* * * * *
“He has used nice discrimination in selecting his material and
presents it with dignity, grace and a full appreciation of his
subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“It is in the generous selections from Aldrich’s correspondence that
the chief interest of the book lies—by the wise intention of the
selfsuppressing biographer. A biography that will not soon be
superseded.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 250. O. 16, ’08. 1700w.
“It is difficult to conceive any better biography of Aldrich than Mr.
Greenslet’s.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 500. N. ’08. 1900w.
“To those who admired the vigor and independence of Mr. Greenslet’s
book on Lowell, this later work in the biographical field brings some
disappointment.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 560w.
“It is pervaded from the first page to the last by his personality,
which was something unique among the men of letters at his period.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
“If Mr. Greenslet fails to satisfy us anywhere, it is in the last
chapter in which he sums up his criticism of Aldrich’s writings. What
he says is good and sound, but somehow it is not quite sufficient; it
lacks the last transmuting touch.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 331. O. 8, ’08. 370w.
“No more fitting choice could have been made for biographer of Aldrich
than Ferris Greenslet. He brings to his subject all needful sympathy
and comprehension. He writes of the ‘singularly fortunate life’ of
Aldrich with the spirit of one who knew that estimable man of letters
well in his later years and understood his nature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 553. O. 10, ’08. 2750w.
“Mr. Greenslet happily strikes the golden mean between condensation
and undue expansion; no one will miss any essential fact, nor will any
one feel that the story is a page too long.” H. W. Mabie.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 718. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 160w.
=Greenwood, Granville George.= Shakespeare problem restated. *$5.
Lane.
8–21629.
The author “attempts to prove that two men, hitherto considered great
were both collossal frauds, and that though hundreds of contemporaries
must have been in their common secret, not one of them breathed it in
life, and all ‘died and made no sign.’ Mr. Greenwood explains the
chain of arguments by which moderns believe they have made this
discovery, a chain hardly strong enough at any point to bear the
burden of proof, and lacking altogether in many of its links.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Though the volume itself shows wide and careful reading it is, after
all, only an extended ‘case’ prepared by a lawyer who holds a brief
for the plaintiff.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 7. Jl. 4. 2700w.
“This book is more or less valuable as a specimen of a myth in the
making.”
− =Nation.= 87: 295. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“It is a well-written book and interesting enough of its kind, and we
have no objection to the kind. It can do no harm.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 1050w.
=Gregory, Caspar Rene.= Canon and text of the New Testament.
(International theological lib.) *$2.50. Scribner.
7–42092.
“The title indicates the two separate lines of investigations which
[the author] pursues. He does not, like most, assume that an
unalterable collection of books—‘the Canon’—exists, but explores the
evidence for the early existence of the writings most highly valued by
Christians for both private and public use, and therefore classed by
themselves as canonical, i. e., standard works.” (Outlook.) He
distinguishes an “original text,” a “rewrought text,” a “polished
text,” the first and second Syrian revisions and leads up to the
concession that “The text of the New Testament is in the main
assured.”
* * * * *
“Professor Gregory’s work on the canon arrests and holds the reader’s
interest beyond any book ever written on the subject. Its pages
possess a quality of vivid interest, even fascination, very rarely
attained by works of like solid scholarship. For a classroom manual,
we should have welcomed clearer definition as to the critical points
in the history of the canon, and fuller information as to the most
recent treatises and discussions of them.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 272. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The book is the best on its subjects that we possess. The
presentation is popular, even entertaining, in its freshness.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“We cannot help thinking that the desire to write a vivid and
effective narrative—certainly a most laudable aim in this province of
knowledge—has affected the plan of the book, more especially in the
section which treats of the text. There is far too much detailed
information regarding certain facts and incidents in the history of
the documents, and far too little discussion of critical problems and
processes.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 430. D. ’08. 940w.
“He has an eye for the essential points of his subject and the gift of
clear arrangement and rapid narration.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 536. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“Since so large a treatise must make its appeal chiefly to students,
it would seem that the author would have done better to write for
scholars only, with greater conciseness, more frequent abbreviation,
and consequent emphasis upon matters of real importance.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“The book is popular in the best sense of the term, being at once
readable and accurate.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“It is a splendid combination of high scholarship and brilliant
style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
“Lucidity of statement and cautions expression of opinion on open
questions are prominent characteristics of this noble work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 789 D. 7, ’07. 370w.
“A man who was entirely ignorant of the question could understand
every page of Dr. Gregory’s book—or nearly every page.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 798. Je. 20, ’08. 600w.
“We would especially commend to the attention of our readers the
account of the Latin translations, of which the Vulgate is but one.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Gregory, Isabella Augusta, lady.= Book of saints and wonders, put
down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and the
memory of the people of Ireland. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–12836.
“S. Brigit, S. Patrick, and S. Columba are given due honour here, but
there are also many tales of lesser saints, their hymns and their good
works. The two famous ocean stories, the Voyage of Maeldun and the
Voyage of S. Brendan, are repeated at length. Thus a good deal of the
book is devoted to matter that will not be new to readers who know
anything of Irish legend.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“One might search through many workhouses in England, we fear, without
discovering so much as a strange oath, not to speak of legends and
traditions such as are recorded here. It has pleased us more than
almost any book we have read of late.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 264. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
“Lady Gregory’s literary art is well known, and the present volume is
a good instance of it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 90w.
“To a reader who knows not Ireland, one of the strongest of several
kinds of pleasure which this book has to give will come from its
constant suggestion of the soft, musical, melancholy voices of the
players in that company.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 374. D. 6, ’07. 600w.
“Lady Gregory’s style has this great advantage to Irish readers that
it carefully preserves the un-English, curiously inverted forms of
speech of the Irish country-people.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 154. F. 13, ’08. 930w.
“It is to be regretted, perhaps, that Lady Gregory has seen fit to
take such liberties with the English idiom in her enthusiasm for the
Gaelic effect.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 50. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
“Some of the stories would have gained by more elaboration; they are
so condensed as to be obscure. But they are eminently characteristic
of the quick imagination, the sensibility, the love of mystery, the
gift of temperament, of the Celtic race. They contain episodes and
passages of unusual and extraordinary beauty, with much that is
prosaic and uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
“Lady Gregory has passed in this book from pagan to Christian legend,
and has gleaned from mediæval Irish texts, and coloured in places from
her own knowledge of oral tradition, a series of charming old-world
stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 12. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, and Hunt, Arthur Surridge=, eds. Fragment
of an uncanonical gospel from Oxyrhynchus; with translation and
commentary. *40c. Oxford.
A reprint from the Oxyrhynchus papyri of pt. v, no. 840, containing
one of the finds made by the Egyptian exploration fund in the mounds
at Oxyrhynchus. The fragment pictures dramatically the coming of Jesus
with his disciples into the place of purification in the temple, the
rebuke of the Pharisee for entering unwashed, and the answer of Jesus
to the effect that he and his disciples had been dipped in the waters
of life.
* * * * *
“Insignificant as it seems, its contents bring it at once into
prominence for all who are especially interested in the thoughts and
words of Jesus.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 518. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“The fragment which Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt have published in this
separate form is edited with the care and scholarship which have
characterized their previous productions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 540w.
=Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Grey, Zane.= Last of the plainsmen. *$1.50. Outing pub.
8–24293.
The record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known
as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert, and
of a hunt in “that wonderful country of yellow crags, deep canons and
giant pines.” The author fulfils his desire to show the color and
beauty of painted cliffs and blue-bell dotted aisles in the forests;
to give a suggestion of the tang of the dry, cool air; and to throw
light upon the life and nature of the remarkable character, Buffalo
Jones.
* * * * *
“A fascinating, out-of-door book, full of the charm of the desert and
the cañon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Grey is an enthusiastic sportsman, alive to the picturesqueness
both of Western scenery and Western character. He is also a skilful
photographer of still life, and has furnished many interesting
pictures of the country in which he hunted.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Grey is never dull in his narrative, but one tires of the undue
straining after verbal effect in the descriptive bits with which his
story is interlarded.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 287. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
“Dr. Grey has a vivid style and a keen sense of dramatic situation, as
well as poetic appreciation of the weird beauty and sublimity of the
country through which he journeyed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12. ’08. 200w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= George Sand and her lovers. *$3.75.
Scribner.
7–36995.
The author “tears away the ‘romance’ of George Sand’s life all drapery
that had been left in the shape of ‘hypocrisy.’ He exhibits her as she
was, a grisette by blood and instincts, and in the whole conduct of
her emotional life. If the story of her ‘romances’ was worth telling
in full, which is questionable, here it is told undoubtedly with
perfect fulness. Whether it is prudery or not, we infinitely prefer
the final chapters—in which Mr. Gribble tells of George Sand’s
friendship with Flaubert, of her ‘growing old in dignity,’ and of the
genuine importance of her novels—to those in which he expounds his
purpose and fulfils his self-imposed mission.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Gribble tells everything there is to tell with perfect frankness,
and he brings his evidence from all sources, not betraying any
prejudices by the way.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1. 1050w.
“Those interested in this branch of literature will probably not be
disappointed in this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is interesting and informing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 950w.
“Having noted this exception to his title, however, it is but fair to
say that the present study has its warrant and justification. His book
is written in the interests of truth, not scandal.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 19. Ja. 11, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book contains little that is new. It is a string of
readable, very readable, gossipy anecdotes and not the portrait of an
extraordinary woman.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 277. F. ’08. 1580w.
“The story is not edifying, but it is amusing; and Mr. Gribble tells
it with a frank cynicism which is not inappropriate.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
“This volume will be valuable, from the literary and sociological
points of view, as throwing a sidelight on the romantic movement in
France. Whether it is a permanent contribution to the ‘literature of
the heart’ is quite another matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Montreux; painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis
and May Hardwicke Lewis. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The author “draws upon his intimate knowledge of the personages who
lend a fascination to the history of Geneva, and he uses Montreux as a
name to designate the whole district of the ‘Swiss Riviera,’ a vague
region stretching from Vevey to Villeneuve. Six chapters on the Castle
of Chillon, its history and associations; and some delightful sketches
of the Regicides, the Pietists, the Salvation army, Byron, Obermann,
and Madame de Warens—and ‘you see the trick on’t.’ ... The charming
illustrations in colour to this pleasant book, by J. and May Hardwicke
Lewis, are beautifully reproduced.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is interesting to see how pleasingly a skilful writer like Mr.
Gribble accomplishes a difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 270w.
“The only novelty in Mr. Gribble’s volume is the illustrations, for
the text consists almost entirely of literal transcriptions from the
same author’s ‘Lake Geneva and its literary landmarks,’ welded
together after the manner of a musical potpourri.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
“If fault could be found with Mr. Gribble’s text, it is that so much
emphasis has been placed on the various historical personages
connected with the region as to leave not enough for descriptions of
nature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 370w.
“All that has to be told about the place and people is told very
pleasantly by Mr. Gribble, and the pictures of the two artists who
co-operate have the charm which we are accustomed to look for in
Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25. ’08. 200w.
* =Gribble, Francis Henry.= Rousseau and the women he loved. *$3.75.
Scribner.
“Justification for this new life in English, of one whom Mr. John
Morley (as we still like to call his lordship) has made the subject of
an excellent biographical study, is sought for in the recent discovery
and publication, by certain delvers in French archives and private
papers, of many letters and other documents that throw new light on
the philosopher’s idiosyncrasies and demonstrate the palpable untruth
of certain portions of his own autobiography.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It presents with provoking trenchancy and thoroughness that one-sided
view of the darker aspect of Rousseau’s genius which is commonly held
in a loose, vague way. The ‘Confessions’ to judge from the evidences
of the pages before us, seems to be the only book by his author which
Mr. Gribble has studied thoroughly, and even this he misinterprets
through taking too low a view of the whole subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 566. N. 7. 820w.
“If one is interested in Rousseau’s life—and who can help being more
or less interested?—it is better to have the real facts than
falsehoods; and so Mr. Gribble has rendered a not unuseful service.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 414. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A book of real importance. He argues a good deal from biographical
premises, sometimes unsound.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 468. N. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Gribble is a careless, slipshod writer, and his work often
produces the impression of having been hurried over, its faults being
rather those of a man who doesn’t care than of one who doesn’t know.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 740w.
“Lord Morley in his famous essay on Rousseau says of the ‘Confessions’
that their pages are too often contaminated by the ‘reek of the
satyr.’ Mr. Gribble has managed, by adopting the point of view he has,
to preserve throughout his book much of this aroma without the style
which alone makes it at intervals endurable in the original.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book, almost painfully plainspoken as it sometimes is,
will be useful to the English reader of to-day, whom it invites to
realise the origin of doctrines which appeal to ‘the blindest part of
us, our sensibility.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
* =Griffis, William Elliot.= Fire-fly’s lovers, and other fairy tales of
old Japan. †$1. Crowell.
8–24870.
Representative Japanese fairy tales which include the legend of the
Fire-fly princess who holds court among the stamens of the lotus-lily,
the story of the dancing tea-kettle, and many tales of giants,
dragons, dwarfs and imps of Japan’s picturesque wonder-world.
* * * * *
“The author has studied Japan, its people, and their customs, and,
while original, the work embodies the spirit of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in
the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is a learned, novel, and interesting argument.” A. K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 512. Jl. ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Griffis’ faith in Japan’s possibilities of growth is inspiring.
An immense amount of material, geographical, legendary, archæological
and historic, produces some confusion when condensed into so small a
book, and the frequency of strange names adds further difficulty in
reading.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 273. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The work is one that should find a place in all well-ordered
libraries, as it contains precisely the very information that all
intelligent people wish to possess about this wonderful people,
presented in a most charming manner. The volume is beautifully
illustrated.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The personal element. Dr. Griffis’s own observation on the state of
society under the old régime, is the most valuable feature of the work
and distinguishes it from the numerous second hand and superficial
books on Japan now in the market.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 528. Mr. 5, ’08. 450w.
“He has brought together, in convenient though somewhat ill-ordered
shape, the results of his reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Griffis refers to his having been an educator in Japan a
generation ago. He seems not to have come into direct contact with
present conditions there.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 1100w.
“No book has yet been written which should do more than the present
volume to affirm the ground for the Japanese demand for social
equality. Dr. Griffis’s book offers a compact and highly interesting,
if highly eulogistic, history of Japan from the earliest epoch to our
own.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 509. F. 29, ’08. 1400w.
=Spec.= 100: 1006. Je. 27, ’08. 430w.
=Griffith, Elmer C.= Rise and development of the gerrymander. $1.25.
Scott.
7–36715.
A doctor’s thesis based upon exhaustive study of source material. He
discovers this form of political trickery (“the formation of election
districts on another basis than that of single and homogeneous
political units as they existed previous to the apportionment, with
boundaries arranged for partisan advantage”) a hundred years before
1812, on which latter date it took its name from Governor Gerry of
Massachusetts. He reviews the subsequent gerrymanders in various
states and the attempts to eliminate them.
* * * * *
“A painstaking investigation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 502. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
“The subject is more interesting than the manner in which it is
handled. Professor Griffith rarely philosophizes. He likewise abstains
from dealing with the subject as a sociologist. His style is at times
obscure. Viewed as a catalogue of misdoings, [the dissertation] is not
without value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 573. S. ’08. 200w.
“Aside from the first or introductory chapter, which is merely
personal opinion and poorly worked out, this is a solid piece of
research, and deserves commendation.” E. D. Fite.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 113. My. ’08. 350w.
=Grimm, Carl Robert.= Secondary stresses in bridge trusses. $2.50.
Wiley.
8–12774.
The portion of the field of bridge literature occupied by this book
has been heretofore unoccupied. “The author limits his treatment
mainly to secondary stresses due to riveted joints in trusses. After
some introductory historical notes, a consideration of the nature of
the problem and some means for its solution, he presents five methods
for the calculation of secondary stresses, devoting a chapter to each
one. The four principal methods were developed by Manderia,
Muller-Breslau, Ritter and Mohr, respectively, while the fifth one is
designated as the method of least work.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The author has rendered a valuable service to the engineering
profession in this country by writing this book which gives the
results of previous investigations and directs attention in an
effective manner to the importance of the subject. The book deserves
careful study by every engineer who is responsible for the design and
maintenance of bridges.” H: S. Jacoby.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 646. Je. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Fiji and its possibilities. il.
(Geographical lib.) **$3. Doubleday.
7–31404.
The author calls herself “a wanderer about odd corners of the globe.”
She is the first woman to penetrate into the interior of the Fiji
islands. “The reader is continually surprised at the incidents which
befell the author, and at her exposition of the manners and customs of
a people who thirty years ago were cannibals. She was received with
remarkable hospitality by the chiefs of every town through which the
party passed, and was treated with the utmost deference and respect at
all times.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“She took some very interesting photographs which alone make the book
a valuable record, and her story, though written with praiseworthy
modesty, inspires the reader with genuine admiration of her pluck. The
book would have been greatly improved by the addition of a map.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 198. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
“Though not a serious study the book gives an excellent idea of social
and economic conditions on the islands. A bulky, heavy book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“The account is very lively and interesting. It is, however, diffuse
and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 100w.
“Would be excellent were it not for lapses into subjects beyond the
writer’s competence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 133. F. 2. 860w.
“Her whole book reads as if made up of letters. She tires the reader
by repetitions, long digressions, feebly humorous passages, frequent
allusions to cannibalism, and prolix accounts of trivial and
uninteresting incidents. Her book would have been far more readable
had she confined herself to descriptions of the country and the
natives.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 107. Ja. 30, ’08. 750w.
“It is always bright and readable, but shows little literary skill.
The temptation to idealize and indulge in sentimental description has
not been overcome, but, whatever its faults, the book is a timely,
educative, and interesting work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 21. Ja. 11, ’08. 700w.
“The book is written with sympathy and evidently from a background of
extensive knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The author gives the reader an excellent though superficial idea of
the conditions under which white people live in these distant
islands.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 240. Ag. 24, ’07. 1080w.
=Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= In the strange South seas. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
8–34208.
A tourist’s impressions derived from leisurely travel among the
eastern groups of the South sea islands.
* * * * *
“Many things in it are truly excellent—notably, certain personal
descriptions, and the author’s judicious observations on lepers,
missionaries. and manners. But the book is tainted throughout with the
taint of journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 300w.
“As far as they go her conclusions are just and accurate, though, as
she seems to be unacquainted with the writings of those who preceded
her, and to rely for her information on the loose talk of traders, she
makes a good many mistakes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 360w.
“Her book is worth while. The subject matter has been covered before
in more or less appreciative fashion by many writers, but few have
approached the task with a keener sympathy, a wider vision, and a
daintier sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 380w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Vaiti of the islands. †$1.50. Wessels.
8–30710.
The heroine of this tale is the half-caste daughter of a Maori
princess and a derelict Englishmen, the drunken captain of a
trading-schooner casting about in the South seas. The primitive,
guileful, Maori nature within her wars with her English daring and
love of adventure. Aside from the interest attaching to the not easily
classified heroine, the story is interesting for its other Polynesian
types and South sea adventures.
* * * * *
“Something new in heroines, and stories, too. Her doings ... are
adventures unique and perilous enough to have sated the desires of any
wandering seeker after excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 706. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Grohman, William Adolph Baillie-.= Land in the mountains: being an
account of the past and present of Tyrol; its people and its
castles; with an introd. by C. Landis. *$3. Lippincott.
7–31993.
A fully illustrated book “which is neither a glorified form of
Baedeker nor a treatise on the science of rock-climbing, but a volume
dealing, in a fashion fitted to appeal to the ordinary reader, with
the history of Tyrol and its feudal castles.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In the present work the author is at his best.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 11. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“The pages before us are easy reading, though they disclose some signs
of haste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 231. Ag. 31. 1300w.
“To the mere ‘tripper’ who knows Tyrol only from the piazza of an
Innsbruck hotel, this book will not appeal; but to the more serious
traveller and reader it will mark a valuable contribution to the
history of a brave little land.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is an admirable book, admirably written, dealing exhaustively with
all the subjects which fall within its scope, too bulky, indeed, to
serve as the traveller’s pocket companion, even if his pockets are
large, but nevertheless invaluable to the more intelligent class of
tourists who wish to realize and understand, as well as to see, this
mountain land which the modern influx of tourists has not yet
succeeded in spoiling.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 155. My. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“The work supplies a felt want. Of the charming illustrations with
which the volume is adorned ... it is difficult to write in fitting
terms.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Meantime, not the least interestng chapter of the present volume is
the introduction by his American friend, Mr. Landis. It tells us much
of a remarkable personality and it makes us wish to hear more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“The best part of the book is concerned with the huntings of that
mighty sportsman, the Emperor Maximilian, whose fame the author has
done much to revive.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Grohman, W. A. Baillie-.= Tyrol; painted by E. Harrison Compton;
described by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. *$2. Macmillan.
Deals largely with the historical side of the subject and is written
by “an old resident, thoroughly familiar with the character and habits
of the Tyrolese peasant, as well as with the remoter districts of
Tyrol.” (Nation.) “The pictures by Mr. E. Harrison Compton which
accompany the text are far better than is usual in such volumes.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“In spite of trifling defects we can thoroughly recommend the book,
and think it will be useful to those who are planning tours.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 97. Jl. 25. 300w.
“The point of view of the insider, whose familiarity with the land and
its people is vital, is often fresher than that of the traveller or
the student.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 120w.
=Groot, C. Hofstede de.= Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most
eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century; based on the
work of John Smith by C. Hofstede de Groot (with the assistance of
Dr. W. R. Valentiner); tr. and ed. by E. G. Hawkes. 10v. v. 1,
*$7.50. Macmillan.
=v. 1.= Includes the works of Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Garard Dou,
Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, and Johannes Vermeer of Delft. “It
is essentially a catalogue and not a treatise on the art of the
painters dealt with, though to each is given a short biographical
note.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The critical scholarship of Dr. de Groot and the wealth of research
lavished on the work by his assistants will render this publication
precious for a long time to come.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 159. Ag. 8. 2350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 170. Ap. ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A useful undertaking, and seems to have been conscientiously and
thoroughly carried out.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; ed.
by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 4.= Begins with an article on Quadrille and continues thru the
biographical sketch of Marie Szymanowska.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Complaint was made years ago that there was no sense of proportion in
this dictionary, and we fear the same objection still holds good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 107. Jl. 25. 770w. (Review of v. 4.)
“But why should such a dignified and important musical work of
reference be disfigured with such a hodge-podge of mediocre and
poorly-executed illustrations in these days of pictorial excellence?”
G: P. Upton.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The volume is marked by many of the admirable qualities which have
distinguished its predecessors. Unfortunately this fourth volume also
contains more than its share of blemishes and mistakes.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 897. O. 15, ’08. 688w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 79. Jl. 23, ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes-.= Hilary on her own. +$1.50.
Baker.
8–24457.
The story of a spirited young girl, who finding her home atmosphere
stifling, breaks away from it and goes to London to look for a
secretaryship. The hardships of position-hunting are leavened by the
girl’s frankness and irresistible sense of humor, which qualities
recommend her to readers, young and old.
* * * * *
“Passing over manners, which would have horrified Jane Austen, she is
a genuine living being, worth knowing for her hearty picturesque talk
and her power of humorous characterization.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 230w.
“The subject is hackneyed enough, but the tale is written with a
freshness of touch and a constant liveliness of fancy that makes it
entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Guest, Antony.= Art and the camera. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35390.
A book which makes its appeal especially to “those who wish to attain
greater skill in rendering colour in monochrome.” It is a “practical
guide-book to the methods of making artistic prints from photographic
negatives. The proper appreciation of the artistic possibilities of a
subject, the rules governing point of view, composition, lighting and
the like, are dwelt upon; and afterward the method of treating
negative and print in order to produce such qualities as are shown in
the pictures which illustrate the book.”
* * * * *
“There is a singular freedom from banality and platitude in his
book ... and a pleasing absence of the irritating split infinitive.
Scattered through the pages are remarks which reveal much keenness of
insight and bring a thrill of appreciation to the reader. One
pronouncement of Mr. Guest’s, that the task of the worker without
colour—the photographer—demands a keener perception of tones than that
of the painter, seems to call for some demur.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 794. Ag. 17, ’07. 1720w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 218. Ag. 24. 80w.
“Mr. Guest’s position is a thoroughly sound and reasonable one; he
makes no extravagant claims for photography.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 337. O. ’07. 160w.
* =Gulick, Luther Halsey, and Ayres, Leonard P.= Medical inspection of
schools. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–31120.
A by-product of the “Backward children investigation,” research work
supported by the Russell Sage foundation. It is a practical, reliable,
frank presentation of facts gathered from the study of “retardation”
among school-children, a knowledge of which aids in the “betterment
and safeguarding of the health and vitality of the future citizens of
America.”
* * * * *
“Cautious without quenching enthusiasm, lucidly exhaustive and
admirably arranged, the monograph will assist not a little in the
great work, scarcely begun, of supplying the sound body that is needed
for the sound mind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“A refreshingly optimistic study of many subjects which will appeal
not only to the teacher, but also to the layman. His psychology is, in
the main, sound, although his desire to express himself in colloquial
language at times leads him astray. His indebtedness to Prof. William
James, which is evident throughout the book, might well have been more
often acknowledged.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
H
=Haber, Fritz.= Thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions: seven
lectures; tr. by Arthur B. Lamb; with 20 figures. *$3. Longmans.
8–19027.
The author “endeavors to make clear the significance of heat factors
in gas reactions, with especial reference to the specific heats of the
interacting substances and to the heat evolved during the reaction.
The gathering of these lectures into book form has been for the
purpose of effecting a contribution to technical, rather than to
theoretical, chemistry, and the aim of the author has been to present
in the clearest manner the application of the mechanical theory to
chemistry.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It is a work that will thoroughly interest chemical engineers and
metallurgists.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The whole work is suggestive, illuminating and unique, and should
prove most valuable to those who desire to study certain of the
phenomena observable during the explosion of gaseous mixtures. The
work of the translator has been done most satisfactorily.” L. S.
Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 730w.
“While chemical thermodynamics is certainly still far from having
reached finality, it is important for our chemical engineers to know
what has been accomplished. This book is an excellent guide for this
purpose, although it is by no means easy reading.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 550w.
“After a single perusal of the book the reader may not appreciate the
infinite pains, or the critical acumen amounting nearly to
inspiration, with which the author has extracted the truth from a
great mass of uncertain and frequently contradictory experimental
material.” G. N. Lewis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 344. S. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of
English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
=v. 3.= Completes the “treasury” and extends from the Jacobean to the
Victorian writers.
* * * * *
“While fully recognizing the excellent intention of this work, we have
some doubts as to its utility.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 181. Ag. 15. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In general, the brief critical remarks in the introductions are
well-balanced despite their extreme brevity and occasional wit.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hague, Charles Arthur.= Pumping engines for water works. *$5.
McGraw pub.
7–42484.
“Furnishes in language as free from technicalities as practicable a
description of the principles upon which pumping engines operate, a
brief outline of their development and a detailed discussion of their
parts, without taking up the actual computation and drafting-room
practice of the designer.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The book is worth criticising and well worth improving in a
subsequent edition.” n.s. Hill, jr.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 294. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“The book is far the best work on pumping engines that we have in
English at the present time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Haile, Martin.= James Francis Edward, “the Old Chevalier.” *$4.
Dutton.
8–15743.
A study “of Jacobitism in relation to wider issues. The author is
thoroughly alive to the significance of the Orleans-Hanover compact;
does justice to the Quadruple alliance in its bearing on the Jacobite
expedition of 1719; explains the attempt of James to mediate between
France and Austria in 1735, and shows how serious a blow to his hopes
was the renewal of hostilities between those powers in 1740.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A painstaking study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 950w.
“As a study of personality, of the Jacobite movement in England, and
of the views of a Stuart restoration held by the great powers of
Europe, Mr. Haile’s work will be found both thorough and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“On some points his researches seem to have been thorough and
complete; but on many other matters he appears to have contented
himself with _a priori_ deductions.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 41. Jl. 16, ’08. 670w.
“Is really an historical study of an exceedingly interesting epoch.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“Admirably complete and readable volume. The constant introduction of
quotation marks tends to destroy the illusion and impede the
narrative.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Haile does more than merely write a biography of the Old
Pretender; he gives us a thoroughgoing and most valuable study of
English Jacobitism, based in many of its details on material hitherto
inaccessible to the historian.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 121. My. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“Interesting but often too lengthy chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Valuable to student, and to general readers interested in the
subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08.
“The author is notably open-minded and fair.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Haines sees as a railway man—he sees as truly as one of the great
travelling and shipping and consuming public. The tone and the temper
are as admirable as though he might be a university professor of
railway economics engaged in academic discussion. His book is an
admirable chapter added to the fruitful discussion of railway
problems.” J: J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“Faults of form and substance do of necessity detract much from the
value of the book; but it must not be supposed that it is without
merit.”
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 33. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Other similar utterances seem to indicate that the book was hurriedly
compiled and failed to receive proper revision; it certainly did not
receive adequate proof-reading.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 394. Ja. ’08. 310w.
“The author’s wide experience in railway affairs and his acquaintance
with the theoretical side reveal themselves in a clear statement of
the development of common carrier service, and of American railway
regulation. We note only two errors of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 322. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Haines has written so much on the railway question that it was
evidently difficult for him to advance any new ideas.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans: the story of the South
American republics. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Somewhat superficial, but reliable and very useful for general
information. Popular in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. ✠
“He will give the average reader a better appreciation of the south
continent and the people, but with all this there is still much to be
desired. There is no unity of treatment.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 203. Mr. ’08. 170w.
“No recent book on South America is so well adapted to the needs of
the general reader as is this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“This book deserves careful reading. It is too obviously made up of
miscellaneous magazine articles written at various periods and loosely
connected with each other. Still it makes easy and interesting
reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is written in a readable manner and sympathetic attitude.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“As long as Mr. Hale confines himself to the details of travel his
work is not only helpful, but interesting. Unfortunately, he felt
called upon to enter the field of broad philosophical analysis.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 360w.
“Very informative volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, George Ellery.= Study of stellar evolution: an account of
some recent methods of astrophysical research. (Decennial
publications, 2d ser., v. 10.) *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–18034.
The modification of the author’s original project to furnish a
handbook to the Yerkes observatory has resulted in the adoption of the
plan of describing a connected series of investigation, laying special
stress on the observational methods employed, in the hope of
explaining clearly how the problem of stellar evolution is studied.
“The book is one that does not require great technical familiarity,
either with astronomy or with physics.... For the physicist, however,
and especially for one who has experience with the difficulties and
the charm of the experimental side of his subject the book possesses a
fascination that is quite unusual.” (Phys. R.) There are over one
hundred plates.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“Is of the greatest value to all who are following the developments of
what is emphatically called the new astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 580w.
“Interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 44. Jl. 16, ’08. 360w.
“The last part is particularly suggestive and valuable to amateur
observers who are provided with moderate sized telescopes and who are
skilled in photography.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 700w.
“The author writes of problems to whose solution he has himself made
important contributions, of instruments which he has designed, or
investigations with which, owing to his acquaintance with other
astrophysicists, he has a thorough personal familiarity. This fact,
together with the pleasing style and complete absence of any trace of
egotism, gives to the book a character and charm that are rarely met
with.”
+ + =Phys. R.= 26: 549. Je. ’08. 520w.
“It is non-technical, readable and gives a clear explanation of the
purposes and observational methods employed by the author in his
notable researches upon the sun and the chemistry of the stars.” C: L.
Poor.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 804. D. 4, ’08. 540w.
=Univ. Rec.= 13: 24. Jl. ’08. 760w.
=Hale, William Bayard.= A week in the White house with Theodore
Roosevelt: a study of the president at the nation’s business.
**$1.25. Putnam.
8–17769.
An accurate, realistic picture of President Roosevelt as he appears at
close hand actually engaged in the arduous duties of his office. The
chapter headings are as follows: The president in the White house, A
view of the president at work, The spirit of the White house, A
typical day with the president, A cabinet day at the White house,
Giving audiences to two hundred, An estimate of Mr. Roosevelt, and The
president on Mr. Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“It is written effectively and at times picturesquely, if not
photographically. One feels that it is all quite true.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 162. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
=Hall, Bolton.= A little land and a living; introd. by William
Borsodi. $1. Arcadia press.
8–19079.
In no way a repetition of the author’s “Three acres and liberty.” The
book was stimulated by a letter from Mr. Borsodi to Mr. Hall in which
the former points to the farm as the real hope, the one ray of
sunshine that is destined to lighten the burden and cheer the lives of
the needy of our large cities. Its aim is that of encouraging the
overworked wage earner to reach out for a better, saner living, thru
cultivating the little lands.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“We heartily recommend this work to all our readers who live on the
land and to all those who dream of some time coming into intimate
touch with the Great Mother.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 382. O. ’08. 600w.
“The effort to turn towards the land the superfluous population of the
cities ... is one that deserves all encouragement not alone for
economic but also for higher interests.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 112. O. ’08. 360w.
“His argument is marred by many divagations of one sort or another.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 80w.
“Lacks in systematic and personal apprehension of the question, but is
full of stimulant.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 400w.
“The book should be read not only by those who are immediately
interested in improving their life’s prospect, but by those whose
prosperity enables them to consider means for the betterment of others
less fortunately situated in the matter of worldly goods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“All readers who became interested in the suggestions offered by Mr.
Hall in the introductory book will find the facts given in its sequel
to be even more valuable and to the purpose.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 80w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 520w.
=Hall, Francis Joseph.= Authority: ecclesiastical and biblical.
**$1.50. Longmans.
8–10429.
A discussion of the subject from “the viewpoint of the anti-Protestant
wing of the Episcopal church. The author notes and makes acute if not
convincing replies to the objections of Protestant writers, who
understand ‘ecclesiastical infallibility’ differently from
him.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is difficult to reconcile his idea of authority with the modern
world, which is insistent on the freedom of inquiry, and is filled
with the spirit of democracy. Dr. Hall’s reconciliation is not likely
to stand; he must go one way or the other, or else sit down between
two stools.” E. S. Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
− =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Hall, Rev. Francis Joseph.= Introduction to dogmatic theology.
**$1.50. Longmans.
7–14566.
“The first of an intended series of ten volumes, covering the entire
theological field as commonly outlined. The aim is instructive rather
than investigative.... The declaration that ‘every particular Catholic
church’ possesses ‘authority in doctrine,’ and his claim that ‘these
doctrines are contained in a deposit of faith which was committed to
the church of God in pentecostal days; that it is the double advantage
of a Catholic theologian that he is taught the premises of his science
by the Spirit-guided church, and receives sacramental grace within the
church to master the truth thus conveyed to him,’ sufficiently
indicate his accepted limitations and the class of readers he may
expect to reach.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George Cross.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 162. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“It requires but moderate acquaintance with the writings of
representative Anglicans to be aware that this work will not be
accepted as a standard by the Anglican church as a body, but at most a
strong minority party in it, the so-called Anglo-Catholics.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=Hall, H. Fielding.= Inward light. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–2180.
A book to be read in connection with the author’s “Soul of a people.”
It develops the “great and vital principle of truth that underlies
Buddhism.” It analyzes the evolution of a soul as it comes into the
consciousness of its spiritual power and manifests symbolic perfection
of body.
* * * * *
“Charming, even enchanting in style, but lacks serious acquaintance
with facts, and mingles beauty and truth with partial statements and
actually false conclusions.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“This work contains twenty-two chapters, not one of which the
thoughtful reader will be willing to leave unread. Many of them will
call for a second perusal because of the light they throw on many
problems that have for ages perplexed the brain of man.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 486. Ap. ’08. 3500w.
“It is impossible to deny that the ‘call of the East’ is clear and
alluring in these pages, or that the ‘long long thoughts’ of which the
book is a presentation are not quietly and effectively set forth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 12. Jl. 4. 380w.
“Charming, even enchanting, is this bit of philosophy disguised as a
work of fiction. But as a presentation of Buddhism it lacks all the
marks of serious acquaintance with originals or reality.” W: E.
Griffis.
− + =Dial.= 44: 243. Ap. 16, ’08. 650w.
“In the discussion of various details, such as transmigration, the law
of recompense, etc., Mr. Hall is a safe enough guide; but in his tone,
in his interpretation of the spirit, he is at the antipodes of the
truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“It would be hard to find a better expression of the gentle spirit of
Gautama, the Buddha, than is given in this book. The book is a joy to
read.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 1100w.
“A mingling of beauty and truth with partial statements and actually
false conclusions. It will attract the superficial reader by its
glowing language and entertain the more sober mind by its constant
challenge to his thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 561. Mr. 7, ’08. 550w.
“The style is charming.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 512. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=Hall, S. Roland.= How to get a position and how to keep it, with
special hints to various classes of applicants. **50c. Funk.
8–22077.
Hard work is the keynote to the success which Mr. Hall preaches. He
gives practical advice on the choice of an occupation; on letters of
application; on personal application and letters of recommendation.
There are also special hints to various classes of applicants, and a
closing chapter on Keeping positions and winning promotions.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
“Even those who have already had practical experience, as well as the
business novitiate in wage-earning, can learn much from Mr. Hall’s
book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 453. Ag. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Hamel, Frank.= Famous French salons. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
The salon history of French society from early in the seventeenth to
early in the nineteenth century—from the Marquise de Rambouillet to
Madame Récamier. Each of the nine leaders of salons is sketched in the
light of her special gift for attracting and holding the brilliant
minds of the day; as, for instance, the wit of Madame du Deffaud and
the literary tastes of Mme. Récamier.
* * * * *
“The narrative is in each case well told, and the author is skilful in
selecting from his authorities the passages which have abiding human
interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 380w.
“A pleasant and interesting book on an agreeable subject. He has
chosen nine famous ladies ... in some instances his choice cannot be
disputed; in others it can.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 470w.
=Hamilton, Cecily.= Diana of Dobson’s. †$1.50. Century.
8–19716.
A London shop-girl of spirit chafing under the tyranny of Dobson’s
drapery establishment comes to open rebellion upon the eve of a
windfall. She inherits three hundred pounds, determines to go straight
to Paris and to enjoy clothes, freedom, and fun so long as her little
fortune lasts. At the end of a month she is penniless but has found a
lover, a titled Englishman, whom she dismisses but finds again in a
later state of great want.
* * * * *
“Lively, unobjectionable story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“Though as literature this novel cannot be said to rank high, it is
incomparably better than the general popular novel that appeals to the
summer reader. It is a bright, interesting and rather unique love
story, but it possesses a merit far beyond this.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 393. O. ’08. 870w.
“The impression remains with the reader of a brisk little story
written with perfect taste, while it is at heart a genuine song of the
sons and daughters of Martha.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 170w.
“The decided charm of this book lies in its clear, unlabored
delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Hamilton, Clarence G.= Outlines of music history. $1.50. Ditson.
8–7604.
A concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented
in the light of recent research. It is designed for the general reader
and the student. It treats alien musical systems; mediaeval music;
epoch of vocal counterpoint; development of monophony; Bach, Handel,
Gluck; perfection of the sonata form; transition to the romantic
style; nineteenth century romanticists, opera, and composers; and the
music of the present day.
* * * * *
“It is an excellent little book, fully abreast of modern musical
scholarship.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A concise survey of the whole field of musical development.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“A volume commendably free from superfluous facts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Hamilton, Clayton Meeker.= Materials and methods of fiction; with
an introd. by Brander Matthews. **$1.50. Baker.
8–17693.
A constructive study of the art of fiction from which amateurs who
have the professional goal in view may see how great fiction has been
and must be written. From a study of novels and short stories the
author deduces and formulates the general principles of the art of
fiction, emphasizing well the importance of understanding the relation
between fact and fiction, the distinction between the actual and the
real. The book recommends itself to college students, young authors,
club members, circulating libraries and general readers. The best
specimens of short story which literature affords are used thruout for
the illustration of principles.
* * * * *
“Particularly well adapted for general reading. It does not cover the
subject completely and is of comparatively small value for serious
study beside Perry’s ‘Study of prose fiction.’”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“In general the book is no less admirable in expression than in
conception: clear and concrete, full of delightful niceties of detail,
and not seldom rising into style.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 53. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“There is plenty of real cerebration, and thoughtful novel readers may
gain considerable information and some points of view that will be
both new and valuable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“It is, all in all, a suggestive, informing, and thoroughly
interesting book, if not profound. The subject scarcely warrants
profundity. The book becomes a sort of general survey of the best
fiction, helping to revive pleasant memories, to introduce the young
readers to writers previously known only by repute. It is a good plan
and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 660w.
“It is not too much to say that the very real value of Mr. Hamilton’s
book depends far less upon direct and specific research involved in it
than upon a certain wise and healthful outlook upon life in general,
that lies at the basis of his careful and logical subdivision of his
book. It has this vital quality of a book that is really worth while,
that where it fails to convince it helps you to clarify your own
reasons for believing just the opposite.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 621. O. ’08. 830w.
“Should be of value to college students, to young authors, and to
literary clubs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.= Butt Chanler, freshman. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27804.
A rousing college tale with intimate characterizations of the
prevailing customs among American college students of to-day. The hero
is a young freshman who is subjected to the usual round of initiatory
hazing, to the usual athletic physical hardening process: and in spite
of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, is proven to be morally
straight and true. There is the usual campus and gridiron setting.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 90w.
=Hamlin, Myra Sawyer.= Persis Putnam’s treasure. †$1.25. Little.
8–30931.
One of the “Nan” stories which follows the rescue of a wealthy girl
from morbidness by a group of healthy happy campers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Hammerton, John Alexander.= In the track of R. L. Stevenson and
elsewhere in old France. *$2.40. Scribner.
7–38531.
The author, an enthusiastic follower of Stevenson, devotes nearly a
half of his book to the track of the Travels with a donkey and An
inland voyage. He goes over the ground supplementing his observations
with extracts from what Stevenson wrote about places in the course.
Further rambles in Le Puy, in the country of the Camisards and in the
town of Tartarin are equally interesting.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 330w.
“A parasitic growth, and a fairly heavy one.”
− =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It would be a delightful thing to devote three or four months to a
journey in France, with Mr. Hammerton’s book to show the way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, 08. 800w.
“This is a pleasant book, and may give some hints for future
holidays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1101. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
* =Hammond, Eleanor Prescott.= Chaucer: a bibliographical manual. *$3.
Macmillan.
8–28623.
“Without including annotation of the Chaucerian text (except a few
well-known cruces), or allusions to Chaucer, or the lighter ‘literary’
essays, or ‘third-hand’ biographies, the author has nevertheless
filled a volume of nearly six hundred pages with references, well
digested abstracts, independent criticisms, and judiciously selected
extracts dealing with all phases of Chaucer’s life and works, as well
as the works (in a group by themselves) which have been printed with
Chaucer’s or attributed to him.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As far as we have tested the book, all the important works on Chaucer
are noted in the proper places, and there are very few errors of
citation or misprints. The index is good. As far as the author’s work
is concerned, then, we have little but praise of the volume, which
represents the labor of years.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Her book, as a rule, is marked by a freshness which does not belong
to the mere compiler’s work. It is to be regretted, however, that Miss
Hammond should so frequently neglect to give the dates of the
manuscripts. There is only one omission worth mentioning.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Trail of the badger: a story of the
Colorado border thirty years ago. †$1.50. Wilde.
The subject of desert reclamation is handled here in a vivid picture,
of life on the southern border of Colorado “where the fringes of two
discordant civilizations overlapped each other—the strenuous
Anglo-Saxon and the easy-going Mexican.” Two boys, alert, and
physically fit, encounter all sorts of dangers in the way of enemies
and wild animals while endeavoring to reclaim a stretch of worthless
desert waste.
* * * * *
“The boys of to-day will find it interesting to compare the conditions
here depicted with those that exist at the present time, a single
generation later.”
+ N. Y, Times. 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2.
Houghton.
8–28422.
A biography which brings to bear upon the increasing store of facts
concerning Keats’ life, the latter day methods of interpretation and
valuation. This sketch is characterized by “an informing of the
progressive development of Keats’ genius, the filling in of the
background of his life with new authentic and specific details, the
interpretation of his poems by his letters and a brilliant account of
the posthumous growth of his reputation.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Hancock is inclined to write staccato. His first few chapters
especially strain for effect. The interpretative portion of Professor
Hancock’s work, however, is the noteworthy feature of his book.” W. E.
Simonds.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 341. N. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“Its success is due to scholarly co-ordination of facts and sane
reasoning upon them; its failure is simply that Professor Hancock is
too unlike John Keats. Professor Hancock for the most part brings out
admirably those component events and experiences which went to the
making of Keats. He depicts well many phases of the man: what he
misses is the very man himself—the central note of his nature by which
all is to be understood. And yet the book is well worth reading.”
Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 584. D. ’08. 3000w.
“A book which is indeed the life of a poet, written by a man stirred
by his subject, realizing and making the reader realize those
essentials that made Keats Keats, rather than harping on those
qualities which he shared with ordinary men, Mr. Hancock has made use
of much new material in this book, material which has come to light
since Houghton’s and Colvin’s lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 140w.
=Hancock, Elizabeth Hazlewood.= Betty Pembroke. $1.50. Neale.
7–41586.
All about a tender-hearted, true-to-self young Virginia maid and her
friends and lovers.
=Handbook= of learned societies and institutions: America. $4.
Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= “This first volume deals with societies in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America. Each entry
commences with the official name of the society or institution, its
postal address, and the name of the official, if any, to whom
communications should be addressed. Notes of its history are given,
including dates of foundation and incorporation and changes of name
and organisation, and if it possesses a library the number of volumes
is stated; its object; time and place of meeting; number of members
and fees; the exact titles of its publications and any special
publications; the mode of distribution of publications; and a
statement of research funds and prizes.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Includes neither art museums nor libraries, though the admission of
such libraries and art galleries as publish real contributions to
knowledge would have enhanced the value of the work. The further
omission of medical and agricultural societies and institutions, and
of civic leagues must also be regarded as a serious drawback. Within
its field, however, the book cannot fail to be highly appreciated by
librarians and scientific workers in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 207. S. 3, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Cannot fail to be of great use to those interested in American
societies and their work; its production reflects great credit on all
concerned with its preparation and publication.” H. M.
+ =Nature.= 78: 340. Ag. 13, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Haney, John Louis.= Name of William Shakespeare: a study of
orthography. *$1. Egerton press.
7–18135.
Aims “to present in convenient form the principal facts that have been
elicited concerning the origin and etymology of the name and the
vicissitudes of its orthography at various periods of its history.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Although here and there the essay has a more controversial air,
perhaps, than its author intended, it is, on the whole, a fair,
complete, and clear exposition of the subject. So far as we have
observed, it takes account of every scrap of evidence available, up to
the time that it went to print.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 283. O. 4, ’06. 340w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other
educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
A practical rather than theoretical treatment of some vital
present-day educational questions. The first part deals specifically
with problems of industrial education in this country, with vocational
education, under state auspices; and the second, with some of the
results obtained in the secondary schools of Germany.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Gilbert Neal. †$1.50. Harper.
8–27805.
The fact that Gilbert Neal for a third time mortgages everything he
possesses to keep a lawless, worthless brother from the penitentiary
plays small part in this tale except to show the qualities of the
young hero’s character. The serious work of the author is the
portrayal of the three characters in a fatal triangle and the
relations of the hero to each. One of the three, the long suffering
wife of a dissolute minister, is the hero’s good angel, who teaches
him moderation by saving him from the rash acts of hot headed
chivalry.
* * * * *
“The only human being in the story is one Daggart, village
store-keeper and money-lender, and, as he says, ‘just a natural man,
by hunky.’”
− + =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 320w.
=Harding, John William.= Chorus lady; novelized from James Forbes’
play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–10283.
In this novelization the heroine of the play loses neither her
penchant for testing the whole gamut of slang nor her unafraid
attitude toward sturdy sacrifice.
* * * * *
“It would be absurd to pretend that the book is as delightful as the
play, but it is a creditable and interesting discharge of a difficult
task, and is perhaps the best of recent novelizations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Harding, John William.= Paid in full, by Eugene Walter; a story of
modern American life, novelized from the play by John W. Harding.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16949.
The novelization of a popular play of the season. It is a story of
married life in which a whining, weak-willed husband takes to blaming
capital, his employer, and his own loyal wife for the ill success
which follows in the wake of his anarchism. He becomes a defaulter,
thrusts his wife, at the sacrifice of her womanhood, between him and
the prison walls which loom up before him. She pays in full her debt
of obligation to him by begging his employer, of doubtful morals, for
mercy. In the dénouement, the hard hand of the capitalist puts on the
velvet glove; Jimsy, the faithful friend, proves his allegiance, but
the husband pursues the way of the lost soul to the suicide’s grave.
* * * * *
“There has been no falling off in the dramatic interest and no serious
blurring of the characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Harding, John William.= The time, the place and the girl; from the
play of Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. †$1. Dillingham.
8–22547.
A story based upon the play, “The time, the place and the girl.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 180w.
=Hardy, Thomas.= The dynasts. 3 pts. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
=pt. 3.= “In this Part III we see the career of Napoleon in a
convulsed Europe draw to its close in the colossal tragedy whose main
features are the burning of Moscow and the retreat of the Grand army
through the horrors of the Russian winter, the battle of Leipzig, the
abdication of the Emperor, Elba, the return, and Waterloo.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Never has Mr. Hardy’s constructive genius mastered so completely as
in his latest work difficulties arising from mass of material.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 615. My. 16. 1000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“There is not a line of poetry in ‘Dynasts.’ Had Mr. Hardy attempted
true drama, he must have failed lamentably; but the fact is, he has
attempted something else—to get a certain pictorial effect by
irregular means—and he has not failed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 486. Jl. ’08. 1150w. (Review of pts. 1–3.)
“With the third section, now completing the work, we become conscious
of a precipitation, still somewhat cloudy, of the æsthetical, ethical,
and philosophical elements hitherto held in solution, and we feel that
a great task has been worthily performed.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 307. My. 16, ’08. 2000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“From the beginning of the sixth act in the famous ballroom at
Brussels to the final scene in the wood of Bossu where Napoleon broods
over his defeat, Mr. Hardy is at his very best, and in this kind
outside of the chronicle plays of Shakespeare there is none better.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 353. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w. (Review of pt. 1 and
3.)
“The stage is enormous and heroic, but the whole vast play is seen in
every corner and from every point of view at once in amazing
particularity and with a remembrance of its part in the cosmic
scheme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 249. My. 2, ’08. 2500w. (Review of pt.
1–3.)
“Taking the completed poem, we feel that the poet has attained unity,
and that the dramatic quality of the whole is his great achievement.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 462. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
* =Hare, Christopher.= Courts and camps of the Italian renaissance;
being a mirror of the life and times of the ideal gentleman, Count
Baldassare Castiglione. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare not merely epitomizes Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ itself, but
gives a discursive account of the author’s life and of the stirring
events which he saw. Castiglione’s biography was well worth presenting
in this fashion, and ‘The courtier’ is always in order. The contacts
which such a man has with the great ones of his age, furnish a better
insight into the human side of the renaissance than we often get when
our attention is primarily directed to Alexander VI, or Julius II, or
to the ambitious princes who competed for secular prizes.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Many portraits from well-known paintings enhance the impression of
reality which Mr. Hare’s agreeable narrative makes upon us.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 140w.
“Altogether Mr. Hare awakens an active desire to possess the
‘Cortegiano’ in its entirety, and what more could any enthusiastic
biographer do for his subject?” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 900w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Life of Louis XI, the rebel dauphin and the
statesman king from his original letters and other documents.
*$2.50. Scribner.
W7–182.
A biography whose material has been supplied chiefly by Louis’s
“lettres missives” and “pieces justificatives.” “The two great
figures, Louis of France and Charles of Burgundy, sometimes grotesque
and sometimes terrible, move against a background of civil wars,
desperate sieges, inhuman horrors without end. England with its Wars
of the roses is closely connected with France and French politics
through the unlucky Queen Margaret. Further off in the picture is the
always welcome and delightful presence of her father, the good King
René, happy and beloved through all contemporary storms.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Although based on new material, not scholarly in the highest sense.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 184. Je. ’08.
“A cardinal defect of the book as a whole is that the light is not
sufficiently concentrated. The excellence of the illustrations goes
far to redeem the shortcomings of the text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 611. N. 16. 1680w.
“This ‘most difficult period of history’ presents a network of tangled
politics and a snarl of interminable feuds; and the patience and skill
with which Mr. Hare has threaded his way through it all deserves
praise.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 530w.
“A new study that aims at supplementing the work of preceding
historians.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 139. Ag. 13, ’08. 600w.
“There is no attempt in this volume to idealize the man, but
dispassionate evidence is adduced to show that his crimes are to be
considered less from the point of view of personal morality than from
their aspect of national purpose in an era when France was struggling
to be released from the evils of feudalism.” G. S. Heilman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
“Mr. Hare may be congratulated on having opened a fresh field—at least
a fresh point of view—to English readers.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 778. N. 16, ’07. 1460w.
=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= His first leave. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–35365.
The author of “Paul and Fiammetta” tells another story in which
sympathy for childhood abounds. The hero is an Indian civil servant on
leave in England, the heroine, a “high-minded, merry-hearted English
girl”; while the other characters are an unprincipled Jew, an English
woman, her neglected child, Roger, and a number of lesser individuals
culled from the Cockshot Hills.
* * * * *
“The plot is very slight but the book contains an interesting group of
characters who are, for the most part, well worth knowing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“Mrs. Harker does not always succeed in keeping a tendency to
sentimentality under control; but so healthy is the tone of the book,
and so agreeable its style, that the final impression it leaves is
distinctly pleasing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 723. D. 7. 180w.
“Possesses the initial merit of a genuine charm of style. But, on the
other hand, the construction of the story is distinctly loose.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
“A readable little story for women.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A slight, pleasant story which it is a little difficult to appreciate
at its proper value. Perhaps because the author treats her characters
too subjectively, over-editing them, as it were, we feel sure that we
should like them all better if we met them in real life than we do
through anything that they do or say in her pages.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The plot never thickens and the incidents barely link themselves into
a chain; but they are made pleasant reading by the characterization,
which is the strong point of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“But the charm of the book lies in the delicate understanding, shown
by the author, of real human nature. The people are distinct
individuals. Each one stands out clearly—faulty, attractive, merry,
and true, just such a circle of associations as we would choose for
ourselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A pretty, readable story, a little sentimental in spirit, and
conventional in design perhaps, but fresh and wholesome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
* =Harker, Lizzie Allen.= Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly. †$1.50.
Scribner.
8–25368.
“This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more
charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and
the little boys English, and the scene is laid entirely in
Scotland.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Will find appreciative readers among lovers of child life or of quiet
stories like ‘Cranford,’ with which, however, it suffers by
comparison.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08.
“This is a story of exceptional charm. A good style, idyllic
simplicity, originality, and tenderness add to the attractions of a
work light alike in theme and treatment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 170w.
“Is full of charm and delicacy, with a touch now and then of quiet but
delicious humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 571. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
“All lovers of children should read this delicate little study, which,
if it cannot escape the accusation of sentimentality, is at any rate
very charmingly and sincerely written.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 180w.
=Harland, Marion, pseud.= Housekeeper’s week. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23880.
A preliminary chapter entitled Her house in order, is followed by
sixteen chapters outlining work for each day of the week, and eight
chapters on such topics as marketing, sewing and mending day, care of
the body, domestic materia medica, domestic surgery, care of the sick
and miscellaneous hints.
* * * * *
“The book is a compendium of information that will appeal not only to
the young and inexperienced housekeeper, but also to her of longer and
wider experience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“This new work seems to gather up the fragments of her overflowing
domestic knowledge and experience and present them in a clear and
attractive manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is a skilful grouping of suggestions regarding the various forms
of housework under the days of the week.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 50w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= New Testament studies; 2, The sayings of Jesus,
the second source of St. Matthew and St. Luke; tr. by Rev. J. R.
Wilkinson. (Crown lib., v. 23.) *$1.75. Putnam.
8–14753.
“Presents Harnack’s recent discussion of ‘Q,’ the common
discourse-source used by Matthew and Luke, to English readers. Harnack
reconstructs this source, and declares it to be the work of the age of
the apostles, perhaps of the apostle Matthew himself, and more ancient
than Mark, for it shows no Pauline influence.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Harnack’s ‘contribution’ is the most thorough that has yet appeared;
immeasurably superior to the attempts of Wendt and Resch, an advance
also, chiefly by its greater detail, upon the truly scholarly work of
Hawkins, Wernle, and Burton. It suffers, however, from the very
rigidity of the author’s method.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 650. O. ’08. 500w.
“The book will not destroy Prof. Harnack’s reputation as a higher
critic whose scholarship leads him to no wanton attack on religion,
and whose criticisms are distinguished by sobriety of judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 431. O. 10. 550w.
“It is unfortunate that so rigid a two-document hypothesis underlies
this stimulating book.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“The work is an important one for critical study of New Testament
literature and the life of Christ.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His acuteness, vigour and freshness make the dullest details
interesting. In his reconstruction of the original ‘Q,’ however, we
follow him with caution and some slight misgivings.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“We cannot always accept Professor Harnack’s criticism, but it is
acute and enlightening.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 942. Je. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Harper, Robert Francis; Brown, Francis; and Moore, George F.=, eds.
Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey
Harper. 2v. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
Twenty-six essays contributed by prominent men in fourteen
institutions of learning which constitute a tribute to the memory of
Dr. Harper and form a worthy expression of the scholarship which it
was his life work to promote.
* * * * *
“The volumes are a mark of progress as well as a testimonial to a
great teacher. Reading them with an open mind we have reason not only
to be thankful for the past but to be hopeful for the future.” H: P.
Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 251. Ap. ’08. 1800w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 504. Ap. 25. 1100w.
“The whole constitutes a fitting testimony to the esteem felt by
American scholars for a peerless teacher, an eminent scholar, and a
great man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“It goes without saying that the book as a whole is worthy of its
purpose in scope, content, and execution, and reflects much credit on
contributors and editors alike.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 466. Je. ’08. 3400w.
“Two noble volumes of scholarly treatises.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 250w.
“All the articles are fresh, scholarly studies of serious matters
connected with Semitic or Old Testament learning. A magnificent
monument.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 420. F. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ + =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“The introductory essay ... is a careful and discriminating study of
Dr. Harper and his work. The remaining essays are technical in
character presenting little of interest except to Old Testament
students.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from its memorial significance, this collection of critical
studies is a distinct and valuable contribution to the work to which
President Harper devoted his life.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 220w.
“A fitting tribute to a scholar’s memory, and such as a scholar would
desire to have!”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 485. O. 17, ’08. 1000w.
“In scholarship and dignity of form are noble memorials to the
enthusiasm for research that characterized the first president of the
university.”
+ =Univ. Rec.= 12: 160. Ap. ’08. 580w.
=Harper, Walter Benjamin.= Utilization of wood waste by
distillation: a general consideration of the industry of wood
distilling, including a description of the apparatus used and the
principles involved. *$3. St. Louis lumberman, St. Louis, Mo.
7–37257.
Aims to make good “the lack of literature on the subject of wood
distillation, particularly that which relates to the treatment of
resinous woods.” The author presents “the different phases of his
subject in such a manner that it might be readily comprehended by
persons lacking a preliminary scientific education, the information
contained being thought sufficient to enable such, if suitably
located, to establish and operate a distilling plant on a sound
basis.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“Should prove of essential value to lumber men and others interested
in the industry, in furnishing them with a treatise founded on a
correct conception of the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A brief bibliography ... unfortunately, for the most part, consists
of titles, only, without dates, publishers, etc.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 370w.
* =Harraden, Beatrice.= Interplay. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–29739.
“The central situation of this story is a new one. A woman, unhappily
married, runs away with a lover, whose sudden death gives her husband
the chance to divorce her, which he had refused to do when it might
have been a merciful act. Years after, she determines, from the
impulse of a new and nobler love, to put away her past, as men do, and
give herself to happiness. The theme of the author is equal morality
for men and women.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It is to be added that the story reads interestingly, particularly in
the first half. The characters in modelling and in conversation, are
often original, sprightly, and unexpected, the situations fresh and
seizing. But one would welcome an interval of emancipation from
emancipation.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 370w.
“Miss Harraden has more wit than humor, and she is occasionally overly
sentimental. ‘Interplay’ is the best thing she has done, not even
excepting her still popular first book, ‘Ships that pass in the
night.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The somber stuff that is the substance of the story is elaborately
embroidered with dainty and skillful stitches, making a rich and
original bit of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“She can think as well as describe, and her characters impress
themselves.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 743. N. 7, ’08. 430w.
=Harris, Maurice Henry.= History of the mediæval Jews from the
Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 60c. Harris,
M. H.
8–21947.
“Deals with a golden age of the Jews, when their literature had a
splendid development in Spain until they were forced out by cruel
persecution at the end of the fifteenth century. The period includes
the time of the mystic Nachmanides, the philosopher Maimonides (the
author of ‘The guide of the perplexed’), and the poets Jehuda Halevi
and Ibn Gabirol. Translations of some of the works of these poets are
given.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“A fairly readable and trustworthy summary, whose interest for the
average young person is probably not increased by a slightly homiletic
flavor. It is none the less a marked improvement on the few existing
text-books on the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Harrison, Constance (Cary) (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Count and the
congressman. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–15151.
The rivals for a charming American girl are an impecunious Italian
count and a millionaire congressman. Contrary to the usual situation
the titled foreigner possesses the manhood and the congressman is the
villain. The latter has built his wealth upon the wreck of the girl’s
father’s fortune. She is clever enough to penetrate his scheme,
entraps him and wins back enough money to restore, modestly the
Stelvio estates at Lake Como.
* * * * *
“The personages of the novel are simply convenient dummies for
furthering the simple action of the story. The dialogue lacks
distinction of any sort.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= My Alpine jubilee; articles from London Times,
Westminster review, and Cornhill magazine, 1851–1907. *$1.25.
Dutton.
8–26234.
Ten short articles and letters including six letters written from Lake
Leman last autumn, fifty-six years after the author’s first Alpine
trip, also early essays on mountaineering and Sir Leslie Stephen’s
Alpine writings. These have been collected and published at the
request of the Alpine club of London to aid in the celebration of its
jubilee.
* * * * *
“He writes with the vigour and enthusiasm inspired by the atmosphere
of his beloved mountains.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 250w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“The chapters in Mr. Harrison’s volume are of varying value. But all
are confidently commended to the lover of the Alps.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= National and social problems. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
8–14733.
An appeal to international morality and a plea for social
regeneration. The first part deals with international problems, war
and imperialism; the second part is occupied with questions of labor,
unionism and socialism. “The author purposes a socialism, economic,
moral and religious, whereby the reorganization of society as a whole
will be secured by a new ethical and religious education, entirely
reforming the spirit in which capital, the product of society, shall
be used, enjoyed, and controlled for the good of society alone.”
* * * * *
“A permanent value certainly attached to the second part of the
volume.” A. G. P.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 530w.
“Although many have already read most, if not all, of the essays now
republished, some at least of them possess a curiously fresh interest
at the moment, and are most welcome.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 900w.
=Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 340w.
“The half dozen essays in the second section treat of the modern
unrest and the impending revolution in the industrial order. In all
that he has to say upon this problem he is still the consistent and
aggressive Positivist that he has always been.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“We doubt whether a man who avers that he has learned almost nothing
in the last forty years of the nineteenth century is qualified to be a
leader of society in the beginning of the twentieth century.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison would be a more instructive teacher, and,
generally, a more useful citizen, if he were not possessed with the
dogma of his infallibility.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 640w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
7–36260.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“His volumes are of interest despite the fact that they add little to
what he had already printed.” W: T. Paullin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 662. O. ’08. 440w.
“The book is the echo of long-drawn-out controversies over worthless
issues.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 130. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The book in question has a certain value. Were it not for the title
of his latest book one might think that this conclusion was a
caricature of common sense.” I. W. Riley.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 663. F. ’08. 1330w.
“The collected issue of these various utterances in defense of
positivism as the one and only common-sense philosophy forms a
valuable and highly readable sequel to the preceding number of the
series.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 18. Ja. 1, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by S. Waterlow.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 130. O. ’08. 700w.
“The work exhibits a philosophical Bourbon who learns nothing and
forgets nothing.” I. W. Riley.
− =J. Philos.= 5: 444. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison’s clear style and perfectly frank spirit lend a charm to
his work that insure him a hearing with every one interested in
philosophical discussion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15. ’08. 430w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 144. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The student of nineteenth century philosophy who desires to conceive
aright of the spirit, method, and aims of the system of thought
inaugurated by Auguste Comte will find them nowhere delineated more
clearly and adequately than in this volume by the most prominent and
able of Comte’s disciples.” E. Ritchie.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 558. S. ’08. 460w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 672. N. 30, ’07. 860w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Realities and ideals: social, political,
literary and artistic. (Collected essays, v. 4.) **$1.75.
Macmillan.
8–26402.
The fourth volume in a series of the author’s essays based on “one
coherent scheme of thought—a positivist synthesis—a reorganization of
life, at once intellectual, moral, and social, by faith in our common
humanity.” This group includes social and political subjects dealing
with the relations of England and France, the future of woman,
marriage laws, use of Sunday, prohibition, the church, parliamentary
reform, etc.; and, under the subject of literature and art, discusses
the revival of the drama, decadence in modern art, and concludes with
a dozen sketches of prominent past-century Englishmen.
* * * * *
“Of sheer good writing this volume is full. Of that dignified and
impressive eloquence of which Mr. Harrison is a master no better
example could be found than in the piece with which the volume opens.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 638. N. 21. 1350w.
“The second part of the book, embracing chapters on literature and
art—the first part being devoted to social and political questions—is
especially attractive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 270w.
“The essential characteristic of Mr. Harrison’s writing is always
earnestness, tho he often buries it in bland humor or carries it home
with stinging wit.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison ranks among living Englishmen with John Morley as an
essayist of originality, weight, and charm, who has also supreme gifts
in expression.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
“Everything that Mr. Harrison writes is so ‘meaty’ and
thought-provoking that it seems scarcely necessary to call attention
to these qualities in the collection of essays that make up the
present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 170w.
=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides.
*$1.65. Putnam.
“The little volume of 168 pages takes the form of a commentary on the
famous chapter of Thucydides (II. 15) in which the historian
demonstrated the small compass of primitive Athens by the fact that
the oldest shrines are all either on the Acropolis or in the adjoining
precinct to the south (or southwest). Miss Harrison discusses all the
old topographical problems.... She tells us all that is known and much
that is conjectured of the earlier pre-Persian Athens on which Pater’s
imagination so fondly dwelt, and of the earliest Mycenaean Athens on
the Acropolis.” (Dial.) Admirably illustrated.
* * * * *
“Is by no means too technical to be enjoyed by any intelligent reader
who has visited or intends to visit Athens.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 135. Mr. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Things are not really quite so simple and certain as they appear to
Miss Harrison’s loyal enthusiasm for Dr. Dörpfeld’s theories. We can
recommend to the student or tourist no better introduction to the
whole subject than this.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from
original sources by associated scholars. 27v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 25. Latané, John Holladay.= America as a world power.
7–41116.
Professor Latané takes up the thread of history where “National
problems” left it at the election of 1896. The main field covered is
the Spanish war of 1898 and its consequences on the spirit and policy
of the American people, and the administrative and economic questions
which have demanded solution.
=v. 26. Hart, Albert Bushnell.= National ideals historically traced.
7–41115.
This final volume of the series is a restatement of the
achievements and ideals of the American people, illustrated from
by-gone events which show the meaning and extent of national
progression. The factors of geographic environment, of race and
social conditions, political organizations, social and economic
activities, relations with other nations are successively treated,
and the volume closes with a discussion of the future of American
democracy.
=v. 27. Matteson, David Maydole=, comp. Analytic index.
8–2970.
This general index is a consolidation of the compiler’s indexes in
the separate volumes of the series, with some additions and
corrections. It covers every important event, noted person and
historical fact mentioned in the preceding twenty-six volumes, and
fully supplements the separate indexes.
* * * * *
“A worse fault and the only one we find in the book that is at all
serious—his presentation falls short at one point of what his task
would seem to call for in any view whatever. It is somewhat
onesided and ‘northern,’ not in temper or purpose, in both which
respects it is commendably broad, but in matter.” E. B: Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 371. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 22.)
“With much that is good, and much that is helpful, ‘The American
nation’ is not an epoch-making work, it is rather epoch-marking.” Max
Farrand.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 591. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 1–27.)
“The work seems remarkably free from errors.” A. S. Hershey.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 625. Ap. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 25.)
“This volume must be classed with the studies of American democracy
made by De Tocqueville and Bryce. On the historical side Professor
Hart’s work is more complete and stronger than either of the other
studies. On the philosophic side, it compares less favorably with the
work of the French and the English student.” C. E. Merriam.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 626. Ap. ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 26.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. (Review of v. 26.)
“Not an exhaustive study, but is clear and concise.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 45. F. ’08. ✠ (Review of v. 25.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08. (Review of v. 27.)
“The author presents a brilliant summary of the last decade of our
foreign policy.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 525. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 25.)
“With its many excellences, it is to be questioned whether the series
as a whole has demonstrated the impossibility or the uselessness of
the attempt to attain unity or uniformity in the work of a single
master hand.” St. G: L. Sioussat.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 309. My. 16. ’08. 3200w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
“The chapters on the national supervision of railroads and the money
question touch on a number of new points and are the best in the
book.” F. L. McVey.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 122. Je. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 24.)
“Professor Dunning has produced the only brief history of the period
that commands respect.” (Review of v. 22.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“The volume starts better than it finishes.” (Review of v. 23.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“When perspective shall have been corrected by distance the historian
will still find in this volume much to commend in its calm statement
of current facts.” (Review of v. 24.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“Many of its chapters have a definiteness unusual in current history.”
(Review of v. 25.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“We are not certain what the editor has tried to do with his ‘American
ideals historically traced.’... His volume of essays, some of them
interesting and suggestive upon ‘Territorial concepts,’ ‘The man who
leads,’ ‘I want to know,’ and the like, is of doubtful value in a
great historical work.” (Review of v. 26.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 23 and
24.)
“No volume in this notable series has supplied a more distinct want
than Professor Dunning’s.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 22.)
“Two points only in this volume seem to call for comment. The
first ... deals with a transition period, in the point of view. How
well the author has adhered to his purpose, even a cursory examination
of his book would suffice to show. The other point is the author’s
judgments of men. Towards the Republican policy as a whole, Professor
Dunning’s attitude is prevailingly critical. On the whole, his
sympathies seem to lie in this respect with the Liberal Republicans.
In his estimates of Republican leaders, however, his criticism is
caustic.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 22.)
“The chronicle of events is reasonably full, and on the whole
well-balanced and skilfully arranged, but the narrative is left, as a
rule, to tell its own story, with but rare intrusion of the author’s
personal judgment.... Their clear and impartial narratives should
perform a needed service in discriminating the numerous and
conflicting elements of which American politics has of late come to be
compounded.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 83. Ja. 23, ’08. 1180w. (Review of v. 23 and
24.)
+ =Nation.= 86: 285. Mr. 26, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 25–27.)
“The worst fault one has to find with the book is the inadequate
treatment, in the chapters on ‘International arbitration’ and on ‘The
forcible collection of public debts’ of the proceedings and
discussions of the second Hague conference.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Prof. Hart seems anxious to avoid the reproach of saying undisputed
things in a solemn way. He prefers to say highly disputable things in
a way as far as possible from solemn, in a style combined of the
‘monographic’ and the journalistic. He has not even taken the trouble
to read proofs so far as to avoid repetitions. Inaccuracies are
painfully frequent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 26.)
“It is too early yet to write of the period with any finality, but
Professor Sparks’s volume certainly affords a comprehensive view of
its happenings and its tendencies.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 878. D. 21, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 23.)
“After reading his chapters on organized labor, the trusts, the
tariff, the silver struggle, and the national supervision of railways,
the student cannot fail to have a clearer idea, not only of the
situation as it was ten and twenty years ago, but of the situation as
it now is.... Greatest value attaches to Professor Dewey’s account of
the beginnings of the trust movement. His handling of the strictly
political occurrences of the twelve years is scarcely so successful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 24.)
=Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 320w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The chapters on government are especially valuable, showing as they
do a sure knowledge of the views and practices of the past and a keen
perception of present conditions; and warm praise should also be
extended to Professor Hart’s summaries of our religious, social,
intellectual, and territorial development.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 26.)
“The publishers, for some unfathomable reason, have omitted to
indicate on the binding the numerical progression of the volumes—an
omission which, of course, militates greatly against the usefulness of
the work for ready reference.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 27.)
“Excellent on the whole as is his work of digest and exposition, it
still cannot be said to be an authoritative survey, even on the
documentary side and from the American viewpoint. This lack of an
authoritative grasp is revealed in what may be termed the
two-sidedness of his book.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 715. D. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Professor Latané elaborates [his themes] with historical accuracy and
illumines with his attractive style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Such a series has some advantages over a work by a single author, and
also serious disadvantages. The chief ones for our purposes are that
the volumes are very uneven, and the point of view of the successive
authors is constantly changing. For teachers the first of these
defects is the important one, for high-school pupils the second one.”
Webster Cook.
+ − =School R.= 15: 715. D. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 8–14.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Manual of American history, diplomacy, and
government, for class use. $2. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
8–15335.
“Not only contains a careful selection of the best material from
earlier volumes but embodies also significant topics and essential
bibliographies adequate to bring the narrative down to the present.”
(Am. Hist. R.) “Three detailed courses of ninety lectures each are
outlined on the subjects of American history, diplomacy and
government. Three shorter courses of thirty lectures each on the same
subjects follow. These outlines are supplemented by suggestions for
class topics, term reports, etc., and by a valuable chapter on methods
and materials, giving directions for the use of books and preparation
of reports.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“This volume will be welcomed by the alert teacher even though he may
not have access to the wealth of material suggested. It is to be
regretted that an index has not been provided.” J. A. James.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 920. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The arrangement of the volume, and the general character of the
material to which reference is made, make the volume of value to the
general student.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 444. S. ’08. 130w.
“The volume would doubtless be more serviceable and less formidable to
the undergraduate if it were broken into three parts, dealing with
history, diplomacy and government separately.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 140w.
“So profuse are these citations that many a college student will be
confused by their very number. The instructor and graduate student
will profit by Professor Hart’s work more than will undergraduates.”
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 243. Ag. ’08. 200w.
=Hart, James Morgan.= Development of standard English speech in
outline. *$1. Holt.
7–2750.
“Not a history of the language, not even in the barest outline, but
merely an attempt to show how the Englishman or American of today has
come by his pronunciation.” “It is substantially an abridged Middle
English phonology, with consideration, however, of the main sound
changes in Old and Middle English.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We need hardly say that the information given in this little book is
sound, and it is only on the question of aim that we take issue with
its author.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 250w.
“Furnishes the best existing introduction to the subject of which it
treats.” E: M. Brown.
+ =School R.= 16: 270. Ap. ’08. 650w.
=Hartley, Percy J.= My lady of Cleeve. 2 col. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–5574.
Set in the times of the Jacobite uprising this story throws into the
foreground one Captain Adrian Cassilis, loyal to the claims of
William, and the beautiful but shrewish lady of Cleeve, daring in her
devotion to the cause of the Stuart restoration. It is the story of a
Petruchio and a Katharine whose hostility is echoed in the din of
warfare about them. Petruchio subdues his Katharine’s turbulent pride
thru service, and wins her for his bride.
* * * * *
“Not specially well written, but contains a swash-buckle flavor that
is attractive.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“An unusually good example of the modern Dumas romance, the sort that
we expect from Stanley Weyman at his best.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Second-rate historical romance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The workmanship is excellent, there is a twist to the language which
gives it an adventurous, generations-back flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
“It is one not especially distinguishable from the large number of its
companion romances.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Harvey, George B. M.= Women, etc.: some leaves from an editor’s
diary. **$1. Harper.
8–30295.
A series of “fugitive observations” which so far as they are concerned
with women deal with casuistry, greed, friendship, age, ignorance in
management of men, second wives and husbands, taxation of spinsters
and bachelors, love, fiction and learning, osculation, woman suffrage,
and unequal conditions of men and women. The “Etc.” deals with a
variety of subjects including the folly of worry and its cure,
disadvantage of great riches, and honesty in advertising.
* * * * *
“Whoever has read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested these wise
follies is armed and equipped for any occasion when men and women meet
and the quips pass around.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 370w.
=Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an
authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d
ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Mr. Burbank has really done some good work, but the critical reader
of ‘New creations in plant life’ will be still uncertain both as to
its amount and kind.”
− =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
“All who are interested in the work which Luther Burbank is doing
among flowers and plants should read this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
=Hasse, Adelaide Rosalie.= Index of economic material in the
documents of the states of the United States; prepared for the
Department of economics and sociology of the Carnegie institution
of Washington. Carnegie inst.
Maine (1820–1904). 75c.
7–24018.
New Hampshire (1789–1904). 50c.
7–29730.
New York (1789–1904). $3.75.
8–9802.
Rhode Island (1789–1904). 75c.
8–14941.
Vermont (1789–1904). 50c.
7–40267.
“Each volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains references to
general sources of information and descriptive matter arranged
according to the character of the publication. Part 2 contains
references to particular series of reports, and particular topics,
arranged alphabetically. The references under each topic are divided
into two groups, viz., ‘serial’ and ‘non-serial.’ Within each of these
divisions the arrangement is chronological.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 79. Mr. ’08. (Review of 3 parts.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08. (Review of 2 pts.)
“All of this work is pioneer work in the vast store of state documents
and fortunately it has all been done by trained library workers who
had exceptional opportunities in compiling the material. When these
series shall have been completed the economist will have at hand the
keys for unlocking most of the state material to which he desires to
have access.” L. C. Marshall.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 567. N. ’07. 750w. (Review of 3 pts.)
+ =Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 220w. (Review of 1 pt.)
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels. 2v. ea.
$6. Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 2.= Labour—Zion. This volume completes Dr. Hastings’ undertaking.
Among the valuable articles are those on the gospels: Matthew, by W.
C. Allen; Mark, by A. J. Maclean; Luke, by A. Wright; The text of the
Gospels, by P. M. Barnard; and The virgin birth, by G. H. Box.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 680w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A stately volume.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 399. My. ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The same excellences and defects that characterized the first volume
of this work run through the second volume.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 404. Je. ’08. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is designed especially for preachers, for whom it
unquestionably makes accessible many facts suitable for homiletic use.
The extreme conservative point of view, however, noted in the first
volume is maintained in the second.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole the completed work makes a better impression than did
the first volume alone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 257. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is as comprehensive as unique.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a great deal of overlapping; the same subjects are treated
under three or four heads and sometimes twice under the same head. The
appendix to the ‘Dictionary’ contains perhaps the most important part
of all.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hatcher, William Eldridge.= John Jasper, the unmatched negro
philosopher and preacher. **$1. Revell.
8–23140.
The life story of a negro who as slave and freeman was a preacher of
unusual power. “In Dr. Hatcher’s sketch of John Jasper one has a
glimpse of an actual character than which there are few more
deliciously humorous, more naïvely primitive, more original in the
pages of fiction. Jasper was one of the most unique preachers—black or
white—who ever filled a pulpit or swayed with his eloquence, acrobatic
quite as often as vocal, the throngs that came to hear him.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hatcher has rescued a bit of literature, rough hewn and of the
soil though it is, that one could ill afford to lose in a world where
the over-refinement of the makers of books becomes at times a
weariness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 1350w.
=Hatfield, Richard=, ed. Geyserland: empiricisms in social reform;
being data and observations recorded by the late Mark Stubble: a
tentative ed. $3. Richard Hatfield, 1310 Green court, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
8–19013.
A sketch of a reconstructed society. Geyserland is conceived to be a
ring-shaped island within the Arctic circle. The inhabitants are a
fragment from a wreck of antediluvian cultured people. It is the chief
aim of this volume to show how the laws of altruistic Geyserland make
the customs, dogmas and restraints of present society seem artificial
and futile. In the author’s scheme there is no family life, marriage
is regulated by the state, the state owns everything and awards
everything.
* * * * *
“It would be superfluous to condemn the ideas set forth, for the book
is its own best condemnation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 950w.
=Hauch, Ernst Friedrick, and Rice, Philip Durkee.= Tables of
quantities for preliminary estimates. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–36877.
Tables “giving station yardages to the nearest cubic foot, computed
from the prismoid formula, for roadway widths from 12 to 32 feet,
increasing by arguments of 2 feet, for side slopes from 5° to 35°
increasing by 5°, and heights increasing by units from 1 to 50
feet.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The railway surveyor will find the volume of use when making
preliminary estimates according to the method employed by the
authors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 74. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“The only criticism to be made is that there should have been given
more complete directions as to the methods of using the tables and a
more definite analysis of their mathematical deduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Haupt, Paul.= Book of Nahum; a new metrical translation; with an
introd., restoration of the Hebrew text, and explanatory and
critical notes. *50c. Johns Hopkins.
“Dr. Haupt has the courage of his investigations, and uses all his
scholarship to revise the Hebrew text and assign its portions to
various periods of Hebrew history. He holds that Nahum is a liturgical
compilation in honor of the glorious victory of Judas Maccabaeus over
Nicanor in 161 B. C. There are, he says, four poems, of which the two
last are taken from much older poems written by one who saw the fall
of Nineveh in 606 B. C., while the two first are of the Maccabean
period.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“It will be of value only to the special student, and that too not for
its main contentions, which are largely arbitrary, but for the
abundance of materials brought together, especially on lexicographical
and archaeological topics.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 159. F. ’08. 50w.
=Ind.= 63: 1373. D. 5, ’07. 220w.
“Explanatory and critical notes string together much curious and not
always strictly pertinent learning. The positiveness of these
divinatory pronouncements is equalled only by the arbitrariness of the
critical procedure.”
− =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Black Bruin: the biography of a bear. †$1.50.
Jacobs.
8–27116.
A short introduction giving some of the characteristics of “Ursus, the
droll” is followed by the life history of a bear from cubhood, during
which he was a household pet, on thru dancing and circus-bear periods
to the wild again whither he escapes after killing his trainer.
* * * * *
“The author has skilfully woven into his story much of the natural
history of the bear, and he has produced a readable story, but yet
‘Black Bruin’ is not typical.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 180w.
“A marvelous nature story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Great Miss Driver. †$1.50. McClure.
8–25366.
In which an unambitious secretary to the Great Miss Driver sketches
her career—the career of a masterful young woman of wealth, a dictator
and financier, the possessor of a man’s perspective and sense of
justice and the heart of a woman. To her, shortcomings in big men may
well be overlooked. “They have their big lives, their big selves, to
look after. They can’t spend all the time thinking whether they are
doing justice to a woman.”
* * * * *
“Anthony Hope’s new novel is in its way as good as anything he has for
some time produced. The air of the story is somewhat artificial, but
there are human sentiments and situations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3. 400w.
“There is no exaggeration in saying that in literary technique and
human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good
fiction ‘The great Miss Driver’ is easily the biggest, best rounded,
and altogether worthiest story he has ever written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 379. D. ’08. 760w.
“The ease and politeness of manner with which the story is told may be
compared with that of an intelligent, cultivated man who tells a story
fascinatingly, yet with a certain deprecatory air, as if he said, ‘But
do not let me tire you’ and the reader’s response is, ‘Pray go on,
sir; you could not tire me if your tale lasted till morning.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1002. O. 29, ’08. 970w.
“In this book he shows less humor and verbal dexterity than he has led
us to expect; but he goes about his task with the air of a man who can
handle the tools of the trade, and he produces a novel that, if not
extraordinary, is at least entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“This is not in the least reminiscent of Anthony Hope, but it’s a good
story all the same.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
“An extremely clever but perhaps a little over-protracted study of a
forceful and willful young woman.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
“Even with what he gives in the earlier half, Anthony Hope does not
quite make Jenny Driver credible, though he makes her human, and
delightful and new; so human, indeed, that his handling suggests that
he is not himself quite sure how far he understands her.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. S. 26, ’08. 830w.
“When he writes with the subtlety and finish, the acuteness and
sympathy, that are displayed in ‘The great Miss Driver,’ we are
reconciled to his abandonment of the domain of fantastic and
adventurous romance in which he won his earliest and most resounding
successes. There is something artificial in the machinery employed to
enable Jenny to turn the tables on her judges and detractors.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 860w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Love’s logic and other stories. †$1.25.
McClure.
8–10617.
Fifteen short stories with the title piece, a little drama, buried in
the middle of the book. The best of them are Mrs. Thistleton’s
princess, Miss Gladwin’s chance, and The prince consort. A bit of art
in the first of the three is suggested by the fact that the author
keeps his scheme to the short story length by causing the principal
character—who with money might have been developed into a hero—to be
in a chronic penniless state with an overdrawn bank account.
* * * * *
“Short stories, good, bad, and indifferent.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Cleverly made stories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 660w.
“Unusually well told in the musing, gently reminiscent manner of the
old friend of the family.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 50w.
“Good enough for magazines, but distinctly not worth publication in
permanent form.”
− =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 150w.
“All are pervaded with that gentle irony, mildly whimsical humor, and
amused acceptance of human foibles with which the author is wont to
spice his romantic tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Hawley, Frederick Barnard.= Enterprise and the productive process.
**$1.75. Putnam.
7–39068.
A theory of economic productivity presented from the point of view of
the entrepreneur and based upon definitions secured thru deduction of
the scope and fundamental terms of the science of economics. The
author aims to present authoritative notions upon the definition,
scope, and method of his reconstructed economic theory and discusses
fully the four productive factors, land, capital, labor and
enterprise.
* * * * *
“Not a great book, but a serviceable one for students of advanced
economic theory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08.
“An acquiescence in the author’s general conclusions necessitates an
acceptance of his risk theory of profits, of his perhaps too
pronouncedly entrepreneur point of view, and of his extremely
restricted conception of the scope of economics.” R. V. Phelan.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 729. My. ’08. 300w.
“The chief contribution of the book is its point of approach. Anyone
who will read Mr. Hawley’s argument will also be convinced that he is
in contact with a mind of unusual force and acumen. The argument is
well planned and consistently worked out. The present writer is not
convinced, however, that the author’s method and point of view are
inherently superior to those of the classical school.” T. N. Carver.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 123. Je. ’08. 460w.
=Ind.= 64: 419. F. 20, ’08. 330w.
“On the whole it must be said that the author comes out much better in
his conclusions than one is likely to expect after a reading of his
introductory chapters wherein he expounds his method and sets forth
his point of view.” T. N. Carver.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 111. F. ’08. 960w.
“It would be hard to mention another work that has appeared within the
past three or four years which is freighted with more solid thinking
upon economic fundamentals.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 291. S. 24, ’08. 830w.
“Novel and original contribution to political economy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 141. Mr. 14, ’08. 1250w.
“Is an original contribution to economic discussion both in method and
point of view. However, if we find it impossible to indorse Mr.
Hawley’s principal contention, his book is helpful in many ways.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Hawley’s work does not appear, to the reviewer at least, to have
produced theoretical results of a high degree of value.” A. S.
Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 532. S. ’08. 1850w.
“The economist will find Mr. Hawley’s working out of his theory of
economic productivity exceedingly interesting and original, even
though neither premise nor conclusion can be accepted without doing
violence to established economic tradition.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Hay, Alfred.= Introductory course of continuous current
engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
W 8–37.
“The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader, assumed to be
already familiar with the elements of electricity and magnetism, with
the construction of the component parts of an electrical installation.
It is largely descriptive, the text being illustrated with diagrams of
electrical devices and circuits.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The work has been prepared for use as an introductory text on
continuous current engineering; it is exceptionally well arranged for
this purpose.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 297. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The matter is well presented and the work forms a fine companion
volume to the author’s excellent treatise on ‘Alternating currents.’
It combines within the same covers the fundamental phenomena and their
applications.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
=Hay, Oliver Perry.= Fossil turtles of North America, pa. $7.
Carnegie inst.
8–26862.
“A work which not only makes it possible to gain speedy and accurate
knowledge of the group of which it treats, but completely paves the
way for further progress in its study.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author
finds that there are 266 well-defined species of North American fossil
turtles—or more than now survive on all the continents. From this it
is evident that the turtles are a disappearing group, though yet so
abundant as to lend a deep interest to all problems connected with
their origin and distribution.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is far in advance of any [work] that has hitherto been written on
its subject, or on the turtle fauna of any other country.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 330w.
“Almost the only fault we have to find with the volume is the absence
of a good table of contents, or of a classified synopsis, whereby the
serial positions of all the genera and species might be seen at a
glance. In all other respects we heartily congratulate Mr. Hay on the
completion of such a valuable and heavy piece of palæontological
work.” R. L.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 91. N. 26, ’08. 600w.
“This ponderous and splendidly illustrated volume affords naturalists
a compact statement of quite all that is known to date of the ancient
turtle life on this continent; many of the forms being new to
science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The Carnegie institution is to be congratulated on the publication of
this valuable and useful work.” S. W. Williston.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 803. D. 4, ’08. 700w.
=Hayes, Hiram W.= Paul Anthony, Christian. *$1.50. Reid pub. co.
7–42007.
A story whose scenes are principally laid in Burma in which a young
American engineer, a Christian scientist, antagonizes a missionary
leader and an army surgeon while winning thru his livable,
demonstrable religion most of the other characters of the story. It is
interesting as a romance and reveals fundamentally what Christian
science “teaches in regard to man’s relation to God, his fellowmen,
the problems of sin and sickness and how they are destroyed, and the
ideal of life.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“It is a book that Christian scientists would do well to circulate
very widely, and it is a deeply interesting romance that is very pure
and uplifting in its influence and atmosphere,—a good book that merits
wide reading.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 251. F. ’08. 950w.
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“Written with more skill than is usual with propagandist novels.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 26, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Hays, Joseph W.= How to build up furnace efficiency. 50c. J. W.
Hays. 601 Hartford building, Chicago.
A book which deals with the “most common furnace losses and their
causes in detail, and makes a strong argument for a liberal use of the
Orsat apparatus for furnace gas analysis.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“A booklet that will indicate to the man in charge of a boiler plant
where to look for the causes of fuel waste and how to go about
stopping them.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1308. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 90w.
“It cannot fail to prove of value to every operating engineer.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Hazard, Caroline.= Scallop shell of quiet. **$1. Houghton.
8–243.
A book of religious verse containing forty Lenten sonnets, an
Interlude of fifteen poems, and eight final sonnets composing A cycle
of grief ever the death of a friend.
* * * * *
“[Has] the grace of a deep sincerity.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Shows the subjectiveness of a thinker to whom the world does not
present itself in images of form and color, but in whisperings and
prayers.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from The Raven; being the correspondence
of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin; with introd. and critical
comment by the editor, Milton Bronner. $1.50. Brentano’s.
7–34585.
In Hearn’s early youth he formed a friendship with Watkin, a
Cincinnati printer, who became the “Old man” or “Dad” while he
himself, because of his gloomy tendencies and love for Poe, was dubbed
“The Raven.” These letters from “The Raven” to Watkin cover the
former’s experiences in New Orleans, offering a series of “vignettes
of his strange Creole life,” experiences in the West Indies, and in
Japan.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 573. My. 9. 200w.
“Though Lafcadio Hearn’s literary reputation will not be enhanced by
the publication of ‘Letters from The Raven’ these unstudied early
writings give an insight into phases of his personality not revealed
by what he wrote for the world at large, nor, except in small measure,
by the numerous private letters printed in his ‘Life and letters’ by
Miss Elizabeth Bisland.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 46. Ja. 16, ’08. 470w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Perhaps there is an advantage in having them by themselves in this
little book. Their flavor gains a certain pungency by this isolation
from his general correspondence.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 650w.
“Amid much that is dull and scarcely worth while in these letters of
Hearn’s written to Mr. Watkin ... there is also a touch now and again
of the curious Hearn imagination and the haunting delicacies of
thought that we know in his later writings.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 43. Ja. 25, ’08. 1050w.
“These letters have little, if any, intrinsic importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 598. My. 9, ’08. 1200w.
=Heck, Robert C. H.= Steam engine and other steam motors. 2v. ea.
*$5. Van Nostrand.
5–4757.
=v. 2.= Deals with The form, construction and working of the engine;
and The steam turbine. Whereas the first volume contained theoretical
discussions, this one relates to the actual engine and its
performance. It is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“Very full treatise of specialized character, suitable for large
libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Painstaking and scientific work.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The two volumes are far from being a complete treatise on the steam
engine, and they are scarcely suitable for text-books, but, for
reference books, they are to be recommended as giving a better and
fuller treatment of some works on this subject.” William Kent.
+ − =Technical Literature.= 2: 456. N. ’07. 800w. (Review of v.
2.)
=Heineman, Theodore William.= Physical basis of civilization: a
revised version of “Psychic and economic results of man’s physical
uprightness.” $1.25. Forbes.
8–13635.
A demonstration that two small anatomical modifications determined
physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political conditions.
The author says, “When sexual reproduction among mammalian creatures
resembling the quadrumana produced a variation in the ento-cuneiform
bones of their posterior extremities and shifted the occipital foramen
magnum to a position a little back of the base of the skull, then was
the birthday of the human race.”
* * * * *
“It is only on the side of ethnographic and sociological facts that he
is weak. To those who are interested in tracing out the biological
roots of human institutions, especially of the family, therefore, the
book is to be commended as well worth reading.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 412. N. ’08. 420w.
“The weakness of the book is found in its assumptions. The author has
done a good piece of work, especially strong and suggestive in its
biological aspect; and he has shown himself to be an able, original
and independent thinker.” F. W. Collins.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 450w.
“There is room for a difference of opinion as to the force of this
‘demonstration.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Helleu, Paul C.= Gallery of portraits. *$7. Longmans.
A book of plates accompanied by an introduction by Frederick Wedmore.
There are reproductions of twenty and more portraits of prominent
women. Mr. Wedmore says, “The Duchess of Marlborough, depicted here,
is far, very far, from being the only instance of a type drawn from
moneyed and, no doubt, cultivated America. The Comtesse de Noailles—a
young dame du monde who has found time to give to France more than one
volume of introspective poetry—represents the Faubourg and the
chateau, and the literary salon where tender and gifted Melancholy
leaves Flirtation no chance, and rhythmic Sorrow is poured out with
the tea.”
* * * * *
“Except in one or two of these reproductions, we do not quite
recognize the magic for which [M. Helleu’s] name once stood.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 775. D. 14. 180w.
“One of the most elaborate and interesting art books of the season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Prominent women are presented in the vivacious style of this most
brilliant of modern dry-point etchers, who gives a note of piquancy to
all his sitters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand and others=, eds. World’s history: a survey
of man’s record; with an introd. essay by James Bryce. 8v. ea. $6.
Dodd.
7–42036.
=v. 8.= Western Europe in the nineteenth century—The Atlantic ocean.
The subjects treated are The French revolution, Napoleon and reaction;
The political and social changes, in Europe between 1830 and 1859; The
unification of Italy and of Germany from 1859 to 1866; A summary of
important events which occurred in Western Europe between 1866 and
1902. The last chapter “suggests, without describing, the significance
of the Atlantic ocean in history (1) as a great dividing barrier, (2)
as the training school of nations, and (3) as a medium of world
commerce.”
* * * * *
“The work of the translator has been uniformly well performed
throughout the volume. Of minor faults (there are no great ones) we
note a few misprints. For the rest of the book is a truly remarkable
compendium of a little understood and less appreciated section of the
world.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 814. Ag. 24, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“[The first] four chapters are more or less open to two points of
criticism. First, none of the writers has shown at all satisfactorily
the great influence of religion, romanticism, capitalism and the
improvement in the means of communication in shaping the history of
the nineteenth century; they too often lapse into the conventional
juiceless political narrative. The fault is not theirs but the
editor’s; they fear to be guilty of repetition, in as much as these
subjects have already been completely developed as separate topics in
volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of
space seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing
in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features
of the earlier volumes, they nevertheless deserve a place among the
best scholarly one-volume accounts of the nineteenth century.” S. B.
Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 363. Ja. ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 8.)
“It is addressed more to scholars but is necessarily too brief to
satisfy them. It is pervaded with the spirit of Lamprecht and Ratzel,
but at the same time has drawn heavily from Ranke.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 835. Jl. ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The translator of each section seems to have been free to follow his
or her will, regardless of any one else. These evils are brought out
glaringly by the egregious index, whose compiler was evidently
incapable of recognizing the same word under two separate spellings or
the same person with two qualifications attached to him. We can only
regret that the English rendering of a painstaking and useful
historical work should be marred by such disgraceful slovenliness in
some of its details.” A. C. Coolidge.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 97. O. ’08. 1150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As a preliminary study for the history of Europe these volumes are in
many ways excellent; one cannot however help wishing for references to
authorities, for occasional notes, and for a general index.” C. A. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 610. Jl. ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 6 and
8.)
“The monumental work of Dr. Helmolt is original, attractive, and
thoroughly readable. It places the history of the world in a new
light, basing it upon a foundation of geography and ethnography, while
at the same time it rests upon a solid structure of the most modern
research, and does not suffer, as some other cooperative histories
have done, from the collaboration of different writers. It is in every
sense of the word a possession for ever.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. D. 16, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It would, perhaps, have been better if [v. 8] had been rewritten for
English readers.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 599. My. 9, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“Generally, we may say of these eight volumes that they are full of
original work—originality is one of their special merits—that his work
is of a very high average of value, and that it has been skilfully put
together and methodised by the editor.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 502. Mr. 28, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Lighted lamp: a novel. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–27806.
A theosophical story in which a legacy and ill health combine to
arouse a Boston spice clerk from the lethargy of a “drab” existence
and to send him to Europe where he “suffers the sea change into
something rich and strange.” Thru contact with the things of life,
with women of flawless, first water type, one in particular who
present or absent represents feminine force that has no beginning or
ending, his spirit expands. When death cuts him off suddenly the
theory is advanced that he had reached his earth limit—he had come to
flower and required another incarnation for further development.
* * * * *
“The reader of this book finds Baedeker daintily disguised by an
embroidered cover of romance. The book will hardy prove as interesting
to the traveller as to the student of the psychic.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“In spite of its refined charm ... the book is almost immoral, for it
arouses in the reader distinctly criminal sentiments. Mr. Henderson
has the ability to charm, a fund of delicate humor, and a background
of deep culture; what he lacks is simply the knowledge of how to ‘let
himself go.’”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Henderson, David, Lt.-Col.= Art of reconnaissance. *$1.50. Dutton.
War 7–139.
The author “does but remind (in a rather ponderous style) those who
may have to undertake reconnaissance, or require it of others, what
are the principles which go to make success. This is no mere textbook,
though it has rules and examples; but it may best serve as a
commentary (it is carefully indexed) for officers who are inclined to
study the subject psychologically as well as tactically, and to give
common sense its due. They will find here the notes of a thinker
rather than the notions of a theorist.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is not unfair to say of it, as of many military works, that it
needs viva-voce exposition to make it really intelligible and useful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 223. F. 22. 600w.
“It contains many valuable hints on one of the most difficult branches
of the soldier’s art, and well repays the few hours’ study it
demands.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 247. Ag. 9, ’07. 400w.
“The virtue of the book is its shining good sense. Col. Henderson’s
style is notably good.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 263. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Henderson, George Cockburn.= Sir George Grey. *$4. Dutton.
8–14844.
Scholar, soldier, explorer, governor, Sir George Grey “was the
autocrat of three important colonies for long terms and through
critical periods, and shaped political and ecclesiastical
constitutions, conducted protracted wars, moulded and reconciled
aboriginal peoples, ruled without and with responsible ministers,
conceived smaller and larger federations, and wound up an historic
career by returning as a private citizen to a colony he had
despotically ruled, sitting in the popular branch of its legislature.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the history of the British empire. Mr.
Henderson is to be commended for what he has left out no less than for
the accuracy of his general conclusions.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 578. N. 9. 850w.
“The stern retrenchments and the administrative reconstructions by
which Grey restored financial equilibrium to a bankrupt colony, and
sent it forward on a career of stable prosperity have never before
been so fully or clearly described.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 335. Ap. 9, ’08. 1350w.
“Professor Henderson has written the story of [Sir George Grey’s]
interesting life with justice and with impartial judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 160w.
“The importance of this study of his achievements, his failures, and
his ideals consists in its lucid suggestion of the lines along which
democracy and empire may march hand in hand.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Henderson, Mrs. May Sturge.= George Meredith, novelist, poet and
reformer. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–37625.
A volume of “detailed and minutely introspective criticism” touching
each of Mr. Meredith’s great works. From her analysis of his “Essay on
comedy” she proceeds to the generalization that the main theme of
Meredith’s novels as well as his poetry is the purification of
rebellious and intemperate youth.
* * * * *
“We cannot affirm that this study of Mr. Meredith appears to us wholly
good, but it is very far indeed from being bad; it is never
egregious.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 286. D. 28, ’07. 1850w.
“This book offers more in the way of the philosophy and general
significance of Meredith, goes deeper, views more broadly than the
faithful, intelligent, informing account of the ‘Novels of George
Meredith’ by E. J. Bailey.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
“Her book ... affects one like the reading of conscientious journalism
which is no longer new. The book has a useful index, which would make
it really luminous if it could; but an index cannot do everything.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 220w.
“All that Mrs. Henderson has to say [is] interesting and her
quotations both beautiful and appropriate.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mrs. Henderson, undertaking a comprehensive consideration of
Meredith’s works in chronological order, has given us the best general
survey of them that we possess.” E: C. Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 385. Ja. ’08. 550w.
“It is thoroughly informed and cleverly executed.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 440w.
“This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the
Meredith worship of the last ten years has produced. If it errs at
all, it errs in exaggerating Meredith’s own weakness of placing too
much stress upon the philosophy and too little upon the humour as
distinguished from the comedy of life.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 280w.
=Henry VIII., king of England.= Assertio septem sacramentorum; or,
Defence of the seven sacraments; re-edited, with an introd. by
Rev. Louis O’Donovan; with a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons.
*$2. Benziger.
8–5572.
A reprint valuable to the Catholic church both for the orthodox
exposition of the church’s crucial dogmas and for the light thrown
upon a most interesting epoch of church history.
* * * * *
“The abundance of references and the full bibliography which the
editor gives us indicate that the book is the fruit of intelligent and
extensive study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 258. My. ’08. 550w.
=Henry, George Garr.= How to invest money. **75c. Funk.
8–14682.
Presents the simple principles of investment and aims “to afford the
reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which
are available as investments, and their adaptability to different
needs.” (Preface.) The chapter headings are as follows: General
principles of investment, Railroad mortgage bonds, Railroad equipment
bonds, Real estate mortgages, Industrial bonds, Public-utility bonds,
Municipal bonds, Stocks, and Market movements of securities.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Gentle grafter. †$1. McClure.
Fourteen stories which exploit Jeff Peters’s methods of “unillegal
graft.” He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans, he is simply a
“reducer of surplusage.” He is not so cock sure in his gentle art that
he is never a victim of his own methods. The last story. The ethics of
pig, shows how an untrustworthy partner plays a clever counter game
and wins.
* * * * *
“O. Henry possesses, in fact, the genius for conveying in a few
strokes, and by the aid of accessories which often seem least
concerned with the thing he is achieving, the essence, the living
spirit of a place or a type.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 685. N. 21, ’08. 1000w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Voice of the city: further
stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.
Twenty-five “cameos” of metropolitan life make up this book, the third
“Four million” book. The stories are short, clear cut, and leave
distinct impressions first of individuals, second of types.
* * * * *
“Some of the twenty-five short stories collected in the present volume
are in his best vein.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Admirers may call ‘O. Henry’ the American Maupassant, but so long as
he continues to hang so far over the abyss of slang they should put
the accent on American.”
− =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 470w.
“The spirit of the huge town is in each.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The book reflects life; it is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 240w.
“These are slighter and more ephemeral than ‘The four million.’”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry= of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30614.
A dramatic story of verve and daring whose scene is laid in Paris
during the memorable month of August, 1572, on the eve of the marriage
of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. The horrors of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, the venom and intrigue that lay back of
the arch-plotting, and the faithfulness and love of a woman are
elements in this vivid, concrete portrayal of facts out of history.
* * * * *
“The story is full of exciting incident, and the action ... moves
rapidly and dramatically to the climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Henshall, James A.= Favorite fish and fishing. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–14724.
An ardent angler and nature lover treats of the gentle art of fishing
in the following chapters: The black bass, the game-fish of the
people; The grayling, the flower of fishes; The trout, the angler’s
pride; His majesty, the silver king (tarpon); Florida fish and
fishing.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4. 186. Je. ’08. ✠
“Lovers of the gentle art will find much that will interest them and
little to criticise in Dr. Henshall’s readable little volume.” G:
Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 608. Ag. ’08. 780w.
“The work is an authentic natural history within its limits, as well
as a guide to the genuine follower of Walton.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In this new book Dr. Henshall has given not only information valuable
to the angler, but also it is interesting reading.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 582. Je. 25, ’08. 230w.
“Dr. Henshall is a learned and pleasing writer, and his book has
attractions for a multitude of his kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Herkomer, Sir Hubert von.= My school and my gospel. *$7.50.
Doubleday.
E8–821.
A discussion that has grown out of twenty-one years’ experiment in art
education at Bushey. “The story of the rise and progress of an
institution from which so much that is good has come is told by Sir
Hubert in this book with charming frankness and simplicity. He makes
no secret of his purpose or of the methods by which he sought to
realize it; and he explains fully both the creed which guided him as a
teacher, and the system he used to make his creed intelligible to the
student who passed through his hands.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“The story is told in a clear, rapid style, enlivened by frequent
touches of humor, and, with all its fine and high idealism. He has
certainly proved his ability to write an autobiographic narrative not
less interesting in its way than Cellini’s.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 109. S. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“It ranks really as a very important contribution to the literature
available for the information of both masters and students.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“It is rather discursive, and it takes careful reading to make sure
just what the ‘gospel’ of Bushey was.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 243. S. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Master of the inn. **50c. Scribner.
8–14332.
“The central figure of this little story is one of those teachers who
appear from time to time among men, whose function is not only to open
the eyes but to gladden the heart and to restore the soul. This
teacher has about him a little company of men who go to him for
regeneration among the mountains of northern New England. Sooner or
later every man tells him his secret, and with the telling the poison
goes out of his life. There comes finally an overworked surgeon of
great eminence who long resists the impulse to confess, but finally
opens his heart and reveals the one secret which tortures him, only to
find that the wronged man is before him, and to receive not only
absolution but health from his hands.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“A spirit of sweet wholesomeness pervades the little book, and many
will wish to read it a second time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 120w.
“This is a beautifully conceived piece of work, wrought out with the
care which Mr. Herrick never fails to give his stories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It is a chapter in American idealism, and it is also an admirable
example of the best contemporary American writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Together. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20019.
A strong story “of married lives as lived in America.” Here the veil
is withdrawn which usually conceals the struggles of man and wife from
the moment they leave the altar. Here are the Lanes, the Falkners, the
Johnstons, the Woodyards, and other wedded people working out the
problems common to married life. What marriage means to the husband
and what his nature demands from his wife: what it means to the wife
with her ambition to keep her individuality, to wield social power, to
court favor; with her disposition to spend a little more than the
five, ten, or twenty thousand dollar income; with her yearning for
sentiment, supplied, perchance, by one who has no right to bestow
it—these are the themes of Mr. Herricks’ story with its note of
partnership triumphant.
* * * * *
“A realistic, problem novel, forcibly told, and of literary merit. It
should be considered only for the library which has a restricted
shelf.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“It is a powerful and compelling novel of real life, and at the same
time it is one of the most masterful studies of the marriage relation
as it obtains in the society of the new-rich in America that has
appeared in fiction.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 376. O. ’08. 2900w.
“The threads binding these numerous interests are altogether
insufficient, and the crowding of the canvas is wearying as well as
inartistic. A few really dramatic scenes tend to relieve the tedium of
a story in which every supernumerary has to have its say.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
“The peculiar conditions of American married life, are treated with
something of the frankness, the breadth, the sweeping generality of
Tolstoi’s ‘Krutzer sonata’ and Zola’s ‘Fécondite.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“It lacks the virtue of reticence where that virtue is most needed.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly,
wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that
makes it in the best sense a representative American novel.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 134. Ag. ’08. 1950w.
“Robert Herricks’ novel, large in its intention and painstaking in its
working out as it is, fails in reality, in humor, in wisdom.”
− =Ind.= 65: 263. Je. 30, ’08. 430w.
“The novelist has apparently overlooked the fact that in America are
still to be found numberless men and women old-fashioned enough to
believe in married happiness and helpfulness.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Professor Herrick has done nothing so good as this, nothing so full
of energy and truth.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“A story that is unraveled with rare cleverness and that holds the
reader’s attention, in spite of its intricacies and the too
transparently ethical intention of the author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 397. Jl. 18, ’08. 1250w.
“With all its defects, however, the novel is serious, earnest, and
thoughtful.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 320w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 250w.
=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma Churchman.= How to train children. **50c. Jacobs.
8–21931.
A condensed account of actual experiences of actual mothers.
Suggestions and advice are offered under such headings as Nursery
days, Physical and moral defects, Punishment, Preventive measures,
General deportment, Pride of possession, Work and play, As to schools,
Our future mothers and fathers and The adolescent.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Halfway house. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–19024.
“A story of the present day—and Meredithian to the core.... A girl,
married to a gentleman twice her age, finds her nascent love stifled
by his egoistic condescension. He is of a great and old family; she, a
child of the ‘lower classes,’ a nursery governess when he meets her,
has had her girl’s affairs of love or what has passed for it.
Believing her an innocent fool, he learns his mistake before the
marriage, but goes on stoically, keeping his secret.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“With all its brilliant intellectual cleverness, this book does not
show the writer at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 536. O. 31. 250w.
“I think John Germain is, all in all, the most finely delineated of
Mr. Hewlett’s male characters; and he just misses taking the leading
place in this story from its heroine. It is the girl’s character that
gives the book its originality.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 602. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“It has all the seeming simplicity of the finest literary art, but its
wit, its grace, and its subtle sentiment are qualities that make of it
a far more serious book than it pretends to be.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 600w.
“That Mary seems so real a girl and causes us to speculate on her
motives, or nature rather, for she scarcely has motives, only
sentimental impulses, is a triumph for Mr. Hewlett’s heroine.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“No doubt, there is comedy somewhere at the core of it. But it is,
after all, the inadvertent comedy of circumstance and accident, as
things fall out, ludicrous enough, but without any very intelligible
motive.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Such value, as the story possesses comes rather more from the manner
in which it is told than from the story itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 1600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The art of the book is fine and delicate, but it is also simple and
true; and the spirit is that of pure romance applied to the conditions
of modern English life.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s own careful and distinctive style makes the story his
despite the unfamiliar milieu.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
“One hopes that ‘Halfway house’ will have many readers, as much out of
regard for them as for Mr. Hewlett, but one hopes that they will not
be numerous enough to confirm him in a method more conspicuous in this
last book of his than even in ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 720w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Spanish jade. il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–15299.
Manuela, the “Spanish jade,” “who has escaped from the brutality of
her lover, is rescued from the grosser brutality of a rustic mob by
the Englishman errant. The lover pursues, and is killed by the jade
lest he kill the Briton. The casual pair are linked romantically by
the incident, and meet thereafter under the shadow of a Spanish
vengeance which is eventually stayed, not by the magnanimity of the
Englishman, but by the chivalry of a humble Spanish follower of
his.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Brilliant study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 250w.
“The ‘Spanish jade’ may not represent Mr. Hewlett at his best as a
story teller, but as proving him a master of technique it is of
extreme interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 530w.
=Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s mannerism is less insistent here than in most of his
fiction, perhaps because the substance of the work is less
pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“It is a gallant, romantic story, well worth the telling in any form.
But it is precisely the sort of story that Hewlett tells the best. Mr.
Hewlett’s style is still a little perverse, and a little deliberate in
its perversity. To some extent he is the victim of his own rhetorical
agility.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 285. My. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The book is remarkable for its imaginative power and the sheer beauty
of its narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
=Outlook.= 89: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“Those who want the real thing in romantic fiction will find it in the
‘Spanish jade.’” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 150w.
“The book is a slight romantic sketch, but eminently good of its
kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Egypt and its monuments. **$6. Century.
8–30606.
The Nile journey is here described by Robert Hichens and pictured in
reproduced wash drawings and photographs by Jules Guérin. Mr. Hichens
makes poetry out of the wonders of the valley, arouses the “yearning
hunger of the heart and the imagination,” recalls the shifting spells
cast by sepulchre, temple and mosque; and lends to the narrative the
atmosphere of the “mystery of gold, of the mystery of heat and the
mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun.”
* * * * *
“It is the fascination of the country, and not its hotels and routes
of travel, that the author has dwelt upon, and not a few of the
thousands who now every year visit Egypt, will find pleasure and
stimulus in his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its rare literary and artistic value the book will prove
to be an excellent help to the antiquarian or the traveler in Egypt.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A model of literary charm and artistic excellence that places this
volume in the front rank of the season’s notable publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“We do not recall any American book that equals it in the good taste
and sumptuousness of its appearance and the beauty and delicacy of its
color printing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 773. D. 12, ’08. 600w.
“It would perhaps be impossible to find two other persons as competent
to prepare a fascinating, artistic study of Egypt which should be at
the same time a literary tribute and guidebook of the highest order as
Robert Hichens and Jules Guérin.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 140w.
“As vivid a picturing of ‘Egypt and its monuments’ as we remember to
have seen.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Spirit in prison. †$1.75. Harper.
8–25367.
A small island in the Bay of Naples is the scene of this story, the
counterpart of whose emotional lights and shadows is found in the
sunset, the moonlight, the blue waters, the glimmering lights and the
sounds of melody which invariably create atmosphere for Mr. Hichens’
stories. Maurice Delarey betrays his wife for a young peasant girl and
dies leaving his wife in ignorance of his sin. The serious business of
the story turns on the withholding of the secret from the wife for
sixteen years; while a continuation of the mystery touches the lives
of Vere, the daughter, and Ruffino, the unrevealed brother, who are
drawn to one another without ever knowing the secret of the boy’s
birth.
* * * * *
“There is a very pretty play of varied emotions, together with
limitless hints of ‘fine shades and nice feelings,’ while the
abounding descriptive passages are often of a rare beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 160w.
“Deserves to be proclaimed as that rare achievement, a sequel that
surpasses its antecedent in merit and in interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 262. N. ’08. 620w.
“He has written one of the most sensuously suggestive novels of the
season.”
− =Ind.= 65: 947. O. 22, ’08. 730w.
“Admirers of Mr. Hichens’s ‘The call of the blood’ will find a
satisfactory sequel in the present story. If the former tale was found
too harrowing, this will afford a compensatory thrill. That habit of
portentous moralizing over the moods of insignificant egoism which we
have noted as characteristic of Mr. Hichens in the past is still his
darling vice.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“Told in an ordinary way, ‘A spirit in prison’ would seem utterly
common-place. The mere materials are conventional. But the opulence of
color, the mastery of words are indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one
who did not remember the earlier book.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
* =Higgins, Aileen Cleveland.= Dream blocks. $1.50. Duffield.
8–30917.
A book of child verse with fifteen charming full-page illustrations by
Jessie Wilcox Smith.
* * * * *
“The spirit of this little book is better than the execution of its
verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The fourteen pictures are of a high artistic merit. The infantile
pathos and humor, the prophetic element in form and feature of the
figures, will cause adults to ponder over the philosophy of child
play.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan.
8–33137.
Not so much a guide-book or a history as an unconventional and
picturesque description of the towns, people, resources, scenery and
commercial possibilities of a country of “real splendor, marvellous
beauty and poetic and haunting charm.” A book for every Alaskan
tourist to read from cover to cover.
* * * * *
“A picturesque and unconventional description of the country and the
life of its people, neither a guide book nor a history, and yet
suitable for the traveler to read and carry with him on his trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“A sober, carefully prepared work. A plea for the attractions of the
land of gold and snow as a place of residence was hardly to be
expected from a woman, but in this instance the territory has been
fortunate in its advocate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Higinbotham, John U.= Three weeks in Holland and Belgium. $1.50.
Reilly & B.
8–11792.
Mr. Higinbotham’s swift panorama of Holland and Belgium sights might
become a blur to the leisurely tourist who finds it necessary to
adjust his mental lens to every fresh view and impression. But to the
reader who likes motion and who can “keep up” the author’s
impressionism and confidence are not wearing. In description,
historical allusion, comment on art, and theological opinions, the
author’s mental alertness is commensurate with his tireless activity.
* * * * *
“Mr. Higinbotham’s observations are so acute and well-balanced that we
should like to have fuller records of his journeys.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 280w.
“This little holiday book should not be taken too seriously, and while
Baedeker gives all and more of the necessary information than this
summer tourist of three weeks, he does not impart the childlike
freshness of discovery that finds joy in observing the Hollander’s
unfailing courtesy, and that elegance of service can be obtained for
grotesquely moderate tips.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 500w.
“A farrago of disjointed bits of guide book and pointless jests.” A.
I. du P. Coleman.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hildebrandt, Alfred.= Airships past and present; together with
chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology,
photography and the carrier pigeon; tr. by W. H. Story. *$3.50.
Van Nostrand.
8–13633.
A sketch of the past and present state of the art of ballooning and
its application to scientific ends including the first trustworthy
information to be disseminated on the subjects of balloon photography
and the use of the carrier pigeon. The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The avoidance of technical discussions makes the book easy and
pleasant reading for anyone who is interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“In an interesting and instructive volume of considerable size, the
author has fully discussed nearly all subjects, at all closely related
to aeronautics, so far as they have been susceptible to popular
treatment. To the translator belongs no little credit for the
smoothness of the English diction.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 545. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“This work is both timely and authoritative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“While the author disclaims all intention of writing a technical text,
we feel that the reader may find instruction as well as amusement in
these pages.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“We note a few errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Some portions of the work are scarcely satisfactory, even from the
popular standpoint, the chapter devoted to flying machines, for
example, being a collection of scraps of information strung together
without any definite scheme.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 562. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 80w.
“A clear and readable account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“There have been hitherto few satisfactory books in English upon
aerial navigation. We now have, however, a book by a thorough expert.”
O. Chanute.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 20. Jl. 3, ’08. 660w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25.
Harper.
7–33964.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 695. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an interesting book which does not justify its title.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 40w.
“It is possible to read his book with the comfortable feeling that one
is in safe hands, and that the spirited accounts here given of these
vexed questions may be enjoyed without fear of being led into false
historical paths.” Ward Clark.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 519. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“The author writes with acute legal knowledge and abundant information
derived from painstaking research: and to these he adds a gift for
pictorial narrative which suggests a first-rate reporter present at
the events he describes.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 320w.
“It is this romantic quality that Mr. Hill has seized, and he tells
the stories vigorously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Hill has always shown judicial
impartiality, but what partisan bias has crept in may be attributed to
the fact that he is more of an advocate than an historian.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 320w.
* =Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Story of a street. **$1.60. Harper.
The story of Wall street from March, 1644, when Governor William Kieft
marked its direction by means of a clumsy cattle-guard of felled
brushwood, to its present-day development as a “canon of exchange.”
Wall street of Stuyvesant’s time, of revolutionary days; Wall street
“the haunt of fashion, the heart of business, the school of statesmen,
the firing-line of commerce, the battle ground of politics and of
money—the scene of financial masterstrokes and speculative orgies ...
the law of the money-spiders ... is no mere street or thoroughfare.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Hill has performed a real service with his book. It is in some
respects a sort of liberal education.” I: F. Marcosson.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 359. D. ’08. 1500w.
“Altogether it is a fascinating tale, cleverly told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 80w.
=Hill, George Chatterton-.= Heredity and selection in sociology.
*$4.50. Macmillan.
7–42082.
“Chatterton-Hill’s book consists of three parts. Part 1 is an
intelligent summary of the biological doctrine of heredity and
germinal selection from the point of view of Weismann.... Part 2 is
devoted to social pathology. Suicide, insanity, and syphilis are each
in turn discussed as social factors.... Part 3 is devoted to the
actual conditions of social selection.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Having no first-hand information, the author could justify himself in
the publication of such a work only by logical and constructive
manipulation of his materials, and he has not done this.” W: I.
Thomas.
− + =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 413. N. ’08. 180w.
“For the general idea of the author there is much to be said. His
present exposition is not satisfactory and should not be final.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 269. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Chatterton-Hill’s science, good so far as it goes, belongs to the
last decade of the nineteenth century rather than to the first decade
of this.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The general verdict on the volume must be adverse. Under competent
tutelage, he has given a good résumé of the dominant biological theory
of heredity. Left to himself, he has devised an inconclusive and
inadequate analysis of social pathology, and has supplemented it with
a rambling, unoriginal, and often self-contradictory disquisition on
social programmes and social needs.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 176. F. 20, ’08. 680w.
“From beginning to end this is a very interesting book. It is the
result of much thought on great subjects, and it is written in clear
and forcible style. However much we may disagree with some of Mr.
Chatterton-Hill’s conclusions the book is a book to be read.” F. W. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 600w.
“We find ourselves in direct issue with Mr. Chatterton-Hill with
respect to many of the results deduced by him from the facts of
current social life.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 580. Ap. 11, ’08. 550w.
=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat.= So-called Peters-Hilprecht
controversy. *75c. Holman.
A full statement of the Hilprecht case. The first part gives the
proceedings of the committee appointed by the board of trustees of the
University of Pennsylvania to act as a court of inquiry: the second
furnishes supplemental documents, evidence, and statements.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 86: 425. My. 7, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Hinchman, Walter Swain, and Gummere, Francis Barton.= Lives of
great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–11791.
“The book, which is well-indexed and provided with a select
bibliography, consists of thirty-four biographical essays on
representative writers from Chaucer to Browning. The various periods
of literary history are connected by short links suggesting the
character of the transitions.” (Nation.) “Pupils in secondary schools,
as well as their elders, will find the book agreeable reading and
useful for reference.” (Educ. R.)
* * * * *
“This work is recommended because of its usefulness in small
libraries, supplementing the brief biographical dictionary and
cyclopedia articles. The material presented is not only well chosen,
authoritative and adequate, but interestingly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08. ✠
“It is difficult to account for some of the omissions, but the work as
we have it is well done.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 121. S. 1, ’08. 80w.
“The treatment is judicious and satisfactory.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 316. O. ’08. 70w.
“Ten biographies ... are not uninteresting in themselves and are well
adapted to the kind of readers for whom they are intended. The final
chronology and bibliography too are useful in their way. But it is
doubtful, after all, whether such a book is likely to supply the
literary stimulus which its authors expect from it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 230w.
“In general, the criticism is sound, conservative, and illuminating,
and the book should do good service.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 350w.
=Hinckley, Henry Barrett.= Notes on Chaucer: a commentary on the
Prolog and six Canterbury tales. $3. Nonotuck press, Northampton,
Mass.
8–6086.
“Consists of a commentary on the Prologue to the “Canterbury tales,”
and six of the tales, viz.; the knight’s, the nun’s priest’s, the
pardoner’s, the clerk’s, the squire’s, and the franklin’s. In fullness
and learning the only previous Chaucer commentary comparable with it
is that which accompanies Prof. W. W. Skeat’s standard edition of the
poet’s work.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“All that is of value in the book could have been condensed into a
short paper for the Modern language association.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 260w.
“The author often annotates passages which Skeat has passed by, and so
his work, apart from its own merits, supplements that of his
predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 533. Je. 11, ’08. 280w.
=Hind, A. M.= Short history of engraving and etching, for the use of
collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list
and index of engravers. **$5. Houghton.
A descriptive survey of the history of engraving on metal thruout the
various centuries and schools, with a generous account of the work of
important engravers, and only enough mention of names of lesser note
to keep straight the threads of development and to insure a
well-balanced estimate of artistic values. The work closes with a
chapter on modern etchers and engravers of different countries. The
full appendices give a classified list of engravers, 47 p.; a general
bibliography, 20 p.; and an index of engravers and individual
bibliography, 60 p.
* * * * *
“Accurate scholarship and painstaking workmanship are manifest
throughout.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It necessarily devotes most of its attention to European
practitioners of the art of engraving, with the exception, of course,
of etching. Yet a work designed to circulate in this country and
furnish information to English readers ought to keep its perspectives
right.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 450w.
“The book certainly shows admirable condensation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 70w.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Diary of a looker-on. **$2. Lane.
8–30031.
“Impressions of the hour utilized as occasions arise in the columns of
journals and periodicals. This is the author’s description of these
little essays of criticism of paintings and books, sojournings in
continental cities and places, or in English country places or
London.” (Sat. R.) “The author explains that ... these contributions
[made to various journals] were papers transferred from his diaries,
and that the collections appear here divided into months, according to
the dates of the original writing.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is a gentleman-like and desirable form of professional activity,
but as devoid of ‘personality’ as any other kind of journalism—for
example, the market quotations.” F. M. Colby.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 567. Ag. ’08. 340w.
Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 380w.
“These papers contain something of the intimacy and grace which
characterize Stevenson’s essays. The book has a distinct literary
flavor, and to read it is as good as a vacation. It is to be hoped
that in succeeding editions the numerous typographical errors which
mar the present issue will be corrected.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Hinds, William Alfred.= American communities and co-operative
colonies. 2d revision. $1.50. Kerr.
8–3496.
Thoroly revised and brought down to 1907. “It includes all the
well-known experiments, such as the Shaker colonies, Owen’s
communities, Brook farm, and the various Fourieristic phalanxes,
Cabet’s Icaria and the Oneida community, in addition to a multitude of
less known settlements, to say nothing of such contemporary
organizations as the Theosophist colony at Point Loma, the Single tax
society at Fairhope, Alabama, the Ruskin commonwealth, Upton
Sinclair’s Helicon home colony and the Straight Edge.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.)
* * * * *
“He has succeeded in giving us a valuable book of reference abounding
in facts but very popular in character.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Not the least valuable feature of Mr. Hinds’ book is the bibliography
at the end of each chapter.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 445. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hird, Frank.= Victoria, the woman. **$2.50. Appleton.
8–12577.
The author says that his purpose has been to place before readers in
America some impressions of the influences that affected her early
environment, some suggestions of the circumstances that affected her
later years. He portrays the Queen as a daughter, a wife, a woman, a
mother, a friend and a sovereign, using the Queen’s own words as
recorded in letters and diaries. He lends to the whole a background of
current history and politics.
* * * * *
“Readable, interesting, more available for popular use than the
‘Letters.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“A serviceable and readable book has been produced, and for those who
do not and cannot own the voluminous and expensive ‘Letters’ this
volume, with its copious extracts from those letters and from the
diaries, should serve as a welcome substitute.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“There is a distinct place for Mr. Hird’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 260w.
“His work is surprisingly judicial in its tone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting things in Mr. Hird’s book is to be found
in the notices, always judiciously expressed, of the part which the
Queen took in politics, foreign and domestic.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 412. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
=Hirth, Friedrich.= Ancient history of China to the end of the Chóu
dynasty. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–3434.
A work which provides a text for students and a book of reference for
general readers. It begins with a chapter on the mythological and
legendary period and comes down to the third century B. C. While not a
purely philological work it follows the linguistic and cultural
development of the Chinese people. An appendix of chronological tables
gives the dates of the princes of the various states.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 675. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“A much needed work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08. ✠
“Owing probably to limitations of space Dr. Hirth has failed to
indicate fully the factors which were potent in the earlier
development of the Chinese empire, but he has furnished a scholarly
and convenient handbook for this period of the history, in more detail
than can elsewhere be had in English in an ordered form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1450. Je. 25, ’08. 120w.
“It does not add largely to our information, but it is a convenient
manual for those who desire to gain a knowledge of the uneventful
story of China’s existence as a nation.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 138. Ag. 13, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A very scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 70w.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalf, and Ellis, Alexander George.= High speed
dynamo electric machinery. *$6. Wiley.
8–20034.
Deals with the description of designs and construction which comprise
“not only the standard methods by which the special conditions imposed
by high speed are being met, but also various recent propositions
which have not yet withstood the test of time.” “The authors have
arranged their material in two main divisions, dealing with the two
distinct types of turbo-generator.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work is a high-class treatise and one that should be in the hands
of every designer and engineering instructor.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 430w.
“The book will appeal chiefly to those interested, directly or
indirectly, in the design of electric generators.” H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 318. S. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Hobbs, William Herbert.= Earthquakes; an introduction to seismic
geology. **$2. Appleton.
7–39003.
A volume devoted to what field geologists have accomplished by making
use of the record of the motion of the earth’s disturbances acquired
thru perfected seismological experiments. “What has been learned by
both of these classes of students, and what are the best supported
theories, are made plain in this volume with abundant illustration
through diagram and photograph, and with admirable system and
arrangement of material.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“Of special value at the present time, not only to students, but also
to the general reader who wishes to keep informed in regard to recent
scientific advance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 731. Je. ’08. 280w.
“No intelligent layman can look at this book without being interested,
or can read it without substantial gain in knowledge.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It takes rank with the best of the general books on seismology.” R.
S. Tarr.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 477. Jl. ’08. 1550w.
“On the whole the book is a modern and readable presentation of a
theme possessing more than ordinary interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 494. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“As an introduction to seismology, or even to seismic geology, it is
the most misleading that we know, but for the reader who comes to it
with sufficient previous knowledge it contains suggestive passages,
and as we perused the book we were haunted by the consciousness that
its author was capable of better work; we searched for the word which
would describe its character until a marginal heading, in block type,
supplied the want in ‘crudeness.’”
− + =Nature.= 77: 481. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
“The reader may have full confidence that he is in possession of
seismology up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 360w.
“Gives us in his new volume what we believe to be by far the most
thorough study of the subject, which is couched in fairly untechnical
language, and may be read with a clear understanding by any thoughtful
layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 130w.
=Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 60w.
=Höcker, Gustav.= Arnold of Winkelried: the hero of Sempach; tr.
from the German of Gustav Höcker. (Life stories for young people.)
**60c. McClurg.
8–23292.
A story of the famous Swiss hero which tells us about Knight Schrutan
and the Pilatus, the battle of Morgarten, the mystery play at
Engelberg, the black death, the robber knights, the tournament at
Little Basle, the storming of a Lithuanian castle, and Winkelried’s
heroic death.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= When the King came: stories from the four
gospels. *$1.25. Houghton.
Stories founded upon the record of the life of Jesus as presented in
the gospels. The well-known Bible facts are embellished with
numberless details of setting, back of which lies the author’s careful
study of the times and their customs.
=Hodgetts, Edward A. B.= Court of Russia in the 19th century. 2v.
*$6. Scribner.
8–20526.
A popular rather than a scholarly account of the Russian emperors and
court of the last century. The history begins with Alexander I, and
concludes with a sketch of Nicholas II and a summary of political
conditions in Russia, in which “he acquiesces in the arguments of
those who oppose the abolishment of bureaucracy on the ground that the
population of the country is too sparse and the rural classes too
backward to make a system of local government and elected officials
practicable.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Almost every anecdote and every judgment is to be found elsewhere,
but the compilation is excellent, and the book one that may be warmly
recommended to the general reader. There are a good many small slips,
hardly worth mention.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 900w.
“The disadvantage chiefly to be noted in the lack of precision
characterizing the author’s method is a tendency to repetition. The
diffuse and incidental style of the writing and the extraordinary
lapses in English in Mr. Hodgetts’s book conceal genuine virtues.” E.
L. Cary.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“While containing a good deal of sound and interesting information, it
loses much of its value by an exuberance of trifles and an awkward
arrangement.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 236. Ag. 15, ’08. 670w.
=Hoernle, Augustus Rudolf F.= Studies in the medicine of ancient
India. *$2.60. Oxford.
Written for the purpose of supplying to students of medicine a
knowledge of how the subject was taught and practised in ancient
India. “Prof. Hoernle begins in the present volume with osteology, or
bones of the human body as they were known to the Indians in the sixth
century before Christ.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Professor Hoernle has executed his task with the utmost fidelity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 772. D. 14. 550w.
“As part of a general history of the subject this book is of prime
importance.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Altogether Dr. Hoernle, although not a medical man himself, has laid
medical men under a deep obligation to him by rendering so easily
accessible the knowledge and practice of physicians who tended the
sick in northern India some centuries before Christ was born.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 533. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Hoffman, Frank Sargent.= Sphere of religion: a consideration of its
nature and of its influence upon the progress of civilization.
**$1.75. Putnam.
8–5160.
A book written for the purpose of interesting young men and women,
especially in our colleges, in the study of religion. The author
sketches the development of religion from the forms existing among
savages to the high spiritual conceptions of to-day. He discusses the
various books of religion from the sacred tablets of the Babylonians
to Madam Blavatsky’s “Isis unveiled.” Following this are chapters on
the relation of the fine arts to religion, religion the key to
history, its relations to education, the church and the right of
property, the church and the modern state, the scientific method in
theology, human immortality and religion, and the present-day
conception of God.
* * * * *
“Its merit lies in its attempt to give an inclusive, bird’s-eye view
of a large field. It has the defects of its qualities,—and also some
others, the most unfortunate of which is a careless and inexact use of
the word ‘religion.’”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 679. O. ’08. 200w.
“It is an exceedingly well written book, which should be in the hands
of every thoughtful young man and woman.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“Crystal clear is the whole of this eminently sane and practical
discussion. Even ‘the man in the street’ will want to finish the book.
A landmark in the history of religious thought.” W: E. Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 377. Je. 16, ’08. 700w.
“Professor Hoffman is an able student and a clear writer, of open mind
and fearless pen, but the question may be raised whether it is quite
fair to intending purchasers and to libraries to give to such a
miscellaneous collection of essays a title which implies a thorogoing
and scientific examination of the problems of the philosophy of
religion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 212. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Professor Hoffman’s spirit is tolerant and progressive, but he covers
such a variety of topics and so broad a field that issue may
frequently be taken with him, in point both of fact and of opinion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“Prof. Hoffman gives the impression of having tried to cover too broad
a field, and the consequence is that his treatment is not thorough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“A well-wrought and desirable addition to the copious modern
literature upon its subject. It is wide in its range, imbued with the
modern spirit, and insistent on the old and tested truths.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Hofmann, Josef.= Piano playing: a little book of simple
suggestions. **75c. McClure.
Aims to present a general view of artistic piano-playing and to offer
to young students the results of the author’s observations made during
his years of study and public activity. The chapters are the
following: The piano and its player; General rules; Correct touch and
technic; The use of the pedal; Playing “in style”; How Rubenstein
taught me to play.
* * * * *
“His book contains many hints that throw light on the psychic,
imaginative side of playing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 531. N. 26, ’08. 480w.
“This book is both stimulating and suggestive. It is, indeed, the
utterance of a great artist who looks upon his art with the broadest
view, and there are few who will not gain profit and some new idea
from reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 530w.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Big game at sea. il. *$2. Outing.
8–9755.
A fascinating, informing book by a sea sportsman who, while following
the legitimate lines of deep-sea fishing, now and then is rewarded by
a phenomenal haul. He discusses the game monsters of the deep, the
equipment necessary for catching them, the qualifications required of
the fisher sportsman, and lends to the whole the vigor of the sea and
the ecstacy of success.
* * * * *
“Fascinating stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 270w.
“Not one of the chapters lacks its own peculiar interest.” Wallace
Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book will appeal to any one who has a spark of physical
enthusiasm.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This work is as interesting as the great romance of Victor Hugo’s
‘Travailleurs de la mer,’ and much more realistic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 581. Je. 25, ’08. 840w.
“A remarkable book, and should take a high place among the literature
of this and kindred subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“Nothing has appeared containing such detailed, vivid, and lengthy
descriptions of the sport now to be enjoyed as this latest work of Mr.
Holder. Like many books which are composed of collected magazine
articles, the volume contains much repetition, and suffers from want
of arrangement. There is, indeed, no index at all, and no order to be
discovered.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 333. S. 5, ’08. 630w.
=Hole, Samuel Reynolds.= Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole, dean of
Rochester; ed. with a memoir, by G: A. B. Dewar. *$3. Macmillan.
8–256.
“The collection embraces about two hundred letters, covering nearly
the whole period of the Dean’s busy life. They are addressed to all
sorts and conditions of men from Archbishop Benson to the Dean’s
life-long friend, Joe Birley, who used to be the shepherd’s lad during
the ‘old Squire’s’ day at Hole’s ancestral home of Caunton manor, and
they give the reader some dim idea of the catholicity of the Dean’s
tastes and the width of his influence.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Admirers of the late Dean of Rochester can hardly resist some slight
feeling of disappointment at his volume. Mr. Dewar’s introductory
chapter is, in many respects, excellent. But it is in no sense of the
word a ‘memoir’ and the reader anxious for biographical details is
referred to an unilluminating chronological list. Of the letters
themselves it is, happily, possible to speak with less reserve.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 273. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Dewar has shown both skill and discernment in his brief sketch of
Dean Hole. It conveys a good idea of a personality which was
singularly attractive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 472. O. 19. 1750w.
“In choosing the letters for publication, the editor has shown wisdom
in picking with a sparing hand and also in not including letters
merely because they were written to persons of distinction.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 11. Ja. 1, ’08. 1750w.
“So lacking any thread to knit it together, and so largely made up of
scraps—that any sustained interest in it is almost impossible.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 100w.
“Partly through the fault of the editor, partly through the scantiness
of his material, this book seems likely to cause more disappointment
than satisfaction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 780w.
“Taken separately, they are delightful letters, written in the Dean’s
characteristic style and breezy manner. But in these busy times few
people are willing to sit down and read 250 pages of notes written, in
no matter how pleasant a style, to familiar (and often obscure)
friends on ordinary topics of no special interest to outsiders.” J. G.
Whiteley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“Witty Dean Hole as he was in life is again witty Dean Hole in the
collection of letters.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 290w.
“Mr. Dewar does the subject of his ‘memoir’ full justice. It is the
testimony of the one who, besides being a personal friend, is
evidently well qualified to take, not a partial and onesided view of
the subject of the memoir, but such a view as is comprehensive of the
whole man.” Francis Pigou.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 631. N. 23, ’07. 2100w.
“This book is, we must own, something of a disappointment. We see,
indeed, Dean Hole, as we expected to see him, one of the gayest and
kindliest of men; but the letters, while they give ample proof of
these characteristics, of which no proof was wanted, show little
literary quality.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 490w.
=Holland, Clive.= From the foreland to Penzance: the ports and
harbors of the south coast. *$3.50. Duffield.
Giving little of guide-book information the author devotes himself to
the picturesque side of the harbors and sea ports of the south coast
from the north foreland to Penzance. History, romance, and stories of
piracy make up the letter-press; while thirty colored illustrations do
artistic justice to the harbors along the course.
* * * * *
“Mr. Randall’s brush is not nearly so effective with water as with
land-locked harbours such as those of Poole, Looe, or Fowey. It is not
possible to say very much in praise of Mr. Holland’s letter-press.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 600w.
“He has exhibited not only a fine instinct for scenery, wide literary
and historical learning, but a profound sympathy with amphibious life
of the harbor, the fishing-village, and even the smuggler’s cave.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Holland says his work is not a guide book, but it certainly
contains all the information about the country it covers that the
ordinary man requires.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu
Smith. *$5. Dutton.
8–9079.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“From every point of view—literary, scientific and artistic—the work
reaches an exceptionally high standard of excellence.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 170w.
“The three chapters of this book which have a real value are those
dealing with the festivals still more or less observed by the common
folk of Japan, the greetings and language of the country, and the
tendencies and future of the Japanese people.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 980w.
“A fascinating subject, a writer who knows how to make the most of it,
and an illustrator whose work must surprise even the most blasé critic
into reluctant admiration,—these are the elements that contribute to
the charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Montague Smith’s exquisite colors and truthful representations in
tint and drawing of Japanese life are far above the quality of the
text by Clive Holland, who lives on the surface of the Nipponese
scene.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 43. Ja. 2, ’08. 270w.
“One notes inaccuracies even in the few and superficial criticisms of
the Japanese.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 470w.
“This is a delightful book, and in saying this we have practically
indicated its character. The most informing, and on the whole most
useful, chapters are those which deal with the domestic and civic life
of Japan both in city and country.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 260w.
=* Holland, Elizabeth.= Journal; ed. by the Earl of Ilchester. 2v.
*$6. Longmans.
“Readers of memoirs dealing with the last years of the Georgian period
are familiar with this dominating figure of the Whig salons, who
relegated to herself the office of social and political arbiter, and
who not only gave orders to such men as Macaulay and Sydney Smith, but
exacted their most implicit obedience. Little, however, has been
written of Lady Holland’s earlier years, and it is to fill this gap in
her career that the present journal is published. Naturally, these
earlier years were identified with Holland house quite as much as were
the later ones.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“These volumes abound in interest, whether they are considered as
contributions to social and literary history or as revelations of
character. The latter feature, on the whole, predominates. If space
permitted, we could give many illustrations of Lady Holland’s
admirable strokes at character. The index is disappointingly meagre.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 599. N. 14. 1500w.
=Nation.= 87: 385. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Lord Ilchester has the industry and the impartiality necessary to
make a great historian, but he must really be more careful about his
composition. The footnotes are rather too numerous and detailed.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 1200w.
“Lord Ilchester has annotated these volumes with remarkable care.
Scarcely an allusion but is deftly tracked, and he has provided a
wealth of family history to elucidate the entries. The second volume
is less interesting than the first, for it is full of backstairs
political gossip which has by this time lost its point.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 737. N. 7, ’08. 1700w.
=Holland, Rupert Sargent.= Builders of united Italy, 1808–1898.
**$2. Holt.
8–24568.
Men who represent the forces that have fused in Italy’s progress
towards a united nation furnish subjects for these eight sketches.
They are as follows: Alfieri, the poet; Manzoni, the man of letters;
Gioberti, the philosopher; Manin, the Father of Venice; Mazzini, the
prophet; Cavour, the statesman; Garibaldi, the crusader; and Victor
Emmanuel, the king.
* * * * *
“It is well worth reading by all who admire brave deeds and heroic
self-sacrifice. Young people especially should read the book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Holland has caught the enthusiasm without which no historian can
either sympathize with or describe the spirit that upheld the Italians
in their struggles for freedom and independence.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Excellent little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 100w.
=Holley, Clifford Dyer, and Ladd, Edwin Fremont.= Analysis of mixed
paints, color pigments, and varnishes. $2.50. Wiley.
8–4594.
Brings to date the information both on the analysis of pigments and
vehicles, and on the practical testing of their properties, as well as
shows the demands made of this department of applied chemistry. It is
of value “to the paint student and analyst, while also, owing to the
authors’ connection with North Dakota paint legislation, additional
interest will be felt in the general discussion of the problem of
securing efficient paint.”
* * * * *
“Will have a wide use, both because of its detailed information
regarding the composition of the pigments now in general use, and also
because of the directions for the analysis of the paints.” Robert Job.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 435. Ap. 16, ’08. 530w.
“The methods for the analysis of oils seem to be somewhat incomplete,
but on the whole the work is a valuable contribution to the literature
of the subject.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Should prove of considerable practical value, especially in America,
and should be of assistance to analysts who have work of this kind to
do, as it brings together much information which is otherwise
scattered, and contains a good deal which is not to be found in the
well-known manual by the late Mr. Hurst.” A. P. Laurie.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 125. Je. 11, ’08. 560w.
“The work is one of the best contributions to the literature of these
subjects that have appeared. Should be in the library of every one
having to do with the subjects treated.” A. H. Gill.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 277. Ag. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin; the father of
Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is only in the fact that the author did not examine the problem
involved in the virtual martyrdom of Dr. McLoughlin from the broadly
historical point of view that any exception can be taken to this
admirable book.” F. G. Young.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 620. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 275. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“This biography is not, perhaps, a fine specimen of smooth or
systematic narration; and it makes no pretention to literary finish.
But it possesses the first quality of a biography—it places the living
man before us, just as he must have appeared to those who knew him.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 102. O. ’08. 1350w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“This book is authoritative, based upon abundant documents, many
printed in a full appendix; and although sometimes a bit too effusive,
it is, on the whole, a fit presentment of a figure which should not be
forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
=Holmes, Mrs. Bettie F.= Log of the “Laura” in polar seas: a hunting
cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east
Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906. Mrs.
Bettie F. Holmes, 3598 Washington av., Cincinnati, O.
8–4600.
“A rather elaborate diary of a hunting cruise in the summer of 1906,
to Spitzbergen, East Greenland, and the island of Jan Mayen.”
(Nation.) “The paper is handmade from an Italian mill; the type is the
excellent ‘Bodoni’ face, designed and used exclusively by the
University press; and the illustrations—photogravure prints from
untouched negatives—are all of superlative merit.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“By far the most entertaining part of the book deals with the hunts
for the great polar bears. The author fails in breathing a distinct
personality into her account—a failure, no doubt, which may be a
virtue in a log-book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 345. Je. 1, ’08. 430w.
“The style is pleasing and unaffected. The scientific value of the
cruise was small. It is as an example of fine book-making that the
volume is chiefly noteworthy. Unfortunately the book is without an
index and is provided with an inadequate map.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Holmes, Sir Richard Rivington.= Windsor; painted by G: M. Henton.
(Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–16928.
The history of Windsor and its famous castle is reviewed here by the
keeper of the King’s library at Windsor castle. Its towers, its
chapel, its park and the borough itself are described and painted in
the spirit of reverence and appreciation due this “heirloom of the
ages.” It is doubly important, in that the history of Windsor is a
kind of epitome of English history since the time of the Norman
conquest.
* * * * *
“It is not a deep book ... but all that is said is trustworthy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 423. Ap. 4. 320w.
“The modest subordinate text is quite what it ought to be for
elucidation, historical, architectural and social.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The illustrations ... impart a distinct charm to a book which should
be deservedly popular.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 250w.
“It is a book that will allure the artistic traveller.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This is a good specimen of Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’ The
subject is a great one, and it has been worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 345. F. 29, ’08. 270w.
=Holmes, Richard Sill.= Maid of honor. †$1.50. Revell.
7–38899.
The story of the training of a shrewish young miss whose rude manners
arise from her determination not to marry the man she loves because he
is a minister. The author writes “of theological problems, making an
original old Scotchman chief speaker, and his hero, a young minister,
chief actor.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The love story is negligible, but the sketch of the Presbyterian
elder ... bears internal evidence of having been drawn from life.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
“The book is neither a religious nor a problem novel, although its
hero is a minister, but is full of sallies of a kindly sort that makes
it most entertaining reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 62. F. 1, ’08. 170w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
* =Holmes, Richard Sill.= Victor: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
8–30535.
A dramatic story of the Pennsylvania mountains at the time of the
discovery of oil. It concerns a man wronged in love, his rival, and
the manner in which they settle their quarrel; it portrays the effect
of sudden wealth upon the mountain folk; and it abounds in plots, good
description and pleasing humor.
* * * * *
“A very ordinary tale of love, murder, and expiation.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“It is excellent in construction, save for a too frequently bringing
together of widely sundered lives, which gives an effect of
artificiality. There is good and humorous portrayal of several
backwoods characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Holmes, Thomas R. E.= Ancient Britain and the invasions of Julius
Caesar. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–8462.
A natural sequel to the author’s “Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.” The work
“which began as a study of Caesar’s invasions, has expanded in the
author’s hands until it has become the whole history or pre-history of
Britain down to the arrival of the Romans, and only the closing
chapters of the completed book—about one-sixth of the body of the
narrative—deal with the campaigns of Caesar.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“For the most part Mr. Holmes’s presentation of the subject is clear,
vigorous and extremely readable.” F. N. Robinson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 833. Jl. ’08. 950w.
“The volume is very readable, yet done in a scholarly fashion.” Carl
Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 633. N. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1350w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Holmes has now filled the gap thus left in his former work, by
giving us a companion volume, worthy in every respect of its
predecessor.” Arthur T. Walker.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 243. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Is characterized by thoroughness of detail and a clear presentation
and careful weighing of facts; it is moreover, written in a most
attractive and entertaining style.” Walter Dennison.
+ + =Class. Philol.= 3: 456. O. ’08. 950w.
“His conclusions, though sometimes announced with too great
positiveness and finality, generally carry weight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“In spite of certain grave defects and a uniform lack of originality,
it is a great monument to the author’s industry.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 601. Ap. 30, ’08. 2550w.
“Painstaking and ... exhaustive research.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 764. D. 21, ’07. 2350w.
“We must indicate one or two weak points in the premises of such very
confident conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1096. D. 28, ’07. 1750w.
=Holt, Rosa Belle.= Rugs; oriental and occidental, antique and
modern; new and enl. ed. *$5. McClurg.
8–29873.
A new and enlarged edition which benefits by the most recent
information obtained by investigation thruout the United States, by
recent study in the centers of Europe and by personal observation in
the Orient. The aim of the book is to present in a concise form
certain facts that enable a novice to appreciate the beauty and
interest attaching to rugs, and to assist a prospective purchaser in
judging of the merits of any particular rug he may desire to own.
* * * * *
“Now assumes the proportions of an authoritative work. To the care
taken to print only what is verifiable, the new edition owes much of
its value.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 330w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 100w.
“We must pronounce this work not only useful and beautiful, but also
learned.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“The compact form, the beautiful illustrations, and the careful text
of the present work insure its continued popularity as a work of
reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 763. D. ’08. 70w.
=Holtz, Frederick Leopold.= Nature-study: a manual for teachers and
students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–13354.
“A manual for teachers and for students in training schools. Part 1
discusses principles and methods. Part 2 is devoted to subject matter
of a biological nature, placing emphasis on life histories and habits
and relations to environment and practical bearing on human life. Part
3 outlines a good course for eight grades.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“It supplements but does not supersede Hodge’s ‘Nature study and
life.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the nature study movement, and
deserves to be read by every teacher interested in such work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is agreeably written, with nothing superfluous included.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 16, ’08. 340w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Along the Rivieras of France and Italy.
(Old world travel ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The initial volume in a new series whose aim is to do for countries
and districts what the “Mediaeval town series” has done for cities.
Here are described points along the coast from Marseilles to Pisa,
omitting a few towns close to Genoa which have suffered thru
manufacturing interests. Twenty-five illustrations in color, as many
in black and white, a bibliography, map and index make the volume
complete for the tourist.
* * * * *
“Altogether we congratulate the author-artist and the publishers upon
a delightful book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 730w.
“This volume will be an indispensable necessity to all who visit the
Riviera, and probably those who have already visited it will find that
Mr. Home reveals a world of new interest and beauty of which they will
make themselves sharers on their return to the Mediterranean.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Home treats his towns and cities both historically and
descriptively, and in both respects acquits himself in a very pleasing
fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Hooker, William Brian.= Right man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29648.
A story whose action takes place on a transatlantic liner. “Two men
and a girl are the centers of a not too intricate plot, and the stage
properties include a violin whose harmonies make discord among the
group. A concert, a fist fight, and an engagement lend the spice of
variety, and there is just enough of the lived-happy-ever-after
element to relieve any anxiety as to the outcome of the adventures.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story is fairly well written, but the glaring poster-like
illustrations are execrable.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with ‘The right man’ is that, quite unintentionally, the
problem is unfairly presented. The book fails in its delineation of
types.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 260. N. ’08. 700w.
“One may find a half-hour’s diversion in the reading of Brian Hooker’s
novelette.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31, ’08. 130w.
=Hopkins, Herbert Muller.= Priest and pagan. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–9172.
“The priest” is a young Episcopal clergyman, half Jew, who, while
rearing the walls of St. Basil’s cathedral in the Bronx loves a maiden
as charming as she is willful. “The pagan” is a returned wanderer who
after working his way into the good graces of the priest no less than
into a corner of his bachelor quarters, steals the maiden and weds
her. The dénouement is quite as incomprehensible as it is surprising.
* * * * *
“As a whole, ‘Priest and pagan’ lacks cohesion, interest, almost human
probability. It seems like an accretion rather than a growth, with a
prescribed amount of description, conversation, incident, and
classical allusion. The dialogue is heavy and sometimes in
questionable taste; the characters are uninspired.” R. W. K.
− =Bookm.= 27: 280. My. ’08. 1350w.
“It is a pity that so carefully wrought a story should not prove more
effective.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“It is refreshing to read a story where the ultra-modern, the civic,
the suburb, the slum, are the themes, yet where the undignified does
not enter, and where morality and even religion are in good social
standing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A particularly amateurish piece of fiction. The trouble with the
story is the fact that the author is not enough at home in the
environment he has elected for his people to make the reader feel at
home.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The defects are defects in art and in an ideal, so that we miss both
charm and stimulus.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Hopkins, R. V. Nind.= Life of Alexander Severus. (Cambridge
historical essays, no. 14.) *$1. Putnam.
The short comings, the earnest hard work, the “sagacity and
right-mindedness” of this Roman ruler of the third century of the
empire are seen in relation to the corrupt and downward tendencies of
his times.
* * * * *
“Contributes little to our knowledge of a period which deserves to be
treated by a more competent hand.” H. S. J.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 820. O. ’08. 350w.
“Scholarly and well-written.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“A happy example of the good work which these foundations have for
some years past been the means of calling forth.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 410w.
=Hopkins, William J.= Sandman: his ship stories. il. (Sandman ser.)
$1.50. Page.
7–28963.
In which young readers may learn all about the building of a ship, its
rigging, its launching, far country experiences, pirate encounters,
and castaway adventures.
* * * * *
“A book to give to adults to read aloud to children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 159. My. ’08. ✠
=Hopper, James Marie, and Bechdolt, Fred R.= 9009. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27364.
Indignation over facts—facts concerning the treatment of convicts in
our American prisons—has spurred the authors on to a revelation of
many of the existing evils. 9009 is a convict who while intent upon
“holding his copper” revolted against the Judas system of espionage,
of stalking, of spying, of treachery, of betrayal with which a convict
must identify himself in order to become a trusty. His tacit refusal
to be dominated by the system is punished for disobedience, and he
becomes the victim of a machine, a criminal who arouses pity as does
Jean Valjean.
* * * * *
“We do not recall any recent study in criminology that surpasses the
present one in forceful vitality of narration.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 140w.
“The book is, in a sense, not to be classed either in spirit or actual
achievement with the typical work of fiction. That is not to say that
it is lacking in imagination, power, or the forceful delineation of
character. All these qualities it has to a marked degree.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).= Odes and epodes of Horace; tr.
into English verse corresponding with the original metres by J.
Marshall. (Temple Greek and Latin classics, v. 5.) *$1. Putnam.
It has been the business of Dr. Marshall for forty years to offer this
translation of the untranslatable Odes of Horace. “The book, like all
the volumes of the series, gives the original and the translation on
opposite pages. In this case the type is comfortably large and clear.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The odes are priceless exotics, brilliant but scentless. Dr.
Marshall’s experiment is perhaps as successful as such an experiment
could be. Compared with his last predecessor, Gladstone, he has
achieved a veritable triumph.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 73: 239. D. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“In one thing he has been particularly fortunate—in suggesting the
rhythm of the original stanzas, while using forms thoroughly English.
He is, as a rule, less successful in the graver poems than in the
‘nugæ canoræ,’ but he is seldom quite flat, and his version as a whole
may be heartily recommended to those who are shut out from the
original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 131. F. 6, ’08. 560w.
“The author preserves the original metre and translates line by line,
but his English is therefore stilted and un-Horatian.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Though not a complete anthology of Horace’s best, is thoroughly
creditable to its editors, and commendable to lovers of the genial
poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Hord, John S.= Internal taxation in the Philippines. (Johns Hopkins
university studies in historical and political science, ser. 25,
no. 1.) pa. 30c. Johns Hopkins.
7–19437.
“Less a careful review of the new Philippine revenue system, in both
theory and practice, than it is an exposition of its content and of
the reasons for its adoption with a view to arguing for the removal of
tariff barriers between the United States and the Philippines.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Not the careful monograph one would expect from the auspices under
which it is published and the fact that its author is collector of
internal revenue in the Philippines and the chief designer of the
internal revenue law of 1904.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“The introductory section, summarizing the Spanish methods of internal
taxation in the Philippines, is not an accurate bit of economic
history.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“The pamphlet sets forth very well the content of the new Philippine
internal revenue law and its administration, but gives it slight
consideration from the point of view of the student of taxation
theories and practice.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp-fires on desert and lava. **$3.
Scribner.
8–30960.
The record of a journey which the author made from Tuscon to Sonoyta
in company with Dr. D. T. MacDougal of the Department of botanical
research of the Carnegie institute. They traversed a hitherto unknown
tract surrounding Pinacate in northwestern Mexico. It is of the
wonders of animal and plant life, of the experiences of camp and
trail, and of adventures with big game that Mr. Hornaday writes,
lending to the whole the atmosphere of mountain and desert.
* * * * *
“A very cheerful and pleasant book recounting his adventures, ...
recording the zoological, botanical, and geographical discoveries
achieved, passing on to the kindly reader the mild jests with which
the company beguiled the nights and days in the open.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Hornaday is the vivacious chronicler of a very interesting
journey.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.= The profligate. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16713.
The “profligate” is the foster son of a New York merchant. He is first
held responsible then finally cleared of the charge of murdering his
foster father. Idler, gambler, criminal are epithets which he
determines to live down when of a sudden he finds that he loves a good
woman. In order to prove beyond question his innocence of the crime he
resolves to find the real criminal. When the latter is traced to his
hiding, he is discovered to be the profligate’s own father. Sacrifice
and readjustment follow.
* * * * *
“There is a certain public in America that will deal generously with
Mr. Hornblow for writing this story, a public that may be defined
negatively as one in which persons of refined literary taste are not
included.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 327. Je. 13, ’08. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Horne, Charles F.= Technique of the novel: the elements of the art,
their evolution and present use. **$1.50. Harper.
8–15748.
An authoritative work which is fundamental in its exposition of the
principles that underlie fiction writing. It is at once a history of
the novel, an analysis of its forms from earliest times to the
present, and a presentation of the six elements that enter into the
development of the modern novel; viz., plot, motive and
verisimilitude, character, emotion, background, and style.
* * * * *
“The author’s theories might not be accepted by most critics and the
untrained reader should not take its utterances too seriously.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“Professor Horne has brought together a most interesting series of
discussions, and his illustrative citations and interludes are
admirable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 50w.
“Professor Horne has devoted an immense amount of hard, conscientious
work to the preparation of this book, but no inspired teacher would
ever think of using it, and we tremble for the fate of the pupils who
might be forced to study it under any one else.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 500w.
“And yet, as a whole, unsatisfactory as the book is, still as a piece
of academic work it marks an advance upon the profitless editing and
reëditing of school and college texts.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. Horne is very thorough in his discussion of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“Inasmuch as the author has expended well-nigh one-third of his space
upon the development of classic and mediaeval fiction, there is
legitimate ground for complaining that his conclusions are at least
weakened by the inconsistency and incompleteness of his use of
available material.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 619. O. ’08. 700w.
“It is for intelligent novel readers as well as for novel writers. A
wide welcome is due to this masterly work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 90w.
=Horsley, Albert E. (Harry Orchard, pseud.).= Confessions and
autobiography of Harry Orchard. $1. McClure.
7–41117.
“After a brief outline of his early life, the tale starts with
Orchard’s marriage and his settling down into business for himself,
and then follows his career with minute attention to every step down
to his arrest, his life in the jail, and his confession to Detective
McParland”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This remarkable human document, almost stunning to the mind in its
simplicity of selfrevelation, produces an overwhelming impression of
essential truthfulness. As a book, the unique interest of the
confession lies in the insight afforded into the psychology of the
man-of-prey.” S: H. Adams.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 57. Mr. ’08. 1300w.
“Its value is seriously impaired because there is no information as to
how the book was written, whether by Orchard himself or by dictation
or by some one else from various conversations.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Nation.= 86: 170. F. 20, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Apparently simple, straightforward story, utterly without
imagination, hanging together from start to finish with absolute
compactness and coherency, vivid in detail, and sodden with
criminality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 270w.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Young Alaskan. †$1.25. Harper.
The narrative of exciting adventure which fell to the lot of three
Alaskan boys who are castaways in the wild Kaludiak country. Their stout
hearts, insuperable energy and quick wit prove invincible against
hardship and danger.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Houmas, Mount.= Strange record. $1.50. Neale.
8–18002.
A wealthy young girl whose thoroly sensible ideas about life are at
variance with her stepmother’s superficial ones leaves her Brooklyn
home, studies medicine and chooses the south for the field of her
career. Sentiment against the woman doctor brings her to the point of
masquerading as a man, of going to the West Indies, where her
professional success is as complete as the masculine mask which she
assumes.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical earthwork tables. *90c. Longmans.
Tables that have been “prepared for the purpose of facilitating the
computation of the cross-sectional areas of embankments and
excavations, by reducing the work involved in preparing special
sections and in making the necessary calculations from longitudinal
and cross-sections of ground over or through which the proposed cut
has to be made.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“His book is inferior in design and application to most of the dozen
or more earthwork tables now in print.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical hydraulic (water supply and drainage)
tables and diagrams. *$1.25. Longmans.
W7–233.
“These tables and diagrams, originally prepared for the personal use
of the author, have proved of such use and convenience in ascertaining
the sizes of pipes for water supply systems, surface drains and
sewers, that they have been published in the present form.” (Engin.
D.) “The tables are based upon the formulas of Messrs. Ganguillet and
Kutter for the calculation of the flow in pipes and channels.” (Engin.
N.)
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“It may be a very useful work for some people, but not for those
familiar with any of the American books of hydraulic tables.” G. S.
Williams.
− =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 220w.
=Housman, Laurence.= Stories from the Arabian nights; retold by
Laurence Housman. *$5. Scribner.
8–13714.
“Laurence Housman has taken a half-dozen of the best tales, and from
the various authoritative translations has made a version in which the
repetitions and indecencies are suppressed and the points of the
narrative thrown into relief. He has, in a word, tried to get a result
similar to that attained by Galland, in the old French translation,
which so long stood as the basis of our English ‘Arabian nights,’
until displaced by an irruption of pedantic Orientalists.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A new version of some of the stories, written by Mr. Housman in prose
as graceful as his verse, will be very welcome.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 243. D. 14, ’07. 770w.
“As to the retelling, Mr. Housman takes all sorts of liberties, and we
do not blame him. The text is only a peg whereon to hang the pictures,
and these are most delightfully whimsical.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 1050w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 84. Mr. ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
“For real charm—a charm quite comparable to Scheherezade’s own—this
volume depends upon the indescribably quaint and bewitching
illustrations provided by Edmund Dulac.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Dulac has given them an eastern look with quite uncommon
success.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 936. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Five months on a derelict. (Pacific ser., v.
1.) †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–20577.
The experiences of a ship’s crew and some lively boys who escaped to a
derelict brig and tossed about on the Pacific for five months. Boys
will find exciting adventure wholesomely interspersed with geography,
natural history, astronomy and mythology. One of the best sailors in
the group is Rompey the collie.
* * * * *
“A book that is obviously intended to be instructive as well as
entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
* =Houston, Edwin James.= Wrecked on a coral island. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
A continuation of the experiences of the group of boys who figured in
“Five months on a derelict.” Aside from the strong story interest,
information is furnished concerning the formation of a coral island,
and concerning the plant and animal life of the southern Pacific.
* * * * *
“A good story and an instructive one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey;
being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with
introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss
Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“More effectually perhaps than any other book of the year this volume
of fragmentary literary remains reawakens us to a sense of the
reality, the permanence and power of the poetic spirit.” Ferris
Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 580w.
“[Has] a poetry of thought and an intimate skill in form full of
larger promise.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“It is impossible to study the conception of the work as a whole
without grave misgivings. If nothing else, it is altogether too
complicated. Whether for this reason or not, the dramatic interest
even of the completed plays is not very great.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Much as his untimely death is to be lamented by every lover of verse,
it is impossible to consider what remains of his cycle as a great or
very significant poem or to believe that even if it were finished, it
would be other than a work ‘manqué’ as a whole, a thing of brilliant
passages and of splendid promise for the time when the author should
have found himself in his own best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 63. Ja. 16, ’08. 650w.
=Hovey Richard.= To the end of the trail; ed. with notes by Mrs.
Richard Hovey. **$1.25. Duffield.
8–12814.
Collected and published as a tribute to the memory of a man who was
cut off before the fulfilment of extraordinary promise in his verse.
Aside from his lyrics are translations from Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and
Paul Verlaine.
* * * * *
“Completes the collected edition of the works of one of our most
interesting poets, a man of vivid imagination, of deep, if not broad,
sympathies, endowed with insight, sensibility, and the gift of
melodious expression.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 900w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Howard, George Bronson.= Scars on the southern seas. $1.50. Dodge,
B. W.
7–40047.
Among a Pacific mail steamship’s passengers are four people, one of
them a young woman, whose thrilling adventures begin with a midocean
swim violently terminated by a typhoon that cuts them loose from the
liner. Scrambling into the ship’s boat that had been lowered with them
they drift to an island where they discover a plot to wrest the
Philippines from the United States. Among them is a hero of the Jack
London type, who holds at bay a band of Japanese and Chinese
mercenaries while the remainder steal a ship and go to Manila for
help. Romance mingles with adventure in the usual proportion.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The portion dealing with reconstruction has a special value as
General Howard was at that time in charge of the Freedman’s bureau.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“The work is rather a rambling narrative of reminiscences. These pages
reveal little historical ability or literary skill, they are yet
exceptionally valuable in revealing the character of a high-minded
gentleman and patriot.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 600w.
“This is a book to dip into as we dip into Pepys or Evelyn. Even the
great length of the autobiography is precluded from tediousness by the
multitude of good things with which it abounds.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
“General Howard has made numerous changes, additions, and corrections,
giving new value to a record which, in the first edition, was well
received everywhere.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
“The student of military science will find other records more
illuminating; for vivid pictures we must search elsewhere.
Nevertheless, there are fine qualities, truthfulness, candor, the
spirit of humanity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 175. F. 20, ’08. 1000w.
“These well-printed, clearly written volumes exhibit the career of a
trained warrior.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Famous Indian chiefs I have known. †$1.50.
Century.
8–24869.
A Major-general of the civil war tells of his experiences and
adventures with Indian leaders, both friendly and hostile. One of the
most interesting chapters tells of the long Nez Percé war which was
fought with Chief Joseph, whom General Howard followed over fourteen
hundred miles before the warrior surrendered. More than twenty chiefs
figure in the narrative.
=Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“He has put [into it] the cream of his knowledge of Indian character
and of his experience with Indians.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The unique character of these reminiscences make them interesting to
readers of all ages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= My life and experiences among our hostile
Indians. $2.75. Worthington.
7–38634.
“Records the author’s observations, adventures, and campaigns among
the Indians of the great west. He gives details of their life, habits,
religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace
and war.” (Lit. D.) The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The romance of realism has never been more stirringly demonstrated
than in these pages. The tone in which the book is written is
elevated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
“Animated narrative ... which may be commended not only as thoroughly
readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American
Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious
citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is
entertaining as well as instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
=Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of steamships. †$2. McClure.
W8–151.
An informing book covering the entire ground of achievement
represented by the steamship: its history, principles of design,
machinery, development of type, work of the ship, river and lake
boats, ocean steamships and their routes in various quarters of the
globe.
* * * * *
“For the boy with a mechanical turn of mind this book is especially
profitable, and any boy intending to travel will find it beneficial.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a
really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and
medieval shipping. We have no hesitation in describing it as one of
the best introductions to the study of sailing-ships we have met with.
If some of the same ground has been traversed before, much is
comparatively unbroken, and has new sidelights thrown on it.
Altogether the book is an acquisition for the ‘steamboat’ boy.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Howe, Edward Watson.= Daily notes of a trip around the world. 2v.
*$2. Crane & co.
The record of a trip around the world, including Hawaii, Japan, China,
the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Every day
he wrote a few paragraphs for a newspaper, which, collected, make a
continuous history of his journey.
* * * * *
“The most entertaining record of travel we have read in many a year.
The book is a Kansas classic.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 550w.
“They have distinct vitality, unusual humor, and are always
interesting, not alone for the information conveyed, but as an
expression of an interesting personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe.= Life and letters of George Bancroft.
2v. **$4. Scribner.
8–12121.
Letters strung together on a slight thread of narrative and comment
tell a story of Bancroft’s life at once authentic and complete. It is
especially informing as it relates Bancroft’s political and scholarly
activity to his contemporaries and his times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Howe has done his work judiciously and the picture of the great
historian which he presents is at least clear in outline and
interesting in detail.” W: MacDonald.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 150. O. ’08. 900w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. 08.
“Though this book should command a wide public on both sides of the
Atlantic, its English readers may not unfairly complain that American
politics are presented in a manner so allusive as to be almost
unintelligible.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 1300w.
“This magisterial and critical life of a great historian is very
welcome.” W: M. Sloane.
+ + =Atlan.= 102: 275. Ag. ’08. 4100w.
“The tone throughout is serious and dignified. The interest, and often
the style, of Mr. Howe’s volumes suffers from unevenness; certain
portions have a power of absorbing the reader, while other pages seem
colorless.” A. R. Marble.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 267. My. 1, ’08. 2600w.
“Mr. Howe’s work is a clean and admirable addition to American
biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1093. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Howe has performed creditably a work of peculiar difficulty. He
had to dispose of a large mass of material; but he has confined the
narrative within proper limits.... He writes as if devoid of affection
for his subject. It is this circumstance which makes the reader finish
the book with the feeling that while he has profited somewhat, he has
nevertheless missed that keen enjoyment which a good biography should
furnish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 446. My. 14, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Howe is far from dull. He has taken a good deal of time in the
preparation of these volumes, and his care regarding them has been as
intelligent as it has been patient.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 3000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“As a collection of letters this work is most valuable, and little
fault is to be found with it; but as a biography it is distinctly open
to improvement.” H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 616. Jl. 18, ’08. 4800w.
“His ‘Life and letters’ give interesting revelations of all the
prominent personalities with whom at one time or another he had come
in contact.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 300w.
“The work has been accomplished in excellent taste and with no small
literary skill. There are, however, some glaring mistakes in the
transcription of letters. A valuable contribution to American
literature.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 703. N. 7, ’08. 1900w.
* =Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
This volume written by a daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells the story
of varied and fascinating experiences while wandering thru Spain. Keen
observation, rich imagination, and sprightly wit are quickened into
vigorous activity under the spell of the real Spain and her people.
Numerous illustrations add reality to the word pictures.
* * * * *
“Maud Howe is appreciative and sympathetic; she is also
impressionable, but the greatest gift of all is hers—she can remember
and record her impressions and convey them to her readers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 220w.
“Much of the information supplied by one of the party, who acts as a
sort of Greek chorus, would be less wearisome if soberly stated as a
matter of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Everywhere the author’s sprightly wit lends life and color to the
pictures she has painted of this fascinating country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“This is a travel book for the light hearted who don’t mind slang or
object to the companionship of fellow-travelers disguised under
initials.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
* =Howells, William Dean.= Christmas every day. †$1.75. Harper.
A charmingly told tale of a little girl who begged the Christmas fairy
to have Christmas every day in the year, and the monotony of the
surfeit of festivity that follows the granting of the request.
* * * * *
“In the telling of this story there is a certain zest that adds spirit
to the little girl’s wish, and the adventures that result therefrom.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“Such a nice story that when you commence you cannot put it down until
it is finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
“In taste and sentiment it is doubtful if any Christmas book of the
year surpasses this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
“It is written with grace, lightness of touch, brilliancy, and
literary charm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 30w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Fennel and rue. †$1.50. Harper.
8–9174.
A study of a young author and his treatment of a woman who tries to
trick him into revealing to her the conclusion of his story,
publishing serially, on the ground of her approaching death.
Discovering the trick, the author writes to his unknown correspondent
a stern and indignant letter. These young people afterward meet at a
house-party, the author as a guest, the girl as a professional
entertainer. The differing social altitudes of the two and their past
experiences of each other give a dramatic interest to every chance
encounter and present a problem which is solved, or unsolved, with a
satirical but delicate touch.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Mr. Howells’s wit and sense of character nowadays seem attenuated,
and as lovers of his work in other days, we regret to find the persons
of his small drama bloodless creatures, splitting ethical hairs.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 537. My. 2, 200w.
“A chip from Mr. Howells’s literary workshop, delicately carved and
polished, yet highly finished though it be, a by-product none the
less.” A. S. van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 281. My. ’08. 750w.
“It is all very charming and slyly humorous in the working out, but
cannot be said to engage any serious interest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Howells has not forgotten how to invent a situation,
half-psychical, half sentimental. The old skill is not lacking.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Howells has succeeded admirably in depicting the excesses to
which continual brooding over a trifle may lead those who have no
sense of humor. The slender plot is well developed, though it is
embedded in a good many pages of banal, but exceedingly life-like
conversation, uttered by desperately uninteresting and real people.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It is short; the characters are few; the narrative is swift and easy.
The dramatic sense of the writer is as fresh as ever and the interest
never flags. There is delicate observation in plenty, and there are
passages of exquisite description of scenes in which one can imagine
the writer himself delightfully absorbed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 151. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w.
“Another slight story, so far as length goes, but one delicately
wrought and with great literary skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
“Not by any means a masterpiece and in no way to be compared with the
author’s richer product.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 120w.
“Some of Mr. Howells’ readers may wish that he had let his imagination
react more decidedly upon his material.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 330w.
“It is no small proof of Mr. Howells’s delicate and distinguished
talent that he should have kept a story which trembles on the verge of
morbidity pure and sweet throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Roman holidays and others. **$3. Harper.
8–30605.
Quiet, capacious observation, poetic vision, and ripe reflection
characterize these impressions which are made to contrast
interestingly with impressions of the same scenes forty years ago.
Howells journeys about leisurely, comments upon old landmarks, modern
innovations, street scenes, popular customs, manners, the municipal
situation, and the Papal church.
* * * * *
“With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous
circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come
to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells,
he has filled a substantial volume with his easy-flowing narrative of
a Mediterranean vacation journey.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 200w.
“One of the charms of the volume springs from the change in the
impressions that Italy made upon him after the lapse of more than a
full generation since his first visit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
“In this new book of Rome and Italy there is a joy and a mellow
philosophy that are typical of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“There is no sadness, in these pages, nothing but a joy and a mellow
philosophy that are both typical of the author and of holidays in
general.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The habit Mr. W. D. Howells formed many years ago of writing
charmingly about his holiday doings still clings to him, and manifests
itself strikingly in his latest book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 780w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 100w.
=Howells, William Dean and others.= Whole family: a novel by twelve
authors. †$1.50. Harper.
Twelve authors have coöperated in producing this character-sketch
novel. A chapter is devoted to each member of the family as follows:
The father, by William Dean Howells; The old-maid aunt, by Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman; The grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse; The
daughter-in-law, by Mary Stewart Cutting; The school-girl, by
Elizabeth Jordan; The son-in-law, by John Kendrick Bangs; The married
son, by Henry James; The married daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps;
The mother, by Edith Wyatt; The school-boy, by Mary R. S. Andrews;
Peggy, by Alice Brown; and The friend of the family, by Henry Van
Dyke.
* * * * *
“It is pure vaudeville, but many of the ‘turns’ are characteristic and
amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 552. D. 3, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. James and Mr. Howells are, of course, the star performers in this
company of twelve, and the rest have all attempted, with more or less
success, to play up to them and to carry on a harmonious method of
treatment.” F. F. Kelly.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 590. O. 24, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The book will be keenly enjoyed by all readers of to-day, and the
future critic who writes the literary history of this period will not
be likely to pass it over in silence.” C. H. Gaines.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 928. D. ’08. 1000w.
=Hoyt, John Clayton, and Grover, Nathan Clifford.= River discharge;
prepared for the use of engineers and students. $2. Wiley.
7–28189.
“The book is divided into six chapters, dealing respectively with
rainfall and evaporation; instruments used for obtaining velocities
and depths; cable-station equipments; wading stations; theory and
practices of measuring discharges; weirs and weir formulas; discussion
and use of data; together with seventeen tables for facilitating the
computations in various hydraulic problems.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The volume is certain to meet the needs of engineers, students and
capitalists, to whom for the first time much data from government
reports is here made readily accessible.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 150w.
“Being practically the only work available dealing with the subject
this volume will find a ready reception, and when future editions
enable the authors to fill in the omissions and strengthen the weak
spots, it should be one of the most valuable works on practical
hydraulics printed in the English language.” G. S. Williams.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w.
“The authors of the book ... give in a thoroughly practical and useful
way the result of their experience, and of the methods adopted in
carrying out the work.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 148. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 150w.
=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an
account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers.
**$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
To correct misleading accounts of Mr. Hubbard’s ill-fated expedition
organized for the purpose of exploring the Northwest river draining
Lake Michikamau, and the George river draining the northern slope of
the plateau to Ungava bay, his wife went over the same ground in a
more favorable season. This is a record of her journey, to which she
adds her husband’s latter-day diary and a narrative by one of his
party, George Elson.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 720w.
“Her book should command a wide circle of interested readers. It is to
be regretted, however, that her account lacks both definiteness and
good form in its presentation; there are hopeless and involved
anti-climaxes when striking situations afforded opportunities for
quite the opposite effects. One reader, at least, has been pained by
the evident depreciation, throughout her book, of Wallace’s services
to her husband and loyalty to his memory, as evidenced in the earlier
books and by Hubbard’s own diary.” M. A. Havens.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 286. N. 1, ’08. 3850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 80w.
“This volume contains the diary notes kept by her husband of his own
attempt, but its chief interest is in the fascinating story which she
has to tell of her own triumph. This book is one of great interest,
not only for its own story, but also for the fact that its authoress
succeeded where her husband failed.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1150w.
=Huey, Edmund Burke.= Psychology and pedagogy of reading; with a
review of the history of reading and writing, and of methods,
texts, and hygiene in reading. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–4327.
A work for advanced students of this phase of education and
psychology, as well as for elementary school teachers. It sets forth
the machinery of the subconscious process which one undergoes in
transferring the printed page to one’s consciousness. “The material
used is the whole body of reference from the experiments of all the
psychologists who have occupied themselves in this curious study,
supplemented by the writer’s own observations.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“For psychologists, teachers of more than average training and
understanding, advanced students, and exceptionally intelligent
parents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“He comes mighty near achieving the direct and simple conversational
style for which he pleads. This book undoubtedly sets the high-water
mark for books on special method.” W: C. Ruediger.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 36: 203. S. ’08. 770w.
“The author has done for reading what ought to be done for every
branch of study.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book treats the subject more extensively and in a more
thorough-going way than has been done heretofore. The experimental
work is presented in an unusually interesting manner; and so, indeed,
is the entire material. The author thinks it would be best to have
children learn to read late, and at home, which they could easily do
if left largely to themselves. The present writer thinks Professor
Huey is not consistent in the attitude he takes upon this problem.” M.
V. O’Shea.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 500. Ag. 27, ’08. 1300w.
“An attractive study, which is likely to arouse a broader interest in
the questions at issue.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“A modestly laborious volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 137. Mr. 14, ’08. 1750w.
“The best book on this radically important subject that we have met
with.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
“Professor Huey’s book is interesting, well written, and useful.” M.
F. Washburn.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book brings together an immense amount of material in unusually
readable form. It seems destined to arouse interest and stimulate
investigation in an important field.” Raymond Dodge.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 178. Ag. 7, ’08. 800w.
=Hughes, Charles Evans.= Addresses and papers of Charles Evans
Hughes, governor of New York, 1906–1908; with an introd. by Jacob
Gould Schurman. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–14814.
President Schurman has contributed to this volume an introduction
which is both a biographical sketch and an estimate of Governor
Hughes’s career as a public man. The body of the book contains
selected speeches reflecting Mr. Hughes’s political views, classified
under the following heads: Public office and party principles;
Regulation of public-service corporations; and Occasional addresses.
* * * * *
“These speeches reveal the man. They should be widely read and
studied. They will be an uplift to our young men in this time of graft
and self-seeking. In Governor Hughes this ideal of the days of the
early republic lives again.” S. L. Woodford.
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1024. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 100w.
“His utterances, written and spoken, are notably clear, compact, and
forceful in expression, and equally sincere and frank in spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Hughes, Thomas Aloysius.= History of the Society of Jesus in North
America, colonial and federal. *$4.50. Burrows.
7–25073.
=v. 1.= From the first colonization till 1645.
The first volume in a “comprehensive historical series, comprising in
different languages an authentic account of the society over the
world.” The first part of the work “deals entirely with the first few
years of the history of the province of Maryland and is provided with
remarkably complete critical apparatus.” (Am. Hist. R.) The second
part, known v. 1, pt. 1, includes documents from 1605 to 1838
“applying to the early history of the missions to the Jesuit property
and its uses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania missions.” (Nation.)
=v. 2.= Contains the text based upon the documentary evidence which
comprised the first volume. “As in all other ecclesiastical history,
so here we have much that is sordid—disputes about property, quarrels
between secular priests and religious and much else of similar
character—but on the whole it is a story of sincere devotion and true
Christian heroism.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The author is without question a most learned man and a most careful
student. His introduction on the sources, archives and literature of
his subject is exceedingly valuable, not only to students of American
history, but also to those interested in the Jesuits in any land. His
bibliography is extensive and shows that he has investigated most of
the authorities and that he appreciates the importance of writing
history from the sources.” B. C. Steiner.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 597. Ap. ’08. 2600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work supplies food for the serious student, rather than easy
entertaining reading for leisure hours. It will prove an invaluable
mine for future historians.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 816. Mr. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even more eloquently than the first volume of the text, testifies to
the laborious, painstaking industry which Father Hughes has devoted to
his great task. American Catholics will require Father Hughes’ data to
be thoroughly and impartially scrutinized before they will be ready to
acquiesce in the conclusions which he draws.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 255. My. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1, pt.
1.)
“In spite of crudity of style, errors of judgment, and an absolute
inability to comprehend the point of view of an opponent, Father
Hughes has produced an extremely valuable book. It is not too much to
say that, after all allowances are made, he has completely changed our
ideas of the part played by the Jesuits in the Maryland episode.” W.
L. Grant.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 579. Jl. ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A source-book of high value for the ecclesiastical history of the
American colonies.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This work is in the highest sense a work of learning, and while it
must reach the shelves of every public library and every college
collection, it will also take an honored place in the many private
studies where scholarship, conscientious impartiality, and masterly
style are valued.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The author has added comparatively little to what was already known
of the first years of Maryland’s settlement; and the many
controversies involved in the purpose and methods of that venture have
frequently led him off the main track.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work is done with the thoroughness with which Jesuit scholarship
is associated, and if the standpoint taken is rigidly that of the
society, that is, indeed, only what might have been expected, and
constitutes to a large extent the value of this contribution to local
Maryland history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is to be hoped that in the volumes to follow he will adopt a less
censorious and disputatious tone, and also succeed in drawing his
narrative somewhat more closely together than is the case here. Its
readability will then be greatly increased without any impairment of
its intrinsic worth.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 269. My. 30, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Niagara river. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–29355.
“Mr. Hulbert’s book is illustrated with some seventy delightful views.
The great commercial importance of Niagara falls, and still greater
developments promised in the near future, have led this author to deal
first with the river as we find it at present, beautiful and sublime
as a feature of natural scenery, but most practically valuable as a
mighty power yoked to the wheels of human machinery and turned into an
industrial instrument.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“In mechanical execution, as well as in literary style, the volume has
decided merits.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“It is in every respect an entertaining as well as an informing work,
at once popular and scientific.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
“The book is something more than a work written to order.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He presents matter of importance in an extremely readable form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 140w.
=Hulbert, Eri Baker.= English reformation and Puritanism, with other
lectures and addresses: a memorial; ed. by A. R. E. Wyant. *$2.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.
8–1485.
Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials,
and other tributes, to Dr. Hulbert. The second part consists of a
dozen lectures on the English reformation and Puritanism, with seven
occasional addresses.
* * * * *
“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the
movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous,
pungent, and many passages when delivered must have been truly
eloquent. The book should find many readers among intelligent laymen
as well as among students and ministers.” A. H: Newman.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 317. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“Had Dean Hulbert lived ... it is probable that he would have given
these lectures a somewhat more scholarly form and that he would have
purged them of some of the errors and imperfections that now detract
from their value, especially as regards the more recent history of
nonconformity and education in England.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1096. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In general we may say that Dr. Hulbert’s point of view is elevated,
his horizon broad, and his purpose sincere. His lectures are therefore
good history and not cramped by the immediate purpose for which they
were prepared.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 352. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
* =Hull, William Isaac.= Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.
8–28855.
“Professor Hull’s volume is a detailed account of the history and
results of each conference. All the topics discussed and all the acts
passed are grouped together, the author showing first what was done in
1899 and then in 1907.” (Ind.) “He has analyzed and compared the work
of the two conferences by topics and sub-topics, so that we are
enabled at a glance to see what advance on any special
point—disarmament, arbitration, naval warfare, land warfare, etc.—the
conference of 1907 marked over its predecessor.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“No one has as yet so completely and adequately covered the second
conference, and the volume is therefore the most complete account of
the two peace congresses up to date. The volume will become a standard
work and will prove especially valuable to editors, librarians and
students. We notice only a trifling error or two.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The arrangement of Professor Hull’s book renders it particularly
convenient for ready reference.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 440w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Green mummy. †$1.25. Dillingham.
8–20710.
The green mummy held in its hands some precious emeralds. Therefore a
certain antiquarian eagerly desires it and therefore the mummy case is
delivered to him, containing the dead body of the man who had been
sent to procure the treasure. The story unravels the mystery of the
murder.
* * * * *
“It will puzzle and surprise you as thoroughly as anything else he has
published.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Hume, Martin.= Court of Philip IV.: Spain in decadence. *$4.
Putnam.
8–3611.
“A worthy sociological study frankly recognizing the intimate relation
that court life bears to national life.” (Ind.) “Major Hume’s method
is to present a series of pictures, chronologically arranged, of
Philip’s life and surroundings, portraying as minutely as need be the
other prominent personages of the era, and the social life.” (N. Y.
Times.) “Having by birth and upbringing a foot in either camp, he has
in most of his other works maintained a critical though friendly
attitude towards Spain. In this he writes exactly as a Spaniard might
have written on the same theme. In fact, his work is really a Spanish
history, written in the English tongue.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Major Hume lends a personal interest to his descriptions of the
principal personages in the historical drama, and his rapid outline of
the political situation is vigorous and effective in its brevity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 821. D. 28. 1350w.
“Mr. Hume’s claim to have described an important period directly from
the sources in a distinctly human and interesting way is well
sustained.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“A formal and judicial history would have been more valuable than
these kaleidoscopic views of court life. Still the work is skilfully
done, and the presentation of Philip’s incurable frivolity is complete
and convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 337. N. 8, ’07. 2000w.
“Errors and inaccuracies ... are by no means absent. A more serious
fault of the book is its redundancy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The author’s art has been, through all the maze of detail, and the
wealth of documentary evidence, to keep the image of the unlucky king
clear and distinct and to enlist our sympathy.” R. B. C. Graham.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 571. N. 9, ’07. 1800w.
“He has compiled a picturesque and superficial book of the court, full
of gossip and glittering pageants, but containing little of importance
that is new. It cannot be accepted as a wholly trustworthy or
scholarly account of his reign.”
− =Spec.= 99: sup. 745. N. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Hume, Martin.= Two English queens and Philip. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This present volume contains a most clear and reliable narrative of
that period in English history when the struggle between the Reformed
faith and Catholicism was complicated by political intrigues and
schemes which ended in Spain’s standing up as the actual antagonist of
England in arms as well as in theological controversy, Mr. Hume tells
of Mary Stuart’s marriage with Philip and of the incidents which led
to that marriage; the events that followed Mary’s death, including
Elizabeth’s refusal of Philip and the advance of the Invincible
Armada, with whose defeat this volume ends.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The particular attraction of Mr. Martin Hume’s historical work lies
in his dramatic power, his skill in weaving a succinct, vivid, and
rapid narrative. He is picturesque without running to exaggeration,
and his familiarity with the records, relics, and monuments of the
sixteenth century in Western Europe is complete and under perfect
control.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 600w.
“A book like this cannot be measured by the same canons as a serious
historical work; it is frankly written to please a large public, and
not for the instruction of specialists. We venture to think that in
works like this he has found his real vocation, and, provided his
readers are adequately warned not to accept all his statements
unreservedly, we trust he may continue to live to produce a great many
more.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Hume’s story ... is one of great interest—picturesque, dramatic,
and vital.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 680w.
=Humphrey, Lucy Henderson=, comp. Poetic old-world: a little book
for tourists. *$1.50. Holt.
8–21527.
A volume similar in plan to that of Miss Du Bois, and easily a
companion to it. The ground covered is different and there are only
fifty poems which both compilers have used in common. Here are poems
relating to the voyage, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium,
France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece and to the return.
* * * * *
“Useful in libraries not having Longfellow’s ‘Poems of places.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“This is a delightful book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 40w.
“The selections, on the whole, are good, most of them familiar enough,
but none the worse for that. And the editor has been wise, we think,
in looking for pieces that convey some sentiment, personal or
historical, connected with a place, rather than for mere
descriptions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 100w.
=Humphrey, Zephine.= Over against Green Peak. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12764.
“Aunt Susan, Jane, and I” make a real living personality of an old
white house beside the road in the heart of a Vermont valley. The
chapters of this book are of the nature of reveries, with the library,
the garden, and the orchard for themes. Here one finds simple-life
charm, the love of nature, and the joy of claiming the whole year for
a comrade.
* * * * *
“It is characterized by gentle humor, grace, and refinement.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“It must not be supposed that the book as a whole is not as fresh and
exhilarating, to nature-lovers, as the mountain air and mountain
scenery that have largely inspired it.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader at once finds that he is not dealing with a commonplace
mind.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 170w.
“A worthy effort to express through poetry rural life in Maine.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The reader takes part in the simple tasks and quiet enjoyments
cordially, and puts down the little book with the feeling that it has
afforded entertainment and that it has about it the unmistakable air
of literary grace and refinement.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
A biography which furnishes the principal events in Calhoun’s private
life and political career, and shows his identification with two
opposing popular movements:—“how he helped to form a broad national
sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against
that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional
sentiment.”
* * * * *
“While the work does not show the brilliancy that made Von Holst’s
similar biography so notable twenty-five years ago, its fairness to
all parties makes it more trustworthy.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The use of more recent sources of history and researches among state
papers and publications of Calhoun’s day add the sense of thoroughness
and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Hunt’s sketch of the life and influence of the Southern statesman
is a sympathetic and useful one, and he has supplemented his text with
chronological and bibliographical notes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 110w.
=Hunt, Violet.= White rose of weary leaf. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Best defined as a sort of modern ‘Jane Eyre’ story.... The Jane Eyre
of this story is not an inexperienced young girl, but a sad,
disillusioned woman, who has long looked the world in the face, and
expects nothing from it but injustice. The Mr. Rochester has been
married, not once, but twice.... The spectacular tragedy is not a
fire, but a railroad wreck, and even here the wife, though badly hurt,
insists upon recovering.... The man, however, allows the other woman
to believe that the wife is dead; and from this initial wrong the
story moves strongly on to a double expiation, told in a spirit of
grim fatalism.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The story is undoubtedly clever.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 317. Mr. 14. 300w.
“It is astonishing that a book so faulty should here and there show
streaks of such undeniable merit.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 220w.
“A disconcerting tale, not to be commended to readers of tender
sensibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 230w.
“The title of this cumbersome story is suggestive of its effect on the
reader.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 456. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The book is clever, well written (the dialogue and one or two
letters, being quite remarkable), and disagreeable.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 340w.
“Though distinctly clever as a study of character, is squalidly
dreary, and makes very depressing reading.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political
history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
* * * * *
“As a colorless record of events and a clear elucidation of the
history of parties and of political developments in England during the
last half of the nineteenth century, the work of Messrs. Low and
Sanders is completely successful, and, as a book of reference of this
character, it has no rival in the field.” A. G. Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 583. Ap. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Altogether it may be said that in this volume we have an adequate,
impartial, and highly readable account of the period it covers. Our
chief criticism of the work is rather negative than positive.” E: P.
Cheyney.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 523. Mr. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hodgkin marshals the known facts with great skill, and brings out
a number of valuable points more clearly than any of his predecessors.
It is possible, however, that he exaggerates the influence of the
Norman conquest.” E: Fuller.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within the limits he was constrained to observe, it is well-nigh a
model of its kind.” E: Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Unfortunately, he chooses to devote the greater part of the volume to
the minute narration of battles and sieges.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 312. My. ’08. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 313. My. ’08. 150. (Review of v. 11.)
“One of the best contributions so far to an excellent work.” E:
Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 314. My. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1041. My. 7, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7 and 12.)
“They fully maintain the reputation of the series for solidity and
conservatism. As indicative of the machine-made quality which inheres
in all the volumes of this series, the fact should be noted that the
index [of v. 7] is defective in many particulars.”
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. 08. 300w. (Review of v. 5 and 7.)
“The young man in a hurry will find this volume very useful.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 768. D. 21, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Generally the authors show a power of seeing all around the subjects
which they handle.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 12.)
“A work of real value.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 134. Jl. 25, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Hunter, Alexander.= Huntsman in the South. *$1.50. Neale.
8–4450.
How the South goes a-hunting and bags its game is told in a sprightly
narrative full of the atmosphere of field and stream. Among the most
interesting chapters are “A coon-hunt” and “An old Virginia fox-hunt.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Hunter’s ... hunting stories certainly have the virtue of a
lively narrative form.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 50w.
=Hunter, Robert.= Socialists at work. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11815.
The wide-spread espousal of the cause of socialism, the unquenchable
fervor and invincible vitality of its adherents are the themes with
which this book deals. It treats of the movement in Germany, Italy,
France, Great Britain, Belgium, of the progress of socialism,
socialism and social reform, socialism in parliaments, socialism in
art and literature, and a supplementary chapter on the movement in
other countries.
* * * * *
“The book is one of the best, if not the best, for reading by anyone
who wishes to secure an answer to the questions, ‘Who are the
socialists? What do they believe? What are they doing? How are they
organized?’ and these are the important points to know about this
movement.” A. M. Simons.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 263. S. ’08. 740w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“The material would serve well for a series of popular magazine
articles entitled, ‘Notes on socialism abroad and at home,’ but as a
book it is hardly worthy of the perusal of a student.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
“Despite these defects the book has some claim to a passing interest.
While outlining the social reforms now in progress in Europe, it
serves also to bring the reader into intimate contact with the men of
the socialistic movement.” J. A. Lapp.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 146. Je. ’08. 600w.
“He reports with enthusiasm and some exaggeration the triumphs of the
European parties that bear the same label as himself.”
− =Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 387. Je. 20, ’08. 680w.
“Based as the book is largely upon personal observation and first-hand
material, it presents many facts not elsewhere accessible; and it is
admirably written. Its charm is largely due to the personal note.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
“The world-sweep of the movement has never before been so clearly
brought before the American reading public.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 130w.
=Huntington, Annie Oakes.= Poison ivy and swamp sumach. *75c. Annie
O. Huntington, 31 Glen road, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
8–11102.
Presents “a series of photographs of poison ivy and swamp sumach which
make it possible for even the casual reader to recognize leaves,
flowers, fruit, and buds, and thereby to be protected against injury.
A study of the accompanying text will enable the man who goes fishing
early in the spring to distinguish the poisonous sumach without its
leaves. There is also a chapter on the treatment of the poisonous
eruption.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Huntington has performed a useful service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“Although we are not impressed by the striking originality of Mr.
Huntington’s method of treating his subject, he is a close and careful
observer of what came under his notice, a skilful delineator of
character, and a writer of considerable merit.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1850w.
“Whatever our conclusions may be in regard to Mr. Huntington’s
theories, we must allow him the credit of remarkably lucid
presentation of a complex scientific question.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 104. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The incidents of his journey are narrated simply, and are often
entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“With its simple record of perilous adventures, its excellent
illustrations, and its clear devotion to science first of all, it
forms a noteworthy and inspiring work of travel.” G. A. J. Cole.
+ + =Nature.= 77: 314. F. 6, ’08. 800w.
“It is a record of careful investigation, with intelligent deduction
based on scientific observation, but it is likewise a graphic and
charmingly written description of journeyings in unfamiliar places.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“It describes Central Asia in particular. It shows the immense
influence exerted by changes of climate upon the history of that
region.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 798. Ap. 4, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Huntington, Helen Manchester.= Sovereign good. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28983.
An absorbing story of the love of a young dramatist for a woman of the
New York smart set twelve years his senior. Her great love, her
renunciation, and at last reconciliation with the thoughts of the love
that passeth understanding, of essential and sovereign good, are the
motifs to which all else in the story is harmonious, artistic
embellishment.
* * * * *
“The lightness of the book’s impact upon the reader’s mind is the more
regrettable in view of the writer’s manifestly sincere effort to
express the inner eventfulness of commonplace life.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 150w.
“The author is evidently a novice in story writing, and her book is
nine parts of talk to one of movement. But the many, many pages of
conversation, description and analysis are written with intelligence
and taste, and the character of Fidelia King, the lady who loves
without response, is made lifelike and attractive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 529. S. 26, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Hurst, Edward H.= Mystery island. $1.50. Page.
7–32318.
Adventure lovers will fairly gallop thru these pages of crime and
mystery. An embezzler attempting to escape the law hides on an island
of the Everglades. His secret and the crime committed to cover it are
discovered by the knight of the tale who, fever stricken, wanders thru
the cypress swamps, happens to hit a trail, and comes upon the refugee
and his unsuspecting party in camp upon the island’s oasis.
* * * * *
“The author falls into the ruts of conventional fiction when he gets
his characters back to civilization; but the island episodes are
good.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 180w.
=Hurt, Walter.= Scarlet shadow: a story of the great Colorado
conspiracy. $1.50. Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan.
7–40797.
“Treats of the war of extermination waged by the Mine owners’
association against the Western federation of miners. Mr. Hurt has
given the side of the miners and has shown in an admirable manner many
of the facts in the great conspiracy case. He also rightly holds up
for the scorn of honorable citizens the Mine owners’ association and
its ill-famed servant, Governor Peabody, and the malodorous Pinkerton
thugs.”—Arena.
* * * * *
“This book is written in the bright, crisp style of the modern alert
newspaper man. It contains many strong and some very brilliant
passages. It is highly dramatic and often grimly tragic. Much of the
work is a vivid historic presentation, and so effective is this
portion of the book that we specially regret that the author should
have mixed romance with the history. Mr. Hurt’s book will appeal to
socialists.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 252. F. ’08. 1100w.
“Any man credulous enough to believe the hundreth part of this
book—could one so sublimely guileless be found—would certainly have a
pleasant idea of life in the great west to-day. Wholesale murder,
abduction, and torture are but incidents in this extraordinary tale.
As for the journalistic life, which plays so large a part in the
story, it is as saffron-tinted as one would expect from Mr. Hurt’s
literary style.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’08. 400w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= That little——: a sporting novel. †$1.50. Longmans.
An irascible father drives his son away from home because the latter
will neither go into the English army nor accept a position in a
certain London office. Richard goes abroad to seek his fortune,
leaving the girl he loves to ride her horses, drive her car and look
after his wise little terrier. The country setting makes the story,
for the author has the trick of taking “a village in the shires and
showing how much diversion and variety, not to mention useful
activities, are to be found within and without its borders.”
* * * * *
“The characters are as familiar as their surroundings. They have all
been shown before, sometimes better, sometimes worse.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“A genial and pleasant story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
* =Hutton, Edward.= Country walks about Florence. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Hutton is a guide to the Florence “of old renown” and bids his
reader linger in the vineyards, hear songs, see the olives silver in
the wind, stoop to the flowers, make haste slowly because of the
beauty of the day, and not think of hurry because of the beauty of the
night.
* * * * *
“The Florence of Mr. Hutton’s present book is worth a fireside journey
through it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“A useful addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 814. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Florence and the cities of northern Tuscany, with
Genoa, il. *$2. Macmillan.
“Impressions, experiences, reflections.” “You feel that while each
palace and church and soaring tower of Florence has its own special
message for [the author] and while ‘amid the hurry and bustle of her
narrow splendid ways’ he thinks only ‘of old things for a time,’ the
appeal of the country life outside of Florence, with its ‘beautiful
gay roads,’ its ‘numberless villas whispering with summer, laughing
with flowers,’ is even stronger to him, ‘for there abide the old ways
and the ancient songs, which you will not find in the city.’” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“His present volume, though it contains little that is new in the way
of thought or description, has a few chapters agreeable to read, and,
scattered up and down pages somewhat overloaded with ornament and
disfigured by repetitions, a good many passages of graceful writing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 266. S. 5. 540w.
“Although small, compact and yet comprehensive enough to do valuable
service as a supplementary guidebook among the Tuscan cities, the book
is written with a sympathetic understanding, an individual touch, a
genuine charm of style which make it equally adapted to the needs of
those who are preparing for first impressions and of those who are
seeking to revive old memories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“He has a happy quality of seizing an impression and transferring it
to words, and his slight historical sketches, though necessarily
incomplete, are quite adequate for the purpose he has in hand. His
judgments are sometimes biased by feeling, and he does not always
understand the Italian temperament.” K. H. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 623. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Worth reading and deserving of shelf room beside Mr. Symons.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Hutton indulges rather too freely in sentimentality. He seems to
be an amateur in history, art, in emotion, addressing amateurs.
Nevertheless, he succeeds sometimes in speaking about art and life
less affectedly than we fear he will.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
“We are very grateful to Mr. Hutton for the sheaves of golden fact
which abound in this closely packed volume. The fifty-three pages on
Pisa are the best thing we know in English on the treasures of the
city and the fortunes of the Republic.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
=Hutton, Frederick Remsen.= Gas-engine: a treatise on the
internal-combustion engine using gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol,
or other hydrocarbon as source of energy. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–345.
“In the first two editions the author had prominently before his mind
the idea of examining what the machine does and how this is
accomplished. In this edition, on the other hand, he considers the
gas-engine from the quantitative view-point more fully, that is, with
the idea of examining the size it must have to do a certain amount of
work in accordance with the limits set by natural laws.” (Engin. D.)
“There is a more complete treatment of gaseous and liquid fuels and
differs from the earlier edition in an expansion of the discussion of
producers and of carbureters.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The subject matter generally is brought up to date in a satisfactory
manner, with, however, some notable exceptions. It reads like the
first draft of a book, written without verifying the quantities
recorded, without digesting the information given, and without any
attempt at accurate statement. The reviewer has gone into what may
seem to be minor and trivial points, but in this particular case he
feels it is necessary to call attention to these inaccuracies and
carelessnesses of statement because they occur in practically every
paragraph of the first half of the book. It is a pity that they have
not been rectified, for the general plan of the book is good; but
until they are corrected the book is too unreliable to be recommended
for the use of students.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 438. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
* =Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Age of revolution: being an outline of
the history of the church from 1648 to 1815. (Church universal ser., no.
7.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20491.
A sketch in which “the author restricts himself to the history of the
churches which claim an episcopate transmitted continuously from the
first century. He imparts to it an interest, which might have been
missed in brief treatment of a long period, by giving prominence to
important episodes and representative individuals—e. g., Jansenism and
Port Royal, the French revolution, Bossuet and Fénelon, Wesley, Joseph
II of Germany. A salient feature of this ‘age of revolution’ impresses
the reader who contrasts the present servility of the clergy to the
Vatican with the free spirit often manifested then.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His account of the intrigues which led to the suppression of the
Jesuits is masterly, and the whole book is singularly readable. On one
or two points, however, we are disposed to quarrel with him. On the
whole, however, we have nothing but praise for this excellent book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 60w.
“This valuable little book corrects some current impressions of the
eighteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= Aphorisms and reflections from the works of
T. H. Huxley: selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. (Golden treasury
ser.) $1. Macmillan.
W8–95.
A little volume of quotations from Huxley’s writings. “An elaborate
index makes this little book a veritable boon to the literary worker
In need of apt illustrative quotations.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Huxley was one of the meatiest of writers, and bears well this
somewhat searching test of the quality of his thought.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 341. F. 13, ’08. 110w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.= Little brown brother. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24469.
A story whose scene is laid in the Philippines after the capture of
Aguinaldo. “The hero is a familiar character in fiction—a noble-minded
Englishman who, as the result of scrupulous unselfishness, is under a
cloud.... The action mostly concerns the attempt of an inadequate
force to quell a rising of pulajanes, or murderous Christian
fanatics.” (Ath.) “The heroine is a high-spirited English girl who
likes men who ‘do things,’ and who shares with her father, a wealthy
hemp buyer of Calbayog, a belief that it is the white man’s business
to keep the little brown brother in his place with a strong hand.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“A story of unusual interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“The author is at his best in realizing the sympathy which draws brave
men together; he touches love with nobility and restraint, but his
irony is too fantastic to be convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 130w.
“This book is much bigger and deeper than its central thread of
romance.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 263. N. ’08. 600w.
“For sheer graphic force and the rare ability to make one see, it has
a kinship with Mr. Dawson’s ‘African nights’ entertainment,’ and with
the earlier Kipling, the Kipling of ‘Plain tales’ and ‘Soldiers
three.’ The great fault of the book in point of technique is the
manner in which it intrudes the writer’s personal views.” Philip
Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 409. O. ’08. 1450w.
“Considered merely as a novel, this book is of unusual interest. But
the book is more than a novel; it is also a sensational political
pamphlet. The interest of the narrative is overshadowed by the
sweeping indictment of the American administration of the
Philippines.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“The book must rely for its popularity upon its merits as literature.
And they are not scanty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 740w.
“The great advantage that the story has over bluebooks and reports is
that it will be read,—no one who takes up Mr. Hyatt’s story will lay
it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 100. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Psychical research and the resurrection.
**$1.50. Small.
8–18413.
Contains essays relating to the subjects discussed in the author’s
three previous volumes. “The present volume covers more or less of the
whole field and may be regarded as a supplement to ‘Science and a
future life,’ with conclusions quite the same.” A concluding chapter
gives in detail the reasons for not accepting the proverbial story of
the resurrection from the point of view of science, and offers the new
interpretation of the facts as viewed in the light of psychic
research.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 550w.
“The reader, who in opening this book hopes to discover some positive
deductions relating to the nature of a future life, will surely close
it with disappointment. Nor do we find this discussion of cases in
itself very satisfactory, for we are asked to trust not only the
writer, but every word of every person whom he trusts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“It is impossible for any fair-minded person to read [this book],
without admitting, however reluctantly, that he, at least, has
preserved something of the scientific instinct and method in his ghost
hunting, and that his work and his theories deserve that serious
consideration the general absence of which he, now humorously, now
bitterly, resents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 800w.
“It is a great pity that he has seen fit to burden his pages with much
controversial material. Still, the book is undoubtedly useful to those
who wish to keep abreast of the progress of psychical research in the
United States.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 19, ’08. 330w.
I
=Iles, George=, ed. Little masterpieces of autobiography. 6v. ea. **75c.
Doubleday.
This series comprises six handy pocket volumes of biography as
follows: Greatest Americans—Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall
and Lincoln; Soldiers and explorers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Roosevelt,
Stanley, Peary, and King; Men of science—Darwin, Huxley, Newcomb,
Geikie, Nasmyth, Bessemer, Edison, Acheson, Curie and Carnegie;
Writers—Longfellow, Poe, Tennyson, Burns, Scott, Hawthorne, Dickens,
Brontë, Eliot, Stevenson, and George; Artists and composers—Millet,
Breton, Story, Nasmyth, Stillman, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Gounod,
Grieg and Haydn; and Actors—Jefferson, Booth, Cushman, Morris, Irving,
H. B. Irving, Terry, Mansfield, Salvini, and Ristori; Letters,
passages from famous biographies, and pages from diaries enter largely
into the sketches.
=Inchbold, A. Cunnick (Mrs. Stanley Inchbold).= Lisbon and Cintra;
with some account of other cities and historical sites in
Portugal. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–21792.
An interesting, beautifully illustrated presentation of present day
Lisbon, Cintra and other Portuguese cities. The buildings, monuments
and ruins are seen in their historic settings, and linked with names
famous from medieval times; while the questions of modern development
and relative power of the cities are given due attention.
* * * * *
“As she avoids the temptation to gush, the tone of her book is
excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 287. Mr. 7. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 515. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
“Mrs. Inchbold’s descriptive style is easy and pleasant, and the
colored illustrations, by Stanley Inchbold, add to the artistic
attraction of the volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 130w.
“The travellers by proxy will find this an interesting book, with
charming coloured illustrations, giving them a vivid picture of a
country full of historical buildings of great beauty; and the
travellers in practice will learn of a hunting-ground full of promised
delights, or will be able to compare notes and impressions.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton.= Lead and zinc in the United States. *$4.
Hill pub. co.
8–18051.
Comprises an economic history of the mining and smelting of lead and
zinc and the conditions which have affected the development of the
industries. “It attempts not so much to stimulate an antiquarian
interest in the early discoveries and feeble attempts at exploitation
of the lead and zinc deposits of this country, as to direct attention
to the natural features, technical improvements and commercial issues
which have contributed to the development of the industry.” (Engin.
N.)
* * * * *
“The book, while seemingly compiled with some haste, is for the major
part clear, and contains so much pertinent cost data that it will
prove valuable for reference as well as for study.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 440w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott-.= Wulnoth the wanderer: a story of King
Alfred of England. †$1.50. McClurg.
The song of Gyso, the gleeman which saved from the oblivion of the
past the heroic deeds of Wulnoth the wanderer, has made possible this
drama of the Viking days. Here are immortalized the friendship of
Wulnoth for Gruthred; the wanderings, perils, and warrings and his
slaying of Hungwar, the Dane; the friendship with Alfred and Bretwalda
and his love for Edgiva; and his last fight with Jarl Edric.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Province of Burma: a report prepared on behalf
of the University of Chicago. (Colonial administration in the Far
East.) 2v. ea. *$12.50. Houghton.
7–31201.
These two volumes form the first instalment of Mr. Ireland’s report
which was undertaken for the University of Chicago, and which will
extend thru twelve volumes. A year of preliminary study in London, two
years of travel in the Orient, and three years given to the
examination of six thousand volumes, mostly official documents, have
been spent in preparation for the task. “The volumes contain masses of
information concerning every branch of the administration, even down
to the rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative
council” (Lond. Times) furnishing a basis of fair comparisons with
other governments.
* * * * *
“In reference libraries it must become a useful and indispensable
handbook in its field.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A most comprehensive and invaluable compendium.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 584. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Truly encyclopædic. Of much value to the student of colonial
administration.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 300w.
“The reader a little above the average will discover much to attract
him in the skilful collation of document and statistical abstract,
which, even in the absence of interpretative comment, tell more or
less of a story by themselves.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“The author has been highly successful in these two volumes in
amassing material on which he can base comments of permanent value.”
G: R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 1000w.
“The volumes on Burma promise thorough and painstaking editing for the
series.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 523. S. ’08. 1350w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 438. Ap. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“No one who has a serious interest in the great administrative
problems of empire can afford to be without access to such an imperial
encyclopaedia. We congratulate Mr. Ireland on an enterprise which bids
fair to rival the greatest feats of German research.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 302. F. 22, ’08. 1200w.
* =Irving, John.= Stories from the history of Oxfordshire. Oxford.
“Mr. Irving who is head master of a boys’ school at Oxford has made
thirty little stories out of the historical and legendary material of
a country rich in traditions. It is his purpose to stimulate the
child’s interest and imagination, and to lead him imperceptibly on to
desire a more substantial acquaintance with history.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Irving has achieved simplicity and lucidity to a laudable extent,
and his ‘Stories’ are interesting throughout.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 94. Jl. 25. 160w.
“Desirable book for children’s reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 90w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.= Lady of the Mount. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–5226.
Set in the northwestern part of France, this story is an illustration
of that struggle between métayers and inexorable nobles which entered
so largely into bringing on the French revolution. The Mount is a
stronghold of the government ruled by an unyielding lord who conceded
nothing to the people and pursued only the “set tenure of his way.”
The leader of the opposition is the son of a seigneur whom the
governor of the Mount had wronged and whose lands he had confiscated.
Thru all the strife of uprisings runs the thread of romance—the love
of the high-born lady of the Mount for her half-peasant hero.
* * * * *
“This is one of the best novels of its class that has appeared during
the present year.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ives, Howard Chapin.= Switches and turnouts. 50c. H. C. Ives,
Worcester, Mass.
“This study consists of three articles which originally appeared in
the ‘Journal of the Worcester polytechnic institute.’ The author calls
attention to the following points: First, the descriptions of the
different forms of switches and their effect on the lead; second, the
statements of practical conclusions to be found at various places in
the text; and third, the design of the slip switch, the mathematics of
which are believed to be original, not having been found elsewhere by
the author.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“While not developing any new theory, the arrangement of the material
is good and the mathematical treatment concise, so that it forms a
handy reference book to add to the railway engineer’s handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 80w.
J
=Jacob, Violet.= History of Aythan Waring. **$1.25. Dutton.
8–3675.
Two cousins love “a delightful young Diana of the uplands,” thereby
incurring for one of them the jealousy of a vindictive woman. “The
hero is found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to death. His
lady-love is a winsome creature, and his rival, the villain, is
remarkably human for a character of his type. Hester is a striking
figure; her delineation is a sombre study of the madness which may
arise from a woman’s jealousy.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The tale is leisurely melodrama, presented with more fidelity to
detail, and rather more logical sequence and characterization, than is
usual in this class of story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 130w.
“The characters are vaguely drawn; the dialogue is perfunctory and
bookish; the melodramatic plot is dawdling, lifeless, and absurd.”
− =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The book is somewhat above the average novel in style,
characterization, and vigor of treatment. Mrs. Jacob, however, falls
short in the most essential quality in fiction—the dramatic touch.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
“The story is very well told.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 70 w.
“Nevertheless, though its execution is not so good as its conception,
it is a fine story, thoughtful and imaginative. It is because Mrs.
Jacob writes so well that we expect her to write better.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 200w.
“It is characteristic of Mrs. Jacob’s method that she is able to
dispense with all the trappings and actualities and decorative
apparatus of modern society without in the least impairing the
intrinsic interest of her story.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 191. F. 1, ’08. 720w.
=Jacobi, Mary Putnam.= Stories and sketches (1860–1871). $1.50.
Putnam.
8–11830.
A collection of the writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi which are “partly a
memorial to the life of a talented woman, whose notable success as a
physician and whose personal influence are worthy to be remembered,
and partly a tribute to the intrinsic value of her few literary
productions. All of these stories, sketches, and essays, eight in
number, date previous to her graduation in 1871 from l’Ecole de
Médecine, for after that event she decided to concentrate her energies
upon her chosen scientific and professional work.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“They make interesting studies from the historical point of view.
Undoubted talent is exhibited in them, but they belong to another day;
and probably the author was wise in giving up literary work for the
scientific life to which she adhered subsequently.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 210w.
“Intent as she was on the scientific pursuits that were to be her life
work, she could yet write papers of such delicate wit, such incisive
expression, such clearness of thought and appreciation of the
picturesque as raises them quite above the level of the magazine
article for which purpose they served, and makes them as vividly
interesting now as at their first printing, thirty or forty years
ago.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 310w.
“In the stories and sketches the appeal is usually to the intellect
rather than to the emotions, and a striking feature of both these and
of the essays is the firm touch with which the author goes to the
heart of a character or a situation, and puts its essential feature
into terse, telling, and concrete form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 180w.
“A feeling for the supernatural, an appreciation of good style in
writing, and a pleasant play of imagination characterize the stories.
The book will be of especial value to the many friends of Dr. Jacobi.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Jacobs, Philip P.=, comp. Campaign against tuberculosis in the
United States, including a directory of institutions dealing with
tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. $1. Charities pub.
com.
8–27800.
This work, compiled by Mr. Philip P. Jacobs under the direction of the
national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is
a survey of the Anti-tuberculosis activity during the past ten years.
The book has been made possible thru the coöperation of the Russell
Sage foundation.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Salthaven. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–30011.
“A little seaport, a simple-minded captain, a pretty girl, a young man
full of assurance and ingenuity, a pert maidservant with her sailor
lover—we have met their like many a time in his pages, yet his story
is so good humored that it is impossible not to enjoy it.” (Sat. R.)
“The novel shows a keen appreciation of the conversational cruelties
of women of the lower middle class; and an officious captain who
contrives to be bedridden in the house of a couple returning from
their honeymoon is prodigiously amusing.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Jacobs is one of those happy men who can be as funny as they
please without detracting from the love-interest of their stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 110w.
“The author is here at his most characteristic. The growth of his
familiar episode into a book has not impaired its quality.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There are no thrills and no breathless passages, but it is thoroughly
restful and charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 240w.
“The sly turns, the badinage and chaff, the oddly conceived
situations, are all Jacobs at his best.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Jacobs has found no fresh ingredients for his latest dish, but
his skill in varying the old recipe is so great that we hardly notice
this until we have come to the end.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 130w.
“Another of Mr. Jacobs’s delightful stories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Jacobstein, Meyer.= Tobacco industry in the United States. *$1.50.
Longmans.
7–36149.
“Deals in a dispassionate way, yet clearly, with the facts of the
development of the tobacco trust which has of late been the subject of
such heated presentation and litigation. The book covers the whole
field from the first plantations in the colonies to the foreign trade
and the tobacco tax.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Jacobstein knows his subject and the monograph gives evidence of
much careful work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 130w.
“The author has covered a large field in a relatively small compass
but has done it in an eminently satisfactory manner, and has shown
both good judgment in his selection of facts and wise discrimination
in the emphasis he has given to the different parts of the subject.
Few readers of the work will be inclined to feel dissatisfied with the
completeness of the author’s statements or the reliability of his
conclusions. The monograph is written in an excellent style and proves
easy and interesting reading. Perhaps the only serious criticism of
the work from scientific standpoint is the lack of a bibliography.
Even the references in the footnotes are not abundant and apparently
do not include all the sources of information used by the author.” M.
B. Hammond.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 124. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant
Bibles compared. (Gould prize essays.) 2d ed. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–5163.
The scriptural controversy embodied in the Gould prize essays has
resulted in the demand for a justification of the positions assumed by
the authors. Such a justification is found in this second edition,
which, in addition to the original essays, also includes the sources
from which material has been drawn.
* * * * *
“The bibliography is a valuable piece of work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 228. Je. ’08.
“Extended notes and bibliographies add much to the value of the
papers.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The authors of the essays were somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of
facts which they were supposed to include in a brief popular
presentation of the subject, and their accounts are bewildering to the
reader who is not at home in the history of Biblical translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 78. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
“The work thus completed far outranks all others on the same subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 220w.
=James, George Wharton.= What the white race may learn from the
Indian. *$1.50. Forbes.
8–17541.
Out of the fulness of a varied experience with red men, Dr. James sets
down essentials of health and happiness which the Indian observes, and
by a study of which the white man may profit. The author rejects the
Indian’s shortcomings of slovenliness and dwells upon racial
characteristics that are manifested in the lives of the best men and
women and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions and
desires regarding physical, mental and religious development.
* * * * *
“His account of the life, labor, customs and mental attributes is
excellent. The book is valuable and could be read to advantage by all
whites.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“Many writers have treated of the Indian in a more or less interesting
manner, yet we know of no modern essayist who approaches Mr. James in
appealing at once to the artist, the utilitarian and the
humanitarian.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book is no mere apologetic essay in behalf of a wonderful people;
it is a characterization of qualities which have been largely
overlooked.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 400w.
“Both hygienically and ethically this book is profitable in the easy
chair, and those who would travel to meet ‘the call of the wild’ will
find direction in it.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=James, Henry.= Novels and tales of Henry James. 23v. $46. Scribner.
7–41582.
A collective and definitive edition of Henry James’s novels. “To each
volume the author contributes a preface, telling the circumstances
under which he composed the story, the purpose he had in view, the
difficulties under which he labored, and the final result as he now
views it after the lapse of many years.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The prefaces will be a delight to all Jamesians, even to many who
modestly disclaim such a title. To such a one these prefaces may be
interesting chiefly as helping on toward one’s conception of the novel
as a literary form.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 44: 174. Mr. 16, ’08. 2050w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“The same principles which Mr. James has discust in his other critical
writing now take on [in the prefaces] an unwonted intensity and
intimacy. They furnish the key to the whole admirable work he has
accomplished; and show it as a goodly structure, reared upon a
coherent plan.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“These prefaces ... are written, we regret to say, in Mr. James’s most
exasperating style. The sentences are clogged with qualifying clauses,
as if Mr. James’s readers had not sufficient intelligence and
imagination to perceive qualifications in the very frame of the phrase
and connotation of the words, but insisted that it all be put down to
the last syllable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The prefaces, in spite of the exasperating style, continue as
interesting as in the first volumes of the set.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“The preface, in which Mr. James criticises his own work, is somewhat
less interesting than earlier prefaces in this edition.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
=Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Nation.= 87: 115. Ag. 6, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“If a new quarto of ‘Hamlet’ should appear done over like the text of
‘The Americans’ the judicious scholiast would promptly declare that
stage directions had, as inextricably as inexplicably, got tangled up
with the text and helplessly corrupted it. Apparently the judicious
reader will consult his interest and his pleasure if he reads the new
preface very carefully, looks over the revised version for passages of
exposition and comment, and then recurs to the original text.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 13. Ja. 11, ’08. 3800w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“The most proportioned of his productions after ‘The ambassadors.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 111. F. 29, ’08. 1120w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 5 and
6.)
“One is glad to have the preface with the new edition, and to any
reader who does not yet know Mr. James’s works thoroughly we heartily
commend both.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 7
and 8.)
“To these books he has prefaced essays of very considerable length and
of characteristic thoroughness, which are really chapters in
autobiography.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=James, Henry.= Views and reviews; now first collected; with introd.
by Le Roy Phillips. $1.50. Ball pub.
8–16451.
There are included here a dozen of Mr. James’s essays which were
contributed to magazines during the sixties and seventies. They are as
follows: The novels of George Eliot, On the drama of Robert Browning,
Swinburne’s essays, The poetry of William Morris, Matthew Arnold’s
essays, Mr. Walt Whitman, The poetry of George Eliot, The limitations
of Dickens, Tennyson’s drama, Contemporary notes on Whistler vs.
Ruskin, A note on John Burroughs and Mr. Kipling’s early stories. Mr.
Phillips says: “A true lover of Mr. James’s work feels the same
delightful sense of intimate discovery in touching these early papers
that an artist does in finding a portfolio of early sketches by a
beloved master.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 120w.
“These miscellaneous articles by Mr. James have a real interest, often
from the topics, still alive after two decades; always for the sake of
their accurate thought and penetrating judgments.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Le Roy Phillips has done something which will give every reader
of Henry James a distinct pleasure in collecting these early papers.
The clarity of the views, the justice of the criticisms evident in
these pages on writers long since become classical, are surprising.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 385. Jl. 11, ’08. 670w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. 18, ’08. 270w.
=James, R. A. Scott-.= Modernism and romance. *$2.50. Lane.
8–17229.
“Intended to form a continuous argument; and various authors and books
are selected ‘as examples of certain intellectual or emotional forces
which are working in our midst and are moulding the psychical organism
of society.’ There are sixteen chapters with such captions as ‘Science
and vandalism,’ ‘The decadents,’ ‘The apostles of protest,’ and ‘The
new romance.’ In each chapter he discusses representative authors;
thus under ‘The fugitives’ he writes of Lafcadio Hearn, Miss Edith
Durham, Pierre Loti, and Jack London; under ‘The self-conscious poet,’
of Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Stephen Phillips, and Mr. John
Davidson.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The individual essays in the book are bright as well as thoughtful,
although one must often differ from the writer’s opinions, literary or
other. Judging the volume as a whole, we must feel, despite the many
meritorious parts and frequency of suggestive or even stimulating
passages, that the author has not achieved the unity and
comprehensiveness for which the title and introduction led us to
hope.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Is made up of rambling essays, light in their quality in spite of the
formal introduction, and all readable enough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 840w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Pendleton twins. il. $1.25. West. Meth. bk.
In this Pendleton book the twins occupy the center of the stage. Their
frolics and thrilling adventure furnish for the young reader wholesome
excitement.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author understands child nature, and in the midst of fun and
mischief keeps a steady view of the inherent honor to be found in
well-brought-up children.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
=v. 6. Davies, William T.=, ed. Bradford’s history of Plymouth
plantation. 1606–1646.
After an eventful career the manuscript of which this volume is a
reprint was deposited in the Massachusetts state library where it is
protected by a fire-proof safe but daily exhibited under glass to
visitors. It is the only extant history of the Plymouth colony’s early
years. It tells of reformation and persecution in England, plans for
removal, the voyage of the Mayflower, the growth of the colony,
troubles with England, the policies of governors, the growth of the
Salem church, beside numerous details of struggle and progress.
* * * * *
“Accepting ‘Narratives of early Virginia’ as it stands, too high
praise cannot be given the splendid editorial work which has been
done.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 909. Jl. ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volume contains an admirable index.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 621. N. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“Mr. Davis has performed his editorial functions with good judgment
and without prejudice, and has kept his comments refreshingly free
from the incense of ancestor worship.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The editor has given the text a rather more liberal annotation than
has been customary in this series of reprints, and has prefaced it
with an excellent biographical and historical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“An excellent reprint.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Jeanrenaud, Henriette.= Duke of Brittany; tr. from the German by G:
P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23710.
The story of the brief career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet
and Constance of Brittany. It records the events of Arthur’s youth,
the death of the father, the relations of his mother to Philip of
France, the boy’s love for his uncle Richard, his service in the field
with Philip, his betrothal to Marie of France, the war with John, and
his capture and assassination.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Mathematical theory of electricity and
magnetism. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–14346.
An elementary text book for the student and physicist, aiming to cover
the mathematical theory of a range of electro-magnetism, the
understanding of which is necessary before proceeding to the study of
special branches or developments of the subject. The work is more
elementary than Maxwell’s treatise.
* * * * *
“We feel that in a treatise which is designed to guide students so far
it would have been advantageous to insert more references to the
authorities on parts of the subject for which space could not be
found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 640w.
“The most important book in the field of physics of the year—or of
many a year.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 315. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
“In a few places there are slips which can hardly be assigned to the
printer. The type of reader for whom the book is best adapted is the
student preparing for a mathematical examination, such as the
Cambridge tripos, in which theory plays the principal part. It should
also, however, prove a good book of reference to the physicist of
superior mathematical attainments. For either of these types of
readers it seems likely to be a really useful book, so far as its
scope extends.” C. Chree.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 537. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
=Jebb, Camilla.= Star of the salons: Julie de Lespinasse. (Memoir
ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–16930.
While the author scarcely lays bare the secrets of Mlle. Julie de
Lespinasse’s success as a salonist, she does reveal the fascination of
her personality, the intellectual charm which cast its spell over men
of ambition and genius, and the piquant sorrow of her love first for
the dying Marquis de Mora, and then the Comte de Guibert. “The four
great scenes in French society are first depicted in a vivid,
entertaining manner, and then Julie de Lespinasse is portrayed among
them—an incarnation of the gloom, passion, and heroism hidden beneath
the gay, untroubled surface of life in her age.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 503. Ap. 25. 970w.
“The chief feature of interest in this new biography ... is the minute
study it contains of the times in which she lived.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Is in substance an informal ‘doing into English’ of the biography,
already officially translated, of M. de Segur. It makes, however, with
its twenty illustrations, a fresh and delightful contribution to the
subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“The writer is less engaged in the hunt for scandal than is usual in
works of this kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Jebb uses the material discovered by M. de Ségur, but refashions
it, with feminine wit and love, into a different effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“It is a sincere, sympathetic, cultivated and even learned biography.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 506. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Jebb, Caroline Lane.= Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse
Jebb, by his wife Caroline Jebb; with a chapter on Sir Richard
Jebb as scholar and critic, by Dr. A. W. Verrall. $3. Putnam.
8–3928.
So far as the biographical portion is concerned it is an informing
revelation of the influences brought to bear upon rare birthright
ability to produce a profound scholar, teacher, and man of the world
in the best sense of the trite expression. His letters “are long and
numerous, and are gracefully written, vivid, self-revelatory to a
sufficient degree to give them a strong personal flavor, and full of
brilliant comment upon people and literature.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 189. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 645. N. 23. 2150w.
“His wife has performed her task as editor with most commendable tact
and cleverness, giving enough, even of his letters to her, to show
what manner of man he was, and yet never overstepping due bounds.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 330w.
“Written with taste and discretion, free alike from fatuous English
and sentimentalism. But, apart from Dr. Verrall’s admirable chapter,
she and her helpers have hardly paid attention enough to the scholarly
side of the subject. Further she has not attempted any distinct
portrait of the man.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 609. N. 16, ’07. 1450w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Character of Jesus. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–24445.
Dr. Jefferson, of the Broadway tabernacle, discusses Jesus, the man,
as seen by contemporary friends and enemies. The studies include such
phases of Jesus’ character as strength, sincerity, reasonableness,
poise, originality, narrowness, breadth, trust, brotherliness,
optimism, chivalry, firmness, generosity, candor, enthusiasm,
gladness, humility, patience, courage, indignation, reverence,
holiness and greatness.
* * * * *
“The preacher’s attitude is one of healthful devotion, and is not
marred either by polemical conservatism on the one hand or by barren
criticism on the other.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 367. N. ’08. 60w.
“Among the almost countless host of books on the life of Jesus Christ
this volume has a place by itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Colour in the flower garden. *$3.75. Scribner.
W8–153.
A fully illustrated volume based upon extensive knowledge, wide
experience and good taste. The author shows how successfully a garden
“may make a picture, or a succession of pictures”; she believes “that
color and massing are as important to the gardener as to the artist.”
“Of course, it may be said that this is gardening in excelsis. Still,
it supplies an ideal; and we are the better for having an ideal,
whether we can reach it or not.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The book may be thoroughly recommended to amateur gardeners, while
even professionals may obtain from it much useful information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 274. S. 5. 500w.
“Everyone with a trace of gardening instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll’s
book, and those who work under anything like the same conditions will
find it very helpful.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 460w.
“The volume is worthy of the highest praise from all points of view.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 210w.
“The photographs are charming, and, studied in conjunction with the
plans, instructive; but there is considerable repetition in the
letterpress.” A. M. Cecil.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 500w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 626. Ap. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Photography for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–18279.
A book for beginners which describes the use of the camera, chemicals
and processes, and gives definite instruction on all points of picture
taking and making. There are chapters also on the history and
chemistry of photography.
* * * * *
“In his effort to be clear and explicit the author is very verbose,
and the book could have been condensed to advantage.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 273. N. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“A great deal of valuable information and practical advice are
contained in Tudor Jenks’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Four philanthropists: a clever satire. 75c. Cupples
& L.
With London for a setting this story with many a shrewd scoundrel
tells, in the main, how three men started a society to do away with
philanthropists. A girl of seventeen is the fourth philanthropist and
heroine-in-general, who makes a sure target of the hearts of the other
three in her innocent arrow practice.
* * * * *
“Frankly, it is not up to his standard, and has nothing of the
romantic interest which he got out of his stories in earlier days.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 90w.
“The narrative is well-sustained, and, with its avoidance of mere
facetiousness, is a bit of agreeable fooling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tangled wedlock. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8097.
A group of sponging artistic and literary freaks of Bohemia form the
background of this tale which places well to the fore the self-reliant
daughter of one of “The circle” and her lover, a sculptor, who
together strike some well-aimed blows at the lotus-eating elect of
their Bohemia. The crisp, refreshing methods of the eccentric heroine
in dealing with the butcher’s boy who kicked a cat, with her mother’s
finances, with the subject of model-posing, and with marriage itself
place her in an original class. The unconventional plot with its
tangle of marriages is full of novel construction.
* * * * *
“The pages are enriched with some fine touches of involuntary humor;
but on the whole, recalling the dictum that easy writing makes hard
reading, one is led to the conclusion that ‘Tangled wedlock’ must have
flowed lightly from a facile pen.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“The ill-chosen title does not prepare us for this very readable and
well-written novel. The work is finely tempered, the style one of
commendable clarity, and the whole is pervaded by humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The satire lacks subtlety, and the psychological analysis with which
the other writers have added value to their chaff is wanting.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 50w.
“His work is a triumph of manner, and after reading his story it is by
the way he has handled his subject rather than by the subject itself
that one is impressed.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 52. Je. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Jerningham, Sir Hubert Edward Henry.= From West to East, notes by
the way. *$4. Dutton.
7–42345.
Although no portion of Sir Hubert’s travels from Paris to Japan and
Manchuria is left unrecorded the interest centers in his impressions
of Japan and the scenes of the late war. “The greater part of the
volume, therefore, is devoted to an account of the Japanese
experiences. These included interviews with several noted men, among
others Admiral Togo and Marquis Ito. The government gave him
permission to go to Mukden and Port Arthur, the battles and siege of
which places are described with much detail.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Sir Hubert writes pleasantly always, if without great literary
distinction; he has observed sensibly, and all men of intelligence
must be interested in the chatty record of his observations.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 161. F. 16, ’07. 450w.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 700w.
“A reading of this book leads one to look upon the author’s report of
his six months’ journeying as a sort of ‘disjecta membra,’ written by
a man who is capable of more valuable and entertaining writing than is
contained in the present volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 41: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The work is quite superficial ... [though] free from the faults of
the books of the majority of globe-trotters, frequently suggestive,
and entertaining from beginning to end.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 600w.
“It is difficult to see the ‘raison d’être’ of the book, except the
pleasure which the author evidently had in writing it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 230w.
“The author’s descriptions are always gracefully written and are often
enthusiastic enough to be vivid, but they reveal only a mind of rather
commonplace order. Sometimes his observation was too hasty to be
accurate and his generalizations more picturesque than true.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“[There are] some vivid descriptions of visits to battlefields of the
Russo-Japanese war, and some incisive, picturesquely put opinions of
Japanese national policies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 80w.
“An interesting and well-informed diary. The best part of the book is
that dealing with the scenes of Japan’s great struggle with Russia
from Port Arthur to Mukden.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 180. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.= Highways and byways in Kent; il. by Hugh
Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
8–11802.
Guide book haste is eliminated from these pages which are intended for
the sojourner rather than the lightning tourist. “Mr. Jerrold writes
but little description—barely enough to keep before the reader’s eye a
vague vision of the appearance of the country, but he peoples every
road and field, every village and historic relic with an impressive
company of spirits, the men and women who have made twenty centuries
of history, the figures of legend and tradition, and the characters of
history.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book is pleasantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“Some of his illustrations suffer from undue haste. Notwithstanding
criticisms, the general charm of the drawings prevails over any
possible defects in a few cases. There is a good deal of pleasantly
written and slightly informing matter throughout these pages, and
certainly the writer takes some pains to relieve them from possible
dullness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 34. Ja. 11. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“An exhaustive and informing volume.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Treated with fulness and fine reminiscent flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Jerrold seems to know, with both love and knowledge, every foot
of the ground and all its literary and historic associations. The
illustrations show a quality in the treatment of picturesque corners
and a skill in the suggestion of space and distance comparable with
those of Joseph Pennell, although worked out with much more attention
to detail than is usual with that artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Thomson’s figures are specially delightful; never careless and
always in the right place, they in no case mar the general effect, as
too often foreground figures will.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 45. Ja. 11, ’08. 1250w.
“A book which at any rate will stand for long as the best ‘hors
d’œuvre’ to the Kentish banquet.... Mr. Jerrold is staid enough, and
though never startling in epithet or enthusiasm, is a very agreeable
cicerone. Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator, is very unequal. When he
is not good, he is almost bad; but when he is good, he is very good
indeed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 470w.
=Jevons, Frank Byron.= An introduction to the study of comparative
religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the
world.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
The author treats his subject from the standpoint of the missionary in
foreign countries, who must understand other religions besides
Christianity in order to establish common ground for the basis of
operation. The subjects treated are immortality, magic, fetichism,
prayer, sacrifice, morality and Christianity. Bibliography and index.
=Jewett, Sophie (Ellen Burroughs, pseud.).= Pearl; a middle English
poem; a modern version in the metre of the original. **$1.
Crowell.
An accurate and melodious modern version of a middle English poem.
* * * * *
“A translation whose fidelity is instinctive, grace answering to
grace. It is not too much to say that Miss Jewett’s translation crowns
the series.” K. L. Bates.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 450. D. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Sport of birdstudy: a book for young or
active people. *$2. Outing pub.
8–17737.
Designed for beginners in bird study, and tells how to become
acquainted with the birds of any ordinary country town, how to go
about the sport and what the results are likely to be. The book is
profusely illustrated and “besides being an accurate piece of
scientific work, forms a bird-census of a region never before
investigated or written up.”
* * * * *
“Although written for adult readers, will be enjoyed by many young
people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Job will do well to see that hereafter his fine pictures are not
stultified by this pointless use of his text.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 605. Ag. ’08. 1000w.
“Deserves most commendation because it shows boys in story form how
much pleasure and sport may be found in studying birds in any ordinary
country place.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“It is quite devoid of unwholesome sentimentality, and yet shows for
the bird world as loving sympathy as man can well have with the lower
species.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A book to delight the average healthy-minded boy, and one to create
an interest in a fascinating form of recreation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Johnson, Allen.= Stephen A. Douglas: a study in American politics.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
8–11832.
An interpretation of Douglas’s personality as a representative figure
in the controversies that preceded the civil war, covering carefully
the circumstances that shaped him into the “natural spokesman of the
conservative slaveholding democracy and filled him with the ideas of
expansion and local control out of which popular sovereignty was to
grow.”
* * * * *
“Admirable both as a biography and as a contribution to American
history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08. ✠
“The very limitation of the subject has led to omissions that prevent
the study from being a complete picture of Douglas. The description of
the politician, however, is very satisfactory.” C. W. Alvord.
+ =Dial.= 45: 211. O. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“He has given us a brilliant and well-balanced biography. To a notable
degree he has succeeded in portraying a man moving in his
environment.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“A careful and animated account of a vehement and stormy career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“On the whole, Professor Johnson has made good his sub-title, for he
has produced ‘a study in American politics’ that has all the life and
realism of a moving picture in which Douglas is the most conspicuous
figure.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“His style is clear and pleasant, and he quotes so freely from his
authorities, naming them so numerously, that his book will be one of
authority.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 700w.
“Well constructed, well written, and eminently sensible.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 859. Ag. 15, ’08. 970w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 475. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
=Johnson, Alvin Saunders.= Introductory economics. $1.50. School of
liberal arts and sciences for non residents, N. Y.
8–9770.
“In the main Dr. Johnson has written a series of studies illustrating
the operation of the two economic principles of diminishing utility
and diminishing returns with some additional chapters on general
economic subjects such as money, financial institutions, international
trade, etc. The volume does not claim to be a general text-book on the
whole field of economics. Its aim is rather to reach the lay public
than the student body, for the author believes that, ‘in a democratic
state economic science should be for the many, not for the few.’”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“By those economists who hold the productivity theory of distribution,
this book can merit naught but praise. It is a clear, logical
presentation written in terse English. To that growing group of
economists, however, who have broken from the Clark idea of marginal
productivity and adhere to the price or exchange theory, the book
offers little of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 200w.
“In point of scholarship leaves nothing to be desired. Unfortunately
the mechanical execution of the volume is not all that is should be.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Assuming that there is a real need for a book of this character—which
some of us will consider questionable—the one before us must be
accounted to have met that need very successfully. The style is simple
and effective; the illustrations happy; the tone moderate and candid.
The peculiar doctrines of the school represented are so diluted by
qualifications or contradictions that their objectionableness is much
diminished; while the treatment is so concrete as to give an air of
complete reality to a body of doctrine which is, to say the least,
somewhat transcendental.” F. M. Taylor.
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 459. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“If any criticism is to be passed upon his work it is that it is
confessedly eclectic rather than hewn from a single quarry. The
absence of an index is inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“If the other books in this series succeed as well as this one in
popularizing modern learning the School of liberal arts will have
accomplished much for the education of a large number of Americans who
are now deprived of such advantages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 240w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Elm-tree fairy book. †$1.50. Little.
A third collection of Mr. Johnson’s versions of wonder tales. It
follows the plans of his two previous volumes. He retains the charm,
goodness and interest of the old classics but cleanses them of lies,
cruelties, bloodshed and suffering.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“The illustrations are decorative in arrangement, but the characters
are rather gross in type.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Pacific coast.
(American highways and byways ser.) **$2. Macmillan.
8–26885.
A book of leisurely tourist jaunts over mountain trails, into rural
byways, among mountain foothills, and thru farming regions of the
Pacific coast country. Emphasis is placed upon typical and picturesque
country life. At the end of each chapter are to be found notes
containing suggestions for prospective travelers.
* * * * *
“A more readable book of travel is not often published.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Besides a book written primarily to entertain, Mr. Johnson has
brought together here so much practical information in regard to the
places which he has visited that his work should prove to be of value
to those contemplating a trip on the western coast of the United
States.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Johnson, Henry.= Life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F. R. G. S.,
modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia; based on his
journals and letters. *$5. Dutton.
8–15733.
Captain Wiggins, the Hudson of the Northeastern seas, was the
discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia. From extracts and
journals the story is told of his years of seafaring life and his
thirty years of struggle and hardship to open a highway thru the
Arctic seas, and of his dying without its establishment.
* * * * *
“A deeply interesting volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 1200w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“The book is well written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“A spirited story of the undertaking.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1058. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Johnson, Herrick.= Ideal ministry. **$1.75. Revell.
8–16404.
Ideal ministry as here set forth “merely brings home to conscience the
responsibility attaching to the individual sinners, and the offer of a
salvation obtained for each by the cross of Christ as an expiation for
their guilt.” (Outlook.) “We may specially mention what seems to us a
very sensible summary of the respective advantages of the extempore
and the written discourse, and of the _memoriter_ method.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“His sage counsels are distinguished by rugged common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“That the ideal ministry must be based on the theology of
seventeenth-century Presbyterians, as Dr. Johnson insists, none
disputes more incisively than his fellow-presbyter, Dr. Carter, in his
recent book, ‘Wanted—a theology.’ Nor will the ideal ministry draw Dr.
Johnson’s line between sacred and ‘merely secular’ topics, to exclude
the latter from the pulpit. All real interests in God’s world, however
secular, have a sacred side. But, while open to these criticisms, this
volume is, as the work of an acknowledged master should be, a valuable
addition to the cultural apparatus of preachers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Much that he says will be found of value. And all through there is
manifest a most earnest spirit, and a desire to give his readers or
hearers of his very best. We should like to have had a much fuller
bibliography.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 595. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Johnson, Robert Underwood.= Poems. 2d ed. **$1.20. Century.
8–16592.
Includes poems formerly published under the titles, “The winter hour,”
and “Songs of liberty,” also two new groups of poems under the
headings “Italian rhapsody, and other poems” and “Moments of Italy,
and other poems.” “Who longs for music merely longs for love” suggests
the characteristic philosophy of the poet in abstracting absolute
qualities of resemblance and presenting them on the plane of the
ideal.
* * * * *
“Gracefulness and facility are the dominating qualities of Mr.
Johnson’s verse, together with a sense of technique, and skill in the
using of it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 265. S. 5. 300w.
“This is clearly a case in which the effect of the whole is greater
than the sum of the effects produced by the several parts. For one
thing, the collective volume shows us the surprising breadth of the
poet’s range.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Johnston, Charles H. L.= Famous cavalry leaders. $1.50. Page.
8–22309.
Accounts of the forced marches, dashing raids and glorious charges of
fifteen heroes of sabre, spur and saddle: Attila, Saladin, Genghis
Khan, Chevalier Bayard, Count Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, Prince
Rupert, Old father Ziethen, Frederick William Baron von Seydlitz,
Francis Marion, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan
and George Armstrong Custer.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 70w.
“It is a historical book and a good one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 60w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Lewis Rand. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23560.
An historical novel set in the administration of Jefferson. Federalist
and democrat-republican are pitted against each other in political
combat. The hero, Lewis Rand, is a republican; his rival in love and
politics, a federalist. Rand, self-made, a protegé of Jefferson, is on
the way to fame when he is tempted by Burr to join the latter in his
mad and treasonable enterprise of setting up an empire beyond the
Alleghanies. The tragedy of Rand’s temptation and fall is powerfully
portrayed, intermingled with the gentleness and devotion of the
wonderful Jaqueline.
* * * * *
“The story is in marked advance of Miss Johnston’s earlier ones.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“An historical novel extending over 450 closely printed pages subjects
the reader’s patience to an unduly severe test, and we cannot say that
the interest is always maintained; but the charm of Miss Johnston’s
writing makes amends for much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 130w.
“A well imagined and strongly told tale, within the limitations laid
down by the conventions of this particular kind of story telling.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 430w.
“The tragedy of Rand’s life is cleverly worked out; though he
occasionally indulges in a display of sentimentality that scarcely
fits the strong man’s character and tediously delays the march of the
action.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 259. N. ’08. 470w.
“The story is a strong one, richly furnished forth with the
accessories of historical fact and of the manners of Virginians a
century ago. It provides a vivid presentation of a deeply interesting
period in our national annals, and it throbs with a very real life,
albeit a life romantically tinged.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Made notable by a sudden maturing of its author’s power to portray
the depths of character.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The book is, we think, a piece of permanent literature and must rank
as one of the finest novels of its class which have appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24. ’08. 380w.
“The story is notable for a deepening of thought and maturity of
analysis that are almost startling in comparison with its
predecessors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 530w.
“One of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day
in America.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“This story marks a decided advance in Miss Johnston’s power and art.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 340w.
“Some of the customs of the time, notably the method of viva voce
voting, are well described.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 70w.
“Will add to her reputation as a serious novelist both by the interest
of the plot and by the excellence of the character-drawing.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Johnston, Reginald Fleming.= From Peking to Mandalay: a journey
from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan.
*$5. Dutton.
8–34209.
“Mr. Johnston is a district officer and magistrate at Wei-hai-wei. The
journey he describes was a result of a long-felt desire to see the
various tribes subject to China which inhabit the wild regions of
Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. He went neither as a sportsman
nor a political agent, but as a scholar—an adventurous scholar, which,
we may add, is a very admirable character. Boldness is generally
rewarded and Mr. Johnston met with no ill-treatment or even
discourtesy in districts supposed to be the most ‘anti-foreign’ in the
Empire.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, his work is the most important of its kind that has
come under our notice for some years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 721. Je. 13. 1750w.
“There is a great deal of matter in his book that will interest
geographers, ethnologists, and religionists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
“We cannot profess always to agree with his conclusions, but there is
not a page on which he does not earn our respect. Such a work may
safely be included among the small number of books of travel which are
important.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1350w.
=Joly, Henri L.= Legend in Japanese art. il. *$25. Lane.
8–15873.
A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore,
myths, religious symbols and of historical and fabulous personages and
incidents illustrated in the arts of old Japan. The book contains over
seven hundred half-tone illustrations and sixteen full-page color
prints.
* * * * *
“We commend with confidence this sumptuous treasury of research, not
only to British collectors, who are sometimes reproached with
appraising their ‘curios’ at a purely commercial value, but also to
more disinterested lovers of art and legend, who will find in it many
golden keys to the genius and spiritual wealth of Japan.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 261. D. 21, ’07. 2500w.
“The work is indispensable to collectors, who will find in it ample,
and on the whole accurate, explanations of the subjects of Japanese
art, without which no real comprehension of the merits of an example
is possible.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 168. F. 8. 450w.
“Far transcends anything heretofore available for reference. In the
main it is accurate, the errors being few and of minor importance.” F:
W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 211. Ap. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“The enormous amount of matter collected together in the volume bears
testimony to the indefatigable zeal with which the author has attacked
his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 200w.
“This handsome and interesting book will no doubt be as welcome to
collectors of various forms of Japanese art as to the general reader,
who will find it excellent entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Jones, Francis Arthur.= Thomas Alva Edison: sixty years of an
inventor’s life. il. **$2. Crowell.
8–4377.
A book for every library. It is not alone valuable for its history of
the great inventor’s achievements in electricity but for its
illustration of the fact that inventing may be learned, if only the
creative germ is fostered that lies hidden in most brains. We have
Edison at fourteen a shock-headed “news butcher,” newspaper editor and
chemical experimenter—all on train-board; at eighteen, “tramp”
telegraph operator; at two and twenty an inventor, selling his
stock-ticker for forty thousand dollars. Then follow one after another
inventions that have astonished the world. Besides his scientific
successes, Edison, the man, is portrayed as intensely human.
* * * * *
“A really fascinating biography which makes no pretence to distinctive
literary style but tells the story of the man and the inventor with
simplicity, enthusiasm, and sincerity.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08. ✠
“One of the most valuable biographical sketches of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 730. Je. ’08. 470w.
“With young men possessed of some love of science, fondness for
machinery, a taste for experimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive
genius, the book is sure to be a favorite; as a finger-post pointing
the way to success for brains and energy, it ought to exert a good
influence; and its attractiveness to the lover of biography is beyond
dispute.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 126. Mr. 1, ’08. 1750w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 315. Mr. ’08. 40w.
“Is written quite agreeably and sympathetically.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 514. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“It is regrettable that the many interesting passages should be so
promiscuously peppered with inaccurate and misleading technical
matter.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 450w.
“The value of the book is limited by the fact that his attitude is
entirely uncritical.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 868. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The literary critic and the scientific man, however, will not regard
it as a finished piece of work, since it reads too much like a series
of newspaper articles, or contributions to ten-cent magazines. But the
results detailed in Mr. Jones’s biography are immensely impressive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“It would be a capital book to place in the hands of schoolboys.” G.
H. Bryan.
+ =Nature.= 78: 122. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“They who care to watch the wheels of progress go around will like
this record of the wizard and his spells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A most human picture of the man himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“We should say that this was in every way an attractive and very
likely an inspiring book to put in a boy’s hands, while in its
literary character it is perfectly well suited for older readers
also.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Jones has made the most of his materials, and the result is a
volume of captivating and unusual interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“It is a very human and vivid picture of an energetic boyhood, and a
very stimulating one too; for if he had ideal parents, and especially
that type of mother which all great men must have, his boyhood
reflects credit on the man himself. We should like to have heard more
about them; it is our only disappointment on putting down this
fascinating book, which will please both the scientific enthusiast and
the student of character.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
=Jones, H. Stuart.= Roman empire. (Story of the nations, v. 75.)
$1.50. Putnam.
8–22316.
For the professional student as well as the lay reader of Roman
history. The author aims “to present in a graphic narrative the
picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes of Roman history in
their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal
history.”
* * * * *
“He seems to us wanting in boldness of omission, if we may use such a
phrase.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 260. S. 5. 920w.
“A work of great value in itself, and of rare promise for the future.”
W. A. Goligher.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 541. Jl. ’08. 740w.
“Probably no more competent writer could be found to tell the story of
the Roman empire than Stuart Jones.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Stuart Jones has done a very great feat.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 950w.
“A very warm commendation of his book to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 640w.
=Jones, Rev. John Peter.= India, its life and thought. **$2.50.
Macmillan. 8–30291.
Observations and experiences recorded out of thirty years of
missionary life in India. Themes which the author discusses are
India’s growing unrest, due to the dawning consciousness of strength,
India’s many faiths, the Hindu caste system, the gita, popular
Hinduism, pessimism, modern religious movement and the progress of
Christianity in India.
=Jones, Llewellyn A. A., and Bellot, Hugh H. L.= Commerce in war.
*$6. Appleton.
8–8473.
A book providing a full exposition of the rules of international law
which govern the commercial relations of neutral and belligerent
states. Its value is enhanced by its full quotation from treaties,
ordinances, and judgments bearing on subjects of contraband, blockade,
continuous voyage, carriage of property at sea, right and formality of
search, capture and condemnation, recapture and rescue.
* * * * *
“The treatment of the subject is extremely practical.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 1000w.
“Mr. Atherley-Jones has given his views on certain well-known
decisions and executive orders with trenchant vigour.” T. Raleigh.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 389. Ap. ’07. 150w.
“It is the fruit of great industry. Some parts of the subject, notably
contraband, have been examined with much care. The exposition is
generally clear and accurate. There are copious citations from
judgments and treaties which make the book useful to those whose
library of international law is small. It is the critical side of the
volume which is the weakest.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 19. Ja. 18, ’07. 800w.
“Such an exposition cannot fail to prove useful—as the author hopes—to
the lawyer, the shipowner and shipper; to diplomatists and consuls:
but it will also contribute to the advancement of the freedom of
commerce in war.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“On all the rules of international law under these headings, governing
the commercial relations of the subjects of neutral and belligerent
states, Mr. Atherley-Jones’s book is a treasure-house of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have examined the digest it seems carefully and lucidly
framed, and the book should fulfil the authors’ desires and make an
excellent manual of practice.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
* =Jones, Plummer Flippen.= Shamrock-land: a ramble through Ireland.
**$2. Moffat.
8–33798.
“A good general description in a running, happy-go-lucky way, of
Ireland as it is at the present time, with a lot of good pictures.”
(R. of Rs.) “In seeking places of interest and scenes of beauty, of
course the author visited Lissoy (now better known as Auburn,
Goldsmith’s Deserted village), the Lakes of Killarney, Blarney castle,
the Giant’s causeway, the Golden vale of Tipperary, and other inviting
districts.... There is much more of the sunshine of the Celtic
temperament than of its occasional gloom in this study of Pat and his
Emerald Isle.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Has just enough of historical and statistical information to be
useful without being tiresome, and a wealth of personal observation
and experience that make excellent reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“The photographs illustrating the book are excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Jones not only knows Ireland, but loves it, and writes with
enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 758. D. ’08. 90w.
=Jones, Thomas S.= From quiet valleys; poems. $1.25. G. W. Browning,
Clinton, N. Y.
7–38615.
A book of graceful verse, which borrows its peace-loving themes from
nature.
* * * * *
“Mr. Jones is a poet of nature, and has felt the soothing ministries
of woods and fields and skies. His verse, moreover, is freighted with
enough of imagination to be truly significant of the life of the
spirit.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Aspects and seasons of nature most inspire his volume and fill it
with a kind of transparent violet shadow.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
=Jonson, Ben.= New inn; or, The light heart; ed. with introd.,
notes, and glossary by George Bremner Tennant. (Yale studies in
English, 34.) *$2.50. Holt.
8–12456.
“The justification for this edition is the text, which has been
carefully prepared from the earliest editions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The introduction is for the most part a perfunctory discussion of
previous discussion, and quite without edification. The notes on the
text, although they exhibit much industry, are needlessly copious.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 192. Ag. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Jordan, David Starr=, ed. California earthquake of 1906. *$3.50.
Robertson.
7–42337.
Contains eight separate articles each of which discusses the subject
from a different viewpoint. “The general scientific or, more properly,
geological matters, are treated by President Jordan, Prof. J. C.
Branner, G. K. Gilbert, and Dr. H. W. Fairbanks; the more strictly
seismological aspects by Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial earthquake
investigation committee of Japan; the engineering and architectural
lessons, by Prof. Charles Derleth, jr., certain local details by
Stephen Taber; and the human side of the sudden calamity, by Mrs. Mary
Austin.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“While written from the scientific point of view, they are invested
with a good degree of popular interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Both scientific and non-scientific readers will find much to interest
them in it.” H. H.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 584. S. ’08. 90w.
“They afford an interesting account of the catastrophe; but the
advantage of presentation from different points of view is offset in
part by the unavoidable repetitions incident to a compilation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“This is a collection of nine well-written essays, which, as might be
expected, more or less overlap in their subject-matter.” J. Milne.
+ =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Mrs. Austin’s contribution is the vivid, human picture of an
eye-witness of the catastrophe.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“These essays and descriptive papers give perhaps as well as writings
can give a clear, comprehensive, and accurate view of the great
earthquake and its associated phenomena.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Fishes. (American nature series.) il. **$6.
Holt.
7–42325.
Less for technical students of ichthyology than for nature lovers and
anglers this volume contains practically all of the non-technical
material included in Dr. Jordan’s “Guide to the study of fishes.” The
fishes used as food and those of special interest to anglers in
America receive full attention while both existing and extinct
families of fishes are treated in proportion to their importance. The
volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains approximately seven
hundred illustrations.
* * * * *
“As the contraction has been effected by means of the scissors and
practically no change has been made in the text the connections are
not always smooth.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“The author’s wide knowledge of this group of animals, his
comprehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, lucid, often
humorous presentation of his subject, and the superb selection of
illustrations, all combine to make this by far the most readable and
interesting popular natural history of fishes which has as yet been
published.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Presents contradictory and disappointing features.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a better book on the subject, for Mr.
Jordan possesses the exact knowledge and infinite patience of the
scientific mind with the sympathy and imagination of the great
teacher, so that he not only knows his subject, but he also knows how
to awaken keen interest and understanding in his readers. There is
thus a vital quality to his book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Jordan has aimed to make this volume interesting to nature-lovers
and anglers and instructive to all.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
* =Jordan, Edwin Oakes.= Text-book of general bacteriology. *$3.
Saunders.
“This book is intended to give a bird’s-eye view of the entire field
of bacteriology and, although necessarily largely medical in its
scope, it includes also references to the various applications of
bacteriology to the arts and industries. Although treating the subject
in this general way, it cannot be considered as an elementary book. It
is rather a sort of bacteriological Baedeker in which the reader will
find references to guide him in whatever direction his interest lies.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“The author’s style is clear and pleasing, and the arrangement of the
subject matter is excellent, the frequent side-headings and the very
complete index making reference easy. Engineers may find the work
somewhat limited on its sanitary side. Throughout the book the more
theoretical aspects of bacteriology are, if anything, treated better
than the practical applications.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
“Some of it is a little special for a general reader quite unfamiliar
with the subject, but much of the book is easy and pleasant reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 440w.
* =Jordon, Elizabeth Garver.= Many kingdoms. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30707.
Creatures of fancy as well as sturdy flesh and blood mortals of real
life people Miss Jordon’s world of stories. The elusive lady of dreams
and the invisible child playmate demand of the reader a subliminal
flight, while the Henry Smiths—middle aged newly-weds—detain this same
reader within the walls of a New York hotel where the two spend their
honeymoon too diverted to risk their lives among the crowds of
Broadway.
* * * * *
“There is no startling originality in these pleasant tales, indeed, at
times the note is definitely reminiscent, but there are wholesome
humor and pathos, and the felicity of description that one has come to
expect from Miss Jordon as a matter of course.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 140w.
“For the most part Miss Jordon’s literary workmanship is very clever
and of more artistic value than is to be found in a great portion of
prolific output of American short stories. She frequently spoils the
artistic effect of a scene or of an entire story by overelaborate
description of presentation and by unbridled indulgence in adjectives
and adverbs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 720. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Jost, Ludwig.= Lectures on plant physiology; authorized English tr.
by R. J. Harvey Gibson. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–3923.
The work of the professor of botany in the Strassburg university
translated by the professor of botany in the University of Liverpool.
“After an introduction, which states clearly the problems and methods
of physiology, the author divides the field into three parts: (1)
Metabolism, (2) Metamorphosis, (3) Transformation of energy.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Though it lacks the suggestiveness and comprehensiveness of Pfeffer,
and can by no means replace that indispensable work, its clear and
picturesque style adapts it better to the advanced student and
teacher. It is well to have it available in English even at the
exorbitant price.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 309. O. ’07. 770w.
“The translator has done his work conscientiously and on the whole
satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 1100w.
“The English rendering lacks accuracy. We express our high esteem for
Prof. Jost’s lectures. The exposition is extremely lucid, and just
what is needed for students taking up the advanced study of
physiology.” F. F. B.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 97. D. 5, ’07. 1150w.
=Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume
one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to
the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50.
Scribner.
7–23072.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“When one recalls the multiple and difficult aims of the work, the
result constitutes a notable achievement. Many will vote it the most
comprehensive introductory text that has recently appeared. The
chapters wide in scope, rich in learning, and intensely practical,—all
these produce an impression of fullness and adequacy to be desired in
a general introduction. The style is pedestrian, simple, and generally
clear.” E. H. Lindley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 713. D. 19, ’07. 600w.
“The most defective portion of this book is that on the formation of
the concept, a title which is forced into covering the judgment and
the process of reasoning as well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 1400w.
“Unquestionably the approach to the material is in several chapters
somewhat sophisticated, and the absence at many points of definite and
distinct lines of demarcation is likely to be felt by the beginner in
a disastrous manner.” J. R. Angell.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 432. Jl. ’08. 2500w.
“This volume, taken as a whole, impresses me as an exposition of the
author’s system of psychology which is calculated more to interest and
challenge the attention of his brother psychologists than that of his
students. The author’s style is expository and argumentative,
straightforward, but not easy and varied enough to hold the attention
of immature readers.” G. M. Whipple.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 114. Ap. 15, ’08. 2600w.
“Professor Judd’s contribution to the available facilities for the
teaching of psychology is a notable one. The plan is consistent, the
execution capable, the result distinctive.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 775. My. 15, ’08. 2700w.
=Judson, William Pierson.= Road preservation and dust prevention.
*$1.50. Eng. news.
8–24251.
Concerned with the problem of the preservation of the surface and the
prevention of dust on macadamized roads. “The author has compiled in
convenient form a history, taken from the principal engineering
journals and publications, of the experiments which have been
conducted in recent years attempting to solve the problems, and of the
manner, as well as the materials, in and with which they have been
carried out.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“We feel that Mr. Judson has rendered a valuable service in reducing
the subject to a condition that permits of comparisons being made and
that gives officials who are not experts, reliable information to
guide them in the selection of a suitable remedy for the cure of their
own local troubles.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 303. S. ’08. 740w.
“Mr. Judson has rendered the road engineers and roadmakers of the
whole country a very valuable service in collecting, collating and
discussing the great mass of data on the subject, scattered through
the periodicals and society transactions.” S. Whinery.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 427. O. 15, ’08. 650w.
“May be referred to with benefit by those who are taking up the
subject for the first time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His book should be in the hands of state and local road officials
throughout the country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 250w.
=Julie’s= diary: a personal record; tr. from the Danish by Julia Le
Gallienne. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
A personal record which serves as a “beware!” for girls chafing under
the monotony of a colorless life, who demand a little day of eventful
happenings. Julie is an austere professor’s daughter. She holds in
abeyance her lover who could do no more than transplant her from one
home at the mercy of the peace of dullness to another like it. Of her
own accord she comes under the hypnotic spell of an actor. Her day
once spent on the husks of life she returns to the shelter of Erik’s
love, scarred but wiser far.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
“Full of a charm, a delicacy, and an insight rarely met with and
refreshing in the extreme. A fine art is required to tell such a story
and keep it on its high level. This art the author possessed and the
translation retains much of it, though it is not quite first rate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 260w.
K
=Keane, Augustus Henry.= World’s peoples. *$2. Putnam.
8–10848.
“A. H. Keane has gathered into a volume of a little over 400 pages,
profusely illustrated from photographs of the originals, a synopsis of
the latest—or almost the latest—view of human genesis and a
description, often in some detail where the race is barbarous enough
to be interesting, of all the divers peoples of the globe, duly
subdivided and classified under the usual groups of black, red,
yellow, and white.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The formal descriptions, the enumeration of peoples, and the
geographical relations are well done, but social and mental questions
are not so well handled.” W. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 123. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“In spite of its defects, the book is readable, well illustrated, and
in some respects a convenient manual. Such a work is needed, and is
particularly difficult to produce.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 168. S. 16, ’08. 630w.
“It contains more information about the characteristics of different
races, their beliefs and customs, than any other book of its size, as
interestingly written as such condensed matter can be, and abundantly
illustrated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“Like Peschel and Ratzel, to name only the most prominent authors of
ethnographies, Mr. Keane has too little system and perspective, and
exhibits too little power of renunciation.”
− =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Fertile in curious interest and rather unusually up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“It is in the wealth of detail that its value lies.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Keatinge, Maurice Walter.= Suggestion in education. *$1.75.
Macmillan.
E 8–32.
A study in educational psychology, “We are shown the extreme forms of
suggestion and dissociation: then we pass to an examination of
suggestion in normal waking states. Next come the conditions,
preliminary and immediate, under which suggestion is affective. The
remaining four chapters, from the seventh to the twelfth deal with the
influence of suggestion in the formation of character.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Keatinge deals interestingly and simply with the psychology of
suggestion.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 70. Ja. 18. 450w.
“Very thorough and helpful. The writer has uncommon powers of
psychological description: his account of the subconscious, for
example, seems to us the best short description we have met (p. 143
ff). He has also in a high degree the art of making his exposition
vivid and interesting without being diffuse, by mingling just the
right proportions of the concrete and the didactic.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Keays, H. A. Mitchell.= I and my true love. †$1.50. Small.
8–28998.
A story dealing with marriage, divorce, a second marriage, regret, and
final reconciliation thru a child of the first marriage.
* * * * *
“A clever book with a perspective of real life.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
“A slight and rather clever novel. The pretty child might be
fascinating if the author had not made the fatal mistake of letting
her be vulgar.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“The characters in this book are not puppets, yet they are scarcely
real. They are ideas in human form. Her people are conceptions rather
than creations. With these conceptions the novelist seems at times to
flirt vivaciously. The story is deftly arranged, but savors of
impossibility.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of
new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
From the viewpoint of the economist and sociologist the whole history
of colonization is covered in this study which aims to meet the needs
of college students “both by presenting in English a mass of data not
readily accessible, and by arranging the same in such system and order
as to emphasize the salient aspects of the process of colonization.”
Emigration, colonial trade, race contact and like questions are
treated in preference to historical, administrative and legal detail.
=Keller, Helen Adams.= World I live in. **$1.20. Century.
8–30582.
A group of fourteen essays and the poem “The chant of darkness.” Miss
Keller shows how rich her deaf-blind world is with three senses—touch,
taste, and smell. Some of the chapters are: The seeing hand, The hand
of the race; The power of touch; Smell, the fallen angel; Relative
values of the senses; The five-sensed world; Inward visions; Before
the soul dawn; The dream world; Dreams and reality; and A waking
dream.
* * * * *
“Most interesting book, which, though it concludes with a metrical
‘Chant of darkness,’ will be found to emanate much sweetness and
light.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 346. N. 16, ’08. 550w.
“Thruout her small volume of essays a new world is opened up for our
consideration, a new standard of physical and spiritual values is
formulated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“This certainly is one of the wonderful books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“A unique and intensely interesting bit of autobiography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
“A valuable autobiographical contribution to the study of human
possibility.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 110w.
“These essays go farther than previous writings of Miss Keller in
revealing her psychic experiences.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 100w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= American insects; with many original
illustrations by Mary Wellman; 2d ed. (American nature ser., group
1.) **$5. Holt.
8–16424.
The revision substitutes a detailed analytical table of contents for
the simple list of chapter titles used in the first edition, and gives
an additional chapter (Chapter 19) on the subject of insect behavior
and psychology.
* * * * *
“An authoritative semi-popular work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08.
“Its high merit has been recognized, and that by a constituency not
easy to please. It well deserves this patronage.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 393. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“So written as to make it usable by any intelligent person who feels
an honest interest in natural history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Both because of the authority of the text and the accuracy and
general excellence of the original illustrations, this work has made a
place of its own in scientific literature. For the American naturalist
it is indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= Insect stories. (American nature ser.)
**$1.50. Holt.
8–21773.
Strange, true facts of insect life by an authority on insects in story
form for young readers. He records interesting observations about
wasps, spiders, red beetles, ants and their enemies, orange dwellers,
grass-hoppers, May-flies, bees and honey-ants.
* * * * *
“Though not many children will read it, those who are already
interested in the subject will thoroughly enjoy it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 248. O. ’08.
“Is not a child’s book, in the strict sense; it is written _with_ the
child rather than for him. But no intelligent youth can fail to read
it with delight and profit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A vast amount of information about wasps, bees, spiders, ants, and
other little creatures is charmingly presented by Prof. Kellogg.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 750w.
=Kelly, Edmond.= Elimination of the tramp. **$1. Putnam.
8–5259.
A sociological as well as economic study of vagrancy reinforced by
knowledge and experience gained during a long residence abroad. The
author states his problem, shows the advantage of classifying tramps,
and urges the introduction of labor colonies with a view to solving
the tramp problem. This latter topic—its success in Switzerland and
the arguments in favor of its adoption in America—occupies the main
portion of his discussion. He closes with a chapter on indiscriminate
almsgiving.
* * * * *
“This book is a notable addition to the discussion.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A brief, informing, highly interesting, practical work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08. ✠
“Aside from the question of the value of the method in America, the
book gives a very good account of the European colonies and deserves
careful consideration.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 100w.
“We think that ... Mr. Kelly’s plan would be an improvement on present
conditions, but we cannot think it would eliminate the tramp. The
tramp of to-day is the result of conditions of our civilization that
must change before their present results pass away.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“Develops what seems to be a very practicable plan adapted to American
conditions.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 532. Mr. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“He expounds his problem and suggested solution with energy and
intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 177. Mr. 28, ’08. 80w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Wards of liberty. †$1.50. McClure.
7–35624.
A new group of East Side stories. “Eva and Sadie and Morris still
adore Miss Bailey and converse in their ‘near-English’ with her. There
is more pathos, and more depth of revolt at some of the hard
conditions among the poor, in these stories than in those preceding.
‘Little Bo-Peep’ is a horrible picture of suffering, and some of the
others are heavy with sorrows.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“They are really humorous creations, both funny and pathetic; Miss
Kelly has, we think wisely emphasized the fun.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 480w.
“Humor in phrase and situation lightens all, while heterodoxy actually
rages in some of the tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 124. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Kemmerer, Edwin Walter.= Money and credit instruments in their
relation to general prices. (Cornell studies in history and
political science, v. 1.) *$1.25. Holt.
8–9034.
“A defense of the quantity theory of money from the metaphysical
school of economics.... It gives a clear and admirable statement of
the quantity theory, in its most modern form, also it aims to present
in full strength the theory underlying the value of token money, which
supports the recommendations of the ‘Report on the stability of
international exchange,’ prepared mainly for Professor Jenks.” J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“The volume has great value as special reference for students doing
advance work in economics. It would hardly be profitable, however, to
place the book in the hands of one not thoroughly familiar with the
elements of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 250w.
“The monograph is well balanced theoretically, and there has evidently
been a conscientious effort to take account of all of the principal
methods of investigation in this field, whatever may be thought of
certain applications made of them or of the ways in which the material
used is manipulated.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 139. Je. ’08. 840w.
“The study is of the kind which is a credit to American scholarship.
Its spirit is not that of a critic seeking to quibble: it makes clear
and definite issues which invite to thinking and research. It is a
pleasure to take up a volume which shows on every page a desire to
discuss the subject impersonally with a purpose of arriving at the
truth.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 565. N. ’07. 1050w.
“In many ways the best thing that has appeared in monetary
investigation for some years past, and quite puts to the blush several
rather pretentious works which have recently undertaken to read the
burial service over the so-called quantity theory of money.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“His statistics may be inadequate and his index figures hypothetical,
but he has given concrete expression to the real quantity theory, or
demand and supply theory, of money, and has indicated very clearly the
only method whereby its opponents can discredit it by an appeal to
facts.” J. F. Johnson.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 536. S. ’08. 1100w.
=Kemp, Oliver.= Wilderness homes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–19727.
Aims to “crystallize and bring into reality that vague longing which
the out-of-door lover has felt for a lodge in the wilderness.” Thruout
the chapters, which are as follows, runs a note of possibility for the
amateur: Making plans, The fireplace, The ax and the tree, Building
the cabin, The roof and the floor, The cabin and its environment,
Inside the cabin, What it will cost, Some hunting cabins, and A few
plans.
* * * * *
“A book for the amateur, practical in character, sound in advice and
restricted to cabins of the less elaborate type.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“The amateur builder will do well to consult the attractive little
book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 50w.
“It is practical in character and sound in its advice. The most
serious defect of the manual is its omission of all mention of
skylight windows. Mr. Kemp’s book contains no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
“The practical reader, to whom it is addressed, will get from it a
large number of valuable suggestions, gathered in the course of actual
experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 423. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
=Kempson, F. Claude.= Future life and modern difficulties. *$1.25.
Dutton.
“The most recent attempt to show that there need be no collision
between the postulates of science and the precepts of religion. Its
author is a Catholic priest.... The book is in two sections, the first
dealing with the difficulties which science is supposed to raise in
the path of religious belief, and especially against the hope of a
future life, while the second is devoted to a consideration of the
scientific and religious arguments for and against the Christian
conception of a life after death.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In a word, we rather like the argument of this book: we dislike its
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19. ’08. 270w.
=Kennard, Howard Percy.= Russian peasant. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13693.
“[The author] has gained his knowledge from personal contact, having
lived in the villages of all part of European Russia and studied his
subject in illness and health, in peace and war, in times of plenty
and of famine. The first portion of the book is devoted to a
presentation of village life in all its phases, the second to a study
of the outlines of Russian history with regard to the effect of
governmental policies upon the peasant masses, and the third to
consideration of what he calls ‘Russia’s poison’—the bureaucracy and
the church.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kennard approaches his subjects with the Englishman’s prejudices
against dirt, semioriental ways, religious, social, and political
ideas, and in consequence sometimes presents a slightly distorted
picture.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08.
“A powerful, though overdrawn picture of the interesting people among
whom he has done medical work. His general equipment for the difficult
task of writing about Russia is insufficient.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 800w.
“Dr. Kennard ... has certainly had opportunities of a rather
exceptional character for studying the Russian peasant; but we cannot
say that he appears to us at present to have made the best of them.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The temptation to indulge in fine writing has led the author to mar a
good many pages, and has made it necessary for the reader to forgive
him some absurdities of style for the sake of the genuineness and
interest of the information he gives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Whether this critic pays his vigorous respects to the political
oppression or to the religious superstition in which the Russian child
is bred, his comment is worth notice. We hope that a succeeding
edition will contain an index.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 489. Je. 27, ’08. 730w.
“The portion of the book which the author devotes to Russian
ethnological history is succinct and interesting, and the photographs
of village life which are interspersed throughout greatly enhance the
value of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Servant in the house. †$1.25. Harper.
8–14511.
The eternal struggle of the human soul between the forces of God and
Mammon is the idea which this little drama embodies. The scene is laid
in the home of an English clergyman who has lived his life the easiest
way by following the course of least resistance, and in consequence
has filled his days with profitless deeds. Thru the influence of a
brother he is moved to make restitution and to vindicate his manhood.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“It is doubtful, however, whether an English audience may not find the
ending grotesque rather than impressive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 619. N. 14. 730w.
Reviewed by Beverly Stark.
=Bookm.= 27: 408. Je. ’08. 3500w.
“It is a fine failure, as many other things worth reading have been.
There is much ingenious and striking use of the dramatic means
chosen—as in the excellent dramatic irony, for instance; in fact,
there is quite enough to render the reading of the play interesting
and amusing.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 1500w.
“It is one of the most notable of recent plays, not only on account of
its high moral and social purpose, but in its sustained interest, its
swift, compact, and logical action and its compliance with the classic
laws of dramatic construction. All the unities are faithfully
observed. The dialogue is of striking quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“In reading the play, even more than in watching it, the skill and
vigor of its construction come out. The individuality of each of the
characters, the complete consistency of each, their steady
development, the mutual efficiency with which they interact, these are
elements of remarkable gift on the part of the dramatist.” Edward
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The lofty theme is handled, for the most part, in a lofty way. The
play is scarcely less remarkable in manner than it is in matter. It is
constructed with an absolute compactness. Finally, the mere writing of
this play stands, in the main, upon a level with the masterly
structure and the momentous theme. Surely this play is literature, as
well as being drama. It deserves to be seen; it deserves also to be
read.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 770. My. ’08. 1400w.
“Those who cannot see the play should read the book: those who can
should do both.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Even a reading of the ‘book,’ gives one an impression of dramatic
power and literary finish almost as noteworthy as the reverent,
compelling vitality of the theme and action themselves. The suggestion
of Christ is carried out with reverence and good taste.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 757. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Kent, Percy Horace.= Railway enterprise in China: an account of its
origin and development. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5870.
The story of the struggle in the sixties to build a road in China.
“The book is full of information as to the cost of construction,
difficulties financial, political, and other, and many other matters.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Kent has been painstaking in his work, and has produced a book
that commands the confidence of the reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 82. Jl. 23, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Kent’s interesting work traces the history of the Chinese
railroads through the various stages of development up to the present
era of concessions and dominant foreign control.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’08. 210w.
=Kerr, John Graham.= Work of John Samuel Budgett. hf. lea. *$7.
Putnam.
In which a collection of Mr. Budgett’s zoological papers recording his
labors for science in Africa, are supplemented by a geographical
sketch by A. E. Shipley, and a number of papers based on Budgett’s
material which has been worked on by a group of embryologists.
* * * * *
“A volume which adds distinctly to our knowledge of embryology.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 260w.
“The memorial volume, which is a valuable contribution to embryology,
will surely not fail of its highest purpose, of perpetuating by its
stimulus the tradition which Budgett’s life and work expressed.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 313. Ag. 6, ’08. 2300w.
“The beautiful volume prepared by his friends and colleagues is a
fitting memorial of his life and work and one that stirs a keen sense
of the loss that science suffered by his untimely death.” W.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 452. O. 2, ’08. 1000w.
=Kerr, Winfield Scott.= John Sherman: his life and public services.
2v. *$4. Sherman, French & co.
A minute record of Sherman’s full political life the material for
which has been furnished by letters, documents, narratives and
recital. “The whole period of the civil war and the succeeding era of
reconstruction and the resumption of specie payments, in which Senator
Sherman played an increasingly important part, are considered in these
volumes with unusual minuteness.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is a biography of the old-fashioned type, written by a man who has
been active in politics but without much training in literary work.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 240w.
“His style is uninteresting. His volumes are not the contribution to
the history of our own times that they ought to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“On the whole, the book does not displace the briefer and more
discriminating volume by Theodore E. Burton.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 194. Ap. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Mr. Kerr’s work compares unfavorably with the more modest
biography ... by Mr. Burton.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 861. Ag. 15, ’08. 530w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Kilpatrick, Van Evrie.= Departmental teaching in elementary
schools. *60c. Macmillan.
8–14729.
An expository treatment advocating departmental teaching, based upon a
wide and varied experience in teaching. The author answers objections
to the method, and outlines the most effective plan for developing the
system.
* * * * *
“A concise, practical, interesting treatment of departmental
teaching.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“A thorogoing exposition of his principles and doctrine.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Few books on school organization are more timely than this one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
=King, Alfred Grant.= Practical steam and hot water heating and
ventilation. *$3. Henley.
8–7883.
“Describes all features of steam and hot-water heating installations,
ventilating plants, warming systems for swimming pools, the business
methods of conducting steam-fitting work and the care of heating
plants, and gives a large collection of rules, memoranda and
tables.... While the book is in no sense an engineering work, it is a
good explanation of the scope as well as details of the work done by a
contractor for heating and ventilating plants.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“This work is one of the most complete and exhaustive yet published on
this branch of domestic engineering.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“It will not appeal to engineers who have much better treatises on
heating and ventilation in their possession. The book contains very
little theoretical treatment of the subject and what little there is
should be revised by an expert.” W. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 593. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“The two common faults of such books, verbosity and inaccuracy, are
not present and the author explains his subject in a clear way that
can be understood by the steam-fitter and does not offend the
technically educated engineer.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=King, Charles.= To the front: a sequel to Cadet days. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–5578.
General King portrays vividly some events that mark the beginning of a
young West Point cadet’s career. Cheered to the echo as he receives
his diploma, he calls forth a prominent business man’s prophecy that
if he were pitted against a keen-witted, sharp, aggressive young
business man “he’d be skinned alive—skinned out of his last cent.” But
the “sheer grit” that had earned for George Graham deafening applause
at his graduation proves equally capable of results in quelling a mine
riot and in fighting Indians among the icy flats and snow-patched
ravines of the Bad lands.
* * * * *
“Not so well written as ‘Cadet days,’ of which it is a sequel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The story is graphically written and while a bit highly colored, at
least no harm will be done Gen. King’s young readers should they
endeavor to imitate young Graham.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Seeming unreality of the spiritual life.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18361.
A scholarly and earnest defense of theism and Christianity, in which
are discussed at length the causes of the seeming unreality of the
spiritual life, those arising from misconceptions as to its nature and
those due to a failure to fulfill the conditions thru which alone a
way is opened into the “great values.” Other causes which are
irremovable, the limitations of our natures and the unobtrusiveness
inherent in the very nature of the moral are also considered. Finally
a way into reality is pointed out. It is shown how inextricably the
spiritual life is knit up with all else that we count most real and
also has its own distinct and valuable contribution to make to life.
* * * * *
“He is earnest, thoughtful and honest in his inquiry; and he leaves
the impression of a brave and sincere spirit neither rashly radical
nor timidly unprogressive.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse (Mrs. Charles R. Kingsley).= And so they
were married. †$1. Dodd.
8–23918.
Portrays “a conflict between common sense and foolishness which
results in victory for the former.... An inexperienced young woman
is influenced, for a time, by the extravagant pretension of an
older woman who worships society, and this influence bids fair to
ruin the young woman’s husband. The rescue is accomplished by the
combination of a sensible bringing up and an outspoken wise old
grandmother.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“This little volume is a sermon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 140w.
“A pretty little story, its appeal solely for the feminine heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
“The author delicately handles the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A simple little story.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Eversley gardens, and others. $1.75.
Macmillan.
7–42104.
“She describes ... the gardens of her acquaintance and her own. She
relates the making of the latter out of a barren field in a very
useful and agreeable manner, and in doing so expresses lucidly the
results of her experience on many technical points. Her remarks on
soil, deep trenching, pruning, growing bulbs indoors in fibre, and the
destruction of blight, are excellent guides, readily remembered
because they are written in a style not found in text-books.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Miss Rose Kingsley exceeds the promise of her title.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 719. Jl. 27, ’07. 240w.
“The world is overdone with ‘gardening books,’ but for such a volume
as Miss Kingsley’s ‘Eversley gardens and others’ we have not only room
and to spare, but the warmest of welcomes beside.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 158. Ag. 10. 650w.
“For practical purposes the book will have little value for Americans,
since the English climate is so much kinder to roses and other things.
But anyone who is enthusiastic about flowers will enjoy the
combination of good sense and artistic feeling with which Miss
Kingsley presents the whole process of gardening.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
“The author has a vein of pleasantry which brightens many of the pages
in a charming way.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“While it is probable that most gardners will find many hints and
references to species unknown to them, it is certain that all can
learn much from the artistic combinations described by the author,
some produced in her own gardens, others in her friends’ gardens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 240w.
“The illustrations are nearly as delightful as the text.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
=Kinkaid, Mary Holland (Mrs. John Kinkaid).= Man of yesterday: a
romance of a vanishing race. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–7595.
A story set among the Chickasaws and Choctaws of Indian territory at
the time of the division of tribal lands. A white man faithless to his
half-breed wife is brought to judgment by her Indian lover. “The
passionate race pride of the Indian, his fortitude, his scorn of
promise-breaking, are strongly pictured. In Pakali, with her Indian
blood and her white woman’s training, lives a heroine fair and tender
and brave as heart of romance reader could wish.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The style is rather journalistic but the narrative is interesting and
the picture convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“The author has achieved a distinct triumph in taking us actually into
the home life of the present-day Chickasaws, and in making us feel
their attitude, their impulses, their standards of right and wrong. It
is a noteworthy volume, not soon to be forgotten.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 450w.
“A book that owes nothing to ingenuity of plot or to its author’s
imagination, but is a page of passing American history, or, at least,
an important footnote.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“A close acquaintance with Indian character and customs is apparent
throughout, and with the acquaintance goes an intense sympathy for
their passing—a passing whose pathos is heightened in the story by the
melancholy acquiescence of the better element.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The descriptive parts are written with much poetic feeling, while
throughout the author’s manner is worthy of note for its dignity and
simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
“A contribution of much worth to the story of the relations between
the two races.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Courage of Blackburn Blair. †$1.50.
Moffat.
7–34180.
The second volume of Miss Kinkead’s trilogy whose purpose is the
presentation of “the three great fundamental relations of life.” It
deals with the relation of man toward humanity and makes use of a
“modern instance of moral heroism brought into close relations with
the Goebel campaign that convulsed Kentucky a few years ago. The hero
is a young lawyer and politician who realizes how false is that
conception of personal honor which in Kentucky, and in the south
generally, requires, a man who is insulted to commit a murder for the
vindication of his character.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The story is characterized by a fine idealism and the interest is
sustained throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The fine idealism of this book, to say nothing of its many other
admirable qualities, gives it a high place among novels of the year.”
W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 370w.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 70w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
A story whose action takes place in Russia, principally following the
last revolutionary outbreak. While the lover of an English girl is
absent in South Africa she saves her father from financial ruin by
marrying, supposedly, a French count. The lover returns, determines to
find her, accepts a newspaper commission to Russia and fights a
winning way thru danger and intrigue in the very strongholds that
protect her. It is an intimate account of conditions in Russia after
the war, and is unique for portraying a heroine who does not appear.
* * * * *
“The story is vigorous in its handling of plot, and the personal
adventures of its supposed narrator are told with real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
=Kintzing, Pearce.= Long life and how to attain it. **$1. Funk.
8–17729.
Simple, sane practical advice by which the every-day man or woman may
ward off disease, preserve health, and prolong life. A popular
treatise based upon scientific principles.
* * * * *
“The style is simple, the advice practical, the basis scientific.” R.
E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 250w.
“His chapters are not empirical, but are based on results derived from
the positive conclusions of scientific research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 229. Ag. 15, ’08. 340w.
=Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“There is nothing startling in his recommendations. Nothing that is
absolutely new in his philosophy; it is the directness, clearness, and
completeness of his treatment of the various matters that have to do
with longevity that makes his work remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 800w.
“Safe and sane are the remarks of Dr. Kintzing regarding the best
methods of preserving health.” Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 235. N. ’08. 200w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= In the open: intimate studies and
appreciations of nature. **$1.75. Elder.
8–24897.
It is the real Walt Whitman communion with nature that finds its way
into the chapters of this delightful book. The impressions made upon
poetic men by each new season from “the spring that is felt rather
than reasoned about” to the first snow-storm that “soothes and
beguiles into submission” are analyzed so closely that the reader is
able to recognize them as self-experienced sensations. Joy in nature
in all its forms and moods inspires the invitation into the open which
reaches the climax of persuasion in the chapters, The mountains, The
forest and The sea.
* * * * *
“His readers will often pay him the subtle compliment of exclaiming,
‘That is just what I have thought.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“A nature book of such unusual literary charm that it deserves to be
ranked well above most of the more homely out-of-doors studies of
recent years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Kirkland, Caroline.= Some African highways: a journey of two
American women to Uganda and the Transvaal; with an introd. by
Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell. $1.50. Estes.
8–19264.
A multitude of observations are set down here, many of them made from
steamer deck and car window. There are pictures “for instance, of
Asab, the Abyssinian port, where three hundred warriors from the
desert (Nubians, Somalis, and Sudanese) were taken on board the
author’s ship to fight a native uprising in German East Africa; of the
hand-run tram system of Mombasa, supplemented by the gharries, or
rickshaws, and the carriages and horses of the Hindu merchants; of the
customs of London’s West End found in an English colony in the heart
of darkest Africa; of the contrast between English and German colonies
in Africa; of the sleeping sickness; of the new conditions in the
Transvaal; of the Chinese on the Rand there, and of Lord Selborne’s
success in the administration of South Africa.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The points of interest in this journey she sketches with quick
perception, and accuracy of touch.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 660w.
“All through this book keenly pointed little pen-pictures are
scattered.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 340w.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= An inquiry into socialism. 3d ed., rev. and enl.
*$1.40. Longmans.
8–7382.
A third edition whose changes consist chiefly of “the insertion of
references to recent or contemporary events such as help to bear out
the views propounded.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Dispassionate but sympathetic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 120. Ap. ’08.
“An unpretending, sympathetic, eminently fair exposition.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 279. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“It sets forth with remarkable logic, force, and perspicuity the
genesis, aims, and claims of the form of socialism which is gaining
ground so fast at present.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 170w.
“A clear, simple, sympathetic interpretation of socialism.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“Nothing could be more opportune than the reissue in a substantially
unaltered form of this eminently catholic as well as eminently
reasonable statement of the socialist case.” Sidney Ball.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 397. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 70w.
“May not make a reader a convert, nor would every socialist be
satisfied with the unadventurous spirit of Mr. Kirkup’s views, but
after reading him we think no one could talk the nonsense with which
the topic has made us familiar.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Kirkup’s volume is an admirable example of the sentiment which
makes for socialism, and which fails to see that if Marx’s destructive
and constructive theories are rejected some other economic basis of
socialism must be put forward.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Klein, Felix.= An American student in France. **$2.50. McClurg.
8–13682.
“Presents the author’s conception of the way things French impress an
inquiring, observant, and serious-minded American student of about
twenty-one years of age. The student is a composite type, and,
naturally, somewhat idealized; hence not thoroughly real and
‘convincing’ to the reader. But that does not prevent one’s deriving a
good deal of entertainment and instruction from the Abbé’s frank and
comradelike talks on various subjects of historic, political,
religious, and literary interest, whosoever may serve as ostensible
mouth-piece from page to page.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The book is entertaining.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08.
“The value of his book lies in the fact that under the guise of
imaginary conversations he gives the opinions of those Frenchmen who
are at the same time sincere Catholics and sincere Republicans.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 35. Jl. 11. 420w.
“The abbé is lively, witty, and observant.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 265. N. ’08. 160w.
“Father Klein is a writer to command attention at all times, but he is
not in quite so happy a vein in impersonating the American visitor to
France as he was in playing the French visitor to America.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 312. My. 16, ’08. 550w.
“We unreservedly commend it to those who know France, and to those who
want to know France.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, Abbé Klein has turned out an agreeable book, which is
well printed, indexed, and illustrated. If you are visiting France
this summer you’ll find the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 250. My. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“Gives much interesting general information concerning France.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Seriously, the book is interesting as a campaign document on the
controversies over modernism and separation, a record of the personal
convictions of the author; most of the remainder, if it is anything,
is as you please, Baedeker, or Murray, or Joanne.” A. I. du P.
Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 560w.
“An entertaining book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. Humorous hits and how to hold an
audience: a collection of short selections, stories and sketches
for all occasions. **$1. Funk.
8–9509.
A book for the amateur, professional reader, speaker, elocutionist,
entertainer, after-dinner and impromptu speaker, the politician “who
wants to make a ‘hit,’” the business man looking for a good story, and
the teacher planning for rhetoricals. Following detailed instruction
on how to hold an audience there are more than a hundred and fifty
humorous selections and about thirty serious ones.
* * * * *
“It is an admirable volume of popular selections for the purpose for
which it is designed.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A useful handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
* =Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. World’s great sermons; introd. by Lewis O.
Brastow. 10v. Funk.
8–33883.
Ten volumes which aim to bring together the best examples of the
products of the pulpit since the beginning of Christianity and to
present them in handy-volume form. Preachers are represented from
Basil of the fourth century to present-day divines, and the sermons
have been selected in some cases for their literary and rhetorical
excellencies but in every case for the service they may render in
solving practical problems of Christian living.
=Knapp, Adeline.= Well in the desert. †$1.50. Century.
8–23557.
A story whose scenes are set on the edge of the Arizona desert. A
diseased-burdened man, betrayed and unjustly convicted of crime,
escapes from prison, evades falling a second time into the power of
his betrayer, and is lead by chance to a wooded and watered plateau
where for months he lived alone the life of elemental man. The health
and manhood which he builds up stand him in good stead when he again
faces civilization and establishes his right to citizenship and to the
love of a good woman.
* * * * *
“Not a remarkable story, but unobjectional and full of exciting
adventure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“It is a romance as wholesome as it is interesting.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 479. N. ’08. 620w.
“The book, viewed as a collection of exciting anecdotes of life in the
Southwest, is readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“It begins with distinction and originality, but it runs into the
ordinary and stereotyped story of the West.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The latter part of the romance is a trifle too melodramatic, but
taken as a whole the story is alive and worth while. The narrative of
the desert is particularly good.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= Over-sea Britain. *$2. Dutton.
War 8–30.
A descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological,
and political development, and the economic resources of the empire;
the nearer empire, the Mediterranean, British Africa, and British
America. (Explanatory title). It is “a careful description of the
British colonies in the Mediterranean region, Africa and America, to
be followed by a volume on the possessions in Asia and Oceania. The
author has adopted a semi-encyclopedic manner of discussion.” (Ann.
Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Of special use to prospective colonists and to business men engaged
in over-sea commerce.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on British
world politics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 505. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Knight’s volume is, on the whole, accurate in its statement of
facts; it has undoubtedly been produced with great industry and care,
and forms a valuable record in the nature of an imperial gazetteer.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 1300w.
“The years 1905 and 1906 are the dates taken for most of Mr. Knight’s
figures, and until these figures become too antiquated for the
ordinary needs of the reader or student, Mr. Knight’s volume will be
well worth a place among the books of ready reference which one likes
to keep on the most accessible shelf of the library.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 250w.
“There are minor blemishes, easily corrected in another edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 191. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
“A treasury of reference. But the excellent text would seem to merit
maps of greater number and detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“He has managed to write a not uninteresting and instructive work
without colour of any sort. Hence the work should be valuable as a
text-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“It is rather too large for school purposes, and scarcely detailed
enough to be of use to the specialist, but it should serve as a good
reference-book to the general reader who wishes to supplement his
newspaper knowledge of imperial history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the
wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“This is hardly a great book, but it deals with a great personality.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 575. N. 9. 1320w.
“These recollections of friends and disciples, with extracts from his
letters and other writings, combine to portray, roughly and by
suggestion, an inspiring and astonishingly versatile character; but a
complete and consistent account of the man, if such be possible, is
yet to be written.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His biographer narrates instead of presenting—an artistic fault which
is no less grave in biography than in fiction. He expects us to take
his hero on trust, with the result that, after we have read all that
he has to say, his hero remains a vague and cloudy figure.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 540w.
“A fitting memorial.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Dawn at Shanty Bay. **$1. Revell.
7–39193.
A story whose “scenes are laid in a Scotch settlement in western New
York. The hero is a crusty Scotchman. He inherits his creed and his
theory of life from his Covenanter father, who ‘got till his rest
wi’out hardly hearin’ tell o’ Christmas, or ony o’ thae new-fangled
schemes for worshipping Almichty God.’ But before the end of the story
Ronald Robertson Changed his mind about Christmas and several other
things.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A pretty story full of the deeper meaning of the Christmas season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, 07. 110w.
“A very readable Christmas story of the genre type.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Knowles’s simple little story is typically Scotch in its setting
and atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann
Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J.
R. Ainsworth Davis, v. 2. *$10.75. Oxford.
=v. 2.= Deals with “the various methods of pollination in fifty-six
families of dicotyledonous plants.... The author deals seriatim with
all the genera and species in the natural orders under consideration,
describes the structure of the flowers in so far as it affects
directly or indirectly the mode of pollination, and cites the various
direct observations on pollination made by himself or others.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“The value of a work of this kind depends mainly upon the accuracy of
its observations, and in the case of the present volume the names of
the recorders are sufficient testimony to their trustworthiness. The
work of translation has been carried out in a most satisfactory
manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 371. S. 26. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Such a book cannot be reviewed, for it is an encyclopedia. This
translation should greatly stimulate observation in a field too much
neglected by American botanists.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 63. Jl. ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is filled with facts indispensable to the student of biology and
helpful to every serious amateur. It cannot honestly be called
interesting to the general reader; nevertheless, the general reader
can make of it a great deal of use in examining plants from the new
point of view.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 890w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is even more directly a book of reference than the first volume. Will
be as welcome to English readers as the more general introductory
volume has proved itself to be.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 244. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is of great value to American workers.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 345. S. 11, ’08. 780w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Pianolist: a guide for pianola players. **$1.
Moffat.
7–40771.
A guide for pianola players suggested by the experience of one who,
undeveloped in musical culture, was briefly satisfied with trashy
things but who gradually trained himself to appreciate and to
understand classical selections from a wide range of composers. The
book recognizes the musical-education possibilities of automatic
players.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 44. F. ’08.
“Its author, Gustav Kobbé, has always been among the pioneers in
clearing new paths, and in this volume, as in his ‘How to appreciate
music,’ he is not afraid to express his opinions freely, even when
they clash violently with traditional views and prejudices.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 170w.
“His book is filled with advice to the pianolist as to how to get the
best effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Koester, Frank.= Steam-electric power plants: a practical treatise
on the design of central light and power stations and their
economical construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–11715.
The author, who is an experienced power plant designer, deals with
every phase in the design of light and power plants starting with the
preparation of plans, letting of contracts, efficiency, cost and site
for the location, and continuing to a descriptive discussion of five
typical American and European power plants.
* * * * *
“He here brings together into a coherent whole the very considerable
amount of information which he has accumulated during his professional
work in regard to the best approved modern practice in the design,
construction and operation of steam-electric power plants.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 320w.
“The book is, on the whole, disappointing. The author has treated
nearly everything in a most general way—general in the sense of being
vague and indefinite and not in the sense of being broad and
comprehensive. The author gives the impression of being a spectator
who sees results rather than being a designer of world-wide experience
who is elucidating his own work.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 78. Jl. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life of Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, 1798–1871,
of the first elective Supreme court of Pennsylvania. $3.50.
Campion & co.
7–10037.
“This is the third biography of eminent Pennsylvanians written by Mr.
Konkle. Ellis Lewis was one of the leaders of the Democratic party,
and the author’s main purpose in writing his biography is to present
the counterpart of the Whig and Republican movements which constitutes
the main theme of the author’s life of Thomas Williams.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“Had Chief Justice Lewis been a jurist only, we are told in the
preface, ‘the author would have felt no mission to present his
career.’ Nevertheless, this life of Lewis is almost wholly devoted to
his career as a jurist. Of his influence upon the tortuous course of
Pennsylvania politics we get only occasional and fleeting glimpses
which whet the appetite for more.” P. O. Ray.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 388. Ja. ’08. 560w.
“In the absence of any general political history of Pennsylvania,
biographies like these meet a distinct need, and Mr. Konkle’s legal
training, his knowledge of Pennsylvania leaders and characteristics
qualify him to supply this need. It is, therefore, to be regretted
that a work of much promise and great possibilities is marred by many
defects. Whenever the author passes from the analysis of complex
political situations to the narration of simple events his style is
clear.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 163. Jl. ’07. 380w.
=Kotzschmar, Mary Ann.= Half-hour lessons in music: class work for
beginners at the piano. $1. Ditson.
7–33585.
Twelve lessons for teachers of children; the aim being “to see from
the children’s point of view, and to explain and illustrate things
musical in a way that would appeal to their imagination as well as
reason.” The author makes much of the natural enthusiasm and optimism
of little people; she believes in class instruction in preference to
private lessons; she introduces into each lesson interesting details
about the lives of composers.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 86: 179. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Kramer, Harold Morton.= Castle of dawn. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10278.
Two Chicago young people, one a newspaper man and the other the
charming daughter of a certain “Graball” Gray are imprisoned under
puzzling circumstances in the Ozarks. After a week of hairbreadth
experiences, they find that the Castle of Dawn where they have become
prisoners in velvet rather than iron is the rendezvous of Nicaraguan
revolutionists whom the government is trying to run to cover. It is a
sprightly story with a romance that is kept apart from the few
melodramatic touches.
* * * * *
“The surprising thing about ‘The castle of dawn’ is, not that is is a
mediocre novel of its kind, but rather, that being so obviously built
according to formula, it should be anywhere nearly so good as it is.”
F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 230w.
“It is all very trifling, but it is also very diverting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book will certainly not fail to hold the attention, and it has
many good qualities, but it is too bewilderingly involved for the
brain of the average reader.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 310. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Kremer, Ida.= Struggle for a royal child, Anna Monica Pia, duchess
of Saxony. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–2755.
Here are narrated the experiences of a governess in the house of the
Countess Montignoso during 1906. She was sent by the Saxon court to
Villa Montauto, for the purpose of helping to return the royal child,
Anna Monica Pia, to her father. The book is in the form of a diary and
records minutely the daily life of the Countess and of the members of
her household.
* * * * *
“It is mainly taken up with a study of the Countess’s character, and
shows much penetration, clear insight, and the ability to philosophise
with discretion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Kubinyi, Victor von.= King of Rome; a biography. $1.50. Victor von
Kubinyi, box 33, South River, N. J.
7–40865.
In this historical sketch the author has endeavored with painstaking
care to evolve the truth concerning Napoleon’s son from all the mass
of fact and fiction which has been written concerning him. He
sympathetically treats the life of this unfortunate young prince from
its beginning in Paris thru his various changing fortunes in Austria
up to the day of his untimely death. The biography is supplemented by
several illuminating sketches which tend to enlarge and develop the
original theme.
* * * * *
“It is chatty, gossipy in tone; speaks of the Little Corporal with the
enthusiasm of a private of the Old Guard, and of the Duke de
Reichstadt with the undiscriminating tenderness of a devoted nurse.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 830. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Kuhns, Levi Oscar.= Sense of the infinite: a study of the
transcendental element in literature, life and religion. **$1.50.
Holt.
8–24253.
With the same method of literary investigation that the author
employed in “Dante and the English poets” he traces the evidence to
the transcendental element in the literature and religion of the
Western world from the time of Plato to the present. The book is
addressed to the general reader. Following an introduction which lays
out the lines along which the discussion moves there are chapters on
What is the infinite, The transcendental view of nature, Romantic lore
and the transcendental sense, Plato and Plotinus, Platonism past and
present, Mediaeval mysticism, Renaissance and reformation, The
Pietistic movement and its influence, The transcendental element and
modern life.
* * * * *
“In few popular works of the present time has the essential
spirituality of mystic exaltation been so consistently maintained.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is written with unusual simplicity, in every-day language, with
ease and dignity of style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Kunz, George Frederick, and Stevenson, Charles Hugh.= Book of the
pearl: the history, art, science and industry of the queen of
gems. **$12.50. Century.
8–29321.
The combined work of a gem expert and a member of the United States
fish commission. It is a handsomely made volume of five hundred and
thirty pages covering the entire field of the pearl. It illustrates
the use of pearls as objects of art and ornamentation; notes their
decorative value as shown in portraiture and in imaginative designs by
great artists; assembles theories and facts concerning their origin,
growth and structure; sets forth their values, artistically and
commercially; describes proper treatment and care; gives the history
of pearl fisheries; and emphasizes the importance of conserving the
resources and the possibilities of cultivating the pearl-oyster.
* * * * *
“Encyclopaedic in character, and representing an appalling amount of
the most laborious research, the book is nevertheless thoroughly
readable.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 440w.
“The book is a very great success in every way.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 300w.
“Must be pronounced as fascinating as it is learned and
authoritative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 674. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The work as a whole, however, is fairly readable. In quantity and
quality of information it should be accounted as one of the most
notable works yet produced on a topic connected with jewelry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 830w.
“Once in a while there is produced a book so comprehensive in its
treatment of the subject with which it deals, so manifestly the
product of infinite pains in an author eminent in his chosen field,
and artistically so beautiful in its finished form, that the reader
can hardly help but exclaim at the skill, patience, and labor involved
in its production. Such a work is ‘The book of the pearl.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 604. O. 24, ’08. 2350w.
“For those who own pearls, and for those who love pearls, and for
those who want to know all about pearls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 220w.
L
=L.= Dark ages and other poems. $1. Longmans.
Fifty-five religious and secular poems. “Of the sacred poems we should
put ‘Lethe’ first, and of the others ‘The English gipsies’ and the
charming ‘Cottage inscription.’ Not all of the lyrics are Arcadian.
Some are passionate outcries against contemporary follies.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A cultivated and reflective mind, dwelling upon themes of art,
religion, history, and the legendary past, finding for its thoughts
and fancies a striking form of individual expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 62. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Uniformly effective work. Many examples of two tempers—that of the
image maker and that of the meditative listener—mingled in a composite
strain of sensitiveness to aesthetic and spiritual impressions.” E. L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A serious and sensitive mind, with many deep affections, and his
composition is both skilful and painstaking.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 728. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“A little lacking in rhythmical finish, but has the merit of ideas,
and now and then of fine verse.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= The woman pays. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–18368.
A melodramatic story in which the principal characters are a young New
York newspaper writer, his wife and a clergyman. The latter,
egotistical, self-loving, casts a spell over the woman, wins her from
her husband and betrays her honor.
* * * * *
“It is a tale that is told with some power. Some of the descriptions
of a phase of metropolitan life are interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 320w.
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= In Korea with Marquis Ito. **$2.50.
Scribner.
8–7156.
A study including statements of fact based on personal observation;
expressions of opinion based upon the fullest obtainable knowledge of
the facts; and certain conjectures ventured after facts have been
studied and opinions weighed. Prof. Ladd went to the country to
lecture and staid to absorb matters pertaining to international
affairs and race psychology. His work is first a narrative of personal
experience, and, second, a critical and historical inquiry with many a
sidelight on Japan’s greatest statesman.
* * * * *
“Though he has an obvious pro-Japanese bias, it is impossible to doubt
that his story, in the main, is accurate.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 470w.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 60w.
“The volume is well illustrated, and is in every respect a valuable
work of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Because Professor Ladd clearly shows the vital relation of mission
work to its environment (and he is the only writer so far as we know
who has done this needed work with such ability), he has done a most
valuable and timely service to the growing science of missions. A well
written book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 500w.
“The work is timely, the information fresh and reliable, the style is
charming. The book is laid down with a feeling that the clouds have
been cleared away from a very interesting and hitherto very obscure
passage in contemporaneous history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“For the serious student Dr. Ladd’s book by no means supersedes the
works of Dallet, Hulbert, and others who have studied Korea in the
perspective of history, language and literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 850w.
“Can hardly be accepted as [an account] of a disinterested and
impartial student. Undoubtedly honest, sincere, and convinced, his
book is nevertheless an ex parte statement of a professed friend of
Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“From a competent observer and fair-minded critic and reporter, with
very unusual opportunities for correct information, we have the truth
about Korea, and Japan in Korea. So enlightening a volume should not
lack a good map.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“However much careful readers might disagree with the author in
several of his opinions on things Korean and Japanese, they will not
fail to appreciate the sincerity of his views, and wish that another
equally sincere and able work showing the other side of the question
might, if that is possible appear to enlighten them.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 350. N. ’08. 760w.
* =La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the
Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. McClure.
Six lectures which inaugurated the Scammon course at the Art institute
of Chicago, in 1903. They are as follows: The school; Delacroix;
Millet; Decamps and Diaz; Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny; Corot. Index.
* =Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Christ legends; tr. from the Swedish by Velma
Swanston Howard. **$1.25. Holt.
Mainly from the apocryphal New Testament writings are borrowed legends
of the early life of Christ which Miss Lagerlöf has made over and
expanded into stories near of kin to Swedish folk lore tales. The
miracle-working power of the child Jesus is revealed with spiritual
discernment from which the ardor of her imagination does not detract.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“All the stories, no matter what their claim may be to authenticity,
are eloquent of that spirit of joy and imaginative fervor which from
time immemorial has imparted its zest to the celebration of
Christmas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by Velma
S. Howard. il. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–33213.
A book which is the result of “years of study of animal and bird life
by the author, with legends and folk-lore, which are woven together in
the charming story of little Nils, turned into an elf, traveling on
the back of a goose with a flock of wild geese, understanding the
speech of birds and animals.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Will interest children who like George Macdonald’s fairy tales and
the like; will make a place for itself but not be popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“I should advise parents to give the book an examination, for its
foundation is built upon national characteristics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Said to be the best book of Sweden’s great fiction writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Lair, Jules.= Louise de la Vallière and the early life of Louis
XIV. (Memoir ser., no. 39.) *$3.50. Putnam.
The story of Louise de la Vallière who “was a favorite of Louis XIV.,
who bore him four children, was discarded for another favorite, and
ended her days as a Carmelite nun. The narrative woven around this
tale is a revoltingly minute description of the doings of court
libertines and intriguers.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 300w.
“The book has all the appeal of the romantic novel. To such M. Lair’s
careful and accurate work cannot be too strongly recommended.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 1800w.
“If there were any scheme of social regeneration that would put to
hard labor the people who write and read such unnecessary, and to say
the least, unesthetic rubbish, it ought to be welcomed by those who
have a kindly interest in humanity.”
− − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have nothing but praise for a charming work charmingly printed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
“The translator of this interesting volume seems to have done her work
faithfully, though her style is occasionally marred by unfortunate
solecisms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 640w.
“The story of her life is neither instructive nor inspiring, and as
told by M. Lair it is so burdened with unsavory detail and false
sentiment as to make thoroughly unpleasant reading.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“M. Lair treats his subject with good taste and delicacy, fairness and
candour.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 480w.
=Lake, Rev. Kirsopp.= Historical evidence for the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–5811.
“An examination of the evidence from the critical point of view, with
a result unfavorable to the material view of the resurrection.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 20w.
“Even those who are unable to follow the author in all his criticisms
and exegesis must admit the force of his reasoning, and the reverence
with which it is presented.” G. E. French.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 6: 691. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The work as a whole is an able piece of historical criticism,
conducted in a reverential spirit, and recognizing to the full the
limits of historical investigation and the privileges of religious
faith.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Has a fair claim to be reckoned as one of the really important works
upon its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w.
=La Monte, Robert Rives.= Socialism: positive and negative. 50c.
Kerr.
7–21308.
A group of essays dealing with such subjects as Science and socialism,
Marxism and ethics, and The nihilism of socialism.
* * * * *
“There is no connection between the essays and, on the whole, they do
not present as satisfactory a statement of the socialistic doctrines
as does Mr. Spargo’s book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 280. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“He has studied his books, and he writes with dash and cleverness. But
his tolerance of persons who do not see with him is by no means
gentle.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 6, ’07. 200w.
=La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich H. K.= Undine; tr. from the German by G:
P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23095.
“He takes the reader through enchanted forests and among mysterious
gnomes and spirits. The malicious Kühleborn, the quaint old fisherman
and his dame, good father Heilmann, the worldly Bertalda, the gallant
but fickle Huldbrand, are characters full of interest; but most
beautiful and lovely in her form of water sprite, and afterwards in
the suffering wife when she had found a soul, is Undine.”
* =Lancaster, G. B.= Altar stairs. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A novel which tells a tale of the South seas, in which a dominating
man suddenly finds himself in love with a woman who is bound to
another. The hero holds for months in his power the man to whom the
woman he loves is bound, but ultimate happiness comes out of it
all.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The grip of the story can in no way be conveyed by an outline of the
plot, each incident being so firmly built into the general structure
that the whole must be envisaged in detail to be appreciated. It would
seem as if there might be less wading in gore without sacrificing the
sweep and vigor of the story.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Lancaster’s style is not good, and in his endeavor to be
characteristic he occasionally becomes unintelligible. But there is a
fresh wind blowing through the book that sets the blood dancing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Tracks we tread. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–28459.
A story which “leads us into the sheep-country of New Zealand, among a
class superficially more like our Western ranchers than the official
Englishman. Yet it is the Briton bearing the sacred torch to the
farthest ends of the earth whom we are once again called upon, not
unwillingly, to admire; the type of those ‘who go away many times to
endings unchronicled; men who love, who conquer, and serve, on the
downs, the harsh mountains, the unhandled plains.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book of uncommon calibre, rugged, sincere, tremendously virile—a
book that pictures the rough, hard men of a rough, hard country
frankly, without illusion or euphemism, but with a deep understanding
of human nature that makes it a book to linger over.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 450w.
“Kipling’s hall-mark is upon it as a whole. Its salient traits are
terseness and vividness of phrase, a grim humor prone to deal with the
less savory aspects of the theme, and an unconquerable instinct for
the romantic aspects.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lanchester, F. W.= Aerodynamics; constituting the first volume of a
complete work on aerial flight. *$6. Van Nostrand.
8–26416.
“For the first time, as far as we know, this volume brings together in
one place all that theory and practice have to contribute to our
knowledge of the conditions which govern true flight. The final
chapters, dealing with the experimental work of Langley and other
investigators, is probably the most interesting to the ordinary
reader, who will realise from it how complex are the problems that the
aviator has yet to solve.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4:55. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Had the author extended the last chapter to include the work of
continental writers ... and excluded some of the more shaky
theoretical chapters, the work might without exaggeration be called a
complete treatise on aerodynamics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 337. Ag. 13, ’08. 780w.
“A sound and conscientious piece of work which should be invaluable to
the practical builder of aeroplanes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Landor, Arnold H. Savage.= Across widest Africa. 2v. *$10.50.
Scribner.
7–37937.
An account of the country and people of eastern, central, and western
Africa, as seen during a twelve months’ journey from Djibuti to Cape
Verde. Mr. Landor’s book is not devoted to adventure, “it is concerned
with the characteristic features of that country.... The rivers,
mountains, elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the various
complicated tribal divisions and names, the languages and the customs
of the tribes, and the host of details which of necessity must
constitute the study of the observing traveller, are the objects which
appeal to him.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“All due qualifications being made, there is a large amount of
interesting reading in these two handsome and well-illustrated
volumes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 430w.
“Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the subject of some very
interesting chapters of the book” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 415. D. 16, ’07. 1870w.
“Apparently ignorant of those sciences with which an explorer ought to
be thoroughly familiar, Mr. Landor states his observations, his
deductions, his impressions, and also those of other people, as if
they were infallible dogmas. The result of this, and of his inability
to sift evidence in a scientific way, is a tissue of absurdities,
enunciated with such a semblance of authority that an unwary reader
would assume them all to be well-ascertained facts. Notwithstanding
his many errors of fact and of inference ... it is only fair to admit
that Mr. Landor’s book makes interesting reading all through; that in
no single work is it possible to find so many details of the customs
of so many central African tribes; and that, if the author lacks many
of the qualities of an historian, he, at any rate, possesses those of
a traveller in a high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 330. N. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“Though much of the book is tedious, there is also much that is
entertaining, and it enables one to realize vividly how life in the
heart of Africa appears to the traveller.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 289. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Tales of Troy and Greece. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–34175.
The author has regrouped the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” into two
cycles, one called “Ulysses the sacker of cities,” and the other “The
wanderings of Ulysses.” “Three other sections recount the tales of the
Fleece of gold from traditional matter, being supplemented by
Apollonius Rhodius and the fight between Polydeuces and the giant from
Theocritus; and the stories of Theseus and Perseus, which depend
mainly on summaries contained in Plutarch and Apollodorus.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Delightfully told in the fairy-tale manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Lang, though as simple in style as Mr. Church, differs from the
latter in that he pauses to describe customs, arms, and mode of life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 340w.
“Mr. Lang ... puts into his text more substance than is found in the
ordinary adaptation or rewritten classic.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Will prove a sheer delight to any boy or girl of imagination and a
feeling for adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Lang has attempted a sort of Biblia innocentum version of the
Grecian Book of books. The result is an excellent narrative that often
vividly recalls the original. The rest of the book is made up of the
stories of Theseus, of Perseus, and of the Golden fleece, which are
equally interesting, though marred with one or two misplaced modern
touches.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Professor Church’s book is story pure and simple; Mr. Lang’s is story
embroidered upon, and given a moral, philosophical, and historical
complexion by turns. Yet Mr. Lang’s language is quite simple, and the
child could accept the narrative at its face value with perfect
comprehension.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1220w.
* =Lang, Leonora Blanche (Mrs. Andrew Lang).= Book of princes and
princesses; ed. by A. Lang. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–28404.
True stories “almost as interesting as fairy tales.” They are
concerned “with people, little people indeed, yet people of real flesh
and blood.... The subjects of the stories, taken from English and
French history, deal with the early lives of young persons, some of
whom died young, while others grew up to be famous personages.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Lang writes effectively, but has not altogether succeeded in
attaining simplicity of style. The volume is an attractive collection
of real stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 120w.
“Though the stories are strictly historical in the main, Mrs. Lang has
embellished the cold data with lively conversations, and parenthetical
comment to suit the story to juvenile taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“The young people who are bored by these stories, even though they are
true, must be very hard to please.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 880w.
* =Lanier, Sidney.= Poem outlines. **$1. Scribner.
8–27138.
“This slender volume is a poet’s note-book. It records ideas,
impressions, figures, pictures, which the poet proposes to use at some
future time in a more complete way. It is a collection of fragments,
of quick studies, such as a painter makes out of doors when the light
is rapidly changing, and which he works up at leisure in his
studio.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A little book of poetic outlines that lets [the world] into some of
the vagrant moods of one of the most sensitive and sweet-spirited
singers of our Southland.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 605. O. 24, ’08. 730w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Larard, C. E., and Golding, H. A.= Practical calculations for
engineers; for the use of engineering students, apprentices,
draughtsmen, mechanics, foremen, and others practically engaged in
engineering work. *$2. Lippincott.
W8–140.
“The general character of this work places it somewhere between the
engineering pocket-book and the college text-book. The methods,
formulæ, and appliances which a student encounters during a good
college course in mechanical engineering are here, not demonstrated,
but collected and described, systematically, and applied to such
practical examples as are likely to occur in an engineering
workshop.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“It can do best service to men who lack an education in engineering
theory, but even many of these, technical college graduates, may find
it a guide to improvement.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The authors give some most striking examples of the great value of
squared-paper work in the systematic plotting of variable quantities
in all branches of a manufacturing establishment, and the lessons to
be learnt therefrom. This section is extremely suggestive, and will
well repay the careful study of all practical engineers.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 555. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Lathrop, Elise L.= Sunny days in Italy. **$2.50. Pott.
7–29872.
“An unpretentious volume of agreeable, familiar gossip about a dozen
or more of the chief points of interest to which the average tourist
sooner or later finds his way. It is a sort of pot-pourri of
miscellaneous impressions and information, vivid little pen pictures
of a building, a landscape, a crowd at a railway station; useful
advice, gleaned from experience, regarding the hiring of apartments,
bargaining with cab drivers, traveling in third-class carriages; an
accumulated store of observations regarding Italian traits and social
customs.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Differs from other books on Italy in describing the little things
about the life and customs which other writers have not mentioned, and
yet are the things a traveler likes to know about.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Miss Lathrop has not any real gift of expression; her observation
does not seem to have been more than superficial; and apparently her
knowledge of Italy is merely that of a tourist.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Àp. 11. 300w.
“Flung together with a well-intentional sincerity, a pleasant and
quite feminine enthusiasm which makes agreeable reading.” F: P.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately, at least two-thirds of the book is a perfunctory
performance without ‘raison d’être.’ The worst defect of the book,
however, is found in the errors in style, with which its pages
bristle. Nor is the book free from errors in statement. Yet, in spite
of these defects, the book may be recommended for its practical,
sympathetic, and in many respects novel account of the Italian customs
of to-day.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’97. 430w.
“This is a pleasant book, giving intelligent descriptions of rural
Italy as well as of the Italian cities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 494. Ja. ’08. 450w.
=Lauck, William Jett.= Causes of the panic of 1893. (Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22103.
“Reviews the industrial and financial history of the decade preceding
1893, and then describes the panic itself. In the account which Mr.
Lauck gives of the conditions in Germany, France, and Great Britain
his work supplements usefully A. D. Noyes’s ‘Thirty years of American
finance’; but in his discussion of events in the United States he adds
substantially nothing to Mr. Noyes’s narrative.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 86: 90. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“It may seem left-handed praise to hint that it is more interesting
and useful as prophecy than history, when it purports to be purely and
merely history. Yet we doubt that any such treatise could serve a more
useful purpose than to light the way to avoidance of past errors and
sufferings by the lessons of experience.” E: A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 565. S. 21, ’07. 510w.
* =Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and
political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by
Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
A work which examines the problem of the future supply of gold from a
scientific standpoint and correlates the influence of this supply with
prices and the movement of capital from the financial standpoint. The
four divisions of the treatment are: The geology of gold; The
geographical distribution of gold in the past and present; The
extraction and dressing of gold; and The economy of gold.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Launspach ... devotes about a quarter of his book to the history
of the constitutional struggle; his account is not, as the accounts
given by lawyers frequently are, a mere string of facts and dates; he
has tried to make the story intelligible.... The legal chapters on
marriage, patria potestas, and succession, which follow the
constitutional sketch, aim at doing no more than summarizing the legal
aspect of the family.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Is one of those books, far too common in England and America, which
possess no particular value for scholars, yet do not serve the general
reader. The author’s mind is legal and schematic, rather than
historical, and he does not seem to realize that many of the
foundations upon which he builds ... have been seriously shaken by
anthropology and by historical criticism. The most substantial
chapters are those on family law.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 350w.
“There appears to be a singular lack of proportion in the space
devoted to the various controversial topics, and also great
arbitrariness in the distinction between those points which are
discussed and those others which are dealt with dogmatically.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 205. Ag. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“There is much of value in Mr. Launspach’s volume. We do not always
agree with him. He makes too little, we think, of legend and
tradition.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 140w.
=Laur, Francis.= Heart of Gambetta; authorized translation by
Violette M. Montagu; with an introd. by J. Macdonald. *$2.50.
Lane.
8–13688.
“The heart of this book is the love-letters of Gambetta written to
Madame Léonie Léon. Around them are grouped a certain amount of
history, a larger amount of inference or conjecture, and a still
larger amount of tearful sentiment by M. Laur.” (Nation.) “The new
historical fact in the letters here translated is the revelation of
the truth that Gambetta deliberately pretended to favour a schism such
as would detach the Gallican church from Rome, in order to bring the
pope to accept his proposals for the separation of church and state.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“The translation is hardly good enough for the letters, which when
they first appeared in Paris were praised, above all things, for their
style.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 1130w.
“M. Laur’s method is throughout too gushing to pass for that of sober
history. He reminds one of a lachrymose Victor Hugo: ‘I wept. All
France wept.’ The style is staccato drowned in emotion. But
disregarding most of M. Laur’s sentimental embroidering, these letters
of Gambetta must be taken as a real contribution to our knowledge of
the man.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 520w.
“The book is too good, too thoroughly an analysis of two human hearts,
too personal, too intimate not to arouse suspicion that the author has
frequently used his imagination in order to seek out dramatic causes
for known suggestive results.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 129. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“The letters in this volume ... constitute an important, but in parts
slightly hysteric, contribution to the history of an extremely
interesting period in the political development of France. It must be
confessed that, from the English point of view, and as a transcript of
human emotion presumably at its highest, they are rather
disappointing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 369. S. 12, ’08. 1450w.
* =Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the
story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson bay company; new
pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v.
*$5. Outing.
Tireless examination of records and documents, many of which are
unclassified and inaccessible, lies back of Miss Laut’s 800 page story
of the Hudson bay company. Beginning with the voyages of Henry Hudson,
the author omits none of the exploration that precedes the organizing
of the Hudson bay company, and then exploits the company “as
adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert’s land to
California—feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy,” pausing for
historical details where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer
and pioneer.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately there is no index. Both author and publisher are to be
congratulated on a most important and careful work, which is yet alive
with human sympathy and full of vivid character drawing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 700. N. 28, ’08. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Lawson, W. R.= American finance; part first—Domestic. $2.
Macmillan.
7–28928.
Mr. Lawson—not the author of “Frenzied finance”—is an Englishman who
has written a number of books of this nature including “British
economics.” This is a history and discussion of American financial
methods in four parts: Evolution, Organization, Creative powers, and
Destructive powers.
* * * * *
“The book seems to want a definite purpose. The writer betrays a lack
of economic training and judgment, and at the end one is in doubt as
to what Mr. Lawson really thinks about our monetary system and
financial methods. Its value as descriptive material is vitiated by
bad arrangement and incoherence.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 370w.
“In general the discussion of these questions as of our financial
experience as a whole is suggestive and stimulating. It is, however,
rather picturesque than analytic.” James Cummings.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 438. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“A very readable account.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 192. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“Though we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters
economic, we gladly recognise that ... he has selected an excellent
subject in which he seems to be much more at home.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 110w.
“The book is frankly popular and does not pretend to be a contribution
to our knowledge on the subject. The author’s style is breezy and his
treatment somewhat superficial, but the book is well written and
decidedly interesting. The author possesses a clear and sympathetic,
if not very profound, understanding of American financial
institutions, and his attitude is remarkably broad-minded and fair.”
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 444. F. ’08. 250w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= François-Auguste Rodin. *$1. Kennerley.
8–35518.
A sketch of the celebrated French sculptor, written from first hand
materials-from conversations with Rodin, from consultation with his
friends and from his correspondence. It is neither a copy nor an
abridgement of the larger “Life” but a fresh treatment thruout. The
forces which have operated in Rodin’s career, his peculiar genius, and
illustrations of his success are discussed with understanding.
* * * * *
“A good book for the library that cannot afford the larger life by the
same author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Lawton is keenly interested in the artist of whom he writes, but
is so close to his subject that it somewhat overawes him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 200w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
“This little book is written with sympathy and insight, and will be
appreciated by those who have not time to read the author’s longer
book treating of the greatest figure in European art of the present
age.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of Punch; his life, letters
and diaries. *$3.50. Holt.
8–6092.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“His life, though in no sense dramatic, was an interesting one; for
years he rubbed elbows intimately with all that was best and most
brilliant in the upper circles of London’s Bohemia.” Beverley Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 517. Ja. ’08. 970w.
“London of the sixties and early seventies and ‘Punch’s’ inner
editorial circle, besides many more intimate matters, live again in
its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“His letters are of the kind that must have filled the recipient with
joy, but that somehow in cold print, half a century later, sound
forced and schoolboyish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Layard, bound apparently to make a portly volume, has not
digested, selected, and rejected from among his material as carefully
as one might wish.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Layard is sometimes more expansive in this volume than the
occasion demands. But on the whole ‘Shirley Brooks of Punch’ is highly
entertaining, and a book for which we should be grateful.” H. S.
Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 752. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“We do not wish that it had been shorter or substantially other than
it is.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1056. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Suppressed plates: wood engravings, etc.;
together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account
of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector. *$4.
Macmillan.
8–18752.
In bringing out old books in new dress, plates have been discarded for
moral reasons, for lack of artistic merit, and for failure to
illustrate the text adequately. The author discusses these suppressed
plates, includes many of them in his illustrations, tho none whose
moral tone is questioned, and deals at length with palimpsest
plates—plates which have had objectionable portions burnished out and
which have been adapted to their new use by re-engraving the erased
sections.
* * * * *
“Mr. Layard writes with such extensive knowledge that it is not easy
to find holes in his armour. The facts are brought together with so
much skill that this volume will rank, both with those who sell and
those who buy books, as an acceptable work of reference, entertaining
as well as instructive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 750w.
“He treats in a most entertaining manner of a subject which cannot
fail to be of the greatest interest to every ardent book-hunter,
print-collector, and artist.” G: W. Cole.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 161. Ap. ’08. 1750w.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
=Forum.= 39: 529. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“People who care for the bypaths and curiosities of the pictorial side
of literature will be much interested in Mr. Layard’s new book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Lea, Frederick Charles.= Hydraulics. *$5. Longmans.
8–10845.
“In this work the author has endeavored to embody the results of the
large amount of experimental hydraulic work which has been
accomplished during the past decade—especially on the subject of the
flow of water—and to indicate the methods used in obtaining these
results.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 300w.
“The author writes as one having authority and altogether the book
appears to the reviewer as the most satisfactory treatment of its
subject for the English speaking student that has yet appeared.” G. S.
Williams.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“Altogether the work forms an excellent textbook, and is cordially to
be recommended to students of this most interesting and useful
science.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 530. Ap. 9, ’08. 700w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies,
Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New
Granada. **$2.50, Macmillan.
8–1774.
A volume which supplements the author’s series of histories on the
inquisition. It throws light on the workings of the inquisitorial
system as operated by the colonial tribunals in the new world, and the
retarding effects upon the development of the Spanish-American
colonies.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 689. Ap. ’08. 30w.
Reviewed by G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 847. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“The volume is marked by the characteristic excellences of its
predecessors: a style which is useful, without possessing much
literary charm, an inexhaustible knowledge of his subject, and an
organization of his materials so exact, and so natural that the reader
easily follows the narrative.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 311. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Throughout the work, a closer chronological arrangement at times
might have conduced to greater clearness.” J. A. Robertson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 455. S. ’08. 550w.
“Ranks easily with his strongest and best.” L. M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He has always the great advantage of looking at the subject as a
whole, and viewing it against the background of the parent
institution.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The ground to be gone over is so large and the records are so scanty
that the treatment is necessarily less detailed and vivid than in the
other volumes.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“To those who are interested in the theme it seems unfortunate that
Dr. Lea should have omitted the history of the Spanish inquisition in
the Netherlands, Chile and the La Plata provinces. An inclusion of
these areas would have rounded out the view most admirably.” W: R.
Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 328. Je. ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 563. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Lea, Homer.= Vermilion pencil: a romance of China. †$1.50. McClure.
8–9531.
A young Breton priest, detailed to instruct the wife of a wealthy
mandarin, falls in love with her and they elope. They are caught, the
husband subjects his wife to the terrible torture of the lyngchee,
while the lover identifies himself with the “Deluge family,” a secret
revolutionary society, whose symbol draws to him crowds who aid in
rescuing the condemned woman. “The book is more than a novel—it is a
human document.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A lurid and grotesque impression of China.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The most remarkable piece of fiction the year thus far has brought.
The story itself is not overpowering in its ingenuity, but in its
opening of glimpses into a world all but unknown to the west, it is of
very great interest, and in its undeniable penetration of character
and power of description it merits the wide attention which beyond
doubt it will receive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“A story full of exciting scenes and revelations about China and the
Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Lea’s story is rather too tragic and too horrible in its
descriptions of Chinese tortures to be agreeable but it is a sincere
picture of a beautiful character in the person of its heroine, and of
her influence over a great Chinese official through her loveliness and
brilliant mind in abolishing evil and injustice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“This appears to us the most valuable novel on the subject of China as
yet penned in the English language, none existing, besides, that so
well combines instruction with entertainment.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Lear, Edward.= Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord
Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave; ed. by Lady
Strachey of Sutton court. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–28968.
Edward Lear, the pioneer limerick maker, caricaturist, and landscape
painter, is self revealed in these letters in which “mingle
tenderness, a whimsical humor, and the power to see the visible world
as pictorial material.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Lady Strachey is to be congratulated on the publication of letters
which reveal a pleasant personality. We have no doubt that Lady
Strachey’s venture will come to a second edition, and offer some
corrections in view of that event.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 760. D. 14. 830w.
“A volume of characteristic and amusing letters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have read these letters with continuous delight. They fully
satisfy such expectations as may have been aroused by Lear’s
long-famous ‘Book of nonsense’; in other words, they justify Lear’s
reputation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 1250w.
“These are delightful letters and fully satisfy any expectations about
them which might have been aroused by Lear’s long famous ‘Book of
nonsense.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 90w.
“They reflect the temper and interests of his prime, and are so
personal in their tone that we gain from them a vivid picture of the
quaint personality that so continually suggests Thackeray’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 493. S. 12, ’08. 2050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The book is exactly of the kind which one can pick up from a shelf in
an odd minute of spare time and dip into here and there with
enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 230. S. 26, ’08. 240w.
* =Leaves= from a life. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
8–31145.
Supposedly from the pen of a daughter of William P. Frith, the English
painter, these sketches contain anecdotes of Browning, Tennyson, Du
Maurier, Leighton, Dickens, Trollope, and many other celebrities in
arts and letters.
* * * * *
“It is a good-natured, simple-minded, humorous presentation of a great
slice of mid-Victorian England, a canvas full of figures rendered with
practically no technique at all. The slipshod condition of the
author’s style is almost incredible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Laughter-loving pages. They are the record of a woman who has seen
much of life, who loved it in its full course and loves it now in
retrospect. Her book will amuse people from the first page to the
last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 1100w.
=Leavitt, Sheldon.= Paths to the heights. **$1. Crowell.
8–15159.
The record of the work of a physician who abandoned drugs and entered
the field of mental healing. His experience lies between orthodox
theology and Christian science and is full of practical suggestion.
* * * * *
“We read the book and find it rational and instructive in many
respects.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 387. O. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Le Blond, Elizabeth A. F. (Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond) (Mrs. Main).=
Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
A narration of the author’s experiences in climbing thirty-three
mountains. “It was delightful,” she writes, “to think that we could
start when we liked, return when we liked, and have the cheering rays
of the sun always visible. In the north, too, we found all the
picturesqueness of Lapp and reindeer, all the repose of a land where
no tourists are seen, all the magnificence of ice-clad mountains and
spires of rocks mingled with the softer beauty of lake and fjord.”
* * * * *
“There is much detail which can interest only the keen mountain
climber. The interest for other readers lies in the fact that the book
shows, as no other within our knowledge does, how delightfully a
summer can be passed in camp or in one of the little settlements in
this region. To the vivid word pictures are added 71 reproductions of
photographs, which show not only the wondrous scenery, but also many
of the stirring incidents of the ascents.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 260w.
“There are some very interesting passages in ‘Mountaineering in the
land of the midnight sun,’ for the author, besides being a good
climber, is a charming writer, who relates her experiences wonderfully
well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 220w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Inspired millionaires: a forecast. $1.25.
Mount Tom press.
8–17551.
Mr. Lee looks forward to the time when some millionaire will conduct a
factory that “will rank with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad, and
the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah.” He believes that the question of
human labor is one that belongs to the arts and humanities, and not
merely to the sciences; that the factory, if enough soul is poured in,
should be as spiritual as a church and as educational as a school.
“His fresh way of putting some old facts and truths is not unlike the
wholesome freshet that leaves behind it a fertilizing deposit.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“These essays are as light as gossamer in substance, and their
intellectual quality will not appeal to the common mind at all. The
spirit of the book is wholesome, the manner is pleasing, it is surely
harmless, and it may have more than an aesthetic influence.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
“The author puts much that has been said on social problems into a
breezy and original form which holds attention through all the
amplification and reiterations of his central idea.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is not a safe book for beginners.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“The ingenuity she displays in demonstrating her thesis is equaled
only by her success in draining the plays of red blood and humanly
vital signification.” Archibald Henderson.
− =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 360w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 209. S. ’08. 40w.
“Will be of value to many readers, especially elementary Ibsenites,
not because it tells what the symbols are and mean, but because it
tells how to track them.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 922. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, Mrs. Lee’s little treatise strikes one more as a series
of somewhat iterative talks, loosely strung together and considerably
too dilute for grown folks. Her ideals are sound and helpful for
earnest young people desirous of writing papers on Ibsen.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 670w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Limbo and other essays; with a
new drama, Ariadne in Mantua. *$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of Limbo and other essays which also includes the new
drama Ariadne in Mantua. “This is a little play in which the forces of
Tradition, Discipline, and Civilization ‘triumph over the mere forces
of =Nature.=’ It is a closet drama, and the action is improbable;
nevertheless it rises to a moving, even pathetic climax.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ seems to us an exceptionally charming closet
drama.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 82. Ag. 16, ’08. 860w.
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 70w.
“It is not always apparent what Miss Paget is talking about, and she
is frequently guilty of rhetorical indiscretions which mar an
otherwise pleasant style, but her essays contain much agreeable
suggestion of an aesthetic nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ is treated, we need hardly say, with ‘Vernon
Lee’s’ own peculiar distinction, and both in refined thought and
beautiful prose the drama is worthy of her.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 869. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Sentimental traveller: notes
on places. *$1.50. Lane.
8–3114.
Vernon Lee takes her readers into Italy, Germany, Switzerland and
France and thru her impressionistic word-painting helps them to catch
and retain “portraits set in frames of their own familiar scenery.”
“Many interesting and important personages are mentioned or met with,
and anecdotes are told of most of them. Churches and castles and
peasant abodes are entered and admired, and works of art receive words
of commendation or disapproval.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The descriptions are still admirably done; but there is a surfeit of
them. The reflections are still those of a highly cultivated mind, but
nothing new or moving.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
“It is all the work of a woman of wide and easy culture, possessing a
pleasing fancy and no imagination. The book is obvious, but kindly,
for all its condescension, a condescension none the less marked that
it is probably unconscious.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“The charm of her writing lies in its lightness of touch, a quality
particularly evident in her slight but sure comment upon now this, now
that place, as a butterfly might go from flower to flower.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“‘Vernon Lee’ has written many delightful things, but nothing perhaps
more keenly suggestive and charmingly convincing than the first
chapter of her new book. Full of human as well as artistic interest.
No one will question their originality and charm.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 550w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Studies of the eighteenth
century in Italy; new ed. *$6. McClurg.
A new edition for whose unchanged text the author offers some
apologies, yet refuses “to lay indifferent hands, and even skeptical
eyes upon it.” It was written out of the fulness of youthful fancies,
and is permitted to remain the log-book of the author’s exploration,
the inventory of her enchanted garret. A new thirty-five page preface
“expounds and glorifies” the phase of her study dealing with music.
See Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 250w.
“The illustrations are excellent and contribute their share to the
vividness that is perhaps the salient characteristic of the work.” F.
B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 401. D. 1, ’08. 2500w.
“Correctness, orthodoxy, can be had for the asking at any academic
counter; Miss Paget deals in something better.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 600w.
=Lees, Dorothy Nevile.= Tuscan feasts and Tuscan friends. *$1.75.
Dodd.
8–18700.
The author’s experiences while living as governess in Florentine
families who spent their summers among the hills of Tuscany have
furnished the material for this description of life in and about a
villa. “She draws a delightful picture of certain Tuscan children....
Among the particularly good chapters are those giving an account of a
Tuscan fair, of the funeral of a contadina’s baby, of the exquisite
Tuscan irises and the preparation of the orris-root perfume.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Two defects in the book are excessive sentimentality and the literal
translation of Italian remarks.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“Without any appreciable gift for writing, the author is yet able to
bring before us the well-known scenes she describes just because she
has felt their beauty and loved them.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 200w.
“The book has two irritating blemishes. Miss Lees is so stirred by
Italy’s fatal gift of beauty that she pauses continually to
soliloquize in platitudes with exuberant sentimentality. The other
defect is her habit of translating the remarks of her Italian
acquaintances literally from the Italian idiom and in the Italian
order, and by this libellous method making the most graceful appear
the most imbecile of tongues.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is richness of legend, story, and customs in [this book].”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The style becomes rather commonplace and monotonous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“An agreeable book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 100w.
“These bright vivacious sketches of hers call for no review, only for
commendation. They are instinct with the true everyday life of
Tuscany. The writer has a quick ear, a quick eye, the faculty of
appreciation, the gift of enthusiasm and a very agreeable humour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Little dinners with the Sphinx, and other
prose fancies. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–36411.
Mr. Le Gallienne resumes his conversation with the lady of the opals,
bridging a separation of four years since the last “little dinners.”
In addition to the title story there are other prose fancies as
follows: The death of the poet; The butterfly of dreams; My castle in
Spain; Once-upon-a-time; The little joys of Margaret; What’s in a
name; Revisiting the glimpses of the moon; Eva, the woodland and I;
and The dream documents.
* * * * *
“Mr. Le Gallienne’s hand has not lost its dexterity as long as he can
fashion tales like these, and if his gift of philandering has a little
failed it may be replaced by a more masculine and robust genius, and
both he and his readers may be the richer.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
“These stories, in fact, with their exquisite images and lovely
language, are like those creations of Norse mythology that appeared
beautiful women when they faced you, but should they turn their backs,
proved to be no other than empty shells. To be sure, if one kept the
right point of view they were fair to look upon—and that is something
to be thankful for.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 259. D. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Omar repentant. *75c. Kennerley.
A temperance sermon embodied in a poem. It serves as a warning to
youth losing itself on “the vine-trellised path to hell.” It is an
antidote to the Rubaiyat in setting forth the subtle harmfulness of
the vine instead of its glory.
* * * * *
“No matter the duration of the author’s mood, it is good sense and not
bad poetry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book in a different vein from the author’s other volumes,
perhaps, yet it possesses the distinct flavor of his art, and could
not have come from another’s hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors.
*$3. Neale.
7–25045.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Haiti, at last, has a champion who is entitled to be heard; for he
speaks from fullness of knowledge, and from a position of political
eminence sends forth no uncertain sound.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 450w.
“This book deserves to be widely read.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Pilgrim jester; a poem. **$1.25. Lane.
A poem whose subject is “contemporary society, the fermenting must of
modern circumstance.” “‘The pilgrim jester,’ a symbolic blend of
Socrates and ‘The beloved vagabond,’ walks through modernity wisely
smiling, contemplating all forms of creeds. To the sandspinning
multitude, the blind mouths of Law, Church and State, to the
philosopher, the demimondaine, the poet, the frustrate woman, the
laborer, he holds up in turn amid appropriate surroundings the mirror
of a gently sympathetic scepticism.... He shadows forth a philosophy
not unlike the clearer teachings of Stevenson, of Browning, of
Whitman: that living is worth life, and only fear is evil.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“Though his indictment of established modes of thought is not free
from little touches of self complacency ... and his philosophy, in one
of its aspects at least, recalls the unassailable optimism of Dr.
Pangloss, the book shows much observation and humour, and its
technique is admirable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 796. D. 21. 120w.
“For all its casual beauties his book remains a breathless body, his
idea a disincarnate ghost; great in conception, perhaps—but
unexpressed for want of artistry in the expression.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 525. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The characters, including the jester, would have lived more intensely
had the author been less hobby-haunted than he is. But there is
vivacity in it all which proves the thought sincere, and gives it a
value in spite of its being unoriginal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 650w.
“Mr. Arthur Legge is that rare thing among modern writers, a satirist
who is also a poet. His ‘Pilgrim jester’ has passages which are not
unworthy of the author of ‘Don Juan.’ Great skill in versification, a
keen sense of the ironies of life, and something of prophetic wrath
are joined with a delicacy of imagination and a capacity for sustained
melodious flights which make his little book worthy of note by all
lovers of good literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: sup. 119. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Leith, W. Compton.= Apologia diffidentis. *$2.50. Lane.
8–16412.
A pathological study of the disease of shyness written in an
autobiographical strain that carries conviction.
* * * * *
“The matter of the book, unfortunately, is not sufficient to carry all
its superstructure. There are passages of pathos, and here and there a
touch of insight; but on the whole the writer has scarcely enough to
say to justify the decorated way in which he says it.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 282. Mr. 7. 1550w.
“Distinguished on every page for beauty of style. The shy fraternity
will need no word of ours to lead them to this book. But we hope that
what has been said here will turn the lover of literature to the
volume also, knowing as we do that it holds for him a pleasure not
often vouchsafed in these days of universal scribbling.” J: J. Holden.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 101. F. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The style is so carefully elaborated, at times so precious, that it
suggests insincerity. Perhaps the book, if taken in small doses, would
seem a thing of firmer texture.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“This is a study in style as well as a study of shyness. It is a very
flower of culture. One hardly finds anywhere in English prose a
happier faculty of sympathetic description of nature, that nature
which the solitary finds his refuge from man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“The book has high literary merit; the style is full of melody and
colour, and the rich dreamy sentences rise into the air like wreaths
of fragrant incense-smoke.” A. C. Benson.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 368. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Leland, John.= Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years
1535–1543. ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 2v. ea. $4. Macmillan.
7–25493.
=v. 1.= Contains pts. 1 and 2. It “comprises the antiquary’s journeys
through twenty-three counties. Some of these are touched upon but
slightly. The western counties, however, of Somerset, Dorset, Devon,
and Cornwall are dealt with at considerable length.” (Ath.)
=v. 2.= Contains pts. 3 and 4, and an appendix consisting of the
detached part of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’ found in Cheltenham. “Notes,
chiefly concerned with men and lands, culled from rolls and pedigrees
or set down by Leland from hearsay, go to make up part 4; Part 5 is
narrative ‘Itinerary,’ but, the original being lost, Miss Toulmin
Smith has been obliged to rely here on Stow checked by Burton.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“Forms an indispensable book of reference to those interested in the
history and antiquities of the west of England. Deserves a place in
every well-furnished library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the editorial part of the work we have nothing but praise. The
notes are few, but to the point.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 540. My. 2. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The text of these two excellently printed volumes seems to be above
reproach, and all students of English history will be grateful to Miss
Toulmin Smith for the immense care she has devoted to the preparation
of it. It would be a great pity if Miss Toulmin Smith’s excellent work
were to suffer from the want of an adequate index.” A. G. Little.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 569. Jl. ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“We congratulate Miss Toulmin Smith upon the manner in which she has
edited this valuable work, which is admirably printed, with a
satisfactory index.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 246. Ag. 9, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His ‘Itinerary’ will always stand as a work indispensable to the
student of English topography and life of the sixteenth century. Its
value is chiefly for the scholar and the local antiquarian.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 980w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 175. Ag. 10, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing is well done, and though a proper name has here and there
been allowed to escape, the index is satisfactory.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 638. My. 16, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =Leland, Walter S.= Boiler accessories: a complete and authoritative
treatise on the various accessories of the boiler room and engine room
essential to economical operation, together with practical instruction
in their use. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30357.
A handbook prepared for self-instruction and home study. Its three
divisions are: Special constructions and mechanical aids, Control and
supply devices, and Boiler troubles and tests. “The subjects embrace
settings for boilers, types of furnace construction, forced and
induced draft, steam and water gauges, safety valves, feed and
blow-off apparatus and piping, including fittings and insulation.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“One usually expects something more pretentious, however, when the
words ‘complete and authoritative treatise’ are employed.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 180w.
“The book seems to well serve its purpose of a not-too-technical
manual of boiler appurtenances.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 190w.
=Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Jeanne Mairet,
Madame Charles Bigot. **$2.50. McClure.
7–39534.
M. Lemaître holds the view of the majority of critics “that Rousseau,
in the last analysis, was a madman, rendered insane by the cumulative
effect of prolonged disease and real and imaginary persecution; that
his ‘pathology’ was the foremost factor in determining his career and
ideas; and that it is impossible to acquit him of gross and
unpardonable inconsistencies between his theories and his manner of
life.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Has faithfully presented all facts which are necessary for a complete
picture of the man’s character and mind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
“They are written in a free-and-easy style, and are rather familiar
talks than formal addresses.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 240w.
“Interesting and very readable volume. Not a little of the decided
charm of the book lies in the fact that the author reveals himself
quite as much as he does his subject. The fatal defect of his argument
is his neglect of—or shall we say unfamiliarity with?—the progress of
thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 57. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“A rather awkward translation. In the light of the Macdonald
documents, M. Lemaitre would seem to be an unduly harsh commentator;
and, granting their invalidity, he still is certainly most
unsympathetic. It is unquestionably most readable and most
stimulating. It possesses many passages of high analytical value.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 320w.
“Well worth reproduction in English. On the whole they have been
adequately translated.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
“Treats the generally odious details of his countryman’s life with
more philosophical indulgence, dwelling more insistently on that
strain of madness which is the kindest explanation of some of
Rousseau’s extraordinary actions.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Lenk, Dr. Heinrich von.= Marie Antoinette’s youth; tr. from the
German of Dr. Heinrich von Lenk by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for
young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23568.
A story from childhood to the perilous days of the Reign of terror
gives a clear insight into the unfortunate queen’s character and the
circumstances which led up to her death.
=Lenôtre, Gosselin.= Daughter of Louis XVI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte
de France, duchess d’Angoulême. *$4. Lane.
8–33929.
The story of the daughter of Louis XVI, her tragic separation from her
father, mother, brother, and aunt who were sent to the guillotine, her
release and her exchange on the Swiss frontier for Austrian prisoners,
and her residence in Austria and marriage to the Duc d’Angoulême.
* * * * *
“M. Lenôtre’s latest revolutionary study, though not perhaps so
interesting as some of those that precede it, is marked by the same
excellent qualities of exhaustive research, calm judgment, and lucid
narrative. Mr. May’s translation has merit; but ‘sapiential work’ (p.
313) is scarcely happy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 1150w.
“Enough new material has been included to make the work interesting,
even to those who are already tolerably familiar with the general
facts of Marie Thérèse’s career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 980w.
“Those who are fascinated—may we not say as Shakespeare was?—with the
tragedies of royal houses are under obligation to M. Lenôtre, the
writer, and Mr. J. Lewis May, his translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 545. O. 10, ’08. 450w.
=Lenz, Max.= Napoleon: a biographical study; tr. from the German by
Frederic Whyte, il. *$4. Putnam.
8–3126.
A biography which aims to interpret phases of Napoleon’s character
rather than to present an exhaustive history of the man or his times.
Emphasis is placed upon the development of his mind, his literary
attempts, his dreams and early ideals, his philosophy that man exists
for the state, and the character of Napoleon as he reveals himself in
documentary material.
* * * * *
“Details are not the matters in which Professor Lenz was interested.
His eye is ever on the Titanic struggles of Napoleon’s genius amid the
maelstrom of historic forces. The translation is of uncertain merit.”
G. S. F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 868. Jl. ’08. 950w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08. ✠
“The fact is that Dr. Lenz has narrated in too great detail the early
part of his story.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 40. Jl. 11. 580w.
“Although it is not free from errors that one does not look for in the
writings of a distinguished Berlin professor, it delights the reader
from time to time by its felicitous summaries of complex situations.
The attitude of sympathetic observer, which Dr. Lenz assumes, often
results also in well-balanced interpretations of Napoleon’s motives
and plans, impossible to those who are always hunting for evidences of
Satanic intrigue.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One must on the whole conclude that, although the book is not
entirely without interest on the side of the character of Napoleon the
non-combatant, it was hardly worth the honor of translation.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A comprehensive study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The translation is rather indifferently executed by Mr. Frederick
Whyte. There are many ‘lives’ of Napoleon far more informing than this
latest one—Rose’s, Fournier’s, Sloane’s, to mention a few of the best.
Moreover, the value of Dr. Lenz’s work for the student is much
diminished by the absence of bibliography or references.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 500w.
“We do not recall any biographer of Napoleon who has recognized more
clearly the psychological change wrought in his character by the
process of events than has Max Lenz in this biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 530w.
“From the trail of the serpent of Anglophobia this volume is certainly
not free.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 642. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Le Queux, William.= Lady in the car. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of magazine stories. “This volume recounts a series of
episodes in the career of a person known as ‘the Prince’—a species of
Raffles on an international scale. Both in England and abroad he
masquerades as the Kaiser’s cousin with striking impunity, and,
fortified by a bewildering array of magnificent motor-cars, effects
divers sensational swindles and robberies, contriving incidentally to
deceive many confiding females in an apparently heartless manner,
despite the author’s tribute to him as one who ‘has never, to my
knowledge, played an honest woman a scurvy trick.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The first chapter shows some sense of comedy, but those which follow
are on conventional lines, and can hardly be considered up to the
standard of average sensational fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 160w.
“Most of the stories are tiresome, and none of them are convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Le Queux, William.= Pauper of Park lane; a mystery of east and
west. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8090.
A tale of mystery which centers about a Jewish financier’s methods of
trapping a murderer—a secret agent in the employ of the Servian
government.
* * * * *
“The threads of the narrative are many; and as some seem taken up only
to be dropped, we are soon reduced to a fitting state of
bewilderment.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 283. Mr. 7. 130w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Mystery of the yellow room: extraordinary
adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–19097.
“Here is a room with all its windows barred on the inside, no chimney,
no openings of any kind but one door, which is locked on the inside by
a young woman, whose father is in the next room and close to the
outside of the door, a servant with him. Suddenly from inside the
yellow room come shrieks and shots. When the door is broken down the
daughter is found wounded on the floor, the furniture thrown about,
and absolutely no one else is there. The girl could not and did not
make all the wounds on her. Query, who did it?”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“‘The mystery of the yellow room’ has all but one thing. It fails to
carry entire conviction.” Beverly Stark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 603. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“The interest lasts to the end of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“For sheer originality and ingenuity we reckon this the best detective
story published for some time.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“The publishers advertise it as suited to reading on a railway
journey. It is a correct appreciation, and places the book accurately
as a literary effort.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is elaborately worked out, and few can guess the answer
before the author chooses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 150w.
=Lescarbot, Marc.= History of New France; with an English
translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant, and an introd.
by H. P. Biggar. 3v. v. 1. Champlain society, Toronto.
A reprint of Lascarbot’s “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published
in 1609. “An introduction, by Mr. Biggar, gives briefly and clearly
the little that is known of Lescarbot’s life, of his personal
connection with New France and of the motif of his book. Then the
translator of the book, Mr. Grant, describes the method and the aim of
the translation, the various accessory materials and some further
details of consequence.... There follows the translation of the first
two books, made from the edition of 1618, immediately after which is
an exact reprint, in smaller type, of the corresponding French
original.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It seems ungracious to note flaws in a work so good, and indeed they
are few. We miss a bibliographical account of Lescarbot’s book, though
we naturally expect it, and the notes, especially upon Lescarbot’s
sources, are at times unsatisfyingly brief. And the system of
connecting the pagination of translation and French is not the most
convenient.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 602. Ap. ’08. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It must not be forgotten, however, that Lescarbot’s history possesses
an importance of its own as literature, and that in this respect it
has no rival in the early books of New France. Mr. Grant’s translation
as a whole is admirable, and worthy of a place beside Otis’s
‘Champlain’ and Shea’s ‘Charlevoix.’ The text, however, offers
opportunities for many more useful notes than Mr. Grant has seen fit
to give, and Mr. Biggar’s introduction might have been considerably
enlarged.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lesdain, Count de.= From Pekin to Sikkim, through the Ordos, the
Gobi desert, and Tibet; with a preface by John Murray; with maps
and illustrations. *$4. Dutton.
W8–118.
A remarkable wedding journey made by Count de Lesdain and his nineteen
year old bride, from Pekin across Northern China, the Ordos and the
Gobi desert, then south over the highlands of Tibet into India. It was
undertaken to gratify a wish to cross country hitherto unknown, and to
increase the geographical knowledge of the day.
* * * * *
“The interesting portion of his book seems to us to be that relating
to the fairly well-known Chinese province of Kansuh.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1200w.
“The narrative lacks color and action, and even the real geographical
contributions are not clearly set forth.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 180w.
“It gives a vivid picture of life and conditions in little known parts
of the empire.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“The blessed sense of humor was not absent, and the book is brightened
by many pages of reflected experience, which must have served to ease
the days and weeks of hardship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 320w.
“Adds a new chapter to geographical information.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 958. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Letters= from a workingman, by an American mechanic. **$1. Revell.
8–28322.
“Familiar talks in the most unconventional and occasionally even
slangy diction, directed to workingmen at large by a man who had
actually been a mechanic and worked side by side with the men whom he
was addressing.... Such titles as “Human nature in the shop,” “Spies
in the shop,” “Exploiting the working class,” “Tenement-house
neighbors,” “Settling the strike,” “Labor and the saloon,” and “The
workingman and the church,” give a fair idea of the field covered by
this book.”
* * * * *
“The writer is a man of intelligence who takes pride in his work and
has a sturdy independence of character. His point of view is always
interesting and instructive, although his comments on men and things
and conditions may not be always of much value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the views put forth
in this book to appreciate its earnestness and its sympathy with the
worker and the unemployed, and especially with the worker who belongs
to the skilled class, and whose intelligence is lively and active,
though not infrequently misdirected.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Lewes, Vivian Byam.= Liquid and gaseous fuels, and the part they
play in modern power production. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van
Nostrand.
8–13632.
“Treats the subject of liquid and gaseous fuels from a popular but
comprehensive point of view, and it is not intended to take the place
of the standard treatises on the several branches of the
subject.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 280w.
“The author is a master of his subject, writes in a clear and often
interesting style, and he has made a useful book which is worthy of a
place in any engineer’s library.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 432. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“There is one point which Prof. Lewes appears to have overlooked. He
considers that the alcohol will be either manufactured from potato
starch or saw-dust.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 98. D. 5, ’07. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= An American patrician; or,
The story of Aaron Burr. **$2. Appleton.
8–5600.
A biography of Aaron Burr which in the form of fiction includes also a
group of contemporaries. “Adopting the view that Burr’s scheme of
western conquest involved no traitorous designs, Mr. Lewis contrives
to arouse a good deal of sympathy for his hero.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is an ultra-lively galloping picture of the times. No modern
newsboy could call the day’s news on the highways with more disregard
of classic forms. That there is a vividness which puts the wars,
factions, and policies of the day in gay colors before us is not to be
gainsaid. The truth of the colors may well be questioned. As to the
method of putting on colors there can be no question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“Apart altogether from the truth or falsity of his portrait of Burr,
he draws a grossly distorted picture of the times and of the historic
personages with whom Burr had to do. For this reason Mr. Lewis’s
latest adventure in ‘fictional’ biography is far more deserving of
censure than of praise.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 882. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= Wolfville folks. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16469.
The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman,
who is the narrator of the “doings” of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts,
“the genteelest sharp, an’ the best eddicated, that ever dwells in
Arizona”; to Sam Enright, “the soul of fairness”; to Cherokee Hall,
“predestined kyard-sharp”; and other frequenters of the Red Light.
This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the
landlady’s husband, her willingness to install a successor and the
alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins.
* * * * *
“Rollicking sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“We like these gentlemen of imaginative, figurative speech, and
welcome ‘Wolfville folks.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Taking dialect and story together, the book more nearly than any
other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward
first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering
American humor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their
purely imaginary dialect were true to life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Genesis of Hamlet. **$1.25. Holt.
7–39507.
A discussion which brings into composite view the theories of
Coleridge and Werder in explaining the Hamlet of Belleforest, Kyd, and
Shakespeare. The author in his summary says: “Coleridge finds that
Hamlet’s delays are due to internal difficulties, for which he is to
blame. Werder finds that they are due to external difficulties for
which he is not to blame.... We will say with Coleridge that Hamlet’s
difficulties are internal, and with Werder that he is not to blame for
them; but we must add, in disagreement with both disputants that these
difficulties are not the causes of the delay. The causes of the delay
are those external difficulties which have vanished into the fourth
dimension.”
* * * * *
“An eminently sane and readable essay toward a rational appreciation
of Shakespeare.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
“The method employed in this book is suggestive of the process of
qualitative analysis in the chemical laboratory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 730w.
“The book has none of the dulness which so often characterizes the
discussion of pedantic problems and is as interesting to the layman as
to the Shakespearian scholar.” S. R. Cook.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=Lewis, George Randall.= Stannaries: a study of the English
tin-miner; awarded the David A. Wells prize for the year 1906–07,
and published from the income of the David A. Wells fund. (Harvard
economic studies, v. 3.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–5604.
“The tin mines of Britain appear at the very dawn of our historic
knowledge of the island as its special attractiveness to foreign
traders; accompany its whole story as an influential and picturesque
element; and are still today an essential part of the life of the
southwestern counties, and a factor in the national policy. Moreover
the tin mines and the tin miners have always stood in a peculiar and
far from easily understood position; in a certain sense monopolized
and exploited by the crown; in another sense privileged and favored
beyond other interests and other classes of inhabitants. It is this
interesting and obscure history that Mr. Lewis has elucidated in the
present volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“In this book, historians have at their service, for the first time, a
clear, adequate and interesting explanation of what has formerly been
a poorly comprehended institution, and the narrative of a previously
unwritten chapter of English history.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 841. Jl. ’08. 850w.
“Very scholarly study.” R. V. Phelan.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 400w.
“For some topics, Dr. Lewis has not given sufficient definitions,
assuming a knowledge of the terminology on the part of the reader. But
this is due to his own intimate knowledge of the whole subject, which
is apparent throughout the work.” D. C. Munro.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 120. Je. ’08. 640w.
“A piece of sterling work. It is true that the book lacks distinction
of other than a workmanlike order. His conception of his task is
scholarly rather than scientific; and while he sets forth minute
details upon certain matters of minor import, he does not make clear
what manner of man the Cornish tinner has been and is to-day, and how
he has developed into his present estate.” W. C. Mitchell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 387. Je. ’08. 800w.
“His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tinmining
counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of
England—in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole
must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of
reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for
its inclusiveness.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 220w.
“A subject well worth attention, and he has treated it in a manner
reflecting credit on himself and on the ‘Harvard economic studies.’”
C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 240. Ag. ’08. 430w.
=Lewisohn, Ludwig.= Broken snare. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–28063.
“More than most works of fiction, this is a story of a man and a
woman, to the exclusion of all other personalities; of their love and
its consequences, to the exclusion of all other interests. The woman
is an ardent creature, cramped by the conditions of a peculiarly mean
and sordid existence; the man has the artist’s temperament, and what
he imagines to be deep convictions concerning the futility of the
marriage-bond. The two agree to join their lives without the usual
legal proceedings, and set out for a honeymoon in the South.” (Dial.)
Then come a break, separation, suffering, reconciliation, and reunion
according to the demands of human society.
* * * * *
“This is a strong and well-written study of one phase of the marriage
problem.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 500w.
“It is not a book for the young person to read, but it is one from
which the mature mind can get nothing but good, and one which offers a
singular satisfaction to the artistic perceptions.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It is a novel of rather unusual quality in its serious intent, its
clearness of vision, and its workmanship. The author might sometimes
have developed his story, it is true, with more reticence and equal
power, and so have run less risk of offense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Lidgett, John Scott.= Christian religion: its meaning and proof.
*$2.50. Meth. bk.
7–37982.
“‘An attempt to explain and verify the Christian religion by means of
the fatherly-filial relationship.’... The author divides his work into
three books, of which the first deals with the history and task of the
Christian evidences.... [His second book on Christianity as the
absolute religion] outlines the content of the Christian religion;
for, as he says, we must know what a religion is before we can
vindicate its truth.... The third and last book is entitled The proof
of the Christian religion. The primary argument advanced for the truth
of Christianity is that it is indispensable to the full realization of
the noblest human life, and that its consciousness of filial
relationship to God gives abounding satisfaction and spiritual
power.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The author takes a comprehensive view of his subject, and his main
thesis is consistently, even though somewhat awkwardly, worked out.”
B: L: Hobson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 499. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“The volume clearly evinces the author’s cultured and vigorous mind.
But while it may seem that its arrangement of topics might be recast
with advantage, our time requires a more radical betterment of it—a
clear and consistent distinction between the constant and the variable
elements with which it is concerned, the religion and its associated
theology.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 340w.
=Liebich, Louise (Mrs. Franz Liebich).= Claude-Achille Debussy.
(Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–8847.
A critical and biographical sketch of Debussy which emphasizes the
originality of his genius. The contents are as follows: Hand and soul,
in which his personality is described; Modus operandi; Choral,
orchestral and instrumental works; Songs and piano pieces; Pelleas and
Mélisande; As writer and critic. A chronological list of Debussy’s
works and several portraits makes the undertaking but more complete.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 134. Ag. 1. 280w.
=Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 223. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“We have on many occasions expressed our objection on general grounds
to the issue of biographies of living celebrities, musical or
otherwise, while they are still in mid-career. Subject to this
reservation, we can cordially commend Mrs. Liebich’s genial and
enthusiastic sketch of the most advanced living representative of
French music.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
=Lilley, Alfred Leslie.= Modernism: a record and a review. *$1.75.
Scribner.
8–13710.
Mainly a collection of newspaper and magazine articles on the present
problems of Roman Catholicism. “Although Mr. Lilley has confined
himself in this volume to comment on the Modernist movement in the
Roman Catholic church, and more specifically to the exponents of that
movement in France, he has made it clear that modernism is a movement
affecting the whole of Christendom.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lilley’s opinions—and we are far from
sharing them all—he has done extraordinarily good service in calling
attention to the present condition of thought and feeling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley understands and appreciates the ‘Modernists’ position far
better than anyone else outside their communion.” H. C. Corrance.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley is thoroly acquainted with his subject, and writes
agreeably and kindly.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 70w.
“It is remarkable for the lucidity of its exposition and for its
complete freedom from intellectual and religious frivolousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 376. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Lilley gives us the results of a careful and sympathetic study.
We do not agree with all that he says.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 581. Ap. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Dissolving circle. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–11084.
An impressionistic study of the life among a group of men and women in
the “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The principal
character is a struggling doctor who, tho not a member of the colony,
is working painfully to divorce himself spiritually from a girl who
had given up his love for that of an unregenerate man. The doctor’s
mission becomes that of compelling the unworthy suitor to be true to
the wronged girl.
* * * * *
“Aside from a tendency to indulge in fantastic flights of fancy, the
author on the whole keeps himself commendably in the background.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 270w.
“A want of unity in the plot and the heavy handling of a delicate
theme are the most conspicuous faults.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 190w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Quest eternal. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22346.
The story of a boy’s and later a man’s reserve, struggle and self
denial to see the playmate of his youth and finally the deity of his
dreams become a famous singer.
* * * * *
“A prologue, which, taken by itself, is one of the best things he ever
wrote. Taken as a whole it preaches a sane and wholesome optimism. And
this, in a measure, suggests the technical shortcoming of the
book—namely, that its mood is not sufficiently sustained.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 370w.
“The story has originality, both in conception and development, and
its pages carry something of that significance in which too much of
American fiction is lacking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 578. O. 17, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The situation may be strained at times, but the author never fails to
absorb the reader’s attention and command his respect for the
characters he draws.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Many mansions: being studies in ancient
religions and modern thought. *$3. Benziger.
8–21815.
“As a general introduction we find the sacred books of the East
briefly tabulated under Max Müller’s guidance, but with special
reference for Buddhism to Professor Rhys Davids, for the Avesta to M.
Darmesteter, for the Chinese religious classics to Dr. Legge, and for
the Koran (we prefer this accepted spelling) to H. E. Palmer.... Mr.
Lilly is concerned with metaphysics, not with popular religion ... and
quotation from experts overflows in his pages, which describe the old
Hindu creeds merely in passing, while they are copious on Buddhism and
Islam, and furnish monographs on Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer. The
concluding essay sums up and appraises ‘the newest view of Christ,’ as
set out in Professor Pfleiderer’s work, ‘Die entwickelung des
Christenthums.’”—Acad.
* * * * *
“A learned volume. He employs a somewhat academic, though very
readable style. Mr. Lilly’s authorities in every instance are the
best, and commonly the latest.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 135. N. 16, ’07. 900w.
“In riper quality, and with more mellow sympathy, Mr. Lilly presents
or re-presents in his latest volume a good deal of the material which,
nearly a quarter of a century ago, he published in his ‘Ancient
religion and modern thought.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 300w.
=Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= Cy Whittaker’s place. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27807.
Bayport, in the Cape Cod region, is the scene of this tale of village
doings. Cy Whittaker after years of absence comes back rich to
Bayport, effaces every bit of modern improvement in his old home, and
restores it to the old homely, quaint conditions of his boyhood days.
Cy’s village cronies, the child that walks into his home and heart,
and the school teacher are the principal characters in a tale full of
humor and human kindness.
* * * * *
“Here is a pleasant, homely, simple-minded story that gives the reader
much the same sort of enjoyment he would get from a performance of
‘Shore acres’ or ‘The old homestead.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“On the whole, if you haven’t been down Cape Cod way this summer—or
even if you have—you may do worse than take a trip some quiet evening
to Mr. Lincoln’s Bayport.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Humorous, human, and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 10w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Daniel Boone, backwoodsman. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
8–24465.
A preliminary chapter is devoted to a survey of the country in which
Boone’s life was passed and to a brief statement of the facts of his
early career. The narrative proper begins with Boone’s migration with
a band of forty neighbors to Kentucky, and continues with facts and
some fiction to illustrate the trials and achievements, the disasters
and triumphs of frontier life.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
“Would be commendable as a biography, if it were not partly fiction;
where there is a paucity of authentic data, the author feels compelled
to invent. But Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has a picturesque style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“To cast much of the story into conversational form ... has its
drawbacks, in the uncertainty of the reader who likes to be sure as to
just where fiction ends and fact begins. It all weaves in together to
make a vivid picture of the toils, perils, pleasures, and heroisms
that went into the conquering of the frontier.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
“Interesting historical tale for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Narcissus, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.
8–12552.
The volume “takes its title from the initial poem, which fills
two-thirds of the book’s sixty pages, a narrative in rhymed pentameter
of the life and death of the ill-fated youth. A dozen or more short
poems on varied themes fill out the book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The Greek story is told with grace and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Litchfield’s muse really sings, no matter what the measure, and
there is fire in the love poems, and in the descriptive lines there is
rich and beautiful color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Supreme gift. †$1.50. Little.
8–9529.
The portrayal of a ruined man’s daughter staggering under the burden
of her father’s debts. The scene is Washington, and poor people with
small savings are the ones most involved in the failure. Joan’s
supreme gift is honor which she preserves at the expense of happiness
and finally health. While it is not the custom now-a-days for a
heroine, glorious in her young strength and beauty, to lay down her
life for a cause, it seems the only logical way out of this sea of
difficulties.
* * * * *
“A well-intended book with a wrong-headed thesis.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 350w.
“One searching earnestly for the novel ‘as she is advertised to be,’
must be bitterly disappointed in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If the emotional values had been more carefully considered the result
would have been a novel of some intensity and strength.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Litta, Duke.= Soul of a priest. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–33161.
A polemical story whose attack is made against the Roman Catholic
church. It describes first the influences which induced a young
Italian nobleman to enter the priesthood, and then gives the progress
of his disillusionment, and the rejection of his vows.
* * * * *
“The bitterness of the author’s strictures is of a nature to awaken in
the fair-minded reader a considerable degree of sympathy with the
institution attacked.”
− =Acad.= 73: 953. S. 28, ’07. 80w.
“Occasional statements betray imperfect acquaintance with rules and
customs of the Roman church.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. S. 21. 300w.
“The interest of the story lies in the struggle and awakening of a
soul, not in an indictment of the Roman Catholic church. As it is, the
Duke Litta has succeeded in marring what is otherwise an unusually
forceful book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 305. My. ’08. 350w.
“Less a work of literary art than a pamphlet to promote deplorable and
un-Christian prejudice.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“The bitter and even petulant spirit in which the book is written
detracts from its value as a contribution to anti-clerical literature.
The narrative, however, in spite of some inconsistencies and its lack
of incident, has a certain unity of effect and holds the attention
throughout.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a
simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of
spiritual conflict.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
* =Little, George.= Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an
introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.
The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a
century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell
in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a
strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled
our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Lloyd, Francis Ernest.= Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie
inst.
8–9545.
“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in
two desert plants, _Fouquieria splendens_ and _Verbena ciliata_, made
at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He
addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of
transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence
that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in
the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust
the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to
the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.
=Science=, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.
=Lloyd, John.= Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–15725.
A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their
families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an
eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse
of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries
another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.
* * * * *
“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs
along at full speed.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is
well contrived.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Loane, M.= From their point of view. $2. Longmans.
8–35515.
Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from
first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and
the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s
problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the
daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness
and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the
district worker whether her activities are confined to East End,
London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are
almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less
well founded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.
“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality.
Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the
time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained
by a constant succession of good stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.
“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities
required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the
British people understand what should be their true attitude towards
poverty.”
+ + =Spec.= 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.
=Locke, James.= Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–3426.
“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the
first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn
dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of
strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American
girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead
his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the
story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans,
peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are
grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not
give time to think over improbabilities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold
one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The
stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing
well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Lockwood, George Browning.= New Harmony movement, by G. B.
Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the
preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.
5–16517.
“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had
their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was
the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which
after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen....
It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in
the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and
industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of
Rs.
* * * * *
“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books
together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century
life as has not been done before.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.
“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational
experiment.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.
=Locy, William Albert.= Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.
8–21045.
An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims
to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and
to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives
of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources
of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second
treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.
* * * * *
“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing
single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the
scope and development of the broad science of biology.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably
complete and interesting account of the development of biology
tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the
book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper
names occur with annoying frequency.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of
cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress
can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.
“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing
wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the
important subsidiary sciences.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title,
Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October,
1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the
bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second
with The permanence of personality.
* * * * *
“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name
is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book.
A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable
its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not
expert.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.
=Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No,
only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the
familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
=Lomas, John.= In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
8–26238.
A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It
aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide
and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what
the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at
San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of
the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza,
Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations
add to its value.
* * * * *
“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible,
and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most
writers on Spain seem prone.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.
“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the
antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.
“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark
is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or
glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=London, Jack.= Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–3084.
The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records
events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the
view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the
terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of
capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy
guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that
break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries,
usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its
own—the era of the brotherhood of man.
* * * * *
“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of
his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of
the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we
think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his
thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the
cause of social justice in our days.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced
minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly
tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a
nobler civilization.”
− =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited
to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three
hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has
little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly
unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.
=London, Jack.= The road. **$2. Macmillan.
7–39522.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a
tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and
high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will
help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler
civilization.”
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.
“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or
trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.
− + =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of
sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be
altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill
and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent
that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English
and powers of terse, vivid description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.
=London municipal society.= Case against socialism: a handbook for
speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour.
*$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21561.
“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the
campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact
statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote
references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation
contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and
should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but
to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of
the hour.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are
statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of
either side.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is
written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly
of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows
a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and
religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies
of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from
the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is
one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.
“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell
entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his
desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent
testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the
habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so
graphically.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has
not fallen off.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Longueville, Thomas.= Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of
Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general
Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.
8–10271.
A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn
mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and
enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of
the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid
picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from
Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which
should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the
lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.
“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It
is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and
illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe
as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense.
He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the
seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the
more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character
study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of
worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind
of literature which our young officers should read, and for this
reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a
military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult
period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and
political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out
plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily
confused and vague.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of
undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of
entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of
the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a
prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a
well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience
with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place;
and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of
the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Knack of it: some essays in optimism.
**75c. Revell.
8–23515.
A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self
mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr.
Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together.
Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”
* * * * *
“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often
observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit
the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never
discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a
jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this
vigorous age of ours.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other
tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.
7–29153.
The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story
which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being
hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that
poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced
the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed.
From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the
accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as
humorously conceived follow.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 53. F. ’08.
“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of
unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the
most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive
gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the
book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas.= Queer things about
Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–1464.
“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and
impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital
by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his
house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of
the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play,
‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.
“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of
books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the
well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as
faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an
Occidental can hope to achieve.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to
marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases
of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still
these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects,
cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete
accounts of Persian life ever written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.
“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey,
from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a
fascinating and most instructive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.
=Lorimer, George Horace.= Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
8–16951.
By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The
story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself,
the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive
steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy,
with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern
extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated
grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold,
he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Humorous extravaganza.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.
“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could
happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the
neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment,
when credulity threatens to grow tired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.
“A lively and well-told story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.
“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give
it critical attention.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first,
because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and
secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American
language.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.
=Loughnan, R. A.= New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22496.
A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr.
Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined
impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New
Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His
chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture,
mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of
woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be
read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to
know it.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the
subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical
chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the
absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the
reader absolutely nothing about it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the
characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the
country before the advent of the European.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New
Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the
things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a
humorous touch.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Lounsberry, Alice.= Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–12186.
Information about the making of a garden, about the names, habits, and
seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo
books.” The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style
is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more
practical if it contained less story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 226. Je. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Standard of usage in English.
*$1.50. Harper.
8–12736.
In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of
speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose
edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further
affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good
usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition
grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can
be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers.
Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor
and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent
reading as well as sound doctrine.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general
principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special
instances.” G: P. Krapp.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.
“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind
and some for readers of another.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.
“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of
essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against
‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the
writer has mastered his language.”
− =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.
“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor
on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be
ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of
newspaper usage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as
possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.
“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes
for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language
that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lovell, William H.= Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1.
McGraw.
8–22566.
“While not containing any additional information than the usual
chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying,
the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful
for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made
more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples
and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed
explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.
“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and
its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point
problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding
to the student approaching for the first time this most important
factor of plane-table surveying.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Lovett, James D’Wolf.= Old Boston boys and the games they played.
**$1.50. Little.
“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by
Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day
athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed
themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines,
rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and
otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good
deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those
days.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr.
Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of
mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly
entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so
unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of
boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops.
Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble
marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow
and mud?”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially
the Boston boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Low, A. Maurice.= America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–26412.
A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as
a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation
into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather
as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to
me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are:
The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American
girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and
Social customs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those
which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political
institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In
short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some
effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.
“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding
of conditions and ambitions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.
“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining
subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his
generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous
impression.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= Government of England. 2v. **$4.
Macmillan.
8–16501.
A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy
which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The
most important divisions of the work are The organization and
construction of the government, The working of the political parties
and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government,
Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.
* * * * *
“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason of its comprehensive
plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the
sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed
the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and
municipal institutions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.
“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and
evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important
historical work of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.
“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British
constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes
sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory
views.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.
“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr.
Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.
“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English
character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so
generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it
of the highest permanent value to students of political science the
world over.” E: Porritt.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.
“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can
be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply
repay re-reading.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this
really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and
boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the
scholarly simplicity of its style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to
date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a
fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell
does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of
constitutional rule and procedure.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.
“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof.
Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a
‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a
living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is
simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by
touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy
command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.
“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political
writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and
so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect
the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.
“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight
with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.
“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book
lies in its text-book nature.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.
* =Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place
in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers.
**$1.75. Putnam.
Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The
contents of this book have been developed with reference to two
principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing
corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument.
These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of
issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the
practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general
conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of
payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and
its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with
other important features.” (Preface)
=Lucas, Bernard.= Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of
the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–26838.
A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in
this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests
strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the
gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good
news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from
the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author
proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of
this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression
of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for
theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable
comprehension of difficulties.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.
“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious
experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.
“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in
view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in
well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which
finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C.
MacMillan.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense
of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of
Christianity.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development
is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its
vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was
to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.
“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the
attention and the thanks of theologians.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Anne’s terrible good nature, and other
stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.
A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children.
“Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and
spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of
Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings;
the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of
these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing.
Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children they always
keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative
thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the
description which appeals successfully to children.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.
“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a
subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are
inimitable.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced
by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding
woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her,
understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.
* * * * *
“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of
that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There is no index (a sad fault).”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28632.
“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who
after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a
modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but
fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop
or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five
with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books,
cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added
that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his
son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a
fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the
rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other
a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a
‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with
Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his
opportunities.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere
at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle
humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human
touches.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.
“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it
does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather
than from design.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E.
V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm
and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal
some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully
and entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times
somnolently reminiscent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Lucas, Reginald.= Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.
A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a
strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing
about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved
his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His
patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster,
Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.
“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in
close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events
in English history for the past forty years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to
the heart of the English people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.
“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal
partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his
subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a
discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.
“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of
literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend
might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and
straightforward.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.
=Lucas, St. John W. L.= Oxford book of French verse, XIIth
century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.
8–9513.
Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth
century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the
exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Excellent anthology of French verse.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.
=Lucy, Henry W.= Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50.
Putnam.
Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of
parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume
is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five
prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr.
John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph
Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama
at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A
new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and
Bulls in the Westminster china shop.
* * * * *
“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but
not invariably, kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.
“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal
miscellaneousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that
sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the
game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is
nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most
in earnest.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.
“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this
book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are
assured straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to
Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem.
il. **$1. Revell.
7–38030.
The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and
Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and
marginal decorations in color.
* * * * *
“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents
worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds
lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
− =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.
=Lungo, Isidoro del.= Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann.
**$2.25. Doubleday.
8–2186.
Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that
woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply
presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely
drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and
from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune
with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three
standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical
idealization.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.
“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs
at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated
sympathetically.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather
high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through
translation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn
themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the
dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical
sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written
literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H.
Harris.
− + =Ind.= 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.
=Luther, Martin.= Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by
Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–18069.
“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period
of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week
of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church
dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many
others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life,
both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and
experience.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made
by the present translator should be largely impaired by her
unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as
well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of
its shortcomings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.
“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a
great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully
prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an
expert German scholar.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.
“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work
with an altogether insufficient equipment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.
“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or
of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and
sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them
are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced
by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude
that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English,
simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work
unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.
“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a
most valuable companion-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.
=Lutz, Grace Livingston H.= Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–5229.
Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon
the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate
to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with
a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to
wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials
and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to
understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and
duplicity.
* * * * *
“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in
the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very
hot day and a hammock.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Lynn, Margaret=, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse.
*$1.10. Macmillan.
7–39508.
This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of
eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded
by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service
rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited
with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent
for reference work or supplementary reading.”
+ =School R.= 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard.= Examining
and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.
7–17674.
A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of
seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are
treated.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.
=El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of
agricultural science.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes=, ed. Family chronicle; derived from
notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5.
Dutton.
8–18702.
“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents
English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental
vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner,
unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of
accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary
matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey
served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station
he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.
“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm.
This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic
events.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.
“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and
pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem
to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of
readable items.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
M
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.
8–31020.
“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk
of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those
changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and
sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf
from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a
contemporary event.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Essays that every child should know.
(Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–7181.
Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas
Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these
essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the
kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them
have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of
comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to
those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at
all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most
of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, comp. Stories new and old: typical
American and English tales; selected with introductions by
Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18574.
A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of
presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of
short stories and for the study of leading short story types or
varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson,
Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry
Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and
women.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and
comparing one with another.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate=, eds. Heroines that
every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s
heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c.
Doubleday.
8–5881.
A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines
the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc,
Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame
Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and
Florence Nightingale.
* * * * *
“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in
our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Macaulay, George Campbell.= James Thomson. (English men of letters
ser.) **75c. Macmillan.
8–9515.
More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the
production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the
tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s
contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better
understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate
determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only
in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and
scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned
judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.
“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the
little volume deserves nothing but praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Though we have been compelled to say that Mr. Macaulay does not seem
to have done all that could and should be done with his brief, we are
also compelled to point out that his discussion of Thomson’s poetry
is, on the whole, competent, interesting, and suggestive.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 85. F. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Macaulay belongs to the scholastic school of critics. He is
always careful, laborious and accurate; but he is never very
illuminating, nor very profound.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 421. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Macaulay, Thomas B. M.= Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay; selected
and arranged by Sir George O. Trevelyan. **50c. Longmans.
7–36134.
“It was Macaulay’s habit to write notes upon the margins of books that
he read and especially of the astonishing number of books that he read
again and again. In this little book, Sir George has made an
entertaining discourse out of these notes, quoting many that are not
highly important, to be sure, but also reproducing many sound and
judicious observations. The historical reader will be particularly
interested in the series of comments relating to Cicero, whose
combination of the literary, oratorical and political life made him an
object of especial interest to Macaulay.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 140w.
“Make very pretty reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 786. Je. 27. 780w.
“No one who takes up this volume can fail to carry away from it
something of his industry, his honesty, his noble and lifelong
devotion to the great literature of the world.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 332. N. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“The habit is generally to be discouraged, but Macaulay has certainly
fallen into safe and very competent hands.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 743. N. 16, ’07. 830w.
* =McBeth, Kate C.= Nez Perces Indians since Lewis and Clark. **$1.50.
Revell.
8–12811.
“Barring some historical matter, this is a sketch of the life and work
of the author and her sister among these Indians for a period of a
quarter of a century, and a general account of missionary activities.
It contains practically nothing relative to the life of the Indians,
but really tells what the white man has done for them, particularly in
matters religious, and portrays the development of churches.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“While the scope of the book is not wide, the history is worth
preservation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 626. N. ’08. 80w.
“Her intimate knowledge of the customs and folklore will make her work
of value to all students of the Indian race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Short history of our own times: from the
accession of Queen Victoria to the accession of King Edward VII.;
a new ed., rev. and enl. **$1.50. Harper.
8–5814.
A new edition which extends the story to the beginning of King
Edward’s reign, and even beyond his accession in cases where issues,
opened in Victoria’s reign, came to a close in the first years of her
successor’s rule.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 121. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The best single volume history of modern England to be had.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“It is late in the day to say how entertainingly this history is
written; it is never too late to protest against the printing of such
a volume without maps or chronological tables.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“The rather small type and the narrow margins which have been
necessary in order to bring the entire book into the compass of one
volume do not add to its comeliness and for some readers may lessen
its usefulness.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 146. Mr. 14, ’08. 130w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Duke’s motto. †$1.50. Harper.
8–23545.
A stirring tale of love and intrigue set in the times of Louis XIII.
In the background are plenty of rascals ready with trained swords to
aid the villain in ridding his path of the Duke de Nevers, the one man
who stands in way of winning wife, rank and fortune. Henri de
Lagardere, the best swordsman of Europe, plunges into the game of
avenging the duke’s death. During twenty years he lays his plans and
brings them to a dramatic climax when the villain’s lifetime of
treachery is exposed and punished.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“The author does his part so ardently and zealously that the reader is
carried from episode to episode on a tide of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“It is patent ... that this ‘melodrama’ ... has been very hastily and
carelessly constructed.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 110w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Seraphica. †$1.50. Harper.
8–4440.
An adventure romance of the time of Louis XV., when a regent was ruler
of France. An alliance arranged to bring harmony to two rival duchies
could not be consummated because of the wilfulness of a little duchess
and the obstinacy of a young prince, whose heart had already been
given to a court favorite. When the little duchess learns that the
prince has refused even to look at her photograph and has fled to
Paris, she decides to follow him, win his affections, and then avenge
herself by spurning his love. The duchess escapes from home in male
attire which she soon discards. In the role of a tavern maid, who
aspires to be an actress, she makes friends with the prince,
extricates him from many difficult situations and has a golden
opportunity to take full and sweet revenge—but she doesn’t.
* * * * *
“Essentially stagy. Brisk and light of foot, careless and gay.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 170w.
“Mr. McCarthy makes, all things considered, the most of his
opportunities offered by a plot so inherently improbable.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is a gay little butterfly romance floating above the tangled
ambitions and the graver policies of the times.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 230w.
“An animated and effectively costumed story, ripe for a fall from the
bookshelf to the footlights.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“A thoroughly delightful tale. The book possesses far more coherence,
authority, and literary quality than the author has previously shown
himself capable of—more, in fact, than are usually apparent in our
current fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“An entertaining and ingenious plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not one which we would recommend ‘virginibus puerisque,’
but it is all through on the right side.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 140w.
=MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school.
*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A book designed for teachers’ use, but somewhat lacking in those
qualities that would make it of highest value—directness, definiteness
and capability of being translated into every-day use in the classroom.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“The chapters on the folk tale and the fairy story and on myth as
literature are especially good.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well
balanced, so scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely
adequate to the task proposed, that it ought to become a gospel.
Teachers ought to buy it as they buy dictionaries—and read it better.”
E. H. Lewis.
+ + =El. School T.= 8: 347. F. ’08. 780w.
=McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia.= Sowing seeds in Danny. †$1.
Doubleday.
8–9810.
A frontier Manitoba town furnishes the background for this tale in
which a delightful little Irish girl and her brother Danny teach
lessons of child wisdom and helpfulness.
* * * * *
“The style is very poor, the plot slight and far from original, but
there is much of the same kind of homely humor and sentiment that made
‘Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch’ unique and popular.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“There is an atmosphere of kind thinking about the loosely constructed
narrative which gives an otherwise unpretentious tale a sufficient
reason for existence.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 604. Ag. ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The humor and sentiment which the members of [a very interesting
Irish] family exhibit in their homely lives are what make the book
worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
“A wholesome, optimistic story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
=McCormick, Frederick.= Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. 2v. *$6.
Outing pub.
8–2962.
A serious, unimpassioned account of the Russo-Japanese struggle,
written by a special representative of the Associated press who went
thru the entire war. Mr. McCormick writes vividly of the principal
battles from the opening shot at Port Arthur to the triumph of the
“Japanese military” at Mukden. He further discusses the peace and
armistice, the Russian, the Japanese and the Chinese in the war, the
elimination of Korea, the rise of Japan, Eastern consolidation and the
elimination of the West, and the position of America.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“There is no other book on the war which combines so many elements of
excellence. The work of Mr. McCormick is a commentary on the values of
civilization as they revealed themselves in a great struggle.” P. S.
Reinsch.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 635. N. ’08. 450w.
“We are glad to possess the volumes for their many merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 450w.
“The value of Mr. McCormick’s work arises wholly from the intimacy
with which the author was acquainted with the conditions, the
personalities, and the events of the war. Mr. McCormick is very far
from being an historian. Yet, despite more or less serious
limitations, a perusal of his volumes is sufficient to give the
assurance that they contain much that is essential to a full knowledge
of the war, and a good deal that one may never be able to lay hold of
elsewhere.” F: A. Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 97. F. 16, ’08. 1700w.
=Ind.= 64: 750. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
“For accuracy and authenticity may rank perhaps with Kinglake’s
‘Crimean war.’ Mr. McCormick is not only a clever writer, but an
artist, and his own sketches are among the most interesting
illustrations of this brilliant work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The narrative is often obscure, ill-connected, largely speculative,
and carries in consequence no large sense of authority.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A more satisfyingly illustrated record of its kind would be hard to
find. The reader who followed the events of the war as closely as he
could from the material then available, will find here a far more
vivid view than he was able to get then.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 1850w.
“A clear and graphic account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 310. Je. 6, ’08. 900w.
“No doubt it is extremely interesting to be able to realise the
American view of affairs in the Far East, yet we cannot but reflect
that it would be far pleasanter to study it in a style less
irritating.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 612. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Reinforced concrete: a manual of practice. $1.
Cement era pub., Chicago.
“This book has been written for the purpose of supplying a working
manual, full of practical hints for men not technically educated and
with as little as possible of theoretical discussion.” (Engin. D.)
“The pages are full of useful hints as to methods, the kinds of tools
to use, the personnel of the force, the conduct of the work, form
design and construction, all quite clearly and correctly stated.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Much of the matter is original, and the work is in no sense a
compilation.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 150w.
“It is frankly a ‘manual of practice,’ and as such it is as complete
as its limited size admits. It is only when it leaves practice to take
up theory that its usefulness diminishes.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Ernest McCullough handles his subject in a sane way that is quite
refreshing. It is exceedingly easy to read and quite up to date in its
statements and warnings. A few lapses are usually to be found in the
best book, and in this case may be mentioned the defining of the
modulus of elasticity as a force, which is perhaps only a little lax.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 448. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Maccunn, John.= Six radical thinkers. *$1.70. Longmans.
W 7–109.
Six expository essays as follows: Bentham and his philosophy of
reform, The utilitarian optimism of J. S. Mill, The commercial
radicalism of Cobden, The anti-democratic radicalism of Carlyle, The
religious radicalism of Mazzini, and The political idealism of T. H.
Green.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 142. My. ’08.
“An interesting volume, subject, however, to the drawback that the
treatment of political philosophy in chapters devoted to and
distinguished by the names of individuals is never thoroughly
satisfactory. The treatment of the lives is pleasant, and any reader,
learned or ignorant, may peruse them with some advantage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 1000w.
“The style is forceful and clear, and the crisp, short sentences
enforce attention from beginning to end. Equally helpful to the reader
is the author’s manner of seizing upon certain sharply contrasted
features in each of the six radical systems, features which, because
antithetical, one would scarcely expect to find side by side in a
single political philosophy. Of the writers treated in this book T. H.
Green is the one with whom Professor Maccunn appears to be most
thoroughly in sympathy.” M. S. MacDonald.
+ + =Philos. R.= 17: 347. My. ’08. 350w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the technical skill with which
Professor Maccunn has used his six Radicals ... as stepping-stones for
traversing a difficult period in political and philosophical thought.
The argument has a perfect continuity. The essay on Cobden we find the
least satisfactory in the book, because it is so ‘judicial’ that it is
in fact rather nebulous.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 575. Ap. 13, ’07. 1600w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Husbands of Edith. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–13724.
Young Medcroft, a London architect, who has arranged with his wife to
visit cousins of hers in Vienna whom he has never seen, finds that it
would be vastly to his advantage to seem to be off on that trip and
yet remain in London to fight a coming bill. So he induces a New York
friend to play the rôle of husband to Edith. The humorous situations
growing out of the substitution reach their climax when the
masquerader falls in love with the wife’s sister and defies the
horrified relatives by openly making love to her. It is an uncommonly
good comedy in plot and execution.
* * * * *
“Mr. McCutcheon has never written a more entertaining tale.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“An unblushing piece of newstand literature which will doubtless
please the audience at which it is aimed.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“Described in the author’s most entertaining manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Man from Brodney’s. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–23920.
A South sea island is the scene of this tale into whose composition
Mr. McCutcheon works his favorite ingredients. Two Englishmen,
smarting from domestic irritation, go to the island of Japat, south of
the Arabian sea, amass a fortune equal to Monte Cristo’s, die and
leave it to two grandchildren who must marry in order to possess it;
otherwise it would go to the islanders. The fact that each heir had
already married complicates the settlement which involves heirs,
lawyers, islanders, and indirectly a beautiful princess with
copper-colored hair. The man from Brodney’s, counselor for the
islanders, is the hero of the all-conquering McCutcheon type.
* * * * *
“Mr. McCutcheon has his usual success in writing an interesting story,
and in making the impossible plausible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Macdonald, Mrs. Frederika.= Iliad of the East: a selection of
legends drawn from the Sanskrit poem, The Ramayana. *$1.50. Lane.
A reprint of a popular version of the mythological tales in which
Valmiki’s The Ramayana abounds. The purpose remains the same as it was
stated in 1870, “to bring home to English readers the proofs of the
resemblance between some special qualities characteristic of the
modern sentimental temper and the sentimental temper which penetrates
old Indian poetry.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Will serve to renew interest in a clever and popular abridgement of
the huge epic Ramayana.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 160w.
“A treat for a new generation. The book does not represent any
scholarly effort to reproduce the original Sanscrit, but is merely a
collection of stories delightfully told through the medium of a French
translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 720w.
“The editor, in her admiration of Buddhism, evinces a radical
misconception of Christianity, derived from its mediæval theology.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 814. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and Curdie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–23533.
A reprint of this child’s favorite with twelve illustrations in colors
by Maria L. Kirk.
* * * * *
“This is another of the books which are never outgrown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=MacDonald, Robert.= Mind, religion and health. **$1.30. Funk.
8–30268.
A discussion of the psychological principles underlying mental and
religious therapeutics; a call to the church to apply these principles
in ministering to those who are afflicted either in mind or body; and
an appreciation of the Emmanuel movement, with an account of the
practical good accomplished.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 140w.
“This is a timely and judicious book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Macdonald, William=, ed. Documentary source book of American
history, 1606–1898. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–23907.
“Gives satisfactory evidence that a wise principle of selection has
been followed in choosing documents to illustrate the history of the
United States from the time of the founding to the close of the
Spanish war. In all, nearly two hundred items are included, comprising
colonial charters, acts of Parliament and Congress, treaties,
resolutions, and executive papers.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The student who has this book as an adjunct to his narrative text may
easily double the efficiency of his work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 268. O. 16, ’08. 80w.
“In the aggregate the collection will meet the need of most students.
We can only regret that the editor has not extended the period of his
compilation, in order to include some of the commoner documents of the
last ten years.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is very little to criticise in Professor Macdonald’s
compilation, barring a conspicuous absence of documents illustrative
of the first steps in territorial expansion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=MacDougal, Daniel Trembly.= Mutations, variations, and
relationships of the oenotheras, by D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail,
and G. H. Shull, pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
7–37035.
A further account of evolutionary studies upon the oenotheras (evening
primroses). Seeds representing the species in cultivation in the
principal botanical gardens of the world have been received in America
and have been sown for cultural investigation. These with a number of
forms native to North America are included in the papers of the
present volume.
* * * * *
=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 61. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“An investigation which for minuteness and exhaustiveness is without
parallel. The part of this memoir which has interested us most is that
which deals with the origin of mutants from strains of Oenotheras
different from that which de Vries found at Hilversum and observed his
classical series of mutations in.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 78: 10. My. 7, ’08. 700w.
=McFadden, Elizabeth Apthorp, and Davis, Lilian E.=, comps. Selected
list of plays for amateurs and students of dramatic expression in
schools and colleges; with an introd. by Ludella L. Peck. *$2.
Miss E. A. McFadden, Box 328, Cincinnati, Ohio.
8–4425.
A wide range of plays is included in the list suitable for all
occasions. There are plays for children, out-of-door plays, Christmas
plays, etc., all systematically arranged for the amateur’s benefit.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“Promoters of school entertainments will be grateful for this
compilation.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 60w.
“The volume will prove serviceable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman.= Infinite affection. *$1. Pilgrim
press.
7–36403.
Here is outlined “the theology of a young man who has hospitably
submitted himself to what is termed ‘modern thought.’” He believes
that “we can no longer confine inspiration to the Bible, the
incarnation to Christ, or religion to a church” and that Christ “is
actually what man is prophetically,” and that man can reach the
perfection of the great Exemplar.
* * * * *
“This work, by one of the most brilliant and deeply thoughtful of the
younger ministers of the Congregational church, merits wide
circulation. It is instinct with lofty spirituality and the living
faith that makes religion most vital to those who thus believe.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 249. F. ’08. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
* =McFee, William.= Letters of an ocean tramp. *$1.50. Cassell.
“Under the thin disguise of letters from a dead friend Mr. McFee
presents us with impressions of life afloat, as seen from the point of
view of third engineer on board a small trading steamer. One is
puzzled at first to understand whether it is fact or fiction; it is
overwhelmingly literary, fastidious (and a little self-conscious) in
style, full of moralization and philosophy, and crammed with allusions
to eminent authors—Ruskin, Pater, Nietzsche, Heine, Boileau,
Beaumarchais, Borrow, Browning, and many others.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“He never forgets himself in his subject, as other sea-writers do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 260w.
“Whatever he sees in persons or things—the romantic, pathetic or the
fascinating—in foreign climes, he describes in virile English, which
is both descriptive and philosophic, and in which the reminiscent and
anecdotal are not absent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=MacGowan, Alice.= Judith of the Cumberlands. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28314.
Here the charm and spirit of life in a primitive mountain settlement
are brought vividly to view. Fires of old feuds yet smoulder; the
illicit still works in secret cover; and the new justice of the peace
finds himself on shifting ground. But light comes to the chaotic
region of the “Turkey Tracks,” when plots and counterplots with their
reign of doubt and pain and misunderstanding give way to the love of a
strong man for the maid of the Cumberlands.
* * * * *
“Her book is simply a rude, unvarnished picture of mountain folk drawn
with a cool literalness which brings into the foreground all their
coarseness, with little of the finer touches of intelligence to soften
it.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book
to be praised.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“There is no shadow of imitation in the author’s work, but it recalls
some of the best early writing of Miss Murfree, and has an especial
freshness of its own.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
=Macgowan, Rev. John.= Sidelights on Chinese life. *$3.75.
Lippincott.
8–3983.
“Dr. Macgowan’s volume professes to give no more than the general
views of the salient points of the Chinese character. In fact, it
consists of a series of essays in which the author descants on the
various phases of Chinese life from the cradle to the grave. He has
much that is interesting to say on these topics, and we derive from a
perusal of his pages an enhanced regard for the Chinese people.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“If we have a fault to find with Mr. Macgowan, it is that he deals too
often in the superlative degree in his paraphrases of facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 820w.
“A series of informing and interesting chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It is an authoritative and illuminating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
“It may be pointed out, not as a criticism but as a caution, that Dr.
Macgowan is writing of the Chinese of the South, who differ in many
material respects from their compatriots of the North. His chapter on
Chinese education is out of date, and it is a pity that so modern a
book should not have given more than a notice of a few lines to the
drastic changes that are taking place in the Chinese educational
world.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 49. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“One cannot read many pages without discovering the mark of the writer
who has firsthand information: and yet Mr. Macgowan detracts from what
might have been a much more illuminating book by careless writing,
which involves him in many seeming contradictions and repetitions, and
by such trite reflections as a satirist once called ‘Glimpses into the
obvious.’”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 151. Ja. 25, ’08. 1850w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Lure of the mask. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–17786.
A lilt from an Italian opera sung by a well-trained voice from out a
blurring New York fog begins for young Hillard, who from his bachelor
quarters hears the siren note, a romance all atingle with adventure.
It ends happily in an Italian villa after the trail of a titled
serpent has been obliterated.
* * * * *
“This novel is pervaded by a morally enervating atmosphere whose
subtlety and insinuating character render it all the more injurious,
and nullify any possible good of the vocal morality that from time to
time confronts the reader.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
* =McIlwaine, Richard.= Memories of three score years and ten. *$3.
Neale.
8–19140.
Nearly four hundred pages of “memories” from out a long useful life as
student, pastor, soldier, chaplain, and college president. The events
of his life are related to the development of Virginia’s political,
religious, and educational interests of the past half century.
* * * * *
“A notable contribution to the biographical literature of the
country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
=M’Intosh, John Geddes.= Industrial alcohol: the production and use
of alcohol for industrial purposes and for use as an illuminant
and as a source of motive power. *$3. Van Nostrand.
Agr 7–2204.
“The first of these books, after describing the properties of grain,
or ethyl, alcohol, and the general principles of fermentation, takes
up the manufacture of alcohol from [its many sources]. A long chapter
is given to the description of the various methods of distillation and
rectification of the alcohol obtained from the above sources. The
concluding chapter gives in more or less detail the uses of grain
alcohol in the arts, the principal part being devoted to its action as
a solvent.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“This book will certainly be of great use in pointing out the
successful processes in use abroad, and will, therefore, serve a
highly important role in the development of American industrial
alcohol.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 530w.
“The book on the whole is well written and is carefully indexed. The
diagrams are numerous and well chosen. The book serves a useful
purpose in bringing together under one head much interesting and
valuable information.” L. P. Kinnicutt.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 424. O. 17, ’07. 210w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= In the dead of night. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–12558.
The thrilling side of night life in New York city is portrayed in this
story of adventure which begins by kidnapping an innocent man, placing
him in another man’s shoes, and requiring him to work his way thru a
maze of mystery.
* * * * *
“Mr. McIntyre has been unusually successful in ravelling up his
mystery, but, as too commonly happens in these stories, the solution
is an anticlimax.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= With fighting Jack Barry. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
7–28972.
John Barry whose name is linked with many a naval achievement before
and during the revolution is the hero-in-general of this exciting
tale. Yet the young reader who is fast upon the heels of adventure
follows Bob Fairly in his struggle to keep possession of a mammoth
ruby presented by the French king to a Fairly for service. Once
stolen, its recovery furnishes as exciting a series of incidents as
ever a Sherlock Holmes attempted to untangle.
=McIntyre, Margaret A.= Cave boy of the age of stone. (Stories of
primitive life for primary grades.) *40c. Appleton.
7–15587.
Here the author has worked into story form the progress made by the
cavemen and moundmen. She tells how primitive people lived, how they
fared, how they fished, how they trapped and killed wild game, and how
they used the margin of time for development.
* * * * *
“An interesting and readable account. For children of the primary
grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss McIntyre must be commended for a happy thought. The story is
sufficiently interesting to attract [children].”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 578. My. 9. 130w.
“The matter is all excellent and her book, In scheme, most
acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Mater: an American study in comedy.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
8–29017.
A satirical comedy in which a mother resorts to what she deems
justifiable deception in aiding her son, opposed to bribery, to win a
political fight. “The play is remarkable for two reasons; first
because satire is applied poignantly to American conditions in the
guise of charming fancy and poetic allegory; second, because it
subjects American life, as portrayed on the stage, to a literary
treatment that adds to Mr. Mackaye’s poetic reputation—a sense of
humor that sinks below situation and touches character.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“After reading the play, we are still doubtful whether its democratic
ideas are quite clear, and whether or not its levity is sufficiently
under control. But the book is an achievement to the decided credit of
Mr. Mackaye.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Mackaye has done a sparkling piece of literary work, but with a
flavor of cynicism which is not altogether agreeable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 344. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
“It is a little too fine, perhaps, for the popular theatre, but will
surely appeal to the reader of taste and intelligence. Its satire is
keen, and the character of ‘Mater’ has unusual charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 559. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Scarecrow; or, The glass of truth: a
tragedy of the ludicrous. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–7173.
Mr. Mackaye, author of “Sappho and Phaon,” uses New England in the
days of witchcraft for a setting of this his first prose drama, and
acknowledges his indebtedness to Hawthorne for inspiration. “It is an
imaginative study of New England temperament, as a local phase of
broader human psychology.” The comic theme has for its underlying idea
“the sense of human sympathy which is, it would seem, a more searching
critic of human frailty than satire.”
* * * * *
“We find the piece to have these three excellent possibilities, of
significance, scenic capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We
think it lacks coherence.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is fairly well constructed, and has enough movement to keep the
reader steadily interested.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“It is a play of vigorous imaginative richness and often of colorful,
felicitous diction. The satire may be readily appreciated but is not
an essential to enjoyment. For the story and the manner of telling are
in themselves highly diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 930w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Master influence. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13277.
A story whose central figure is a girl who, indifferent to her “smart
set” surroundings, gropes for an influence that can lift her above
ennui. Hospital work is more alluring than doctors, men of dreams or
dukes. But one day a young politician, a leader of men, reveals his
power thru love and becomes her “master influence.”
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=McKenzie, Frederick Arthur.= Tragedy of Korea. *$2. Dutton.
8–32329.
An anti-Japanese narrative covering a period of thirty years during
which the history of Korea has been linked with international
developments. The author’s conclusions all emphasize his view that
Japanese rule in Korea has been unnecessarily harsh and cruel.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 840w.
“The statements of fact and the assertions of opinion which Mr.
McKenzie has set down in his little book are abundantly worth giving
to the world.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 289. N. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“Though obviously intended to be fair, scarcely makes as much
allowance for the difficulties of the conqueror as circumstances might
seem to warrant. He is a trained observer, and has a graphic,
picturesque style that gives life and color to the page.” Adolphe
Klauber.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 433. Ag. 8, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
* =Mackinder, Halford John.= The Rhine: its valley and history. *$3.50.
Dodd.
8–24297.
The history and geography of the Rhine valley take precedence in this
informing Rhine book over its natural beauty and romance. “The reader
is given a wonderful bird’s-eye view of that great valley which has
seen so much of the history of Europe. By presenting landscape in
bare, almost mathematical, lines he succeeds in forcing a novel aspect
upon the reader’s mind, much as in another sphere Mr. Hardy in his
‘Dynasts’ presents us with the bones of history, and therefore with a
fresh view of it.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A text which is, in a scholar’s eyes, worthy of its surroundings. The
fault of it is, perhaps, for the general reader, that in dealing with
a subject of such romantic interest, he has clung too closely to
topographical detail. He has not allowed the romance of the great
river to inspire him. In the spelling of names Mr. Mackinder is a
trifle inconsistent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 456. Ap. 11. 1100w.
“The work shows careful study and patient labor, and is good to read
by itself or to use as a supplement (even though a ‘colored
supplement’) to Murray or Baedeker.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
“One of the most beautiful travel books of the year.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“We commend this book as a unique guide to the essentials of both
European geography and history. Without abating one jot of his
scientific purpose, Mr. Mackinder has succeeded in making his
narrative as fascinating as a romance.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 500. Mr. 28, ’08. 1400w.
=M’Laren, R. S.= Mechanical engineering for beginners. *$1.75.
Lippincott.
8–32659.
“In this book the author has endeavored to give in broad outlines the
information it is necessary to possess concerning the ordinary
branches of mechanical engineering, and at the same time to go
sufficiently into detail to enable the beginner to make all the
calculations likely to be required during the earlier stages of his
study.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“For a young man who is thinking of taking up a mechanical engineering
course at a technical school, the book will serve as an admirable
introduction thereto. Young draftsmen and machinists desiring to know
something of mechanical science will have their interest whetted by
reading it, for the calculations included are extremely simple, and
invite, rather than repel a continuance of study.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“If the author had entirely left out his chapter on electrical things
he would have an admirable book, but that one section is grossly
misleading in important and elementary matters. Throughout the book
the student needs to bear in mind that British practice is dealt with
and that American ideas depart from this widely at times.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
=McLaws, (Emily) Lafayette.= The welding. †$1.50. Little.
7–34773.
The south before the war furnishes the background for this story which
follows the career of the ambitious son of a Georgia cracker.
Abolitionists and their opponents figure true to history, and there
appear such notable ones among them as Garrison, Lincoln, Greeley,
Clay, Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, President Buchanan and
Alexander H. Stephens.
* * * * *
“As a novelist Lafayette McLaws has many superiors in American
fiction; that is, many people who can make their characters more vital
and convincing, but we know of no historical romance that presents so
fine or true a picture of life in the South and in the national
capital from forty-nine to sixty-five as is given in ‘The welding.’”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 691. D. ’07. 540w.
“The more personal side of the narrative is constantly interesting,
and we heartily congratulate Miss McLaws on her work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 695. F. ’08. 400w.
“She has the national rather than the sectional consciousness and
hates slavery both from the humanitarian and patriotic standpoint. She
offers really valuable information concerning social conditions in the
South prior to the war.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 270w.
=McMillan, Archibald Harold.= Telephone law: the organization and
operation of telephone companies. *$3. McGraw.
8–22088.
A compact and concise handbook of legal information designed to serve
the practical telephone man rather than the practicing lawyer. All of
the matters pertaining to the organization of telephone companies are
discussed in relation to the laws governing them, including a thoro
examination of the statutes of different states.
* * * * *
“This excellent work will be found of use by others than telephonists
and may be heartily recommended.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 259. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. McMillan’s book gives valuable information for men in a certain
line of enterprise; it is compiled from authoritative sources and put
together in a style that is consecutive, concise and understandable.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 370w.
=Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 50w.
=Macmillan, Rev. Donald.= Life of George Matheson. *$2. Armstrong.
8–9534.
A biography of Scotland’s celebrated blind preacher. “Blind at his
entrance to Glasgow university, but winning its highest honors,
minister to a city parish with nearly two thousand communicants and a
multitude of poor, assiduously visiting them, but never preaching the
same sermon twice, while continually addressing the public through the
press, he was one of the few heroic souls whose energy has wrung
triumph out of seemingly hopeless disaster.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A sympathetic and appreciative biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 950w.
“Is a most stimulating book. While it is full of lessons for every
one, it appeals especially to young men or women who, laboring under
some great physical infirmity, feel that for them an actively useful
life is an impossibility.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 320w.
“The note of eulogy that recurs throughout this record of an
extraordinary career is justified by the facts.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Macmillan has given us a touching record of a great life, which
was singularly fruitful of good in adverse conditions.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Macnaughton, Miss S.= The expensive Miss Du Cane. †$1.50. Dutton.
A novel abounding in types. “The story is one of the slightest, just
the awakening and growth of love between two very likeable young
people at a house party.... Nobody is made to say or do anything for
the purpose of carrying the story along. The talk, of which there is a
great deal, and the action, of which there is very little, all of it
merely makes the reader acquainted with the people, and whatever
happens is the natural development of the characters and the
situations as they react upon one another.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Miss Macnaughton is too clever, has too much of the novelist’s
instinct, not to manage her people with skill, and not to make many
shrewd comments on women and life; but we are forced to admit that she
has not escaped the sin of monotony.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 740w.
“The story is not convulsed by storms of elemental passion—the setting
precludes high tragedy—but it has affecting as well as shining
moments.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 1400w.
* =McNeil, Everett.= Boy forty-niners; or, Across the plains and
mountains to the gold-mines of California in a prairie-schooner. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–27102.
The first of three volumes intended to picture to the eyes of the
younger generation something of the perils and hardships endured
across country in 1849, to the gold field of California. This story
deals with the experiences of two boys who travel down the Ohio river,
up the Mississippi and Missouri and on across the mountains,
encountering the hardships of thousands of emigrants to whom the lure
of gold was irresistible.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 100w.
“Its chief virtue is of the unrefined diamond sort, its atmosphere
suspensive.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Any newsboy would enjoy this narrative, however clumsy the writing.
The book is not to be recommended for children who can get better, but
some librarians may welcome this story as a stepping-stone to higher
things.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Macrosty, Henry William.= Trust movement in British industry.
*$2.50. Longmans.
W7–120.
“In this volume the author shows not only that the combination
movement has made substantial progress in Great Britain, but that it
presents similarities to the movement in protectionist countries at so
many points as to necessitate the conclusion that there are behind it
world causes more fundamental than tariff vagaries. The book is
divided into an introductory chapter, twelve chapters describing
combinations in different industries and a chapter presenting a
‘Survey and conclusions.’ In the introduction a convenient
classification of combinations is suggested which forms the skeleton
for the descriptive chapters which follow.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
* * * * *
“The volume is a bit disappointing because it represents nothing more
than results which might be obtained by an ordinary legislative
commission. The book is hard to read. The paragraphs are long and
tiresome. The style is clumsy. We need thought—but that thought must
be transmitted by means of good English.”
− − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“A comprehensive and fairly detailed narrative. We can only regret
that in his summary and conclusions as to the mass of material
presented the author has not ventured into more detail.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 42. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“An admirable survey.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 181. F. 20, ’08. 500w.
“[The chapters] give every evidence of exhaustive research and
accurate scholarship.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 558. S. ’07. 320w.
“For this scholarly and impartial treatise we have nothing but praise.
Our readers will find in his pages a very full and detailed account of
the most important instances of trust combination in this country.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 263. Ag. 24, ’07. 2220w.
Reviewed by G. H. Montague.
=Yale R.= 17: 109. My. ’08. 750w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker=, comp. Handy book of synonyms. (Handy
information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–22888.
A practical desk guide to words in daily use, giving their definition
and parallel meaning.
=Macvane, Edith.= Duchess of dreams. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–14334.
The story tells how a social climber of Newport reaches an enviable
height of popularity as the prospective hostess of a Romanoff
princess, how at the last moment the princess on account of illness
fails to arrive, and how the undaunted hostess substitutes a girl from
the coast of Maine who had a French mother and a gift for
play-acting—a duchess of dreams.
* * * * *
“In places she is a little unconvincing and her characters lack
personality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 93. Jl. 25. 100w.
“All that one asks in such a coil is pleasing style and sustained
interest and here are both to the reader’s hand.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“People who like this sort of story will be apt to recommend this
literary sweetmeat to their friends as ‘perfectly dandy’ or ‘just
charming.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Macy, John Albert.= Edgar Allan Poe. (Beacon biographies.) **75c.
Small.
8–7372.
Without extenuating or accusing, this sketch seeks to treat the
biographical facts of Poe’s life with fairness to the poet and to give
the reader a right view of the man as seen from modern days and
interests.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“It contains everything that the busy man or woman wants to know about
the author of ‘The raven’ and ‘The bells.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 106. O. ’08. 800w.
“His little book sustains the general excellence of the series to
which it belongs.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We are glad it was Mr. Macy and not some one else who did it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“His critical comment, interspersed throughout the narration, runs for
the most part in the common groove, although occasionally we can not
follow him.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 488. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Many new things are told of his life that have been unknown and
unheard of until now.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“He has followed the generally accepted facts, but his interpretation
of them is eminently sane and cool, free from prejudice, and unmuddled
by any unnecessary mixing up of moral and intellectual judgments. A
vein of grim, dignified, and restrained humor runs through the work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“The brief ‘Life’ is not in any sense a finality; its style is too
journalistic; but it is an interesting account of a perplexing
career.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 110w.
“His critical dicta we cannot always accept.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
=Madden, Eva Annie.= Two royal foes. il. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33904.
“The story has a historical background, its scenes being in Prussia at
the time of the invasion by Napoleon. The story opens with the Battle
of Jena, through which the heroine, a peasant girl, is left an orphan.
She then goes to live with her grandfather, and the two have many
adventures. Queen Louisa of Prussia also figures in the novel.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Quaint, pretty, unpretentious story. History seems well founded and
characters are life-like.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 23. Ja. ’08. ✠
“There is a certain very charming German atmosphere thruout ‘Two royal
foes’ and yet we are baffled. For without condemning it, we needs must
criticise it for its diffuse story, for its over-exact narration of
Napoleon’s ravages in Prussia, and for the very slight juvenile strain
in its pages.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1481. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A charming historical story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Madison, James.= Journal of the debates in the convention which
framed the constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787;
as recorded by James Madison; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. 2v. **$4.50.
Putnam.
8–20180.
Madison’s journal is the only complete record of the constitutional
convention extant. It is a continuous chronicle of the proceedings of
the convention and has been reproduced in these two volumes with notes
which include a comparison of the journal with the records kept
respectively by Robert Yates, Rufus King and William Pierce.
* * * * *
“A number of errors have been left uncorrected. The debates have been
edited in a careful and scholarly manner.” W. F. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 915. Jl. ’08. 410w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“This whole admirable edition of Madison’s ‘Journal’ will be a boon
both to scholars and to less ambitious students of the constitution
and its history.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 101. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No further edition of the Madison notes will be needed for many
years.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“This work will bring into the hands of teachers, scholars, and
students of national politics a historical document of the first
importance, edited and printed in the best style and at an exceedingly
moderate price.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 180w.
“Does not give a definitive edition of the debates, and much remains
yet to be done in the study of available material. The convenient form
of this reprint is hardly sufficient to justify its existence, and
there are not a few misprints which could have been avoided.”
− =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 230w.
“An exhaustive index makes the work thoroughly usable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It shows textual differences from the earlier editions over which it
is a vast improvement, if only from the standpoint of convenience for
reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Of the several editions of this invaluable journal which have
appeared since Madison’s death by far the most satisfactory is the new
two-volume edition edited by Mr. Gaillard Hunt. The special value of
Mr. Hunt’s work lies in the fact that he has compared the statements
made by contemporary writers with the corresponding entries in
Madison’s journal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Intelligence of the flowers; tr. by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–36869.
An essay on the signs of reasoning in flowers which “is a complement
to his essay on bees ... [The author] wishes ‘merely to recall a few
facts known to every botanist,’ and has ‘no intention of reviewing all
the proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.’ He confines
himself almost entirely to the delicate arrangements for
cross-fertilization, describing them with as great scientific accuracy
as if he were not a poet.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A charming companion piece to the ‘Life of the bee.’” Florence
Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 710. My. ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a
poet.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 280w.
“It is a unique combination of fact and fancy, scientific in its
statements, humanistic in its interpretation of them, mystical in its
philosophy, poetical in its expression.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 158. Ja. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good example of the decorated giftbook.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“The translation preserves most of the original’s charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
“A translation of extraordinary refinement.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“Is ostensibly a nature book, but the delicate imagination and
exquisite literary style of the author are so persuasive and charming
throughout the book that it is really a work of literature.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 50w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Pélléas and Mélisande; tr. by Erving
Winslow; with an introd. by Montrose J. Moses. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–22493.
An edition of Maeterlinck’s play for which Mr. Montrose J. Moses has
written an introduction revealing Maeterlinck’s mastery of delicate
and strange intuitions, enumerating the fragments of his philosophy
and calling attention to his spectral background and dramatic theory.
The volume is a fitting holiday offering with its marginal decoration
and excellent illustrations.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translation is ... prosaic and discordant: poorer even than the
Alma Tadema version.”
− =Ind.= 65: 843. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Winslow’s translation is adequate. Mr. Moses contributes a
readable, painstaking introductory essay. As a Mary Garden picture
book the Crowell edition of ‘Pélléas and Mélisande’ deserves cordial
praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 603. O. 24, ’08. 400w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad-gita; or, The message of the master;
compiled and adapted from numerous old and new translations of the
original Sanscrit text by Yogi Ramacharaka. 2d ed. 75c. Yogi pub.
7–15127.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of
Vedantic philosophy. The translation is accompanied by a general
introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books
of the Gita.
* * * * *
“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad
Gita’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good
many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has
not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit
or has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of
Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its
admirable expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory
little volume.” J. H. Coates.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general
principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
A collection of papers including “a few large, plain, simple ideas”
concerning naval matters which the general reader ought to know.
Captain Mahan discusses The principles of naval administration, The
United States navy department, Principles involved in the war between
Japan and Russia, Objects of the United States naval war college, The
practical character of the United States naval war college,
Subordination in historical treatment, The strength of Nelson, The
value of the Pacific cruise of the United States fleet, and The Monroe
doctrine.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Ought to be in the hands of every intelligent man.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable
way. The socialism of this book is of the ‘Fabian’ school, educative
and opportunist; its weapons are not carnal but spiritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 520w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with
The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The
capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50.
Little.
7–41543.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“Books like the present volume do, in our judgment, incalculable
injury by catering to the military spirit.” B. O. Flower.
− =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 410w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 286. Mr. 7. 60w.
“There is nothing new in it excepting the preface, which is a summing
up of the argument. Yet it is very well worth having and reading, or
re-reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It would certainly be well if the apostles of peace at any price—and
we have many in our midst—would study Captain Mahan’s admirable and
dispassionate essays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 210. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
=Spec.= 100: 461. Mr. 21, ’08. 1700w.
* =Maire, Frederick.= Modern pigments and their vehicles: their
properties and uses considered mainly from the practical side, and how
to make tints from them. $2. Wiley.
8–1476.
“The manual is written for the men who use or sell pigments, and who
mainly want to know what they can expect of them. It is especially
designed to be of value to the young man who is starting out to learn
the painter’s trade. The various pigments which are used in
compounding colors and tints are taken up in order, beginning with the
yellow pigments, and dealing with the reds, greens, blues, browns and
blacks, respectively. Their history, early use, methods of mining and
preparing for market, and adulterations, are described.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“For the purpose for which it was written this book should be of
value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 170w.
“A most excellent book written by one who evidently knows the
practical side thoroughly. There are several books which are more
scientific and chemical, but there is none which will be of greater
value to the chemist, the practical man or the young apprentice at the
painter’s trade.” A. H. Gill.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Constitutional history of England: a
course of lectures. **$3.50. Putnam.
“These lectures discuss the public law of Great Britain at five
periods. The first period runs from 1066 to 1307, the second period
extends to 1509, the third to 1625, the fourth to 1702, and the fifth
to the closing years of the nineteenth century. Much of the ground
covered by the lectures was later traversed by Prof. Maitland in his
carefully written ‘History of English law,’ ‘Domesday book and
beyond,’ ‘Township and borough,’ and other publications, to the
preparation of which he devoted a great deal of time and study.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The publication of these lectures in their original form, under the
care of such a competent and sympathetic editor as Mr. Herbert Fisher,
is a matter for congratulation on behalf of a large body of teachers
and students alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 394. O. 3. 820w.
“The plan of the work is unique. The editorial supervision is done
with that discrimination and good judgment which characterizes all the
work of Mr. Fisher.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 662. S. 17, ’08. 680w.
“What he has written is in the main indisputable, and needs no
revision. By contenting himself with established facts he has rendered
his work of almost as much value to-day as it was twenty years ago.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 339. O. 8, ’08. 1250w.
“Persons familiar with the works of Prof. Maitland that were published
in his lifetime will have little use for this posthumous volume; but
we believe Mr. Fisher is quite right in saying that the study of the
Cambridge lectures will serve as an excellent introduction to an
exhaustive inquiry into English constitutional history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 450w.
“Is distinguished by profound erudition and clearness of exposition. A
good many popular misconceptions, perhaps more prevalent here than in
England, are cleared away, and a better understanding had of the
factors making for England’s continued strength and stability.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
=Major, Charles.= Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian
treasure. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28633.
A book of lively, wholesome stories of adventure which Uncle Tom Andy
Bill, seventy and reminiscent, selects from his boyhood experiences.
* * * * *
“A new juvenile which will receive a ready welcome.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 40w.
“Even if the older reader may not care so much for the treasure and
the bears as the boy, he will admit that the story is a true and
lively picture of life half a century ago in what is now the middle
west, but was then the frontier.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Makower, Stanley V.= Perdita: a romance in biography. *$4.
Appleton.
8–34595.
A sketch of Mary Darby Robinson whose beauty was passed down to
posterity by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and other artists, who was
a favorite pupil of Garrick and as Perdita captured the affections of
George, Prince of Wales. “As here told, the story is a veritable
microcosm of eighteenth-century life, not only the relation of the
first important intrigue of a royal debauchee; so the mere lover of
scandal will be compelled, whether he will or no, to see things in
their right perspective.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The faults are few and far between, and the merits considerable. The
latter far exceed those of the ordinary popular biography, and the
impression left is that of literature rather than book-making.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 315. Mr. 14. 1700w.
“The present book tells her capricious career with an admixture of
fiction which does not jar with the known facts, and which certainly
makes sprightly reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
“The book that lies before us will certainly appeal to all
novel-readers as well as to the smaller public which prefers its
history and biography unspiced by imagination.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 504. Mr. 28, ’08. 420w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
A study of girlhood at the point of its emergence from the school room
into the world where coquettishness, seriousness, ingeniousness and
young philosophy struggle with one another for the upper hand. The
problem of double personality appears and with it two lovers, a
clergyman and a scientist, who claim to be respectively interested in
the heroine’s soul health and the psychological problem which she
embodies.
* * * * *
“A fine piece of irony, though the simple will devour it for its
sensation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 240w.
“The descriptions of English rural life are true and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Mallock. William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2.
Harper. 7–39227.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book is, on the whole, one of the best attacks on socialism
although purely theoretical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
“Mr. Mallock’s analysis appears to us radically unsound.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 447. S. ’08. 550w.
“[In the second part of the work] the Socialists and their opponent,
Mr. Mallock, are equally academic—their illustrations are equally in
the clouds, except where examples quoted by Mr. Mallock err in the
opposite direction of an over-practical crudity.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 191. F. 15. 800w.
“On the purely intellectual side, his criticisms, valid or otherwise,
will arouse fruitful thought and discussion; but though we must admit
that he justly accuses many socialists of improperly prejudicing the
subject, we cannot acquit him of this same fault.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 39. Ja. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“This volume, on account of its compactness of argument, felicity of
illustration and dialectical cleverness, cannot be ignored or scorned
by the socialist editors and pamphleteers who are preaching a new
evangel.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“On its positive or non-controversial side the book before us merits
no particular comment. Where it is not positively erroneous it is
merely commonplace.” R. F. Hoxie.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 540. O. ’08. 430w.
“With all his cleverness Mallock is unconvincing. To deal effectively
with socialism, one must have some genuine capacity for appreciating
the need and the possibility of social betterment, and Mallock’s work
makes the impression of one whose social sympathies are atrophied.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Mallock’s book will be read with interest by all who heard his
lectures in sundry American cities, and it might well attract an even
larger number in its elaborate form. The topic is worth it, and the
treatment is at least easier reading than Marx’s.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 1030w.
“He is both clear and clever; but he is not always conclusive.” Lyman
Abbott.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 539. Mr. 7, ’08. 530w.
“His analytic and literary powers as shown so brilliantly in his
former well-known work, ‘The reconstruction of religious belief,’
characterize also this little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 120w.
“What the situation requires is a successful apology for the system of
liberty and free exchange which, with many lets and hindrances, has
during historical times been becoming the progressive basis of
existing society. Mr. Mallock’s book, though it is not specifically
addressed to this aspect of the controversy, makes its definite
contribution thereto, and it is more valuable in this respect than as
a hostile criticism of the nebulous aspirations of socialism.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 940. Je. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. $1.50. McClure.
8–13767.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“This book owes a charm to its nondescript character. There is a
quality very warm and human and engaging in this casual narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 592. D. 26, ’07. 610w.
“A series of first-hand views of London life on its pathetic side,
with much of the sociological interest, is brought out under the title
of ‘The soul market.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 30w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals
of voice production. (Music students lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
Deals with the fundamentals of tone production. The purpose is to
present simply and in easily understood terms the essentials of good
tone production in such order, and the accompanying instruction and
exercises with such definiteness that the difficulties which
discourage students may be at least minimized.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles
and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces including
also Foix, Roussillon and Bearn, il. $3. Page.
7–38519.
Uniform with “Castles and chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire
country.” Geographically the rambles cover the French slopes of the
Pyrenees from the Atlantic Gulf of Gascony to the Mediterranean Gulf
of Lyons and on to the Rhône. The feudal chateaux and fortified bourgs
of this region furnish the author abundant material for his
appreciation of their architecture, comments on the manner of living
in far-away times, and for his chatty presentation of men and manners
of to-day.
* * * * *
“The title of this handsomely bound and illustrated volume scarcely
does justice to its contents.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 681. Ag. ’08. 450w.
“The text combines descriptive and historical material with personal
impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 90w.
“A work which summarizes his knowledge in good pedestrian prose and,
being carefully indexed, should be valuable for purposes of
reference.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 180w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F.= In the land of mosques and minarets. $3.
Page.
8–15291.
Another Mansfield-McManus collaboration which takes the reader to the
less frequented places of Tunisia and Algeria. It is full of
information “both ordinary and unusual, about the lives, manners, and
customs of the natives, the country itself, and the line of contact
between the natives and the many-nationed crowd of aliens.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 50w.
“He has set before us a glowing panorama of Algerian life and
scenery.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
“The text is written entertainingly and gives no end of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“It contains much information interesting alike to the traveler and to
the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 44. S. 5, ’08. 60w.
“This is a very pleasantly written and readable volume, well set off
with illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of
patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.
7–39037.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The result of her labors, however, displays neither the extent of
learning—except in matters of somewhat gossipy detail—the grasp of her
subject, nor the command of style needful to justify three hundred
pages and more about matter of which scholars as well as general
readers may contentedly remain ignorant.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 662. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“An extensive bibliography, carefully classified, a full index, and
careful annotation will commend the book to students. Mrs. Marble
writes fully and entertainingly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“An entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
“Mrs. Marble, whose method is largely descriptive and biographic, has
put the knowledge about this group of writers into very convenient
form.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= My lost self; il. by Alex. O. Levy.
75c. Cupples & L.
8–8096.
Cuthbert Dalrymple, a young New Yorker of the exclusive, law-abiding
set loses consciousness through a mysterious blow. When a second blow
restores him he finds that he has been ruled for a season by a lower
personality—that he is in Sicily and the most feared of a band of
desperadoes. His chief business in his restored state is that of
fighting to protect the Sicilian heroine against intrigue and danger
in wild surroundings.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 130w.
“Whatever may be said as to the credibility of such events as depicted
it cannot be denied that they follow one another with a rather
fascinating rapidity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= He can who thinks he can, and other papers
on success in life. **$1. Crowell.
8–30895.
A group of forcible editorials reprinted from Success magazine
including the following: He can who thinks he can; Getting around;
Education by absorption; Freedom at any cost; What the world owes to
dreamers; The spirit in which you work; Responsibility of power; An
overmastering purpose; Has your vocation your unqualified approval?
Stand for something; Happy, if not why not? Originality; Had money but
lost it; Sizing up people; Does the world owe you a living? What has
luck done for you? Success with a flaw; and Getting away from poverty.
* * * * *
“Undoubtedly it will be helpful in many ways to many men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3.
Houghton.
7–36985.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Recommended because it is as good as, or better than, any other
general book on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, we think it will amuse, but hardly instruct, the
reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 39. Ja. 11. 480w.
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“An altogether delightful book. We sincerely wish that it might be
generally read to or by secondary schools and colleges in Greek or in
ancient history.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 312. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“It is, however, odious to weigh mint and anise and cumin in the
presence of a really fine work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1567. D. 26, ’07. 970w.
“The illustrations are admirable, and would make a book of much value
and interest worth possessing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 300w.
“There is a ground which this volume covers as no other has yet done.
With this volume in hand any intelligent traveler should find the
rough places made smooth, with the direction and information that the
stranger craves.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“It will also prove useful to the intending traveler in those regions,
for the writer gives an accurate and not exaggerated picture of the
incidents inevitable to such an expedition. As a guide the author is
only moderately well informed. He clearly knows nothing of the
mediæval history of Greece.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“A very pleasant and useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus. *$3.50.
Dodd.
7–38520.
“Professor Margoliouth tells his readers some interesting facts about
these three famed Eastern cities. The buildings of the Fatimide and
Ayyubid eras are described. The sovereigns who ruled over Cairo are
treated at length, and nothing essential is missed in the historical
sketches given of Jerusalem and Damascus.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It bears throughout the stamp of an individual mind, well stored with
the original sources familiar to the learned author, but able to take
independent views and here and there to draw a luminous
generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 152. F. 8. 1600w.
“Is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its
description of these three great cities. Is certainly one of the most
beautiful of the series.” Justin McCarthy.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1421. D. 12, ’07. 210w.
“The text has the rare merit of being trustworthy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Very superior to the greater number of the colour books that have
recently been issued, for it would be of permanent value even without
the illustrations.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 1460w.
“It must frankly be said that the history of Cairo here given is
dreary reading. The illustrations are beautifully executed with
carefully worked-out detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The text of Mr. Margoliouth’s book differs from that of most volumes
which describe the history of Cairo or Jerusalem or Damascus because
it has been written by one long immersed in the atmosphere of the
Orient and of the Arabic language.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“The artist gives us only the picturesque or artistic scenes in the
Oriental cities he delineates, and wisely passes by the dirt or the
dull ugliness amidst which they are set; and the historian would do
well to follow his example where literary interest and not historical
completeness is his object.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 52. Ja. 11, ’08. 800w.
“This attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and
students of history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= King Edward VI, an appreciation,
attempted by Sir Clements R. Markham. *$3. Dutton.
8–10272.
A eulogistic treatment of a “period of anarchy in which a Tammany ring
of titled ruffians ... left England the legacy of a pauper class.”
(Sat. R.) The precocious Edward VI of this book “was a statesman who
understood the self-seeking, unprincipled character of the politicians
about him; a princely boy who had more sense in his little finger than
both his uncles put together had in their whole bodies.” (Nation.) The
author exploits the young king’s learning, his interest in geography,
his fondness for games; and above all argues that he was neither a
tool nor a figurehead.
* * * * *
“Unluckily, Sir Clement’s passion for historical paradox does much to
spoil the effect of his nervous and sympathetic narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 380w.
“Sir Clements’s knowledge of the period is not profound, and it is
only his own idiosyncrasies which make his book remarkable.” A. F. P.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 199. Ja. ’08. 380w.
“It is not, we think, possible to say that Sir Clements Markham has
added anything to our knowledge of the reign, or that his
confidently-expressed judgments enable us to understand better the men
and women who played their part in it. The chief interest of the book
lies in the details of Edward’s interest in such subjects as geography
and exploration, a much more healthy occupation for him than his
boyish attempts at theology.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 630w.
“The book contains many excellent portraits and much useful
biographical and genealogical information, but its conclusions will
hardly find acceptance at the hands of fair-minded historians.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 471. Ag. 29, ’08. 840w.
“While we dissent entirely from Sir Clements’ estimate of the reign,
we must say that his pages make pleasant reading. Pageantry and
heraldry he understands, and he gives a brilliant description of his
young hero’s coronation. Interesting and original also are the pages
in the book that tell of the Tudor navy and the ‘first Arctic
expedition.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 206. F. 15, ’08. 1000w.
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 704. N. 7, ’08. 1100w.
=Marks, William Dennis.= Finances of gas and electric light and
power enterprises: electric railways, electric light stations, gas
works, oil motor cars. 4th ed. $4. William D. Marks, 623 Park Row
bldg., N. Y.
7–27171.
“Five chapters have been added to the present edition. Included in the
new matter is a digest of some of the evidence in the recent lawsuit
(not yet settled) over the reduction of the price of gas in New York
city to 80 cts. per 1,000 cu. ft. There is also included a paper on
‘Railway rates for electric railways.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole contains a large amount of information,
statistical and descriptive, on various phases of the subject
indicated by the title.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 140w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 49. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Marriott, H. Crittenden.= Uncle Sam’s business; told for young
Americans. $1.25. Harper.
8–28399.
An informing story which shows Uncle Sam as ruler, captain of industry
and public servant. In the first instance Uncle Sam is shown as
law-maker, judge, ambassador, society man, trader, soldier, sailor,
peace-maker, and immigrant; in the second, as builder, house-cleaner,
store-keeper, builder of war ships, manager of public lands, maker and
distributer of money; in the third, as farmer, chemist, forester,
weatherman, and patron of science and art.
* * * * *
“The information is rather disconnected and the style wordy and
careless, but the book has value in connection with the study of
civics.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should meet the present demand for instruction without drudgery.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Older people may obtain clear ideas of governmental matters upon
which they have not been well informed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Mars, Gerhardt Cornell.= Interpretation of life; in which is shown
the relation of modern culture to Christian science. **$3.
Appleton.
8–18359.
A work written from the Christian science standpoint which makes a
stirring appeal to every thinker. Dr. Mars “discusses successively the
natural world-order in its evolution, inorganic and organic; then the
supranatural or rational world-order; next the threefold unity of
reason, in science, art, and ethics; then the threefold interpretation
of reason, theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical; then ‘the pedagogy of
pain,’ involving the problems of evil, sin, and atonement, or
reconciliation.” (Outlook.) He closes with a defense of Mrs. Eddy.
* * * * *
“It is as suggestive as it is lucid, as logical and closely reasoned
as it is profoundly thoughtful and convincing to the reason.” B. O.
Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 258. S. ’08. 8000w.
“The work will not be of much value in proselyting, but it ought to
exert a good influence inside the church in checking the disposition
to scoff at scientific methods and defy common sense.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 700w.
“Christian science ... has at last found an expositor and defender who
really knows something, who has read widely and intelligently, who can
compare and reason, and who does write English that means something.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 349. Je. 20, ’08. 880w.
“Fundamentally as we disagree with many of Dr. Mars’s conclusions, we
believe that so long as these problems exist such earnest attempts to
solve them cannot be useless. He at least brings to consciousness many
of the contradictions of our social order and he thinks nobly of man.”
Christian Gauss.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 771. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Dr. Mars’s surprising conclusion should not in sober judgment impugn
the solid merits of the work to which it is, in strict logic, no more
than an appendix.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 480w.
=Marsh, Charles Fleming, and Dunn, William.= Manual of reinforced
concrete and concrete block construction. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“Presents in compact handbook form the necessary information required
in the design, construction and supervision of reinforced concrete
work. The text is based upon that of the third edition of their
favorably-known quarto treatise, ‘Reinforced concrete.’ the
demonstrations or reasoning, however, upon which the formulas are
based, being omitted in order to keep the work within handbook
limits.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 340w.
“Its main faults for American sale are its rather unwieldly size ...
and its use of British standards of measurement and practice. A very
good designing hand-book, a trifle obscure, perhaps, in some of the
theory, but still quite valuable to the office-man in concrete work.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 539. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Some of the methods of design employed in the book will be questioned
by some engineers, but the book as a whole is excellent.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= Exton Manor. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3427.
English country life is depicted here in a manner to create atmosphere
and with it the feeling of knowing the characters intimately. In this
Exton Manor community a social war is waged which has for its cause
the question of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The episode is
used to test the Christianity, apart from Churchmanship, of a group of
people prominent among whom are a clergyman’s busy-body wife and an
adherent of the Woman’s reformation league.
* * * * *
“The book is a long one.... It moves with all the slowness of the old
three-volume novel; and it moves with that slowness just because the
author is not an analyst ... but shows you life itself.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“A tale of much more than ordinary excellence, which moves slowly and
is not strong in plot, but which introduces real people who live out
very real lives and command interest to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Marshall succeeds in keeping our interest to the end, for his
people are living people, and never once do they descend to
caricature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 300w.
“There is enough that is good in this book, and enough that shows
possibilities for later work from the author, to justify serious
criticism.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 178. Ap. ’08. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 560w.
“The details are painted in with so much fidelity and with such loving
care that it has with good reason recalled to most reviewers the works
of Anthony Trollope.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The story that he unfolds in his successive chapters is an
interesting one, while as a study of contemporaneous life it is
strong, keen and humorous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Is one of the most carefully written and thoroughly worked out pieces
of fiction that has appeared in England for a long time past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 611. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“There is very little art in it; but the fact that such a chronicle
should only occasionally be boring proves a skill in the chronicler
which is sure to commend him to the many readers to whom gossip makes
a more direct appeal than art.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Marshall has written nothing better than this, and we might say
nothing nearly so good. We heartily recommend this calming book to a
bustling age.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 462. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Marston, Edward (“Amateur Angler,” pseud.).= Thomas Ken and Izaak
Walton: a sketch of their lives and family connection. *$2. Longmans.
An octogenarian has brought together late material which further
illuminates the history of the famous angler, Izaak Walton, and has
presented it with the quiet enthusiasm of fellow sympathy.
* * * * *
“A book of somewhat disjointed notes on the two worthies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 360w.
“The story of how Ken became bishop alone makes the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 450w.
* =Martin, Edward Sandford.= In a new century. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–27778.
Twenty-two essays telling “of the consequences of too much success, of
some advantages of the common lot, of the remuneration found in
reading and writing, of the prospects of ‘Society’ in America, of
riches, character, and money, of the profound need in our leaders of
what he calls the spiritual quality, of the seashore and the inland
countryside, of the purpose and use of deafness, and many another
subject handled with skill and distinct literary ability.” (Outlook.)
See Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
“Mr. Martin is a genial philosopher, but his teaching is none the less
timely and vigorous.” E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 500w.
“What he says is always worth reading, and he always says it
felicitously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Very much up to date and very typically American is this collection
of essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 540w.
“His sturdy, uncompromising stand for truth, and civic and personal
righteousness, is clothed in a form of grace, and sparkles with the
irony admissible to a thoroughly refined mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Letitia: nursery corps, U. S. A. il.
†$1.50. McClure.
7–37709.
Stories of army life with a little girl in the foreground whose
happiness is less in the hands of a heartless mother and a
self-centered father than in the keeping of her “striker” guardians.
“In one of the stories the canteen question is viewed from a familiar
standpoint—that with the abolishment of the army saloon the soldiers
seek amusement in worse places. Another shows how the social
distinctions of army life extend even to the children of the
commissioned and non-commissioned officers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Humorous setting-forth of some of the unromantic features of army
life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 19. Ja. ’08.
“This forlorn little waif, remaining unspotted by her very wordly
world, the reprehensible morals and manners from which she springs,
and the problems of post life as seen here, are compounded of paper
and printer’s ink.”
− =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 80w.
“Six commonplace short stories of life at an army post are all one
finds in this book by the creator of the winsome Emmy Lou.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“The stories are amusing and give a good insight into wandering
military life. But the language is sometimes marred by obscurity owing
to an obvious effort to imitate Kipling’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
=Martin, Helen Riemensnyder.= Revolt of Anne Royle. †$1.50. Century.
8–25996.
This story follows the development of a lonely child from the age of
eight thru years of struggle against the authority of a stern guardian
and the snobbishness of his relatives, thru years of growing self
assertion and revolt against imperious control, on to maturity and
happiness. There is also a portrayal without exaggeration of a worldly
minded clergyman, whose shallowness is strongly contrasted with the
results of service achieved by a young curate of determination and
power.
* * * * *
“The story is forced and unnatural and many of the characters are
exaggerated, but as a clever love tale it will be acceptable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08.
“Whether considered as a love romance or as a sectional view of
American life, the story is one of the best American novels of the
season.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 220w.
“If the reader can conceive of a story that combines the old-fashioned
charm of the ‘Wide, wide world’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ with the fresher
interest of a modern romance, he will have some idea of the
fascination of this remarkable book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The dénouement is not unforeseen, but the bits of artifice relied
upon to sustain the plot interest and attain a fit ending are
forgivable in view of the real interest in the people of the book,
which is never wanting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 480w.
“The story is overweighted, and the effect is neither agreeable nor
artistic.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico of the twentieth century. 2v. *$8.50.
Dodd.
8–4360.
“An authoritative and exhaustive account of present-day conditions in
our neighbor republic, written in the hope of remedying popular
ignorance and prejudice in regard to a country whose geography, social
and economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a sealed book
to Europeans and even to other Americans.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A valuable compendium. Readable, letter press excellent,
illustrations admirable, binding only fairly durable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“The book contains much that is of value, and almost everything that
will be sought for in such a work. But it is padded with a great deal
of gossip, here slightly out of place, as having often little or no
connexion with the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 730w.
“He knows his subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different
aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece of information
will be likely to find just what he wants somewhere in these two
volumes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Although more pretentious is in reality less valuable than Mr.
Starr’s book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“He has piled up a mountain of facts, has amassed what should be most
useful to both the Englishman and the American.” G. R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 421. Ag. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“As an aid to promoters, industrialists, and investors generally, Mr.
Martin’s volumes have special value.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Verbose and chaotic volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 360w.
“The fault we find is that Mr. Martin gives us information which is
quite unnecessary, and has really little or nothing to do with Mexico,
and yet declares that he has been forced to omit things obviously more
pertinent for want of room.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 990. D. 14, ’07. 1700w.
=Martin, William Frank.= Sir Harry Vane: a drama in five acts.
$1.25. Roxburgh pub.
8–5897.
A drama based upon historical facts selected from the period of Vane’s
occupancy of the governorship of the Massachusetts Bay colony,
1636–1637. Political and theological controversies form the background
of the drama, conspicuous among whose characters are Sir Harry Vane,
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley.
=Mary Stuart, queen of Scots.= Queen Mary’s book: a collection of
poems and essays; ed. by Mrs. P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot.
*$3.50. Macmillan.
8–16438.
“A translation of a collection of poems and essays written at
intervals during her life, beginning with her Latin exercises at the
age of twelve, and ending with the essay on adversity written in
prison. Its best features are the five excellent reproductions of
works in her handwriting, and an appendix containing the original
texts in a generally accurate form.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The editor is, in fact, not qualified to do good editorial work.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 819. D. 28. 1150w.
“It cannot be denied that there is a strange pathetic interest in
‘Queen Mary’s book.’ The pathos of the book lies in the poems and
prose compositions of the queen herself, which are here for the first
time brought together in a single volume. Our only quarrel with the
book is that all the originals are not added.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot does not pretend to be an historian
or a critic of eminence. Her part, we may say, is to show her
convictions by laying a flower on Mary’s grave, by adding a stone to
the wall of defence against her enemies. And her work is done in a
candid spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=Marzo, Eduardo=, comp, and ed. Art of vocalization. 3 bks. pa. ea.
75c. Ditson.
Shows to Americans with their beautiful singing voices the necessity
of a “hurry never” creed if they would reach the goal of excellence
attained by Europeans. Exercises for voice culture are selected from
the works of Lablache, Panofka, Randegger, Marchesi, and others.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
* =Masefield, John.= Captain Margaret: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a perilous journey to the Spanish Main whither Captain
Margaret, dreamer no less than swordsman, goes from England to help
the Indians against the oppression of Spain. The story tells how the
renegade husband of Captain Margaret’s former sweetheart comes, with
his wife, aboard the captain’s ship as it was putting out to sea, how
he pretended to his wife to be nobly bent upon fighting for the
Indians when in truth he is fleeing from justice, how the captain’s
quiet, restrained power is a foil for the husband’s perfidy, how the
wife finally recognizes it, how the colony fails but how love
triumphs.
* * * * *
“It is a good yarn, full of colour and movement.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 92. Jl. 25. 230w.
“The psychology, and occasionally the dialogue, are strangely modern.
But the story is finely conceived.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 455. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
“We must say that the last chapter atones for some of the
incredibilities, as it contains passages which are noble and moving,
and will, we think, be very grateful to every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 99. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Masefield, John.= Tarpaulin muster. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–10282.
Twenty-four stories, chiefly sea-tales with the tang of the salt in
them, the changing lights that draw colors from old ocean, and sounds
that range from alluring siren refrains to the creaking of cordage and
the booming of breakers. A veritable classic is “Being ashore” which,
contrary to the title, is a magnificent description of a run off River
Plate, with the writer possessed of the spirit of the wind and the
ecstasy of the spray.
* * * * *
“Mr. Masefield is a genuine sailor author, and his work merits
support.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 150w.
“Writes vividly of his themes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“To approach it in the same spirit that one opens an artist’s
sketch-book is to guard against disappointment in not finding sea
yarns of a stirring sort, and to insure appreciation of the author’s
pleasant style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Masefield is a master of strange effects. Writing of the sea or
of Irish fairies, of whom he possesses an intimate knowledge, he
leaves a feeling that haunts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Masefield challenges notice on a higher plane as a sea-folklorist
(if we may be allowed the barbarous expression) and an interpreter of
sea-magic; and, though the quality of his work is unequal, at its best
it is very fine indeed.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 801. My. 18, ’07. 1300w.
=Mason, Caroline Atwater.= Binding of the strong. †$1.50. Revell.
8–23544.
A story based upon historical facts concerning the hasty courtship and
marriage of John Milton and Mary Powell. Into the background are woven
facts of political strife and upheaval, while well to the fore are the
desertion of the wife and the reconciliation effected by Delmé Davies,
whom in the wife’s absence Milton had learned to trust and to love.
* * * * *
“It is a pleasing and happy story, in spite of the fact that ‘they’
did not marry in the end. It will make the great poet more real to
some readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Pleasantly told tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 90w.
=Massey, Gerald.= Ancient Egypt: the light of the world: a work of
reclamation and restitution. 2v. *$12. Dutton.
8–13676.
“The volumes are divided into twelve books, in which Mr. Massey has
treated ... the various forms of sign language and Egyptian wisdom as
the source from which was derived most of the knowledge of the ancient
world and the religion of the modern.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In any case his book would be of no value except as a compilation.
But, further, he had little idea of what is and what is not
permissible in logical argument; very few of his syllogisms are
without a flaw; he has no perception of what is possible or impossible
in respect of philological comparisons, and he was dominated by a
fanatical belief with regard to the origin of Christianity which at
once takes his book out of the realm of science.”
− − + =Nature.= 77: 291. Ja. 30, ’08. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“Very interesting work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 490. Je. 27, ’08. 500w.
=Massey, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical farming. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–40013.
A book for farmers and agricultural students which treats of the care
of the soil and crop production.
* * * * *
“Is well written, in an easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“In every way this book is of decided value.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 612. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Massie, Walter Wentworth and Underhill, Charles R.= Wireless
telegraphy and telephony popularly explained; with a special
article by Nikola Tesla. **$1. Van Nostrand.
8–22565.
Aims to give in simple untechnical language a clear idea of the
reception and development of wireless communication. The author
describes the substance thru which signals are sent, the theory of the
propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves,
the apparatus used, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of
wireless telegraphy—both commercially and financially.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 120w.
“The authors of this little work have succeeded better than one might
expect in the task of giving the lay reader simple ideas of wireless
telegraphy and telephony.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book cannot fail to be helpful to one wishing to obtain a fair
idea of the principal features of wireless communication, for the
authors have handled the subject in an instructive manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 503. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“The explanations are simple and clear and the descriptions are not
overloaded with technical details.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Deals fairly well with the first part of the title, giving the theory
of electro-magnetic wave motion in an especially clear manner.
Wireless telephony is but slightly touched upon.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Masson, John.= Lucretius, epicurean and poet. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–15762.
A work which represents the painstaking study of a lifetime. “Dr.
Masson’s scheme includes a survey of Roman history in the time of
Lucretius, a study of the influences working in the man, and an
exhaustive exposition of the qualities of his work” (N. Y. Times.)
including chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from
Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised by Gassendi.
* * * * *
“A careful perusal of Mr. Masson’s work has impressed us so favorably
that we think that his book, rightly understood, cannot fail to extend
and increase the knowledge and appreciation of one of the greatest of
Roman poets.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 329. S. 19. 800w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“A good piece of work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Masson could not well treat the subject without giving much
valuable material. But as a whole, the work is irritating and
unsatisfactory. Dr. Masson’s work suffers fundamentally from lack of
reflection.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 381. Ap. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The whole hook provides rare entertainment for the mind fitted to
receive it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 152. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“For a faithful exposition of this noble poem this volume is
unrivaled.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 126. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A reading of Mr. Masson’s substantial book and a fresh reading of the
poet suggest that a wholesale appreciation of Lucretius comes natural
nowadays either to persons who shut their ears to the music of words,
or whose interest—and this is perhaps the case with Mr. Masson—lies
really in the history of science.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 535. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“The relation of Lucretius’s scientific reasoning to modern thought
has been discussed by Dr. Masson in the present volume with a
knowledge and insight which leave little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 299. F. 22, ’08. 2100w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= New Plato; or, Socrates redivivus. **75c.
Moffat.
8–10888.
Socrates steps out of the pages of Plato into Mr. Masson’s humorous
colloquies as easily as he quits the steerage of the Lusitania and
takes up his headquarters at the Mills hotel. He acquaints himself
with New Yorkers, visits their homes, and discusses with true modern
insight such subjects as The married life, The gambler, The bridge
player, Socialism, Learning, Surgeons, Philosophy, The missionary, and
The nature of happiness.
* * * * *
“Probably no parodist has so struck the modern note as he has done in
his ten brief colloquies. His English imitates successfully, and often
amusingly, the Jowett style. He would have done well to submit his
proofsheets to a Greek scholar before publication.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Masson’s wit is subtle and his humor is elusive. But both pervade
his writings and give them appreciable value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 260w.
=Mastin. J. B.= Immortal light. $1.50. Cassell.
A romance with a scientific accompaniment which steers the reader to
the South Pole. “Mr. Mastin pictures races of mankind far higher in
development than ourselves as dwelling near the South Pole.... We see
his travellers pass through solids, on ether, by a natural law applied
by human intelligence to the art of locomotion. Instead of Eskimos,
they meet radiant persons who can talk in all languages, but
understand thought without speech. Instead of icefields, they find a
pretty country where the panther grazes like a sheep. But the Pole
itself is in a prohibited, region guarded by electricity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The story is wildly improbable, but confronts incredulity with a
considerable display of scientific detail. A strong religious feeling
animates the last part of the book, but we think the author errs in
linking his deism with the conception of a polar Eden.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The details are worked out in a fairly interesting manner, and the
novel deserves notice, as it points to the way in which further
developments in scientific attainment may serve as the foundation for
a higher spiritual evolution in human beings.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 68. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.= Andrew Ellicott: his life and
letters. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–13374.
Sets forth the work and character of “a foundation-builder,” a man who
laid out the city of Washington, completed the survey of Mason and
Dixon’s line, negotiated with the Indians and helped to settle
numerous boundary disputes for the government.
* * * * *
“This revival ... of an old, honest, capable and useful member of a
half-forgotten world, is a refreshing event. If the new ‘prosperity
associations’ would encourage such revivals, American libraries would
be the better for it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Flame dancer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24467.
Mystery, oriental mysticism and romance mingle in this story which
deals mainly with the disappearance of some jewels acquired by a
millionaire from the treasure of the flame dancers and sought by the
chief of the ravished shrine—a Chinaman who wields the art of
See-foo-tee, or double hypnotism.
* * * * *
“No doubt this story will delight people who like to have their heads
spin as they take their literary pabulum.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 240w.
=Mattapoisett, Mass.= Mattapoisett and old Rochester, Massachusetts;
being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a
portion of Wareham. (Grafton historical ser.) **$2. Grafton press.
7–26622.
Early history of Rochester prepared under the direction of a committee
of the town of Mattapoisett. “As dealing with one of the oldest
settlements in Plymouth colony, it contains a good deal which is of
more than local moment.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“It would have been more satisfactory if the author had supplied
references, in foot-notes, to original authorities, though in some
cases the information is given in the body of the text.” M. W.
Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 660. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“Though full of detail, is successful in avoiding the drone of the
village chronicler.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 513. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Is a new instance of good historical work resulting from a town or
church celebration.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Is an admirable example of local history intelligently compiled by
the co-operative method and written with a view to a larger than
purely local interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–29534.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 340w. (Review of chapter on “Ibsen
the playwright.”)
“Essays of varying merit. Some of them might better have been left to
the temporary honor of the popular magazine, to be read and enjoyed
and forgotten; others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day by
publication in book form.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 137. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“I have had no hesitation in expressing divergent views from those set
forth in this volume, not only because the book is in the main so
fine, but because its author enjoys honest dissent fully as much as
praise. For the benefit of the next edition, one or two minute slips
may be mentioned.” W. L. Phelps.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 377. Ja. ’08. 1900w.
“It actually looks in some cases as though Professor Matthews had made
too violent a wrench to get away from the academicism natural to his
profession and were in danger of overleaping the saddle altogether.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 220w.
“It is in the chapter devoted to ‘Ibsen the playwright’ that he most
commands attention.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Short-story: specimens illustrating its
development; ed. with introd. and notes by Brander Matthews. *$1.
Am. bk.
8–1920.
The specimens illustrating the development of the short story are
preceded by an introduction which traces the growth of the form thru
the history of literature and seeks to set forth its slow attainment
of the essential type.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 222. Je. ’08.
“The editor contributes some fifty pages of critical matter, which are
highly interesting, both because they exhibit a man riding a hobby,
and because they provide a sympathetic and penetrating study of the
subject.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
=Matthews, Frank Herbert.= Principles of intellectual education.
*75c. Putnam.
8–3283.
A short, compact discussion which passes for a good illustration of
the English method of treating educational theory. “What are the
general qualities of mind which education is able to develop, if any?
followed later by the natural sequel: What is the best means of doing
so? The answer to the first question is ‘flexibility and exactness’;
the second answer the reader must deduce from the investigation and
statement of the ‘principles of intellectual education—the subject of
the volume.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“For the matter of the book we have only praise, but the manner leaves
much to be desired. In spite of blemishes, however, the book is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 260. S. 7. 1100w.
“The very fact that one could not well say that the author leans
distinctly to either side [the outgoing activity emphasized by
Froebel, and the inworking of the world upon the growing mind which is
the foundation of Herbart’s doctrine] shows that he is not a slavish
follower but a self-respecting thinker.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“The book can be strongly commended to teachers as, on the whole, an
orderly exposition of contemporary educational ideals.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =School R.= 16: 207. Mr. ’08. 700w.
=Matthews, Franklin.= With the battle fleet. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–30928.
The cruise of the fleet of sixteen American battle ships from the
leaving of Hampton Roads on December 16, to dropping anchors in San
Francisco harbor on May 6. The stops, receptions tendered, routine and
social life on an American man-o’-war, and lessons of the cruise make
reading as interesting as it is informing.
* * * * *
“His active participation and his fresh descriptive instinct are far
above the ordinary.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A book that offers not a little information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“Informative and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 150w.
“One of the best recent examples of intelligent and graphic narrative
and description in the form of newspaper correspondence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 120w.
=Maude, E.= Oriental campaigns and European furloughs: the
autobiography of a veteran of the Indian mutiny. *$2.50. Wessels.
The experiences of a fighting man, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, who
tells the story of his life from the time that he went out with a
cadet ship in 1843 until 1887 when he retired.
* * * * *
“Possessing a certain old-time simplicity which somehow reminds one of
Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’ and those marches of twelve parasangs to an
inhabited city, this is somehow a decidedly refreshing sort of book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 468. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
“This is a pleasant and unaffected record of experiences in war and
peace.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 260w.
=Maunder, Edward Walter.= Astronomy of the Bible: an elementary
commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. *$2.
Kennerley.
An astronomical commentary on the Bible, quite free from
technicalities. The general divisions of the treatment are as follows:
Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times
and seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day,
The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural
reference and an index complete the volume.
* * * * *
“In Biblical astronomy, indeed, the present work may be considered
almost an exhaustive treatise; and if some of the author’s conclusions
are not universally accepted, all are well worthy of thoughtful
discussion.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 216. Ag. 22. 1100w.
“The standpoint of the author is that of a believer in Holy Writ, who
is free from those notions of inspiration that modern science has
rendered untenable, and is to be classed as a devout man well
acquainted with the latest teachings of science and eager to use them
in classifying obscurities in the Scriptures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“There is much in the book that is interesting and valuable; when the
author gets outside the supposed necessities of his apologetic he is
well worth attention.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Hill Rise. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–271.
“In this story there is a certain moral hidden, which we take to be
the recuperative and redemptive power of hard work. In reality the
hero of the novel is an old builder, in whom the snobbish treatment of
his neighbors on the Hill of Medford, with its 18,000 inhabitants, has
engendered a passionate hatred. He buys the estate of Hill Rise with
the intention of rooting out the snobs, and he all but fails. The
story holds us by the interest of this battle.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“His touch is pleasant, light, and humorous at times; at others
sufficiently earnest. Mr. Maxwell is one of the few writers who are
always interesting, and the main reason is that he keeps in close
touch with human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 230w.
“Is quietly successful in its quality and interest as a clever satire
upon self-sufficient uselessness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of
his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
=Mayer, Clarence.= Telephone construction: methods and cost. *$3.
Clark, M. C.
8–23074.
“Presents a simple and comprehensive system for collecting, analyzing
and recording the various costs involved in telephone line
construction, giving examples of the forms and blanks used for the
different divisions of the work, and explaining clearly the methods
employed in computing, proportioning and prorating the costs.”—Engin.
D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The book recommends itself as being a volume of exact records of
experience and not of theories and opinions.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Maynard, Samuel Taylor.= Small country place. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–17270.
“The book covers not only the treatment of buildings and grounds, but
offers definite suggestions regarding the planting of gardens and
orchards, poultry-keeping, dairying, and many other interests
connected with the small rural or suburban place. The author has
passed more than thirty years of his life in teaching botany and
horticulture and has endeavored to make his book thoroughly practical.
The book is fully illustrated.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The principles of the practices outlined might be more thoroughly
discussed to advantage. The arrangement and style are good, and the
facts accurate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08. ✠
“The text and illustrations combined promise to prove profitable to a
large number of the class of readers for whom the book is intended.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“His book would be admirable if it were not in reality three or four
books squeezed and contracted into one.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 390. Jl. 11, ’08. 280w.
“No one who owns a country house or has the plan of one burgeoning in
his imagination will care to ignore a book that contains so much
valuable information and so few waste words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Mayow, John.= Medico-physical works; being a translation of
Tractatus quinque medico-physici. (Alembic club reprints, no. 17.)
*$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–3602.
“A larger volume than most of its predecessors, and contains the
‘Medico-physical works’ of John Mayow, who as early as 1668 in
chemical matters relating to combustion, respiration, and other vital
activities, anticipated opinions which were not established for
another hundred years. The text is a translation of the five essays of
the Oxford edition of 1674. The editors have noted the main facts of
Mayow’s life and a few explanations in a rather brief preface.”
(Nation.) “The basis of Mayow’s work was his recognition of the
existence in the air and in common nitre of extremely subtle particles
to which he gave the name ‘nitro-aërial spirit.’” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Judged by a few random comparisons with the original text, the
translation is exact and good, but we are not quite in accord with the
limitations as to explanations which the translators have set
themselves. Nor is the comment as to the neglect of Mayow altogether
just.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 339. F. 13, ’08. 600w.
=Meehan, Michael.= Mrs. Eddy and the late suit in equity. $2.25.
Michael Meehan, Concord, N. H.
8–8275.
Records with justice to Mrs. Eddy the out-of-court events and
utterances that led up to, grew out of or resulted from the late suit
brought against her.
* * * * *
“It is well that a reliable and exhaustive history of the famous suit
in equity ... should appear in substantial form for preservation.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 591. My. ’08. 600w.
* =Megargel, Percy Freeman, and Mason, Grace Sartwell.= Car and the
lady. †$1.50. Baker.
8–22795.
This is a story, based upon actual happenings, of a transcontinental
motor race, which tested both the respective merits of rival cars and
the manhood and hardihood of two lovers, an Italian and an American,
who were rivals for the hand of a spirited New York girl.
* * * * *
“One of the best of the numerous motor stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08. ✠
“There are exciting events in plenty, and the story moves with
appropriate swiftness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 491. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
* =Meier-Graefe, Julius A.= Modern art; tr. from the German by Florence
Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. 2v. *$10.50. Putnam.
“A comparative study of the formative arts, being a contribution to a
new system of aesthetics.” “In his exhaustive work he traces the
source of modern art to Rubens, following its development through the
careers of the great men and movements that have come since his day
down to the present time. He brilliantly analyzes such great
protagonists and varied characters as Delacroix, Daumier, Constable,
Ingrès, Manet, Millet, Gaughin, William Morris, Van Gogh, Renier,
Renoir, etc., and shows in an intellectual manner how they influenced
the events of their respective periods.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“These plates call for more than casual attention, not only because
they contribute much to the attractiveness of the volumes, but because
they form an unusually representative collection covering the entire
period dealt with in the book. As reflected in what is apparently an
excellent translation, this style is sometimes lucid and at other
times a mixture of clever epigram and verbosity in which the leading
thought is not readily disentangled from a wealth of illustrative
imagery that obscures it. But always there is entertainment and mental
stimulus.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 400. D. 1, ’08. 900w.
“Now and then in the chaos of words one seems to catch an idea by the
tail, but one can never hold it long.”
− =Nation.= 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 260w.
“For the first time we have presented such a full study of modern
international activities, causes, and effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“A series of discursive, thoughtful, suggestive essays, which seem
quite as effective in English as in their original German. The volumes
are lavishly illustrated as to quantity and poorly as to quality. Our
critic, in truth, seems not so remarkable for his review of English or
German or any other painting as in his account of French art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 670w.
“With most of Herr Meier-Graefe’s views, though he has a good deal to
say that is of interest and incites to argument, I more or less
acutely disagree.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 635. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
“His passionate bias for anything and everything French colours the
whole book. Herr Meier-Graefe has great ability; he has at command a
vast amount of information and a ceaseless store of sometimes striking
and suggestive aphorisms. If he kept to generalities, and did not
illustrate by tangible examples, we should find him a great deal more
persuasive than he is.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 662. N. 28, ’08. 1850w.
=Mencken, Henry L.= Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. *$2. Luce, J.
W.
8–4452.
Nietzsche is here translated into terms familiar to all readers. He is
considered the “high priest of the actual,” divine mysteries are
lunacies to him, he believes with Schopenhauer that philosophy is
comfortless because it is the truth. The will to live is the only
thing that must concern us, moral codes are simply expedients found
helpful in successful endeavors to live. The book sets forth how his
philosophy rejects Christianity and democracy; how it points out the
evolution of the human race thru the immoralist to the superman; how
it combats ideas held holy and impeccable by mankind to-day.
* * * * *
“A very able elucidation of a distinctive field of modern thought.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Though we dissent profoundly from the appreciation of Nietzsche
expressed in this volume, we have to thank the author for his keen
analysis and clear statement of the ideas and principles that
characterize the philosophy of the Superman.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 398. Je. ’08. 750w.
“Mr. Mencken has produced a very readable book and a better
presentation of Nietzsche to the English reader than is elsewhere
available. Critically speaking, it has one serious fault,—that the
reader is often left in doubt as to where the author is speaking his
own views and where he is merely presenting those of Nietzsche.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 330w.
“One of the most interesting and instructive books that has come from
the American press in many a long day. The presentation of Nietzsche’s
philosophical teachings is both intelligent, intelligible, and highly
amusing.”
+ + − =Educ. R.= 35: 508. My. ’08. 550w.
“His exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy is clear, simple, and
orderly, quite free from the cobwebs of metaphysics; if he shows bad
taste in the details of writing, this may be passed over as a mark of
zeal in imitating his master. We can commend the exegesis, though we
repudiate the conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 600w.
“It is evident that Mr. Mencken possesses the requisite sympathy, and
withal a certain clear, forceful, even ardent style, a keen and
thorough-going intellect, knowledge of men, and a sense of humor. He
is not hampered by prejudice nor dismayed by traditions, and he is
able to leave out inessentials without destroying the harmony of what
remains. He has made a good book and gives us a pretty fair conception
of just what Nietzsche was and what he stood for.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 420w.
“Whatever may be thought of Nietzsche’s philosophy, there is here a
clear exposition of it in vigorous, straightforward language, together
with a really interesting and thoughtful biographical memoir.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Meriwether, Colyer.= Our colonial curriculum, 1607–1706. $2.
Central pub. co., Washington, D. C.
8–13757.
“The author covers a wide field and gives excessive space to a
consideration of the curriculum of schools and universities in England
and other European countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. The book has eight chapters as follows: Elementary course,
The general college course, Ancient languages, Theology and
philosophy, Geography, history and modern language, Mathematics,
Science, Disputation.”
* * * * *
“In spite of its incompleteness the book represents much study and
should be in the library of all persons interested in this field.”
Marcus W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 910. Jl. ’08. 480w.
“What the book lacks is the ability to interpret the lessons which the
facts brought together teach.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 80w.
“An excessive modernity, including a style not infrequently verging
upon the flippant, characterizes the book.”
− =Nation.= 86: 552. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
* =Merriam, Charles Edward.= Primary elections: a study of the history
and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago
press.
8–33814.
Traces the development of the legal regulation of party primaries from
1866 down to 1908, sums up the general tendencies evident in this
movement, discusses some of the disputed points in the primary
problem, and states certain conclusions concerning our nominating
machinery.
=Merrick, Leonard.= Lynch’s daughter. †$1.50. McClure.
8–29737.
A story of tainted millions. Lynch’s daughter, an American girl, weds
a poor English artist who gains her consent to refuse one cent from a
father who is known as “the devastating trust magnate, the debaucher
of politics, the infamous multi-millionaire.” Her trials under the
strain of poverty lead her to a period of estrangement from her
husband during which she returns to her father, is solaced for a time,
then suffers remorse, renounces her wealth, and, finally finds full
compensation in her husband’s love and genius.
* * * * *
“May be read without dread and with pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 580. D. 10, ’08. 270w.
“As a whole, we have found ‘Lynch’s daughter’ superior alike in charm
and verity to ‘The worldlings.’ Take it as a fantasy, if you can, make
allowances for its appeal to the commoner kind of readers if you will,
and you will find much in it to repay perusal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“It is not a great work of art, but Mr. Merrick may be congratulated
on having produced a book which is thoroughly entertaining, while at
the same time depicting every-day life with homely fidelity.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Merrill, Lilburn.= Winning the boy; with an introd. by Judge Ben B.
Lindsey. **75c. Revell.
8–11441.
“The author has brought together, in an entertaining and instructive
manner, some stories and essays on boy life that every parent,
teacher, and other individual interested in children should read. No
man is better equipped, and in my judgment, more capable of speaking
and writing helpfully and wisely upon the subject than Dr.
Merrill.”—Introd.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Is in very truth a book, as the publishers declare on the cover, ‘for
every parent, teacher or person interested in children.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Merrill, Selah.= Ancient Jerusalem. **$6. Revell.
8–10618.
Dr. Merrill thru the years of his exploration and later consulship
devoted himself to his study of the ancient topography of Jerusalem.
“The gist of Dr. Merrill’s thesis is that ... the original city of
Jerusalem lay not on the eastern, or Temple, hill, but northward of
the present Zion, or westerly hill, in the neighborhood of the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre; and that the Acra, which play so prominent a
part in the story of the Maccabean contests, was located at this
spot.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His view’s on many points are striking, and his presentation is
original and interesting.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Few scholars probably will accept Dr. Merrill’s general conclusions,
and in details he contributes little to our knowledge of Jerusalem not
already available in other volumes.”
− =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“Dr. Merrill is quite out of sympathy with modern views, and
especially with modern views of the date and composition of Old
Testament books, and on that account he fails to use the Bible
effectively in his topographical studies. Moreover, his whole
presentation is one-sided; he cites only that which tends to support
his positions.”
− =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The author has viewed the subject from all sides, and given his
conclusions in a scholarly form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“Dr. Merrill’s noble work has a value that can hardly be
overestimated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1.
Houghton.
7–37945.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It should be in large libraries or in any library whose patrons have
special interest in the subject, because of its compact summary of
arguments.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 716. My. ’08. 250w.
“A careful and dispassionate piece of work.” J: J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 950w.
“A clear and concise presentation of the problem.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 160w.
“A better brief than this in defense of the Inter-state commerce
commission has hardly been produced. Dr. Merritt’s book is scholarly
and useful.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 860. D. 28, ’07. 510w.
“A useful review of the chief decisions of the Interstate commerce
commission. Not only is the book out of date, but some of its
statements are questionable.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Metcalfe, Richard Lee.= “Of such is the kingdom,” and other stories
from life. 3d ed. $1. Richard L. Metcalfe, Lincoln, Neb.
7–37252.
An optimistic tone pervades this book which draws the mind of man from
selfishness and brutality, hypocrisy and insincerity, double dealing
and lack of candor to the temple of childhood where there is sincerity
and truth, to the “Kingdom of never grow old” where there is relief
from the meanness and the malice of the world.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Prolongation of life: optimistic studies.
*$2.50. Putnam.
8–12571.
Pasteur’s successor here continues his warfare against disease, old
age and death. “Although Metchnikoff in this new book does not claim
to have made the ultimate discovery in biology that will at once
conquer the evils of disease and death, nevertheless he does reach
certain definite conclusions as to the causes for the relatively short
duration of human life, and having found what he believes to be these
causes he makes what are at least tentative suggestions looking to
their modification.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“The work is suggestive.” Scott Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 456. S. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Chalmers Mitchell has performed his task as a translator in a
most satisfactory manner, for the book reads as though it had been
written in English.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 624. N. 16. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“Although Professor Metchnikoff’s book is important on account of its
topic, and interesting and suggestive in its treatment of it, it is
impossible to praise it very highly from a literary standpoint.” T. D.
A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 270. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“The book deserves a wide and careful study.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 314. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The book is one that will be widely read by the general public on
account of its frank and simple style, altho he makes no effort to
dodge the use of scientific terms or to palliate his conclusions to
meet popular taste.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 864. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“While an ultra-materialist, Metchnikoff is enthusiastically
optimistic as to the future of the race, and his work is a help toward
ideal living.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 371. D. 6, ’07. 1030w.
“He writes with the spirit of a seeker after truth. His book, while
highly suggestive, is intended to be neither exhaustive nor
conclusive. Its purpose is rather to point out the problems of somatic
limitations, and the principles involved in attempting their ultimate
solution.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 710w.
“A remarkable book in many ways. The whole range of literature is
ransacked by the author, and the facts and opinions collected are
discussed with an originality, a width of view, and knowledge that
give the book an especial fascination and constantly arrest the
attention.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 289. Ja. 30, ’08. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 25. Ja. 18, ’08. 2900w.
“When he comes finally to discourse upon morality, he illustrates
afresh the unwisdom of specialists who disregard the maxim ‘Let the
shoemaker stick to his last.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag: 1, ’08. 440w.
Reviewed by Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 233. N. ’08. 1550w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 244. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
“It is to be regretted that Professor Metchnikoff has not more clearly
defined his use of such purely relative terms as ‘pessimism’ and
‘optimism;’ but whatever meaning he attaches to the word ‘pessimism,’
whether he regards it as an attitude of the mind or as a matured
judgment arrived at only after study of life’s problems, we absolutely
dispute the assumption that the intellectual world is at present
pessimist.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 1250w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The work of a partizan who is unable to write disinterestedly, but
the only available book on an exceedingly interesting and important
subject. The facts are fairly accurate, but twisted out of their
natural meaning and import.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 15. Ja. ’08.
“It is highly probable that if the evidence has been given its proper
weight the dark picture here presented might prove less sombre.” S: E.
Sparling.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 300w.
“His conclusions are in the main directly contrary to those of the
recent commission appointed to investigate public ownership in Great
Britain.”
− =Arena.= 39: 122. Ja. ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by J. W. Garner.
=Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Is worthy of the most serious consideration by every student of
municipal affairs.” F. L. McVey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 128. Je. ’08. 360w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 450w.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“It is, in fact, giving more credit to Mr. Meyer than is his
due—perhaps more than he himself would claim—to describe his book as a
study of the working of state ownership of telegraphs. It is an
examination of some of the weaknesses of the system, with an
overemphasis on each of the defects exposed.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 256. Ja. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“He is a prosecuting attorney rather than a judge, and it must be
admitted that his indictment is thorough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 360w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 341. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great
Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Brings together an important mass of material which is combined and
treated in such a way as to produce a distinctly partizan and
prejudiced piece of work. Useful for debate because the preponderance
of published matter on the subject takes the other side of the
question.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Will prove of great help to those who wish to marshall on one side
all that can be said against public management. Room is left for a
more rounded and judicial treatment of the subject.” E: W. Bemis.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 527. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“An ably written, extremely partisan brief.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 530w.
“As pictured by Mr. Meyer, there is no redeeming feature in the long
chronicle of stupidity, ignorance, incapacity, mismanagement, and
political intrigue which make up the state operation of these
industries. As may be imagined, such a black case against government
management of industry is not secured without some distortion of
facts; statistics abound and give a ‘vraisemblance’ of finality to the
discussion, but a careful selection of only those favorable to his
case absolutely vitiates the conclusion.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“Mr. Meyer pays little heed to this attitude of English people toward
expenditure, and attributes the lack of progress in telephone
development to the muddle-headedness of the government.”
− =Ind.= 64: 257. Ja. 30, ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book is rather a curious sample of social psychology than
a useful contribution to a solution of the telephone problem.” J. R.
Commons.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 631. N. ’08. 900w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 670w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29. ’08. 1300w.
=Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Servia and the Servians. *$3. Page.
“The volume consists of chapters on the history, religion, and
national characteristics of the people, including special chapters on
the peasant, the music, the literature, and the economic possibilities
of Servia. An appendix contains a specimen of the Servian national
poems and of Servian folklore, and gives some interesting statistical
information of the most recent data upon the country of King Peter.
There are sixteen full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs
taken by the author, landscape views and peasant type.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 569. My. 9. 880w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
“He has written of them sympathetically, of course, but at the same
time with discrimination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 250w.
=Miles, George Henry.= Review of Hamlet. **$1. Longmans.
7–39206.
A new edition of a work which appeared in 1870. “Miles sees in Hamlet
superb intellectual strength and a strong and tender conscience which
guides the whole course of the prince’s conduct. And, he argues, the
secret of the tragedy’s hold on men is that it mirrors forth the
struggle between passion and conscience, and the sharp antithesis
between fate and Providence; and throws across the action of life the
deep shadow of the world to come.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“There is more education in this book than is to be found in many
specimens of what are called, through courtesy or bland presumption,
courses of English literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 693. F. ’08. 880w.
“It throws light upon aspects of the play which the great army of
Shakespearian critics have left exceedingly dark.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4. ’08. 640w.
=Millais, John Guille.= Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. il.
*$6. Longmans.
8–3111.
“Primarily for hunters and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the
country and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But Mr. Millais
has also much to tell of the daily life of the islanders and the
customs of the Micmac Indians, of whom he has made a special study....
There are a dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and
nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either by Mr. Millais
or photographed.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Makes the reader interested in his adventures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 70w.
=Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“To all who wish to know about Newfoundland and her attractions for
the tourist, the man of business, or the sportsman, we can strongly
recommend Millais’s book. It is the best work that has ever been
written on the natural history of the island.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“In works of the present nature, Mr. Millais is at his best; and his
best, alike with pen and pencil, is, it is almost unnecessary to say,
very good indeed.” R. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 223. Ja. 9, ’08. 400w.
“It is a breath-taking experience to pass with Mr. Millais into the
virgin forest, to see with his eyes, and, without the dangers and
discomforts, to enjoy with him the fascination of the big game hunt.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“We like the book above all else for a quality which goes very near to
mysticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 950w.
“If it is the mark of a good travel book to make the reader earnestly
desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful
work, Mr. Millais’s vivid narrative, and a wealth of beautiful
illustrations, convey a most attractive picture of the island and its
sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 673. Ap. 25, ’08. 1400w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= City of delight: a love drama of the siege
and fall of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–9528.
Against the historical background of the fall of Jerusalem, Miss
Miller has sketched a romance of compelling charm. The hero,
Philadelphus, a Judean prince, great grandson of Judas Maccabeus, was
wedded at the age of ten to a child of four. After fourteen years of
separation they are to be reunited in Jerusalem whither Laodice is
conducted by a treacherous servant who plays into the hands of Salome
bent upon usurping Laodice’s place. At the same time a jealous cousin
leaves Philadelphus for dead, hastens to Jerusalem and also becomes a
usurper. For the rest of the tale it is a battle royal, attended by
confusion, between the revived Philadelphus and Laodice and their
enemies Salome and the pretender.
* * * * *
“The story is far inferior to ‘The yoke.’ though we think it is almost
as good as ... ‘Saul of Tarsus.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“The plan is a good one, the story interesting, the setting admirably
chosen. If the execution were only as good as the design! Even as it
is, the glint of historic interest gives the book a welcome dignity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
“In descriptive detail and collocation of events it holds its own with
many similar novels which are called classics. The author has observed
consistency throughout. There is a simple but dramatic plot, few
characters, and every evidence of sincerity. It is to be hoped that
the book will find the appreciation it deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The book is the strongest and best written Miss Miller has so far
done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Miller, Elmer Isaiah.= Legislature of the province of Virginia: its
internal development. (Columbia univ. Studies in history,
economics and public law.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–1371.
An historical account of the subject from the beginning of the
government of Virginia to the revolution of 1776.
* * * * *
“A methodical and useful study, though the author makes dull reading
of the development of our chief colonial legislature, whose history
might easily be made interesting.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 90w.
“There is one slip in the very learned and valuable monograph.” H. E.
E.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 617. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A very interesting and readable contribution.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Miller, Frank Justus.= Two dramatizations from Vergil: 1, Dido—the
Phoenician queen; 2, The fall of Troy; arranged and translated
into English verse. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29879.
Includes “Dido: an epic tragedy” which appeared in 1900, and also a
new dramatization, The fall of Troy. It is a helpful supplement to the
text for classes in Vergil, and affords a play which has been staged
with satisfactory results.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= The
bird our brother. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–14948.
Information which goes to reveal the bird’s kinship with the human
family is treated here in a popular sense for the general reader.
Chapters treat of the bird’s individuality, intelligence, language,
altruism, education, affections, courtship, home, amusements, means of
defense and attack, odd ways, equipment, and usefulness to us.
* * * * *
“A unique addition to bird literature, which will be interesting to
the adult bird-lover, but will not appeal to readers in general as do
the author’s earlier and more individual writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“It will be a valuable defense for those who uphold the same theories,
though for pure delight in the reading one cannot help grudging the
pages that are thus taken from the writer’s record of her own
discoveries.” M. E. Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The modern psychologist will undoubtedly question the author’s point
of view in reading so much human life into bird life; but aside from
this possible quibble about interpretations, the book is certainly
interesting reading, and forms a good climax to the series of books
which this author has contributed.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1295. Je. 4, ’08. 180w.
“It seems invidious to criticise such an excellent book, but it must
be confessed that the author is somewhat handicapped in her efforts to
preserve a dispassionate attitude by her ardent affection for the
world of birds.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Will surely add to her reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
* =Miller, Kelly.= Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2.
Neale.
8–24845.
Nineteen essays which discuss the various phases of the negro problem,
and the questions that enter into a full solution. Some of the
chapters are as follows: Radicals and conservatives; As to the
leopard’s spots; An appeal to reason on the race problem; The negro’s
part in the negro problem; Social equality; Religion as a solvent of
the race problem; Rise of the professional class; Eminent negroes;
What Walt Whitman means to the negro; The artistic gifts of the negro;
A brief for the higher education of the negro; Roosevelt and the
negro.
=Milligan, Rev. George.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Thessalonians:
the Greek text; with introd. and notes. *$2.60. Macmillan.
A commentary and exegesis. “Two purposes are apparent in the present
commentary on Thessalonians, one to follow Swete, Mayor, and Robinson
in filling up what was lacking in the task which Lightfoot, Westcott,
and Hort had set before themselves; the other, to bring to bear upon
the language and grammar of the Thessalonian letters the results of
the author’s investigations in papyri, inscriptions, and ostraca.”
(Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“Thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject, catholicity
of outlook, caution in the expression of opinion, and a distinct
winsomeness in the personal equation are in evidence throughout the
book.” J. E. Frame.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 487. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“Is especially welcome, since the need of it was great.” G. E. French.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 942. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“This is a most careful contribution to the exegesis of the New
Testament.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 268. F. 15, ’08. 360w.
=Milligan, Robert H.= Jungle folk of Africa. **$1.50. Revell.
8–25385.
Impressions gained during seven years of missionary work in West
Africa. “He dissents from the view he has found presented in recently
published books about the Dark Continent, that its people are
physically ugly, mentally stupid, morally repulsive, and everlastingly
uninteresting ... and pictures the Africans he met as a very
interesting people, constituted, like the rest of us, with brain and
soul and capacity of one sort and another not essentially different
from his own. He rates these people as human beings, and finds many of
them distinctly lovable.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is as readable and interesting a book of travel as one can wish for.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor,
and literary quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The book is entertaining and far more illuminating than many of the
travelers’ accounts that have appeared in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 90w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Mills, John.= Short university course
in electricity, sound and light. *$2. Ginn.
8–31127.
A course built up around laboratory outline which represents one
semester’s work. The method is analytical rather than descriptive, and
the book contains sixteen chapters on electricity, five on sound and
seven on light.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Avesta eschatology compared with the
books of Daniel and Revelations; being supplementary to
Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenids and Israel. 50c. Open ct.
8–5564.
“In this thin octavo the aged Zend scholar gives his conclusion that
the doctrines of angels, devils, the resurrection and the eternal life
were adopted by the Jews at the time of the exile from the religion of
Media and Persia.” (Ind.) “This work ... ought to be a reliable source
of information regarding Zoroastrian conceptions of the future.” (Bib.
World.)
* * * * *
“The work is valuable as a compendious statement of the more important
teachings of Zoroastrianism.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 524. Jl. ’08. 130w.
“The biblical side of the treatment is too largely fanciful.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 30w.
“The author often sees parallelisms that are not convincing, and his
arguments are at times inconclusive. The book is not easy reading, but
deserves critical study, for Mills was one of the best Zend scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“This essay ... presents a peculiarly interesting chapter in the study
of comparative religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Van Rensselaers of old Manhattan. **$1.50.
Stokes.
7–38597.
A novel set in “the days of New York when brocades, powder and patches
were worn.... The heroine rejoices in the name of India, and is a
hoyden, as her starched old Tory relative appropriately but impolitely
informs her. Still, she is so attractive that her path is literally
besieged by the gallants of the day.... The other characters include
the hero, a young Tory of fallen fortunes, a desperate and most
repulsive villain, and an actress; while George Washington appears
upon the scene, though very cursorily.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The whole is in the style of an acute Christmas card many times
multiplied. Incidentally there is some text.”
− =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. ’07. 50w.
“There is very little plot, too much declamation, and a constant
striving to produce atmosphere that is too apparent and therefore
fails of its effect.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 180w.
* =Milman, Lena. Sir Christopher Wren.= (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
A life of Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect of St. Paul’s
cathedral, for which the material has been carefully sifted, and which
benefits by the present day view-point and triumph of photography.
* * * * *
“Miss Milman has written a most interesting life of a fascinating
personality.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 340w.
“Upon the whole, the biography justifies itself. It was well worth
doing, and it is done well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 900w.
=Milne, John Stewart.= Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman
times. *$4.75. Oxford.
8–9768.
A first venture into an untried region. “From all available ancient
authors who touched on medical matters Milne has collected the
references which throw light on the description or use of an
appliance. This material he supplements by illustrations from the more
important museums and collections of Europe. In the text the
instruments are grouped under suitable divisions, but no account is
taken of devices for the reduction of deformities, or of splints and
related appliances.” (Nation.) The volume is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“A useful and interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Milne had virtually a virgin soil, and he has worked it in a
thoroughly scientific manner until it has yielded a rich harvest.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 1000w.
“Learned and interesting treatise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1100w.
“An attractive study of the subject. Although the book itself is well
indexed, the plates are not indexed, so that to find any figure is a
matter of some difficulty. The bibliography, which appears to have
been put together somewhat hurriedly, pays too little attention to
journalistic literature.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Milne has done his work so well and so accurately that as this
monograph is the first dealing with the subject it must remain for a
long time the standard authority until further finds prove or disprove
some of the disputable conclusions drawn by the author. The monograph
presupposes a considerable amount of knowledge on the part of the
reader. He must in the first place be skilled in the practice of his
profession, he must be interested in its antiquities, and he must be a
fair classic. These qualifications being granted, the book is most
excellent reading, and throws abundant light, not only on the subject
of which it treats, but also on many collateral points.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Mincoff, Mrs. Elizabeth, and Marriage, Margaret S.= Pillow lace: a
practical handbook. *$5. Dutton.
8–5855.
Not a book for connoisseurs, but a guide to amateurs in the actual
making of lace. “The first chapters contain a short historical survey
of the art of lace-making from its earliest known period, that is to
say about the year 1520; also brief accounts of its manufacture in
different countries and towns. The rest of the book, from the third
chapter to the last, is entirely practical, describing tools and
methods of lace-making, and giving a large number of patterns with
full explanations, and working diagrams, and directions for tracing
and rubbing.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The book is the first in English treating the subject especially from
the viewpoint of the maker.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“The authors have very sensibly made their explanations as short as
possible, relying much on the excellent diagrams.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 199. F. 15. 1270w.
“The book has practical interest for those who wish to teach art
industries to women who need to become self-supporting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 170w.
“Those who desire to know and apply the principles underlying a large
class of laces, will find it an almost inexhaustible treasure house.
Though a little bulky, it is a practical manual.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Mincoff’s book is somewhat expensive in proportion to the cost
of the tools, but it is well and fully illustrated, and we hope that
it will have the effect of persuading women to be industrious in a
useful artistic way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 85. J. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The lessons are carefully graduated and clearly expressed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=Ming, Rev. John Joseph.= Characteristics and the religion of modern
socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–16212.
A book whose aim is that of stimulating inquiry to the end of reaching
reliable conclusions concerning the moral and religious attitude of
contemporary socialists. The discussion falls under two heads, The
characteristics of modern socialism and The religion of socialism.
* * * * *
“Father Ming has drawn up a powerful arraignment, amply sustained with
testimony, against atheistic socialism; and it will serve the purpose
of warning Catholics against it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 544. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“The author’s own religious belief appears to have biased his
treatment of the subject.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 80w.
=Minot, Charles Sedgwick.= Problem of age, growth, and death: a
study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell institute,
March, 1907. (Science ser., no. 21.) **$2.50. Putnam.
8–24260.
Presents arguments and evidence to support the following laws and
corollary: “First, rejuvenation depends on the increase of the nuclei.
Second, senescence depends on the increase of the protoplasm and on
the differentiation of the cells. Third, the rate of growth depends on
the degree of senescence. Fourth, senescence is at its maximum in the
very young stages, and the rate of senescence diminishes with age. As
the corollary from these, we have this—natural death is the
consequence of cellular differentiation.”
* * * * *
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Possesses a more or less general and popular interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
“With his usual skill and lucidity the author develops his views
concerning these questions which he has studied carefully for many
years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 320w.
=Mistral, Frederic.= Memoirs of Mistral, 1830–1877; rendered into
English by Constance E. Maud, with Lyrics from the Provençal by
Alma Strettell. *$3.50. Baker.
8–8543.
“The memoirs of Mistral not only recount the steps which were taken by
him and his confrères in the Felibres movement, but they are filled
also with charming details of Provençal farm life, the legends and
primitive customs of the Provençal peasantry; there are many little
personal anecdotes that give a picturesque view of some of the poet’s
experiences at school and on the paternal farm, and his amusing
contact with some of his peasant neighbors. The whole leaves the
reader with the belief that there may still be room for the romantic
troubadour, the follower of the ‘Gay science’ in our modern
civilization.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A book of quite unusual charm, but not essential to the economical
library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 105. Ap. ’08.
“Admirably translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 577. N. 9. 1300w.
“The book has (to give it the highest of all praise) charm: it
captivates the reader and holds his attention to the end. Miss Maud’s
translation is smooth, but ... not always grammatical.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 36. Ja. 16, ’08. 2440w.
“A delightful volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“Throughout full of interest and charm.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 751. Mr. ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“Miss Maud adds some footnotes. For the duplicate note on the ‘trees
of liberty’ and the somewhat vague note on ‘les Aliscamps,’ it might
have been well to substitute a note on the meaning of that puzzling
word ‘Félibrige.’ But good service has been done. To read about the
man who knows so much about his country and feels so truly about it is
a fine antidote to an English winter; refreshing too to get new
knowledge about a literary revival so spontaneous, so free from the
squalor of politics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 700. D. 7, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck.= Mosquito life: the habits and life
cycles of known mosquitoes of the United States. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–39002.
An account based on the investigations of the late James William
Dupree, surgeon-general of Louisiana and upon original observations by
the author. “The book is replete with information concerning the
mosquitoes of the United States, especially those of New York, New
Jersey, and Louisiana. The anatomy of the adults, larvæ, and pupæ is
described, and an illuminating account of their habits, flight, and
breeding-places is given in detail. The relation of mosquitoes to
malaria, yellow fever, elephantiasis, and other diseases, is treated
in a popular way, and a description of the means of control of these
pests is supplemented with an account of their principal enemies.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The drawings would have been more useful if magnifications had been
given, and more acceptable from a technical point of view if more
contrast had been employed, and if the direction of lighting had been
consistently used, at least in contiguous drawings.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 214. Ap. 1, ’08. 380w.
“An entertaining (although loosely written) book about the subject in
general.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“One may learn from this book a great deal about the lives of
mosquitoes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“For health inspectors, for those interested in sanitation generally
and for physicians this book will be especially useful. On the whole
this is a very useful book; with plenty of faults and an abundance of
points that might be criticised if criticism is fault-finding; but
altogether considered it is commendable.” J: B. Smith.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 22. Jl. 3, ’08. 780w.
=Mitchell, Henry Bedinger.= Talks on religion: a collective enquiry,
recorded by H: Bedinger Mitchell. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–14747.
“A group of fifteen friends in council meet monthly for a comparison
of views on fundamental questions about religion. The group includes
men in scientific, literary, church, and business life, some of them
university professors and men of international reputation.” (Outlook.)
These “talks” show the manner in which they grapple with religious and
philosophical questions of the day. “They exhibit both skeptical and
constructive thinking at their best, they tend to clear the air of
religious thought.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This book is of exceptional interest because of the place of its
origin, the personnel of its speakers, and the subject-matter of its
discussions.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 488. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“It is a highly stimulating book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by G: A. Coe.
=J. Philos.= 5: 661. N. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“It would be impossible to indicate adequately in the course of a
single review the rich variety of theme, felicity of expression, and
breadth of spirit which characterize ‘Talks on religion.’” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 614. O. ’08. 2200w.
“For those who lack the opportunities of mental sharpening in the
private discussions of cultured minds this volume is a most attractive
substitute.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Red city: a novel of the second
administration of President Washington. †$1.50. Century.
8–30709.
Philadelphia is the scene of this story of Washington’s second
administration in which Hugh Wynne and Aunt Gainor reappear. The hero
is a Huguenot émigré who with his mother is grief-stricken over the
wanton murder of his father at Avignon by the revolutionists. His life
in a Quaker home and love for a Quaker maiden, his work in Hugh
Wynne’s employ, his relation to affairs of state, and his methods of
avenging his father’s death suggest the outline of the tale steeped in
the atmosphere of the times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08. ✠
“In French matters, he slips occasionally. It is a real story of real
human interest, and its action is often exciting beyond the limits of
Quaker sobriety.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 456. D. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“A book full of charm and feeling, a novel which is less a novel than
a panorama of a brick-built town.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 699. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
=Mitchell, Wesley Clair.= Gold, prices and wages under the greenback
standard. (Univ. of Cal. publications in economics, v. 1.) *$5.
Univ. of Cal.
8–14358.
“Contains five chapters of text covering a total of 283 pages (with
the included statistics), the remainder of the book being given over
to elaborate statistical tables showing rates of wages, relative
prices, etc.... Dr. Mitchell describes his volume as ‘the statistical
apparatus of a book still to be written,’ the chapters of the text
being intended merely to expound the nature of the figures and the
modes of getting the results.” (Econ Bull.)
* * * * *
“Such a pace as is here set for the academic monograph will be hard to
follow.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 60w.
“It is not too much to say that, taking the present volume with his
earlier contribution, he has done the most satisfactory piece of work
on the history of the greenbacks and their effects that has yet
appeared, and in the course of so doing has contributed something to
the process of putting American price statistics upon a rather better
basis.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 137. Je. ’08. 660w.
“In fact, the book is beyond praise.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 629. N. ’08. 950w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker. 7–28500.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Dr. Miyakawa’s object in writing the book is clearly one of which all
progressive men of both nationalities must approve, that of bringing
the two peoples to a clear understanding of each other, and the work
is well calculated to fulfil this object.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja, ’08. 150w.
“In structure, style and dress, shows just what a book ought not to
be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 44. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
“Though the text does not impress one as having as great originality
and influence as some other books on Japan, there is in it a certain
forcefulness and even fascination, for in it we learn the better to
appreciate the peculiar Japanese way of looking at men and things.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people; Congress,
President, and courts (according to the evolution of
constitutional construction). 2d ed., rev. **$2.50. Baker.
8–24433.
Constitutional government of the United States as viewed by a Japanese
attorney. The edition has been carefully revised thruout. All
criticisms, objections and controverted points have been thoroly
considered; all sections and some chapters have been abridged and
additions made; and changes from technical to popular form have been
made to suit the better a wide range of readers.
=Moffett, Cleveland.= King in rags. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–36249.
A sociological story whose three leading characters maintain
respectively the following attitudes toward the question of poverty:
Poverty is an ugly beast ... created by the greedy and luxurious rich
for their own undoing; poverty is the lot of the weak and unworthy,
the survival of the unfittest; poverty would disappear if there were a
fair division of the products of toil.
* * * * *
“The main defect of the book is its sentimentalism—a pit into which
reformers are apt to fall. But, despite its inconsistencies and
improbabilities, it is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 253. F. 29. 150w.
“It is assuredly not a commanding exposition of its theme or in any
large way sensational. But while obviously, even naïvely, a vehicle
for a moral, the story slips along so easily that it affords no chance
to escape the appalling facts it marshals relating to the conditions
of labor and living in our city.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“One derives the impression that the author grew a bit tired of ‘A
king in rags’ before he put the cap to his climax. Nevertheless, a
novel the interest of which does not flag through nine-tenths of its
unfolding is worthy of serious consideration. Let it be said that Mr.
Moffett’s first novel, though not, perhaps a great achievement, is, at
the very least, a most brilliant promise.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the
earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; translated from
the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. pt. 3, 2v. *$5. McClurg.
Two volumes constituting the third and last instalment of Molmenti’s
history. It treats fully of Venice and its decadence.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“They are probably the most elaborate and instructive volumes on
Venetian manners and customs yet attempted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo, and Ludwig, Gustav.= Life and works of
Vittorio Carpaccio: tr. by Robert H. H. Cust. *$15. Dutton.
8–14763.
A volume “of archaeological and artistic interest” which has appeared
with the revival of Carpaccio. Its keynote is the faithful manner in
which the painter mirrored in his pictures the Venetian life of the
fifteenth century.
* * * * *
“The one quality lacking in this otherwise admirable book [is] that of
a convincing system of critical argument in support of the authors’
often plausible views.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 134. F. 1. 1270w.
“Pictorially as well as from the point of view of scholarship the work
is exhaustive.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“English readers are fortunate in having put before them Mr. Cust’s
skilful and admirable translation of this excellent work.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 620w.
“It is sure to take rank as the standard work on the long-neglected
master of whom it treats.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 335. F. ’08. 400w.
“The book is a notable addition to the body of historical art
criticism, and the translator, Robert H. Hobart Cust is to be highly
commended for having placed this volume within the reach of the
English reading public in a version that is at once readable and
authoritative.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 800w.
“It is just as important to unearth an old friendship as it is to
unearth an old picture. Professor Molmenti’s sumptuous volume does
both. The most important-looking of the season’s books on art.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“It is exhaustive, laborious, and learned. But though we leave the
book satiated with facts relating to the externals of the work of
Carpaccio, we feel that we are unsatisfied.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 643. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
=Molnár, Ferencz.= Devil; adapted by Oliver Herford. *$1. Kennerley.
8–26860.
A three act play adapted from the Hungarian by Oliver Herford. The
devil in the guise of a modern society man takes a hand in overcoming
whatever of resolution and honorable purpose remain in the minds of a
man and woman who are wrestling with the temptation of forbidden love.
* * * * *
“Oliver Herford’s adaption of Ferencz Molnar’s play ... is on the
whole rather a clumsy effort. Points which probably gave value to the
original have been considerably blunted in translation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
“It bears the same marks of haste as the stage production. Grammatical
and typographical errors abound, speeches are assigned to the wrong
persons, and even the leading characters are misnamed.”
− =Outlook.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
* =Monckton, C. C. F.= Radio-telegraphy. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“Contains a general exposition of the principles underlying the
subject, together with a description of a large amount of the
apparatus and methods used by the various companies.” (Nature.)
“Although not so complete as Prof. J. A. Fleming’s work, it gives the
general reader a good account of the rapid progress in the new art of
wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Monckton is successful in making his exposition of the various
systems of transmission and reception, now in use, intelligible to the
non-scientific reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on having written a very
interesting and valuable book.” C. C. G.
+ =Nature.= 78: 505. S. 24, ’08. 1050w.
=Montgomery, Harry Earl.= Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
The trust problem, freight-rate problem, government ownership, labor
problem, and the negro problem are five vital problems discussed with
calm, sane and deliberate judgment.
* * * * *
“The reader will find the proposed remedies set forth with more
reasonableness than the rather assertive confidence of the author’s
language might suggest; while the array of statistical and other data
gives the book a value for popular reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Rev. Henry Hutchinson=, ed. Mankind and the church;
being an attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to
the fulness of the church of God, by seven bishops. *$2.25.
Longmans.
“Two Indian bishops, the archbishop of the West Indies, a bishop in
Japan, another who was for some years in China, and the bishop of New
Guinea speak of the Anglican communion as they have seen it in their
dioceses, its strength, its weakness, its successes, and its failures.
They speak for the Mohammedans and the Hindus of India, for the
Japanese and the Chinese, for the negroes, and for the population,
other than Malay, of the largest island of the Pacific.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is written in a manner which will give enjoyment to every
cultivated reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 260. My. ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“Highly interesting and valuable introduction furnished by Bishop
Montgomery.”
+ =Spec.= 89: 994. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.= Anne of Green Gables. $1.50. Page.
8–18572.
“A farmer in Prince Edward’s island ordered a boy from a Nova Scotia
asylum, but the order got twisted and the result was that a girl was
sent the farmer instead of a boy. That girl is the heroine of this
story.” (N. Y. Times.) “Anne is a sort of Canadian ‘Rebecca of
Sunnybrook farm’ in her imaginativeness, love of high-flown language,
and propensity to get into scrapes. But the book is by no means an
imitation; it has plenty of originality and character.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A story that all girls from 12 to 15, and many grown-ups, will
enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“The author’s probable intention was to exhibit a unique development
in this little asylum waif, but there is no real difference between
the girl at the end of the story and the one at the beginning of it.
All the other characters in the book are human enough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
“It will please grown-up people quite or nearly as well as the
school-girls for whom it is primarily designed. It ought to have a
wide reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Moody, Walter.= Men who sell things; observations and experiences
of over twenty years as travelling salesman, European buyer, sales
manager, employer. **$1. McClurg.
7–41593.
A book of sound advice which is the outcome of knowing every round of
the ladder. Alertness and poise are the salesman’s essentials acquired
“thru the natural law of infinite patience, constant study of new
conditions, clear adaptation of means to ends, infinite devotion to
instant duty, and absolute fidelity to his house as it is and yet may
be.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“While the book is not of a technical nature, nevertheless the fact
that so many engineers are connected with the selling departments of
their firms ... will make it one of value to many technical men.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Trial marriage. 75c. Empire book co.
8–19570.
“The author’s aim in this novel seems to be to demonstrate how
inevitable are the fetters of law and custom which, forged at the dawn
of civilization, have now linked themselves into the life and thought
of the twentieth century; we are, he maintains, so strongly bound in
many ways that a return to more primitive usage would be
impossible.... With regard to the scientific care and education of the
young, Mr. Moore puts forth theories not yet advocated by the most
advanced socialist, only to demonstrate their futility.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“We think that he has thus fallen between two stools, and has written
neither interesting fiction nor a useful political tract.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 170w.
“We are told that in England Mr. Moore is considered witty but this
does not appear in [this book], although [it] is full of dialogue into
which much glitter has been introduced. It is not the glitter of a
naturally brilliant man, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 1170w.
=Spec.= 99: 267. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Passing of Morocco. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–21029.
An account of the recent outbreak in Morocco and the resulting French
expeditions, interspersed with descriptions of Moroccan life.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“One point only is made which we have not seen sharply brought out
elsewhere, and that is the ruthlessness with which the French have
been carrying on the campaign against the Shawia tribesmen.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 40w.
“Here is an eyewitness worth hearing. Mr. Moore, we think, has a more
pliant and engaging style than before.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 748. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
=Moore, James Hall.= Defence of the Mecklenburg declaration of
independence. *$1.50. Stone & Barringer co.
8–17535.
An attempt to prove the authenticity of the documents which
Carolinians hold to have been drawn up by the citizens of the county
of Mecklenburg, May 20, 1775, in which they declared their
independence of England. The author storms the Hoyt strongholds of
opposition and incidentally throws light on some of the obscure phases
of the revolution.
* * * * *
“Mr. Moore adds almost no new facts to the controversy, and his
literary skill is not large.”
− =Ind.= 65: 98. Jl. 9, ’08. 320w.
“He possesses neither the historical sense nor the critical acumen of
Mr. Hoyt. As a complete expression of what can be said in favor of the
declaration his book has value.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It is difficult to see where he has made any impression on Mr. Hoyt’s
position, which is practically that taken by Adams and Jefferson.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 411. Jl. 25, ’08. 1550w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Moore’s book is to the pro-Mecklenburg
literature what Mr. Hoyt’s is to the anti-Mecklenburg—the best that
has yet been published.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Delftware, Dutch and English. **$1. Stokes.
8–26011.
The initial volume in “The collector’s handbooks” series. It is a
guide to many styles of Delftware, explains its nature and tells the
story of its production from 1672 to the present time, including
Oriental influence and the origin of designs for decoration.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Moore’s book has been judiciously and interestingly compiled.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“Follows the plan of her earlier books in its chief features and is
quite up to her standard.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Moore, Norman.= History of the study of medicine in the British
Isles. *$3.40. Oxford.
The Fitz-Patrick lectures before the Royal college of physicians of
London, for 1905–6. “The inner title, ‘History of the study of
medicine in the British Isles,’ is somewhat misleading, since Dr.
Moore does not attempt to show precisely how practitioners were
trained. What he has done is to pick out various medical men of
different periods, and to sketch partly their training and partly
their methods as indicative of the general state of medical study in
Great Britain at the time.” (Nation.) “The whole is a curious
combination of science, tradition, and what we may, perhaps, call
white magic.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Moore’s volume is rather episodic and biographical than
historical in any broad sense; but what he writes is of extreme
interest, and may well form a basis for further work since he has gone
to original sources for the facts.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 650w.
“It is very creditable to Dr. Norman Moore that he has made time to
consult original authorities, and that he has cast his results into
four such interesting chapters.” D’Arcy Power.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 550. Jl. 08. 1150w.
“An exceedingly entertaining and instructive book, despite the
somewhat rambling and unsystematic treatment.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Moore’s book is a most interesting and scholarly contribution to
the history of medicine.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 25. My. 14, ’08. 1900w.
“All this deserves, and, so excellent is Dr. Moore’s method, will
easily secure, careful attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Moral= training in the public schools. $1.50. Ginn.
7–28175.
Two essays that received respectively first and second prizes offered
by an anonymous California citizen for the best essays written on the
subject.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“This collection of views is well deserving of study for much valuable
pedagogical instruction that it contains. It is, too, a pregnant,
ready-made text for a powerful article in defense of our parochial
schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 824. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“No teacher can afford to neglect a careful reading of the book.” E:
O. Sisson.
+ =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Is distinctly worth reading and reading again.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 103. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, sound, sane, suggestive, instructive, inspiring, seem
to the reviewer the adjectives that most fitly describe this little
book. It is worthy the attention of teachers.” C. T. Lane.
+ =El. School T.= 8: 463. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The volume is a notable contribution to the discussion of moral
education and allied problems, and the simplicity of treatment makes
it easy reading. The absence of an index is to be regretted.” W. S.
Monroe.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 51. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The book deserves attention from parents as well as teachers.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays, 5th. ser. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–14376.
=ser. 5=. A fifth volume of “Shelburne essays.” There are eleven in
number, and they deal with such subjects as The Greek anthology, The
centenary of Longfellow, Dickens, Chesterfield, Gissing, and Donald G.
Mitchell.
* * * * *
“Their literary merit warrants their purchase in book form by larger
libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“In the pages of so accomplished a literary artist as Mr. More one
looks for, and finds, many an apt phrase that lingers in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 15, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The book is a valuable outcome of much knowledge and wise
deliberation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Whatever Mr. More writes, however, has the value of thorough and
competent workmanship; but a little salt of wit, an occasional
lightness of touch, would cheer his readers without weakening the
fiber of his very scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 811. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“One omission it seems to the reviewer has been made: the sectional
conflict in Virginia which paralleled and followed the Stamp act
controversy.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 500w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The writer’s imagination occasionally runs riot when he attempts to
reconstruct the scenes through which the orator of Virginia moved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 823. D. 28. 190w.
“The author also brings in many details of persons and events that
distract attention from the main current of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 240w.
“It is the chief defect of Mr. Morgan’s book that he claims too much,
in too many directions.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 1920w.
“This is a biography which, if somewhat colored by the zeal of
hero-worship, is profitable as well as pleasurable reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morgan, George Campbell.= Analysed Bible. 3v. ea. **$1. Revell.
7–33562.
A commentary to be complete in about thirty volumes which attempts to
preserve a unity by analysing the books of the Bible into large
logical sections. Volumes one to three are as follows: Genesis to
Esther; Job to Malachi; Matthew to Revelation.
* * * * *
“These analyses are always clever, but sometimes at least not
sufficiently supported by the text.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The analyses and titles are generally striking and rhetorical rather
than simply faithful to the works discussed.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 480, Je. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While these three volumes, containing brief introductions to all the
books of scripture, might be useful for a Sunday school Bible class,
yet they are vitiated by an utter lack of criticism, and by a failure
to put the reader at all in touch with the way of regarding the Bible
that should be inevitable to every modern man.” E. S. Drown.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 21, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Morgan, James.= Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28434.
Mr. Morgan aims not to form a history of the civil war, nor to give an
analysis of Lincoln’s character but to write a simple straightforward
story of his life in its true sequence. This plain story of essentials
is a “series of dramatic pictures of the struggles and achievements of
a common man in whom a race of common men is exalted. In the
preparation of his book Mr. Morgan has made use of the various
accessible authorities, presenting those incidents in his hero’s life
which are most significant and essential.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“He tells a story, simple and straightforward—one that will interest
and inspire the young American reader.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Morgan is much more than a faithful compiler. He has points of
view of his own, and seizes with individual judgment upon the facts
worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Morgan tells his story pleasingly, and presents in it a very good
sketch of Lincoln’s remarkable career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 170w.
“We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln. A book
about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and
sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Morley, John.= Critical miscellanies, v. 4. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A group of “fugitive pieces, yet perhaps not altogether without a
clue.” (Preface.) The subjects are as follows: Machiavelli;
Guicciardini; A new calendar of great men; John Stuart Mill, an
anniversary; Lecky on democracy; A historical romance; and Democracy
and reaction. The appendix furnishes explanatory and bibliographical
notes.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08.
“The volume is commended to those who enjoy a literary style of the
highest excellence, allusive yet never obscure, deep reflection
enriched by wide literary knowledge and rendered precise by personal
experience in governmental affairs, fair-minded treatment of opposing
views, and a vindication of political idealism.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 176. O. ’08. 330w.
“A work of real value to serious persons and merits a place in all
well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 330w.
“Lord Morley reflects in every page he writes the influence of the
best culture of the day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 61. Jl. 18. 2000w.
“With his clear style, wide reading and ever present note-book, he is
one of the most delightful of transmitters that we have.” C. M.
Francis.
+ =Bookm=, 28: 146. O. ’08. 2000w.
“The book is good reading and wholesome for us Americans. It will help
us to think straight about some of our own immediate problems,
although it does not deal with any one of them directly.” Brander
Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 213. S. ’08. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 130w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 564. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The charm and value of these essays depend largely on the fact that
they are the product of a rich mind, which has thoroughly digested its
knowledge, and has tested books by experience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 234. S. 10, ’08. 1650w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 360w.
“The great merit of these ‘Miscellanies’—the fine flower of
essay-writing—is that they ‘set men on thinking’ about politics.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 48. Jl. 11, ’08. 2150w.
“We have no other writer with quite the same outlook,—the sane and
broad-minded liberalism, the candour, the earnest desire for the
truth, the tolerance for human imperfections.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 18. Jl. 4, ’08. 1650w.
=Morris, Gouverneur.= Footprint, and other stories. †$1.50.
Scribner.
8–6985.
Eleven stories, creepy and gruesome for the most part, which smack
more of the fatalist’s fancy than of the imagination which
characterizes wholesome adventure. The stories are The footprint,
Paradise ranch, Captain England, The execution, Simon L’Ouvrier, A
Carolina night’s dream, The stowing away of Mr. Bill Ballad, The
explorers, The little heiress, The best man, and The crocodile.
* * * * *
“Gruesome short stories varying in merit. Some of them are decidedly
clever, some grotesque or horrible, and all are more or less
disagreeable, and incline to the morbid.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“Mr. Morris ought to change his course. Nevertheless, I am glad that
before mending his ways he has given us this volume. If these stories
are not great, they are at least different, and their rather highly
spiced originality is welcome to a jaded appetite.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 283. My. ’08. 500w.
“One might discuss at some length Mr. Morris’s methods of fiction, for
they are good methods, and might be studied with profit by many better
known and far more prolific writers of to-day.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“They show Mr. Morris to excel most of the short-story writers of the
day in his use of the Stevenson manner, which he combines with Edgar
Allan Poe matter. The knack of descriptive narration he has in an
uncommon degree, whether his pictures be first hand or not. The sense
of futility is the chief defect of what are otherwise capital tales.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Nine stories of a very depressing aspect. It seems as though the
choicest bits of horror had been suggested by Poe, and the cynicism by
Maupassant.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“Very clever but sometimes intensely disagreeable studies of the
horrible and grotesque.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Morris, Harrison Smith.= Lyrics and landscapes. **$1. Century.
8–12818.
A collection of poems by the author of “Madonna and other poems” and
“Tales from ten poets.” “Mr. Morris strikes his deepest note in
Destiny, a Phi beta kappa poem, although we regret to find in these
dignified verses a veiled apology for our latter-day American
imperialism.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Neat and decorous compositions, not exactly inspired, but mildly
pleasing.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 130w.
“His poems have no great philosophical content, perhaps; but in his
ode to ‘Night’ he succeeds unusually well in a kind of eye and ear
impressionism quite legitimate after its own fashion.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Morrow, William C.= Lentala of the South seas: the romantic tale of
a lost colony. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24468.
A tale of the hardships of a band of colonists cast away on an island
in the South seas. “The book is nothing more than an account of the
savages’ attempts to hoodwink and destroy the white invaders, and the
white men’s final conquest, thanks to the timely aid of a volcano, an
earthquake and a thunder-storm. There is also an adopted daughter of a
cannibal king, who figures somewhat largely in the book.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Somewhat uninspired, and much too long.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 146. O. ’08. 340w.
“Is more or less exciting, but is written in a style whose affectation
of simplicity results in being decidedly irritating.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Morse, Hosea Ballou.= Trade and administration of the Chinese
empire. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–18747.
“Portrays the present state of the Chinese empire, with such record of
the past as will enable the reader better to comprehend the present.”
(Sat. R.) “The two opening chapters, written by the Rev. F. L. Hawks
Potts, President of St. John’s College, at Shanghai, present a
condensed but readable sketch of the history of China from the
earliest times to the present. Mr. Ballou then in a dozen chapters
elucidates the system of government.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A much needed book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“A useful compendium.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 850w.
“Is the first to put into succinct form a fairly complete account of
those practical matters concerning which the man of affairs, whether
of business or of state, most wishes information. The book lacks an
analytical table of contents, which would have greatly enhanced its
value for just those readers for whom it is particularly designed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My 23, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Morse is impartial—as impartial, at any rate, as a man who knows
his subject can be. An eminently informative book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1650w.
=Mosby, John Singleton.= Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg
campaign. **$2. Moffat.
8–8120.
Col. Mosby’s aim is that of clearing the name of Gen. Stuart from
aspersions cast upon it in records made by Gen. Lee’s staff-officers.
It gives a sketch of the battle of Chancellorsville and the cavalry
combat which opened the Gettysburg campaign and justifies Gen.
Stuart’s movements.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“It cannot be said that Col. Mosby proves all his points; but he does
prove some of them, and throws new light on others.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Col. Mosby goes against all the accepted authorities; he takes to
task all of Lee’s biographers and staff officers; he makes raids in
all directions upon historical positions, and he fires volleys here
and there, some of which are effective and some of which go off
harmless into the air.”
− =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 215. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
“Col. Mosby is, of course, a partisan. But his account is interesting,
it brings out neglected aspects of the famous battle.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 1100w.
=Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann, ritter von.= Stories of Jewish home
life. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–40796.
Five stories as follows: Aunt Guttraud, Schlemihlchen, Rav’s Mine,
Jephthah’s daughter, and Rascholchen. In them the great heart of
humanity throbs and goodness triumphs. The settings and colorings are
distinctively Jewish.
* * * * *
“Should be as fascinating to the Gentile reader as many stories of
Gentile hearth and fireside experience have been to the Jews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
=Moses, Bernard.= South America on the eve of emancipation: the
southern Spanish colonies in the last half-century of their
dependence. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15885.
“A sketch of social conditions in South America during the period
immediately preceding the severance of relations with the mother
country. The most interesting chapters are those dealing with the
characteristics of the colonial city and the developments of social
classes under Spanish rule.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Without making any attempt to exhaust the subject, Professor Moses
has succeeded in giving excellent pictures of life and institutions in
the pre-revolutionary era.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 164. O. ’08. 660w.
“This work errs in details, sometimes in essential details. For the
purpose in view, this must be pronounced a very useful and
entertaining little work.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Should be carefully read as an introduction to the study of
Latin-American institutions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 50w.
=Moses, Edith.= Unofficial letters of an official’s wife. **$1.50.
Appleton.
8–29360.
A group of chatty informing letters which the wife of Professor Moses
wrote while residing in Manila during the governorship of Mr. Taft.
One finds all the bits of Philippine “hearsay” most entertainingly set
down, including the appearance and characteristics of the natives,
housekeeping problems, incompetency of servants, discomforts of
climate, social life in Manila, amusements, holiday revelry and
excursions out from Manila.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50.
Kennerley.
7–38221.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It would be too much to expect that all should agree with the
selection of recommended books, but the choices are sane, on the
whole, and if not carefully balanced, and satisfactory in all
particulars, are suggestive. Bibliographical information concerning
title is frequently inaccurate, incomplete, and faulty in form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 106. Ap. ’08.
“While there is much in it that is sound, practical, and useful, we
cannot give it unqualified praise; it is, as the author himself
admits, an incomplete and unfinished sketch. There are many slips,
errors, and omissions, sadly needing correction.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is especially valuable to librarians, with whose needs the author
is familiar.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“May be trusted as a safe guide in a problem that becomes yearly more
difficult.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 260w.
=Mosso, Angelo.= Palaces of Crete and their builders. *$5.25.
Putnam. 8–12966.
“An account of certain excavations and investigations in the famed
land of the Minotaur, which carry the history of the Cretans back
authentically to the neolithic period and furnish much interesting
material for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and
antiquaries generally.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The translation is excellent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 833. D. 28. 1550w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“The personal element often becomes obtrusive. Moreover, there are
many mistakes in the text. With all its faults, however, the volume
has a pleasing freshness and spontaneity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 357. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Dr. Mosso’s is no dry-as-dust narrative. He knows how to be
entertaining, and he is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
“The book is a rambling and often rather absurd work, written about
things archæological by one who is no archæologist, but knows a good
deal about skulls and something about divers natural sciences. The
author ... has a strong bent towards rhapsodical and even dithyrambic
meditation, and indulges it to the full. The book is worth
examination, however, and even purchase, for its illustrations.”
− − + =Sat. R.= 105: 207. F. 15, ’08. 1050w.
“Whatever we may think of Signor Mosso’s ethnology, his book will be
found full of interesting detail, which we may or may not connect with
his anthropology.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Motley, James Marvin.= Apprenticeship in American trade unions.
(Johns Hopkins univ. studies in historical and political science.
Series 25, nos. 11–12.) 50c. Johns Hopkins.
8–7186.
A monograph whose chief emphasis is placed upon the historical
development of apprenticeship and upon the critical analysis of union
regulations. There are chapters on apprenticeship as regulated by
government, custom, trade-unions and trade agreement.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 696. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an admirable scholarly piece of research, of the highest
credit to its author and the economic seminary of Johns Hopkins
university. There is but one place where I would raise a question, and
that is in the difficult attempt to classify the unions according to
the extent to which they enforce apprenticeship as a prerequisite to
membership.” J: R. Commons.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 49. Ap. ’08. 530w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.= Motley’s Dutch nation; being the Rise of the
Dutch republic (1555–1584); condensed, with introd., notes, and a
brief history of the Dutch people to 1908, by W: Elliot Griffis.
$1.75. Harper.
8–12133.
An abridgement of Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch republic” and an
independent sketch of Dutch history, from A. D. 1584 to 1907
constitute respectively the two broad divisions of this volume. The
latter brings the history down to date, showing the social, political,
and economic situation and problems of the Dutch nation.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 229. Je. ’08.
“A more useful single-volume treatment of Dutch history is hardly to
be found.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
“We confess to a feeling of sorrow and affront on seeing Motley
abridged. But the work has been as well done as was possible.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Contains only a single map, and that is inadequate. Such an omission
is unpardonable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 93. Je. 30, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a
popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of
philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The difficulty of the attempt [to collect the moral lessons in
Shakespeare into a system] is increased with the rigidness of the
system and the formality of the treatment, and Prof. Moulton’s
treatment is formal even to pedantry.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 91. F. 15, ’08. 290w.
=Muir, M. M. Pattison.= History of chemical theories and laws. *$4.
Wiley.
6–45162.
“Mr. Pattison Muir does not claim to write a history of chemistry; he
traces the growth of knowledge and opinion on such matters as the
nature of the elements from the crude conceptions of the alchemists
through the strict atomic theory down to the current ideas about ions
and electrons. Similarly he deals with the nature of chemical change,
which with the conception of element and compound form the two special
ideas marking off chemistry from the other sciences.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Certainly the author has given the information in a most readable and
fascinating manner, which will render his book useful and attractive
to a wider circle than merely chemists and physicists.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 600w.
“Mr. Muir has displayed great learning and much literary ability.” W.
R.
+ =Nature.= 75: 601. Ap. 25, ’07. 900w.
“We can recommend Mr. Pattison Muir’s treatise to any serious student
of chemistry; it is just the book for a clever boy who has learnt all
the routine, and now should begin to think more abstractly and
generally.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The feeling of growth and organic interrelation is kept admirably
before the reader. The style is attractive and the mode of
presentation lucid and interesting. The book is not only suggestive,
but highly readable—there is not a dry page in it.” Alexander Smith.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 304. F. 21, ’08. 800w.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Orphan. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–6662.
With the plains as a habitat, clumps of chaparral to hide in, cowboys
to hunt him down, and Apache bands to match his deadly aim, the
Orphan, outlaw and terror of Ford’s Station is the fascinating hero of
this tale. In the development of the story, it is revealed that his
vengeance is directed only towards cowardly, irritating, petty
specimens of cowboy humanity; that underneath his rough exterior are
splendid manhood and courage; and that he is as chivalrous as a knight
of old when called upon to defend women. There is plenty of wild west
adventure with which mingle the dust and heat of the plains.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as virile as the life it describes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
An intimate sketch of “a very unusual, very vital human being” who,
born and educated in Germany, became a wanderer, living in six
countries and having a variety of bread-winning experiences, and
finally finding her place as professor at Wellesley where she remained
until her death. The invincible spirit of hard work characterized her
life which is portrayed by her friend and successor.
* * * * *
“The account of this remarkable woman’s life is very interesting. One
would scarcely suspect, but for Professor Müller’s prefatory
confession, that English was not the author’s mother tongue.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 582. D. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Mullins, Rev. Edgar Y.= Axioms of religion. **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–14676.
Beginning with the new test of denominationalism and other themes
leading to the truth of the soul’s competency in religion, Doctor
Mullins proceeds to show that religion has its axioms no less than
other realms of knowledge and experience. He gives the theological,
the religious, the ecclesiastical, the moral, the religio-civic and
the social axiom.
* * * * *
“His conclusions are those of a sincere and cultivated man, and merit
a respectful attention from the reader, be he or not a Baptist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Munro, Neil.= The Clyde; river and firth. *$6. Macmillan.
8–18705.
“The river ‘from a mossy cup in a nook of barren hill,’ and the
estuary down to Ailsa Craig, are shown under many phases of wind and
weather, with castles, mountains, hillsides, waterfalls, villages,
orchards, and fishing pools; the harbour and shipping: and the
yacht-flecked lower waters and mountain-girt lochs, with endless glens
and islands and landmarks of history since the Norsemen’s time.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The fidelity of the sketches is as marked a characteristic as their
winsomeness. Some press errors ... are venial blemishes in a beautiful
book, which is an excellent memorial of the Clyde, viewed through
three happy temperaments.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 95. Ja. 25. 1120w.
“A beautiful and a readable volume.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The colored illustrations ... are of the character to which we have
become so well accustomed in these picture books—at times clear and
almost beautiful, at times a mere daub of crude colors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Munro writes with his enthusiasm well in hand, and the
illustrations are more pleasing than is always the case in this class
of book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Munroe, Kirk.= Under the Great Bear. †$1.25. Harper.
A book for boys which narrates the adventures of a young mechanical
engineer who goes to Newfoundland and Labrador in the interests of a
copper company. There are encounters with icebergs, blizzards, wrecks,
smuggling enterprises, to whet a healthy imagination, and underneath
all there is a mind single to duty and definite accomplishment.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.= On the witness stand: essays on psychology and
crime. **$1.50. McClure.
8–13667.
A book for judges and lawyers which presents a deeply psychological
study of crime and its various methods of detection and prevention.
The author discusses at length the many illusions which often affect
the minds of witnesses, the errors which are due to the defective
memory of witnesses, and the influence often exerted upon testimony by
suggestion in court and by hypnotic influence. The book leaves no
point untouched which has to do with modern ideas and methods in
dealing with crime.
* * * * *
“The last chapter, concerning the prevention of crime and use of
modern psychological knowledge in this connection is the most valuable
and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 198. Je. ’08.
“An extremely important little volume, which should be read by
everyone who has to do with criminal courts or who is interested in
problems of crime.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 130w.
“The unsatisfactory initial chapters are, however, largely redeemed by
the remaining portion of the book.” F: T. Hill.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 406. Je. ’08. 600w.
“How little or how much one may sympathise with Professor
Munsterberg’s methods and conclusions, one may unhesitatingly approve
his emphasis of attention to the problem as a psychological one.”
Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 38. Jl. 16, ’08. 1750w.
=Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 330w.
“The main contention of the book is open to serious question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Münsterberg talks fact and common sense; he defines what can,
and especially what can not, be done with hypnotism. Thus he performs
a great and much-needed service—a service that ought to put many a
pseudo-mystic out of business and rescue numberless dupes from the
swindlers who are robbing and killing them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 237. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“His book is most suggestive, interesting and valuable, although
marred here and thereby a tendency to dogmatism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is a good deal of interesting and perhaps profitable
information in what the professor tells in his chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 160w.
* =Murdoch, W. G. Burn-.= From Edinburgh to India and Burmah. *$3.50.
Dutton.
A pictorial journey with text to amplify it. The author’s impressions
“were gathered at the time of the visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and are mingled with many digressions and reflections. The
author saw southern India first, and was charmed with it, but found it
eclipsed in every respect by Burmah. Thence he returned to Calcutta,
and made his way back to Bombay viâ Benares, Agra, and Delhi.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book itself is pleasantly written, and even on the wellworn
themes of P. and O. voyages and Indian travel fresh impressions from a
capable observer are welcome. There are too many misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 303. S. 12. 380w.
“His notes on his journey are in the nature of a diary, and run
smoothly and fluently, carrying the reader easily along through scenes
which a heavier literary cicerone would render tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Murdock, Harold.= Earl Percy’s dinner table. Special ed. *$5.
Houghton.
7–39216.
“The author does not attempt to set forth in fictional form the Boston
of 1774–5, but pictures it in vivid, dramatic narrative, in which
figure constantly the chief actors of the time, both British and
colonial. Earl Percy’s hospitable board is the scene of the greater
part of the narrative, and the reader gets from the conversation of
his guests picturesque accounts of the state of public feeling in the
town, but toward the end there are stirring descriptions of the
fighting at Lexington and at Bunker Hill. The final pages recount the
later histories of Earl Percy’s guests. Copious notes in the back of
the book explain historical references and quote authorities.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The notes are, perhaps, more interesting than the text.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 416. Ap. 4. 400w.
“The atmosphere of the period has been remarkably suggested throughout
the story, which holds the interest of the reader to the end.”
Laurence Burnam.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 310. My. ’08. 220w.
“An unusual book—an historical monograph possessing both
unquestionable authenticity and rare distinction of style.” E. K.
Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 1230w.
“A unique bit of historical recreation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 350w.
=Murphy, Thomas Dowler.= British highways and byways, from a motor
car: being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales
and Scotland; with 16 il. in color, and 32 duogravures from
photographs. 2 maps. $3. Page.
8–5245.
Good maps, and excellent illustrations increase the value of Mr.
Murphy’s well arranged information concerning British cities, and
rural Britain.
* * * * *
“An excellent guide. The incidental information about hotels and
garages will save many moments of worry.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 240w.
“He has succeeded in giving us something more readable and more
literary in character than the ordinary compendiums. The author’s love
of historic places and of beautiful scenery makes the book of
considerable value as a vade mecum.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1294. Je. 4, ’08. 260w.
“An agreeably written and attractively illustrated book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Murray, John, and Miller, Marion Mills.= Round up: a romance of
Arizona; novelized from Edmund Day’s melodrama, il. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
8–11703.
Prospectors, ranchmen, outlaws, and Apaches, with a western heroine or
two furnish the characters for this novelized melodrama set in Arizona
and Mexico. “It is decidedly a stirring tale, abounding in
thrills—fights and famine, torture and deceit, love and vengeance.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The ‘novelizers’ have done their work well, but those portions which
form the cement holding the dialogue together seem sometimes a bit
labored.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
N
=Nash, Henry Sylvester.= Atoning life. **$1. Macmillan.
8–12601.
A book instinct with the spirit that reforms, with the atoning life
that lies at the root of good society, at the foundation of human
fellowship. Dr. Nash says: “One of the pressing needs of ministers and
laymen alike is a vital theology that springs from life and, returning
quickly to the life out of which it sprang, gives form and clarity to
experience.” It is with this vital theology that the book deals.
* * * * *
“Those who know Dr. Nash’s previous works will expect to find here
deep scholarship and spiritual power and striking forms of speech.
They may not expect to find such complete simplicity of style as will
add clearness to depth. But just such a combination is to be found
here.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
“Here is a small book but a great one, in which deep and patient study
issues in such terse expression that one should willingly give it two
or three readings to absorb its fullness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13. ’08. 400w.
=National civic federation.= Municipal and private operation of
public utilities; report. 3v. $10. National civic federation.
8–2952.
A report representing two years of exhaustive investigation which
comprises three volumes—one containing the conclusions arrived at and
the other two the statistics of plants examined, upon which these
conclusions are based.
* * * * *
“These three volumes as a whole present the most valuable compilation
of statistics concerning municipal affairs yet published in the United
States. Whatever limitations are present are in large degree
unavoidable, for the complexity of the subjects to be treated makes it
unusually difficult, if not impossible, to draw from the facts a
conclusion that will be convincing to all.” C. L. Jones.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 600w.
“Far superior to anything of the kind heretofore published. It is to
be regretted that the general review of the whole investigation
contains so little in the way of judicial weighing and balancing.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 291. Mr. 12, ’08. 6000w.
“This is probably the first time that such a complete discussion of
the subject has been presented under conditions so favorable for
clearing away the unessential assumptions and disputed facts that make
the usual article on the subject hardly worth reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 693. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The volumes are supplied with very minute indexes, which will enable
a student to secure information on almost any point involved in the
discussion of municipal operation.” D. R. Dewey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 337. Je. ’08. 850w.
=Neff, Elizabeth.= Altars to Mammon. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–5884.
The story of a young Methodist minister’s struggle against the
over-powering money-methods by which a millionaire would gain entrance
to the kingdom of heaven. “The pastor is fresh from a theological
seminary, and the scene of the story is a sordid little town where the
pull is toward the open saloons away from the churches.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The wealthy capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor and salves
his conscience by building churches has been worked to death of late,
and ought to be allowed a season of decent retirement.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written after the manner of E. P. Roe, and should have a
wide circulation among those who admire the commonplace, even in
heresies. It is realistic in situations, literal in details, and
indicates that the author has good principles, excellent convictions,
shrewd insight, everything except genius.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and
spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by
too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its
characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute
truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.
8–1681.
“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a
collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the
riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing
of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little
impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the
expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.
“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work
besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions
nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line
of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is
good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It
is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that
nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent
and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than
clothed upon by the imagination.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.
=Neilson, Robert M.= Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20.
Longmans.
A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific
knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with
the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of
engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an
introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too
voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.
− =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.
=Neumann, Angelo.= Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the
fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.
8–29008.
Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great
master of music “behind the scenes”—both figuratively and literally.
The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided
by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various
European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such
musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and
above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction
which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.
* * * * *
“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of
biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become
exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L.
M. Isaacs.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.
“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving
and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and
incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us
in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people
and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable
chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of
his music.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic,
but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm
of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German
edition, adds to its value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= Principles of psychic philosophy.
**$1.40. Lothrop.
8–10430.
Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the
power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power,
unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief
chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man,
psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power,
freedom, healing, and fulfillment.
=Newman, Ernest.= Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred
Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–30389.
“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there
is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative
composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of
programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in
detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including
‘Salome.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.
“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and
stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far
in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has
done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the
admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what
they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will
resent as over-censure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series,
and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss
that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable
contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing,
saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from
Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.
=Newman, Richard Brinsley.= Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10613.
In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the
family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a
son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the
people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against
the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts
from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed.
by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.
To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six
chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans.
They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality
and Criticism.
* * * * *
“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from
certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered
as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being
played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more
interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.
“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only
who do not need them?”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.
“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the
latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written
for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions
which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which
is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.
“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical
practitioner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.
“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members
of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of
preventive medicine.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.
=Nicholas, Francis Child.= Power supreme: a novel of church and
state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.
8–20675.
“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest
part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her
dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor,
bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a
revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader;
such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who
has been personally familiar with the country in which the scene is
cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.
“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does
not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of
graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary
feeling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.
“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order
of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–25998.
“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of
North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both
governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young
daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a
young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and
counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates
a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the
farce-comedy is to the drama.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.
“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or
any other form of the blues.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he
takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar
source.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–38599.
Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a
degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which
she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at
St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan
who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the
varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or
two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story.
There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted
tragedy.
* * * * *
“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to
originality.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.
“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the
author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of
reputation through this latest novel.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.
“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element
proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will
realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the
delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.
=Nicolay, Fernand.= Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous
hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50.
Lane.
8–3124.
“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the
flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle
along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value
and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly
idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness,
abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present
it in English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.
“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more
credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to
the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers
preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”
− =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining,
or vital, or even plausible.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of
a personal nature about Napoleon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the
Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this
multitude of details.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.
=Nicoll, Michael John.= Three voyages of a naturalist: being an
account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by
the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl
of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–14717.
A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied
Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the
“Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first
voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the
third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the
new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.
* * * * *
“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most
satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the
home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.
“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the
author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them
more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and
new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.
“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to
describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing
little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written
narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote
islands.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on
account of the many new species described.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas.= History of
English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.
7–37996.
Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more
technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than
for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of
literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary
origins and movements.
* * * * *
“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly
intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent
opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned,
but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would
have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with
matter for superficial conversation.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.
“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but
would be selected after the library owned old standards.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 227. Je. ’08.
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only
valuable, it is really readable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.
“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large
perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of
Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than
read the books themselves.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.
“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are,
but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50.
Jacobs.
8–17253.
The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his
yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie
and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her
adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color
which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its
islands.
* * * * *
“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine
coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident
and originality of plot.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable
little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative
by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s
island life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Niecks, Frederick.= Programme music in the last four centuries: a
contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.
7–27022.
“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is
programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates
sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that
‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds
the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the
present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of
programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on
programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.
“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation
with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and
valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Beyond good and evil: prelude to a
philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern
European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to
explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and
somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand
it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making
the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true
aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such
subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious
mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is
noble?
* * * * *
“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude
it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost
without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it
emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.
“This version should form a quite successful book and should have
considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided
sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain
undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious
contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life,
it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction
claims for it.” F. Thilly.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.
“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into
fluent and easy English.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.
“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with
Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on
the natural history of morals and other subjects.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned
morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made
‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.
“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N.
Dolson.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Human, all too human: a book for
free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the
workers.) 50c. Kerr.
8–7591.
Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to
those who are not afraid to read them.”
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita).= Cradle tales of Hinduism.
*$1.60. Longmans.
8–13677.
The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the
school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the
two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought
to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the
villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination
can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers
of the magic and the human.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.
“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some
reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too
much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and
coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and
especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been
rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the
first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and
purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with
the originals.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.
“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin
at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the
Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.
=Nojine, E. K.= Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B.
Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.
W 8–120.
The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war
correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of
Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General
Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority
and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat.
R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the
siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of
authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.
“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others
that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather
than as a narrative.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines
easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or
picturesque.”
+ =Nation.= 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.
“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous
siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is
beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets
from it the impression that it proves too much.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.
“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and
picturesqueness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.
“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege
of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de.= Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by
John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.
8–838.
“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and
upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes
the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the
least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph
is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character
as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.
“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.
“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to
the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to
the beginnings of modern classical culture.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable
setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.
“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain
aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Noorden, Karl Harko von=, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine;
tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.
Agr 7–2016.
A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der
pathologie des stoffwechsels.”
=v. 1.= The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of
normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable
mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the
original literature.” (Science.)
=v. 2.= The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others,
deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of
the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the
kidneys.
=v. 3.= Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl
Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.
* * * * *
“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the
utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the
enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many
of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the
validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and
often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen
comparisons quite at random.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who
wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is
to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work
should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have
evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English
style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the
original.” Otto Folin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.
(Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Norris, Henry Hutchinson.= Introduction to the study of electrical
engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–348.
(2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)
“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day
experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of
electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical
and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and
magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station,
transformers and motors, and their applications, electric lighting and
heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of
intelligence.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation
more than compensates for this deficiency.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy
of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is
often surprising.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by
instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their
courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful
intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the
subject which he has selected.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.
8–444.
A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by
the cult.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.
=North, Arthur Walbridge.= Mother of California; with an introd. by
Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.
An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from
the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions
therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social
and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive
bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully
illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the
opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California
history.”
* * * * *
“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from
the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.
“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but
blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is
timely and useful.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for
geographical and historical research and also all those who take
delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and
interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a
too florid rhetoric.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.
=Norton, Grace=, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal
relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary
relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments
on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his
writings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Norton, Grace=, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and
expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–16222.
“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of
Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand
foremost.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
* =Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2.
Century.
8–33815.
A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the
much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The
author shows what the original document contained, shows why the
charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short,
covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem
and clears up the mystery.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–5889.
This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft
that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over
golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such
exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles
Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.
* * * * *
“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he
surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of
utterance.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.
“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a
fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of
the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank
verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the
mere splendor of vision.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it
should not detract from it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually
misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which
is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger
English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of
personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.
=Nuelsen, John L.= Some recent phases of German theology. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.
8–7161.
Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast
theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical
criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus
Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author,
while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians,
laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an
ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective
basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.
* * * * *
“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a
report of the varying phases of German theology at present and less
recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and
dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and
between these some mediating varieties.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L.= History of nursing,
the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the
foundation of the first English and American training schools for
nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
7–41533.
Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the
sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria,
Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian
church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the
crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work;
and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.
* * * * *
“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more
clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life
more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and
exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages
to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and
may do to alleviate human suffering.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.
“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.
“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such
duties—and who is not?—should read it.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
O
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. *$2.25.
Dodd.
8–7374.
A guide, including illustrations and maps, to every island in the West
Indian archipelago. It gives descriptions of each one, its
attractions, resources, climate, history, hotels, as well as routes
thither from the Atlantic ports of the United States, Canada, England
and Europe.
* * * * *
“Indispensable to the traveler, as there is no other complete guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 100w.
“An excellent book ... on an untouched subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“A thorough and reliable guide.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“Tells us all that can be wanted.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= John and Sebastian Cabot. (Heroes of
American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–11834.
Mr. Ober clears up some of the doubts that have obscured the claim of
these discoverers to the mainland of North America. He narrates their
voyages, portrays vividly the thrill of enthusiasm that stirred
England, Venice and Spain when new world riches were the talk and
dream of king and peasant, and discusses the sturdy elements that
formed the character of the Cabots.
* * * * *
“Offers information but is not scholarly in treatment, nor distinctive
in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“He has taken great pains to make his sketch as nearly accurate as
possible, and he writes with judgment and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Juan Ponce de Leon. (Heroes of American
history.) **$1. Harper.
8–9496.
Aside from the quest for the fountain of perennial youth which has
always lent romance to the name of Ponce de Leon, here are recorded
many daring adventures of the explorer among the islands of the new
world where he is revealed as a hardy soldier, an honorable cavalier,
and a noble man.
* * * * *
“The book is an entertaining one, and a contribution, in its way, to
historical literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Told in succinct and interesting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=O’Connor, Vincent C. S.= Mandalay, and other cities of the past in
Burma. *$5. Appleton.
8–20523.
“A resuscitation of the past of Burma as it finds expression in its
cities, the centers of a by-gone day.” “The spirit of the East
possesses him, and amid the deserted pagodas, the ruin-strewed
jungles, the mouldering scenes of vanished glories, he knows how to
discern and interpret the subtle charm that appeals to every traveller
whose footsteps have wandered among the relics of departed greatness
in Asia.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Much that is both valuable and beautiful in Burma possesses also the
characteristic of impermanence, and the fact is of itself good
justification for this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 733. D. 7. 720w.
“His book ought surely to be read with delight even by those to whom
the wonders of the Orient are but a vague vision.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 770w.
“His book is not easy reading, except to those familiar with the
country and its history.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 630w.
“Of hardly less interest than his story of Mandalay are the stories
Mr. O’Connor tells of the older cities of Burma.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
“The author knows his Burma from end to end; he writes with equal
sympathy of its past history and its wealth of natural and artistic
beauty.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 550w.
=Oesterley, William Oscar Emil.= Evolution of the Messianic idea: a
study in comparative religion. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26835.
“The elemental emotions of fear, the sense of dependence on a higher
power, and the desire for happiness, accordingly give rise to three
primordial myths found among widely diverse peoples.... The spiritual
truths enveloped in these misty conceptions it was the mission of
Israelite teachers to clarify, and this process of development is Dr.
Oesterley’s theme.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We must confine our remarks to criticism of a few leading ideas. We
must also remark that the apologetic parts of the book are by no means
happy all through. Dr. Oesterley’s work is, however, on the whole,
likely to prove very useful to a wide circle of readers. It is
stimulating, earnest, frank, and full of interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 662. My. 30. 1100w.
“It is an illuminative piece of scholarship in comparative religion.
It hardly needs saying that readers of the Testament will find profit
in this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 280w.
=Oesterley, Rev. W. O. E., and Box, G. H.= Religion and worship of
the synagogue. *$3. Scribner.
8–11732.
“The authors, both of them clergymen of the Church of England, write
with equal knowledge and fairness, in the belief that Judaism and
Christianity are complementary and belong together, and that the
advocates of each can only be true to their respective faiths by
mutual fellowship and respect for one another’s convictions. A survey
of Judaism from the New Testament to the present day necessarily
covers a great variety of subjects, the classic literature or sources,
the theology, the current practice; on all of these Mr. Oesterley and
Mr. Box give adequate information.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The authors have approached the theme in a proper spirit of sympathy
and discrimination; they have made good use of the best authorities at
their command; and they have also done whatever was possible to gain
personal impressions of several of the customs they describe.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 325. F. 8, ’08. 510w.
“This excellent work supplies what has long been wanted, a clear and
dispassionate account of Judaism such as the ordinary reader can
understand.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w.
“Very instructive volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 650. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Grand army man. †$1.50. Century.
8–24451.
Mr. O’Higgins in novelizing David Belasco’s play has aimed to
translate into the form of fiction the flavor of Warfield’s acting,
and the charm of Belasco’s stage. Here as in the play the effort is
spent on the development of the simple, tender hearted Wes’ Bigelow
whose only shadow across a serene sky is due to the misdeeds of the
wayward foster-son.
* * * * *
“The book contains the essentials of the play, with enough fine
material replete in imaginative power and human interest to make an
absorbingly fascinating novel of human life.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 480. N. ’08. 200w.
“He has accomplished his task in as agreeable a manner as the process
will allow. He has poured his own originality into the work, rounding
out in word pictures that which Mr. Warfield so adequately brought out
in his acting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. O’Higgins has succeeded in turning out a little volume which will
be welcome to those who want an enduring record of a fleeting
playhouse impression, and which has some interest as fiction on its
own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 511. S. 19, ’08. 570w.
“The book will not disappoint the many friends of Wes’ Bigelow among
his Grand army comrades and others.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 70w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. *$6.
Dutton.
W7–195.
A volume which grew, says the author, “from a pilgrimage about
Venetian streets and canals ‘for the purpose of identifying and
precisely indicating the position’ of the palaces referred to by
Ruskin, Fergusson, Street, and other students of Venetian
architecture. The chief examples are described in the order of their
erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or Renaissance. From the
writings of the three great Venetian diarists has been drawn an
accompanying picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice’s
greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations in color, and
others, possibly more valuable to the student, in black and white, by
Mr. Trevor Haddon, besides several reproductions from Ruskin’s studies
of Venetian architecture.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book that will delight all lovers of Venice.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Is the most important and the most valuable of all these new volumes
on Italian themes. This is a scholarly and a thoroughly workmanlike
book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 200w.
“This book is not only much better intrinsically than his historical
sketch of Venice, but it also is free from the pot-boiler aroma that
pervaded that effort.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Okey knows his Venice well. He has ransacked history and legend
for illustrative comment, using both with judgment, and indeed with
restraint.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 50. Ja. 11, ’08. 930w.
=Olcott, William Tyler.= Field book of the stars. **$1. Putnam.
7–26464.
This guide “is gotten up in very compact form, presenting in fifty
diagrams the appearance of the skies at different seasons and the
location of all the important constellations. Accompanying each
diagram is a brief explanation. There is nothing of either a technical
or a theoretical nature, and nothing has been included which cannot be
studied with either the naked eye or an opera glass.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“Of this sort the book is a model of simplicity and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 130w.
“For assistance in the geography of the heavens, and for choosing
particular objects that are suitable for naked-eye or opera-glass
study this little book is the most complete and the most practicable
that has thus far appeared. The diagrams are simple, clear, and
admirably adapted to class or individual use. The author’s work is
excellently done. The book is timely and teachable, and there is
little of moment in it to criticize. Every high-school teacher of
astronomy ought to have it and to use it in his classes.” G. W.
Meyers.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 346. My. ’08. 1100w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Aunt Maud. +$1.50. McClure.
8–20135.
Tells how a niece is so clever regarding her aunt’s announced
match-making schemes that she takes matters into her own hands and
swears the young man to secrecy over a compact to play a part for a
month during which time they are to seem engaged while in reality they
are only “taking each other’s measure.” “The result is a series of
emotional incidents, described with much vivacity and minuteness, and
leading to an event which amiably and not quite unexpectedly
vindicates the tactics of Aunt Maud.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book worth bringing to the attention of readers who like incursions
into the domain of sentiment that is not sentimentality.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 380w.
“It is a sensible book for young girls.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“The central love-story is treated with so much originality and
discretion that we are at a loss to understand the author’s fiasco
over his more ambitious portrait.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Virginie. †$1.50. McClure.
8–4038.
This story is really the continuation of a deus ex machina’s task to
bring happiness to the daughter of the woman whom he had loved and
lost. The protector is a chemist and he administers to Virginie, on
the eve of an odious marriage with a dissolute count, a Monte Cristo
potion which causes temporary suspension of life. He chooses a British
lover for her, an amateur archaeologist, to whom he delivers a wax
statue packed in ice with a silver trumpet in its hand. The statue
comes to life and is beautiful. As Virginie comes out of the trance of
body, the Englishman emerges from his trance of soul. The guardian
sees to it that there are plenty of adventures to test the lover’s
sincerity and heroism before he confesses the truth to him.
* * * * *
“The author writes with attractive lightness, and we have been amused
by the feats of the special maker of providence for the young people.
It is a pleasant story, except that too much is made, we think, of
eating and drinking.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 110w.
“The author has developed an absurd situation with a gravity that is
almost obtuse.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written with much cleverness and skill, and is plausible
enough to be entertaining, even if the reader does not find the
evasive and resourceful Italian, who is really a famous French
scientist, entirely convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 370w.
“A more improbable tale than ‘Virginie’ would be hard to find.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Is all wrong from beginning to end. It is not merely the wild
extravagance of the conception, unworthy though that be of a writer of
Mr. Oldmeadow’s powers, but it is the whole atmosphere of false
sentiment in which the story is steeped that offends.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Oliver, Thomas.= Diseases of occupation from the legislative,
social and medical points of view. *$3. Dutton.
8–27120.
“Treats of the diseases incidental to a great variety of occupations
in factories, workshops, mines, potteries, and other employments where
many persons labor together.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“In every case the information supplied is ample, and the best-known
methods for abolishing or lessening the evils attendant on each
occupation are given with commendable brevity. Several statements and
facts are repeated at short intervals in almost identical words—a
blemish which can be easily removed in the next edition of what must
prove a highly useful book of reference. There is an excellent index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 420w.
“It is an excellent, simple, and untechnical description of the
diseases due to gases, poisons, dust, etc.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 543. O. ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 540w.
“In a comparatively small book Dr. Oliver has succeeded in bringing
together a vast amount of useful information on all sorts of subjects.
The facts with which he has dealt are not drawn up in any very orderly
array, and throughout one finds a certain vagueness which may well
tend to make the reader feel that he is treading on ground too
uncertain to bear definite action. In some places where definite
directions are given they are contradictory.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 627. O. 22, ’08. 1050w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= The gentleman. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28993.
A continuous series of adventures both on land and sea that result in
thwarting the plot of Napoleon to kidnap Nelson just before the battle
of Trafalgar. Napoleon’s agent is an Irish rebel—the Gentleman—whose
charming personality and bravery won the admiration and respect of his
enemies. The rescuing party consists of a few sailors and fighting men
of whom a fifteen-year old midshipman is the first in valor and
resourcefulness.
* * * * *
“An ingenious, breathless story, of decided literary merit, that men
and older boys will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“The last fight of the ‘Tremendous’ is one of the best naval battles
in fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 676. N. 28. 330w.
“A distinctly bigger achievement than either of its author’s earlier
books; and, one is tempted to add, the book best entitled of any story
written in English since the days of Robert Louis Stevenson to trace
its ancestry straight back to the purest strain of the romantic
novel.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 510. N. ’08. 2000w.
“Take three parts of Stevenson to one of Charles Kingsley, flavor with
reminiscences of Blackmore, beat violently, and serve in paragraphs à
la Charles Reade—such seems to have been the formula for this rather
extraordinary book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“One can only call it melodrama; but it hurries the reader along
without a halt on a single page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 796. D. 19, ’08. 720w.
“The book is marred a little by hints of torture and by some passages
which may try the nerves of haters of bloodshed and cruelty, and
sometimes the author’s style, purposely made sharp and concise,
becomes a little too Victor Hugoish in abruptness. But, criticism
aside, the romance is one of the best of its class; it holds the
imagination with intentness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck.= Western Asia in the days of Sargon of
Assyria, 722–705 B. C.: a study in oriental history. (Cornell
studies in history and political science.) **$1.25. Holt.
8–17886.
“Represents seven years of study during which the author was for a
year a Fellow at the American school for oriental studies, under
Professor Schmidt, and had the inestimable advantage of a careful
topographical study of a portion of the territory covered by Sargon’s
campaigns.... Among the points most valuable is his study of the
perplexing ‘Muzri’ question raised by Winckler. Also of much interest
is the account of Sargon’s campaigns to the north against the Mannai
and Khaldians (Chaldeans) until he was slain in battle with the
Cimmerians, as this brings him into relation with tribes whom our
author recognizes as Aryan.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“This book is a good example of the systematic work that must be done
on every period of Babylonian-Assyrian history before an adequate
history of those nations can be written.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 90w.
“An admirably careful, thoro and adequate study of Sargon’s campaigns,
and has close bearing on biblical accounts.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
* =Olmsted, E. Stanley.= Emotionalist: the romance of an awakening to
temperament. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–30250.
The story of an American girl’s struggle for temperament which if
added to her gift of a beautiful voice, to her ambition and energy
would insure a much coveted career. She pursues her study in Germany,
meets a man who takes a hand in developing her temperament with the
result that he loves her, and sacrifices his happiness for her art
only to see her turn aside from it and marry a Fifth avenue
oil-magnate.
* * * * *
“A clever piece of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Brahmans, theists, and Muslims of India.
*$3.50. Jacobs.
8–436.
Studies of goddess-worship in Bengal, caste, Brahmanism and social
reform, with descriptive sketches of curious festivals, ceremonies and
fakirs.
* * * * *
“An excellent book on the practice of religion as distinguished from
the doctrines or philosophies. Useful in connection with so called
accounts of religion which are purely idealistic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
“A special master-key to the problems of Indian life and thought.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 259. S. 7. 2750w.
“The work contains a great deal that is full of human interest, but
its value had been much enhanced by greater compression and more
reflection of a suggestive sort upon the phenomena presented.” James
Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 138. O. ’08. 340w.
“Mr Oman’s evidence is all the more valuable and convincing in that he
approaches the speculative realms of Hindu thought with broad-minded
tolerance and sympathy, whilst he is too sound a student to ignore or
to minimize the more repellent aspects of Hinduism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 276. S. 13, ’07. 1700w.
“The many pages devoted to subjects already treated by the other
writers, such as caste and the history of Hindu theism, are not of
great worth, and give the impression of having been taken in great
measure from previous authors. On the other hand, Mr. Oman’s own
observations and studies from life in India, his descriptions of the
Holi festival and the Mohammedan fakirs deserve a permanent form.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja, 30, ’08. 150w.
“He has evidently written con amore, and with wide and diverse
knowledge, and his pages give to the reader a singular feeling of
being in touch with at least some of the actualities of this alien and
mysterious life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 60w.
* =Onken, William Henry, and Baker, Joseph Black.= Harper’s how to
understand electrical work; a simple explanation of electric light,
heat, power and traction in daily life; with a dictionary of electrical
terms prepared by Joseph H. Adams. $1.75. Harper.
8–33039.
A book which answers for boys and girls the questions how and why
machinery moves when the force behind it is electricity. It is the
story of the every day uses of electricity indicating the universality
of its application. The author shows how electricity is made; how it
is used for light, heat, power and traction; in the home, on the farm,
in hospitals, on steamships, in mines, in the manufacture of steel;
for protection, as a destroyer, and for the transmission of
intelligence.
* * * * *
“Here is a book that makes the sharp and proper divisions as to
methods and apparatus, and tells with precision just what is involved
in lighting as distinguished from traction, in telegraphy as different
from telephony. Our own opinion is that it will find a large
circulation on account of the boldness with which it gives engineering
data and diagrams.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1252. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
“It is a deep book for a boy ... but one that will stimulate his mind
if he be mechanically inclined.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 694. D. 17, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= The avenger. †$1.50. Little.
8–13951.
A mystery story with a profusion of ingredients ranging from political
intrigue to private revenge. The book differs from other of Mr.
Oppenheim’s stories in that the man who takes life, the avenger, is a
most reputable citizen of London, who can’t understand why, if on the
battlefield one is held blameless while taking brave men’s lives, a
man who rids society of lives that breed corruption should be
condemned. He has the courage of his conviction and rids the world of
three decadents, consoling himself with the belief that it is a moral
act.
* * * * *
“Amongst the makers of sensational fiction Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim
ranks as a past-master.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“An absurd, wholly improbable, yet readable tale.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“There is not a dull page in the volume and many of the scenes are
highly dramatic.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Considered as an invention merely, the story is neat and effective.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Unlike most detective stories his plots are not mechanical and his
people not marionettes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The avenger’s folk are nicely alive—all who are not killed. Its
manner places it in the class of novels of comfortable
manslaughter—smooth-running, readable, pleasantly puzzling.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether it is a lively, thrilling, and captivating story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether a rattling good story of its sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
“Is notable for its cleverness in placing before the readers a murder
problem apparently simple but really all but insoluble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Entertaining romance.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 623. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Great secret. †$1.50. Little.
7–40278.
A story of intrigue woven about an international conspiracy hatched by
Germany and involving Great Britain. The outwitting of the band of
German conspirators in London is a clever piece of interference,
conducted by one Lord Leslie Wendover alias Leslie Guest, aided by a
renowned English cricket player, and a charming American girl.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“An exceptionally able story of the kind.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 180w.
“It is not likely that ‘The great secret’ will be distinguished for
merit above its fellow; but it may achieve a mild distinction in this
country because its author has allowed himself to indulge in gentle
sarcasm at the expense of the American woman. This is not one of those
mystery stories which offer a real challenge to the reader’s
analytical faculty. The truth is that Mr. Oppenheim, entertaining as
he may sometimes be, is sadly superficial.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 61. Mr. ’08. 1000w.
“Although one cannot cease to protest against the utter improbability
of the general plot and many situations of this story, nevertheless
curiosity is aroused from the first and carries us along to the
finish.”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“There is no permanence and vitality in the plot to give it more than
an ephemeral existence.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips Oppenheim leaves us with a headache. He is so amazingly
strenuous, and his characters pass through such terrible experiences
in rapid succession that our nerves are shattered before we get to the
end of the volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 120w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Long arm of Mannister. †$1.50. Little.
8–23549.
A man who had been the victim of the dark plotting of eight
conspirators takes his revenge upon each in turn. The punishment is
administered single-handed, and for variety, ingenuity, boldness and
thoroness can scarcely find its parallel in fiction.
* * * * *
“The story is better written than some of Mr. Oppenheim’s recent
thrilling romances and will hold the reader’s interest from start to
finish.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Mannister’s methods are too simple to greatly absorb a generation
of readers that has known Sherlock Holmes.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 70w.
“Here Mr. Phillips undertakes to show, in a thrilling succession of
anecdotes, that the way of the transgressor is much harder than the
Biblical aphorist dreamed it. He has succeeded remarkably.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“This may not be Mr. Oppenheim’s best work, but the narrative is
compact, lively, and exciting—a diverting companion in an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
* =Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= Elusive pimpernel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–33437.
“A sequel to ‘Scarlet pimpernel,’ in which intrigue, romance, and love
go hand in hand along a path of real historical limitations and
extent. It is a new story, a new telling of certain episodes of the
French revolution, in which are continued the career of the Scarlet
pimpernel, that daring and mysterious young English soldier of
fortune, and the intrigues of the terrible yet fascinating French
agent, Chauvelin.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“If the reader can accept the improbabilities, he will find the story
entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 120w.
“The story ... is told with a rush of incident and with not a little
imaginative power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The interest is wrought up to the very highest pitch. Nor is the tale
a mere succession of startling incidents, made to look natural, and
very cleverly joined together.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
=Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= In Mary’s reign. (English title, The
tangled skein.) 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14959.
“This is a sentimental tale of the days of Mary Tudor, with a fairly
ingenious plot. There is an innocent maiden, a very good English lord,
a double, and two very wicked Spanish diplomatists who speak with a
scarcely veiled sneer and contrive most diabolical plots.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“The style is of the most jerky and suburban type. The characters,
moreover, are entirely melodramatic.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The romance is of the machine-made order, nor does it give any
adequate picture of the times. Its popular merit will probably be that
it has dramatic moments.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 288. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“There is none of the vigour shown in the ‘Scarlet pimpernel.’”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Orgain, Kate Alma.= Southern authors in poetry and prose. *$2.
Neale.
8–23871.
A collection of biographical and critical essays, with selections from
the writers. Among the groups of twenty-six men and women briefly
sketched are Sidney Lanier, Augusta J. Evans, William Gilmore Simms,
John Esten Cooke, Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy,
George Washington Cable, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Nelson Page.
=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Evolution of mammalian molar teeth, to
and from the triangular type. *$2. Macmillan.
The first volume in a series of six Biological studies and addresses.
“The purpose of the book is the collection of the writings of the
author on this question and the extension of them by other
observations and illustrations in support of the tritubercular
theory.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“The author has succeeded in placing trituberculism on a much more
secure and unassailable basis than it ever previously occupied.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 435. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
“The whole book gives evidence of the most painstaking work. Perhaps
its most delightful feature is the judicial fairness and frankness
with which the whole evidence is reviewed and discussed.” R: S. Lull.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 341. F. 28, ’08. 1200w.
=Osborne, Charles Francis=, ed. Historic houses and their gardens:
palaces, castles, country places and gardens of the old and new
worlds described by several writers, illustrated with plans and
photographs; with introd. by Frank Miles Day. $6. Winston.
8–22109.
A beautiful volume of folio size, with heavy glazed paper, large type,
and numerous finely reproduced illustrations. The text includes thirty
chapters, each of which is devoted to the description of some historic
house and its garden. An introduction states some of the fundamental
principles that ought to govern the relation of houses and their
gardens. A wide range of selection is offered including houses in
England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Japan, India, France, Mexico, and the
United States.
* * * * *
“The book will bring travellers’ joy, whether reminiscent or
imaginary, to those who turn its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1, ’08. 400w.
“There are thus scattered through the volume many welcome suggestions;
and the appreciative reader may find in this rather bewildering
abundance material for deductions which a work of narrower scope would
not afford.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 350w.
“A very beautiful and instructive illustrated volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“In the main the book is harmonious in style and method, and in every
case the reader receives pleasurable impressions of the beauty of the
places and agreeably rendered information as to their association and
history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Osgood, Elliott I.= Breaking down Chinese walls, from a doctor’s
view-point. **$1. Revell.
8–5266.
A clear exposition of Chinese conditions and the place which medical
missionary work has assumed in the Christianizing of China. “The
author has shown that the missionary ‘must demonstrate by living
illustrations the superiority of Christianity over heathen systems’;
that dispensaries, hospitals and schools have been opened to prove the
advantages of a Christian civilization; and that the home-life of the
missionary is as effective an agency in regeneration as the pulpit and
the hospital.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 717. My. ’08. 220w.
“A convincing and distinctly illuminating account of experiences in
China.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The fervent religious note throughout the book is so deep and earnest
and heartfelt that it must command respect even from those who have no
sympathy with the evangelical movements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08 150w.
“Is interesting reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=* O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Linguistic development and education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
7–36885.
“Part 1 treats of the ‘Non-reflective processes in linguistic
development’ and includes chapters on prelinguistic expression, early
reaction upon conventional language, parts of speech in early
linguistic activity, inflection and word order, and development of
meaning for verbal symbols. Part 2 on ‘Reflective processes in
linguistic development’ treats of acquisition of word ideas in
reading, acquisition of graphic words, development of meaning for word
ideas in reading, development of efficiency in oral expression,
processes in graphic expression, and development of efficiency in
graphic composition, and acquisition of a foreign tongue. Each chapter
is followed by a summary and at the close of the book is a very good
bibliography and index.”—School R.
* * * * *
“With the exception of several chapters, the book will be read chiefly
by specialists. The style, however, is forceful and agreeably simple.”
G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 457. S. ’08. 300w.
“The volume occupies a field of its own and is of value to those
interested in child-study. It has also some worth as suggesting the
probable origin of language and as farther suggesting proper methods
of education.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 130w.
“It is not unfair, perhaps, to say that the chief value of the book
lies in the organization of material scattered about in special
articles and separate treatises, so as to present a comprehensive view
of the whole process of linguistic development, rather than in the new
facts reported, or new theories propounded. To have made this body of
opinions accessible in the form of an outline of theory is to have
performed a worthy service to education.” W. B. O.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 53. S. ’08. 400w.
“Of the three books that Professor O’Shea has written, this will
probably be of the most permanent value. It has more of the merits and
fewer of the defects of the other books and treats of a definite
subject with such completeness that it is not likely to be soon
displaced by any other book.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ =School R.= 16: 624. N. ’08. 620w.
=Osler, William.= Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
**$2. Oxford.
“The topics of these essays are all biographical, among the subjects
being John Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Sir Thomas Brown,
Harvey, William Pepper and Alfred Stillé. The Alabama student who
supplies the subject for the main title was Dr. John Bassett of
Huntsville, a devoted physician and student in medicine of the early
half of the last century.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The history of medicine appeals most to the best educated in the
profession, but in the hands of a writer like Prof. Osler it is in
itself an education.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 440w.
“Dr. Osier gives not only the conventional facts in a man’s life, but
has added much by way of personal comment that is distinctive in
itself and frequently charming.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 602. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“In many respects the gem is the last essay of all, the Harveian
oration of 1906.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 555. D. 3, ’08. 870w.
“Earnest, candid, not lacking in humor, lucid and virile, not
infrequently adorned by the allusions of a scholar who is too wise to
be a pedant, Dr. Osler’s observations are always interesting and
frequently brilliant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
“They are marked by good sense and discrimination, graced with a
pleasant style, and ballasted with the results of enthusiastic
research. Primarily they were intended for doctors, but we hope that
their publication in this form will give them the much wider audience
which they deserve.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 503. O. 3, ’08. 1750w.
=Ostrovsky, Alexander Nicolaievich.= The storm; tr. by Constance
Garnett. *$1. Luce, J: W.
The scene of this drama is laid in a small provincial town on the
upper Volga. A sharp-tongued mother, a weak-willed son, and a
sweet-tempered daughter-in-law are the principal characters. The
tyranny of the mother drives the son’s wife to reckless relations with
a merchant’s son. Between the girl’s pangs of conscience and her
uncontrollable fear of thunder, she is moved, during a terrifying
storm, to make confession, and later, in a fit of remorse, drowns
herself.
* * * * *
“It is a play that would make practically no appeal to any English
speaking audience, but the development of character and action, if it
may really be called that in the sense in which the word is used on
our stage, will prove interesting to the reader. And the book should
find a place in the library of every student of the drama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 480w.
=Owen, Charles Henry.= Justice of the Mexican war: a review of the
causes and results of the war, with a view to distinguishing
evidence from opinion and inference. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–22535.
Maintaining that those who declare the Mexican war unjust base their
charges mainly on opinion and inference, that to avoid intricacies and
contradictions they followed the line of least resistance and
attributed it all to slavery cabal, the author concerns himself with
the causes as they are conceived to arise from the Monroe doctrine.
Aside from being a justification of the war the discussion is a
criticism of the methods of some noted historians.
* * * * *
“There is room for a book which shall bear the title of this one, but
it must be written by a student familiar with the westward movement
and able to discriminate between sources of information and opinions
of irresponsible journalistic historians.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“The book is well worth reading as a patriotic defense of our
government and its armies.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 630w.
“We must dismiss his book as inconclusive.”
* * * * *
− + =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
P
=Packh, Baroness M. de.= Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my
Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.
8–2942.
A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of
undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later
exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects
upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional
inhumanity.
* * * * *
“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is
sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Pagani, Rev. G. B.= Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the
Italian. *$3. Dutton.
The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini
believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable
Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the
Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace
and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both
those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character
are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry
baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously
naïve but devout and interesting life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.
“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has
succeeded in writing a dull book.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.
“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence,
and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary
talent, are evinced in this life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and
instructive about it.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J.= True story of Andersonville
prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.
8–9498.
Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to
reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that
caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s
cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Old Dominion: her making and her manners.
**$1.50. Scribner.
8–7373.
Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases
and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation,
showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to
the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the
Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America;
Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The
revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of
Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion
since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia
Sunday.
* * * * *
“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident
here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of
one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All
heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed
circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.”
W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.
“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful
essays to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 201. Je. ’08.
“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.
“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may
perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the
benefit of average readers.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive
personal touch, and are worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps
a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with
his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old
Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as
only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native
state.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial
times.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25.
Scribner.
8–30716.
“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is
a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man
and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is
secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in
writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the
author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union
war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to
military greatness made by the two contending generals in that
war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp
criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a
Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page
in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy
rather than cold, impartial history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1.
Scribner.
8–35741.
The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog
and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home
of Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.
“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to
disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little
boy.”
− =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The story is an exciting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It lacks vital interest.”
− =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.
=Paget, Stephen.= Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5617.
The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I
only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from
my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a
physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective
observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.
* * * * *
“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal
directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.
“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and
pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too
emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.
“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be
doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the
connoisseur.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.
“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s
view of the calling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.
“A pleasant book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would
read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy
maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps
become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise
up the better from their perusal.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written
about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting
subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s
style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader,
in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.
“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who
knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought
expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a
cordial welcome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell
too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to
show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness
more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he
is all jauntiness with no apology.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–29352.
The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia.
The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a
tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be
gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one
to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠
“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply,
swiftly, and honestly.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.
“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense
of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to
put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the
wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor
so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using
singular verbs with plural subjects.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Paine, John Knowles.= History of music to the death of Schubert.
*$2.40. Ginn.
7–35630.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and
arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much
as possible up to date.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.
“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a
dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the
development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and
Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s
task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving
care.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.
“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music
in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly
commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view,
splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and
judicious in spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.
“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–33155.
A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the
stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is
kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while
attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race,
insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race
itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient Italy: historical and geographical
investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and
Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ.
of Chicago press.
8–5246.
A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of
the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the
relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws
light on the history of Greece.
* * * * *
“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of
constructive work of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that
many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the
work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early
Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of
the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author.
The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number
of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective
in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is
written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness
in style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.
=Palmedo, D. Petri-.= How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.
8–12802.
A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the
construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.
* * * * *
“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily
understood.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise,
but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.
“An unusually satisfactory little book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–25371.
The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many
parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is
a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins
his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang,
becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of
the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there
illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted
the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole
that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially
superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow
to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the
history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.
“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is
exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in
its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get
inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily
a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Palmer, George Herbert.= Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50.
Houghton.
8–12560.
This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable
woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college
reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life,
work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she
occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and
indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified
to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.
* * * * *
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠
“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to
make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.
“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.
“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general
public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short
time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book
is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and
frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from
lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character
or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen
sense of proportion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will
be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a
great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public
services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this
biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly _human_ books
of the season.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many
others.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.
* =Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher:
essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard
papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman
Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing
with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new
education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system,
College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals
with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the
nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go
to college?
=Palmer, William Scott.= Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.
“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active
immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to
revelation from within outward, in a growing religious experience, and
a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at
the root the same.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its
delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value
of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church
to look beyond their own borders.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.
“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.”
G. Tyrrell.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious
layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the
Anglican clergy.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Park, Joseph C.= Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1.
Macmillan.
8–10294.
Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of
woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification,
description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the
finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make;
(7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.
* * * * *
“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted
educational value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this
excellent text-book.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Theodore.= American scholar; ed. with notes by George
Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39034.
A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and
fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole
community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in
representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people,
expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and
saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on
Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s
“History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward
Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed.
with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–38887.
A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which
the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in
his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the
transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a
worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in
life.”
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= World of matter and the spirit of man: latest
discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke.
*$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39391.
Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The
revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on
“The theological and philosophical development of New England” have
never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet
form but have never previously found their way into any American
volume.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Thomas Valentine.= Cherokee Indians, with special reference
to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton
historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–38633.
Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the
story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced
narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the
dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the
divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles
of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening
of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the
government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one
of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice
where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously
affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter
proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is
worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from
historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance.
The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every
Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.
“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee
Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States
government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts
are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian
question, the book is very weak.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in
their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of
economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of
the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri....
The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure,
as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition
of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of
trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and
sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with
scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a
judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific
methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor
Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not
representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the
careful study of all intelligent citizens.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism
on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in
working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in
statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this
important subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of
the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–26195.
A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a
Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753.
The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving
leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the
searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made
leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with
the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.
* * * * *
“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall
Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.
“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its
characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the
spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the
fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell
Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of
France. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9526.
A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis.
It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth
century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save
from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.
* * * * *
“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous
work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A facile, stirring book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.
“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which
Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has
brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.”
W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and
thoroughgoing in invention.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of
the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such
crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an
achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable
advance upon his previous work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Parsons, John Denham.= Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6.
Wessels.
Deals with the much debated question of human immortality. Discusses
soul, body, matter, Buddhism, psychical research, spiritualism,
incarnation, theology, the Bible, life, and death.
* * * * *
“Although it is clear that Mr. Parsons has read widely and thought for
himself, it does not seem likely to us that any considerable number of
persons will be physically or mentally able to follow his reasonings
in all their sinuous windings by means of such a volume as the
present.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 200w.
“The worst thing, perhaps, about the work is its style, which does the
treatment grave injustice. In a work of this kind, it has seemed more
desirable to give some insight into the real scope and design of the
work, rather than deal mainly with matters of criticism. But its
manifold points of learning and interest can scarcely be set forth in
a review.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 260. Ja. ’08. 900w.
“It would perhaps be easier to discover the nature and purpose of the
universe than the nature and purpose of this book. It has been
vouchsafed to only a few to have definite information on this subject,
and Mr. Parsons has been even less successful than others in his
attempt to solve this riddle.”
− =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 380w.
“If the author knows what he means, and he cannot possibly, no other
human being will have the slightest glimmering of it.”
− − =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
=Partridge, Anthony.= The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the
doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as “The ghosts.”
Exhausting what their friends called “esoteric rubbish,” but craving
amusement, the members of this group enter upon a series of bold
robberies and turn the spoils over to charitable institutions. After
they run their daring course they are steered back into normal
channels and the curtain falls upon a serene, apparently unscathed,
circle.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“A weird sort of novel, and one that leaves a distinctly bad taste in
the mind. It is a daring and uncanny theme, and one that invites to
discussion of its psychological possibility. But the author offends
against both probability and the instinctive sense of human justice in
his resolution of the problem.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Partsch, Herman.= Messages to mothers: a protest against artificial
methods. **$1.50. Elder.
8–14355.
The collected utilitarian results of a series of vital human nature
studies undertaken during twenty-three years of medical practice. With
a view to eliminating preventable ills he presents a simple scheme for
right diet, care and treatment of mother and child, and for the
conservation of power in physiological functions.
=Pastores, Los.= Los pastores, a Mexican play of the nativity; tr.,
introd. and notes by M. R. Cole; with illustrations and music.
(Memoirs of the American folk-lore society, v. 9, 1907.) *$4.
Houghton.
7–11974.
Carefully edited to show comparison of various accessible versions,
this play is of “interest as a survival on American soil of a form of
drama which we usually associate with Europe in the Middle ages.” (Am.
Hist. R.) “It is probably a seventeenth century production. It varies
in style ‘from doggerel to the distinction of good Spanish models.’
The actors are the shepherds, the hermit, Lucifer, and the archangel
Michael. The message of the nativity is announced, producing varying
effects upon the different actors. The shepherds seek the babe and
render adoration to him. A combat takes place between Michael and
Lucifer, in which the latter is finally subdued.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The subject-matter ... is of very uneven literary merit and contains
frequent inconsistencies, and an unexpected amount of humor. The
introduction, notes, music of the songs, and photographs of the actors
in costume add much to the value of the work.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 935. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“The spirit of the play is on the whole good. There are fine passages,
but there is also a good deal of coarse by-play.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 244. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= The master criminal. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42014.
The “master criminal” is a man who devotes his intellectuality, strong
character and courage to the furthering of crime. “His morbid,
perverted nature causes him to hate all his fellowmen and to injure
them in every possible way.” (N. Y. Times.) “He has planned to strike
a father thru his son, but love interferes, the love that purifies and
ennobles. It may interest the reader to know that it was this master
criminal who planned the theft of the antique snuffboxes from the
London home of Mr. Wertheim—Floerscheim he is called in the story.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
“The book will furnish rather entertaining occupation for an hour or
two.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“For all who are fond of the hectic flush in fiction the story, whose
scene is laid in London, will be an entertaining tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.= Jerusalem in Bible times. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–26700.
A handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest
archaeological researches. The author gives carefully sorted facts
concerning the sites, archaeology, and the history of Jerusalem,
accompanied by numerous illustrations and maps.
* * * * *
“An excellent handbook for students and travelers. The book not only
evinces familiarity with the results of recent investigation, but
itself makes a worthy contribution to the sum of existing knowledge
about Jerusalem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 365. N. ’08. 60w.
=Patterson, John Henry.= Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African
adventures; with a foreword by F: Courteney Selous. $2.50.
Macmillan.
8–4611.
The thrilling experiences of Col. Patterson among the man-eating lions
of Tsavo become an “epic of terrible tragedies.” How he succeeded in
bringing to an end these savage depredations by killing eight lions
constitutes a most intense story of adventure.
* * * * *
“It should prove intensely attractive to boys, and not less so to
their elders. It is strange, however, that a writer who evidently
knows Swahili should adhere to the obsolete method of writing an
apostrophe after initial _m_ and _n_.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 570w.
“The story he tells us is given very simply and quietly, with no
aiming whatever at effect. It does not need it; the facts are
overpoweringly dramatic by themselves.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8. ’07. 610w.
“Col. Patterson is an engineer and a sportsman rather than a man of
letters but his book is full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“No boy’s book of imaginary adventures published at this season is
likely to make its reader hold his breath more frequently than this
modest but veracious record. There is a good deal else in the book
which will interest the sportsman as well as the general reader,
though if the book were fiction we should be inclined to describe
those parts which do not deal with the man-eaters as an anti-climax.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 459. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The story, indeed, is so amazing that the reader might at first
suppose it to be exaggerated. But quite apart from the entire absence
of artifice in Colonel Patterson’s style, which is itself an evidence
of truth, an overwhelming amount of independent testimony supports the
genuineness of all the details.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 669. N. 2, ’07. 2450w.
=Patterson, Joseph Medill.= Little brother of the rich: a novel.
$1.50. Reilly & B.
8–23548.
“The story concerns a young man, son of a country parson in Indiana,
who won his way by his athletic prowess into the selected and richest
set of Yale undergraduates, and afterward, with the help of these same
young men, rose by way of a broker’s office to affluence and a
position in society in New York.” (N. Y. Times.) Sordid facts of
fashionable social life in New York are exploited.
* * * * *
“It would not be worth while to take this novel seriously enough to
laugh at it, were it not put forth, like Mr. Sinclair’s fustian, as
socialistic or the work of a socialist.” J: Macy.
− =Bookm.= 28: 279. N. ’08. 1300w.
“In the judgment of the intelligent reader, has little excuse for
being.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 320w.
“The workmanship of the story is distinctly amateurish, and the matter
fails to carry conviction. Also the theme is somewhat threadbare and
the details are more so. But the book is readable.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Patterson has delivered a telling blow at the evils that he
uncovers.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 170w.
=Paulin, George.= No struggle for existence, no natural selection.
*$1.75. Scribner.
A critical examination of the fundamental principles of the Darwinian
theory. “This is a book by a mature scholar written for the purpose of
establishing the Lamarckian theory against the Darwinian. The second
part of the book is devoted to a reactionary refutation of the
Malthusian doctrine of population.” (Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“The book before us is altogether interesting, although it mainly
consists of an attack on well-known theories. His views are open to
serious criticism. The book is written in a pleasant style, and
contains much food for thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 187. Ag. 15. 700w.
=Payson, William Farquhar.= Barry Gordon. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27100.
The fiery blood of undisciplined southern ancestors is in Barry
Gordon’s veins, which uncurbed, causes expulsion from college and
rejection at the hands of the girl he loves. During a period of
wandering he gathers courage for a great sacrifice from which he
emerges a conquered self, and is restored to his early forfeited
happiness.
* * * * *
“So amateurish a writer as Mr. Payson can awaken no belief in the
reality either of the gallant Col. Gordon or of his son.”
− =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“A good story, written with vigor and skill and dash.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
“Exciting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not of especial value, but it. is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston.= Book of the little past. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–24442.
A book of child verse full of child problems and child-philosophy. A
note of the seriousness with which children are wont to interpret all
play as work is suggested in the lines:
“And now I have the boat to mend
And all our supper to pretend.
I am so Busy, all the day,
I haven’t any time to play.”
The illustrations are done by Elizabeth Shippen Greene.
* * * * *
“She sometimes strains to copy Stevenson, without quite approaching
him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
“Some really deserve to rank with Stevenson’s melodies in his ‘Child’s
garden of verses.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Pearson, Charles William.= Literary and biographical essays: a
volume of papers by the way. *$1.25. Sherman, French & co.
8–19169.
Essays in the following subjects: Poetry, Early American poetry, The
art of poetry, The English language, Alexander Pope, Macaulay,
Tennyson, Robert Browning, Ruskin, James Martineau, Longfellow,
Washington, and Lincoln.
* * * * *
“The biographical essays are as a rule excellent. In the case of John
Ruskin, we think the author has slighted the subject and failed
properly to interpret the great philosopher, critic and teacher.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 260w.
“While the essays lean a little to the pulpit treatment, they are
wholly and wholesomely adapted to the general reader who may happen to
take a lively interest in the best literature of our time. There is
here and there an oversight in the proofreading.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1069. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“One of those unnecessary books which the world will willingly let
die.”
− =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl: 23, ’08. 320w.
=Pearson, Robert Hooper.= Book of garden pests. (Handbooks of
practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.
8–8130.
An English work designed for English cultivators. Here are “set forth
in clear language, devoid of unnecessary scientific terms, the evils
to which garden and orchard are subject—and they are not few—and also
how to deal with each pest as it occurs.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is a book which we recommend all gardeners, amateur or
professional, to purchase, and keep for reference in the day of
trouble.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 766. Je. 20. 130w.
“Mr. Pearson’s book will supplement some excellent American treatises,
especially those which have been given out by our experiment stations
and in our garden libraries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“The American gardener will find its chapters suggestive and in some
instances distinctly useful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Peck, George Record.= Kingdom of light. **$1. Putnam.
7–21301.
A corporation attorney’s confession. “Mr. Peck tells us that Concord
‘was in its day, and will long continue to be, a greater force in this
nation than New York and Chicago added to each other.’ In that
elevated spirit his little book is written. The pity of it is that
means will never be found for giving it such wide distribution among
those who need its philosophy, as the help of a great railroad gave to
‘A message to Garcia.’” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“As captivating and convincing a plea for devotion to the ideal in the
midst of common life as one often runs across.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 140w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Sword of Dundee: a tale of “bonnie Prince
Charlie.” †$1.50. Duffield.
8–17830.
A sprightly tale set in Jacobite times in which the representatives of
two Scottish clans are rivals for the hand of spirited Agnes of
Anchnacarry, with Stuart loyalty, who devotes her wit and courage to
the cause of Prince Charlie all the while proving true to her lover of
Clan Cameron.
* * * * *
“The loyal young heroine’s adventures are many and exciting, and in
following them the reader so far catches the spirit of that eventful
period as to be willing to overlook the author’s occasional failure to
keep the machinery running smoothly and noiselessly.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“She has evidently studied the period. It is the more pity that her
work should be marred by incongruities.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 180w.
“An interesting romance based on one of the most romantic episodes in
Scottish history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Peele, Robert.= Compressed air plant for mines: the production,
transmission, and use of compressed air, with special reference to
mine service. $3. Wiley.
8–24250.
In which “all the well-known makes of air compressors are described,
their principles of operation and details of construction are
discussed, and their good and their not so good features are pointed
out with such impartiality that those most numerously employed in
actual work find no more favor than those which are less frequently
met.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The book is a useful presentment of its subject in many respects, and
offers a safe guide to the practitioner, as far as it goes. It is only
occasionally marred by minor defects.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 319. S. 17, ’08. 560w.
“A very complete and convenient summary, at once useful and usable
with not the slightest suggestion of padding. The author quotes
authorities quite profusely and perhaps not always after sufficient
scrutiny.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Peile, James H. F.= Reproach of the gospel: being the Bampton
lectures for the year 1907. *$1.80. Longmans.
7–42089.
Professor Peile states that “The influence of Christianity on mankind
at large is, and has been, strangely disproportionate alike to its
high claims and to the reasonable expectation of those who saw its
beginnings.” This conviction, the cause, and the remedy constitute the
subject of a discussion which places its emphasis upon the conduct
rather than the creed of Christianity.
* * * * *
“Though Mr. Peile’s book is in no sense great, and does not stimulate
thinking like Dr. Bussell’s more valuable work, it is an impressive
appeal to the Christian world to take its Christianity as seriously as
its worldliness.... As a volume addressed, not to the academic, but
the ‘respectable’ world, this book could hardly be surpassed.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 665. My. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by G. Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert, J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1450w.
“Professor Peile tells us that the true object of his lectures was to
make his hearers think, and in this he has succeeded.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 464. Mr. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Pell, Albert.= Reminiscences of Albert Pell, sometime M. P. for
South Leicestershire; ed. with introd by Thomas Mackay; with an
appreciation by the Right Hon. James Bryce. *$5. Dutton.
8–32328.
Albert Pell was a man of rugged independence, a practical and skilful
farmer, a Tory of prominence in the party ranks, tho an avowed Free
Trader, and a philanthropist in spirit, while sincerely showing his
detestation of its cant. This book records his views and includes his
collection of good stories told about political personages of
importance.
* * * * *
“The book is remarkable in the way it endears the author to us.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 1100w.
“Certainly nothing so distinctly good in English non-political
autobiography has found its way into ‘The Independent’ office for the
last twenty years.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“In his racy, unaffected language he offers a series of pictures of
English life in hall, farmhouse, and cottage, which are a real
addition to the literature of social England.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“This volume is as full of good stories, well told, as an egg of meat;
and everyone should read it who wishes to travel from George IV to
Edward VII and to laugh by the way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which should not be missed by any one who enjoys racy
humour and a genuine revelation of character.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 422. Mr. 14, ’08. 1450w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Amateur motorist. **$3.75. McClurg.
“A book for amateur motorists, written by an amateur motorist,
relating his experiences in the hope that others may profit
thereby.... The 70 pages given to a description of the leading cars,
with illustrations and prices, flavor somewhat of a catalog.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book contains practical hints of a sound character, but it would
not be easy to say precisely what good end it is destined to serve.
Its disadvantages are these: from the standpoint of the experienced
motorist, it offers nothing new; from the standpoint of the novice, it
is needlessly verbose in some directions, and, upon the whole, neither
explicit nor comprehensive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 685. N. 30. 460w.
=Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Sir Richard Escombe: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18372.
A story of the ruined Medmanham Abbey and the famous Society of St.
Francis founded there during the stirring days of Sir Francis
Dashwood, John Wilkes, Churchill, the poet Whitehead and the
villainous Lord Harborne. It concerns mainly the relations of Sir
Richard Escombe with the society, his efforts to end it, and his
relations thru trial and misunderstanding with Kitty Dulcimore of
Sherbourn in the county of Warwickshire.
* * * * *
“Despite its staginess, it is a fairly brisk and cheery story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“Melodrama of the carefully matured, carefully selected variety, that
with a judicious blending of realistic detail may be warranted not to
offend the sensitive literary palate.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 66. S. ’08. 580w.
“A highly readable piece of work.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 455. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“There is an ingenious story, there are court portraits, social
caricatures, wild Irish extravaganza, even idyllic patches. The
language fairly wallows in artificiality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“If it does not endure much thinking or analysis, that is no great
fault, since its readers will be disposed to little of either.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 420w.
=Pendleton, Louis Beauregard.= Alexander H. Stephens. (American
crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–11395.
From sources new and old the author has gathered together material for
this biography which follows a great life full of tragedy both public
and private as well as full of triumph and usefulness. It is suited to
the modern reader and is desirable “not only because of the peculiar
personality of one of the ablest of the southern statesmen of the old
régime, and because of his association with great events as
vice-president of the southern confederacy, but because he was one of
the most consistent figures in the long struggle between the champions
of state sovereignty and the supporters of federal supremacy.”
(Preface.)
* * * * *
“A book to be taken rather seriously. Mr. Pendleton is weakest, I
think, in his discussion of the question of the right of secession.”
W. G. Brown.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 155. O. ’08. 860w.
“The best available book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Mr. Pendleton’s life of Stephens is less partisan and better informed
than some of the southern biographies that have recently appeared.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Without adding anything valuable to the printed materials, Mr.
Pendleton has given a good popular account of this pathetic career.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 750w.
“A comprehensive and interesting life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 860. Ag. 15, ’08. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“This life is worth reading first as a study of the man, secondly for
the light it throws on the struggle between North and South.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Penhallow, David Pearce.= Manual of the North American gymnosperms,
exclusive of the cycadales but together with certain exotic
species. *$4.50. Ginn.
7–23272.
“The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled “Anatomy,” the
second “Systematic.” Under anatomy (192pp.) a detailed account of the
regions and elements of mature gymnosperm wood is given, including
discussions of durability, decay, and general phylogeny. In the
systematic part (157pp.) a synopsis of the genera and species of
cordaitales, ginkgoales, and coniferales is presented, based entirely
on wood characters, and including so far as possible the economic
values.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“A very painstaking and a unique book. The book will certainly be
highly useful in its practical applications and also as a great
assistance in the recognition of fossil material.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 45: 417. Je. ’08. 620w.
Reviewed by C: E. Bessey.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 609. O. 30, ’08. 600w.
* =Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell), and Pennell,
Joseph.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
Whistler who authorized the Pennells to write his biography, during a
number of years before his death furnished them with personal
reminiscences, anecdotes, correspondence, and various other data. This
material with the addition of other first hand facts gathered from his
family after his death is ample for the complete intimate, sympathetic
biography which has been produced. “As a collection of Whistler
pictures, also, the work is of remarkable value, the reproductions
made for the Pennells, at Whistler’s order, bringing to light etchings
and drawings which have not before been made public.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The book is a conscientious endeavor to put before the reader
Whistler as he really was—as he appeared to those privileged to know
him intimately. A few inaccuracies have crept in. The numerous
illustrations constitute a feature of great interest. Taken together
they afford a more extended glimpse of the range and character of
Whistler’s art than has hitherto been available.” F: W. Gookin.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 448. D. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The Pennells appear to have maintained a balance both of judgment and
taste that fully justifies the artist’s choice and designation of
them.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 300w.
“Is unusually complete, supplying many details regarding the famous,
eccentric artist which have hitherto been lost in obscurity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“One may sometimes take exception to the particular form of praise
indulged in.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 532. N. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“The pattern of intercourse and incident is intricate enough, and the
background of misunderstanding and injustice that frequently appears
is, of course, sombre, but the harmony of the whole is marvelously
kept, and the reader sees a Whistler of many sides but of one
inspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 682. N. 21, ’08. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. and Mrs. Pennell’s book
is the account of Whistler’s experiment in teaching, the ‘Académie
Carmen.’” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 571. N. 7, ’08. 1800w.
“The book is a sympathetic record rather than an impartial criticism,
and the painter’s personality, no less than his art, is treated with
loving approbation.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 779. N. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Spitfire. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–24456.
An “ingenious yarn of the sea and stolen jewels and characters at
cross purposes.... ‘The Spitfire’ is a yacht, and it is strongly
suggested by several people, beside the author, that the name
describes the heroine of the yacht’s log for its last eventful
voyage.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A good story, of the kind which does not depend upon minute analysis
or subtile psychology for its interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is plenty of action in the plot, and if occasionally the author
permits himself a certain amount of license in grammatical
construction, and loads his descriptive passages with colloquialisms,
he no doubt hopes thus to preserve the atmosphere of the story, which
is not that of the classics.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
=Perry, Arthur Cecil, jr.= Management of a city school. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–10626.
Here are discussed the problems of public school administration from
the standpoint of the principal, rather than that of the
superintendent or the teacher. The author sets forth the work of the
principal; his duties; his responsibilities to the state, public,
authorities, and pupils; his problems; and the principles which should
direct his administrative work.
* * * * *
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“The book should be helpful to young principals and to those who are
fitting themselves for such work; and it can be read with profit by
all who are concerned in the work of the public schools.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Park-Street papers. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–28842.
Five papers concerned with the Atlantic monthly, with its Park street
home, and with some of its distinguished writers of the past. The
contents are: Atlantic prologues, (five toastmaster addresses); The
centenary of Hawthorne, The centenary of Longfellow, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Whittier for to-day; and The editor who was never an editor.
* * * * *
“Graceful essays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08.
“Marked by his customary geniality of temper and lightness of touch,
with just enough of artistic detachment to lend grace and freedom to
his style without rendering it too coldly impersonal, ‘Park-Street
papers’ maintain the high standard of their author’s work as essayist
and literary critic.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Those who read the sober little volume will feel nearer, kinder to
that dignified periodical, the ‘Atlantic monthly,’ just as they might
feel more intimate with any other old ‘grande dame’ after looking at
her family album and the skeletons in her closet.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
“He has the ‘toastmaster’s’ fondness for life under its social,
cultivated, and genial aspects, and, having a genuine esteem for the
characters of his guests, displays at times a toastmasterly indulgence
to their literary deficiencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 785. D. 19, ’08. 430w.
=Person, Harlow Stafford.= Industrial education: a system of
training for men entering upon trade and commerce. (Hart,
Schaffner and Marx prize essays.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22413.
“The volume deals with the training required by young men who would
fit themselves for the higher positions in industry or commerce, and
the need of providing such training in the United States.... His
opinion clearly is that while commercial training should be offered in
high schools, collegiate courses, and professional departments, the
ideal conditions can be found, only in distinctly professional
instruction, open solely to those who have already completed a liberal
education.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Admirable brief discussion entirely from viewpoint of higher
education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
=Cath. World.= 87: 112. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“We disagree strenuously with the implication in the author’s
statement that ‘the training for work should not be weakened by having
to carry the burden of training for culture.’ The monograph is an
interesting and valuable study.” David Kinley.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 115. F. ’08. 500w.
“His book is a useful contribution to an important branch of
educational discussion.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 190w.
“The book is suggestive rather than exhaustive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
=Peters, Rev. John Punnett=, ed. Annals of St. Michael’s; being the
history of St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal church, New York,
for one hundred years, 1807–1907. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–31234.
“The history of St. Michael’s church of this city is more than an
account of the founding and growth of a particular parish, with its
petty trials, its varying fortunes according to the abilities of its
leaders, and its trivial enterprises of merely parochial
significance.... It constitutes an important part of the history of
the development of the upper part of New York city, its old families,
its marvelous material changes, its schools, hospitals, orphanages,
and institutions for the variously afflicted.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A model of what a history of an important church should be.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The story is told with fidelity to fact, skill in narration, and with
an enthusiasm that sustains the reader’s attention throughout.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 220. Mr. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Peters has assembled much that is of great interest in the
development of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Justice to the Jew; new ed. rev.
**75c. McClure.
8–9751.
“The present edition of a work published nine years ago, and now
re-written, is a strong statement of facts which demonstrate the
irrationality of prejudice against any Jew because he is a Jew. It
comes with peculiar force from one who confesses that he himself was
once blinded by such prejudice.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 278. N. ’08.
“Dr. Peters is not always duly careful in statement or temperate in
language, but blemishes of such sort are venial in comparison with the
unreason and inhumanity at which he strikes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 100w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Strenuous career, or Short steps to
success. *$1.25. Laird.
8–17545.
“The volume is packed with edifying examples of worldly success
attained in the face of obstacles; and these are strung together on a
thread of good common-sense moralizing. The author warns his readers
that the fruits of success turn to ashes in the mouth unless the
success sought be a high and worthy one. True success, he points out,
‘lies not in getting what you desire, but in achieving that which will
elevate and ennoble yourself and at the same time confer some benefit
on your kind,—a success which will be measured by its contribution to
the world’s welfare and happiness.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is characteristic of the country.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 20. S. ’08. 800w.
“The combination of worldly wisdom with sound moral standards, which
the author shows, makes the book a safe and helpful one to put in the
hands of aspiring youths.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Phillips, Alfred E.= Surveying. $1.50. Am. school of
correspondence.
8–8482.
“Gives in clear form practical instruction in the use of
surveying-instruments and the method of plain surveying, including
plotting, levelling, triangulation, line running, cross sectioning,
traversing and other details of field work.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“While it has little to distinguish it from any one of many similar
works, yet it seems to be well adapted to the purposes of a
correspondence school.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“The information is given in a clear manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Old wives for new. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–8091.
The story of a man who weds a thin slip of a maiden. “Sophy, the slip
grows fat—and grows fat with all the pomp and circumstance of flesh.
No details are spared. Meanwhile Sophy’s husband (who herds railways
like sheep) grows ever more natty and fastidious.” (N. Y. Times.) “By
this time neither loves the other, so they obtain new partners without
disgrace or even embarrassment.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is a powerful story, as unpleasant as it is vividly faithful to
conditions as they exist.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 509. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“As vigorous and straightforward a story as we have now come to expect
from this writer.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 495. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It would be useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent
fabrication, which is one of the most revolting books, in both
incident and general plan, that we have ever read.” W: M. Payne.
− − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“In making so much of the purely physical attractions and repulsions
between unhappily mated characters, Mr. Phillips offended the instinct
for decency of the sounder millions of Americans.”
− =Ind.= 64: 808. Ap. 9, ’08. 750w.
“Setting out with a theme which is ignoble in most of its external
aspects, he has not a touch to refine or even to lighten it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“Substance is furnished by some very truthful pictures of real
every-day America—good and bad—but the author has depended—like the
makers of many modern plays—upon his ‘specialties’ to catch the
public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 187. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 20w.
“There are introduced scenes and incidents that are far from nice
reading, that are vulgar and disgusting in themselves, whatever may
have been the author’s moral purpose.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Phillips has lavished paint on his picture to a degree
approaching vulgarity.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 130w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
8–30248.
A slight story that tells how a maltreated little waif darted into the
life of a dispirited gold hunter, and how the lad’s coming was the
beginning of happier days at the Gulch tho not until a severe test of
courage proved the boy’s metal.
=Phillips, Stephen.= New poems. **$1.25. Lane.
7–34791.
A group of poems including practical pieces, and verse that appeals to
the emotions and to the sense of beauty.
* * * * *
“Not up to the average of the author’s earlier work, but the large
libraries will want it for the student and lover of English
literature.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
“We fear that Mr. Phillips’s reputation will gain but little by this
volume. Good lines—indebted for their charm, in great measure, to
hints of Tennyson—stand out from the ruck with an added prominence;
and, on the other hand, lines are not lacking which are noteworthy by
reason of their inferiority.”
− + =Ath.= 1908. 1: 156. F. 8. 1100w.
“Left entirely to his own resources, Mr. Phillips does not seem to us
a vertebrate poet, but he can drape the limbs of old romance in very
graceful folds.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 74. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
“If this were the author’s first volume, one would call it promising;
from a proved craftsman it is merely slovenly.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 527. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The best of Mr. Phillips is not his thought nor his emotion, nor the
interaction of both; it is his expression. He is content, as a rule,
to take a good story or a respectable idea, and tell it with all the
resources at his command. The new book as a whole, gives the
impression that the poet has come to a pause in his development. The
old qualities are here, with a finer feeling than before for the point
where enough has been said.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 364. N. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“Like most of the lesser versifiers of the day, his virtue is in the
sensuous, unthinking perception of beauty.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 280w.
“The present volume is very well worth reading as an exemplification
of his skill, and especially as showing, upon the whole, a distinct
advance upon the ‘Poems’ of 1900.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 460w.
“There are good lines in Mr. Phillips’s poem, but there is very little
uplift of vision, and sometimes his verse drops to a level of
commonplace prose.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 370w.
“He is now a deft workman in his own spacious vein. These verses for
the most part have a fluent tinkle, a kind of obvious succulence,
which makes them in a way readable. Such readability, however, is more
remote from true standards of poetry than any amount of frankly bad
verse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 280w.
“The poems almost without exception are characteristic of Mr.
Phillips’s best work.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1770w.
=Phillips, Stephen, and Carr, J. Comyns.= Faust; freely adapted from
Goethe’s dramatic poem. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24861.
A free paraphrase of Goethe’s poem which “presents the main events of
the legend with a more narrow continuity of narrative; compresses into
comparatively few scenes the unrestrained sweep of Goethe’s epical
inventiveness; discards the subtler phases of the world-poet’s
philosophy, and reduces his main ideas to the simplicity demanded by a
theatre-going public that yawns while it asks to be amused.... The
authors have cut out and thrown away many passages of their original;
they have rearranged the order of the passages retained; but beyond
this they have set themselves scarcely any exercise of the
imagination.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“The great departure from Goethe is, in my humble opinion, an
absolutely fatal mistake.” F: B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 812. D. ’08. 3700w.
“Their task was special, and they have performed it admirably.” Philip
Littell.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 363. D. ’08. 800w.
“Considered merely as an adaption of Goethe’s poem to the uses of the
stage, this latest ‘Faust’ is thoroughly commendable. The present work
is largely a dilution of previous rendering of the great original.”
Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 221. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Is worth reading for its own sake and for the sake of the comparison
that it invites with the huge masterpiece on which it is based.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
“In mere style and rhythm and facility Messrs. Phillips and Carr ...
have thus been able to produce the best version in English of Goethe’s
work. The condemnation and adaption of the poem to a workable drama
have been skilfully managed, though not always to our taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 294. S. 24, ’08. 730w.
“It is not a translation, and yet it has all the awkwardness of
one—the phrases that suggest imperfect understanding of the original
or the carelessness natural in handling ideas not our own. Indeed, of
carelessness there is more than enough.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 130w.
=Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell.= History of transportation in the eastern
cotton belt to 1860. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–1482.
“The present volume is concerned almost entirely with the development
of transportation in South Carolina and Georgia.... After an
introduction of twenty pages giving a general survey of the
transportation problems in the South, Professor Phillips devotes two
chapters to highway and canal development in lowland and upland South
Carolina prior to 1830. Then follow accounts of the Charleston and
Hamburg railroad and the premature Charleston project, the Georgia
railroad and banking company, the Central of Georgia system, the
Western and Atlantic (built by Georgia) and various minor branch
roads. The concluding chapter describes the beginning made during the
five years before the war in the integration and co-operation of the
hitherto independent roads, and summarizes the effects of the railways
upon social and economic organization.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Professor Phillips has written a scholarly book rich in detail. He
has placed students of social as well as economic history under
lasting obligations.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 539. O. ’08. 650w.
“The investigation is both thoro and interesting, and the relations of
transportation to the wider economic interests are never lost sight
of.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 562. S. ’08. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Mother of the man. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–4037.
Such a mother as Ibsen foresaw for the rearing of sturdy sons is
portrayed in this peculiarly strong tale with its convincing men and
women. The hero is a hot-headed, untamed youth, restless with the
surging of warring elemental passions. The mother’s wisdom and justice
apparent in her swift play of mind offer the restraining and
developing influences that finally bring the son thru pain and turmoil
to the light.
* * * * *
“The plot is simple, the delineation of character masterly and
delicate, the descriptions of the enchanting moors exquisite.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Phillpotts has a famous style, rich and generous, and his moor
draws the best out of him. His pictures of nature are singularly vivid
and delectable. The most notable point in this book is the greater
ease and quietness which his methods have acquired.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 221. F. 22. 350w.
“A book which is hard to discuss in terms of calm, every-day
criticism. It is the sort of novel the thoughtful reader will want to
keep, that he may return to it again and again, to browse here and
there upon its pages. In a word, this novel is that rare and beautiful
thing, the work of a poet who has something to say.” J. Marchand.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 60. Mr. ’08. 320w.
“The most human, the most appealing, the wisest and the most lovable
of mothers in recent fiction. Eden Phillpotts has written his
strongest book, so far, in ‘The mother of the man’ with a ripeness and
restrained power rarely excelled.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“None of these people have ‘cultivated’ minds. We have not to solve
them as intricate puzzles, but to watch them unfold in character and
meaning, simply and beautifully, by what they say and do—rather than
like Mr. James’s people, complexly and often beautifully, by the play
of his fancy about them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“This last is perhaps his finest work; it moves with greater freedom,
and gives evidence that the writer is growing with each book he gives
us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The plot is slight and the action far too sluggish, but the
workmanship and the intellectual quality are of the best.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Virgin in judgment. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–29741.
“This story contains a dozen capital portraits of rural men and women,
dwellers on Dartmoor some half-century ago. The lives of the three
protagonists culminate in tragedy, the legitimate outcome of clashing
temperaments. Rhoda Bowden’s affections are all centered in her
brother David.... David has married Madge, who is Rhoda’s antithesis,
a woman compact of sympathy and love. Jealous for her brother’s
honour, Rhoda charges Madge with unfaithfulness to him. Madge is
innocent, but unlucky circumstances lend colour to the accusation, and
Rhoda’s harshness drives her to self-destruction. Rhoda learns the
truth too late and loses her brother’s love.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The principal charm of this book will lie for many readers in its
picture of the rustic community as a whole. The writer’s chief
distinction lies, perhaps, in his well-nigh Shakespearean respect and
liking for simple and dull people.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 540w.
“The end is so sudden, so unexplained, and so unnecessary. It is
pathetic, but it lacks justification; pathos is a mere trick of
technique, but tragedy is proof of the artist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“It is doubtful whether Phillpotts has surpassed ‘The virgin in
judgment’ in any of his previous novels. He lies full length upon
Mother Earth, but he gazes up into the depths of the sky.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“Here is a matter for sadness, but there is mirth too, for the author
gives us pages of humorous dialogue, as well as glimpses of content in
many a cottage. We feel, as we read, that his touch in
characterisation is sure and his outlook upon life is sane.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The statue: a story
of international intrigue and mystery. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22564.
A story which “centers about a gigantic and mysterious statue built in
the grounds of his country place by a financier of international
reputation. A loan to the government of Morocco, which involves the
possibility of a European war and survival or downfall of an English
ministry, the murder of the great financier at the foot of his statue,
a dramatic trial, an escape from prison, and the final revelation of
the secret of the statue, provide ample complications and incidents.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is no more than a melodramatic tale of ingenious intrigue, of
mysterious crime, and of detection and retribution. Taking it upon
this low level, the story is effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is the kind of thing the cheap magazines print—a tale of murder
and supposed mystery, with suitable embellishment of ‘love interest.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
“Too serious development of an ingenious tangle of circumstances. The
end is surprising in its hopelessly improbable character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“The secret is ingenious, but as a _dénouement_ it is disappointing.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Phyfe, William H. P.= Twelve thousand words often mispronounced.
**$1.25. Putnam.
8–16935.
A revised and enlarged edition of “10,000 words often mispronounced”
with a supplement of two thousand additional words. It is a complete
hand-book of difficulties in English pronounciation, including an
unusually large number of proper names and words and phrases from
foreign languages.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to
Sargent; with 8 il. in colour and 32 in half-tone. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17199.
Written from the English point of view this study follows the progress
made in the field of art during the latter half of the nineteenth
century. The Preraphaelites and the impressionists figure largely in
the treatment, with mainly such phases of other artists’ work as have
contributed directly or indirectly to the success of these two
schools.
* * * * *
“A useful compilation covering subjects difficult to get in one
volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
“The book cannot be regarded as important, but it is conscientious,
and as original as is required by its purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 230w.
“The title is misleading and untrue as an indication of what the book
really is. ‘Modern painting’ is not English painting alone. It would
almost seem as if the two parts had been written at different times
and put together without any proper relation to each other.” W. C.
Larned.
− + =Dial.= 45: 340. N. 16, ’08. 1100w.
“Is not a well-proportioned book. The book is of no importance,
critically, but may have its uses as a popular account of the art of
the last half of the nineteenth century.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 233 Ap. 18, ’08. 220w.
“Is at times characteristically British and insular in tone.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“The review is inadequate in its comprehension of what America has
done for modern painting.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 300w.
“A readable, well-informed, and eminently fair-minded book.” Laurence
Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 1050w.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Trees in nature, myth and art. il. **$1.50.
Jacobs.
W 8–60.
“A book which tells what men have thought and said about trees, how
artists have painted them, rather than a discussion of trees
themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a pleasant leisurely way about myths
and artists and art and the more or less scientific fancies of
unscientific observers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“On account of its weakness in originality and insufficient power of
expression, we fear that we must place it too near the category of
those books to the writing of which there is no end.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 86. N. 2, ’07. 1500w.
“The worst point about the book is that the author is always throwing
off suggestions more interesting than his main argument.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 696. N. 30. 400w.
“Mr. Phythian’s book will interest those who, less active, still love
to lounge in grove or glade and dream of the stately procession of the
friendly trees.” T: H. Macbride.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Phythian is at his best when he treats of trees in art, and is
least satisfying in the chapters which describe them in nature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 348. N. 15. ’07. 1000w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Inscriptions of the Nile monuments: a
book of reference for tourists. **$5. Putnam.
8–19581.
“The translations here presented of the more important and interesting
inscriptions that challenge the traveler’s curiosity recall the
vanished life of that once mighty kingdom in clear reality—the
Pharaohs and priests, the conquerors and magicians, the beliefs and
customs, of three and four thousand years ago. These inscriptions,
together with the photographs accompanying the text, make up a rare
‘book of remembrance’ for the returned traveler, as well as a guide
and interpreter for the tourist. The translated inscriptions are
accompanied with adequate historical and other notes and comments, and
the photographs are of superior quality.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 783. O. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Occasionally he has done violence to English construction by
following very closely the Egyptian order of words; at times, however,
this method adds to the picturesqueness of the versions. Printed on
thinner paper and in smaller type, some of the 130 illustrations might
suffer, but the book would gain, and it would certainly prove not only
a practicable, but an interesting and a profitable companion on a Nile
voyage and on a temple pilgrimage.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 528. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The selection is made with good judgment, and the author’s long
residence in Egypt makes him fully competent for his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 2000w.
“A more welcome companion-book for the visitor to ‘Egypt’s land of
memory’ than this finely illustrated volume could hardly be produced.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15. ’08. 120w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Federal usurpation. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–4348.
“A plea for the sacredness of the constitution of the United States,”
called forth by President Roosevelt’s suggestion for an increase of
Federal power “thru executive action—and thru judicial interpretation
and construction of law.” “The author arraigns Mr. Roosevelt for
attempting to destroy the State government, imperialize the national
government and convert the presidency into a dictatorship.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“This is a vigorous and well-written, tho somewhat polemic,
constitutional study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 155. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever one may think of Mr. Pierce’s methods or conclusions, it
cannot be denied that his vigorous plea for state rights ... is worthy
of thoughtful consideration. Neither the facts nor the tendencies
which they show are, of course, new, although no recent writer has so
carefully collected them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Cannot be taken by the student very seriously. It is a view of the
constitution much more ably presented by Professor Stimson. It is
accurate neither in its facts nor in its law.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 314. O. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Pierce, Ulysses G. B.=, comp. Soul of the Bible: being selections
from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha, arranged as
synthetic readings; introd. by Edward Everett Hale. *$1.25. Am.
Unitar.
7–32351.
Here are brought together passages which explain and supplement each
other and which are of permanent worth. “The readings are synthetic.
In each selection the whole Bible has been drawn upon, as needed to
develop the subject or to supplement the thought. Isolated passages
have been brought into relation with the larger thought of which they
are generic parts, thus utilizing many short passages which would
otherwise be overlooked because of their fragmentary character.”
=Pillsbury, Walter Bowers.= Attention. (Lib. of philosophy.) *$2.75.
Macmillan.
8–19132.
The English edition of a work which in 1906 appeared in French as a
volume of the Library of experimental psychology. “The English volume
is an expansion of the former work and increases notably the value of
this contribution to psychology. There is an additional chapter on
measurements of the attention, a very important topic; a similar
addition treating of the relation of attention to the feelings and to
the self, and a useful practical chapter upon the educational aspects
of attention. What appeared as a single chapter in the earlier
publication on memory, will and reason, is now amplified into three
separate chapters.” (Science.)
* * * * *
“The work is marked throughout by accuracy of statement, wide
familiarity with the literature of the subject, and fairness and
discrimination in criticism.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 406. Ap. 30, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be true that the functional view is not adequately worked out,
but it has been expressed a sufficient number of times to deserve,
some of us believe, a respectful hearing. As an example of structural
psychology, Professor Pillsbury’s work will command instant
recognition. He will probably be satisfied to answer that this was all
he intended.” C: H. Judd.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 651. N. ’08. 2300w.
“The volume may be emphatically commended.” J. J.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 819. My. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Pinkham, Edwin George.= Fate’s a fiddler. †$1.50. Small.
8–18409.
One Bermondsey Bibbus, the keeper of a second-hand book shop in
Boston, his wife, addicted to lachrymose poetry, and his son, the hero
and narrator of this story, constitute the chief group of characters.
The father camps on the trail of the rainbow until he really finds a
reasonable pot of gold in a newspaper office in Missouri. The son goes
to school and enjoys the wealth of the cousin who inherited an uncle’s
fortune instead of himself.
* * * * *
“A confused story, with a somewhat foolish plot, but two characters
who might almost have stepped out of Dickens redeem it from
commonplaceness.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The story is not told in a way to appeal to mature minds, and however
much it may please young people accustomed to the stories of Oliver
Optic and writers of that class, it is not a book that will, we think,
be prized by most novel readers.”
− =Arena.= 40: 486. N. ’08. 200w.
“A very readable novel with a distinct flavor of Dickens in it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 240w.
“The book is rather well done, but one doubts if it is particularly
worth doing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“To revive a wholesome type of story even on a reduced scale is a
thankworthy deed. Mr. Pinkham has done so, and has suitably,
humorously, and cleverly added of his own.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 430w.
“Had the excellence of the first chapters been sustained throughout,
the book would be a noteworthy one instead of merely above the
average.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Platt, Dan Fellows.= Through Italy with car and camera. il. **$5.
Putnam.
7–42023.
Mr. Platt’s itinerary “covers not only the well-beaten roads, but many
byways—from Castelfranco and San Daniele in the north to San Galgano,
Montefalco, and Jesi in the centre. Most remarkable are his
illustrations, which have three merits—they are very numerous, more
than 200 in all; they are uncommonly well done; and they include many
out-of-the-way scenes and bits of native life and costume.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“With that touch-and-go spirit which the motor-car encourages, and the
Italian scenery in the latter part of the year intensifies, [the
author] devotes his energies to the criticism of art. As a critic of
art Mr. Platt is by no means commonplace and conventional. He does,
indeed, cast down some of the ancient idols, but he is not a destroyer
of all the cherished images.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The bars should never be lowered to admit the perpetrators of such
banalities in text and ‘illustration.’”
− + =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 140w.
“After one has read the letter-press, these half-tones will serve as a
sort of album of Italian subjects, to be returned to again and again.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja 30, ’08. 130w.
“A most readable record of the journey to the centres, great and
small, of Italy’s past artistic activity. His style is simple, there
is no attempt at fine writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 420w.
“The lover of Italy, if he does not expect an elaborate work, will
find here much worth having and preserving.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Is in effect a glorified guide-book to the wonders of nature and
beauties of art, which were the objective of each day’s outing.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 624. F. ’08. 360w.
=Player, Preston.= Notes on hydro-electric developments. *$1.
McGraw.
8–21048.
A discussion whose object is to furnish information to the water power
promoter which shall enable him to determine accurately the merits of
a proposed undertaking.
* * * * *
“The information given is valuable and worth the consideration of
anyone at all interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 160w.
“This book should be particularly interesting to younger men in
electrical and hydraulic work.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“This side of hydro-electric work has never been taken up so
authoritatively before, and the manual is to be commended as answering
a real need.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 335. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Plechanoff, George.= Anarchism and socialism; tr. with the
permission of the author by Eleanor Marx Aveling; with an introd.
by Robert Rives La Monte. 50c. Kerr.
W8–79.
“One of a series of reprints of socialistic literature published for
the purposes of propaganda. The treatment is a well reasoned defense
of Marxian socialism as over against utopian socialism on the one hand
and nihilism and anarchism on the other hand.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“The treatment is conventional, and the chapters on Proudhon and
Bakounine are especially readable.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“Taken as a whole this volume is a masterpiece that surpasses every
other work on these subjects. It contains the quintessence of the
progressive thought of the past two centuries. It is an invaluable
contribution to art and literature.” Saul Beaumont.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 800w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Canada. **$1.75. Holt.
8–26881.
Roy and Ray whose journey thru Mexico taught many things historical
and geographical to young readers, are equally alert in the present
volume devoted to Canadian history, scenery, manners and customs. The
book offers valuable supplementary reading for schools.
* * * * *
“Clear, well-written and accurate, the book will prove especially
useful in connection with school work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“However excellent the material, we cannot overcome our dislike of the
cross-question. Miss Plummer, who has done her work carefully is a
trained observer.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“An excellent travel book for children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“A book sure of a welcome from bright boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 80w.
=Podmore, Frank.= Naturalisation of the supernatural. **$2. Putnam.
8–22271.
Traces the history of spiritualistic movements, and from the published
and unpublished investigations of the Society for psychical research
produces material that on the one hand exposes fraud and on the other
scientifically substantiates certain marvellous occurrences of psychic
phenomena. “The author is convinced of the reality of telepathy,
including the production of hallucinations by spontaneous thought
transference, but is skeptical of the physical manifestations of
spiritism which are now returning to popularity.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“Altho it follows the lines of his earlier works and contains little
that is essentially new or different, and altho he is disappointingly
inclusive in summing up the argument and stating his own opinion of
it, yet his care in collecting his evidence and fairness in discussing
it make the volume useful to those who wish to form their own
opinions.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 488. Ag. 27, ’08. 730w.
=Nation.= 87: 239. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 300w.
“A really helpful addition to the rapidly growing literature dealing
with the work that is being done in the debatable field of spiritistic
phenomena, apparitions, hauntings, and kindred manifestations of a
supposedly supernatural character.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 334. S. 12, ’08. 1050w.
“Though there is nothing very new or sensational in the volume, there
is plenty of evidence of careful work, and of a refusal to rush into a
spiritualistic explanation of unknown phenomena while any other
explanation remains possible.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 744. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
* =Poincaré, Lucien.= New physics and its evolution; being the
authorized translation of “La physique moderne, son evolution.”
(International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
“The keynote of the book is the remark that physical science
progresses by evolution rather than by revolution; and that science in
general is in some sort a living organism which gives birth to an
indefinite series of new beings which take the place of the old. The
author shows how the science of mechanics and the mechanical
hypotheses of Newton, Descartes, and La Place have been modified by
recent discoveries, and he explains the limits of metaphysics and
philosophy in dealing with the laws of nature.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Although it is short and clear, it will not be found easy reading,
and some of it will not be followed without consultation of other
works, save by those to whom the methods of research as well as the
broad principles of physics are already familiar.” S. S. Sprigge.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 885. S. 14, ’07. 1900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“The compression of so many subjects into a space of little more than
300 pages is in itself a feat of which few living men would be
capable; but our wonder at this deepens when we observe the means by
which it is effected. The editor of the series has done his work with
discretion, and his comparatively few notes are useful in supplying
needed definitions and in bringing the book up to date.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 940w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It is a scholarly production which can be confidently recommended to
all who are interested in the development of physics.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 800w.
=Pollak, Gustave.= Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian drama.
**$2.50. Dodd.
7–38906.
In which Franz Grillparzer, the typical Austrian of the Metternich
period, is introduced to American readers. The sketch gives an
intimate insight into the life and times of the playwright and also
translates “freely the best of the plays, thus affording, besides the
synopsis of each drama, a taste of the atmosphere of the work that
nothing short of the actual text can provide.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08.
“Mr. Pollak, who writes with a sound knowledge of the facts and a
genuine enthusiasm for his subject, is hardly, we think, a
sufficiently acute psychologist to make an ideal biographer of
Grillparzer. But the narrative is clearly and pleasantly told, and
English readers will gain from it a good general idea of Grillparzer’s
life and work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 170. F. 8. 1450w.
“He has given a sympathetic account of Grillparzer’s rather meagre and
unhappy life.” P. G. Hubert, jr.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 521. Ja. ’08. 1150w.
“He has written a sympathetic study of a character very difficult of
comprehension if viewed apart from the circumstances of time and
place. The metrical translations are an important feature of the book.
With few exceptions they render with uncommon success the meaning and
melody of the original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 18. Ja. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“In the main, in its triple character of biography, criticism, and
translation, it is an admirable piece of interpretation, and in view
of the place which Grillparzer has come to hold in German literature,
it can scarcely be doubted that M. Pollak, in introducing him more
fully to the American public, has given us one of the most important
books of the season.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 88. F. 15, ’08. 1300w.
“It is a piece of biographical criticism of exceptional value by
reason of its sound scholarship, competent literary judgment, and
thorough workmanship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 110w.
* =Pollen, Mrs. John Hungerford.= Seven centuries of lace. $9.
Macmillan.
“Mrs. Pollen [owner of the La Primandaye lace collection and wife of
the official editor of the South Kensington museum catalog of books in
art] is an enthusiast on the subject of ancient needle and bobbin-made
lace, and has added value to the fine series of plates in her book by
an able introduction, in which she traces the evolution of the sister
crafts, and defines the distinctive peculiarity of each variety,
adding a complete glossary of technical terms, for some of which no
adequate English equivalent had previously been given.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The earlier part of Mrs. Pollen’s book is naturally the more
interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 373. S. 26. 620w.
“All who delight in fine needlework have every reason to be grateful,
so faithful are the interpretations given and so clearly do they bring
out not only the exquisite symmetry and appropriateness of the
designs, but also every minute detail of stitchery that contributes to
the general effect.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
“If supplemented by a good history, tracing the development of design
and technique, its excellent plates would have genuine educational
value, but in its present form its usefulness is practically limited
to the collector or to those already somewhat familiar with the
history of lace.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 740w.
=Polley, Joseph Benjamin.= Soldier’s letters to charming Nellie. il.
$2. Neale.
8–4889.
Letters written by a member of Hood’s Texas brigade to a loyal
Southern girl. They tell of experiences which have since become a part
of history; of personal observations and feelings on the march and in
battle.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
=Poor, Charles Lane.= Solar system: a study of recent observations.
**$2. Putnam.
8–5270.
A supplement to standard text-books and encyclopedia articles, whose
aim is to show by means of untechnical language and without the use of
mathematics by what steps the precise knowledge of to-day has been
reached, and to explain the marvellous results of modern methods and
modern observations. Here is set down what modern science has revealed
concerning the sun, the moon, the earth and other bodies in our
planetary system, concerning satellite systems, comets and meteors,
tides and tidal evolution, and the evolution of the solar system.
* * * * *
“A book of average merit but with no distinguishing features that call
for special commendation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08.
“Can be most highly commended both as a text book and as a general
exposition of the most important of astronomical phenomena.” W. S.
Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 458. S. ’08. 240w.
“Cannot fail to be read with avidity by the ever-increasing number of
astronomical students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 406. O. 3. 820w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Attractive and thoroly readable. He is rather severe, but not unduly
so, upon the extraordinary views of Lowell in regard to Mars and its
so-called ‘canals.’”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 422. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“It is descriptive and authoritative, recording salient facts in a
simple and direct manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 520w.
“It is not too abstruse, is thoroughly entertaining, and is timely.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 70w.
“Its freedom from slips shows that the author has exercised the same
minute care over the proofs that he has in the selection and
exposition of the matter.” W: E. Rolston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 629. O. 22, ’08. 670w.
“The work is compact, readable and instructive in just the points
where one’s schoolboy ideas need readjustment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“A very interesting and suggestive volume.” C. L. Doolittle.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 56. Jl. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Pope, Amy Elizabeth, and Carpenter, Mary L.= Essentials of
dietetics in health and disease: a text-book for nurses, and a
practical dietary guide for the household. *$1. Putnam.
8–22245.
A text book designed to be of use in the teaching of dietetics in
schools of nursing, and also of use as a dietary guide for the home.
The first part deals with the principles of dietetics, and the second,
with recipes.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Much is exceedingly good, despite a confusing inconsistent use of
calculations and chemical terms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Popplewell, William Charles.= Strength of materials; a manual for
students of engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13630.
A book intended for students of engineering who are desirous of
obtaining a working knowledge of the fundamental principles involved
in problems of machine and structural design. Special attention has
been paid to the unequal distribution of stress and to the limits of
elasticity in iron and steel.
* * * * *
“We already have a number of much better works, and there seems to be
no place in the American field for this newcomer.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 280w.
“Though prepared for English students, [this book] will prove of equal
value to Americans who wish a short, correct, and vigorous treatment
of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Nature.= 77: 412. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Porter, Charles Talbot.= Engineering reminiscences contributed to
“Power” and “American machinist”; rev. and enl. il. *$3. Wiley.
8–9539.
The articles contributed to “Power” and “American machinist” have been
revised and expanded and have been collected here for an addition to
the history of American engineering. “It must be borne in mind, of
course, that the book makes no pretence to be an impartial and
complete history of the field of engineering to which it refers. Mr.
Porter has merely set down his personal experiences and those of his
associates and contemporaries from his own personal viewpoint.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 250w.
“The book is written in conversational style and with a frank recital
of successes and failures which make it highly entertaining. The young
engineer can learn many lessons in practical business.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book is a model of its kind, written with very many humorous
comments and full of the charm of scholarship tempered by the broad
views that come only with intimate acquaintance with men of all
degrees in many countries.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 386. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
* =Porter, Eleanor H.= Turn of the tide. †$1.25. Wilde.
The sequel to “Cross currents” which follows the development of
Margaret Kendall, lost in the slums for four years, from the time when
she is restored to her home.
=Porter, Gene Stratton.= At the foot of the rainbow. $1.50. Outing
pub.
8–978.
Central Indiana furnishes the rural scene of a story whose
characters—two men, and a woman—constitute the modern-drama triangle.
It is a tale of a heroic Scotchman’s friendship for a dissipated
Irishman who had played the former false when entrusted with a message
to the girl both loved.
* * * * *
“A light, cheerful and, at the same time, pathetic, little story. A
breezy, fresh, out-of-doors atmosphere is its chief characteristic.
Similar in this respect to the author’s ‘Freckles,’ but better done in
every way.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story has the same outdoor quality that ‘Freckles’ has, by the
same author, but it makes less of an appeal to the sympathies.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 95. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“If it is worth reading at all (and let us give the author the benefit
of the doubt), is so because of the background of outdoor life,
nature, and the changing pageant of the seasons.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Porter, Mary Winearls.= What Rome was built with: a description of
the stones employed in ancient times for its building and
decoration. *$1.25. Oxford.
8–13631.
The knowledge of antiquary and geologist has been drawn upon to
furnish to inquirers this description of the stones used in building
ancient Rome. The kinds of stone are identified and traced to their
home quarries, and historical and mythological details are included.
* * * * *
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 17w.
“A little more care might also have been well spent in the arrangement
of the matter. Only trifling blemishes, detract from the value of an
interesting compilation. It is difficult to point to any other work on
the subject equally convenient and trustworthy.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 196. Ja. 2, ’08. 400w.
“A highly interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 170w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Woven in the tapestry. **$1.
Moffat.
8–9525.
“These are the tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the
distant borderlands; of the pagan king, Thyaterion, and his daughter,
the princess Alacia; of the Hermit in the forest, and of the stranger
who came to live for a while as the Hermit’s disciple.” “The nosegay
of chapters from the life of a fairylike princess holds allegories
that trace the growth of her mind, soul, and heart. Side by side with
these are cameo portraits of her lowlier neighbors, of her courtiers
and counsellors, and of the true and only prince.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 150w.
“The soul not dead to the whisperings of poetry, may pleasurably walk
in this pretty garden of fantasies.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a gracious little book; and perhaps there may be a truth in its
flowery pages which the plainer story of real life overlooks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 220w.
* =Post, Melville Davisson.= Corrector of destinies: being tales of
Randolph Mason as related by his private secretary Courtlandt Parks.
$1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25120.
A group of mystery stories containing legal tangles which Randolph
Mason, wizard of the law, straightens thru a maze of technicalities.
“Randolph Mason may not be humanly possible—an embodied characteristic
is rarely so; but there is a certain stern charm in so austere a
conception as the incarnate essence of justice untinctured with
sympathy.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Most of the stories hang upon points of law more interesting to the
technician than to the outsider.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The book is well written, and is sure to be of interest both to old
friends of Randolph Mason and to those who meet him now for the first
time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Post, Van Zo.= Retz. †$1.50. McClure.
8–16717.
A young nobleman of Flanders goes forth to adventure and achievement
uncertain whether the power that moves the world is money, knowledge
or love. The gift of Venus—as old as time—is accepted after daring
deeds prove the worthiness of the hero.
* * * * *
“Structurally, it is incoherent, but its episodes are exciting enough
to make us condone the fault of amorphous plan.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Cora Brown.= The secrets of beauty and mysteries of health.
**$1.75. Elder.
8–10640.
A practical guide to beauty which gives suggestions for the right care
of the skin, hair, nails, eyes, nose, ears, face, mouth, teeth, hands
and feet. Valuable formulas are interspersed for the compounding of
aids to beauty and health.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 218. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“She has given to the world of woman a very sensible and thorough
study of the methods in vogue all over the world for the promotion of
good looks and good health.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The volume contains all sorts of good advice, based on the author’s
stage experiences and travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Margaret.= Golden ladder. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12224.
The story of a wanton young woman who treads the broad way just
because she wants all of the tinsel of life and none of its serious
joy. On the rounds of the “golden ladder” the hero—who in truth does
not deserve the name—sacrifices his manhood, but still climbs, by the
Wall street way, to his millions.
* * * * *
“The story is made both unattractive and ineffective by the
ostentatious desire of the author to point its moral.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 180w.
“The volume undoubtedly has good material in it; Margaret Potter sees
life on a rather big scale, and she uses verbal colour in a way that
forces the reader to see what she wants him to see.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 399. Je. ’08. 400w.
“Some of her bits of description and dialogue are calculated to bring
a blush not to maiden cheeks alone. We are inclined to think that ‘The
golden ladder’ has done a thing well worth doing after a fashion in
which it distinctly ought not to be done.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 330w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the Briand family, and an occasional lapse from egotism on
the part of the hero, the novel is unjustifiably repulsive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Most of the characters are crude in conception and are not made
credible in development.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 180w.
“The book is, of course, designed to show up the terrible hunger for
riches that possesses the land; but we fail to see that it will turn
any young man from attempting the ascent of the perilous ladder.”
Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 620. Ag. ’08. 400w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
“The novel, if a little long, is decidedly clever, but it is by no
means pleasant reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Pottle, Emery Bemsley.= Handicapped. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17789.
“Donovan O’Hara, who came of a well-bred mother, was handicapped by
having a horse-trainer for a father. He had the bringing-up, the
associates, and, on the whole, the tastes and morals of a
horse-trainer.” (Nation.) How his heritage operates against him in
matters of love forms the main theme of the book. “The group of people
who appear in these pages is united by a common love of horse flesh.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Does not at any point gain much hold upon the reader’s attention.” W:
M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 140w.
“When the book is not horsy it is ‘sexy.’ It it also rather dull.”
− =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“An eloquent little romance, vibrant with plenty of wholesome
activity, and with a pathetic love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 140w.
=Poulton, Edward Bagnall.= Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4.
Oxford.
Contains a series of ten essays on various aspects of the Darwinian
theory and is introduced by a chapter entitled Mutation, Mendelism,
and natural selection.
* * * * *
“Our first thought on reading these essays is one of regret that their
author did not rewrite them entirely and give his matter in a new
form. By the present arrangement the book appeals much more to the
entomologist than to the general reader. Perhaps their main fault is a
certain pedagogic flavour, and hence an impatience of views not
entirely in consonance with those of the author.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 157. Ag. 8. 900w.
“This introduction, together, with the last three or four chapters,
should have formed an independent volume on natural selection and
mimicry.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“We dare not find fault with it, save indeed to wish its treatment had
been even more encyclopaedic.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 336. S. 12, ’08. 1600w.
=Powell, Frances, pseud. (Frances Powell Case).= Old Mr. Davenant’s
money. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10860.
A story with a subtly handled mystery concealed by an avaricious
mother and a faithful servant. A mother had managed with skilful
manœuvring to secure old Mr. Davenant’s money for her son. The boy
dies and the mother rather than lose the fortune slips a twin sister
into his shoes and brings the child up as the son and heir. The east
end of Long Island furnishes the setting for the story which sketches
a fascinating group of characters and is rich in local color.
* * * * *
“The sugaring of the pill is so well done that the story may well
enough be read for its interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
* =Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Art of natural sleep, with definite
directions for the wholesome cure of sleeplessness, illustrated by cases
treated in Northampton and elsewhere. **90c. Putnam.
8–32345.
A little book prompted by the author’s experience in overcoming
insomnia which is designed to help physicians, Emmanuel workers, and
others who believe in the art of natural sleep to aid those committed
to their care. The method is auto-suggestion reinforced by faith.
* * * * *
“The tiny book is written in the simplest and most practical style,
and its definite directions for the cure of sleeplessness are such as
any person can follow with very little trouble.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 723. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Christian science: the faith and its
founder. *$1.25. Putnam.
7–40519.
An interpretation of the facts of Christian science, its tenets and
its founder written by one who is neither a defender nor an assailant.
* * * * *
“A careful, painstaking exposition, manifesting a thorough knowledge
of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08. ✠
“The volume should have careful consideration from all who are
interested in the phenomenon.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 130w.
“A very careful and painstaking examination.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 40w.
=Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 264. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
“The author is frank and impartial with Eddyites and their opponents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A scathing indictment, all the more scathing because of the
dispassionate form in which it is presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“It ought to be satisfactory to those who wish a fair-minded and
judicial interpretation of Christian science.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 180w.
=Poyser, Arthur.= Tower of London; painted by John Fulleylove,
described by Arthur Poyser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The text, beautifully printed on thick paper with wide margins,
consists of an historical sketch, and then descriptions of walks
through the Tower, round the Tower, about Tower hill, and Allhallows
Barking by the Tower. This part of the work is competently done, but
without special distinction of style. The pictures are pretty,
fortunately in rather subdued colors, but without notable
excellence.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 120w.
“There is sufficient in the way of historical sketch, of description
of the several towers, chapels, and chambers, and of anecdote about
famous prisoners to make the work valuable without overloading it with
detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 150w.
“If Mr. Poyser sees more imaginative possibilities in the Tower than
the great writers themselves appear to have seen, we must say that he
himself has cast little of charm over his descriptions.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Fulleylove’s pictures have all the charm which we are accustomed
to find in his work. Mr. Poyser’s description is satisfactory on the
whole.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 712. N. 7, ’08. 240w.
=Praed, Rosa Caroline (Mrs. Campbell M. Praed).= By their fruits.
$1.50. Cassell.
“A story with twin sisters as the central figures. Dual personalities,
so alike that they easily pass for each other when apart, equally
beautiful in physical appearance, they are yet opposites in
temperament and character; Aglaia-Pascaline, frivolous, a victim to
the drug habit; Pascaline-Aglaia, pure, spiritual, would-be savior of
her sister. Around these two characters the story is woven.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Though it can scarcely be called probable, is highly ingenious, and
through four hundred odd pages the interest never flags.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 140w.
“According to my thinking, it is, on the whole, the most remarkable
and the most original novel Mrs. Praed has yet brought out, and its
heroine is certainly one of the most charming, noble-minded woman
figures in our recent literature, at once poetically ideal and yet
thoroly lifelike and real.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1339. Je. 11, ’08. 350w.
“The interest never flags for one moment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
=Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. *$3. Schirmer.
7–38011.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book becomes unbalanced towards the end.” O. G. Sonneck.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 828. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“Particularly useful for small libraries with few reference books. The
illustrations are interesting, but not finely executed.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 47. F. ’08. ✠
“He has increased the literature of music by a contribution of
permanent value.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 99. F. 16, ’08. 850w.
“By the painstaking care with which he has selected his material, and
the clear, succinct, straightforward method of its presentation,
without waste of words, his book is an important contribution to the
literature of music, and it makes interesting reading for layman and
musical student alike.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It may be said that too many minor names are included among the
numerous sketches of composers. By omitting such trivial information,
room might have been provided for references to the more important
books in which the subject of each chapter can be studied in detail.
Apart from this, it would be difficult to suggest a way in which this
book might have been improved. Is a marvel of industrious research and
exceptional usefulness.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The book is far from being a mere compilation. It is not lacking the
personal point of view, and the flavor of the personal criticism. The
arrangement is admirable, with its division into large and small type;
and the index is very full.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 50w.
=Pratt, Walter Merriam.= Burning of Chelsea. $1.50. Sampson pub.
8–19884.
A contribution to local history based on personal knowledge and
observation. It gives a volunteer fireman’s story of the great
conflagration of last April with additional chapters on the history of
Chelsea. Fully illustrated from photographs.
=Presbrey, Frank.= Motoring abroad. *$2. Outing pub.
8–16437.
The account of a two months’ automobile trip thru Normandy, Brittany,
the chateau country of Touraine, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
made by an enthusiastic automobilist and his wife. The volume is
instructively written and profusely illustrated. It closes with a
chapter on “Practical suggestions” in which the author gives other
automobilists the benefit of all the means adopted to reduce
discomfort and annoyance to a minimum.
* * * * *
“Is notable apart from the descriptions he gives of the countries.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“We can confidently recommend [it] to the stay-at-home who is
afflicted with the somewhat prevalent desire to see Europe from an
automobile.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4. ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The author knows how to enjoy himself thoroughly and he understands
how to tell in crisp, entertaining fashion, what he has seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Prescott, Samuel Cate, and Winslow, Charles E. A.= Elements of
water bacteriology, with special reference to sanitary water
analysis. 2d ed. $1.50. Wiley.
8–9036.
A new edition rewritten to cover the progress during the past four
years. “Particular mention is made of addition to the chapters on
Self-purification, on the Isolation of the typhoid bacillus, on Colon
tests, and a new chapter has been provided on the Bacteriology of
sewage and sewage effluents. A quite extended bibliography is
provided.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“In its practical applications the book is an excellent compendium of
data bearing on the bacteriological conditions of normal waters, the
self-purification of streams, the efficiency of sand and mechanical
filters and the relation of bacteriology to sewage purification.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 420w.
“The book can be recommended as a very useful one and a great
improvement on the first edition.” R. T. Hewlett.
+ =Nature.= 79: 6. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Preuss, Arthur.= Fundamental fallacies of socialism: an exposition
of the question of landownership; comprising an authentic account
of the famous McGlynn case. *$1. Herder.
“Written by a Catholic who seeks to prove that the public ownership of
land is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic church, especially
that embodied in the encyclicals of Leo XIII. These encyclicals and
Henry George’s open letter to the pope are discussed in detail. The
author then seeks to prove that the removal of the ban of
excommunication which had been pronounced against McGlynn because of
his advocacy of Henry George’s theories did not mean, as it was
commonly supposed, that the single tax was not contrary to Catholic
doctrine.... The final conclusion is that public ownership of land
being wrong, similar arguments will prove the error of public
ownership of other agents of production—hence the fallacy of
socialism.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“When Mr. Preuss will have dealt intelligently with the crux of the
situation hinted at in his observations, he may, with more propriety
than at present, claim to have produced ‘the first and only adequate
presentation, in English, of the important question of
landownership.’”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 100. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
=Ind.= 86: 637. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 180w.
=Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
* =Preyer, David C.= Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of
Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
“Written not for the professional, whether painter or critic or
student, but rather for the reader who is interested in art for the
beauty of it and for the tourist who is looking for information. While
the greater part of the volume is given over to Rubens, Rembrandt, Van
Dyck, Hals, Memling, the Van Eycks, Teniers, Jan Steen, Van Ostrade,
and the other great painters, much space is devoted to the modern
Dutch artists, Israels, the Maris brothers, Neuhuys, &c.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Such a history has not before appeared in English, nor in Dutch in
the same completeness. Mr. Preyer’s account of the lesser men, as well
as of their more noted fellows, is written with intelligence and
discrimination.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Is sufficiently enthusiastic about his subject to impart some of his
appreciation to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Price, Eleanor C.= Princess of the old world [Anne Marie Louise
d’Orleans]. (Memoir ser.) *$3. Putnam.
8–10260.
The biography of Louis XIV’s wayward and eccentric cousin who “next to
Queen Elizabeth is perhaps the most interesting spinster in history.”
(Spec.) “The life of Mademoiselle covers a great part of the
seventeenth century, a very interesting period in the history of
France, seeing that it includes the wars of the Fronde and such
personalities as Conde—perhaps the most brilliant of all French
soldiers before Napoleon—and Mazarin. Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans
mixed, of course, with these men and engaged in the politics of their
time.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The author has used contemporary sources with taste and discretion,
and has supplemented them with the best modern authorities.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25. 1400w.
“An exceedingly finished and accurate presentation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
“The author has the knack of making her people seem very real and very
much alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
“A picturesque and highly readable study.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 779. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
=Price, William Thompson.= Analysis of play construction and
dramatic principle. $5. W: T. Price, 1440 Broadway, N. Y.
8–23870.
“Mr. Price’s theory is that dramatic genius, unsupported by mastery of
technical laws, is comparatively powerless to make a good play—which
has a certain measure of truth in it—and that the requisite technical
knowledge must be obtained by minute analysis of standard pieces in
order to discover their constructive principles. As models for
dissection he selects five plays, ‘Ingomar,’ ‘Lady of Lyons,’
‘Camille,’ ‘Still waters run deep,’ and ‘A new way to pay old
debts’—of which only one, ‘Camille,’ is really notable for artistic
composition.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His unworthiness as a teacher is manifested, not so much in his
exaggeration of the importance of mere mechanism as compared with that
of matter—much of what he says about technique is sound enough, though
tediously trite—but in his utter failure to offer any suggestions of
practical value to the budding dramatist. All the real instruction in
his ponderous volume could be put with better effect into a thin
pamphlet for use as a primer.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 269. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“There are no better books on this subject than Mr. Price’s.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 970w.
* =Priestman, Mabel Tuke.= Art and economy in home decoration. **$1.50.
Lane.
8–27401.
The author, a practical interior decorator, presents a study of house
decoration in which color is the keynote. “Suggestions are given how
to treat our walls, what curtain material is best, what to choose as
floor-covering, and how much ornament is admissible on our furniture,
besides many other points of vital importance to the young
housekeeper, or the older one whose eyes are being opened to possible
beauty. The illustrations in the book are excellent as aids to the
text.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“More inclusive than Daniel’s ‘Furnishing a modest home,’ but is on
different lines and will appeal to a different class of readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’06. ✠
“The subjects are treated with the knowledge that comes of long study
of interior decoration, and in a simple, untechnical way that will
appeal to the average home-maker.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“The clear classification of subjects in this manual will be
appreciated by those who use it.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Prior, James.= Walking gentleman. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23524.
On the day preceding his marriage, Lord Beiley, immensely bored with
life, wanders away and yields to the temptation of vagabondage. His
itinerary takes him among people with whom rank counts for nothing,
where he learns to value essential manhood. And “the Lady Sarah comes
to feel that his desertion of her was a blessing to them both, because
it taught each of them that life was not quite worth while without the
other.... It gives a series of vivid pictures of rural England, a
succession of carefully studied types of middleclass lower-class men
and women, of the scum and riff-raff of society, all admirable in
their own special way.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“In the general scheme of his work—its inconsequence, its
whole-hearted love of the open road, and, above all, its wide sympathy
with all sorts and conditions of men—Mr. Prior reminds us irresistibly
of George Borrow.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 951. S. 28, ’07. 350w.
“For a novel with no plot it is astonishing how interesting this
itinerary is; the book will dwell in the memory when most novels have
faded from it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 200w.
“The story not only has a clever theme, well handled, but better yet,
it is delightfully written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“With the exception of ... a precocious but lovable child, it is in
the minor characters that Mr. Prior shows his finest art. The story in
itself is not strikingly original; its value lies in its flashes of
human insight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. James Prior possesses an exceptional wealth of juicy humor; he
pours forth the wine of mirth that gladdens the heart in liberal
measure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Programme= of modernism: a reply to the Encyclical of Pius X.,
Pascendi dominici gregis; with the text of the Encyclical in an
English version, tr. by Rev. Father George Tyrrell, with an
introd. by A. Leslie Lilley. (Crown theological lib., no. 25.)
*$1.50. Putnam.
8–15499.
The fault of “Modernism” for which the authors of this volume have
suffered excommunication is that of regarding Christianity as
transcending the outward doctrinal and ecclesiastical expression of it
and daring to submit these externals to historical criticism. The
reply includes a most lucid and concise presentation of the results of
the “Higher criticism,” states wherein the Encyclical has
misrepresented the “modernists.” and explains and justifies their
position, maintaining that it is in accord with the best Catholic
traditions.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 346. Mr. 21. 1200w.
Reviewed by H. C. Corrance.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“It is a very remarkable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Pleasant land of France. *$3.50. Dutton.
W8–121.
“Seven sketches and studies, ranging over agriculture, folklore,
history, and literature, with the one common attribute of an all but
exclusive bearing on provincial conditions of life and thought in
France.” (Nation.) “For American readers the essay on Fontainebleau
will probably hold the greatest share of interest.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is a pity he did not expand the two essays [on French agrarian
subjects] into a small volume, bringing the facts under consideration
down to the present day, and elucidating his pages with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 37. Jl. 11. 630w.
“Most important are two practical discussions of French farming and
tenant-right, together with an elaborate contribution to the
appreciation of Rabelais.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“For the thousands of Americans who annually make their holiday in
France one would not do better than recommend this essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 650w.
“Whether courting the muse of history ... or drawing a humorous
philosophy from the gudgeon-fishing which is the national pastime of
provincial France, Mr. Prothero is wholly delightful here.” A. I. du
P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Prothero’s delightful book on France covers a variety of
subjects, on each and all of which he speaks with authority.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 408. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
=Putnam, George Palmer.= Tabular views of universal history;
originally compiled by G. P. Putnam, and continued to the year
1907 by Lynds E. Jones and Simeon Strunsky. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–39021.
A series of chronological tables presenting in parallel columns, a
record of more noteworthy events in the history of the world from the
earliest times down to 1907.
* * * * *
“A laborious undertaking which we are bound to say hardly seems to us
to have paid for the doing.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 30w.
“For the layman studying universal history some such arrangement is a
godsend wellnigh indispensable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6. ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have tested the dates for various periods we find no
reason to doubt the general accuracy of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“The new edition contains a number of important features.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 50w.
“On the whole, the book seems to be carefully compiled.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 836. My. 23, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam, Ruth.= Charles the Bold; last duke of Burgundy, 1433–1477.
(Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–6627.
A biography whose importance grows out of the last duke of Burgundy’s
relation to events rather than out of any patriotic or heroic
qualities. The author has condensed a vast amount of reliable material
in her sketch, making use of the later results of historical
investigation. She says, “The veracity attained is only that of a
mosaic of bits; each with its morsel of truth.” She emphasizes the
insufficiency of the duke’s mental equipment to cope with the forces
of his age, and further believes that his chiefest happiness lay in
his unconsciousness of his shortcomings.
* * * * *
“Accurate as to facts, and good in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08. ✠
“An interesting account of a most interesting career.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Particular attention should be called to the well-selected
illustrations. Miss Putnam tells in an attractive and authentic
fashion the life of the last Duke of Burgundy.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“Will surely take first rank in the series to which it belongs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“A brilliant miniature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“It is written with perhaps more dash and fervor than both the hero
and the subject warrant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 260w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 370w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Ruby of Kishmoor. †$1. Harper.
8–31166.
A story of adventure set in the island of Jamaica which introduces a
pirate, his allies, his daughter, and the hero, a tall, lean,
loose-jointed Quaker. Before his death the pirate turns over the
famous Kishmoor ruby to his daughter, and the Quaker plays the hero in
defending her against the father’s confederates, who, separately, in
the act of securing the ruby, bring death upon themselves.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W: G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“The artist-author is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
Q
=Quackenbos, John Duncan.= Hypnotic therapeutics in theory and practice;
with numerous illustrations of treatment by suggestion. **$2. Harper.
8–6667.
The author believes that the transliminal or higher spiritual self may
be inspired to assert a control that is practically boundless, within
the limitations of physical possibility and moral right, over “the
flesh,” that is, organs of body and faculties of mind; and that the
whole purpose of hypnotic suggestion is the evocation of such control.
He treats hypnotism as the great regenerative force of the age, bases
his statements on scientific facts having back of them over seven
thousand personal experiences in treating physical and moral diseases.
* * * * *
“This is really ‘yellow’ psychology, and is none the less jaundiced
because one may charitably concede that the author is sincere.”
− − =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 570w.
“He accepts as proved many things to which the cautious scientist
would at most give the benefit of the Scotch verdict.”
− =Ind.= 65: 431. Ag. 20. ’08. 440w.
“Any minister who is thinking of taking up such work, from whatever
motive, would do well to read this book and heed its counsels of
caution.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“A volume more remarkable for the magnitude of its claims than for any
conviction of the validity of those claims which it carries.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
=Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28. ’08. 40w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 50w.
=Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“[We open it] with pleasant expectations. Nor are we disappointed, as
far as plan and style are concerned, for the author knows how to
write, and his eye for dramatic effect is keen. But we must confess to
a considerable disappointment when we discover that the book is not so
much a novel as an argument for the single tax.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
“A tale of much incident; in fact, its author has over-charged his
canvas in his zeal to preach the economic cure-all made familiar by
Henry George after its previous long struggle for recognition. There
is discernible in these pages, however, a great sincerity of purpose,
an ardent desire to reform and improve, to serve the poor and awaken
the rich.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 170w.
R
=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violoncellos. (Music lovers’ lib.) il. *$1.25.
Lippincott.
8–35540.
“Is concerned with the history of the instrument and its evolution
from the ‘ravanastron’ of India, probably its earliest prototype, to
its present form.” (Int. Studio.) “Not only gives an account of the
instrument, but is full of pleasing anecdotes, subjective fancies,
scenery, such, for instance, as the glimpse in the opening chapter of
London on a foggy day, and records of players in centuries passed.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Not by any means indispensable to the ordinary collection of books on
music.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The author ... has certainly made her book acceptable to the general
reader; but it also contains plenty of solid information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 425. Ap. 4. 250w.
“The numerous digressions introduced concerning those who have been
responsible for the changes in the model of the instrument undoubtedly
enhance the general interest of the work.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“There is a quaint flavor to Miss Racster’s style, a certain humorous
enthusiasm, which makes her book capital reading, even for persons
whose relations to the violoncello are through the ear alone; while he
or she who has ever handled the instrument cannot fail of discovering
an almost lyric charm in the pages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2. ’08. 150w.
=Radau, Hugo.= Bel, the Christ of ancient times. *75c. Open ct.
8–19535.
“From the preface to this book we learn ‘that the Babylonian religion
is a purely monotheistic religion, more particularly a monotheistic
trinitarian religion.’ The first sentence of Part 1 reads: ‘It is
admitted by every one who has studied the religion of the Babylonians,
that it is from the first to the last polytheistic. By a more or less
successful series of permutations and combinations this apparent
contradiction is removed, and Enlil, who is “one flesh” with Ninlil,
his wife, is shown to be the one Babylonian deity.’ The second part
shows that the belief in the resurrection is the essential doctrine of
the Babylonian, as well as of the Christian, religion.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
− =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 200w.
− =Ind.= 65: 496. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
=Raikes, Hugh P.= Design, construction, and maintenance of sewage
disposal works; being a practical guide to modern methods of
sewage purification. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Written by an engineer for engineers. It “summarises a considerable
amount of recently acquired knowledge relating to sewage disposal, and
contains the advice and experience of one who has had to face the
practical problems involved.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“This is a ‘live book.’ Any differences of opinion which may be felt
between author and reviewer are merely such as necessarily and
usefully exist between workers in different parts of the same field.
The practical man will find in its pages many useful ‘tips’ and will
be led to see where he can be helped by scientific investigation,
whilst the scientific worker will be enabled better to realize the
practical limitations which are often set to the ideal design
indicated by theory.” G. J. Fowler.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 183. Ag. 13, ’08. 2500w.
“Some of the bacteriological and chemical references in this volume
are insufficient for the student’s comprehension as they stand at
present, and in some cases they demand revision in a subsequent
edition. A volume which, from the engineering standpoint, justifies
its appearance.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 473. S. 17, ’08. 830w.
=Railway master mechanic.= Railway shop up to date; a reference book
of up to date American railway shop practice; comp. by the
Editorial staff of the Railway master mechanic. $3. Crandall pub.
(For sale by Van Nostrand.)
7–42333.
A reference book of up-to-date American railway shop practice showing
what methods have been adopted to meet certain ends at individual
plants. “The book takes up in turn the general lay-out of the shops,
the locomotive shop, the blacksmith shop, the freight car shop, the
passenger coach and paint shop, the planing mill, the foundry, the
power house, the store house and the roundhouse. There is also an
excellent bibliography of American articles on such structures.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“The book will be of great value in the office of any railway
motive-power or shop department officer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 400w.
“Of decided value to railroad master mechanics and mill architects
generally.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Ramsay, Sir James Henry.= Dawn of the constitution; or, The reigns
of Henry III and Edward I. (A. D. 1216–1307). *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–21030.
The fourth volume in the author’s history of England in the middle
ages. “Single minor incidents are made to contribute to the progress
of the story; familiar dramatic events are sanely and soberly
described; the royal finance is treated with unique fulness and
clearness; the military element is not preponderant. The historian
has, within his limits of matter and form, provided ‘those desirous of
knowing the cardinal facts of English history with a consecutive and
verified narrative.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“In matters of general accuracy and apparatus somewhat is left to be
desired. Sir James Ramsay has again done a great service, especially
to students, who may at any time be helped by one or another
apparently superfluous detail.” R. K. Richardson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 106. O. ’08. 950w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’08.
“A work constructed on this plan can hardly be otherwise than dry. One
grows weary of the author’s painstaking chronicle of movements and
interests of but one class, his neglect of other aspects of the life
and thought of the nation. Yet despite limitations, the merits of the
history are many and lasting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 670w.
“Although Edward is the central figure in the volume now before us we
fail to derive from it any clear conception of his personality. Sir
James is an annalist of the most laborious description. Somewhere in
his pages we may count on finding all important facts along with many
that are unimportant.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 860w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Cities of St. Paul: their influence on
his life and thought: the cities of eastern Asia Minor. (Dale
memorial lectures in Mansfield college, Oxford, 1907.) il. *$3.
Armstrong.
8–3647.
The Dale memorial lectures for 1907. Tarsus, Pisidian Antioch,
Iconium, Derbe and Lystra are the cities treated. “The lectures aim to
show the element in Paul’s thought of social reorganization which was
contributed by Greek ideas of development in individual freedom guided
by education. They abound in points of historical, biblical, and
antiquarian interest, with serious criticism of various current views.
Much the largest section of the volume is deservedly given to Paul’s
native city.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The reviewer confesses to an impression that the material at the
author’s disposal is often too slight for the conclusions that are
based upon it.” G: H. Gilbert.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 477. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“These chapters narrating the history and showing the life of each of
these cities will be invaluable to students of the New Testament; and
Sir William Ramsay is to be congratulated on his excellent work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 700w.
“This will be a useful book to students of the life of Paul.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“No one knows Asia Minor more thoroly than does Professor Ramsay, and,
as the learned public knows, this ‘Cities of St. Paul’ is but the
latest of his series of volumes which have added so much to our
knowledge of the physical, social and historical surroundings which
affected the great apostle’s character and work.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 500w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 230. Ag. 15, ’08. 180w.
“Important work. Has no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The book indicates Dr. Ramsay’s undoubted scholarship and his wide
grasp of facts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He speaks with conscious authority and long experience, and is a
little resentful of amateur encroachments upon his domain, whether
those of ‘Palestinian tourist savants,’ whose half-knowledge he
frankly criticises, or of German scholars who work from books and in
long succession repeat each other’s errors.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 469. Ap. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“If we cannot always accept Sir William Ramsay’s theories, we always
find him full of enlightening suggestion.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 620. Ap. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Rand, Benjamin=, comp. Modern classical philosophers; selections
illustrating modern philosophy from Bruno to Spencer. *$2.50.
Houghton.
8–6098.
A series of selections valuable to college classes including
philosophical writings of Bruno, Bacon, Hobbs, Descartes, Spinoza,
Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Kant, Fichte, Schelling,
Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte and Mill.
* * * * *
“Will immediately become a standard book of reference.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable one for the college student to have at his
elbow.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 80w.
“Good as his book is, it might be bettered in the earlier editions
which are certain to be called for. As it stands, the work is heartily
to be recommended to instructors and students alike.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 554. S. 24, ’08. 640w.
“One of the most useful books on its subject published in recent
years. Any book of this kind is, of course, open to criticism of
detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“The volume can be strongly recommended to the general reader. Such a
book as this will best realize its final purpose, however, as indeed
the compiler points out, if it serves as a stimulus to the student to
turn to the unabridged writings themselves of the great thinkers. To
that end the addition of a few bibliographical references would have
been of real service in directing the uninitiated.” G. M. Duncan.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 662. N. ’08. 1850w.
=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Adopting of Rosa Marie. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24300.
A story for children which is a sequel to “Dandelion cottage.” The
chief interest for the group of lively children who laugh and play
thru the book is a little Indian child borrowed for a day but kept
indefinitely on account of the desertion of the parents.
=Rappoport, Angelo S.= Curse of the Romanovs: a study of the lives
and reigns of two tsars: Paul I and Alexander I of Russia,
1754–1825. *$3.50. McClure.
8–9071.
“This book is dedicated to the memory of the ‘noble martyrs who have
fallen in the struggle for Russian freedom.’ Herein lies the alpha and
omega of the spirit in which it is written. The ulterior object of the
author, in raking up as he does the bones of the dead, is obviously to
stir up public indignation against the Tsar and enlist the reader’s
sympathy in to-day’s policy and aims of the extreme revolutionaries of
his own country—a policy which will lead, he hopes, to ‘the
disappearance of the house of Romanov as a reigning family.’ The book
is full of stories of court scandal, of ruling favourites, intrigues
of mistresses and lovers’ plots.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Considered as a book for the general reader, this handsome and well
illustrated volume may be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 800w.
“The first chapter is turgid rant; but after that matter and manner
begin to improve. The author, if not sympathetic, is at least no
longer obviously unfair, and he has used standard authorities.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
“At times the narrative is too theatrical in style.” G. S. Hellman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“It is not instructive reading, but entertaining as a ‘modern society’
book, with information ransacked from a heap of multifarious native
and foreign sources, comprising archives of princes, secret feminine
correspondence, journals and memoirs, selections from ancient history
based to a great extent upon court rumors and private letters
describing palace life behind the scenes. His book in the hands of the
uninitiated is likely, at the present juncture of our international
relations with Russia to do more harm than good.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 730. D. 14, ’07. 1050w.
* =Rasmussen, Knud.= People of the polar north; compiled from the Danish
originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.
Selections from the results of Mr. Rasmussen’s Eskimo study published
recently in Copenhagen. “The author spent two winters with the polar
Eskimos, familiarizing himself with their manner of living, their
social institutions, their religion, and their traditional history. He
was admirably equipped for this work, because he had spoken the Eskimo
language from his babyhood, and because he was entitled to claim a
certain racial kinship with the Eskimos.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Though the work does not appeal to the casual reader, it will be
deeply interesting to the student of man.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 800w.
“A valuable work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
=Rath, E. J.= Sixth speed. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10277.
Tells of a chauffeur who wearies of his menial service, calls his
millionaire employer names, “thereby separating himself from his job,
and turns pirate in very up-to-date fashion. He invents, or somebody
invents for him, a new motor which will propel a boat at the speed of
more than a hundred miles an hour. His boat is secretly built and
equipped, a trusty crew is secured, and he starts out to plunder the
yachts of the wealthy.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A book not to be taken seriously in any literary sense, without
either form or style, but having the characteristics of surprise and
excitement that go to the making of an entertaining yarn.” W: M.
Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A most enjoyable tale of adventure, full of action and interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
“There is something doing all the time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Quickened. †$1.50. Little.
8–9530.
Dealing with picturesque phases of Quebec and its surroundings,
drawing together French, English and American types, this story
emphasizes some of the strongholds of the Roman Catholic faith.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“This is a mighty theme; the author fails to handle it convincingly.
She only tells us that it happened.”
− =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The story is in no sense a great one, but its deftness of description
of place and person, its seriousness and refinement, make it
comfortable reading.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 150w.
“There is something tragic in a really fine book that flags toward the
end. However, there are at least a hundred pages of tense,
well-written drama, and they alone would make the book well worth
reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Psychology of inspiration. **$1.40. Funk.
8–794.
An attempt to distinguish religious from scientific truth and to
harmonize Christianity with modern thought. The author shows that the
subconscious mind is the avenue thru which truth in the form of
intuitions and inspirations influences the progress of knowledge,
ethics, art, and religion. He contends that these influences are
suggestive rather than dictatorial in character, and that they insure
development in proportion as they are heeded and understood. He
finally shows that these truths, materialized, form the world with
which science deals, and therefore the harmony between spirit and
matter.
* * * * *
“It is, we think, difficult to over-estimate the value of this volume
at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 508. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“One expecting to find here a thoroughgoing discussion of inspiration
from the psychological point of view will be greatly disappointed. The
book has much that is valuable in relation both to inspiration and to
the harmonizing of scientific and religious thought, but its chief
usefulness is likely to be in stirring discussion upon the problems
presented.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
=Raymond, William Galt.= Elements of railroad engineering. (Railroad
engineering. v. 2.) $3.50. Wiley.
8–7887.
“The aim of the author has been to describe the fixed portion of a
railroad plant and to present the underlying principles governing the
design of its layout, a railroad being viewed as a plant operated for
the manufacture of transportation which must be marketed at a profit
to the owners.... The author includes a number of original articles,
among which are those on curve resistance and the cost of the worst
class of rise and fall.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 110w.
=Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 450w.
“The author’s comments in regard to overcapitalization and stock
watering do not state all that is favorable to the railroads on this
much-hackneyed subject, though the popular view is very clearly though
briefly set out.” W. D. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 434. Ap. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“The book is prepared for class-room use and furnishes a broad,
substantial foundation for future study of details.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Read, D. H. Moutray.= Highways and byways in Hampshire. (Highways
and byways ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–21025.
Notes and impressions of “happy days, motoring, driving, cycling and
walking” in a country which to the author is “a bundle of memories,
all colourful, with a setting of sun-washed landscapes, sweet scents,
and bird melodies.” “Nearly a hundred charming pen-and-ink drawings
are contributed by Mr. Arthur B. Connor, and a good map and an index
are useful features deserving of mention.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Haste and anger with locked doors are, we suppose, the reason that so
many exceptional churches of Hampshire in the very parts visited by
Mr. Read, and close to the highway, are left unnoticed or passed by
with insufficient comment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 566. My. 9. 850w.
“A book in every way worthy of the series in which it appears.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“He treats you as if he were conducting you through his own estate,
and took pleasure in pointing to this and that which he values for his
own reasons. The result is entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Only a reader well versed in English history and English literature
can properly enjoy it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Moutray Read has dealt with his subject in a satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Redfield, Isabella Taylor.= Reasonable way to study the Bible: the
Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles. 50c. Isabella T. Redfield,
Pittsfield, Mass.
7–42456.
“Miss Redfield has divided carefully the material in both the Acts of
the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul into convenient and related
sections, and by a series of questions has prepared the way for the
student to arrive at independent opinions on the course of the history
and the various types of religious thought.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The analysis of the Biblical material is good, the coördination of
references to the historical work and the Epistles shows careful
study, and the questions for the student are designed to call out
independent thought and appreciation of the real problems of the
period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Is stimulating to all teachers ambitious of thorough work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Reed, Milton.= Democratic ideal. *75c. Am. Unitar.
7–30430.
The initial progress that came out of the “iron necessities” of man’s
being and which has developed principles of liberty, equality of
rights, and justice is capable, the author believes, of continuing its
work for the American people until all of its problems of government
and society are solved.
* * * * *
“While the author prints some very just and harsh criticisms on modern
economic conditions, he seems not to have a comprehension of the
economic laws underlying many modern movements.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 50w.
* =Reed, Myrtle.= Flower of the dusk. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24448.
A story in which a crippled daughter struggles to keep up the
deception of riches for the comfort of a blind father. When thru the
aid of an heiress and her surgeon lover both are cured the father does
not survive the joy of seeing the daughter who, on account of the
resemblance to the mother and his unbalanced state of mind, he thinks
is his long dead wife. The shadow of an early love tragedy lies across
the pages of the story.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“As a story this seems scarcely equal to the author’s former work, ‘A
spinner in the sun.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The slight little luminary of a story twinkles here and there with
fun and revolves in a vast atmosphere of songs, dreams, parables,
rhapsodies.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 150w.
“It is a perfect example of its kind and a vast improvement upon the
colorless fiction that seeks its dignity in harping on disagreeable
topics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= William Tell: a drama of the origin of
Swiss democracy. Lippincott.
8–24854.
A play written around the legend of William Tell which is dedicated to
the principles of human progress and which takes in the movement in
Switzerland towards freedom and unity.
* * * * *
“Is not wholly devoid of imagination or descriptive power, but is so
undramatic in its action and so untheatrical in form as to be wholly
unsuitable for stage representation.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 123. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= American diplomacy under Tyler and Polk.
(Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history, 1906.) $1.50. Johns
Hopkins.
7–39215.
“Thirteen chapters ... dealing with the diplomatic events of the
administrations of two ‘accidental presidents.’ ... Their subject
matter deals chiefly with questions of boundary—northeast, northwest,
and southwest. Undoubtedly the best portions of the book are the eight
chapters dealing with our relations to Texas and Mexico. The author
does much to dispel the prevalent belief that the ‘peculiar
institution of the south’ was an active aid to extension in the
southwest.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 180w.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Reeve’s excellent study of the diplomacy of the United States
under Tyler and Polk is necessarily lacking in unity, for neither a
single administration or a single group of diplomatic negotiations is
the theme. No one can neglect its use in the study of the diplomacy of
this period. It is written in a clear style, plain and unadorned.” C.
H. Van Tyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 714. D. ’08. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
* =Reeves, William Pember.= New Zealand. *$6. Macmillan.
A particularly illuminating book about New Zealand which “does not
pretend to be either a guide-book or an exhaustive treatise.”
“Especially interesting are the chapters on sport and country life,
and much light is thrown on the social conditions, which, Keir Hardie
asserts, have established a standard of comfort and a recognition of
the rights of labor which make New Zealand the most desirable of all
countries for the emigrant workman.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is for its descriptive passages that the reader will most prize
this book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 726. D. 5. 630w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Charmingly illustrated and informing account of New Zealand.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
“As charming a book as we ever hope to read about the country he has
so well represented. The text is more than worthy of the numerous
illustrations, which are a true pleasure to the eye, and are by far
the best pictures of New Zealand we have ever seen in a book. It may
seem captious to complain of very small blemishes; but the book is
written with such careful art that they are relatively more
disfiguring than in most books. We unreservedly commend this book. It
is romantic because Mr. Reeves is a poet, yet it nowhere exaggerates.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 631. O. 24, ’08. 1900w.
=Reich, Emil.= Foundations of modern Europe. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12963.
A book, growing out of a series of public lectures, which gives a
short sketch of the main facts and tendencies of European history
that, from 1756 onwards, have contributed to the making of the present
state of politics and civilization. Under the wealth of facts the
author finds the soul of progress which he reveals.
* * * * *
“A second edition gives opportunity to call attention again to the
very suggestive lectures which this book contains. Dr. Reich is
particularly happy in his insistence: first, upon the European
influence of the American war of independence; and, second, upon the
very important part played by the French in the war.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 70w.
− =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“His glittering generalities and dogmatic judgment are particularly
unsafe to readers like many of those in the C. L. S. C., who are
inclined to take everything in print as gospel truth.”
− =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
“It is not only in detail that this work fails, but in larger
generalizations, which might, if well founded, counterbalance some
degree of inaccuracy in minor points.”
− =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever may be Dr. Reich’s faults, he is not dull, and, though his
accuracy in explaining the course of human events has often been
questioned and hardly less often denied he certainly does look at
things with eyes that take in a good many of them at the same time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 40w.
=Reich, Emil.= General history of western nations from 5000 B. C. to
1900 A. D. 2v. *$4. Macmillan.
8–20728.
Two of the three volumes dealing with “Antiquity.” The first volume
includes an Introduction containing the methodology of history, a
general historical bibliography, and Books 1 and 2 which deal with the
great land empires, Chaldea, Egypt, Assyria, the Hittites, the
Phrygians and the Lydians; and with the border states, the
Phoenicians, the Hebrews and the Hellenes. Volume two contains Rome,
the Roman republic, and the Roman empire; with full index of both
volumes.
* * * * *
“The fact is that these volumes are by no means the outcome of
first-hand research. They do not even contain much systematic
criticism.” H. W. C. D.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 816. O. ’08. 580w.
“It would be false to say that amid so many printed pages there are no
wise and suggestive sentences, but it is all spoiled by the pompous
dogma, vague assertion, high-sounding futility and arrogant assumption
of omniscience on the part of the author.”
− =Ind.= 65: 377. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“The value of these synthetic principles, whatever it may be, is
largely offset by the glaring faults of the work. It contains many
errors of detail; long periods, like that of the emperors, are
inadequately treated; the theories it upholds are often pushed to
extravagant lengths; and the spirit of the author is unnecessarily
combative and egotistical.”
− =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 680w.
“It takes close reading and some thinking to follow him, interesting
though his assumptions and contentions are. It may be doubted whether
Dr. Reich can sustain his positions except as hypotheses. As
demonstrations they lack something of convincingness, and even of
authority, despite his signature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 545. O. 3, ’08. 2100w.
“Sometimes he even seems to strain a point to make his theories fit
the facts. But in general his opinion is well worth the reader’s
attention, and on every page the student should find food for
thought.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 358. O. 17, ’08. 2200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“Herr Reich has written a good book, and as he might have clothed it
in German or some even more native language, we must put up with his
queer lingo.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 516. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Dr. Reich is somewhat paradoxical, and very firmly convinced of his
being in the right.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 220w.
=Reichel, Willy.= Occultist’s travels. *$1. Fenno.
8–25375.
Describes the author’s travels thru Egypt, France and England, the
United States, Hawaiian islands, Japan, China and the Philippines. His
experiences with experimental occultism include seances, tests of
trance inspiration, trumpet mediumship, crystal gazing and palmistry;
he touches upon theosophy and reincarnation and describes certain
visits to spiritual camps.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13:522. S. 26, ’08. 680w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10.
Houghton.
8–27522.
Miss Repplier has brought out of their century-old silence people
whose “little nothingnesses” of every day affairs and real work were
woven into the tissue of England’s social and literary history. What
these people thought about each other, what they read, and what they
did constitute a book of delightful literary chit-chat. Some of the
titles are When Lalla Rookh was young, On the slopes of Parnassus, The
literary lady, and Our accomplished great-grandmother.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 540w.
“A little volume of essays which confirms the judgment of the critic
who declared that Miss Repplier possesses and monopolizes the almost
lost art of essay writing.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 256. N. ’08. 850w.
“In her customary pleasant fashion, and with abundance of apt
quotation, she makes the reader share with her a sort of amused
superiority to the persons pricked by her somewhat pitiless pen, held
up writhing for a moment on its cruel point, and then consigned again
to a well-earned oblivion.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 254. O. 16, ’08. 400w.
“A Christmas present worth having.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“In the end one has been instructed in much half-forgotten lore, as
well as refreshed by the instructor’s twinkling wit and clear, quiet
humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“She is the greatest living master of good-natured satire, if indeed
she has ever been surpassed in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“She is decidedly amusing, but we are not sure that she is just.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 888. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
=Repton, Humphry.= Art of landscape gardening; including his
sketches and hints on landscape gardening and Theory and practice
of landscape gardening; ed. by J. Nolen, il. **$3. Houghton.
7–38627.
Deals with the principles of landscape gardening. “The grounds laid
out or improved by Repton, perhaps it should be said, were gentlemen’s
estates, large and small, and though these, or portions of them, were
called parks, they were private rather than public parks, and each was
associated with a residence, permanent or temporary. Many of the
principles so clearly set forth, however, apply equally to either
public or private work.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The illustrations are especially worthy of mention, because with the
exception of a few modern photographs, they are reproductions of
Repton’s own sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 600w.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Cannot fail to be of value and interest to Americans.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Of course it is a book addressed to the few. Still, the book will be
found interesting by readers who do not contemplate the making of
landscapes.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’07. 110w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Broken off. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“A variant of a popular theme, the engagement of a well-born,
beautiful, but poor girl to a strong, honest, middle-class rich man
whom she first despises and in the end adores.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The story is a little too commonplace for the really original study
of emotions to which it forms a background.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 250w.
“It is a very fair specimen of this kind of feminine novel,
workmanlike in treatment, fluent with emotion and sentiment, and set
in an adequate picture of country-house life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Mrs. Baillie Reynold’s writing is never actually dull, but it must be
confessed that in her present novel she comes perilously near it.”
− + =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 120w.
=Reynolds, Victor.= Stories of the Flemish and Dutch artists from
the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century;
selected and arranged by Victor Reynolds. $3. Duffield.
Stories of Flemish and Dutch artists told in the words of the original
historians of the two schools. The illustrations are selections from
their paintings reproduced in colors and halftones; and appendices
include respectively a chapter on “The discovery of oil-painting.” and
a list of the authorities drawn upon for the sketches.
* * * * *
“This is first of all interesting; and it does well what it undertakes
to do.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Rhead, Louis John.= Book of fish and fishing. il. **$1.50.
Scribner.
8–18028.
A popular rather than scientific treatment of fishes found from
Labrador to Dry Tortugas. “In addition to descriptions of the
appearance and habits of the fish, are chapters headed, Where to get
them, How to get them, and When to got them. The book is well
illustrated with copious cuts and contains also some interesting maps
and charts.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The English is sometimes slovenly, and the lack of an index a serious
omission.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Very useful book.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Ind.= 64: 1454. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“While Mr. Rhead’s ideas are in the main sound, his sins of omission
are serious. There are many examples of slipshod English.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“Contains a large amount of practical information in compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Rhodes, Harrison Garfield.= Adventures of Charles Edward. (English
title, Charles Edward.) il. †$1.50. Little.
8–13950.
Charles Edward, a young New Yorker, endowed with high spirits and
abundant riches, is a prank-loving individual who perpetrates his
jokes on two sides of the Atlantic. His first adventure secures him a
wife, the daughter of an English lord; at another time he advertises
for an heirdom and gets it; still again he buys the manuscripts of
four authors, has them published simultaneously as the work of one
man, and while reconciling the public to the dissimilarities apparent
in the books, is also engaged in assuaging the injured feelings of the
four authors whose identities have merged into that of one unknown
man.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rhodes recounts pranks with easy gaiety and fluent humour.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 169. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A sort of Americanized version of Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A thoroughly delightful volume, quite out of the beaten track of
humorous literature.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 126. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“It is transatlantic both in its Gibsonian illustrations and its
piquant humour, which we should have liked better had there been less
of it—its qualities, refreshing when taken in small doses, becomes
enervating in bulk; but for the busy man, who takes his literary
refreshment homœopathically, ‘Charles Edward’ may be recommended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 70w.
“In this last chapter, as in other isolated moments through the book,
the author shows himself endowed not only with wit, but with true
humour, the humour that draws the tear as well as the laugh.” G. I.
Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 414. Je. ’08. 650w.
“Only a very unreasonable critic could deny that they possess the
quality of entertainment.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 501. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“The book is breezy and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
“The book is one smile from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Yolanda of Cyprus. **$1.25. McClure.
8–13705.
A sixteenth century melodrama presented in modern style. Its scene is
laid in the Island of Cyprus. It was published in London two years
ago, and in its present slightly revised form will be produced next
season in Chicago by Donald Robertson.
* * * * *
“Tho Mr. Rice seems occasionally in danger of betraying the essentials
to the accidents of drama, his plays have still sufficient life to
animate them, even when read in the study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Exhibits both literary facility and poetic imagination. It contains,
indeed, many melodious and some striking passages, but its general
conception is so extravagant, its construction so crude, and its
semi-miraculous happy ending so conventionally theatrical in its
futility, that as drama it is inconsiderable.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
“When all is said, ‘Yolanda of Cyprus’ is no inconsiderable
achievement; and it is most encouraging to our hope of a native drama
to know that an American has written a play which is at the same time
of decided poetic merit and of detailed dramaturgic power.” C: M.
Hathaway, jr.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northeast; with il. by
the author. (English title, Feathered game of New England.) **$3.
Crowell.
7–29864.
Short descriptions of nearly a hundred game birds, both land and
water, written by “a man whose nature study has been conducted in the
open and mostly over a gun-barrel,” yet one who discourages the
conscienceless depletion of flocks.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is attractively written, though both style and spelling
follow New England fashion; whilst, the illustrations, especially
those of the birds, deserve great praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 320w.
“The general reader will find much to repay him for the time devoted
to this book, and it contains no end of detailed, scientific
information for the professional ornithologist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“The style is of that vivacious and exuberant kind which we should
expect of an American sportsman.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Wooing of Calvin Parks. †$1.25.
Estes.
8–23552.
“Mrs. Richards makes a very engaging central figure of Calvin Parks,
once ‘master of the Mary Sands, Bath and Floridy—with lumber,’ now
owner of a ‘candy route, hoss and waggin.’ Sam and Sim, the old twin
brothers in their temporary reaction from too long and too heavily
enforced love-each-otherness, make a good field for missionary effort
and Christmas reconciling. It is caricature, of course, but not stupid
caricature. And the benevolences of the story are amiable, but not
cloying. Pervading the whole are Maine-isms of choicest
quality.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Is full of humor and abounding in genuine ‘down East’ sayings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“Mrs. Richards serves a feast of Maine humor, seasoning it with her
own sympathy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether the story is a bright one without a line of tragedy in
it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“There is only a slight little thread of story, but the telling of it
is very delightful. For it is full of the unconscious humor in turn of
thought, habit of mind, and forms of expression characteristic of the
old-time, rustic New Englander.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Tells her new tale simply and with homely humor and hearty sympathy
with human nature’s foibles and generous impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 60w.
=Richards, Ralph Webster.= Synopsis of mineral characters. *$1.25.
Wiley.
7–10258.
Alphabetically arranged for laboratory and field use this pocket-book
includes crystal form, habit, system, cleavage, hardness, fusion, and
solubility in hydrochloric or other acid. Definitions of mineral terms
and of rocks associated with the minerals included are also provided.
* * * * *
“The descriptions are concise and accurate and include all the more
essential properties of the species described. The book will be useful
both to students in the laboratory and field, and to miners and others
who are interested in minerals.” C. W. W.
+ =J. Geol.= 15: 824. N. ’07. 70w.
“The arrangement of the matter makes reference to the book easy.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 583. Ap. 18, ’07. 50w.
=Richardson, Alfred Madeley.= Modern organ accompaniment. *$2.50.
Longmans.
8–4012.
“All the various topics bearing upon the subject are considered in
detail; the art of registration, the accompanying of hymn tunes,
motets, and plain song, the use of ornamentation, and the art of
augmenting or reducing piano scores for use on the organ.”—Cath.
World.
* * * * *
“Contains an interesting and valuable chapter on the materials for
tone-colouring which modern organs offer, also a very practical one on
the accompaniment of plain-song.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10. 450w.
“A chapter on the art of accompanying such a quality of voice [the
boy-soprano voice] would be very opportune just now, and would
complete what is otherwise a splendid volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 105. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The book is very inaccurate and confessedly careless.... The plan of
the book, we gladly admit, is exhaustive and irreproachable.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey.= Lover of Queen Elizabeth. *$3.50.
Appleton.
A sketch that gives Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester’s relations to
the Queen, and in particular his forced connection with the policy of
her marriage and succession.
* * * * *
“It is a sound, good book, and more conscientious than its romantic
title would lead one to suppose. If it were otherwise, it would hardly
be worth pointing to one defect ... the absence of all citation of the
authorities quoted, and even of a preface indicating the sources
consulted. Nor is the index at all adequate for a volume of 390 pages
so fully packed with incident.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 700w.
“A simpler and more proportionate treatment might easily have rendered
this book a worthy contribution to Elizabethan history.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 540w.
“However familiar the author may be with the easily accessible
material of Elizabeth’s reign, she has little acquaintance with good
style.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Richardson unfortunately writes very badly, with no distinction,
not much care as to grammatical construction, and a colloquialism that
jars upon the reader. Probably most of the events belonging to
Leicester and Queen Elizabeth’s long intimacy are brought together in
this book, and the story is sufficiently romantic to be readable.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Nor can we say that Mrs. Richardson succeeds in making the sorry
story live. She seems to be an imitator of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and
has caught something of the stylistic obscurity and preciosity of that
school.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 395. S. 28, ’07. 1250w.
“We cannot say that there is no ‘scandal about Queen Elizabeth’ in
this volume; but the subject is handled with adequate gravity and
discretion.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and others=, comps. and eds.
Alphabetical subject index and index encyclopedia to periodical
articles on religion, 1890–1899. *$10. For the Hartford seminary
press by Scribner.
8–2949.
A volume of nearly 1200 pages. More than 60,000 articles from some
1500 reviews are indexed. References are made under upwards of 15,000
subjects and under each a brief definition is given. A large majority
of the periodicals indexed cover the years 1890–1899 only but some are
indexed from their initial volume and some are carried down to the
year 1907. A special feature is the indexing of 175 encyclopedias and
reference works. The indexing is done according to the Poole method.
Under subjects the material is arranged alphabetically according to
authors. Volume number, year and inclusive paging are given but no
note is made of the monthly or weekly date of periodicals. The work is
practically without cross references, only an occasional one being
given.
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 926. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“A compendious work, and a distinctly valuable contribution to library
aids for the larger libraries and special collections.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08.
“One of the most important bibliographical publications of recent
years.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 140w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference. Cement
workers’ and plasterers’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–22300.
The second volume in “The building mechanic’s ready reference” series.
“There are seven parts covering in a general way: 1, Cements:
specifications, tests, analyses, strength; 2, Concrete: aggregates,
mixing, strength, specifications, composition, notes; 3, Mortar,
reinforced concrete, concrete piles, forms, etc.; 4, Sidewalk
construction and other special uses of cement and concrete; 5, Cement
building blocks; materials, manufacture, use, tests and building
regulations; 6, Plastering; 7, a chapter on laying out work, tables,
and miscellaneous information.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“It certainly would be to the great advantage of any piece of work for
the mechanics and workmen engaged to know more of what they are doing
than merely how to conduct the mechanical operations involved and
there is no book that we have yet seen in the field of cement and
concrete that can give this information as thoroughly and clearly as
the one before us.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 470w.
“An admirable book to put in the hands of the mason or mechanic who
wishes to learn something about the rapidly-growing cement industry.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 150w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference.
Plumbers’, steam-fitters’ and tinners’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–23582.
“The book is divided into five parts, treating of the following
subjects: 1, Hot air, steam and hot water heating; piping of heating
systems and pipe fittings. 2, Data on boilers; radiation; tables of
sizes, strengths, weights, etc. 3, Hydraulics; sewers; excavation; tin
and sheet metal work, etc. 4, Gas fittings; gas, soil and vent pipes;
plumbing rules, etc. 5, Examples of modern plumbing; specifications;
receipts, tables, etc.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 120w.
“Is quite up to the standards previously set, and, for the purposes
intended, these standards are high.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 321. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Richmond, Grace Louise S.= Round the corner in Gay street. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
8–23930.
A story in which is depicted the leavening influence of the Bells,
father, mother and five children, among the wealthy Townsends of a
nearby mansion. Contains “a strong flavor of ‘Little women’ in an
up-to-date setting.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“It is unfortunate that the story cannot fully impress the reader with
its own merit.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Richmond, Mary Ellen.= Good neighbor in the modern city. **60c.
Lippincott.
7–39066.
Makes its appeal to all who are interested in the problem of social
service and community living. It tells how to be neighborly when
conditions least favor it. Some of the chapters are: The child in the
city, The invalid, The family in distress, The contributor, The church
member, and The tenant.
* * * * *
“Sane, stirring talks on social science and practical charity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 148. My. ’08. ✠
“A good book to read, to lend, or to give to other neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
“As a distinct contribution to knowledge the book will not take rank,
but as a safe guide and inspiration to the kindly impulses of the
individual it will find its place, and this seems to be the purpose
for which it was written.”
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 447. F. ’08. 780w.
=Rickard, Thomas Arthur.= Journeys of observation. $3.50. Mining and
scientific press.
8–2203.
“The observations of a mining engineer on trips into two
representative mining regions of Mexico and southwestern Colorado,
describing industrial conditions, geological structure, mining
methods, and metallurgical practices which were found there. Abundant
and excellent illustrations are included.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The trips from place to place are incidental linkages between
collections of rather diversified (some people might say ‘scattered’)
notes on methods of tunneling, drifting, stoping and timbering, on
processes of ore treatment and mine management.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 649. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 40w.
=Riddle, Matthew Brown.= Story of the Revised New Testament,
American standard ed. *75c. S. S. Times co.
8–17776.
A little book for the general public which gives an account of the
origin, methods, and progress of the revision movement during
thirty-five years.
* * * * *
“Constitutes a valuable ‘footnote to history.’”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Riggs, James Stevenson.= Messages of Jesus according to the Gospel
of John. (Messages of the Bible.) **$1.25. Scribner.
7–38254.
The discourses of Jesus in the Gospels of John arranged, analyzed and
freely rendered in paraphrase.
* * * * *
“The subtitle hardly does justice to the useful introduction and
extended notes which give this little volume much of its value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Rigg’s ability is not in question, but rather the nature of his
task.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Riley, Isaac Woodbridge.= American philosophy: the early schools.
**$3.50. Dodd.
7–36876.
A work intended both as a source book and as a critical exposition of
the growth of philosophical opinion in the land. It is divided into
five books, corresponding to the five schools which the author
believes to have divided the allegiance of the early American
thinkers: Book I takes up the question of early Puritanism in New
England; Book II deals with early Idealism; Book III considers the
speculative emancipation of the various colleges, Harvard, Yale,
King’s college, and Princeton, in a deistic direction; Book IV is
devoted to Materialism, the prevailing thought in the South; and Book
V treats of the Realism of the Scottish type.
* * * * *
“Dr. Riley’s method, the patience and thoroughness of his research,
the fairness and general sanity of his judgments, are all good models
for imitation. The value of his work is much more than that of a
source-book. As a finished product it is likely to hold its place as
an authority in the field it has so thoroughly explored for a long
time to come.” A. T. Ormond.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 603. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“We have here an important book, important both for what it is and
what it promises.” A. H. Lloyd.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 505. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“Though open to some adverse criticism the book is thorough and
scholarly, and is the most nearly complete work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08
“The book was well worth the doing, and it has been superlatively well
done. Neither his subject nor his method of treatment requires any
‘apologia.’ We may note in passing a few slips in proof-reading.” H.
T. Peck.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 2800w.
“The result of extended inquiry, and seems to give us at once footing
among the thoughtful nations of the world. Dr. Riley seems to us to
wander a little too much at random through an author’s works, and, by
mingling his own criticism, to help us still further to lose our way
and to be left with a colorless impression of the force and order of
events.” John Bascom.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 177. Mr. 16, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the most complete work which has yet appeared on the
early history of philosophy in America. It is, in fact, the only one
which attempts to treat the subject with thoroughness and in all its
details.” A. L. Jones.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 157. Mr. 12, ’08. 2250w.
“This volume is often somewhat burdened by weight of detail.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which makes us wish we had something here like the
French Academy, that so good a book might be stamped with the seal of
national approval.” C: Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 927. Je. ’08. 1100w.
“All American philosophy, indeed, is from imported stock, the account
of whose naturalization and development here is a valuable
contribution to the history of civilization on this continent.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 45. Ja. 4, ’08. 450w.
“Clearness in a book of exposition, either historical or doctrinal, is
a quality on which too much stress can never be laid, and there is
certainly enough of that in ‘American philosophy.’ His estimate of
individual thinkers and schools cannot but be influenced by his
personal speculative leanings; and, while this is unavoidable and
natural, it will render the work less acceptable to such as have other
preferences and inclinations.” E. L. van Becelaere.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 202. Mr. ’08. 2550w.
“Though open to criticism upon some details, the book as a whole is a
thorough and scholarly piece of research in a territory where the
author has often been obliged to blaze his own way, and a notable
addition to our historical literature.” A. O. Lovejoy.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 464. Mr. 20, ’08. 1650w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Boys of the old glee club. il. **$1.50.
Bobbs.
7–39035.
A poem full of reminiscence written in Riley’s inimitable Hoosier
dialect. The following is suggestive of the whole:
“You folks rickollect, I know—
’Tain’t so _very_ long ago—
Th’ Old Glee Club—was got up here
’Bout the first time Grant tuk the cheer
Fer President four years—and then
Riz—and tuk the thing again.”
* * * * *
“It is instinct with that human interest that is the chief charm of
Riley’s verse, and it will be especially enjoyed by the ‘Boys in
blue.’”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 126. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“The illustrations by Will Vawter really ‘belong’; they tell the story
parallel to the poem.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
=Rinehart, Mary Roberts.= Circular staircase. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23102.
The unmarried aunt of a brother and sister just out of college and
finishing school is persuaded by the young people to take a country
house for the summer. The series of mysterious crimes into which this
peace-abiding trio is plunged is traced to the machinations of a bank
defaulter whose home the aunt had rented, and within whose walls were
hidden stolen securities.
* * * * *
“Humorously told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“With the possible exception of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’
this is by far the best mystery or detective story of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 394. O. ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Written in any old style it would be the sort of thing people sit up
nights to finish; written in the delightfully humorous vein which
makes it stand out so much above the ordinary detective story, it is
bound to be, with more than usual deserts, a popular success.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 250w.
“Readable, entertaining, amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
* =Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray).= Blackstick papers. **$1.75.
Putnam.
8–33772.
A group of essays gathered together under the name of “Blackstick
papers” after the Fairy Blackstick who thousands of years ago lived in
Crim Tartary. They are so called because they concern subjects in
which this fairy was interested—old books, young people, schools of
practical instruction, rings, roses and sentimental affairs. Some of
the chapter headings are: Haydn; Felicia Felix; St. Andrews;
Concerning Joseph Joachim; Mary and Agnes Berry; Paris, Prisms, and
Primitifs; Mrs. Gaskell; Concerning Tourguenieff; and Concerning
Thomas Bewick.
=Robbins, Helen H.=, ed. Our first ambassador to China: the life and
correspondence of George, earl of Macartney, and his experiences
in China, as told by himself. *$5. Dutton.
8–19596.
“Affords an interesting picture of Chinese court and customs of the
day, of loyal entertainments which rivalled Arabian nights, and of the
most amusing subtility and illusiveness of Oriental diplomacy.
Moreover, the ambassador’s reflections upon Chinese character, his
recognition of the stability and cohesion of the people and the
courtliness of the educated class, form a valuable memorial to
eighteenth century impartiality and insight.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Robbins has done her part of the work exceedingly well, and her
comments are judicious and reasonable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 375. Mr. 28. 1700w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 260w.
“This book is both readable and valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 14. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The diary makes a valuable and interesting addition to the
information given in Sir George Staunton’s narrative, confirming in
the main the impression it left, while possessing the superior charm
of a private letter over an official despatch.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 468. Ap. 11, ’08. 1550w.
“Macartney’s own diary of the mission ... is that of an accomplished
and very observant man, and as a story of travel, difficulty, and
fresh experience it is quite romantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 263. F. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Robbins, Leonard H.= Jersey jingles. $1. Wilson J. Vance, 164
Market st., Newark, N. J.
Humor, the wisdom of childhood, and the homely philosophy of grown-ups
combine to make Mr. Robbins’s jingles full of the sentiments which
everybody feels but permits to go unexpressed because they are so
closely associated with humdrum, uneventful experiences.
* * * * *
“Accepted only for what they are, Mr. Robbins’s book will help to
brighten a dull half hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 105. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Robbins, Mrs. Sarah (Stuart).= Old Andover days: memories of a
Puritan childhood. *$1. Pilgrim press.
8–30581.
Mrs. Robbins, past ninety years of age, reviews the Andover days of
her youth with its distinguished men and gracious women. “It is not so
much of minute events that she writes, as of the general spirit and
atmosphere which pervaded the seminary and those who were attached to
it either as professors or as students. It all seems to us of to-day a
gloomy and forlorn sort of life, but it is obvious from Mrs. Robbins’s
chronicle, that the young, at least, were able to find their pleasures
in the midst of those somber and terribly serious surroundings.” (Lit.
D.)
* * * * *
“It is a quaint picture—sternness and smiles, catechism and cakes. We
only regret that her memory of the shorter catechism is faulty.
Exactness was the merit in those days, and she quotes three answers,
and two of them wrong.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 230w.
“Mrs. Robbins’s memory goes back with vividness to the life she knew
on that New-England hilltop.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Roberts, Charles G. D.= House in the water: a book of animal
stories. $1.50. Page.
8–17808.
Eight animal stories. “Bear and moose and lynx and wolf range again
through these pages; and those other favorite heroes and heroines of
fiction whom Mr. Roberts is fond of calling ‘the wild kindreds.’”
(Nation.) “The illustrations by Mr. Bull and the decorations by Mr.
Vining Smith are not only in general harmony but in very subtle
sympathy with the text.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Roberts maintains in this new collection his high rank as an
interpreter of the woods people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“His zest in wild nature is intense, and he succeeds in communicating
it to the reader. Also he tells a story dramatically.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 642. N. 21. 400w.
“These variations upon the old theme strike one as a little
perfunctory.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“From the nature standpoint the book should interest young and old
alike. In addition, the volume is distinctly noteworthy as an example
of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Roberts, John, jr.= Laboratory work in electrical engineering
(preliminary grade): a series of laboratory experiments for first
and second year students of electrical engineering. *$2. Van
Nostrand.
The material treated here “divides itself naturally into two general
sections, the first dealing with measurements of resistance,
electromotive force, current, quantity and energy. The preliminary
work leads up naturally to the calibration of instruments. The second
part treats of measurements of an engineering nature such as tests of
materials used in electrical machinery, of electrical lamps, and of
small electrical machines.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The only criticism of this arrangement is that the student is not
directly stimulated to draw deductions from his experiments. This lack
can be easily supplied by the personal instruction of the teacher.” H:
H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 340w.
“The scope of this book is partly in the field of electrical
(physical) measurement and partly in the field of electrical
engineering; and for some places, as the laboratory for which it was
written, it may be well suited. For other places it may be found not
to cover sufficiently either field.”
+ − =Phys. R.= 26: 546. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Blue Peter. $1.50. Page.
Contains five sprightly sea yarns as follows: Extra hands on the
“Nemesis”; The overcrowded iceburg; The remarkable conversion of Rev.
Thomas Ruddle; The strange case of Captain Bragger; The captain of the
“Ulswater.”
* * * * *
“Comes as an invigorating breath of salt air.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 500w.
“Contains several good sea yarns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 70w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Captain Spink, and other sea comedies. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
Mr. Roberts is “a sea-rover of literature, with a buccaneer’s swagger
and a sailor’s roll; ‘full of strange oaths,’ and with a broad sense
of humour. These are really farces of the sea, which he delivers to us
over his pipe and glass. The author knows every foot of a ship and
every turn of the ocean. Landlubbers will enjoy his stories perhaps
even better than seafarers, who may find themselves too broadly
painted.” (Ath.) “Six of them centre round a sea-captain, and six more
diverting ‘old men’ it has seldom been our lot to meet.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Morley Roberts uses crude colours and chalks, and you must stand
a little way back to get the best effects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 254. F. 29. 150w.
“The first two of the seven stories catch and clog a little on their
own humorousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
“The plots are the slightest possible, but the book is reasonably
entertaining on account of an odd whimsicality in the dialogue.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“These comedies are seven in number, and the listening landsman will
wish they had been more, so captivating is Mr. Roberts in his merry
mood, so clever at infecting his reader with his mirth.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 274. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“People who like sketches of the sea, and of nothing but the sea,
cannot do better than read this collection.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 80w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Captain Love. $1.50. Page.
8–15150.
Highway robbery, kidnappings, gambling, love and gallantry abound in
this tale set in the reign of George I. A young nobleman on his way to
London is robbed of his money, clothes, and memory; for when returning
consciousness finds him at a farmhouse he fails to recall his name or
family. Under the name of Captain Love he enters upon a round of
exciting adventure. “The captain is a thoroughly expurgated d’Artagnan
with a touch of Monsieur Beaucaire and a strong dash of Quixote.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“If not a novelty it is at least done with considerable zest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“Although, in the main incidents, the story conforms heartily to its
type, there is a certain novelty and attractiveness in the hero,
something of the finer spirit of romance.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
“Mr. Roberts has perhaps overdone the business of being exciting. He
does not give you time to enjoy properly a single one of the thrills
in his eagerness to ring all the possible changes and produce a
sensation for every paragraph.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 270w.
=Robertson, James Alexander.= Bibliography of the Philippine
islands, printed and manuscript, preceded by a descriptive account
of the most important archives and collections containing
Philippina. *$10. Clark, A. H.
8–16566.
Issued as volume 53 of the extended series on “The Philippine islands,
1493–1898.” Mr. Robertson “has not undertaken to prepare a full
comprehensive bibliography of the Philippines ... his purpose has
been, as regards printed Philippina, to point out the sources for a
complete study of Philippine bibliography, while also setting forth
the main data regarding rare works in this field; and to list
manuscripts in a way hitherto unattempted.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Painstaking editorial work is apparent all through it. The reviewer
has handled it considerably without detecting an error of statement,
and the very few mistakes in proper names thus far noted seem
chargeable rather to original transcription than proof-reading.” J. A.
LeRoy.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 160. O. ’08. 650w.
“Indispensable for every library pretending to cover this field at all
and for every special student therein.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1. ’08. 1350w.
“Dr. Robertson has acquired an unequaled knowledge of the contents of
the libraries of the world on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Robertson’s work is quite indispensable for one who wishes to
make ‘a thorough bibliographical survey of the Philippines’—the test
of usefulness which the compiler had in view. It is not, however, a
comprehensive bibliography, to be independently used as such.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 142. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Is indispensable to libraries not possessing the series as a whole.”
J. A. Le Roy.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 50w.
“Used as supplementary to Retana’s, the Library of Congress, and Pardo
de Tarera’s lists of printed Philippina, it is indispensable to any
good library and to the special student of the Philippines.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 40w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Come and find me.
†$1.50. Century.
8–5885.
A story of California and the gold fields of Alaska. The author brings
together a varied group of characters: a tired father hugging thru
life the secret of a gold field’s location, a hard woman who ruled
husband and household with a hand of iron, two girls worshipping
secretly a stalwart youth, passion-mad for the north and discovery,
and an enduring lover who braves slights and hardships for the girl he
loves. In the wonderful light of the north facts are seen shorn of
doubt and mystery, and lifetime misunderstandings are adjusted.
* * * * *
“A story of unusual dramatic power and interest, the characters drawn
with delicacy and vigor. A truly absorbing piece of fiction.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story is entirely out of the ordinary.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 496. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“Cleverness is everywhere the mark of the book, but one is disposed to
lament that so much of it is allowed to run to waste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 412. Ap. 4. 280w.
“It might have easily been much stronger, if the author had only been
a little more sure of her point of view. The material of Miss Robins’s
latest book is admirable, but she has failed to give it to us in the
proper proportions.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 183. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“The whole story, rambling and incoherent beyond what is ordinarily
permissible, is redeemed by the bits of reality.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is the thrilling interpretation of a man’s patriotism for the
unknown that gives the story its peculiar significance.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 867. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“It is very long-winded, not much happens, and the people are hardly
deserving of prolonged study for their own sakes.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Miss Robins is not so well endowed with the story teller’s instinct
as she is with the faculty for the dramatic portrayal of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 850w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13. ’08. 300w.
“The fault of the story is in its undue length and in some ineffective
details. But as a compelling representation of the fatal and glorious
fascination of exploring it is a success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Her story is much more fundamental than London’s tales of the north,
for instance; much more thoroughgoing; and yet there is an evident
lack of homogeneity, an unsatisfying absence of balance, too many
untied ends that mar its completeness and leave it roughly
unfinished.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Mar is drawn with delightfully humorous appreciation, and the
love affairs of the two girls is one of those fancies which would
probably have never occurred to a man, and could not certainly have
been treated by him with that airy yet exact discrimination which
makes so light of its unlikelihood. There is much in the earlier part
which could scarcely be better done. These things remain and will
remain in one’s gratitude long after one’s regrets have vanished for
the completer work they seemed to foretell.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 273. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
“With all deductions on the score of structure, ‘Come and find me’ is
a remarkable and suggestive study of the conflict of love, duty, and
ambition.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 543. Ap. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Under the Southern
cross. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–36093.
A tale in which a Peruvian baron and a thoroly self-reliant American
girl cross swords. “The special triumph which Miss Robins has achieved
is to carry through a really serious love affair with a sustained
touch of lightness during a lengthy voyage; to make us thoroughly fond
of the man and of the girl; to make us hope, almost to the last, that
in some way their temperamental and their acquired differences may be
reconciled; and then, in the end, to leave us quite satisfied to find
that the inevitable has happened.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“It is seldom that one comes across a new type of hero in the lighter
sort of hammock fiction who is so sympathetic, so genuine, so
altogether attractive as the Baron de Bach. An exceedingly clever
story, written with a half-veiled touch of satire.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 104. Mr. 08. 300w.
“A slight romance. The story is somewhat overdressed with decorative
margins on every page and several colored plates and other pictures.”
− =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Call of the city. **$1.25. Elder.
8–23563.
Essays which express to the reader the myriad reflective thoughts that
surge thru his brain when he is under the spell of a great city’s
“abundant vitality, splendid power, and organization of forces.”
* * * * *
“Verses, selected with the same discrimination and originality that
mark the style of the essays, appear as headings for the prose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“These essays are trifling; they are not overweighted with thought,
and they are frankly sentimental. It ought to be much sought by
purchasers of gift books in the coming holiday season.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 100w.
=Robinson, Harry Perry.= Twentieth century American: a comparative
study of the peoples of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations.
**$1.75. Putnam.
8–19181.
Observations, comparisons, and criticisms concerning political, social
and industrial life as it exists in England and America. “Many of our
people can draw information from his observations here. These take a
wide range—the attitude toward women, humor and art, education and
culture, politics and politicians, constitutional questions now in
controversy, Mr. Roosevelt and the corporations, commercial morality,
the growth of honesty, comparison of commercial methods here and in
England.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“There is nothing at all superficial or cursory about his work. A
classic accordingly the careful reader will be apt to acknowledge that
Mr. Robinson has produced. There are some few slips, such as will
occur when one trusts to his memory without verifying everything.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + − =Bookm.= 28: 44. S. ’08. 1800w.
“The American reader ... only in rare cases will feel inclined to
challenge the essential truth of his statements. He has been
conspicuously successful in making plain two or three causes of
misunderstanding between the two peoples that are usually ignored.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
“The volume must be read to be appreciated, and it ought to be widely
read and attentively pondered.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 292. S. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Conversational in tone and wholly without the dogmatic utterance from
which it seems to be almost equally difficult for the preacher, the
teacher, and the critical writer to get free.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
“Since the appearance of Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ some
twenty years since, no Englishman till now has published observations
on the American people of such value as these.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Is a book that may well turn out to have marked an epoch. Mr.
Robinson knows more about this country than do most of its natives.”
E. J. Putnam.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 5: 360. D. ’08. 2500w.
“An unusually well-informed and sympathetic piece of international
observation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 100w.
“This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good
things, and written in an excellent spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles Austin.= Development of
modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history.
2v. v. 1. *$1.50; v. 2, *$1.60. Ginn.
7–36724.
A work which uses past history only for the light that it throws upon
the political, economic and social present. It begins with the age of
Louis XIV. Volume one covers the eighteenth century including the
French revolution and the Napoleonic period: volume two treats of
Europe since the Congress of Vienna.
* * * * *
“Errors in the text are very few. It is as solid and informing as it
is interesting and clever.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 188. O. ’08. 1300w.
“An admirable collection of selections from the best original sources
filling a long known gap for teacher and student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“There is no better text-book for the nineteenth century than this.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
=Robinson, John Beverley.= Architectural composition. *$2.50. Van
Nostrand.
8–9099.
The author aims to raise “the power to design from its comparatively
obscure position as an art to the dignity of a science.” “Throughout
the volume architecture is treated merely as a plastic art, apart from
construction or the texture of materials—apart from the uses of the
building, or the locality in which it is erected, or the interest
attaching to it as the work of different peoples.” (Ath.) “Instead of
attempting to impose upon the reader the dogmatic decrees of his
personal taste, he endeavors to discover the fundamental reasons why
certain lines and proportions are harmonious and pleasing and others
the reverse.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“There is much in the volume worth careful consideration.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 443. O. 10. 400w.
“The book would be especially valuable to building committees of
laymen who are called upon to decide between plans submitted by
architects.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 180w.
=Robinson, Tracy.= Panama: a personal record of forty-six years,
1861–1907. $1.50. Tracy Robinson, P. O. box 58, Colon, Panama.
7–41775.
Mr. Robinson’s personal record of forty-six years includes nothing
that cannot be called Panama history during that period. The building
of the first railroad and its bearing upon the development of the
country, the establishment of the French Panama company, with De
Lesseps as its moving spirit, and all of the political, religious, and
domestic problems are treated in an informing manner.
* * * * *
“His book gives as good a general notion of the course of things at
Panama up to the beginning of the present canal enterprise as can be
found anywhere in like convenient shape.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 81. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Robson, Philip W.= Power gas producers: their design and
application. *$3. Longmans.
“Devoted almost entirely to the design, construction, and operation of
producers. It is divided into three sections, the first, which takes
up very nearly two-thirds of the whole volume, treating of suction gas
producers; the second, which is short, dealing with pressure plants
for non-bituminous fuel, and the third, occupying about one-quarter of
the volume, covering pressure producers for bituminous coal.”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“Those who wish to know why gas producer plants are built as they are,
and how they should be operated after they are built, will find this
book a valuable addition to their libraries.” A. E. Forstall.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 647. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“It sets the subject out in a clear and concise manner, and indicates
the theory of the various actions, as well as the means by which the
application is carried out. The description on p. 56 of the
arrangements in the Crossley plant for varying the entering mixture is
not very clear, and throughout the book but little is said of the
generators by this firm, and it is limitations of this kind which are
the chief fault that can be urged against an otherwise admirable
book.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 658. O. 29, ’08. 920w.
=Roeder, Rev. Adolph.= Practical citizenship. $1.50. Blanchard.
8–19014.
“A series of popular articles, published in the Newark Evening news,
on the nature of the body politic as an organism, the forces that give
it life, and the attainment of practical citizenship is here presented
in book form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) The volume is divided into three
parts: 1, The machine, a description of the elements of government; 2,
The force, an analysis of the forces behind results; 3, Practice, the
citizen’s part in the work of running the machine properly.
* * * * *
“The scientific shortcomings of the first two divisions may be
overlooked. The third is better. The series as a whole is inspiring in
the cause of a larger manhood and may be read with profit.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 70w.
“In the last chapter, ‘Ideals,’ Mr. Roeder strikes a lofty note, and
makes a fitting end to an inspiring book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Shell book. **$4. Doubleday.
8–12800.
A popular guide to the knowledge of the families of living mollusks,
and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign.
(Subtitle.) “Three aspects of conchology enforce attention: the
biological, the purely systematic, and the zo-geographic.... Of these
three Miss Rogers has wisely selected the second as her dominant
theme.” (Nation.) The illustrations are in colors and black-and-white
from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.
* * * * *
“The present volume is, then, more valuable to the student than
Baker’s book by reason of its arrangement and scope, and is at the
same time not beyond the range of the interested general reader, while
the latter offers some interesting general matter not to be found in
the former.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
“Supplies a real need. The style is graceful not without touches of
pleasant fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 900w.
“Might be called a popular work if that term was not so misleading. It
is a book scientifically arranged, carefully indexed, and beautifully
illustrated. The pictures are fascinating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 540w.
=Rose, George B.= Renaissance masters: the art of Raphael,
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Botticelli and
Rubens. *$1.25. Putnam.
8–2389.
“The design of this book is to give in a brief compass an insight into
the essential characteristics of each of the masters treated, so that
the traveler may be able to enjoy them for what they are, without
looking for merits in one which can be found only in another.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Rose, John Holland, and Broadley, A. M.= Dumouriez and the defence
of England against Napoleon. **$5. Lane.
A story based on “a French manuscript of 397 pages, in which
Dumouriez, with his own hand, set forth the scheme he had worked out
to insure the safety of his adopted country.” (N. Y. Times.) “In their
last chapter the authors sum up as far as possible in his favour, but
they are not able to deny that a Commander-in-Chief who deliberately
offers to hand over to the enemy the fortresses which constitute his
country’s main line of defence cannot properly be designated as
anything else than traitor.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The authors have rendered a real service to history in producing this
book and have displayed much industry in collecting material. They
have succeeded in giving us what was lacking before in English—a clear
and consecutive account of Dumouriez’ remarkable career.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. S. 26, ’08. 1400w.
=Rosenkrantz, Palle, baron von.= Magistrate’s own case. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–2946.
In addition to the all essential story interest, this book is one that
commands and holds the attention of the legal profession. It is an
argument against too great reliance upon circumstantial evidence. A
crime is committed, the wrong man accused, and although the accused
man knows who the real murderer is he withholds information for
personal reasons. For personal reasons too the prosecuting magistrate
resigns his work on the case. From beginning to end technical issues
are at variance with personal and emotional issues. The psychologist
as well as the lawyer will be interested in the story.
* * * * *
“A detective story of excellent plot, holding one’s attention closely,
and giving one a very good idea of German criminal procedure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study of persons and motives is much better done than in
the ordinary English story of murder; but his narrative has a
heaviness here and there, especially at the beginning, which may repel
the reader of what is, after all, an interesting book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 160w.
“Its plot leaves nothing to be desired; it is a ‘capital puzzle,’ but
its treatment by a trained mind lifts it above the average.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The effect of this [story] is to vindicate the contemporary writers
who imitate Poe and Wilkie Collins.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A really clever story.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“A detective story, very cleverly contrived, with something more, and
on a higher plane of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 20w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society; an analysis of latter-day
iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“For competent persons, who are seriously interested in discerning the
signs of the times, this book will perform the service of a high-power
magnifying glass. The weakest passage in the book is from the pen of
the President of the United States.” A. W. Small.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 566. Ja. ’08. 840w.
“Style is vigorous and fresh.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 48. F. ’08.
“One of those rare books that are really worth while. We could wish
that he had laid more emphasis on publicity of great business affairs
as a means of making public opinion effective; but one ought not to
find fault with so good a book. It well deserves the wide influence
invoked for it in the interesting prefatory letter of President
Roosevelt.” H. R. Mussey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 295. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“No one who seeks to guide public opinion, whether he be journalist,
statesman, clergyman or teacher, can afford to miss getting its point
of view—that of social solidarity as the basis of social morality.” C:
A. Ellwood.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 61. Ap. ’08. 540w.
Reviewed by A. O. Lovejoy.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 510. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The appeal to public opinion and the analysis of the defects in the
present public opinion are perhaps the most profitable parts of the
work.” L. W. Sprague.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 136. O. ’08. 400w.
“Professor Ross is master of the literary style which the importance
of his subject demands for due effect on thought and conscience.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
“His book would be more effective if it were written more simply, with
less obvious straining for novelty of expression.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 555. S. ’08. 250w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Social psychology: an outline and source
book. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21601.
Professor Ross has been the pioneer in this branch of social science
and offers the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal
systematically with the subject of social psychology. He considers the
nature and scope of social psychology, suggestibility, the mob mind,
conventionality and imitation, custom imitation, conditions affecting
the sway of custom, interference and conflict, union and accumulation,
compromise, public opinion, and disequilibration.
* * * * *
“Without great depth or undue consistency, it is peculiarly suggestive
and stimulating, and will interest a larger body of readers than the
conventional literature of psychology attracts.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“This is a work we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 467. N. ’08. 420w.
“Professor Ross’s manner is comparatively free from scientific
affectation. The tone of the book is temperate, but the spirit that of
a man very eager to read the signs of the times and full of the sense
or illusion of progress.” C. M. Francis.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 593. Ag. ’08. 2000w.
“In general the book seems admirably made for college uses. The
discussion is at almost all times clear, and it has the spicy interest
common to Professor Ross’s works. There are two general adverse
criticisms of the book which it seems fair to make. In the first
place, the title is misleading. The other general criticism relates to
the tone of the book.” J: L. March.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 517. D. ’08. 960w.
“Tho it is intended as a college textbook, the adventurous reader who
picks here and there some of this fruit from the tree of knowledge
will be rewarded with more sweet mouthfuls than the grower promises.
Rays of humor lighten the pages.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 680w.
“One must dissent from it occasionally, but it is a wholesome,
stimulating and serviceable work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 41. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Throughout his book the psychologist feels the lack of any true
psychological analysis. As the book does not attempt to take up the
principles involved in special uniformities like language or religion,
it becomes virtually a treatise on the various aspects of imitation.”
M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 400w.
“As it stands, it is still one of the best studies of custom and
convention in any language.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 381. D. 15, ’08. 1900w.
“Professor Ross is one of the few specialists in the subject who are
able to popularize their discoveries and to make the subject
interesting to the lay mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 130w.
“On the whole we have in this work an able marshaling of the knowledge
thus far brought to light on the subject of social psychology, and a
clear, untechnical, while at the same time often eloquent, discussion
of the laws, principles and leading truths of that rather subtle and
recondite branch of sociology.” L. F. Ward.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 54. Jl. 10, ’08. 1400w.
* =Rossetti, Christina Georgina.= Family letters of Christina Rossetti;
ed. by William M. Rossetti. *$3.50. Scribner.
Family letters which are offered for the value they possess in showing
forth the writer’s “genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and
feeling.”
* * * * *
“Seldom has been given a more beautiful glimpse of home life than Mr.
Rossetti has afforded us in this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 601. N. 14. 1450w.
“The letters are especially rewarding as documents of life.” E. L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 735. D. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Full and formal publication was not necessary, since neither in bulk
nor in quality are the letters telling.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 900w.
=Rossi, L. Melano.= Santuario of the Madonna di Vico: Pantheon of
Charles Emanuel I. of Savoy. il. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–13292.
“The author has written a history of architecture, of painting, and of
sculpture, and has frankly told us the names of the books from which
he has compiled it. He has shown that the dome of Vicoforte is
superior to the dome of St. Paul’s, London, which latter is no dome at
all, and he has furnished us with a scientific account of what a dome
ought to be.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“All who are interested in architecture and the decorative arts, or in
the political and religious history of Italy, owe to Signor Rossi a
deep debt of gratitude for the unwearying patience with which he has
collected information on his important subject, the number and beauty
of the illustrations supplementing his text, and the clearness with
which he has told the whole story of the evolution of the building.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 450w.
“It is pleasant and instructive reading, but has nothing directly to
do with the Madonna of Vicoforte.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The book shows wide, but undigested, reading of authorities, down to
the most recent; it is overlain with references and footnotes to the
point of suffocation; but the unwary reader had best shun the
‘historical’ chapters; they are full of pitfalls. It is a pity that so
much labour, research, and effective illustration should be marred by
writing so grotesque.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“Includes in its moderate compass a great array of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 900w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men: a study in character.
Anniversary ed. **$1.50. Houghton.
A study which follows Lincoln’s search after power over the rough way
of apprenticeship to hardship, toil and discipline. Here is portrayed
the indispensable man, the master man, shaped and molded by the
potentialities of invincible energy, courage, honesty and patriotism.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Australian cousin. (Little cousin
ser.) 60c. Page.
8–29330.
An informing child’s study of Australia touching upon the points of
history, geography, life in the bush, characteristics of natives and
present day civilization.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Grecian cousin. (Little cousin
ser.) 60c. Page.
8–23099.
A story which introduces young readers to Greece old and new and to
the every-day life of the little Grecian cousin.
=Rowe, Leo S.= Problems of city government. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29625.
An analysis of the general principles involved in city growth, with an
inquiry into the nature of the changes in social structure which are
traceable to the rapidly increasing population in cities. In the
course of the study reasons are made clear for the present-day doubt
concerning most effective municipal legislation, and lines of
progressive evolution are suggested.
* * * * *
“The very full and scientific treatment of the problem of public
utilities should recommend the work to all thoughtful citizens.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Professor Rowe’s work possesses usefulness—particularly in his
account of the spread of the commission plan and in the comparative
view of American and European experience in the management of public
utilities.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 496. N. 19. ’08. 2000w.
“A very original and suggestive discussion of municipal questions by
an eminent authority.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 13w.
“His book is much more than a mere summary of foreign experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 200w.
=Rowland, Dunbar.= Encyclopedia of Mississippi history; comprising
sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons. 2d
ed. 2v. $12. Dunbar Rowland, Jackson, Miss.
“A large two-volume work of more than two thousand pages containing
historical sketches of the important events and episodes in the life
of the commonwealth, of all the counties, cities and towns of the
state including towns and villages now extinct, biographical sketches
of men ‘who have left their impress on the history of the state’ and
sketches of various institutions.... The design of the work ... is to
present in compact form, arranged in alphabetical order, a complete
history of Mississippi from 1540 to 1906, the plan being to combine
the best features of history for continuous reading with the
cyclopedic style for ready reference.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The encyclopedia has the inherent faults of a work prepared according
to the topical plan. The work shows evidence of great industry and of
intimate knowledge of the state’s history. There are many very good
sketches and compilations which have more than a local interest.” J.
W. Garner.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 661. Ap. ’08. 520w.
“Dr. Rowland and his helpers seem to have carried out the plan fairly
well. The scale is too generous. There are some failures to meet
successfully a difficulty inseparable from the form. The work would
also be better for an index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 480w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Across Europe in a motor boat. **$2.
Appleton.
8–27781.
This is a record of the adventures of the motor boat Beaver on a
voyage over “a long wet trail” across Europe by way of the Seine, the
Rhine, the Danube and the Black sea. In spite of the fact that the
jaunt required a deal of preparation and experimenting, and that it
ended in a wreck does not lessen the satisfaction of the achievement.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rowland’s story, like his journey, is rather for the sterner sex,
but is graphically told and holds the reader’s interest to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 150w.
“A most delightful story, in which Mr. Rowland brings into good play
his cleverness at description and his charm as a humorist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 700w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Philosophy of loyalty. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11729.
“A thoroughly sincere attempt to set clearly before the American
people the need for aiming at the highest ethical ideals in their
daily life, in their intercourse with one another, and in their
relations with the outside world. Believing that certain present-day
conditions and tendencies indicate a lowering of individual and
national standards. Professor Royce gives himself resolutely to the
task of remedial and constructive criticism.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 756. Je. 20. 1750w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“His treatment is extraordinarily interesting and is not lacking in
manifestations of Professor Royce’s own peculiar literary and
philosophical style.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 60w.
“From the philosopher’s point of view the book might have been better
if it had been shorter. The reader is apt to be carried over the
difficult places of the argument by the flow of the author’s eloquence
rather than by the force of his logical reasoning.” W. R. Sorley.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 207. O. ’08. 2000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 570w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 17. Jl. 2, ’08. 520w.
“The lesson of his new book is founded on his sure observation of the
present tendencies of thought, and in it he reveals himself as the
true patriot as well as the philosopher.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 900w.
“His work is immediately and concretely inspiring to the man not at
all concerned with the subtleties of metaphysical disquisition, but
very much concerned in the affairs of every-day existence.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“These criticisms do not affect the great practical value of the book;
it gives beautiful and forceful expression to ethical idealism, and
grandly fulfils its purpose ‘to simplify men’s moral issues, to clear
their vision for the sight of the eternal, to win hearts for loyalty.’
There is moral enthusiasm in it, there is patriotism in it, there is
love of humanity in it.” Frank Thilly.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 541. S. ’08. 4200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book of remarkable freshness and power; popular in the best
sense, since it never loses touch with common habits of thought; and
inspired at times by a poetry and eloquence which, in Plato’s phrase,
give to the quest of truth something of the warmth of desire. The book
being one of popular lectures, naturally there are gaps in the
argument and rhetoric at times in place of reasoning.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 446. S. 26, ’08. 1600w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Race questions, provincialism and other American
problems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–31148.
A supplement to the author’s “Philosophy of loyalty.” In the light of
that philosophy he discusses the following American problems: Race
questions and prejudices; Provincialism; On certain limitations of the
thoughtful public in America; The Pacific coast—a psychological study
of the relations of climate and civilization; and Some relations of
physical training to the present problems of moral education in
America.
* * * * *
“Apart from the strong common sense of his views and their bearing
upon the immediate problems of life, Professor Royce wields an
uncommonly lucid and forcible pen. This volume makes a plain and
important appeal to any intelligent man or woman, and should have a
wide reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 500w.
“The point of view from which Professor Royce paints his picture is
one that enables him to bring out certain values strongly. And it
scarcely needs to be said that the coloring, the light and shade, the
detail that helps the central motive, are all handled with masterly
skill.” J. H. T.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 394. D. 15, ’08. 930w.
=Royle, Harold M.= Chemistry of gas manufacture. il. *$4.50. Henley.
8–16415.
A practical manual for the use of gas engineers, gas managers, and
students. “Starting with the method of preparation of the standard
solutions required in the chemical work which it seems to be customary
to carry on in an English gas plant, the body of the book goes on
through coal testing, flue-gas analysis, the distillation of coal and
coal tar, the analysis of crude coal gas ... fire clay and fire brick,
the testing for naphthalene in gas ... and the determination of the
candle power, the calorific value and specific gravity of illuminating
gas, and is concluded by a short chapter on the testing of the oil
used and the oil tar produced in the manufacture of carburetted water
gas.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This book should be of great use to those for whom it is intended.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 304. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The condensation of the matter taken from periodicals is not always
accurately done. Another fault of the book is found in typographical
errors, which are the more important because several of them occur in
the spelling of proper names. There are also faults of arrangement.
The faults mentioned do not, however, detract materially from the
value of the matter contained in the book, and, as previously stated,
it is worthy a place in the libraries of American gas engineers.” A. E
Forstall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 658. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
=Ruhl, Arthur Brown.= Other Americans: the cities, the countries,
and especially the people of South America. **$2. Scribner.
8–27368.
Mr. Ruhl, a journalist who has made extended tours thru South America
sets down his impressions for the general reader’s enlightenment. He
furnishes authentic facts concerning economic, social, and political
conditions which exist there. “There is an appendix consisting of
statistics and other data and a good index. We ought to know more
about these ‘Other Americans,’ Mr. Ruhl insists, since half the
western world is theirs.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠
“As a social observer Mr. Ruhl may be commended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 520w.
“Serves well a useful purpose.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Ruhl discourses most entertainingly and informingly in this
volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 220w.
=Ruhmer, Ernst.= Wireless telephony in theory and practice; tr. from
the German by James Erskine-Murray. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–18757.
A complete and connected account in untechnical language, so far as
possible, of the subject of wireless telephony, its progress, and
prospects for future perfection. It outlines the theories and
apparatus of Bell, Tainter, Simon, Hayes, Duddell, and others who have
worked for practical ends in wireless telephony.
* * * * *
“The work is undoubtedly the most complete presentation of the subject
that is in print.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The result has been that the greater part of the matter can be easily
grasped at a single reading and the rest can be understood by a little
study.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 730w.
“Those who wish to obtain a good knowledge of the subject will find
the information well presented.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’08. 240w.
“The matter is well presented, and it should prove interesting reading
to all who take an interest in the advances of electrical
engineering.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 10. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 30w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Lawless wealth: the origin of some great
American fortunes. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–16214.
Mr. Russell takes his reader over the course covered, often by hops
and bounds, by some of the financial magnates on the way to their
present millionaire goals. He shows that fortunes are not the
equivalent for public service rendered at the expense of ability,
energy and foresight, but that they are secured thru the appropriation
of public utilities to private greed. The author aims to arouse a
public that stands by and witlessly connives with the abnormal money
fiend by tolerating his practices.
* * * * *
“He is not as dispassionate as a judge nor as dry as an economist, for
on every page he shows the indignation of the prophet. Mr. Russell is
a muck-raker proud of his profession.”
− =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“Whoever aspires to act as a public teacher should show reserve,
moderation, appreciation of the exact quality of the acts condemned,
and dispassionate consideration of the remedy. Of these qualities Mr.
Russell shows no trace.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 364. Je. 27, ’08. 1200w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy: the
story of a strange life, 1752–1770. il. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–12132.
This biography is the result of fourteen years of sympathetic study
and research among all classes of material where could be found a
crumb of information concerning this “marvelous boy” and “literary
forger” who committed suicide in his teens.
* * * * *
“Though Mr. Russell needs constant checking, however, whether he be
dealing with his hero as man or as poet, he has amassed facts which
are not only interesting but illuminating, and his book is worth
reading.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 484. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“Masson’s short and pathetic account ... is more effective than this
later, more elaborate, and undoubtedly better-informed work.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Russell is as extravagant in his praise of Chatterton’s poems as
he is undiscriminating in his estimate of his influence upon the
romantic movement.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 205. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w.
“Fulsome praise such as this repels thinking and judicious minds.”
− =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“To any balanced judgment the extravagances and perversions and the
bad taste of the present biography will tend only to obscure for a
moment the profound pathos of Chatterton’s life and his due reward as
one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 378. Ap. 23, ’08. 1200w.
“A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that
it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its
class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer,
nobler, piece of writing than Mr. Russell’s preface, and the book
itself is in fitting sequence.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Russell’s book is the most considerable and well worked out life
of Chatterton which has appeared.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Russell, William Thomas.= Maryland: the land of sanctuary. il.
$1.75. Furst.
8–316.
A history of religious toleration in Maryland from the first
settlement until the American revolution, authorities and sources
being given at every step.
* * * * *
“Very interesting historical study. Father Russell has treated his
subject with thoroughness and amplitude.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 256. My. ’08. 850w.
=Rutter, Frank.= Path to Paris: the record of a riverside journey
from Le Havre to Paris. *$5. Lane.
The impressions of two Englishmen journeying along the Seine from
Havre to Paris on bicycles visiting Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec,
Jumieges, Rouen, Les Andelys, Giverny, Vetheuel, Mantes, St. Germain,
and other riverside cities and villages. The author’s artist companion
furnishes the 68 sketches in black and white.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rutter has the gift of writing agreeably, but he does not always
take the trouble to use it, and too often has recourse to ‘padding.’
Uneven as the book is, it has given us several hours of real pleasure
among familiar scenes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 152. Ag. 8. 480w.
“Mr. Hanslip Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings to the
volume, which is in all respects admirably got up.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Rutter has written charmingly of the out-of-the-way matters that
came under his notice, and Mr. Fletcher, the artist, has made some
very good drawings to accompany the text. Somehow, though, we suspect,
Mr. Rutter of romancing a bit in a hit he makes at ‘two American
ladies.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 460w.
“He does his ‘ruining’ and his descriptions and moralisings and art
disquisitions with a light touch, and gives the tour an air of
personal originality. The effect of the whole, text and pictures, is
agreeable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The writer has, it seems, a special interest in art, and has much
that is interesting to say on this subject, and, indeed, on other
matters. It is a pity that he should find a pleasure not only in
depreciating his own countrymen, but in drawing his depreciation from
a necessarily tainted source.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 137. Jl. 25, ’08. 140w.
S
=Sabatier, Paul.= Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos
of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by
J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.
8–14319.
The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle
between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little
volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in
sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross
misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the
French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but
clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government
has a controversy.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.
“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M.
Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing
argument.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
* =Sabin, Alvah Horton.= House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and
whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.
8–21778.
Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting,
varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of
structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are
avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by
every house owner.”—Science.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠
“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which
the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish
hands in the direction of efficiency.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or
over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears,
as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound
practice.’” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.
“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.
* =Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in
schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on
the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats
the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is
already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals
with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as
well as at home.
* * * * *
“Valuable volumes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.
“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes
well deserving of serious study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.
“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and
there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is
judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive
comment.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.
=Sager, Daniel Showers.= Art of living in good health: a practical
guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in
the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–32393.
A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew
long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so
necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.
* * * * *
“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 83. Mr. ’08.
“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think
that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s
book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is
universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been
confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can
be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good;
while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm
his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are
bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.
“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
=Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce.= Calendar of the court minutes of the East
India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster.
*$4.15. Oxford.
8–16489.
“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of
Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and
consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639.
But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July,
1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the
documents from the East India series at the Public record office and
of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian
affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state
papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains
material for the domestic history of the East India company,
1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the
system of personal government under Charles I in years when that
system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records
of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at
directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the
introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E.
Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.
* =Saintsbury, George E. B.= History of English prosody from the twelfth
century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= From Shakespeare to Crabbe.
This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development
and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the
verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the
eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but
incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics,
definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless.
On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good
reading even of prosody.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in
dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who
is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such
queer stylistic freaks.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Saintsbury, George Edward B.= Later nineteenth century. (Periods of
European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–36994.
The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.”
It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from
the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including
poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes
with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.
* * * * *
“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as
usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠
“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets
which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.
“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor
Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the
first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in
their respective circles.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.
“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of
a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign.
**$1.75. Stokes.
7–37249.
An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of
malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the
pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key
to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed
home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false
hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book
seriously.”
− =Ind.= 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.
=Nature.= 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.
“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of
publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the
practical study of the trypsin treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An
ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with
his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an
obsession.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness: a book of
practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,”
whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies
of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine
of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works
out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic
principle.
* * * * *
“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not
often been made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Salisbury, William.= Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B.
W.
8–9151.
The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’
experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of
political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ and
concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what
journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the
people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and
journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.”
Preface.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its
frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the
nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.
“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while
not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and
ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective
‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”
− − =Ind.= 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow
journalists by one of themselves.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.
=Sallows, James Francis.= Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical
press.
7–33978.
Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case
hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing.
(Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly
practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which
he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the
tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive
furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)
* * * * *
“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the
arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.
“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of
steel will find of exceeding value.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.
=Sanders, E. K.= Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.
The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great
house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had
travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors.
But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with
bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges
and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good
deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more
to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.
“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor
spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being,
the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is
capitally drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.
“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so
sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it
that he was as good as his parents.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.
“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have
shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’
will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing
by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.
“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever
intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him
nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small
hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Sanders, Lloyd Charles.= Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.
Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in
England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who
had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house
itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and
leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen,
wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who
gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come
upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before
the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his
proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.
“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has
threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected
from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of
letters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.
“The text has been carefully compiled.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Interesting book of gossip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.
“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this
satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to
recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of
them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the
chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too
many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a
history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still
an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.
=Sanderson, Rev. Edgar.= Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–1437.
“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of
pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature,
in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as
well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which
contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass,
Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda,
Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob
of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
=Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.
“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson
tells them well.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.= Art of singing and vocal declamation.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
8–18037.
“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So
says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years
of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia
gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational
methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this
handbook for young singers.
* * * * *
“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08.
“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of
singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career
as students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.
“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener
knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic
side.” L: M. Isaacs.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”
=Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Containing much valuable advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.
“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to
singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious
in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.
=Sargent, Arthur John.= Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly
in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.
8–9032.
Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the
interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India];
The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the
treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of
Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the
treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of
Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884.
Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade
from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent
economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important
official papers and note on the character of statistical information
available for the Chinese trade.
* * * * *
“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work
especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a
clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is
the best summary view of the development and importance of English
trade with China yet published.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.
“Lucid and convincing work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.
“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful
service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.”
P.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“A careful and scholarly study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within
moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up
intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet
in its resistance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E:
Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.
“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous
plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of
cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other
genera.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.
=Dial.= 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.
“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high
level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are
perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the
power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5.
McClurg.
7–29604.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the
campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject
in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical,
statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of
the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their
numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.”
John Bigelow, jr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.
“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable
campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better
fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate
completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because
of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open
to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true
story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.
“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of
quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great
penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk
of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a
metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.
=Sarolea, Charles.= Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious
life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.
8–26235.
A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested
by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the
following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman
converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and
Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal
Newman and modernism.
* * * * *
“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and
it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate
contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of
psychological insight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable knowledge of our language, treats
the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more
impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental
and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always
accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Saunders, Edward.= Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging
insects. $1.25. Dutton.
Agr 8–399.
“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which
are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for
amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely
recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the
hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well
arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an
attractive manner.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an
authority whose statements can be trusted.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall.= My pets: real happenings in my
aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–30262.
Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story
unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing
with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons,
canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.
* * * * *
“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food
and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable
account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal
study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of
Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of
Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes
and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets
and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of
Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the
religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents
and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.
=Savallo, Teresa de.= House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8102.
A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an
American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of
surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who
dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the
imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American
fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic
tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate,
and clears the way for a happy dénouement.
* * * * *
“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.
“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly
told.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily
attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-.= Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864
(the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60.
Macmillan.
8–18961.
A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the
student of history written from the point of view of an impartial
officer of the British India army.
* * * * *
“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart
from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in
arrangement, and impartial.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.
“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards
situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and
plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer
desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud).= Jack Lorimer’s
champions. $1.50. Page.
7–23939.
This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of
the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and
summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the
first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in
base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog
encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the
Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.
8–20152.
Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and
biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest
times to the present day. This work is based upon the German
“Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes
a twelve volume edition.
* * * * *
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier
editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical
subjects the treatment is more adequate.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schauffler, Robert Haven=, comp. Through Italy with the poets.
**$2. Moffat.
8–3507.
An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace
to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”
* * * * *
“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection
which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued
for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent
composition, and for the classified arrangement which makes it useful
for specific reference.”
− =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket
friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary,
its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized
for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre
verses.”
− =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 98. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.
8–13665.
A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish
theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew,
University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah.
or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed
are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of
Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness;
and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious
history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
− =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of
writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent
Christians.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Scheffauer, Herman George.= Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.
8–20495.
Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize
these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the
past.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
=Schelling, Felix Emanuel.= Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history
of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to
the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the
earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.
8–5140.
A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing
the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the
commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of
the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole
body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship,
relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling
has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to
its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what
was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared,
how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms.
Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular
plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The
domestic drama.
* * * * *
“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library
that can afford it should have it.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08.
“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.
“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American
scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as
for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on
one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American
scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in
Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well
written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the
dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere
dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word
of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick
of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to
find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it
carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The
index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of
the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent;
we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.
“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope
and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject
which have preceded it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.
“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the
study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and
decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan
drama’” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his
critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is
valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The
enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which
lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for
Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his
material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of
excitement.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.
=Schmucker, Samuel Christian.= Study of nature. (Lippincott’s
educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.
8–20551.
An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study.
Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The
course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s
preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material
available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to
stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding
with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.
* * * * *
“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive
and detailed in the field covered.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and
satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a
good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves
instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be
found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–35862.
Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus,
vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting
light upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the
direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the
success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are
in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified
his references.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.
“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather
diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful
information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which
will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.
“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable
treatise.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.
“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of
experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and
the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which
admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on
the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception
to the rule.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.
=Schon, Hans A. E. C. von.= Hydro-electric practice: a practical
manual of the development of water power, its conversion to
electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.
8–23073.
An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter,
investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the
first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman,
and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the
subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for
the student and practitioner.
* * * * *
“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and
illustrations have a direct value.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it
goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is
really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the
field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the
limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner,
but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low
head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social
and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and
to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The
chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil
rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written
constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three
departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the
public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.
* * * * *
“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the
vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that
Americans will again come to understand that there are better things
in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for
accumulation.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.
“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit,
their function in a republic and their history in this country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Schultz, Alfred Paul.= Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.
8–22785.
A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the
earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with
alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to
racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless
immigration is rigorously restricted.
* * * * *
“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of
recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of
geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write
upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Letters of Robert Schumann; selected
and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.
8–8848.
Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper
insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his
ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of
the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient
influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a
little too free.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.
“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the
‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and
gives them an undeniable charm.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most
interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as
Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.
“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and
introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is,
on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and
students of the romantic movement will value highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
=v. 3.= 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from
1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.
At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of
his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His
manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr.
Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page
sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public
affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the
intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were
conspicuous and potent in his career.
=Schütze, Martin.= Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.
8–29016.
A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers.
The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new
catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned
lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary
facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the
language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into
unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic
tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which
would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Schwartz, Henry B.= In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and
other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
8–22266.
The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in
places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe
trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that
produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men
whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the
author’s observations are largely confined to that province.
* * * * *
“He holds that nobody can understand modern Japan until he shall have
acquired a fair knowledge of the old life of the nation, and the
purpose of his book is to help the world to that acquisition. No doubt
it will be helpful in that way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=Schwed, Hermine.= Ted in mythland. **$1. Moffat.
7–26321.
Ted runs away with the little bronze Mercury that had “led him on”
from the mantelpiece heights. His adventures are told in this
fairyland myth book.
* * * * *
“Even tho some might approve of the method, there is a lack of
artistic handling in this book which forces both prose and poetry to
become the vehicle, nor can we say much for the verses, which lack
spirit.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Scoble, Herbert T.= Land treatment of sewage: a digest of the
reports made to the Royal commission on sewage disposal by their
specially-appointed officers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W8–99.
“The results of a study of eight English farms in which the following
points were noted: (1) The composition of the sewage and the
preparation before passing on the land; (2) the nature of the soil and
the sub-soil; (3) figures relating to acreage, population, etc.; (4)
method of treatment of sewage and cropping the land; and (5) analysis
of the quality of the effluent as compared with sewage and with
stream.”
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“Promises to be of interest and value to those to whom the original
documents are not accessible, and, we may add, hardly worth the heavy
purchase price ($12) for any American not deeply interested in the
subject.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A valuable reference book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Voices and visions. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–13940.
“There are three series, the first devoted to poems of life and
nature, in which the author’s felicity of phrase, his literary grace,
and his command of tripping meters are perhaps at their best; the
second to love poems, in which if there are no depths of passion there
are refinement of feeling and beauty of imagery, and poems of the
East, rich with Oriental color.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Of ... pretty futilities ... is the book made up.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Scollard’s muse has always the true poetic lilt in her song, he
has a pretty thorough acquaintance with the technique in verse, he has
sentiment and fancy and a keen appreciation of the value of words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–17822.
A practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of
the social forces which are at work among the pupils. The actual
activities of living children are studied, and much of the treatment
deals with the question of self-organized group work with the aim of
teaching principles of social democracy.
* * * * *
“Full of original and stimulating ideas.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
“The book will meet a need in teachers’ and parents’ meetings, reading
circles, etc., and ought to have a wide circulation as a most
effective means of helping to bring those who are within and outside
the school to a better understanding of some of the possibilities of
democratic education.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School. R.= 16: 554. O. ’08. 1200w.
=Scott, Ernest Findlay.= Apologetic of the New Testament. (Crown
theological lib., v. 22.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–23276.
An examination of the form and substance of the New Testament writings
as directly determined by the practical needs of the early church.
“The early church had to defend itself against many foes. It had to
prove the real Messiahood of its Master, whose conception of that
office was different from the one current in Israel, and to make it
clear that a crucified Messiah best fulfilled the predictions of
prophecy. It also had to defend itself against Judaism, Paganism, and
Gnosticism; and how this was accomplished is traced in Gospels, Acts,
and Epistles. Then the claim of Christianity to be the final and
absolute religion had to be made rational, which is done in the
Epistle to the Hebrews and in the Fourth gospel.” (Hibbert J.)
* * * * *
“In this volume Mr. Scott has done excellent work. If we are to use
the New Testament as an apologetic with the help of Mr. Scott, he
ought to show what Christianity is apart from the doctrines by which
it is presented to thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 190. F. 15. 300w.
“Mr. Scott writes convincingly on his subject.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 939. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Scott has a subject of great interest and importance, and his
volume is a worthy companion of his work on the Fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 73. Je. 23, ’08. 300w.
* =Scott, James Brown.= Texts of the peace conferences at the Hague,
1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related
documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2. Pub.
for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Aims to present to the English-speaking public the official French
texts of the two conferences, accompanied by an official English
translation and the diplomatic correspondence necessary to their
understanding, together with an appendix of documents relating to, and
explanatory of the various conventions of the two conferences. A
preftory note by Elihu Root states the importance of the conferences,
and an introduction by the editor supplies the necessary historical
setting.
* * * * *
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 230w.
“Professor Scott’s volume makes a very useful companion volume to
Prof. William J. Hull’s book on the two peace conferences.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Scott, Sir James George.= Burma: a handbook of practical
information; with special articles by recognised authorities on
Burma. il. *$2.50. Jacobs.
W 7–177.
“The practical information contained in this valuable handbook covers
the customary topics: the country with its geography and climate,
government, education and history, industries and culture, including
religion, art, literature, and the Burmese music. A series of
appendices give statistics of the different divisions and districts of
the province, with lists of species of flora and fauna, metals,
minerals, etc. Some three score illustrations, for the most part well
chosen, add materially to the book.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book is full of interesting matter but so compact that it would
hardly be chosen for merely entertaining reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is by far the most convenient and satisfactory manual of
information about Burma.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is to be recommended not so much for its literary merit as for the
accuracy, completeness, and careful arrangement of its information,
although there are flashes here and there of the power of graphic
description that made the author’s earlier works, under the pseudonym
of ‘Shway Yoe,’ conspicuous. The one serious fault that might be found
with Sir George Scott is his indulgence in the practice of disparaging
all the statements made in Chinese histories on the subject of Burma.
Some misprints are due, perhaps, to the author’s absence when the book
was passing through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1200w.
“We think that the handbook, besides being indispensable to the
tourist, is also well worth perusal by members of the non-travelling
public who are anxious to know all that can be told about one of the
most recent, and at the same time most interesting, possessions of the
British Crown.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 440. Mr. 7, ’07. 1500w.
“It looks as if it did what it professes to do. The arrangement is all
that it should be.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Princess Dehra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–16520.
A mythical kingdom, a valiant American hero, a king’s daughter, the
king himself, a villainous plotter and his accomplice constitute, in
the main, the caste for this drama. When the king dies the American
and the villain are left to settle the question of succession by dint
of wit and sword. And this is the portion of the tale that provides
thrills.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Effective but more or less conventional romance of love and
adventure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 350w.
=Scott, Ralph.= Automatic block signals and signal circuits. *$2.50.
McGraw.
8–7884.
American practice in the installation and maintenance of signals
electrically controlled, and operated by electric or other power with
descriptions of the accessories, now regarded as standard.
(Explanatory title.) The book is intended for the signal and railway
engineer, the electrician and the layman. The author’s method of
presentation is descriptive. Fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The book furnishes much accurate information concerning modern
block-signal systems, logically arranged and expressed in simple
language.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 937. My. 2, ’08. 110w.
“The book is the only up-to-date work on the subject. It is an
authoritative as well as comprehensive treatise on the subject.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition
of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful
advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
The author states that it is the human mind with which advertising
deals; and so its only scientific basis is psychology which is simply
a systematic study of those same minds which the advertiser is seeking
to influence. He sets forth the principles at the root of advertising,
and with a carefully planned series of concrete illustrations shows
their relation to successful business.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
=Ind.= 65: 1003. O. 29, ’08. 260w.
“A bright and suggestive work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
“Some very interesting observations on a matter of grave importance to
business men are contained in ‘The psychology of advertising.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
“The book throughout is extremely suggestive.” W. K. Wright.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 396. D. 15, ’08. 880w.
=Scott, William. Riviera.= *$6. Macmillan.
8–3125.
“Mr. Scott takes an eager interest in the people and their past, as
well as in landscape, and he has ransacked local histories. He
describes not only the natives but the swarm of foreigners who flock
to the Riviera during the winter. Starting at Hyeres on the west, he
follows the magic sickle of sea and shore round to Sarzana, pausing at
many out-of-the-way places, making excursions up the valleys, or
sitting down beside some ruin to recount its story or merely to
chat.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“But with the praise of the pictures our praise of this book must end.
We have, indeed, seldom seen anything so incongruous as the pages and
pages, and chapters and chapters, of vapid criticism concerning hotel
visitors, hotel dinners, and custom-house officers, and the excellent
print in which it is enshrined.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 330w.
“Its illustrations depict both the gaiety and the quaintness of the
region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation, its crags and castles,
and its changeful blue sea. Altogether they give a complete and
artistic picture of the region which some one has called the loveliest
garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with information, and it
is hard to think of a phase of the subject that it does not touch
upon.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“There is a certain insular point of view, a typical British
condescension in some of his remarks. Mr. Scott is an agreeable guide,
not wholly deficient in humor; and his sketches are often very fine.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1.
Holt.
8–15310.
A pre-laboratory study designed to meet the requirements for a series
of individual experiments in the first course of psychology. It is
intended to supplement any good text book.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“The purpose for which the book will be found especially adapted is
that of providing a thoroughly good short laboratory course in
institutions which cannot afford laboratory equipment. As a means to
this end, it deserves the most cordial praise. Here and there points
for criticism appear. It is easier, however, to mention these very
trifling defects than to refer individually to the excellent and
ingenious features of the book.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 550w.
“The experiments are judiciously selected. And, what is better, they
are described in terms which can scarcely fail to be thoroughly
understood by the average undergraduate. Moreover the significance of
the various forms of mental function is discussed in a manner which is
calculated to stimulate the interest of the student. The reviewer can
readily understand how it will prove to be a boon to many American
psychologists.” J. W. B.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 308. S. 15, ’08. 600w.
“It should be said with the brevity as well as with the emphasis
characteristic of the book itself that it accomplishes its purpose
with exceptional skill.” J. J.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 985. Je. 26, ’08. 280w.
=Seaver, Edwin Pliny=, comp. Mathematical handbook. *$2.50. McGraw.
7–40023.
A reference book containing the chief formulas of algebra,
trigonometry, circular and hyperbolic functions, differential and
integral calculus and analytical geometry, together with mathematical
tables.
* * * * *
“Contains a large amount of information in compact form for ready
reference by the mathematician and engineer.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
“Will find a wide use among engineers and mathematicians.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 73. Ja. ’08. 230w.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 657. D. 12, ’07. 390w.
“The book is a substitute for many textbooks in the engineer’s working
library, and is far more complete than the mathematical chapters of
the popular handbooks.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“A well selected and carefully arranged collection of formulas and
tables.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 544. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Last duchess of Belgarde. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–17998.
The sad story of the last duchess of Belgarde who worshipping her
unworthy duke from a quiet corner fosters her determination to be
faithful to him, who when the French revolution breaks in all its fury
joins him in prison, and after a brief long-delayed honeymoon spent
within prison walls goes to the guillotine with him.
* * * * *
“The tale is done in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The characters, we may add, are mere paper dolls, the incidents few
and not vivid. Yet despite the superficiality of plot and character,
the tale has the merit of simplicity and lack of pretense.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“A little classic so sweet and true in its sentiment, so firm and
clear in its characterization, and so wholesome in its morality that
it will do as much good as it will give pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
“A slight, but perfectly wrought tale of the French revolution.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Amabel Channice. †$1.50. Century.
8–27496.
Married early in life to a man whom she does not love, Amabel Channice
yields to an infatuation for an artist, flees with him, breaks the
moral law, and, returning, cloisters herself in her husband’s lonely
Charlock house. Her husband’s comprehension that responded to her
great need, his protection of her and her illegitimate child arouse
her love for him which gives place to contempt when she learns of his
long life of continued dissoluteness. The woman’s conscience demands
that she risk her last chance at happiness thru her son’s love by
revealing to him her sin and the resulting smirch upon his life. The
son’s nobility and magnanimity are the saving elements in a strong
climax.
* * * * *
“An admirably written book in which there is nothing superfluous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 100w.
“She knows how to give spiritual definitions to all that is stupid and
commonplace with an efficacy that is entirely too celestial to be
veracious.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1062. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
− + =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 300w.
“The book rises to a climax tender and inevitable, wholly
satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The complications of the plot are perfectly fitted into each other,
and the result, apart from the great interest excited by the human
situation, is a distinct intellectual pleasure. Impresses the reader
with a profound sadness, only lightened by the wonderful skill of the
author’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“There is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the
reader’s mind.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= New American type, and other essays.
**$1.50. Houghton.
8–12605.
Reflectively informing and written from a modern viewpoint, these
essays are twelve as follows: The new American type, The mob spirit in
literature, Mrs. Wharton, Certain aspects of America, Exile, Charles
Russell Lowell, American colleges, A gap in education, Miss Anne
Douglas Sedgwick, Nations and the decalogue, Mark Twain, and The coup
d’état of 1861.
* * * * *
“Essays of popular character and more than ordinary charm, half
serious, half humorous.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“Taking the volume as a whole, it is typical of the better class of
American essay writers.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 404. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“The writer’s ideals are high, and his style that of a critic ‘of
natural gifts and educated taste, experienced in the humanities.’”
+ =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 492. Ag. 27, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 150w.
“His essays are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness
of phrases, elevation of thought, insight—all the qualities that ought
to distinguish essays, that, in fact, almost always do distinguish
essays that reach the reviewers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
“His mind has an edge, and his style bites at times like the point of
the etcher’s needle. He pays the reader the respect of stating his own
thought with the most uncompromising directness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. ’08. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 109. O. ’08. 780w.
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Fundamental truths of the Christian religion.
(Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of a series of lectures given to German university
students urging the modern critical method of studying the Bible and
Christian doctrine.
* * * * *
“His sincerity is unquestioned, his learning extensive, his
philosophic penetration of high order. His lectures, in their English
version, scarcely do their author justice. It is doubtful if they will
convey much meaning to one who is unfamiliar with current German
theological discussion. Their treatment of large topics in metaphysics
and theology is much too brief to be clear.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
=Seguin, Edward.= Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological
method. $2. Teachers’ college, Columbia univ.
E8–718.
Containing a discussion of our present knowledge of idiocy, The method
of treating idiots, The practice of the same, and An outline of the
direction to be given to the scientific efforts of the friends of
idiots and the apostles of universal education.
* * * * *
“It was a happy thought that led to the reprinting of this valuable
thesis for many years out of print. All teachers of backward children
should take advantage of this opportunity to secure the book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 90w.
=Seignobos, Charles.= History of medieval and of modern civilization
to the end of the seventeenth century, tr. and ed. by James Alton
James. *$1.25. Scribner.
7–29565.
Contains “selected topics of a nature to make the customs of each
society clear, and explanations intended to make it understood how
these customs were formed, modified and scattered.” “Many events are
indeed briefly recalled, but only because of their special connection
with the movement of civilization. The larger lines of political
development are indicated, and a resumé is given of the essentials of
medieval and early modern history with reference to institutions,
customs, ideas, art and letters.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It adds relatively little to what is to be found in our better
manuals. Yet its matter is presented sometimes more truly than in our
manuals and often much more effectively; and the translators have
rendered, though not always with unswerving accuracy, on the whole
with commendable success, both the sense and the style of the
original.” E. W. Dow.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 391. Ja. ’08. 440w.
“There is little that is novel in his treatment and the point of view
taken is somewhat too French for Anglo-Saxon readers. Some of the
failings of the book are probably due to the translator or adapter,
whose English is rather stiff and wooden, and who owns to having made
excerpts from M. Seignobos’s work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= African nature notes and
reminiscences; with a “Foreword” by President Roosevelt. *$3.
Macmillan.
8–21506.
An interesting side light on some phases of natural history.
Observations made from experiences during thirty years of adventure in
Africa have resulted in the theory that carnivorous beasts hunt their
prey by scent rather than by sight. “President Roosevelt furnishes a
foreword in which he heartily supports, from his own observations in
the Rocky mountains, the views of the author as to the fallacy of much
of the theory as to protective coloration of animals.” (Nation.) There
are chapters on the hyena, the wild dog, the cheetah, the rhinoceros
and the giraffe.
* * * * *
“Though authorities on natural history may arrive at different
deductions, no one acquainted with the author will question the
correctness of his facts.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is an attractively written narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 165. Ag. 20, ’08. 530w.
“His remarkable sporting adventures are the more thrilling because of
their obvious truth, and the quiet style of narration.” H. H.
Johnston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 217. Jl. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“While the entire volume, through which rings the love of the free,
clean life of the wide open plains, may be described as a lifetime’s
close and intelligent study of the habits and ways of wild creation,
there runs through it a strain of adventurous excitement.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 700. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
=Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English
verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the
corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index, by
Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–40850.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The translation is accurate and close and succeeds in preserving the
spirit at the same time.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is not conspicuous for literary qualities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 551. My. 2. 600w.
“On the whole this work, without being slavishly literal, is
remarkably true to the content and spirit of the original, and is
easily the most satisfying English version of the tragedies.” H. M.
Kingery.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 276. My. ’08. 1450w.
“His tabulated comparison of the tragedies with their Greek originals
and his mythological index will be useful to students, and there is an
excellent introductory essay by Professor Manly on Seneca’s influence
on early English tragedy, of which the only complaint to be made is
that it is too short.” J: W. Cunliffe.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 336. Je. ’08. 500w.
“Professor Miller ... has succeeded in accomplishing the task of
giving new life and interest to these products of the rhetoric of the
early Roman empire.” David Magie, jr.
+ =Class. Philol.= 3: 363. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Of course one who searches will find errors.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 419. N. ’08. 860w.
“Professor Miller’s translation is not merely scholarly: it is fluent
and vigorous.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1568. D. 26, ’07. 560w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Professor Miller deserves high credit for making the best of these
opportunities, and producing a book that is at once good reading in
English and a faithful reproduction of the spirit of the original. His
choruses are sometimes a trifle flat, missing the gravity of the
original, but, in the longer narrative and ornamental passages of the
dialogue he has been singularly successful.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 610w.
“It is a model of what translation should be, faithful both in spirit
and detail to its original, yet rendered into excellent English, and
into verse that gives us the illusion of reading Seneca himself.”
Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Miller’s version, though fluent and easy, is wanting in force,
and often fails to catch the nervous energy of those terse, telling
phrases in which Seneca delights.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 131. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Astronomy with the naked eye: a new
geography of the heavens; with descriptions and charts of
constellations, stars, and planets. **$1.40. Harper.
8–14345.
This book by means of star-charts is intended to acquaint the casual
observer with the appearance of the constellations, as viewed with the
naked eye, with their histories and mythologies, and with the stories
of their chief stars and star groups. The constellations are studied
according to the months during which they approach the meridian, the
north and south line of the sky. A separate chapter is given to the
study of the planets.
* * * * *
“Compared with Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ the present volume offers
more information but lacks the charm of that book for reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“It is an excellent guide to the study of the heavens, as a
preliminary to that of scientific astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
“The work is well and systematically done.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Serviss is a clever writer, and the text is trustworthy ... but
the material is assembled in heterogeneous fashion, and the index is
very imperfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 170w.
“It is the charm of Serviss’s attractive book that it blends all that
is known of the stars and planets with all that has been imagined.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 750w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Moon: a popular treatise. il. **$1.50.
Appleton.
7–34594.
“The author presents in dialogue or conversational method a familiar
and easily understood description of the important physical features
of the moon. Technicalities are avoided, and there is nothing that
would puzzle the reader of ordinary intelligence. The illustration is
quite remarkable in its own way, for it consists of a series of lunar
photographs showing the moon as it appears on successive evenings
throughout an entire month, while the text describes the mountains,
plains, and craters, as they are seen in the successive
photographs.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“While feminine characteristics are very obtrusive in the
conversations, the reader may judiciously skip these, and find a
wealth of accurate descriptive matter concerning the prominent
features of the lunar landscape.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The exquisite photographs—well reproduced—and the easily readable
text of this volume should ensure it a welcome from all classes of
readers, whether they be astronomers or not.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 78: 101. Je. 4, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 180w.
“This form is in fact a very convenient and sensible one for the
purpose in view, and Mr. Serviss has made use of it to advantage.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Serviss would have done better to stick to the ordinary method.
Some readers, however, may prefer his device, and as far as we have
tested the book it is quite trustworthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Natural history of the ten commandments.
**50c. Scribner.
7–36867.
Mr. Seton develops the theory that the decalogue is not arbitrary and
for man’s use alone, but that it exists in the greater order of things
and all highly developed animals obey its laws.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 673. O. ’08. 40w.
“Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is likely in the end to
consider the idea a possible argument for moral evolution.” M. E.
Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Some scientists will criticise it as imaginative; that, in our view,
is its virtue.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 60w.
=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell;
ed. by her niece Eleanor L. Sewell. *$1.50. Longmans.
The record of a busy useful life that extended over ninety-one years.
She identified herself thru life with literary interests, publishing
volumes of travel, history and fiction, the best known of the last
class being “Amy Herbert.” She became a pioneer worker in the movement
of more thoro education for girls, founding St. Boniface school in the
Isle of Wight.
* * * * *
“Her diary records much European travel. Her remarks on those she
encountered are acute.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 576. N. 9. 1700w.
“The story of her youth gives some interesting glimpses of social and
educational conditions in England during the early years of the last
century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 260w.
“Told in a somewhat fragmentary manner. On the whole, however, the
picture is sufficiently complete.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 617. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
=Shaad, George C.= Power stations and power transmission. $1. Am.
school of correspondence.
7–37601.
A manual of approved American practice in the construction, equipment
and management of electrical generation stations, substations and
transmission lines, for power, lighting, traction, electrochemical and
domestic uses. The volume is divided into two parts, one on the power
station itself, and one on transmission.
* * * * *
“This book is free from those weaknesses of correspondence-school
books which have been criticised in these volumes. It should be a very
acceptable aid to those engineers who are called upon for such a great
variety of work that they cannot become specialists in this particular
branch.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Shallow, Edward B., and Cullen, Winifred T.= Nature study made
easy. *40c. Macmillan.
8–29747.
A series of lessons for the fourth grade of the New York city schools.
While essentially a reading book the subject matter is suitable for
nature study.
* * * * *
“There is a great deal of good and usable material in the book, but it
is so badly confused with make-believe conversation, impersonation,
emotionalism, and faulty science, that _instead of making nature-study
easy_, it would seem to the reviewer that the book must join that mass
of pseudo-nature literature which is really making it very hard for a
real nature-study to take a place in the school curriculum.” O. W.
Caldwell.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 616. Je. ’08. 460w.
“The form of the book will lead many teachers to encourage reading
more than observing. While it may for a time be useful for unprepared
teachers, it is certainly not going to help much in solving the most
pressing problems of nature study for city schools.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Shambaugh, Bertha Maud.= Amana, the community of true inspiration.
$3. State hist. soc. of Iowa, Iowa City, la.
8–19211.
The first detailed study of the Amana community of Iowa. Believing
that “divine inspiration and revelation are just as real and potent
to-day as in the time of Moses” these communists in both their church
and their society are bringing into realization the oracular power of
the Biblical prophets. “The people are graded into three spiritual
orders. Celibacy is praised, marriage is permitted; but marriage
reduces the pair temporarily to the lowest spiritual rank, and so does
the birth of each child. There are no amusements, no school vacations,
no politics. Daily prayer-meetings center all interest in the
salvation of the soul.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“An extraordinarily interesting account of the life of this unique
group.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 185. O. ’08. 350w.
“The author’s style is good; her account readable.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 636. N. ’08. 260w.
“The first thoro study of the community.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 60w.
“Of peculiar present interest is this account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“A sympathetic and well-proportioned account of the social and
spiritual growth of Amana.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
=Shamel, Charles H.= Mining, mineral and geological law. $5. Hill
pub. co.
7–42017.
A treatise on the law of the United States involving geology,
mineralogy and allied sciences as applied in mining, real estate,
public land, United States customs and other litigation; also the
acquisition and maintenance of mining rights in the public domain and
obtaining patents for mineral land under the United States mining
laws. (Explanatory title.) It is designed for the lawyer as well as
the practical man.
* * * * *
“A concise but thorough discussion of the scientific topics which are
important in connection with mining litigation is given in the
beginning of the work, and its value is supplemented by an excellent
bibliography on these subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 305. Mr. ’08. 320w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Sharp, Archibald.= Balancing of engines: steam, gas, and petrol: an
elementary text-book, using principally graphical methods; for the
use of students, draughtsmen, designers, and buyers of engines.
*$1.75. Longmans.
7–42489.
“This book discusses in detail the methods of obtaining good balances
of the inertia forces of engines, and also briefly considers the
question of uniform torque on the crank-shaft. The treatment is
largely graphical, and the author has included original methods which
he believes will greatly facilitate the computations of engine
designers. Exercises for the use of students are appended to nearly
all of the chapters.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“As a whole, the book before us is admirably clear and well written.
The most important contribution which Mr. Sharp makes is in his
discussion of the kinetic energy of pistons and connecting rods.” L.
S. Marks.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 80. Ja. 16, ’08. 960w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 100w.
=Sharp, Dallas Lore.= Lay of the land. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–27140.
“Fifteen brief talks on the small neighbors that share our home
fields—the muskrat, the buzzard, the owl, the woodchuck, the hundred
other small and large, but always busy, souls that have bodies to feed
and must feed them chiefly when we are not looking—that is, not
looking closely.” (Ind.) “The author retains enough of the scientific
temper to keep him accurate and safe from undue romancing, but not
enough to kill sentiment.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It will interest young people as much as adults.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠.
“The volume might well have been named from its best chapter, ‘A cure
for winter.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 370w.
“He is a born naturalist, a true lover of nature, and has the art
which is not easily acquired—the art of Thoreau, of John Burroughs, of
Gilbert White, of Selborne—of making interest where we poor, sightless
creatures make a dead loss of our time.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Nicolete. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The author introduces her readers to a “feckless but charming” family,
inhabiting an old Tudor manor house. The father, an artist, belonging
to “the fascinating, irresponsible order of beings,” and his beautiful
wife bring up their seven children “on much love and a minimum of
common-sense.” The sixth child, Nicolete, is the heroine of the story.
She “combines the best qualities of both parents, but [is] destined by
her loyalty and unworldliness to be perpetually victimized by her
brothers and sisters.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Miss Sharp is one of the lucky people who write with charm, whatever
their subject may be. Her children are always delightful, spontaneous,
and really childlike, and, if many of her other characters are but
grown-up children, they are none the worse for that.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 230w.
“The narrative opens with some amusing sketches of child life, and is
throughout bright and wholesome.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“Various phases of London and suburban social life are described, all
with a sure touch that reveals a wide knowledge and experience on the
part of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“The book is readable, and more, right through, but the humour and
freshness of the first part eclipse the somewhat long-drawn sequel,
excellent though that sequel is as a study of an artistic temperament,
hampered by environment and the possession of a conscience.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 207. Ag. 24, ’07. 1320w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39228.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by E. S. Bradford.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 460. S. ’08. 400w.
“His volume, although frankly remaining a series of talks rather than
a book, has more unity than most collections of this sort; and it is
hopeful and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Its well-reasoned optimism is founded on wide knowledge and sincere
human sympathy. Its analysis of present conditions, and its
interpretation of them, are well-nigh authoritative.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Shaw’s work is judicial and dignified, tuned for presentation to
academic audiences, but yet quite radical in tone and spacious in
outlook.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 50. Ja. ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 330w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 540. Mr. 7, ’08. 700w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 554. S. ’08. 200w.
“The five college addresses which make up this volume are all rich in
suggestions derived from many years’ observation and experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Shaw, Leslie Mortier.= Current issues. **$2. Appleton.
8–8152.
Current political questions are discussed including the railway
question, overcapitalization and watered stock, trusts, and the
currency question.
* * * * *
“The book is of temporary interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“Mainly of value as representing the views of one active in political
life and at the head of the treasury during an interesting period in
its administration.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 50w.
“For students of the political thought and movements of the last
decade the volume has no little significance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
“What the book reflects is experience rather than learning, and a good
native intellect rather than study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 900w.
“Possesses beyond almost any other of our public men the gift of lucid
exposition.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Shearer, John Bunyan.= Scriptures: fundamental facts and features.
60c. Presbyterian com.
Seventeen Bible studies among which are included the following: The
unities of the Scriptures; The object and scope of written revelation;
The universal book; The canon; The supernatural in the Scriptures;
Creation and the Creator; The relations of the Bible and science;
Evolution; Geology; The six days of creation; The deluge; The Bible in
liberal education and God in history. Nine chapters are devoted to the
influence of Judaism on ancient religions, ancient philosophy, and
ancient civilization.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Lisheen, or, The test of the
spirits. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–33595.
A young Irish landlord reads Tolstoi, applies the lesson, and
discovers the condition of the Irish tenant must be improved. He
deserts his station for a time and goes to work as a peasant on a
small farm in Kerry. The hard fought battles of his self imposed
apprenticeship to experience rather lose their force at the end in the
magic of the “‘deus ex machina’ of a full purse.”
* * * * *
“Canon Sheehan is scarcely equal to his subject, but he must be
accorded due praise for his descriptions of the monotonous existence
led by the lowest classes in Ireland.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 274. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“The descriptions of peasant-life are admirable; the working out of
the plot is not convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“He has been tempted to add a secondary story, with disastrous
results.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 580w.
“This is all very well for a plot, but its handling is tame and
ineffective.”
− =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 420w.
“The story itself is rather awkwardly contrived, and the interest of
its central theme is much weakened by the introduction of many
chapters concerned with aristocratic society.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“The pictures of peasant-life—by no means idealised—are admirable. The
author must have discovered for himself, even though unconscious of
his errors against reality and good taste, that in half his chapters
he is building entirely upon guess-work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 673. N. 30, ’07. 540w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Parerga: a companion volume to
Under the cedars and the stars. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–7172.
Meditations, some four hundred in number, arranged under the heading
of the seasons, whose themes border on literature, metaphysics and
practical life. “Though the subjects vary indefinitely, they are
reflected in the same idealizing mirror of the writer’s mind. And of
that mind the most insistent categories are a contempt for modern
materialistic standards; a Solomon-like preference ... for the house
of mourning over the house of laughter; a sense of the fact that the
key to the world-riddle is kept by the spectre that holds the key to
all the creeds; finally, that the flying years bring with them
disillusionment—and resignation.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“Imagination and feeling, literary criticism, moralizing on the
mystery of things, keen but kindly observation of human nature, flow
in an unstinted tide from this charming philosopher, as he flits from
topic to topic with a sweep that embraces heterogeneity itself.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 340w.
“The book is far from being commonplace or dull.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 314. My. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Dr. Sheehan is not at his best in literary matters. In meditations on
nature and in certain aspects of human life he is more to be admired.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 470w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= Unbelief in the nineteenth century: a
critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
7–14561.
“A review of the various theories—philosophical, quasi-scientific,
theological, ethical, critical—which since the time of Kant have more
or less radically antagonized the beliefs of the church. These
theories are first stated and then criticised. Both the statement and
the criticism are presented in compact and lucid form, for a
vindication of Christian belief. The author’s standpoint is
conservative, but not extreme. He concludes that while the nineteenth
century has rigorously tested Christian beliefs, and modified them to
some extent, they have been fully vindicated in their fundamental
features.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sheldon writes in a clear style and shows wide reading in the
broad field he covers. His exposition is clear and historical and his
criticism such as is commonly urged by enlightened orthodox
apologists. Professor Sheldon does not seem to realize the profound
change that is demanded by our modern view of the world, and clings to
elements that belong to a deistic interpretation of the universe.” W.
C. Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 170. Ja. ’08. 690w.
“The entire discussion is fair-minded and instructive. The point of
criticism to which it is most liable is in the use of ‘miraculous’ and
‘supernatural’ as equivalent terms—a common mistake, than which none
is more fruitful of confused thought in current controversies.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Sheldon, Mary Boardman.= Coffee and a love affair: an American
girl’s romance on a coffee plantation. †$1. Stokes.
8–21616.
A story among the mountains of Central America whither “one makes his
way on the back of a good Sierra Nevada mule to a coffee plantation,
where gasoline prevails not and the mail arrives by a banana boat
every fourteen days.” (N. Y. Times.) “Here the reader cares more about
the coffee than he does about the love affair—the descriptive parts
and incidents of plantation life are really very good.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“The coffee predominates, and the numerous interesting facts
concerning it which are brought in under cover of a young American
girl’s passion for traveling in strange countries and away from beaten
tracks, commend the book as much to the masculine as to the feminine
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“An American woman ... tells her experiences with considerable
liveliness, a little after the manner of ‘The lady of the decoration,’
but without that little book’s personal charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.= Untrodden English ways. **$3. Little.
8–30034.
To the leisurely traveler or the stay-at-home tourist this volume is
made valuable by chapters about St. Ives, the haunt of artists and
authors: John Keble’s Hursley; By famous graves; Three memorable
pulpits, John Cotton’s, Thomas Arnold’s and Henry E. Manning’s;
Bunhill Fields, the “Campo santo of the dissenters”; and Westminster
abbey’s collection of wax effigies which in centuries past have
appeared in funeral processions.
* * * * *
“Mr. Shelley’s style is easy and readable, bespeaking intimate
acquaintance with the subject in hand.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“A great amount of enthusiasm, reverence and love is bottled up in the
book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19. ’08. 50w.
“We advise these who are planning a voyage to England to procure and
study this convenient handbook.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 908. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“This book will have special interest to those who love Devonshire.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 739. D. ’08. 40w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to
Elizabeth Hitchener; with introd. and notes by Bertram Dobell.
*$1.50. Dodd.
8–18715.
Some forty odd letters written by Shelley to the Sussex
schoolmistress, Elizabeth Hitchener, who in the private life of the
Shelleys was entitled “Portia.” or “Bessy,” but who in the end was
denominated “the Brown Demon ... our later tormentor and
schoolmistress.” The correspondence is published for the first time.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 302. S. 12. 640w.
“It is altogether a pathetic, interesting, absurd story; and though
the letters contain nothing material to it which was not known before,
it is satisfactory to have them complete.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 339. Mr. 14, ’08. 1550w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 280w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.= Stained glass tours in France.
**$1.50. Lane.
8–856.
“Describes the notable windows to be seen and gives practical and full
itineraries for reaching them. With a view to the convenience of the
tourist and student, he divides the history of stained glass into
three epochs: (1) The thirteenth century and earlier; (2) fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries; (3) sixteenth century. Visits to the glass of
these epochs are subdivided into a dozen tours. A table of itineraries
groups the distances from Paris in kilometers. The illustrations show
representative examples of the art.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“A useful, interesting book for the intelligent sight seer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08. ✠
“Had he taken only a little more trouble and been less diffident of
his abilities, he could have produced a volume both fascinating and
valuable, with little addition to its bulk.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 400w.
“Mr. Sherrill’s descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town
are simple, non-technical, and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“In system and accuracy of treatment the volume renders capital
service as an introduction to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
“He is a particularly pleasant guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 41. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
=Sherzer, William Hittell.= Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and
Selkirks. (Smithsonian expedition of 1904.) (Part of Smithsonian
contributions to knowledge v. 34, no. 1692.) $1.75. Smithsonian
inst.
8–4476.
“Gives the results of a systematic examination of the Victoria and
Wenkchemna glaciers in Alberta and of the Yoho, Asulkan, and
Illecillewaet glaciers in British Columbia. The study embraced the
surface features of these glaciers, the nature of the ice movement,
the temperature of the ice at various depths and its relations to the
air temperatures, the amount of surface melting, the possible
transference of material from the surface portion to lower portions,
the rates of movement, the advances and recessions of the glacial
extremities, and the structure of the ice. There is an accessory
discussion of the physiographic changes of the region in Pleistocene
and earlier times.”—J. Geol.
* * * * *
“An unsatisfactory flavor is given this by an effort, italicized as
though important, to make plasticity mean something which plasticity
does not usually mean, for no other apparent reason than to justify
the retention of an old term which is likely to be either misleading
or meaningless.” F. C. C.
+ − =J. Geol.= 16: 388. My. ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too diffuse in
describing the well-known, Dr. Sherzer has made a valuable and
remarkably well-illustrated contribution to the literature of
glaciers.” T. G. Bonney.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 463. Mr. 19, ’08. 1050w.
=Shield, Alice, and Lang, Andrew.= King over the water, il. *$4.20.
Longmans.
8–11474.
The biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, the “Old Chevalier” or
the “Old Pretender.” “The purpose has been,” so the preface states,
“as far as may be, to avoid incursions into general history, confining
the work to biography.”
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“We have noticed very few blunders. The reader who takes pleasure in
Mr. Lang’s sprightly style will find something not unlike it in these
pages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 1100w.
“By a careful study of all the documents available, what is really the
first complete modern biography of James has been produced.” Edward
Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 169. Ap. ’08. 1200w.
“Miss Shield is interested in the human side of her subject, and gives
us a delightful picture of every-day life at Saint Germains and
Urbino.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 42. Jl. 16, ’08. 720w.
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“The present attempt at rehabilitation is a bright and spirited piece
of writing, quite worthy in most parts of Mr. Lang, though he assigns
the larger share of the credit for it to his collaboratrix, Miss
Shield. It contains some good and curious reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
“Very interesting, though here and there, in spite of Mr. Lang’s
supervision, slightly effusive.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Shields, Rev. Thomas Edwards.= Education of our girls. *$1.
Benziger.
7–41558.
Higher education of women is advocated in this discussion but emphasis
is laid upon the fact that it must be education for women. The author
dwells at length upon the subject of coeducation, and concludes that
women can be most fully and most naturally educated only in schools
and colleges provided for them alone.
* * * * *
“Whosoever is interested in the subject will find a fund of suggestion
in a modest little volume by Dr. Shields. To a thorough knowledge of
theoretical pedagogics Dr. Shields unites a wide experience of the
practical conditions of Catholic education for girls, as they exist in
this country.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Shoemaker, John Vietch.= Health and beauty. *$3. Davis.
8–20542.
“Dr. Shoemaker, the well-known specialist and professor in the
Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, has in this volume
undertaken the serious and practical task of teaching people how to
take care of themselves, and especially of their skin. The skin is not
only the pane of glass through which we can see and read the condition
of the internal organs, but it is the drain-surface of the body. The
doctor shows us how it may be kept in a condition of efficiency, how
it may be brightened and beautified.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“We are acquainted with no popular work of the kind so thorough, so
learned, so voluminous, and so sane.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“His book is a capital one, and should be in the possession of every
one who is interested in the acquirement or maintenance of sound
health and the beauty derived therefrom.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 428. Ag. 1, ’08. 470w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Wanderings in Ireland. **$2.50. Putnam.
The spirit of Ireland gets into Mr. Shoemaker’s pages from the moment
he hears the Isle of Shamrock’s greeting to him. “Glory be to God, but
yer Honor’s welcome.” He travels “by donkey-cart, by jaunting-car, by
train and motor,” is a keen observer and sympathizer, and gives vivid
descriptions of the people and their land.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Can be read with entertainment even by those who have no interest in
motoring.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“A vivacious narrator.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The description is entertaining and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“There is plenty of information in this volume, information
historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment
as might have been expected.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Greater love. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–17252.
A story which portrays the suffering of a woman whose daughter was
born out of wedlock. The mother finds that no matter how extenuating
were the circumstances of her offense she must atone for a broken law,
which atonement involves the greatest conceivable sacrifice, viz.,
separation from her child.
* * * * *
“The style, if somewhat serious, is dignified, and the psychology of
the mother’s love is made clear and credible without exaggeration or
mawkish sentimentality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
“As a statement of the omnipresent problem, the book has some novel
adjuncts and complications. As a contribution to a solution it is
worthless, since morally it is a long, indeterminate muddle.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 470w.
“Mrs. Sholl has written a book worth the writing, and written it with
dignity and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Deep currents of feeling and character are indicated in an almost
masterly fashion.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4. ’08. 170w.
=Short. Ernest H.= History of sculpture. *$3. Dutton.
8–19092.
“Mr. Short believes that true art is always the expression and
interpretation of national life.... As a background for an intelligent
understanding of the sculpture of any age one must have, then, an idea
of its temper and tendencies. Such conceptions Mr. Short endeavors to
supply in brief historical summaries and characterizations.... His
book covers the entire ground from the rise of the sculptor’s art in
Greece through the work of the French and British schools of the
nineteenth century. Few biographical data are given, and attention is
paid only to the most characteristic works of each artist.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Many of the author’s opinions are disputable, but the facts are
mostly taken from accepted textbooks, though their expression is
sometimes inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 250w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“While the author’s critical qualifications are not of the highest
order, and his style is often slipshod, he yet succeeds in taking
sculpture out of the region of the archeological catalog of technical
and dry discussion, and in describing many of its masterpieces as the
expression of national or local feeling, and even in some of his pages
in quickening the reader’s sense of plastic beauty.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“This book is readable and suggestive. It is not really a history of
sculpture. It is rather a collection of readable essays for leisure
hours.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“At both ends, it is manifestly incomplete. Its excellencies, however,
are as patent as are its defects.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Collected poems; with an introd. by George
Meredith. $1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Shorter with the true ballad and short-story gift scores many of
her greatest successes in the field of Irish legend. Her poetry has
been collected here with an introduction by George Meredith. “It is
hard to choose where all is good, but if choice must be made ours
shall be ‘The Dean of Santiago,’ ‘The beggar maid,’ ‘The white witch,’
‘The little black hound,’ ‘The man who trod on sleeping grass,’ ...
‘Cean Duv Deelish,’ the beautiful little poem on ‘Ireland,’ ‘The
suicide’s grave,’ and the final poem, ‘The enemies.’” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 1000w.
“The true thing to say about them is—what is in fact very high
praise—that they are nearly all very pleasant to read.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 340. N. 8, ’07. 1200w.
“Some extremely enjoyable verses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 850w.
“There is a readable flow and interest in many of Mrs. Shorter’s
ballad and narrative poems.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Limited both in range of thought and expression, her poetry wins the
reader by a certain sincerity, freshness, and simplicity.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Shufeldt, Robert Wilson.= Negro: a menace to American civilization.
$1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–36977.
“An impassioned plea against the process of hybridization or
‘mongrelization,’ which, in the author’s opinion threatens the white
race in this country so long as the negro remains with us. Admitting
that the tendency of modern civilization seems to be the amalgamation
of all races and their unification into one, he yet protests against
the amalgamation of negro with white American, (which is proceeding
steadily in his view).”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Careful students, administrators, educators already perplexed by the
problems of race contact, will find no help in the volume.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Shufeldt is more lurid than scientific in the form of his
statements at times, for he speaks rather as a justified alarmist than
as an investigator, but his book, also, is not without its value as
evidence in the case.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Extempore speaking for school and college.
*90c. Ginn.
8–20155.
Aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both
teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making
the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at
the end of each chapter and in the appendix, suggestions and topics
for class exercises.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Later years of Catherine de Medici. *$3.
Dutton.
8–36143.
“The first of Miss Sichel’s work, published some time ago, dealt with
Catherine and the French reformation—the woman struggling for power.
The second part, now before us, brings the story down to the year of
her death, 1589 and consists principally in a study of the art of
balancing parties and social forces by which the princess of diplomats
maintained her sway.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Our author has done well the work she has set out to do; she is
unusually free from heated partisanship.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 844. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“She has her material well in hand and makes it serve a natural gift
for the analysis of human motives.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“Is written with a clear and ardent appreciation of the great
personalities who made up the social and political life of the era,
and with a firm grasp of the close sequence of events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 536. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Miss Sichel is both a skilled and a powerful writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 90w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 240. Ag. 22, ’08. 1100w.
“This is certainly the most striking book Miss Sichel has yet written,
and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
=Sickert, Bernhard.= Whistler. (Library of art.) *75c. Dutton.
“Breadth of vision has enabled the author to see the painter’s art in
relation to contemporary feeling, in its relation to his opponent
Ruskin’s criticism, and to the artistic aspects of the modern world.
The real, and not the superficial, points about Whistler’s art are
understood, and the selection of etchings reproduced for illustration
is the best that could have been made.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“One might seek very far amongst the small books upon art which
nowadays are issued in such numbers to find again a book so pleasantly
written as this one. The writer shows insight into his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 319. O. 08. 120w.
“Mr. Sickert writes of the art of Whistler with great enthusiasm, but
also with much discrimination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 80. Jl. 23, ’08. 240w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Home life in Germany.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
8–20729.
From a thoroly German point of view. Mrs. Sidgwick discusses the
“German children, their schools, the education of the poor, that
peculiar type of girl known as the ‘Backfisch,’ the students, women,
marriage and housewives, householders and servants, food, shops,
markets and sports and games, inns, restaurants, lodgings, summer
resorts, peasant life, and the poor.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 754. Je. 20. 1400w.
“Has given her book an introduction which comes near being the best
thing in it. It does exactly what a preface ought to do, it makes the
reader eager to press on to the rest of the book whether he be
interested in the subject or not, because he feels that anything such
a sane, broad-minded, and amicably humorous woman has to say will be
worth reading.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 40: 63. Jl. ’08. 1300w.
“She has written no more interesting story than this book on home life
in Germany.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of entertaining
information, seasoned by lively anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“An interesting book that shows an intimate knowledge of racial
peculiarities in living and in point of view.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 20w.
“A singularly acute and intimate appreciation of home life in
Germany.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 440w.
“A really unusually interesting book this, by a woman who knows both
English and German types and treats them with a kindly sympathy, a
keen discernment, and a good-natured humor which make highly
entertaining reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has written a book which was wanted, and written it
with exceptional verve.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 831. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Desire. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Desire, the heroine of this novel, is called upon to choose, at the
time of her father’s death, between a wealthy marriage and earning her
own living. She prefers the bread-winner’s course. “Peter Grimstone,
the hero, is the most attractive figure in the book, and his
struggles, aided by Desire as his secretary, with the affairs of
Grimstone and Son, and with the machinations of his wicked brother
Alexander, are not a little interesting.” (Spec.) “The real strength
of the book lies in the careful development of the two chief figures
and the reader’s interest and belief in their ultimate happiness.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The book, in short, is decidedly unequal but the author’s charm of
writing and sincerity of purpose will reward all readers who have
patience and perseverance enough to proceed with the unsatisfactory
early chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Silver, Arthur P.= Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada;
or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman; with an
introd. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona. **$2. Dutton.
W8–122.
“The book, which is better printed than bound, is made up of a rather
heterogeneous collection of papers on husbandry, angling, and hunting.
The many illustrations are of varying excellence, but they serve to
give the reader a good idea of the character of the maritime provinces
and Newfoundland.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The beautiful province of Nova Scotia has been well served here by
Mr. Silver.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 350w.
“A number of minor mistakes might be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 150w.
“Eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is pleasantly and unpretentiously written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“This is a most readable book, and we have enjoyed the description of
life and sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
=Sinclair, Bertrand William.= Raw gold. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–21615.
The Canadian border furnishes the scene of this tale of Wild West
life—primitive, exhilarating, spiced with dangers. Particularly is it
a delineation of the character of the Northwest mounted police, sent
by the English government to keep order “in a territory that was a
city of refuge for tough people who had played their string out south
of the line.”
* * * * *
“There is sentiment of the kind that fits with the open sky and life
in the saddle, and the whole story moves with a swing and reality that
are refreshing in the extreme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 528. S. 26, ’08. 230w.
=Sinclair, May.= Immortal moment: the story of Kitty Tailleur. (Eng.
title Kitty Tailleur.) †$1.50. Doubleday.
“In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the
demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, induces him to
propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past.... The struggle
between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose
mistress Kitty Tailleur is—is described with extraordinary force. The
tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.” (Spec.)
“Her ‘immortal moment’ is ironically so called, for it is the moment
in which the higher nature asserts itself, and she makes the
confession which she knows must end her dream.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Miss Sinclair has up to a point made an excellent study of a type,
and then shut her eyes and jumped at the rest. Yet her failure is more
interesting than most successes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 220w.
“It is seldom that a story brings to the reviewer such a sense of
impotence to do it justice within the space of a single paragraph.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 550w.
“As a faint reflex of the Camille story this one must be set down as
essentially immoral, simply because its intention is to throw a
sentimental glamor over the ugly outlines of depravity. But we cannot
dispute its literary art or its emotional subtlety.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Rehabilitates the Camille motif by the sterling art of its
treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“Sometimes the reticence lies a little obscuringly over the effect.
But the reticence is delightful; we forgive it our losses for the sake
of the gain, and we admire the author’s determination to offer no
concessions to stupidity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 21. Jl. 4. ’08. 630w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 237. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Sinclair, May.= Judgment of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
8–9176.
An analyst’s portrayal of the subjective phases of two egoists’
married life. The sea change that gave their life the shimmer of
something rich and strange as two souls struggled and fluttered after
the immaterial is followed by a transformation caused by the failure
to give fresh, wholesome, material expression to their ideals, leaving
a “decomposing discolored shell” wholly at the mercy of the peace of
dulness.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A sad story, interestingly told, but with a moral somewhat obscure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The right people will probably never hear of ‘The judgment of Eve.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 180w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Metropolis. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–5582.
To expose the vice and extravagance of the New York rich has been Mr.
Sinclair’s purpose in writing this story. Two brothers, one the
antithesis of the other, are the mouthpieces which Mr. Sinclair uses
respectively to shout forth the demagogue’s selfish creed and to
denounce it.
* * * * *
“The strength of the novel is in its picturesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 250w.
“We close the book with the feeling that our time has been wasted upon
a very dull tract.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A large part of it reads like the prospectus of a hotel or the
advertisement of a department store, with the prices in plain figures
on every article.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“It is a tract with enough of the air of fiction to draw the attention
of a generally intractable public. The story element is delightfully
ingenuous.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“A jumble of odds and ends. The yellow ‘sensations’ of two or three
years reappear in a barbarous melange. It has all been done, and much
better. The bad example, as Mr. Sinclair depicts it, only disgusts
educated people because of the falsity of the picture, and ought to
make the multitude laugh.”
− − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 1300w.
“Nothing is more patent than the author’s lack of personal knowledge
concerning the social life of New York. If it were not so absurd, it
would be a pitiful exhibition of misdirected energy.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“True stories must often be harrowing and heartbreaking; but there is
no excuse for writing brutal, hateful, sordid fairy stories.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 909. Ap. 25, ’08. 1200w.
“Morally and intellectually as repellant as the descriptions of the
physical details of the Chicago stock-yards and slaughter-houses.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 400w.
“Books like ‘The metropolis’ act as a lure to the weak-minded instead
of serving as danger-signals to keep them from the path of evil.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 530w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Moneychangers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–24866.
A continuation of “The metropolis.” In this second of a trilogy aiming
at an exposé of contemporary business and social corruption of New
York, Mr. Sinclair reveals the rottenness of Wall Street’s high
finance.
* * * * *
“To say the truth, Mr. Sinclair is neither a Dickens nor a Zola,
but ... a successful sensation-monger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
“Is hardly to be classed as a novel, just as it savors of the absurd
to class his previous works as fiction. It is a tract, a preachment in
journalistic style, through the mouths of marionettes.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“If he is lying, this book ought to be burned; and if he is concocting
the stories he tells so circumstantially, there are at least fifty
well-founded prosecutions for criminal libel in the book.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 581. N. 7, ’08. 770w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Great rivers of the world, as seen and
described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34681.
“Victor Hugo’s glowing words repeat his impressions of the Rhine and
Loire; Dickens tells of a trip down the St. Lawrence (was he so fair
to it because it is more Canadian than American?); Pierre Loti
pictures the Ganges, Thoreau the Concord and the Merrimac, and Mrs.
Richings the Irrawaddy. All the rivers of the earth which are great
either in size or in association are described by competent
writers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The accounts are various in character, some statistical and some
impressionistic, and they show entertaining variety of style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Holland. (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
In which visits are made to the Hague gallery; the Rijks museum; the
Stedelijk museum; the Town hall, Haarlem; and the Boijmans museum,
Rotterdam. Brief biographies of painters, helpful comment and
criticism on the most famous pictures in each gallery, and
illustrations which aid the text are presented in condensed form for
the tourist.
* * * * *
“A careful resumé of the treasures of Holland, a compact book
convenient for reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Switzerland, described by great writers.
**$1.60. Dodd.
8–34593.
“The first division of the book deals with the country and the race,
the second with their history, the third with Alpine climbing, the
fourth is descriptive purely, the fifth sets forth social life among
the Alps, and the last is devoted to statistics. The names of Ruskin,
Tyndall, Goethe, and Victor Tissot are in the list of writers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Shows Miss Singleton’s careful editing. Mr. Edward Whymper’s exciting
account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn alone makes the book
notable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
=Slaughter, Rev. Philip.= History of Truro parish in Virginia; ed.
with notes and addenda by Rev. E. L. Goodwin. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14829.
The parish whose history is sketched here included among its vestrymen
George Washington, George Mason, and other noted statesmen. The sketch
is important because it shows the character of the church school
which, hand in hand with religion, taught men of genius the rudiments
of popular government, the foundations of human rights, and the
reconciliation of diverse rights.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Slosson, Mrs. Annie.= Dissatisfied soul; and A prophetic romancer.
*75c. Bonnell.
8–19156.
Two stories of New England life. The first set in the White mountains
sketches a woman characterized by her sister-in-law as the “fittiest,
restlessest, changeablest” woman living, who was “never, never quite
satisfied.” Even death did not bring her rest, so she returns to earth
after three weeks. The second story whose scenes are laid in
Connecticut tells how the story which a young girl writes comes true
in dream fashion.
* * * * *
“She shows her usual skill in the handling of a grotesque theme.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“It is a clever and very entertaining short story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Slosson, Annie Trumbull.= Simples from the Master’s garden. *$1. S.
S. Times co.
7–42011.
A group of stories in each of which is a simple exemplar or expositor
who reveals the healing power of some phase of Christ truth.
* * * * *
“In homely phrases she sends out many a truth which might be ignored
in more costly dress.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Mrs. Slosson continues to write in her original vein of tender human
feeling and deep spirituality.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“All are of good quality.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Small, Sidney Alymer-.= Electrical railroading; or, Electricity as
applied to railroad transportation. $3.50. Drake, F. J.
8–10297.
“Evidently this volume was prepared mainly for men who had no
knowledge of electricity previous to securing the particular book....
The first third of the book deals with elementary electricity and
magnetism, covering, in an inferior way, about the same ground as
could be studied with any good text-book on elementary physics. The
other two-thirds of the book seem to be largely copied from
descriptive catalogs of prominent manufacturing companies, and from
employee’s instruction books, as issued by a few railroads.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is clearly-written, and for the man who has not had a
technical training it will prove a valuable aid in enabling him to
keep up with the advances in his profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 190w.
“There is enough in the book that is new and useful to make it a
matter for regret that so many criticisms need to be made. The book is
safe for the instruction of motormen, etc., only under the direction
of a well-educated engineer who will be able to recognize troubles
which exist for the confusion of most readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 546. My. 14, ’08. 960w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Daughter: a love story. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10433.
A daughter suffocating in her home and town surroundings breaks away
from her family, goes to London and throws herself into “socialism,
emancipation of women and various other popular movements of a radical
type.” A wealthy young Englishman falls in love with her, but
realizing the futility of wooing her, masquerades as a young mechanic,
wins her, and finally, after demonstrating his manhood and the sanity
of his ideas, secures her forgiveness for the deception. “The author
has turned out a good tale—a sane mixture of the socialistic,
purposeful, and often hectic novel, with the healthy story of an
admirable love match.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“She has not allowed her charming gift of imagination to be stifled in
a riot of either abuse or argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 150w.
“The chief fault with Constance Smedley’s vigorous and carefully
written book, ‘The daughter,’ is not the lack of a message, but rather
an obscurity in its scope and purport.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
=Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3. ’08. 40w.
“Has interest, the interest not of a great or a literary product, but
of a faithfully planned and well told story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“It is a tract, spirited, clever, often dramatic, but still
essentially a tract on the marriage question.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
“Quite entertaining are the adventures of Delia.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Alton Lincoln.= Frederic William Maitland: two lectures and
a bibliography. *85c. Oxford.
A presentation “of Professor Maitland’s historical method, of his
conception of history, and of the quality of his work.” “In the first
lecture the clue to Maitland’s greatness is found in his spiritual
conception of history ... and in his broad and profound human
sympathy, with which his imagination, insight and humor are closely
allied. In the second lecture, Maitland is considered as a ‘converted
lawyer,’ come back to the historical fold, whose legal training gave
him an interest in the history of ideas and a practical, as opposed to
a purely academic, point of view.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Thoughtful discussions.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 907. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The careful bibliography appended to these lectures might be more
conveniently arranged.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 620w.
“Contain a panegyric ... which is splendidly generous, yet after
making all deductions we cannot dispute its substantial justice.” C.
J.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 621. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“This is a tribute of praise worthy of the man to whose memory it is
paid,—more it would not be possible to say.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=Smith, Arthur.= Game of go, the national game of Japan. **$2.50.
Moffat.
8–21547.
A guide to the Japanese national game which is played on a board like
chess or checkers and is a game of skill not of chance. There are 361
positions for the men instead of 64, and it requires about thirty
years at the rate of one game a day for the player to attain
professional rank of the lowest degree.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Smith’s exposition, with the abundant diagrams, details of rules
and methods, and illustrative games, is admirable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 390w.
=Outlook.= 90: 137. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Smith, Charles Sprague.= Poems. *$1. Wessels.
8–24852.
A little volume of verse which sounds the dream note of a busy man’s
life. Poems of his college-days, several written during years spent in
Europe, and poems of the people, with liberty and fraternity for
themes, are included in the group.
* * * * *
“The thoughts exprest are inspiring and the feeling sympathetic.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 130w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Santa Claus and all about him. †$2. Stokes.
“The pictures and texts give an account of the whole Christmas history
of Santa Claus from the time of his waking up one cold morning at the
north pole, his trip down into the world of boys and girls to see what
is needed, then back to the pole, work in the toy shops, and finally
the return with a load of presents. The book comes in a box showing
Santa and his reindeer on it.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 110w.
“It is not the text that matters, but the interpretative drawings in
color; here the detail is joyously clever and will please older people
because of a subtle humor, even as it will hold the youngsters because
of the strong appeal to imagination.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Smith, Ernest Ashton.= Hildebrand: the builder. (Men of the
kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–22118.
A scholarly presentation of the times of Hildebrand, the manner in
which the papacy as an institution was evolved, the condition of the
clergy, the sway of German popes, the power behind the papal See, and
the progress and results of Hildebrand’s mission to raise the morality
of the church, and to strengthen its unity.
=Smith, F. Dumont.= Blue waters and green and the Far East to-day.
$1.50. Crane & co.
8–22265.
After many experiences with people the world over, Mr. Smith believes
that the ideal race would be the composite one, with the industry,
honesty and temperance of the Chinese, the courtesy of the Japanese,
the frugality, wit and the artistic sense of the French, the stability
and balance of the Germans, the tenacity of purpose of the English,
and the energy, initiative, the driving power, and saving sense of
humor of the Americans.
* * * * *
“Adds to a lively sense of fun the qualities of serious contemplative
judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 300w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver,
one who was not afraid and who spoke the truth. (True American
types ser., v. 5.) *60c. Am, Unitar.
8–28435.
A sketch of Captain Scott, the original of Caleb West in “Caleb West;
master-diver.” Thru his submarine work on the Race Rock lighthouse off
New London harbor, which Mr. Smith built in his profession of
engineer, Captain Scott became an honored friend of the author’s,
valued for his integrity, command of resources, indomitable courage,
fearlessness and control over his men.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It is a good little book for a pessimist to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Peter: a novel of which he is not the
hero. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23554.
Peter, gentle and manly, shrewd and ingenuous, young and sixty, gives
unstintingly of his time, his service and his love to young Jack, the
hero, an impulsive southern lad who cares more for honor,
independence, and friendship, than for the profit to be derived from
his uncle’s Wall street office. Peter, as Jack’s Prospero, provides
him with adventures and opportunities for heroism as the confidential
clerk to a contracting engineer; nor is the magic wand laid aside
until Jack has come into his fortune and has brought to a successful
issue a diffident courtship of his employer’s daughter.
* * * * *
“A very cheerful, wholesome book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a characteristic story, betraying all the recognisable
qualities of the author; it is well-bred, nicely written, with a
painter’s instinct for light and shade, constructed with an engineer’s
sense of form, and it glamours with the usual suspicion of personal
reminiscence and autobiographic impressions.” G: Middleton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 153. O. ’08. 460w.
“This new story of his has both charm and fragrance; if it does not
reach very far into the depths of life, it at least shows us the
surface in most alluring colors.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Its great charm lies in the author’s marvelous descriptions and his
genius for picking the good instead of the evil out of life ... a
high, fine, friendly goodness that belongs to earth and mortality here
and now.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 718. S. 24, ’08. 870w.
“It is a very cheerful and wholesome sort of book, with lots of
people wandering in and out of its pages, not much of a plot, and
such as there is rather loose-jointed, plenty of good talk—most of
it Peter’s—on a great variety of subjects and a general
aren’t-you-glad-you’re-alive sort of air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 380w.
“‘Peter’ is a bit of romanticism in a day of commercial engrossment,
and makes the charm of the old South, which was non-commercial,
credible.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 272. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
=Smith George Adam.= Jerusalem: the topography, economics and
history from the earliest times to A. D. 70. **$7.50. Armstrong.
8–20144.
A work that is complementary to the author’s “Historical geography of
the Holy Land.” The first volume treats of the geology, the water
supply and of topographical problems. The second volume gives a
connected history, religious and political, of the city and its people
from the days of Tell-el-Amarna to the conquest of Titus.
* * * * *
“We feel that even in a long review it is impossible to do full
justice to the many-sided interest of this important work, in which
true scholarship is never flaunted, but is felt in every line, and in
which moderation and sound sense dominate every conclusion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 631. My. 23. 2100w.
“As a whole this is the most elaborate and scholarly work on Jerusalem
that has appeared in any language.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 680w.
“The value of these volumes lies, not in the presentation of new
discoveries, but in the sane exposition and discussion of what we
already know with regard to the topography, the archaeology, and the
history, religious, social, and political, of Jerusalem.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 1700w.
“An interesting and instructive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Smith has the caution of a true scholar, he will not go beyond
the place where he has sure footing.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 670w.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 82. Jl. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“We are warmly grateful for an admirable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 95. Jl. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Smith, H. Clifford.= Jewellery. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50.
Putnam.
8–20539.
“With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewelry the
author has confined himself to Europe, dividing his work into four
main divisions. The first deals with the jewelry worn during classical
times and until the ninth century of our era; the second treats of the
jewels of the middle ages; the third is devoted to the jewels of the
renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times. In
compiling the work the best authorities have been consulted, and the
owners of famous collections have been generous in the matter of
photographs of their choicest treasures.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“That this attractive subject has fallen into eminently capable hands
is at once apparent, as is also the restraint the author has exercised
in order to bring the work within reasonable bounds.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 308. S. 12. 1300w.
“Scholarly volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 330w.
“That which is most admirable in the book is the author’s strong sense
of the artistic value and significance of jewelry.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 59. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11. ’08. 400w.
“The thoroughness of the author’s work and his excellent equipment for
his task are evident on every page. It is sure to occupy an honored
place in the libraries of collectors and to be regarded by museums and
specialists as a high authority on a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Smith, Harry James.= Amédée’s son. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23927.
Cape Breton folk, staunch in Catholicism and steeped in superstition,
form a background for this story of simple deeds. In the foreground
are an orphan lad, dreaming of the call of the sea and finding study
intolerable, a grandfather whose dearest wish is that the boy shall
resist religion as it is taught, and study to find God in the law and
order of the world of science, and an old servant who opens the eyes
of the grandson to the duty of love that he owes the aged man.
* * * * *
“A gentle and gracious idyll. The story is of the slightest, the
handling graceful but somewhat amateurish.”
+ − =Nation.= 37: 341. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“He is quite a real person all the way along, and he moves among real
persons, some of whom are well worth meeting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Smith, Rev. John Talbot.= Training of a priest: an essay on
clerical education, with a reply to the critics. **$1.50.
Longmans.
8–13666.
Deals with the “studies and mental culture of Catholic priests.... Dr.
Smith is himself a priest, and writes with a view to improving the
intellectual status of American seminaries.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“We have our doubts whether Dr. Smith’s recommendations will strike to
the root of the trouble.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The clear account of the training of a young man for the priesthood,
the charm and ease of style, and the eminent good sense and breadth of
the author make the book much more than a mere sectarian essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4. ’08. 140w.
=Smith, Joseph Russell.= Story of iron and steel. (Appleton’s lib.
of useful stories.) **75c. Appleton.
8–5612.
“Gives what larger volumes have failed to do—namely, an intelligent,
readable presentation of the broad aspects of iron and steel making,
which are of interest to the average man. It discusses not only the
purely technical development from a historical standpoint, but also
the no less important economic and commercial results accompanying
this development.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“An excellent little book for the use of teachers, as well as for the
pleasure of the interested general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. ✠
“May truthfully be described as the first satisfactory popular history
of the world’s greatest industry.” W. S. Tower.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 462. S. ’08. 430w.
“His style is clear and simple; he has succeeded in his purpose to
‘make every paragraph intelligible to the lay reader,’ but it would
still be possible for an unregenerate man to take a nap while scanning
the pages.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Smith, Logan Pearsall.= Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2v.
*$7.75. Oxford.
8–9089.
Mr. Smith has collected Sir Henry Wotton’s letters, presented them
with necessary annotations in order of data and prefixed to the
collection a life of the writer.
* * * * *
“He has come only a little short of producing himself a literary
masterpiece. For this achievement both his method and his style prove
a shade too severe. This book is one which no student of European
history during the first quarter of the seventeenth century may safely
neglect.” Barrett Wendell.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 852. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is the master of a close scholarly style, relieved
now by a happy metaphor, now by a touch of dry humour. His work in
these volumes shows a rare combination of literary sense, painstaking
care in collecting, elucidating, and dating his material, balanced
judgment, and self-repression.” G. C. M. Smith.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 361. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith has the essential qualifications for dealing with
a man like Wotton—he can write lightly and readably. The biography,
which fills half of the first of his two fine volumes, in no sense
competes with Walton. It is full and complete, whereas Walton’s is
simply an inimitable portrait of his friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 345. N. 15, ’07. 3300w.
“His letters are edited with rare erudition and still rarer taste.” P.
E. M.
+ =Nation.= 86: 278. Mr. 26, ’08. 3500w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word, and
his wide erudition, his scrupulous exactitude, his immense and
enthusiastic industry, have combined to produce a work which will
serve as a permanent object-lesson to the great host of slipshod
literary historians.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 821. N. 23, ’07. 1900w.
=Smith, Nora Archibald.= Adventures of a doll. †75c. McClure.
8–277.
“The scenes of this little story for children by the well-known sister
of the equally well-known Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, are laid in the
Scottish highlands. The three characters are Betty, a little
five-year-old girl, her dog Muff, and her rag doll.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A merry little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 24. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss Smith tells the stories in a breezy manner.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Robinson.= English quotations. *$2.50. Dutton.
W8–110.
A collection of the more memorable passages and poems of English
literature, arranged according to authors, chronologically, containing
a full index of words. It is neither an anthology nor a handbook; it
is rather a scrapbook of “elegant extracts” which Mr. Smith invites
the public to share with him.
* * * * *
“We cannot call the book either a good anthology or a good reference
manual of familiar quotations. The poetry selected is good, as far as
it goes, but the selection seems to be representative of one man’s
taste, instead of illustrating the consensus of received critical
opinions.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The selections are too short for reading and not numerous enough for
reference.”
− =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“The poetical value of a passage has more weight with the editor than
proverbial portability. As such the pages of the volume may be turned
over with unflagging interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 80w.
“A preposterous book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 430w.
=Smith, Rollin Edson.= Wheat fields and markets of the world. $2.15.
Modern miller co., 3d & Pine sts., St. Louis, Mo.
8–21514.
“It is often impossible to answer the questions concerning wheat
fields and wheat markets without a long search in newspapers,
pamphlets, and encyclopaedias. In the present volume we have replies
to very many questions which would ordinarily occur in connection with
wheat fields and markets—not so much, however, in connection with the
methods of grainhandling, milling, and manipulation of prices.”
(Outlook.) “Conditions in Western Canada are especially instructive
and the countries of Europe and Argentina contribute their quota of
important data.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Smith’s book fills a long-felt want.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“This is a decidedly useful book and one that makes us wonder why the
idea was not worked out long ago.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of
chapters on present day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The attempted distinction between political and economic socialism is
not clear.” M. O. Lorenz.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 297. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Smith is apparently not so well acquainted with socialist writers
and advocates as with trade unionists.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 105. Ja. 9, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Theodate Louise=, ed. Aspects of child life and education,
by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–21334.
A volume which makes accessible to parents and teachers, in condensed
form and at moderate price, the results of researches conducted by
President Hall’s pupils along the line of the psychology of childhood
and its applications to education. The chapters are as follows: The
contents of children’s minds, The psychology of daydreams, Curiosity
and interest, The story of a sandpile, A study of dolls, The
collecting instinct, The psychology of ownership, Fetichism in
children, Boy life in a Massachusetts country town forty years ago.
* * * * *
“The papers contain much curious and interesting matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 900w.
“Aside from the particular theory underlying most of the articles, the
reports themselves are of course of peculiar interest to all parents
and teachers, and they certainly tend to bring us into closer touch
with child life.” Irving King.
+ =School R.= 16: 204. Mr. ’08. 900w.
=Smith, Vincent Arthur.= Early history of India from 600 B. C. to
the Muhammadan conquest including the invasion of Alexander the
Great. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$4.75. Oxford.
“The enlargement consists chiefly in the expansion of the last three
chapters of the book dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the North,
the Kingdoms of the Deccan, and the Kingdoms of the South, which
contain forty-three of the seventy-two new pages. A new appendix, pp.
260–264, deals with the question of the hostages obtained by Kaniska
in consequence of his conquests in Chinese Turkestan.... The date of
Kaniska is the subject of a new and lengthy note.... The account of
the Caka immigration and of the Indo-Parthian princes has also been
enlarged.... Finally, recent translations of Canakya’s ‘Arthaçastra,’
have enabled Mr. Smith to give from contemporary Hindu sources
interesting information of the Greek accounts of Candragupta’s
empire.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The painstaking care for details and the additions that make the new
edition a distinct improvement upon the old, deserve the gratitude of
all students of the history of India.” G. M. Bolling.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 894. Jl. ’08. 450w.
“The revision has been a careful one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Smyth, Newman.= Passing Protestantism and the coming Catholicism.
*$1. Scribner.
8–10863.
The author sees in the “modernist” movement in the Roman Catholic
church of which he gives a discerning and sympathetic account, and in
the failure of Protestantism to make religion a vital force in the
life of the present generation and to command the unreserved
enthusiasm and loyalty of earnest men, evidences that the superficial
divisions of western Christianity are passing away, giving us glimpses
of the underlying bed-rock of unity. The unity, he says, already
exists. It is the duty of Christian churches to manifest it. The
author speaks from the broad level ground of Christian charity.
* * * * *
“The style is pleasing and forceful and with the timeliness of the
theme will doubtless give the book a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
“One feels almost ashamed to remain an unbeliever, and yet, since the
truth must be told, there can be little question that the outlook is
not so bright in fact as it is on Dr. Smyth’s pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 670w.
“It is interesting reading, and will appeal to the reader as being the
careful conclusions of a fine and balanced mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18. ’08. 280w.
“This is written in a charming style. It is animated by an excellent
spirit, and its ideas and ideals are presented in attractive attire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“A very suggestive and thought-provoking book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 150w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= William Jordan, junior. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–6984.
The story of a frail, unworldly boy brought up as a recluse by an aged
father and fed on “the old authors, irrespective of day or night and
apparently of the ordinary needs of human beings.” Unfitted to buffet
hardships he is nevertheless plunged into the maelstrom of London
commercial life. Dreamy idealism is his substitute for practical
worldly wisdom, and he is scathed at every turn. The world knew him
not nor the soul flights that he expressed in his swan song and in his
epic poem on Reconciliation.
* * * * *
“The book is certainly far above the average as a piece of writing,
but it requires more careful reading, in order to comprehend the
meaning of the author or his view-point than readers of fiction
ordinarily wish to give.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
“Easily the most important novel of the month, if not of many
months,—the novel which best deserves careful and sympathetic
consideration. An uncommon book, written in a most uncommon and often
very beautiful phraseology. There is no use in denying that the book
is marred, here and there, by its obscurity; it leaves one often
groping in the dark.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 181. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The book is one to love, and one that may act as a leaven upon the
spirits that are not wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort
or degree of fermentation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Its symbolism does not spoil the beauty of the simple narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 270w.
“Whatever it is, it is so bizarre, so grotesque, so mysterious, and so
uncomfortable as to afford little pleasure. One chapter, however, is
clear enough, and a very fine thing—that in which the boy sees the
ocean for the first time. But as a whole the book fails.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 349. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“Not that the book has not solid merits—purity of English, strength of
handling, beauty of thought, dignity of construction—but these things
seem but the foundation work for a psychological loveliness, half
mystic, half human, which eludes, even while it thrills us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 400w.
“A most unusual piece of fiction. The object of the work, carefully
done as it is, is inexplicable. If it aims to portray exalted genius
in an unsympathetic and cruel world, it misses its aim by
extravagance.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration and educational work of
American juvenile reform schools. (Columbia univ. Teachers
college. Contributions to education, no. 12.) $2. Teachers
college, Columbia univ., N. Y.
7–39061.
“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between
education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison
discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added
possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care,
vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased
use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally,
the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both
historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently
worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and
teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very
profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J.
Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H.= School reports and
school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10624.
A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be
presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will
improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their
support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is
undertaken to the end of showing the best methods of making reports,
answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.
* * * * *
“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics
more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them
better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.
“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.
“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the
scope, outlay and results of American education.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to
teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.
“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man
and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome
this book.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School R.= 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.
=Snow, Louis Franklin.= College curriculum in the United States.
$1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.
E 8–10.
Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an
accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of
the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the
present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of
books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many
curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher
education in this country.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Snow, William Gage.= Principles of heating: a practical and
comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2.
Williams.
7–36224.
Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the
results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating
apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and
charts useful in the solution of heating problems.
* * * * *
“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the
theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means
confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary
character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade
press.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily
accessible.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.
=Snyder, Carl.= American railways as investments; with an
introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values.
*$3.20. Moody corporation.
7–25023.
A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from
the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with
reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the
properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.”
(Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to
the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage
to themselves and the public.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.
“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such
treatise has done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology
to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an
historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G.
de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of
autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin
and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the
results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study
of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion,
which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital
instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and
consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping
of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a
higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published
by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high
purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O.
Newland.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s
contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an
insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its
predecessors.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and
suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a
disappointment.” A. G. K.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Somerville, Charles.= Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French
Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by
the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing
country.
=Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.
8–23093.
A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the
hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is
worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing
misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral,
but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and
unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to
Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a
true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and
never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is
perfect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in
reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of
the Irish peasant.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.
=Sons= of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public
welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism
which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George
F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips
Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William
E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Sorel, Ernest.= Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr.
from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.
7–36878.
The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information
to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol
and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in
engines.
* * * * *
“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the
subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be
neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum
efficiency.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Spargo, John.= Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–12780.
A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public
milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies
who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills
of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.
* * * * *
“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this
book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of
special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written
that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠
“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.
“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should
be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than
it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.
“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up
the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly
put together. It would have been of service if more definite
references to state and national government bulletins had been made
and attention called to the fact that many of these which are
excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free
of cost.” G. N. Lauman.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.
“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The
common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to
persuade, to convince, to inspire.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of
publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be
hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social
service.” J. E. Pope.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.
“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the
works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without
consultation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.= Old England: with 80 illustrations in color
and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.
“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of
picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen
and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest
sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of
the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.)
“The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of
Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the
pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be
wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more
capable hands.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.
“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is
connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.
“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their
being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture
and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter
fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual
class of work of this kind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr.
Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= History of the United States navy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
8–5238.
A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy”
and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the
navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts
and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or
against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are
treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the
character-development of the heroes.
* * * * *
“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.
“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and
graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the
naval forces in critical moments.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found
with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor
defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been
written.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.
“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a
good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the
illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“An uncommonly good book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American
naval history that has yet been written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–28292.
In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American
navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest
beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the
period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the
nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important
that every library should have this book.
* * * * *
“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful
deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Speer, Robert Elliott.= Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.
8–20734.
“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women
of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are
mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to
his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the
every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a
simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character
of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help
to see the right way than of set addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the
lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine
ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Spender, John Alfred=, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12973.
Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity
was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and
he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion,
bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the
poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,”
shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty,
war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic,
gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.
* * * * *
“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have
run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so
eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try
to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some
subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of
view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find
something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and
judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight,
enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s
style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in
this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some
of delightful excellence.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.
“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and
socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet
urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism
or cheap epigram.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1053. D. 21, ’07. 1200w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge.
(Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.
8–11738.
A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all
of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in
chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.
* * * * *
“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various
introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed
and useful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 1: 241. O. ’08.
“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit
this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are
once more exemplified in this noble tome.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly
cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the
notes, they are well-informed and useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.
=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= Critical essays of the seventeenth century.
3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will
contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays,
letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover
practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary
discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor
Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward
reading.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading.
There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have
been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It
is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single
page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of
criticism’ displays in a chapter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work,
laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and
following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of
erudition which never grows pedantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Spivey, Thomas Sawyer.= Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.
8–5225.
The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a
village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a
widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a
young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her
subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this
slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy
termination of the love episode.
=Spooner, Henry John.= Machine design, construction and drawing: a
text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–34187.
“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the
various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.)
“The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings
and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80
numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever
excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the
work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of
machine details.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed
gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject.
It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as
it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of
details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing
than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.”
Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
=Sprague, Rufus Farrington.= True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–829.
Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are
struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values
and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The
author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in
proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free
competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which
demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service,
but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.
* * * * *
“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions
which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to
taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it
is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much
regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in
thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J.
Davenport.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 117. F. ’08. 1120w.
=Stacpoole, H. De Vere.= Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island
grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of
love and life.
* * * * *
“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr.
Stacpoole’s story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.
“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but
that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a
rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses
imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many
modern stories is really justified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.
=Standage, H. C.=, ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a
book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all
workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.
8–8483.
“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster,
plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow
directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of
metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion
in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use
of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and
japanning.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“A valuable reference volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Contains information which should give it a wide field of
usefulness.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.
“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods
seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being
scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley.
Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Standard= handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.
8–347.
(2d. ed. 8–17558.)
“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length,
which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant
with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical
experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by
these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely
covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not
excepting those published in England, Germany, France and Italy. It is
a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.
“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it
especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to
require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.
“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer
should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in
this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more
complete and satisfactory form.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.
“A most valuable reference manual.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Stansfield, Alfred.= Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and
practice. *$2. Hill pub.
8–35541.
Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the
construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an
account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various
types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel
heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical
furnace.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and
thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the
electric furnace.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.
“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of
a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.”
F. A. J. FitzGerald.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
=Stanton, Stephen Berrien.= Essential life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14659.
Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time;
Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment;
Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities;
Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration
of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral
hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.
* * * * *
“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of
Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm
of his own.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.
=Starr, Frederick.= In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and
labor. *$5. Forbes.
8–11833.
A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of
ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and
Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to
measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian
locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures,
portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types,
dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five
individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and
government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but
no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book
contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this
character.” A. B. Lewis.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form
much information about the land and the people otherwise
inaccessible.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.
“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre
accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s
curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned
for by the general interest of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.
“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too
hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the
book is not great.”
− =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.
“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of
the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing
the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various
Indian towns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Stebbing, William.= Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson,
1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.
8–26221.
“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer
to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if
Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his
second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred
years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in
1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about
seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement
of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is
unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.
“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent
lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any
marked critical value.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a
better guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
* =Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
8–34145.
The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical
works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen
later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In
war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion;
Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea;
Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and
index of first lines.
=Steele, Zadock.= Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity
and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is
prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian
captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.
8–30488.
A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning
of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s
captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and
his escape back to Vermont.
* * * * *
“His narrative is direct and simple. It was worth while to reprint it
in the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that
so little pains was taken with the editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Life and correspondence of James
McHenry. *$6. Burrows.
7–24607.
The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards
Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon
revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.
* * * * *
“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality
that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical
biographer.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 145. O. 08. 950w.
“The editor is at times indiscreet in his notes, some of which are
uncritical and some spiteful. By far the most valuable material in the
volume is the letters and drafts of state papers by Alexander
Hamilton. A volume of one-half the size, comprising McHenry’s own
letters and a selection of those from his correspondents, would have
conveyed a better impression of the man. The index is inadequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja 23, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Many of the letters, to be sure, are purely personal, and but for the
delightful glimpses of the man’s private life might advantageously
have been omitted; but there are many of real historical value.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 370w.
“His correspondence, most of which now sees the light for the first
time, contains many important references to persons and events that
have long since become historic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 150w.
=Steiner, Edward A.= Mediator: a tale of the Old world and the New.
†$1.50. Revell.
7–29568.
“The story begins in Russian Poland and describes in a graphic way an
anti-Semitic persecution. In consequence of the danger and suffering
to which they are exposed, the principal characters emigrate to New
York, and the author gives a realistic account of their life in the
Jewish quarter. The book is evidently intended as an eirenicon to
compose the differences of Jew and Gentile.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“As a novel the story is not strong. It does not seem that this volume
begins to have the value of the author’s earlier book ‘On the trail of
the immigrant.’”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“The realistic parts of the narrative contain many offences against
good taste; and these are the more to be regretted because the
conception of the author is original and he writes at times with
dramatic power.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The story has not a little imaginative power, and ‘rings true’ both
as a reflex of actual conditions and a stimulus toward better things.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“A vein of sincere religious feeling runs through this interesting
book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 80w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Christianity’s storm center. **$1. Revell.
7–27620.
“The author, skilled laborer, minister, superintendent of the
Department of church and labor of the Presbyterian church, is
interested in aggressive evangelism, and believes that the church
should so change its methods as to meet present needs. The problem is
not properly stated by asking, ‘Do workingmen go to church?’ but by
the query, ‘Does the church go to the workingman?’ The chapters bear
such titles as: ‘The trades union’; ‘The city slum’; ‘Social centers’;
‘The institutional church’; ‘Aggressive evangelism.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The discussion is, however, extremely rambling and decidedly lacking
in logical order. Nevertheless, the book is of rather exceptional
merit. If the church fails to profit by such a book it speaks badly
for its own future influence.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“Churchmen who would understand the conditions, threatening or
hopeful, that challenge or invite them to the field, should not
neglect this report.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
* =Stenton, Frank Merry.= William the conqueror and the rule of the
Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–31143.
Carefully selected and judiciously elaborated details of William the
Conqueror’s life fill nine chapters of this history to which three
chapters have been added sketching the changes in constitutional
organization and social life which followed the events of 1066.
=Stephan, Walter George.= Drawing instruments, their use and abuse.
*$1. McGraw pub.
8–21049.
A student’s guide to the selection of instruments, their testing,
their use and abuse. Besides the regulation drawing instruments are
considered the slide rule, the section liner, the universal drafting
machine, the elliptograph, the pantograph, the planimeter and the
plane table.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 184. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“It will prove interesting to all engaged in the actual work of
drafting, and is of special value to beginners.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Stephen, Leslie, and Lee, Sidney Lazarus=, eds. Dictionary of
national biography. 22v. ea. *$4.25. Macmillan.
A new edition occupying about half the shelf space of the former issue
and costing one-third the price. “The work was begun in 1885 and
completed in 1900 under the editorship of Leslie Stephen and Sidney
Lee, and its 31,000 separate articles cover practically all the
notable names in the history of English politics, religion,
literature, art and science, including many American.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ + + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is really preferable, both on account of accuracy and the amount
of shelf-room required, to the original issue.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 217. Ap. 1, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 120w.
“It is a pity, looking to the proven utility of the work, that the
three supplementary volumes issued in 1901 are to form the
supplementary volume of the reissue.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 410. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 504. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 636. My. 16, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume contains some notable contributions.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 244. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The work is really indispensable to the student, and every public
library, not to speak of private purchasers, should be supplied with a
copy.”
+ + + =Spec.= 100: 423. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Spec.= 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spec.= 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.
8–26830.
Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark
back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes,
with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which
one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.
* * * * *
“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from
the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic
values.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Stephens, Winifred.= French novelists of today; biographical,
descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies.
*$1.50. Lane.
Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre
de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard
Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a
study of French novels.
* * * * *
“A useful guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised
by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been
carefully revised in proof.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.
“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.
+ =Dial.= 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.
“A handy source of information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.
“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her
judgments are sound, her temper is even.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in
modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a
better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and
informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own
ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Stevens, Albert Clark.=, ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed.,
rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.
7–36716.
“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel
of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States,
together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In
addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting
organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and
most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later
date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section
on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless.
Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all
interested in secret societies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.
=Stevens, Isaac N.= Liberators: a story of future American politics.
$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–6664.
A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period
immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of
political questions which have an important bearing on the well
organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal
characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a
young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young
widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of
assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college
girls.
* * * * *
“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best
exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations
that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit,
it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.
“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it
freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes
that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our
people.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 485. N. ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but
offering attractions to many readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Stevens, William Chase.= Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the
development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of
micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.
7–36113.
“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant
tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that
there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the
physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and
exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes
of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with
the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and
processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable),
and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really
useful).”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been
prepared in large measure directly from the material under
observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the
modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply,
clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception,
embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of
‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea
dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.”
J. M. C. and C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.
“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it
must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary
facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by
clearness and coordination.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.
* =Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3.
Houghton.
8–33773.
A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and
interesting poems relating to the history of America from its
discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the
following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of
growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.
=Stevenson, Burton E.= Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.
7–24194.
The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the
hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of
office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without
honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his
quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies,
and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a
courageous lad would call splendid.
=Stevenson, William Barrow.= Crusaders in the East: a brief history
of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.
8–9075.
From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this
history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations
between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states.
The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the
Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the
consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by
implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power
upon history.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that
the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding
the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he
has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.
“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates
by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but
the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult
task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of
information.” G. Le Strange.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.
“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two
centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of
repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand.
The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially
welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is
essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.
=Stewart, Clinton Brown.= Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1,
a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a
six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no.
173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–3626.
Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal
pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic
engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in
tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory
of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a
descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from
1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
* =Stewart, Jane Agnes.= Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–33162.
A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides
giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various
methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and
home-made gifts.
* * * * *
“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.
“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Stewart, William Morris.= Reminiscences of Senator William M.
Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.
8–15703.
The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men,
Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a
great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and
executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one
of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His
reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience
gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated
with the men who made the history of the country.
* * * * *
“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity
more seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“A vigorous summing up of the life of a real man. It is an amazingly
entertaining record, and the editor ... has done his part of the work
admirably.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 2450w.
“There is a good deal that seems irresponsible and in questionable
taste. There is a good deal of fun and there is a good deal of
liveliness in the book.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= American constitution: the national
powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people.
(Lowell institute lectures, 1907.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–3494.
Eight lectures which aim to show that the constitution is not an
“Antiquarian curiosity”; not a mass of dry rules, but the very
substance of freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive. They
explain the human meaning of the constitution, the safeguards that it
offers every one and the live issues that it still embodies. Mr.
Stimson’s closing lectures are on Changes in the constitution now
proposed and Interstate commerce, the control of trusts, and the
regulation of corporations.
* * * * *
“This is a popular but satisfactory treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 150w.
“The subjects discussed are of deep interest to all thinking
Americans. Though we do not agree with all the positions taken by the
author, we regard the volume as an extremely important contribution to
our political literature, and much which it contains is of the highest
interest and value.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 499. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“The temper of the book is admirable, and we can only hope that it may
be widely and intelligently read.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 421. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The historical part—that is about one-half—of Professor Stimson’s
volume is utterly worthless.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 80w.
“One cannot detect in his remarks any factious purpose, only the
conscientious exercise of the judicial function of ascertaining the
law of the land, as declared and divided by the constitution, and
applying it to the several subjects under consideration. Thoughtful
citizens will find the discussion well worth while.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
“Our point of view of the constitution is not that of Professor
Stimson. But the book is valuable, first, because it will put before
the students of constitutional law with great clearness the theory of
strict construction, and, second, because it points out, on the one
hand, the historical origin of certain fundamental principles of
American constitutions, and, on the other hand, certain real perils
against which we need to be on our guard.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 640w.
“As a critique of contemporary government and administrative policies
by a lawyer of distinction in many fields of legal research and
practice, the volume is not without value: but since the whole
argument rests on a particular interpretation of history, it is the
philosophy, not the conclusions, which principally engage the interest
of the student.” C: A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 340. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“In general, Mr. Stimson’s views are conservative and his exposition
of the division of power between the states and the federal government
judicious and helpful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The reading public will find it spirited, intelligible and
suggestive: and if they trace errors here and there, there are none
that are vital.” S. E. Baldwin.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 235. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= Law of the federal and state
constitutions of the United States; with an historical study of
their principles, a chronological table of English social
legislation and a comparative digest of the constitutions of the
forty-six states. *$3.50. Boston bk.
8–15307.
A three-part study. The first is devoted to the origin and growth of
the American constitutions; the second to constitutional principles as
expressed in the English statutes of the realm and American
constitutions; the third, to the state constitutions, annotated and
compared with the federal constitution.
* * * * *
“This book is unlike the usual treatise on constitutional law, both in
arrangement and manner of treatment.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 639. N. ’08. 230w.
“In a broad sense Professor Stimson gives us a view of the political
or constitutional life of the country—an almost indispensable thing to
the investigator of today.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29, ’08. 640w.
“This grouping of constitutional law around common topics ... is a
comparative study never before worked out so completely. Our debt to
the compiler is accordingly large. There are occasional defects even
in the seriatim analysis of the growth of particular constitutional
usages.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 780w.
“The law student, the journalist, men professionally engaged in
political life, and others who have occasion to acquaint themselves
with the details of American constitutional law will find this book a
valuable aid in their study.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 120w.
“As a book of reference it is indispensable to every student of
American politics.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 110w.
“The politician, lawyer or student of American institutions should
have it as a supplement to Mr. Bryce’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 260w.
* =Stimson, Henry Albert.= New things of God: sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–28071.
“Not truth absolutely new, but old truth freshly put and in new
relations, is the substance of his message, illustrated from his large
acquaintance with literature and life. Dr. Stimson feels and joins in
the movement of modern thought, saying that ‘a new theology is the
demand and the inevitable product of every age,’ but that after all,
and in all change, religion is the same, ‘the response of the soul to
God,’ Christ as ever the pilot of the soul, and one’s attitude toward
him the test of character.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Characterized by several qualities most sermons lack: clearness,
sanity, and practicality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The sermons are thoughtful, practical, and inspiring to the reader.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 150w.
“These discourses are focused on the fundamental truths with a
frequently inspirational effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Stirling, Anna Maria W.= Coke of Norfolk and his friends: the life
of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, etc.,
including many unpublished letters of noted men of his day,
English and American, il. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–13695.
Containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services,
and private friendships, and including many unpublished letters from
noted men of his day. (Explanatory title.)
* * * * *
“This life is so thoroughly well done, so carefully ordered, so
reasonable in its judgments, and so well written, that the reviewers
all complimented their sex by supposing the biographer to be a man,
and the present writer, if he had not been better informed by
accident, would indeed have done the same.” G. S. S.
+ + =Acad.= 73: 207. D. 7, ’07. 2000w.
“Half, or two-thirds, of these fat volumes would have been better than
the whole. But having passed this criticism, we hasten to say that the
book is of distinct social and historical value, confirming, and
sometimes supplementing, such works as the Greville, Creevey, and
Albemarle papers. It is also remarkably entertaining, and should prove
a profitable quarry for the anecdotist.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 681. N. 30. 1300w.
“We thank Mrs. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of
recent years.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 361. N. 29, ’07. 2700w.
“Altogether, the book may well engage the attention of him who wants
to see English life of a century ago; and he will not fail to enjoy
the character here revealed of what we, with a certain touch of
fondness, are wont to style ‘a gentleman of the old school.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 500w.
“Her whole-hearted admiration for her distinguished ancestor has made
it impossible for her to conceive that he was not in every way great,
and so deep is her own interest in him that she imagines everything
connected with him, no matter how remotely, must be of general
interest.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
“Mrs. Stirling has done her work handsomely, and has plainly been
helped by the good will of the Coke family and all its ramifications.
If the biography is unnecessarily long, it contains much new material
that is well worth unrolling from its wrappers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 869. N. 30, ’07. 1400w.
* =Stoddard, William Osborn.= In the open. †60c. Harper.
8–32332.
Wholesome adventure and excitement commend these tales of the exploits
and frolics of a group of breezy, healthy children who hunt, camp,
fish, encounter Indians, fight prairie fires, and roam about for
worlds to conquer.
=Stoker, Bram.= Gates of life. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14957.
Miss Stephen Norman tries the working value of a theory that the
wrecking of many lives can be avoided by a woman’s taking the
initiative in the momentous question of marriage proposals. She offers
herself and her estate to young Everhard, a dissolute man who makes
light of the whole affair. Wounded pride takes its unlawful revenge on
her real lover, but justly metes out punishment to Everhard who
attempted to follow up his advantage from motives of graft.
* * * * *
“Surely Mr. Stoker is still capable of better things.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 150w.
“A blatant melodrama, all the trashier for the grandiloquent
moralizings—in which the word ‘sex’ is unpleasantly frequent—which
punctuate the surprising actions of his characters.”
− =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“There are novelty and variety in Bram Stoker’s novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
=Story, Alfred Thomas.= American shrines in England. *$2. Macmillan.
“A convenient summary of the English antecedents of a number of
well-known Americans. Six chapters are devoted to a careful
presentation of the evidence in regard to the Washington family, the
last link in which was completed by the accidental discovery in the
State department at Washington, in 1902, of the will of Mrs. Martha
Hayward, née Washington. The ancestry and English home of Franklin, of
Standish, of Winthrop and Penn, of Yale and Harvard, of the Lees and
the Adamses, are discussed.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“For those who like this sort of thing the book is unquestionably
valuable, and it is probably just as well to have somebody do it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 60w.
=Stoughton, Bradley.= Metallurgy of iron and steel. $3. Hill pub.
8–5613.
A college text-book as well as a reference work which “fills a
distinct gap in English metallurgical literature, in that it provides
a clear, up-to-date, description of the apparatus, furnaces and
appliances used in the metallurgy of iron and steel.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Best single book on American practice for small libraries. Needed
also by large libraries, because of its closeness to present methods.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is altogether a most complete and valuable work, as it gives the
best methods of production and in addition records in a thorough and
practical manner the most recent advances in the subjects of
metallography, corrosion and the new alloys.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“It is a first-class illustrated description of the present state of
the iron and steel industry, entertainingly written, splendidly
illustrated, a little too detailed to be called superficial, yet not
minute enough to be tiresome to anyone wishing to learn something
about iron and steel. The book contains many minor errors in its
descriptions, such as ascribing views and explanations to the wrong
metallurgist. It also contains some major errors in questions of
theory and calculation.” J. W. Richards.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Stratileseo, Tereza.= From Carpathian to Pindus; pictures of
Roumanian country life. il. *$3.75. Luce, J: W.
7–28495.
“The author of this volume has set herself to put before her readers a
full account of the condition and character of the Roumanian
peasantry, the inhabitants of the lower basin of the Danube, as well
as of their natural surroundings.” (Ath.) “The book is more than a
mere record of historical, ethnological, and sociological facts in
regard to the Roumanian. It is a treasurehouse of folklore, legends,
ballads, and songs often with the music attached.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book will interest students of folk-lore and local customs as
well as those who have visited or propose to visit, this somewhat
neglected corner of Europe. The style, though lively, betrays in
places that the writer is a foreigner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 350. Mr. 23. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 170w.
“She does not claim to be a politician and contents herself with
descriptions of the Roumanian peasantry. These are very well done,
with a light touch and with enthusiasm tempered by humour. She has
made a careful study of folk-lore and tells some amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Stratton, Alfred William.= Letters from India; with a memoir by his
wife, Anna Booth Stratton. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–36147.
A volume which reflects the force of “American scholarship, tact, and
energy in touch with modern India.” (Outlook.) A Canadian, educated in
Canada and the United States, for a time connected with the faculty of
the Chicago university, the author eventually served in the combined
capacities of registrar of Punjab university and principal of the
Oriental college at Lahore, India. His letters are valuable “for what
they tell us of university life in northern India, of the class of
native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 400w.
“They not only give a clear impression of a singularly conservative,
lofty, and unselfish personality; they afford us a clear picture of an
American scholar’s life in India, and also many interesting
side-lights on social, educational, and political conditions in
northwest India.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 600w.
“The letters are always interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Opera: a sketch of the development
of opera with full descriptions of all works in the modern
repertory; with an introd. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 3d ed. rev.
and enl. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35265.
Brought to date by the inclusion of such operas as Puccini’s “Tosca”
and “Madame Butterfly”; Charpentier’s “Louise”; Strauss’s “Salome”:
Saint-Saëns’s “Hélène”; Giordano’s “Fédora” and “Siberia”; Debussy’s
“Pelléas and Mélisande”; and other new operas.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 123. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This very readable and trustworthy book may be commended to all
lovers of music who wish to know something about the great works of
the lyric stage.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The most laudable thing about this volume is the combination of
clearness and conciseness in the telling of operatic plots.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 290w.
“He is as little without bias as may be expected of one who traverses
so broad a field, and his view is clear as his style is entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not remarkable for skill in character-drawing or probability of plot
and event, but will hold the interest, and compares favorably with
Mrs. Wister’s other translations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 20. Ja. ’08.
“It is done with Mrs. Wister’s trained skill, thorough knowledge of
German, and admirable taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Strindberg, August.= The father (a tragedy); tr. by N. Erichsen.
*$1. Luce, J: W.
8–13718.
The first appearance in English of a drama written by “the most
pessimistic of living pessimists.” “‘The father’ reveals an amazing
combat between mother and father for the control of their daughter’s
destiny, the mother ultimately gaining her point at the expense of her
husband’s reason. When it appears that he is to have the upper hand,
she drops a fatal seed of doubt as to who the child’s father actually
is. Presumably she has always been a faithful wife, but the poison of
suggestion has been implanted in the husband’s mind and he is
eventually driven mad by the thought. As a study of misogyny and
abysmal pessimism ‘The father’ probably has few equals in any
language.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“That it would exercise a powerful effect cannot be doubted, but it is
unpleasant beyond expression. The present translation by N. Erichsen
appears to preserve the general character of the original.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Stringer, Arthur J. A.= The under groove. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13274.
In a series of seven short stories an old offender against the law
tells in the first person his experiences in New York while assuming
the rather novel rôle of detective. With a facility born of long
experience in practical criminality he makes use of the usual methods
of perpetrating crime in order to ferret it out for his own private
ends. The mental processes of the scientific burglar are analyzed so
that the book is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a study of
criminology.
* * * * *
“Lively reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 268. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“In themselves the eight stories, with one or two exceptions, would
make good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“And if the whole thing moves with the lightness and spirit of the
true adventure story, it none the less retains the importance of a
sincere study in psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 190w.
“Would be far better if it had omitted the telepathic and hypnotic
basis on which it is constructed.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Outlines of systematic theology,
designed for the use of theological students. **$2.50. Am. Bapt.
8–30158.
An outline embracing the substance of Dr. Strong’s three-volume
“Systematic theology,” a work which after twenty years has been
revised and enlarged. The abbreviated work is at once a text-book for
recitation, a minister’s hand-book, and a convenient guide for the
busy layman.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Systematic theology: a compendium and
commonplace book, designed for the use of theological students;
new ed. rev. and enl. 3v. ea. $2.50. Am. Bapt.
7–37983.
Dr. Strong with his “open mind, broad sympathy and keen vision” has
kept pace with the progress of the times and now presents his
hand-book modernized. Volume 1 deals with The doctrine of God, volume
2, with The doctrine of man, and volume 3, The doctrine of salvation.
=v. 2.= Doctrine of man. Deals with anthropology or the doctrine of
man. The origin, the nature and the fall of man are treated and the
consequences of the fall—physical and spiritual death.
* * * * *
“It is the more to be regretted that the insight so clearly expressed
in the passages cited should not have been allowed to determine the
treatment in other parts of the volume.” W: A. Brown.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 150. Ja. ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume like the first, contains an amazing wealth of quotation
drawn from wide circles of thought; sometimes the passages are more
cogent and convincing than his refutation of them.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 502. Jl. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Stroup, Ner Wallace.= Fact of sin viewed historically and
doctrinally. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–29856.
A discussion of the vital relation of the fact of sin to the divine
plan of salvation.
=Stuart, Eleanor.= The postscript. †$1. McClure.
8–14333.
A slight story set in Italy in which an American girl, the widow of a
count; a scheming Italian, bent upon besmirching the good name of the
dead count; and a wronged woman are the principal characters. When all
misunderstanding is cleared away the postscript which the wife adds to
her former joy and trust in her husband is “I know in whom I have
believed.”
* * * * *
“A tale of rather delicate workmanship, in which the characters are
drawn with more than ordinary skill and charm and the plot is rather
painful and melodramatic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The heroine is a rather commonplace little person, and one feels that
the writer somewhat exaggerates the importance of her experience.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
“Talent and care have evidently been expended on this novelette.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Stuart, Gerald Villiers.= Soul of Croesus. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–17792.
The fantastic story of a modern Croesus, whose father had bequeathed
him an enormous fortune with the injunction to spend all. Warring
against the merciless debauchery is the better personality, which
thinks, philosophizes and exerts a strength that grows impotent when
the whole army of lower personality imps come trooping back. The story
from a subjective standpoint stimulates the reader’s thought and
interest.
* * * * *
“There is a lot of trimming to the story that is extremely
entertaining, and it is that which makes Mr. Villiers-Stuart’s book
worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 720w.
=Stuart, Henry Longan.= Weeping cross: an unworldy story. **$1.40.
Doubleday.
8–23103.
The adventures in New England, about the middle of the 17th century,
of an Irish bond servant “who had been first a Jesuit pupil, then a
royalist soldier. He is sent to the hard mercies of the Pilgrims by
Cromwell, indentured to a noble-minded master, but has the misfortune
of being loved by that master’s daughter. The conflict between
religion and passion that follows is analyzed with extreme keenness,
but is hardly edifying in its bold realism, and is agonizing in its
relation of mental and physical suffering.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is the matter rather than the manner we confess to finding
distasteful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 170w.
“The book is eminently worth reading.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 142. O. ’08. 770w.
“It makes a vivid and robust tale, but its effectiveness is dulled by
interminable passages of description and introspective analysis.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 550w.
“A book which, for the present day and hour at least, must be set down
as a novel of some importance. He has given fearlessly and honestly,
without fear of offense, a record of sinful love that nevertheless
does not lose its dignity nor its claim upon our sympathy and our
esteem.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 40: 224. S. ’08. 1100w.
“Is not the ambitious success its author has aimed at, but it is a
serious piece of work, creditably carried thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
“With more restraint of manner and maturity of thought, Mr. Stuart’s
vivid fancy gives promise of work of real value.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The story, although full of misery and tragedy, deserves
commendation. Its literary merit is of a high order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 200w.
“There is much that will offend the taste in the ultra-realism of the
narrative. This is all the greater pity because the author has an
imagination of unusual power, a style vivid and forceful, and an
honest intention to present the tragic struggle between a man’s better
nature and cruel temptation.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
“It is a fine tragedy, clothed in real eloquence and dignity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 260w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William.= Germany in the early middle ages,
476–1250; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2. Longmans.
8–19595.
“Contrary to one’s natural expectations, the volume is narrative
rather than constitutional, but there are to be found in its pages
several of those remarkable characterizations of medieval personages
in which Stubbs was an undoubted adept. The chapters are so arranged
as to form a tolerably complete account of Germany from the great
migrations to the death of Frederick II in 1250, and the style, less
severe and impersonal than the stately diction of the constitutional
history, will make the book more acceptable to the general
reader.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book offers little or nothing to the specialist, is not adapted
to use in the class room, and will hardly hold the attention of the
general reader, but it may be recommended as collateral reading to
college classes in medieval history.” O. J. Thatcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 167. O. ’08. 600w.
“Tho the lectures throughout impress one with the soundness and
breadth of the learned historian’s studies, there is a certain
ancientry in their doctrines and temper.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Nor can we feel that this volume goes far toward supplying any lack
that really exists.”
− =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 660w.
“It is difficult to see what purpose is served by the publication of
this volume. We regret that we must add that the editor has not made
it easier to approve of the publication by the way in which he has
performed his share.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 661. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= Lands of summer: sketches in Italy,
Sicily, and Greece. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13684.
Seven sketches which the author’s travel in the Mediterranean
countries has inspired. They are spring-time with Theocritus, From
Athens to Corfu, Midsummer in Tuscany, Bergamo and the Bergamasque
Alps, The centenary of Alfieri at Asti, The wraith of a ducal city and
Life on a Tuscan farm.
* * * * *
“It is slight and superficial, but is at least as good to read as, and
much less pretentious than, the majority of ‘travel books’ written on
these well-known lands.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 180w.
“An unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 470w.
“The classical student may read him at home, with pleasure and some
profit; the tourist will find him of some service on the spot.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The work lacks distinction. As a whole it is scarcely less monochrome
(but more attractive) than its sickly blue cover.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
“It is neither bad enough to infuriate nor important enough to
arrest.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 4: 746. S. ’08. 270w.
* =Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.= Origin and character of the Bible and its
place among sacred books; new ed. rev. and enl. *$1.20. Am. Unitar.
8–33168.
Embodies the results of the latest investigations along the lines of
origin, authorship, growth, real character, transitory elements and
permanent value of the Bible. It contains illustrative tables, lists
of best books for reading and study, and several entirely new
chapters.
* =Surette, Thomas Whitney, and Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Appreciation of
music. **$1.50. Baker.
A volume which “presents ‘in clear and untechnical language an account
of the evolution of musical art from the primitive folk-song up to the
symphony of Beethoven,’ illustrating the stages of this development by
musical examples, and providing detailed analyses of many typical
compositions. The volume has several portrait illustrations.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A useful book for students, for music clubs and for the individual
reader who has a fair knowledge of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Teachers will no doubt find not a few useful hints in it, and the
general reader also would do well not to ignore it. There are
excellent things, notably in the chapters on Bach and Beethoven. The
best thing in the book is the chapter on Beethoven’s humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 548. D. 12, ’07. 840w.
* =Swett, Sophia Miriam.= Princess Wisla. †$1.50. Little.
8–30702.
The story of a child that was rescued from drowning by an Indian
woman, dyed with pokeberry ink to resemble an Indian child, and made
into an Indian princess.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
=Swift, Edgar James.= Mind in the making: a study in mental
development. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–12179.
“As a sound-hearted and clear-minded social reformer, taking a common
sense view of social problems,” (N. Y. Times.) the author makes a plea
for a broader interpretation to education. “Mental plasticity,
capacity for understanding and controlling new situations and for
making them” should be the outcome of education. See Cumulative book
index for contents.
* * * * *
“As a whole the volume embodies a systematic knowledge of children and
sane ideas of their needs. The book is bound to have a wide and a
wholesome influence, and largely because of this the reviewer wishes
to call attention to what seems to be an unwise emphasis in the
chapter entitled, ‘Criminal tendencies in boys.’” K. E. Dopp.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 261. S. ’08. 570w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book’s chief defect is an evident lack of wide acquaintance on
the part of the author with sociological and anthropological
literature. This gives rise to many omissions and several slips.” C:
A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 640. N. ’08. 420w.
“One by one, the more concrete and the more comprehensive questions of
the applying psychologist are reviewed in this collection of essays;
and each brings a tangible addition to the insight that can assimilate
data while it yet directs their accumulation and dominates their
interpretation.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 40. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Some of his psychological studies are particularly shrewd and
practical, and the book as a whole deserves attention.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“We can scarcely conceive that any teacher or thoughtful parent would
not be interested in nearly all the essays, and no one engaged in
educational or social improvement can rise from its reading without
both stimulation and encouragement.” J. H. T.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 162. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 180w.
“A more significant book or a more attractive one has not lately been
published because it presents facts clearly and accurately, its
deductions are reasonable, its logic denotes a broad, well-cultured
mind, its historical perspective is suitable, its style is good. He
may go too far in some of his deductions, but the influence of his
book ought to be beneficial beyond the field of pedagogy.” E: A.
Dithmar.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w.
“As a plea for the personal element in education, and for the
extension of the experimental method ‘in the interest of a soundly
constructive pedagogy,’ this is an eminently luminous and influential
work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Is of real value to both investigators in educational psychology and
students of college grade. Concerning some of the conclusions which
Professor Swift does definitely accept, ... it must be noted that
other intelligent investigators possessed of the same facts as the
author would still not proceed to his conclusions.” E: L. Thorndike.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 212. Ag. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Swift, Ivan.= Fagots of cedar. $2. Ivan Swift, Harbor Springs,
Mich.
8–240.
A collection of verses of the Michigan woods and lumber camps.
* * * * *
“Mr. Swift’s poems have much of the strong, virile, thought-suggesting
quality of Whitman’s work.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 495. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“At its best Mr. Swift’s verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of
meaning, suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 138. My. ’08. 100w.
“The breath of the woods is in them and the perfume of the
cedar, though there is nothing to suggest that they have come
out of an ancient chest. On the contrary, they are what would be
called up-to-date poems. While there is at times a touch of
self-consciousness, there is throughout the evidence of genuine
feeling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Age of Shakespeare. **$2. Harper.
8–27774.
Nine critical papers which deal with Shakespeare and the writers of
his age. Marlowe, Webster, Dekker, Marston, Middleton, Rowley,
Heywood, Chapman and Tourneur are in turn compared with Shakespeare;
and the latter’s indebtedness to each is pointed out.
* * * * *
“Even those who have long been familiar with the greater number of
these essays will read them with the certainty of lighting on matter
well worth study, and will find fresh interest in tracing the few
changes time has brought about in his judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 674. N. 28. 1000w.
“The book is a good book, a serious and illuminating piece of
criticism.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 1800w.
“Full of wonderful little flashes of delicate perception, epigrammatic
summings-up that refuse to be forgotten, and then, at the turn of a
page, a blast of turbulent adulation, a whirlwind of redundant
hyperbole, full of sound and fury. Nevertheless, such as it is, it is
a book indispensable to any one who is making a study of Mr. Swinburne
the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 405. O. ’08. 1950w.
“As a critical work, it cannot be taken seriously.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 854. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“As a whole the book must impress any sane reader as the cry of an
enraged and baffled romanticism, of a romanticism that, like some wild
beast at bay, snaps and snarls at common-sense.”
− =Nation.= 87: 445. N. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“Swinburne guides us to a study and comprehension of a form of
literary art now extinct, and helps us to comprehend its beauty.” E:
A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 633. O. 31, ’08. 2000w.
“The essay on Dekker is perhaps the most delightful in the volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 422. O. 3, 08. 1550w.
“The defects of his book would certainly have been avoided by an
unsparing use of the comparative method. These essays are excellent
from many points of view; but their crowning excellence is the force
which is in them that compels whoever opens them to go back once more
for light and refreshment to the works of the great Elizabethans.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 502. O. 3, ’08. 1600w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Duke of Gandia. **$1.25. Harper.
8–11735.
Rome in the latter part of the 15th century is the scene of this
Borgia story told in poetry. It is a domestic drama, which depicts a
tragedy in the life of Pope Alexander VI. The jealousy of the younger
son which causes him to kill his elder brother, and the father’s
ultimate reconciliation with the wrong-doer form the main basis of the
plot. The characters of mother and daughter add lightness and human
interest to the story.
* * * * *
“Here in this briefest and most actual of his plays—an act, an
episode—he has concentrated much of this floating beauty, this
overflowing imagination, into a few stern and adequate words, and made
a new thing, as always, in his own image.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 469. Ap. 18. 1200w.
“Marvellous work, which no other poet now living could dream of
equalling.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 60. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
“Has one virtue that strikes the eyes. It is brief. Mr. Swinburne’s
excessive use of Catholic symbol and phrase in the mouths of these
inhuman creatures of blood and lust will be wantonly offensive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
“The book cannot hurt a poet of great renown, but the contemplation of
its hideous subject cannot help anybody. It is a mistake.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Swinburne’s hand has not entirely lost its power.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“‘The Duke of Gandia,’ which is perfect of its kind, proves once more
the surety of an artistic instinct which can not only choose, but
reject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 532. Ap. 25, ’08. 1600w.
“It is stamped with all his old mastery of craft.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 20. Jl. 4, ’08. 430w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities of Italy. **$2. Dutton.
7–38637.
In studying Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Pisa, Sienna,
Verona, Bologna, Bergamo and Brescia, Mr. Symons’s “intention has been
that they should tell him their story, that they should ‘give up their
own secrets,’ rather than that he should judge them according to his
own eyes, ears and artistic prejudices.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
“This is a beautiful and quiet book, full of delicate observation and
fine criticism expressed in the sensitive prose we expect from Mr.
Symons.... He has cared for [Italy] as it were by the way, as he might
do for any work of art with which he found himself in sympathy—not
more, but assuredly not less.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 185. F. 15. 1000w.
“It is a volume well worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers;
it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those who have basked
long enough in Italy’s smile and learned enough of her nature to
compare impressions and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent
controversies that add so much flavor to literature of this type.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book, as are most of the writings of this English poet and
critic, is decidedly worth reading.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“The amateur, or, if you will, the dilettante spirit, pervades Mr.
Symons.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 450w.
“The secrets he surprises are always the artist’s secrets—never
humanity’s. They are grown in the garden of culture, not in the
wilderness of life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book of sensitive English prose, full of unexpected rhythms
and words which rather evoke than describe the places of which they
speak. The best chapters of the book are devoted to that tragic
wilderness [the Campagna].”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
“If, as he desires, the personal note were absent, the book would be
really delightful reading, and its presence is only occasionally
irritating. Mr. Symons sees vividly and describes brilliantly. If his
cities have not given him their inmost soul, their outward aspect is
entirely his.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Symbolist movement in literature. *$2. Dutton.
A new and revised edition of a work appearing eleven years ago. “The
book presents studies, both biographical and critical, of the writers,
chiefly French, whom Mr. Symons regards as the leaders of the
Symbolist movement, and the value of the book lies chiefly in the
facts and impressions which it gives of this little group of writers,
the best known of whom by American readers are Verlaine, Mallarmé, and
Huysmans. There is a chapter on ‘Maeterlinck as a mystic.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A body of delicate criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 637. My. 23. 60w.
“One may quarrel with this frankly partisan historian at whatever turn
one will; but his book remains exceptionally attractive and
enlightening. We have before us not a searching philosophical
treatise, but a delightful bit of literary history and æsthetic
appreciation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 374. Je. 16, ’08. 3200w.
“It is the most sympathetic study and the most illuminating
interpretation that has yet appeared in English of that curiously
interesting group of French writers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 330. Ap. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Students of literature have much to be grateful to Mr. Symons for,
and this little collection of essays increases measurably their debt
to him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
“Whatever one may think of its doctrine, its charm of style and the
interest of its contents will certainly recommend it. His little
studies are relevant and illuminating. We think he is wrong, however,
when in his conclusions he attempts to fuse his pessimism and
mysticism.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 454. S. ’08. 400w.
“The book is valuable as an impressionistic study of one of the minor
currents of the literary movements of the last generation.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
T
=T., L. G.= Three years behind the guns: the true chronicles of a
“diddybox.” †$1.50. Century.
8–25121.
The chronicle of a San Francisco youth who ran away from home,
enlisted in the navy in time to cross the Pacific on the Olympia and
take part in the battle of Manila bay on the flagship with Dewey. Keen
observation and quick wit characterize the intimate record of
happenings on an American battleship, and the descriptions of people,
climate and scenery.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The book affords an entertaining and occasionally edifying,
confidential account of all that one particular man-o’-war’s man
thought and felt and did during three years’ service.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Taft, William Howard.= Present day problems: a collection of
addresses delivered on various occasions. **$1.50. Dodd.
8–19618.
Two of these addresses deal with the Philippines, two with the
relations of China and Japan to the United States, two with the
present administration, two with the judiciary, and others with
General Grant, the army, the panic of 1907, labor and capital, the
achievements of the Republican party, and southern democracy and
Republican principles.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 110w.
“Matters of public policy and public interest are discussed in Mr.
Taft’s informed and persuasive style, and whether one is for or ‘agin’
the administration and its policies, the collection provides valuable
and instructive reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“Characterized by the traits which have made Mr. Taft the power that
he is in America to-day—a warm and intelligent sympathy with his
fellow-men; ... a judicial spirit; ... a higher regard for substance
than form; ... a delight in achievement; and an almost ingenuous trust
in the intelligence and good sense of the people, whether they be
those whose government he is helping to administer or those whose
attention, as an audience, he is undertaking to engage.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 776. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Takahashi, Sakuyei.= International law applied to the
Russo-Japanese war, with the decisions of the Japanese prize
courts. (American ed.) *$8. Banks.
8–17983.
“The most recent addition to the extensive literature on the
international questions and legal relations raised by the
Russo-Japanese war.” (Nation.) “The book is not a defense of Japan in
any sense, although Japan’s conduct was bitterly criticised by her
adversary. Instead of an apologia the book is a legal history of the
memorable conflict, which has supplied a new set of precedents. Its
usefulness is enhanced by its liberal citation of the original
correspondence upon many disputed points.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Careless statements, English far from idiomatic and bearing
unmistakable marks of its foreign authorship, misprints in quotations
from foreign languages, and a general tone of extolling Japanese
observances in contrast to Russian breaches of international law mar
the value of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“It is hard to recall any war of which the legal phases have been
treated with similar fulness, and in a similar manner; that is, with
equal citation of original documents. It is this which gives the book
its value, apart from its logical and convenient arrangement.” E: A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 1500w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Chaucer story book. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–28994.
Twelve stories in the “Canterbury tales” retold in the prose of
to-day. The stories chosen are those that require fewest omissions in
adapting them to modern taste.
* * * * *
“We cannot say that she has successfully retained the ancient flavor,
and unless that is done, the task were hardly worth while doing at
all.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“The transcription is fairly and faithfully done.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
“Told in a readable fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= ed. Children’s hour, 10v. $17.50. Houghton.
7–31214–23.
A ten volume anthology of the best children’s literature in story,
poem and narrative.
* * * * *
“It cannot be recommended for the library with limited funds. It will
make, however, a valuable addition to any library that can afford it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 93. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1476. D. 19, ’07. 280w.
“Have much of interest in them. For the village library and for the
home there is offered a rich choice and variety for ‘the children’s
hour.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 625. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w.
“The selections suit all ages of children, and the work as a whole
forms an almost ideal story-book-present for the holidays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Letters from colonial children. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–23916.
This collection of chatty letters, with the intimate personal note,
introduces grown-ups and children of our early colonial days—the days
of privation and valorous deeds, the days of John Smith and
Pocahontas, of Roger Williams, William Penn and Peter Stuyvesant.
* * * * *
“These letters reflect admirably the child’s point of view on
conditions and life in colonial times, and are both good history and
delightful literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“She has kept the letters historical on the one hand, yet has not
deprived them of their youthful tone on the other.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“The letters form an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 30w.
=Tardieu, André.= France and the alliances: the struggle for the
balance of power. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–31144.
In substance eight lectures given under the auspices of the French
circle at Harvard. Mr. Tardieu’s aim is to show Americans the France
of to-day, in presence of Europe and the world, such as she has been
shaped, after painful experiences, by thirty-eight years of sustained
effort and diplomatic action. His chapters are as follows: France and
the Russian alliance; France and the English “entente”; France and the
Mediterranean understandings; France and the Triple alliance; Conflict
of the alliances; The new Asiatic and European understandings; and
France and the United States.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 200w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= Guest of Quesnay. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27810.
Thru an automobile accident in the streets of Paris a young American
loses the memory of his life that had gone before—a life which was
rapidly winning him one of the most unsavory reputations on the
continent. He becomes the charge of a scientific celebrity who
undertakes a unique psychological experiment of restoration. The
professor’s ends are all but defeated by the pursuit and vulture like
claims of a Spanish dancer to whom his ward had formerly been prey. By
rare strategy the dancer and her spies are baffled, and the “real man”
comes to his own and to the love of a strong and charming woman—the
guest of Quesnay.
* * * * *
“Not wholly convincing, but has much of the charm of Tarkington’s
earlier stories and some delightful minor characters.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“But if Mr. Tarkington never gets beneath the surface of his subject,
he at least displays all the merits of the method he seems
deliberately to have chosen. It is a charming surface that he
presents.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 278. N. ’08. 940w.
“We discover in his new novel—metaphysics, subjected to the alchemy of
a genius’s imagination, freshened with the immortality of hope,
sweetened with the phenomena of love.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1061. N. 5, ’08. 760w.
“A bright and interesting story for all the metaphysics we found in
it.” W: G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made a hit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is not quite convincing in its theme. But the book has movement and
some fun in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
“If Mr. Booth Tarkington had only kept his story out of ‘The guest of
Quesnay,’ he might have given us a delightful book.” Agnes Repplier.
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 700. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
* =Tarkington, Booth, and Wilson, Harry Leon.= Man from home. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–32634.
The play in which William Hodge has scored such a genial success. It
turns upon an international marriage, in the preliminary settlement
for which the Kokomo, Indiana guardian of the American girl marrying a
title, crosses the ocean and takes a hand in revealing to the
hoodwinked girl the precise character of a group of sharks bent upon
benefiting by the settlement. A good plot, shrewd interpretation of
human nature, and irresistible humor give merit to the play.
* =Taylor, David Clark.= Psychology of singing: a rational method of
voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and
modern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–34628.
After examining the numerous scientific treatises on voice culture and
testing their practical value, Mr. Taylor’s conclusion of the whole
matter is that mechanical vocal management is all wrong and that
instruction by imitation is the one scientifically sound method for
teachers to follow. The divisions of his discussion are as follows:
Modern methods of instruction in singing; A critical analysis of
modern methods; Basis of a real science of voice; and Vocal science
and practical voice culture.
=Taylor, Hannis.= Science of jurisprudence. **$3.50. Macmillan.
8–28859.
“A treatise in which the growth of positive law is unfolded by the
historical method and its elements classified and defined by the
analytical.” “It is a systematic, comparative study of Roman and
English law, revealing the fact that the ultimate outcome of the one
is a dominating code of private law, the ultimate outcome of the
other, a dominating code of public law.” Out of the fusion, the author
shows, is arising the typical state law system of the future.
* * * * *
“He does, indeed, make a useful contribution to the comparative study
of law. Dr. Taylor’s work in this respect is qualified to stand beside
the best, and the good faith of his title is redeemed. But it is hard
to resist the suspicion that his prime motive was to assert his belief
that an American had influenced the development of the public law of
the world fundamentally, in a manner, indeed, worthy to place the
United States beside Greece or England as a molder of destinies of
mankind.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 649. N. 7, ’08. 1400w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 90w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Lady Jane Grey and her times. *$4. Appleton.
8–34205.
Sound historically this biography outlines the brief life of Lady Jane
Grey, the “little saint of the iconoclasts,” against the background of
sordid ambitions, religious quarrels and political intrigue. There are
also sketches of Mary and Elizabeth, of Edward, Katharine Parr, Dudley
and Somerset, and the parts they played in the brief drama of Lady
Jane’s latter days.
* * * * *
“She has gone carefully over the ground for herself, made a judicious
use of authorities new and old, and embodied the results in a clear
and readable narrative. The book may be recommended as a sound piece
of work, likely to be of use to those who are mainly interested in the
personal history of the period.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 409. Ap. 4. 1600w.
“‘The times’ bear, necessarily, a disproportionate relation to the
heroine. It is the fault of all these popular biographies to avoid
anything that is not superficially interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“We have enjoyed the book, and would only venture to recommend to the
author a little more fearless certainty of touch and confidence in her
own intuitions. The spirit and the colour of the time break out too
seldom. When they are allowed to have their way, the effect is
convincing.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 623. Ap. 18, ’08. 540w.
=Taylor, John Metcalf.= Witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut.
(Grafton historical ser.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
8–17703.
The author shows from sources long hidden that Connecticut in no way
repudiated witchcraft practices but took an active part in the
persecution of its alleged demon-governed victims. In what manner the
delusion took root in the minds of the colonists, its growth and final
passing are set forth with due attention to an authentic colonial
setting.
* * * * *
“His book shows marks of haste, especially in the somewhat chaotic and
inaccurate opening chapters, and one may be permitted to suspect some
errors in his transcripts and even a possible incompleteness in his
roll of witches, but, such as it is, the little volume is most
welcome.” G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 179. O. ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Taylor has done a service to psychology as well as to history in
searching out and publishing the original documents in the most
important of the Connecticut witchcraft cases.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 208. Jl. 23, ’08. 700w.
“Despite his apology for the first four chapters they show that the
history of witchcraft is beyond the scope of his powers and the
bibliographical note at the end displays little familiarity with the
literature of his subject.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 500w.
“In an authoritative and concise manner, yet with all the charm of a
narrative, the author sets forth ... the story of the rise, spread,
and passage of the delusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 512. O. ’08. 80w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Reaping. il. †$1.50. Little.
8–1781.
A cross section of Washington’s social and political life. No special
lens is turned upon the slide; one sees with the naked eye a woman’s
misery resulting from an unhappy marriage and the devotion of a young
congressman, formerly her lover, who sacrifices political advancement
and the girl he loves to aid the sufferer to obtain her lost
happiness.
* * * * *
“It is not a pleasant story ... and it is not particularly convincing
in its treatment of social problems; but it is undeniably readable,
and the dialogue is excellent.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 407. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The general atmosphere of the social life of the capital is
interestingly and almost brilliantly reproduced.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Where credit for freshness is due is in the characterization.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Temple, Alfred George.= Modern Spanish painting. *$20. Lippincott.
8–13286.
“Pictures by modern Spanish painters being in great demand, it may be
concluded that Mr. Temple’s volume supplies a want. He offers a
copious list of the chief members of the school, the titles of their
principal works, and in some instances the owners of those
works—information which is not obtainable in any other work on the
subject, and which must have cost a good deal of trouble and
research.” (Ath.) There are 60 photogravure reproductions of the
recent Spanish paintings of note.
* * * * *
“We might allow for a certain degree of complaisance in an author
indebted for some of his store of information to the courtesy of
artists and owners, but either gratitude distorts beyond measure the
expression of his true opinion, or he takes a too lenient view of what
are only masterpieces of shallow frippery.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 570w.
“Mr. Temple’s book supplies the entertaining record that we needed for
English readers.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 57. D. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
“A very beautiful book and one of unique value to all who are
interested in contemporary European art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 782. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–13746.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Lady Tennant has exploded the frowning fortress of art criticism, and
shown us the real way to see pictures—to become as little children.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 213. D. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“One of the happiest books for children that we have seen.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 334. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
“A very pretty and readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Tenney, Alvan Alonzo.= Social democracy and population. (Columbia
univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *75c.
Macmillan.
7–36152.
“An attempt to answer the question whether it is possible for modern
society to realize the democratic ideal—that every man shall have a
chance and know that he has it. The author assumes that this ideal,
which he terms ‘social democracy,’ can exist only where the plane of
living is relatively high; and he investigates, from the
‘sociological’ standpoint, the effect of the growth of population upon
the ‘plane of living.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The sample given indicates the originality, foresightedness, and
statesmanlike breadth of an essay that no scholar or public man can
afford to overlook.” E: A. Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 571. Ja. ’08. 870w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 511. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“An able summary of the biological principles of population in their
relation to modern democratic civilization.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 154. Je. ’08. 330w.
“With its combination of things obvious and things past finding out
the monograph well illustrates certain tendencies in sociological
writings of the day.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Terhune, Albert Payson.= World’s great events. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–24298.
From “Marathon, the first struggle between democracy and despotism,”
“the half hundred chapters come on down through the ages, choosing
here a decisive event, there a political movement, or again the life
of a great man, but always aiming to present the crucial time or
happening, and end with “Chinese” Gordon and Egypt.’ Each narrative is
very brief, rarely exceeding five or six pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Each narrative ... is written in crisp, concise style, with the aim
of giving the reader the gist of events and presenting to him an
attractive birds-eye view of the progress of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
“They give the essential facts of each event in their proper
historical setting, and they do this in a way calculated to interest
the casual reader. The book makes excellent supplementary reading for
high-school classes in history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 100w.
* =Terry, Ellen Alice.= Story of my life: recollections and reflections.
**$3.50. McClure.
A frank autobiography, entirely tuned to the personal note, which in
its history, stage gossip, and stage criticism merges into the life of
the stage in England for the past fifty years. Actors, artists and men
of letters cross and recross the stage of her book, where all are seen
in the light of her emotional fervor. The illustrations cover the
entire period of her stage life and show the actress in her great
variety of characterizations.
* * * * *
“Candid often to the point of indiscretion, they have the piquancy of
good conversation—of a woman’s conversation, apt in its very
inconsequence, intimate in its reserves, strangely shrewd even in its
too expansive moments.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 411. O. 3. 1700w.
“The pages of her book are rich not only in anecdotes of the stage,
but they deal to a large extent as well with the personages who have
taken a leading part in the last half-century of England’s art,
literature, and politics.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is an agreeable but disappointing volume: agreeable because
characteristic in its butterfly style of one of the brightest
personalities known to the modern stage; and disappointing because,
abounding as it does in evidences of quick and shrewd observation, it
is so comparatively poor in those revelations of close personal
intimacies in which the memory of Miss Terry must be so rich. The
whole book would be the better for judicious editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 1100w.
“It makes an interesting book, and in some way a remarkable one, for a
large part of it is truly autobiographical, ingenuously
self-revelatory. The book is so well written that it holds the
reader’s attention for 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 753. D. 5, ’08. 2300w.
“Her writing is for the most part frankly the writing of an amateur.
But when an amateur happens, like Miss Terry, to be a born writer, the
result is always charming, and one may well be thankful for the lack
of professionalism.” Max Beerbohm.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 449. O. 10, ’08. 1400w.
“Here we have some criticism of actors by an actress, and a great
actress. That alone will give this book a permanent worth which
belongs to very few works of its kind. The criticisms of Irving are,
to our mind, the most interesting and instructive part.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 447. S. 26, ’08. 1900w.
=Terry, Hubert L.= India-rubber and its manufacture; with chapters
on guttapercha and balata. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–26204.
Not a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer but
rather a book of information for the general reader. It gives the
history of the rubber industry, treats of the production of raw
rubber, and rubber plantations, outlines the steps taken in preparing
it for commercial purposes, treats of the manufacture of various
mechanical goods, and discusses the subject of contracts for
india-rubber goods.
* * * * *
“Accurate yet popular. Not too technical for general use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08.
“Mr. Terry writes on these subjects with the authority of personal
knowledge, though perhaps without the lightness of touch desirable in
a work of this character.” C. Simmons.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 296. Ja. 30, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 270w.
“Though dealing with a distinctly technical field, the author has
succeeded in making a very readable book, and this is due not a little
to his pleasing style, occasional prolixity to the contrary
notwithstanding. One experiences a slight feeling of disappointment in
reading the first two chapters, those dealing with the history of the
matter and with the botanical origin of crude rubber. It would have
been justifiable to have dealt with these topics with greater
liberality.” F. E. Loyd.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 890. D. 18, ’08. 730w.
=Terry, Milton Spenser.= Biblical dogmatics: an exposition of the
principal doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. *$3.50. Meth. bk.
7–16991.
“An attempt, as the author says, to present ‘the old abiding truths’
in a manner somewhat new. In fact, he is careful not to exploit any
‘strange doctrines.’ His method of exposition is based on the
persuasion that the Bible is ‘a remarkably self-interpreting book,’
when its different portions are studied in their proper historical
connections and in the light of contemporary literature and
circumstances, so that a single system of theology may be constructed
out of it. The difference in view-point of the biblical writers is not
overlooked, but they are regarded as mutually complementary, never as
opposed.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The whole work exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the language of
the Scriptures and a reverent submission to their teachings, without
any of the bitterness toward opponent, which, unfortunately, so often
appears in works similarly conceived. On the contrary, there is a
frank acknowledgment of the value of critical studies. None the less
it seems to the reviewer that the harmonistic purpose interferes at
times with freedom of interpretation and a full recognition of
differences in the writers, while at times they appear to be made to
say more or less than they really do.” G: Cross.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 160. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Its tone and spirit are admirable—non-controversial, open-minded,
alive with warm religious feeling. Dogmatizing is avoided, and some
deep questions are left open with candid and cautious reserve.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
=Thayer, James Bradley.= Legal essays. *$3.50. Boston bk.
A collection of papers on a variety of subjects connected with legal
theory and practice. “There are a few of a distinctly general
interest, notably an essay on the origin and scope of the American
doctrine of constitutional law, a second on legal tender, a third on
Sir Frederick Pollock’s suggestion that the English House of Lords and
Privy council and the United States supreme court might reciprocally
consult for the settlement of difficult questions of common concern, a
fourth on the legal stateus of the Indian, and a fifth on ‘Our new
possessions.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Like all posthumous collections, these essays lack the freshness
given by the final touch of the author’s hand. The best of the
contributions of the book are the critical chapters on authorities and
decisions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 100w.
“While [the layman] cannot judge the learning of the author, he may at
least admire his lucidity, and will come to the conclusion that Prof.
Thayer is entitled to rank with such philosophical and literary
expositors of the principles of the law as Sir Frederick Pollock,
Prof. Maitland, and Prof. Dicey, a class of which the American
representatives are rather surprisingly few.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“All of the essays, and particularly those dealing with constitutional
topics, bear abundant testimony to the enthusiasm, insight and
thoroughness with which Professor Thayer attacked the many problems
that came before him as a student and exponent of law.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Italica: studies in Italian life and
letters. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13685.
With the freshness, vividness and bias which the land inspires, these
papers catch and hold passing aspects of Italian life and thought. The
following essays are included: Fogazzaro and his masterpiece, Venetian
legends and pageants, Mazzini’s centenary, Dante in America, Giordano
Bruno’s “Expulsion of the beast triumphant,” Countess Martinengo
Cesaresco, Leopardi’s home, Election of a pope, Thirty years of
Italian progress, Luigi Chiala, Dante as lyric poet, Cardinal
Hohenlohe—liberal, Italy in 1907, and Giosuè Carducci.
* * * * *
“Recommended because of the comparative scarcity of material in book
form on recent Italian literature and history. In the literary essays
there are some surprising lapses.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“Altogether this is not a very serious contribution to the growing
number of books on Italian subjects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 437. O. 10. 250w.
“The reflections and verdicts recorded in the volume are such as we
should expect from a student and critic of Mr. Thayer’s standing.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thayer has earned a right to claim our attention on matters
literary and historical relating to modern Italy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 450w.
“He writes with a zest often verging on passion, and at times,
perhaps, allows his feelings to permeate his facts, tingeing them with
strong colors of his own. Being interested himself, he interests the
reader, but his method will not gratify those historians who demand
documentary evidence at every step.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 540w.
“Mr. Thayer has a pleasing style, his knowledge is broad, his
scholarship unquestioned, and his critical acumen satisfying to
foreigners.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“No chapter of ‘Italica’ is uninteresting or unsuggestive, but the
most impressive seem those in which the critic makes all Dante
students his debtors.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 271. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
“Quite apart, however, from these fulminations of a fervent believer
in the Italy of progress and taxation to the starving-point, there is
much of great interest in the book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 747. S. ’08. 560w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Thibaudeau, Antoine Claire.= Bonaparte and the consulate; tr. and
ed. by G. K. Fortescue. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–23294.
“The present memoir covers the four years of the Consulate from 1799
to 1804, when Napoleon became emperor. Their special character
consists in their reporting the conversations and discourses of
Napoleon on important questions in the Council of state or in private
conversation and of conversations with Josephine on political events.
They are not speeches but talk as in a committee round a table.”—Sat.
R.
* * * * *
“This volume will give the general reader a good insight into the
administrative genius of Bonaparte, but the student will consult the
original edition.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 320w.
“Dr. Fortescue’s introduction here and there invites criticism.
Perhaps it is a desire for brevity which is accountable for
exaggerations at some points and omissions at others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 430w.
“The [memoirs] certainly rank with the memoirs of Miot or Mollien. and
the ‘Recollections’ of Chaptal. The volume has an unnecessary number
of misprints or slight errors.” H: E: Bourne.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“It is a pity that the printing of [the notes] was not seen to with
more care, as there are some annoying but not serious slips. The book
is to be warmly welcomed.” L. G. W. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 832. O. ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Fortescue has done his work with the utmost care. All has been
done that could be done to make the book useful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 560w.
“No one could have provided a more authoritative edition of the
valuable Thibaudeau memoirs. The translation is splendidly done, and
the introduction and notes provide admirable matter to supplement the
text as it appears in the original work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 88. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1350w.
=Thomalen, Adolf.= Text-book of electrical engineering; translated
from the German by George W. O. Howe. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–15869.
Covers “the whole range of electromagnetic phenomena usually taught to
students of electrical engineering in high-grade colleges. Starting
with the elementary principles of electrophysics and electrochemistry,
and stating Ohm’s law in its simplest terms, the author leads the
student into the involved electromagnetic relations in dynamos by way
of the most easily traveled routes.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“[An] excellent treatise ... that will be welcomed alike by the
student and the instructor in electrical engineering.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 310. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 299. Mr. 12, ’08. 950w.
“The treatment of the polyphase induction motor is unnecessarily
complicated, but that of the single-phase motor is better. It is not a
‘popular’ book, but a substantial, scholarly work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The translator has done his work with marked success; it is
sufficient to say that the book does not read like a translation from
the German, and all who have done such work will agree that this is
high praise.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 124. D. 12, ’07. 670w.
=Thomas, Augustus.= Witching hour. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30012.
Mr. Thomas has novelized his own play, so insuring no loss of the
drama’s compelling interest that was due to telepathy, mental
suggestion and hypnotism.
* * * * *
“A story of considerable interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“A lively and interesting narrative of romantic events brought about
under remarkable conditions, and whether you are disposed to grant the
facts or not, it can hardly be denied that the conclusions are
entirely in accordance with the promises the author has laid down.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 500w.
=Thomas, John M.= The Christian faith and the Old Testament. **$1.
Crowell.
8–14748.
The author discusses the contributions of the Old Testament to
Christianity in its moral, religious, and theological teaching and in
affording Christians a sense of continuity with the life of the past;
but he admits that in the allegorizing of the Old Testament, and in
the acceptance of all as of equal value, the true spiritual
significance of the Old and much of the New Testament was lost sight
of. Modern criticism is rediscovering, restoring our Bible and of the
process and results of this discovery the author gives a brief but
comprehensive account.
* * * * *
“Brief, reverent, logical; for the general reader not familiar with
the achievements and benefits of higher criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The author’s point of view is scholarly and he is thoroughly in
sympathy with modern thinking. To those who doubt whether anything of
usefulness is left to the Old Testament as interpreted by the modern
scholar, this volume may be warmly commended.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 50w.
“A serious and scholarly treatment of present-day religious problems
and difficulties.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 40w.
“It represents frank, free and devout study of current biblical
problems, by one who has the taste of study and the art of expression.
We commend it heartily to thinking people.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Thomas will succeed, in our judgment, in stirring up in his
readers the desire to study the Old Testament with intelligent
appreciation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
“He combines a full acceptance of the modern point of view with a deep
sense of the value of the Old Testament and shows clearly that these
two attitudes are not opposed.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“This little book is, for plain readers with scant leisure, an
admirable presentation of what all ought to know who care to
understand the essential facts and their significance.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
* =Thomas, William Jenkyn.= Welsh fairy book. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–26193.
“This is the first English collection ever made of an excellent source
of folk- and fairy-lore.... The stories are varied, derived from old
writers like Giraldus Cambrensis and the stores of accomplished modern
scholars like Sir John Rhys. ‘Nothing has been inserted which is not
genuinely traditionary,’ adds the author, and the book shows the
richness of the mine which he has opened for English readers.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“‘The Welsh fairy book’ is worth reading for several reasons. The
Welsh are spiritual and musical, and they have waited for their Grimm
till to-day.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 218. D. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“Adults as well as young people will rejoice in ‘The Welsh fairy
book.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 544. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“It will form a welcome and even necessary addition to any child’s
collection of fairy-tales.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
“On the whole, there is much novelty about the collection.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 905. D. 7, ’07. 110w.
=Thompson, Charles Miner.= Calico cat: a rural detective story minus
a detective. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–30016.
In attempting to rid his premises of a mocking calico cat, a
respectable Yankee shoots a tramp, slips away from the scene of
trouble, and allows an innocent boy to be sent to jail. He is chosen
juror on the very jury that is to try the case when his conscience
goads him to a confession. The clearing up of the tangle reveals that
the victim, entirely unhurt, was posing for money; that the boy
believed his father to have fired the shot and was shielding him; and
that a termagant wife really did have a heart.
* =Thompson, Francis.= Selected poems; with a biographical note by
Wilfrid Meynell. **$1.50. Lane.
Selections contained in this volume have been made from “Sister
songs,” “Poems” and “New poems,” which with a biographical note and a
number of “appreciations” are intended to bear witness to a fine
quality of genius.
* * * * *
“I feel much in him that is great. Even in this residue from which all
the dross of his work has supposedly been drawn off, there is still so
much to harass the ear and tease the mind.” P. E. M.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 486. N. 19, ’08. 3500w.
“Francis Thompson’s work is of such excellence in its own kind that no
selection can be satisfactory except to those who have not time for
more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 395. S. 26, ’08. 1250w.
=Thompson, Peter Anthony.= Lotus land; being an account of the
country and the people of southern Siam. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37975.
“Opening with a chapter on the history of Siam which suggests that
research might well be turned in that direction, Mr. Thompson gives an
account of the capital and then takes us right into the country.”
(Sat. R.) “The picture of country life among the people, the study of
their habits and beliefs—where the Buddhist faith is laid over
deep-seated superstitions, tree-worship, taboo, ghost-terrors, charms,
and curious rites and precautions—the descriptions of their sport,
fishing, elephant driving; these, to our mind, constitute the best
part of Mr. Thompson’s volume.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is not easy to hit the mean between a globe-trotter’s transient
impressions and a resident’s cumbrous statistics, but Mr. Thompson has
achieved this. [An] admirable account of a singularly attractive
people.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 506. O. 27. 1570w.
“The historical sketch of Siam will well repay a careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“No more intimate book on southern Siam has appeared than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A delightful picture of a people not overanxious to march in the van
of progress and of a country the wealth of which lies at present
almost dormant.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 230w.
* =Thomson, John Arthur.= Bible of nature: five lectures delivered
before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross.
(Bross lib. v. 4.) **$1. Scribner.
8–25139.
Five lectures which state “some of the lessons which man—minister and
interpreter—may learn from Nature.” They are: The wonder of the world;
The history of things; Organisms and their origin; The evolution of
organism; and Man’s place in nature.
* * * * *
“The book is a joy to read and is to be heartily commended to all
religious persons who feel the difficulties caused by the present
scientific situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 777. D. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Not only for its clarifying of many hazy ideas, but for its
correction alike of dogmatic scientists and dogmatic theologians, this
volume should be in every Sunday-school library.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Heredity. (Science ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
A thoroly practical exposition based upon conclusions reached thru
microscopic study of the germ-cells, thru the application of
statistical methods, and thru experiment. The aim is to expand the
facts of heredity and inheritance as known at present, to give the
securely established conclusions and the more important theories. The
handling is impartial altho the author adheres to what is called
Weismannism, or—to take a particular case—the conviction that we do
not know of any instance of the transmission of an acquired character.
* * * * *
“The best book on the subject for the general reader; comprehensive,
scholarly and popular in the best sense of the word.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The English student will welcome a volume which places within his
grasp an adequate summary of the work not only of leading English
authorities but also of continental writers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 47. Jl. 11. 1000w.
“This newest work, strikingly like the older ‘Evolution of sex’ in
method, may well attain the same high repute.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Is intelligible, pleasant to read, and distinguished by a broad
outlook.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 59. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“It is ‘easy’ reading; the clearness and force of the style hold the
reader’s attention so that he forgets for the moment that it is an
abstruse scientific matter which is under discussion. The chief
particular in which the book is open to criticism is in the matter of
construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 376. Ag. 13. ’08. 900w.
“In spite of its condensation, this is the only book in the language
which has methodically handled heredity from its origin in physical
reproduction to its further development in social phenomena.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 350w.
“In addition to a clear statement of current theories, there is much
instructive criticism and comment, often requiring very attentive
perusal, which the reader will find most stimulating and suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 650w.
“The outstanding feature of the book is its great, perhaps its
excessive, kindliness and toleration.” G. A. Reid.
+ =Nature.= 78: 361. Ag. 20, ’08. 2200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The volume, if not quite so readable and full of suggestion as
Metchnikoff’s, is yet of more immediate application to the problems
that confront them.” Charles De Kay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 236. N. ’08. 660w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 70w.
“It is in fact a vast encyclopaedia article, in which all the aspects
of the subject are presented in orderly fashion and from many points
of view, always with the historical development of each, and with its
varying controversies summed up with clearness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 791. Je. 20, ’08. 1450w.
“The few imperfections that might be noticed do not interfere
materially with the value of the book. It fulfils its purpose as an
‘introduction to the study of heredity’ excellently well, it is rich
in illustrative facts and judicious criticism, and is written in a
style which is clear, consecutive, forcible and at times, even
picturesque.” J. P. McM.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 210. Ag. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Thomson, William Chase.= Design of typical steel railway bridges:
an elementary course for engineering students and draftsmen. *$2.
Eng. news.
8–11716.
A sequel to “Bridge and structural design.” “The present volume is
devoted chiefly to the presentation of six examples in design of steel
superstructures. An introduction gives the necessary extracts from a
specification, with some annotations, tables and a moment diagram; and
there is a final chapter on latticing of compression members. The
examples are selected with good judgment and cover the range of
average railway bridge superstructures in a way that may be called
typical.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The thoroughly practical character of the work would seem to make it
well suited for use as a text-book in engineering schools and of
marked value to junior draftsmen in bridge shops and to those who
desire to fit themselves for such work.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Notwithstanding these shortcomings, which are mostly
non-essentials ... the book is a commendable effort to fill a
long-felt want. It should be in the possession of all the younger men
engaged in structural steel work, and many older ones will find it
useful.” A. W. Buel.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 73. Jl. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“Has the character of a set of rules for designing issued by a bridge
company to its draftsmen.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 476. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
* =Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with introd. and il. by Clifton
Johnson. **$2. Crowell.
8–22336.
A holiday edition of “Cape Cod” whose careful word pictures are aided
by a series of illustrations produced by Mr. Johnson’s camera during a
leisurely tramp over Thoreau’s own course.
* * * * *
“An unusually attractive reprint of the work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Thorndike, Ashley Horace.= Tragedy. (Types of English literature
ser.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–15303.
The third volume so far published in a literature series which
disregards the usual chronological divisions and proceeds on the basis
of a division according to types. This book traces the course of
English tragedy from its beginning in England in 1562, the year of the
production of “Gorboduc,” thru Marlowe and his contemporaries,
Shakespeare, the later Elizabethans, the Restoration, the eighteenth
century, and the romantic movement, to the middle of the nineteenth
century. It indicates the part tragedy has played in the history of
the theatre and of literature.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The interest of the book consists in its handling of familiar matter
from this unifying point of view, rather than in its contribution of
new facts to scholarship. On the whole he is to be congratulated on
the accomplishment of a piece of sound scholarly work.” C. M.
Hathaway, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1, ’08. 640w.
“Professor Thorndike’s book, taken as a whole, is mildly
disappointing. We find ourselves in constant agreement with him, but
with no enthusiasm. The latter part of the work is somewhat
breathless, as though the writer were acutely aware of the fact that
the volume must not exceed a certain length, and that everything must
somehow be mentioned.” W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 592. D. ’08. 1600w.
“We must insist then that a good deal of the present work is
necessarily unsatisfactory. It is not complete enough in detail to
serve the scholar; it is often too meagre to preserve human interest.
But, within the limitations, Prof. Thorndike has succeeded
commendably.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 830w.
“Comprehensive treatment of his large subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Able review of the tragic drama in England.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 266. Ag. 22, ’08. 480w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Fly on the wheel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–27495.
A determined young Irish councellor married five years to a placid,
unthinking woman whose personality he completely dominates, attempts
to break up the love affair of his youngest brother and a spirited
young girl. He yields to the spell of this girl’s power, finds himself
in love with her as she is with him, and in his madness confesses his
love. The reaction comes, he knows his duty; but the girl, young,
motherless, gives up to morbid despair and ends her life as did Oswald
in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
* * * * *
“It is a study of sexual passion rising at times to real power. It is
a conscientious and clever piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 120w.
“Best work she has done thus far.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“As a story is less sensational than some former stories by this
author, but it far exceeds any of them in perfection of development
and in real interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
“The end is startlingly tragic, in what seems to us a forced, unlikely
way. What she does well is the description of emotions, moods, and
behaviour, her sense of ordinary character is true and perceptive, and
is shown in one or two quite excellent sketches, notably that of
Father James.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The story is well told and interesting in its way, but singularly
lacking in elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 780w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold, and Kellogg, Louise Phelps=, eds. The
revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775–1777. $1.50. Wis. hist. soc.
Madison.
8–8546.
Compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin
historical society, the events chronicled in this volume “immediately
succeeded and in a considerable degree were the direct outgrowth of
Dunmore’s war.... The documents chosen for publication herein do not
afford a continuous history of any one campaign or group of men. They
do, however, shed light upon the principal incidents and the prominent
characters of the long frontier stretching from the Greenbrier region
in Southwestern Virginia to the post at Kittanning on the upper
Allegheny.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“Much credit is due the editors for the excellent compilation of these
documents.” V. A. Lewis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 183. O. ’08. 630w.
=Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid, pseud.).= Princess
Nadine. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–42008.
“A novel involving an heiress of American birth and her ambition for a
European title. Nadine is everything exquisite, aristocratic, and
fascinating. About to be betrothed by her American grandmother to a
lovely prince who hopes to be king of ‘Serabia,’ she meets a money
king from America, whose advent completely changes her future.... Of
the complications between an imprudent and revolutionary young
Russian, a daring American girl, and a diplomatic Slav, the reader
must learn for himself.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The character of Nadine is the artistic merit of the story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 150w.
“The game of intrigue, which brings about Nadine’s defiance of the
Czar’s government, is played light-heartedly enough, hero and heroine
holding the usual marked cards.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Upon the whole, the most fitting adjective for this novel is
‘elegant.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
=Tilden, Samuel Jones.= Letters and literary memorials of Samuel J.
Tilden; ed. by John Bigelow. 2v. **$6. Harper.
8–4918.
From a vast collection of papers the executors of Mr. Tilden have
selected speeches, public documents and letters which not only offer
sidelights on the latter half of the last century’s history but give
proper proportion to public services of this man whose party standards
were “too high for the multitude.” His battles and their victories are
traced thru these documents.
* * * * *
“If we find somewhat too much of the genial editor in the volumes, he
has good examples to quote, and we should be grateful for what he has
given.” F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 152. O. ’08. 1500w.
“Necessary for the historian because of details of politics,
especially in New York state, but not particularly valuable or
interesting to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The work as a whole is an important and historically valuable
supplement to Mr. Bigelow’s earlier publications in the same field.” P.
F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 205. Ap. 1, ’08. 1650w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“There is less material of first-rate political importance in these
volumes than one had hoped. Though these letters add but little to our
knowledge of the man, they fall in perfectly with that conception of
his character which those who have studied it most closely have slowly
formed.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 600w.
“Absorbingly interesting volumes. They are of the highest class of
‘memoires pour servir.’” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 109. F. 29, ’08. 2450w.
“It aids in the understanding both of Tilden’s conduct of life and of
the seemingly extravagant esteem in which he was held by his intimate
friends.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 862. Ag. 15, ’08. 540w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 300w.
* =Tileston, Mary Wilder=, ed. Children’s treasure trove of pearls.
†$1.50. Little.
Contains some forty stories rescued from oblivion for children from
five to nine years to enjoy. Among them are: Fiama; Bean Flower and
Pea Blossom; Tatterhood, Tom Tit Tot; Tom, nurse’s story, etc.
* * * * *
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Tipping, H. Avray=, ed. Gardens, old and new. 3d. series. *$12.
Scribner.
8–23521.
=ser. 3.= Country house and its garden environment.
“Contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all
more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield house,
Holland house, Lyme hall (Cheshire, belonging to Lord Newton), South
Wraxall manor, Wilton house, and Wotton house (near Aylesbury). An
introduction, itself fully illustrated, gives particulars of other
places.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Notable addition to garden literature.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 320w (Review of ser. 3.)
“The volume has an interest extending quite beyond that of a guide to
a house or garden building.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w. (Review of ser. 3.)
“This is a very handsome and interesting volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl, 18, ’08. 80w. (Review of ser. 3.)
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Lectures on the elementary psychology
of feeling and attention. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–21948.
“The book discusses analytically the ultimate mode of conceiving the
nature of the fundamental psychological processes. For current usage
as coins of the intellectual realm, the value of such terms as
feeling, sensation, attention, is sufficiently understood; but an
accurate essay is indispensable when technical definition and analysis
are to be reached. As an example of the clarification of concepts, as
a contribution to the mode of extracting the metal from the crude ore,
the work may be strongly recommended to the student analyst.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The treatment suitable to a general audience is equally suitable to
the general reader.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It cannot be said, however, that the writer is without his own bias.
This bias in our author’s case is in favor of sensationalism.
Collections of classroom lectures are not often inspiring, but this
work is a welcome exception to this rule. It must add much to its
author’s reputation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 630w.
“The entire treatment of attention as sensory clearness as set forth
by Professor Titchener, however, is the best which has appeared thus
far. His unbiased discussion of the leading authorities and his
interesting style render the book worth reading apart from its
psychological value, while the list of authorities which is given
makes the volume probably the best of its kind for the research
student.” Felix Arnold.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 367. N. 15, ’08. 730w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde New York; sketches of old times and
places in both the state and the city. (Grafton historical
series.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–36943.
A series of sketches brought forward from twenty years ago which
describe types and conditions, landmarks and structures, that no
longer exist.
* * * * *
“It cannot supersede or compete with definite historical treatises on
the state, but it offers interesting sketches and will prove of use
for certain phases of old New York life.” E. K. Alden.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 655. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“What with text and pictures, an amusing little book to look over.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
“It is well that this valuable and curious information, at first
prepared for more ephemeral publication, has been preserved and
collected in this tasteful volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Camp-fire of Mad Anthony. †$1.50.
Houghton.
7–29723.
Tells of a tea party which took place in Philadelphia, and involved
the heroes of this story; also relates the adventures of the
Pennsylvania troops under Anthony Wayne, from 1774 to 1776.
* * * * *
“A story used as a vehicle becomes stereotyped and Mr. Tomlinson’s
strength does not lie in his plots.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1482. D. 19, ’07. 150w.
“In his customary manner, Mr. Tomlinson bases his incident upon fact.
In this respect he is a seasoned writer, but he falls short in the
development of his plot, and his style is not irreproachable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Mad Anthony’s young scout: a story
of the winter of 1777–78. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–20024.
Philadelphia, Valley Forge and the outlying country furnish the
setting for this tale of exciting adventure based upon the happenings
of the hard winter of 1777–78. Noah Dare is the hero, and into the
story are introduced “Mad Anthony” Wayne, Washington, Lafayette and
other revolutionary generals. Also there is among the historical
sidelights a clear presentation of the division among the Quakers—one
portion swearing allegiance to the British government, the other, to
the cause of the colonists.
* * * * *
“No boy who once begins the book will want to lay it down until it is
finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12. ’08. 170w.
* =Tompkins, A. E.= Marine engineering: a text book. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Gives a very full history of the development of the steam engine from
Savery in 1688 to the turbine and gas producer of to-day. Much
information is given to the one wishing to practise the art of
designing the different structures, but the most to those desiring to
become skilled in the construction, operation and care of the marine
engine, as the designing of such machinery demands a line of study
outside of what can be given in a treatise of this kind.”—Science.
* * * * *
“It deserves and will secure a good reception from all who are
interested in the subjects of which it treats. The author has the
courage of his opinions, and, in not a few instances, exception may be
taken to his conclusions; but in all cases the materials for judging
independently are given, and readers can claim no more.” W. H. White.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 598. O. 15, ’08. 800w.
“This single criticism [about his view of the combustion chamber in
the cylindrical boiler] should not take from the value of the work as
it abounds in so much that is good and valuable to one seeking
information on the subject and desiring to be correctly informed as to
the marine engine practise of to-day and the lines on which it may be
extended in the future.” Horace See.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 686. N. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor.= Dr. Ellen. †$1.50. Baker.
8–2613.
The story of a stout-hearted struggle to care for a consumptive sister
and to establish a reputation as a medical practitioner in a little
town among the Sierras. “It is a love story, a character study and the
history of a brave woman’s struggle against ignorant prejudice, all
welded into a single narrative.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Has no particular strength nor depth but is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08.
“It is Dr. Ellen’s courageous and victorious struggle to retrieve her
losses that makes the real strength and interest of the book; although
the delicate and subtle love-story which is interwoven with it will
have no small share in assuring the book the popularity it deserves.”
F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 380w.
=Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“This new book is quite as sparkling as anything she has ever done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 320w.
“It is a privilege to meet a woman so noble in character, so well
equipped in mind, and so essentially feminine in heart and soul as Dr.
Ellen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Tonge, James.= Coal. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–17746.
“This book is a popular presentation of the latest facts regarding the
origin, position and extent of coal seams throughout the world,
together with particulars as to the economical utilization and
application of this indispensable mineral fuel. It treats of the
history and occurrence of coal, the mode of formation of coal seams
and the fossils and botany of the coal measures.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The book should be interesting and instructive to students of various
sciences, as well as to those who, though proud of the high commercial
position of their country, are unaware as to how greatly this is due
to an abundant supply of inexpensive fuel.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The work appears to have been hastily compiled, and the proofs
carelessly revised.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 389. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Torbett, D.= Schemers. 75c. Doscher.
8–10856.
“This volume is frankly designed to provide an hour’s light
entertainment. It tells of a quite preposterous cad, of a society
widow unwilling to part with her youth, of that widow’s attractive
daughter, and of the daughter’s loyal but impoverished suitor.”
(Bookm.) “Positively harmless ... unless the author could be persuaded
to give the name of the Paris doctor who produced such marvelous
results in Mrs. Van Agan’s face.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“[The incidents] are certainly new and certainly amusing.”
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 242. My. ’08. 140w.
“It is written with a certain smartness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Tourville, Henri de.= Growth of modern nations: a history of the
particularist form of society; tr. from the French of Henri de
Tourville, by M. G. Loch. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5819.
“Not in any sense a history of western Europe. Rather it tells how far
different our society is from the society of antiquity; how a certain
human race became emancipated from that society of the past and how
when settled in one corner of Europe its society received a special
form. The most powerful modern nations, it is declared, have gradually
evolved, not by public action, but by the free play of private
initiative. From germanic and gothic origins to the constitution of
the present great nations, the author carefully points out the
steps.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book is a mass of generalizations, of which many are based on
hypotheses rather than upon ascertained facts, while few, if any, are
supported by sufficient evidence. The book may be of some value in
suggesting new points of view: but the method is so superficial that
the conclusions carry slight weight.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 898. Jl. ’08. 520w.
“The volume is very suggestive and contains some especially
interesting chapters.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 230w.
“To the historical student (as opposed perhaps to the student of
social science), the detail and method of these essays will have more
interest than their generalizations.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 900w.
“Not the least of the author’s peculiarities is the ease with which he
bends each bit of evidence to conform to his theory. The chapter on
the United States is childish in its ignorance.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 900w.
“It is fair to add that Mr. Loch has done his work as translator
fairly well, quite as well as the original deserves.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Valuable, therefore, though it is a sort of dictionary of
sociological growth, and delightful to dip into at odd moments both
for entertainment and edification, this volume is lacking in
compactness, and in that lucidity and vividness which compactness
brings with it.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Red year: a story of the Indian mutiny. $1.50.
Clode, E. J.
8–979.
More of a history of the mutiny than a story. “The hero, who begins as
Lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, distinguished himself especially
by riding across the risen country for relief, first from Lucknow to
Allahabad, and again from Allahabad to Delhi. In the latter half of
the book he has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel
reader could wish.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 297. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
“Is really a very fair history of the Sepoy mutiny. But its value is
slight as a novel.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 400w.
“The power of ‘The red year’—for ‘The red year’ is a powerful
book—lies in the stern realism of its account of the never to be
forgotten events of 1857.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25370.
A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock
variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman
triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and
Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and
characterization.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.
“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much
to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a
blind trail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Train, Arthur (Cheney).= True stories of crime. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17543.
Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has
had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their
careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very
interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author is a good story-teller.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.
=Tratman, E. E. Russell.= Railway track and track work. 3d ed.
*$3.50. Eng. news.
8–23881.
“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an
exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable
addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.)
“This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations
more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of
the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more
exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated
in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most
commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the
standard authority on railway track work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and
maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains
between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the
subject.” J: F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer
would desire to have left out.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.
8–17997.
In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a
victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an
irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is
symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a
life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality
it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.
* * * * *
“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or
flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly
in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.
“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is
admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It
is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and
thought.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.
=Travis, Thomas.= Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency;
with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–12983.
A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by
the widely-known authority on children’s courts emphasizes the
necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile
delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during
six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch
as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow,
the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual
cases and causes.
* * * * *
“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant
books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged,
reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠
“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order,
and repetitions are numerous.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.
“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists
not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the
limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of
the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.
“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance
of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.
“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to
judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a
few parents.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.
“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile
delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained
application in the development of these youths toward straight paths
in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in
somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader
and to those who are not students.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“A good study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.
“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple,
direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition
which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
* =Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of
Austria. **$3. Putnam.
A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which
Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this
volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain
letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.
* * * * *
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.
“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she
lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the
historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and
women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the
reader’s eyes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50.
Longmans.
=pt. 3.= Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and
his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from
Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s
tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778;
Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New
York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at
Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of
1778 with France.
* * * * *
Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will
have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the
scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful
proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the
treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders
and the Americans as a nation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of
portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe
has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H.
E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which
some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is
maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to
give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a
wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and
show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what
result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the
professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes
and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of
novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide,
and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation.
His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a
slight contribution to historical knowledge.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s
‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and
personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of
what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely
as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old
way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but just
as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.”
C. H. Vantyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George
Trevelyan’s history.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian,
showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his
earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the
charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly
borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired
another kind of charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)
+ =Yale R.= 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=Trevena, John.= Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.
“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated
trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite
strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of
the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a
girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a
vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.
* * * * *
“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of
rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance
of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly
a great book—almost a masterpiece.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.
“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their
relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.
“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few
men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.
“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor
that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in
treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of
‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage
to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.
8–21129.
Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the
West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the
present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the
magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake,
Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has
to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of
nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the
crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small
inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.
“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive
account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and
with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he
may spend a very pleasant hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.
“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to
make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as
possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.
“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts
in picturesque English.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
* =Trowbridge, John.= Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25.
Houghton.
8–26832.
The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his
father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are
promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true
and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–41576.
A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a
“demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only
his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The
greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life,
and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title,
Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years
and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national
assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but
seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to
justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good
historical novel.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.
“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being
taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”
− =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography,
and is not altogether successful.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.
“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many
respects to have infected his latest biographer.”
− =Spec.= 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50.
Brentano’s.
The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine
II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de
Polignac, and Lola Montez.
* * * * *
“A handsome volume against which much might be written without
diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to
attract.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.
“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C.= Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15326.
The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the
ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an
unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized
and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a
fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which
he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the
painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for
a principle’s sake.
* * * * *
“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a
good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.
“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal
to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women
readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her
description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never
have been written.”
− − + =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is
unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal
sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the
author’s point of view.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“A charmingly told emotional story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.
“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of
southern life charmingly drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael.= Out of chaos: a personal story of the
revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.
8–17556.
From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian
peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy
being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary
movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the
suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity
is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and
position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains,
oppression must eventually cease.
* * * * *
“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the
reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to
go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.
“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that
even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are
likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of
humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.
“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian,
who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is
sure to encounter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Trubetzkoi, Pierre.= Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business
man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her
loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.
* * * * *
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and
unusual artistic insight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the
Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–18336.
The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter
of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his
wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with
‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to
surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.)
“The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the
narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the
incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians
themselves.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s
translation is far from satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.
“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the
chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.
“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the
translation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A rather gossipy biography.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it
is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is
interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.
=Turley, Charles.= Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a
grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose
ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among
themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold
various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough
understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an
unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.
“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the
vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the
boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in
‘Maitland Major’].”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose.= Principles
of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.
7–36223.
Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete
and the result of available tests of these principles are presented
here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of
methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of
recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 85. Mr. ’08.
“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above,
it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better
and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a
small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by
all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed
a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon
their success.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.
* =Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman.= Public
water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works;
with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and
enl. $5. Wiley.
8–25128.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as
follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of
water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation
and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the
relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is
on the construction of water works.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals
underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard
established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water
supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.
“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has
appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book
more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on
water-supply.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.
“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water,
and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly
covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to
mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable
book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography
appended to each chapter.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Tuttle, Hudson.= Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of
creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.
8–31129.
A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer
boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of
the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of
Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The
interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic
influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter
worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B.= Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.
8–34713.
A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for
four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has
evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses
made of this park, the associations with social and political life of
England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The
volume is illustrated from old engravings.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts
relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and
agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a
consecutive history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.
“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the
work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the
atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result
that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the
unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.
“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and
that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very
interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and
description.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.
=Tyler, John Mason.= Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25.
Appleton.
8–29749.
From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this
study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the
problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The
chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human
evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of
the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to
environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken
by a professor of biology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome
picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.”
H. W. Conn.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.= Williamsburg, the old colonial capital.
$2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.
7–38428.
A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full
information concerning “public buildings, political and social
conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent
families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of
‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to
have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a
scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its
people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the
interest is mainly local.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–5821.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous
and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a
very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one
to those who don’t or can’t go there.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.
“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required
as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a
harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work
and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant
narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like
impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed
to convey. We note some errors.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.
“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a
facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his
text will have a special interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.
“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account
of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to
read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 341. Mr. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, George.= Medievalism: a reply to Cardinal Mercier. *$1.25.
Longmans.
W8–175.
“Last Lent Cardinal Mercier issued a Pastoral to the diocese of
Malines in which he condemned the errors of modernism; it was a
document of no great ability, and its interest for English readers lay
mainly in the fact that it branded Father Tyrrell as a typical
Modernist. Father Tyrrell has not unnaturally taken up the gauntlet,
and he now gives Cardinal Mercier his opinion of him, of the Roman
church, and of the Modernist movement, with great freedom and at
considerable length.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 340w.
“Personally courteous to the Cardinal, this reply is a fine and manly
specimen of British straight-hitting at the power that backs him.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“We think that this reply would have gained in power had it been more
restrained, and had the author been content to explain and defend his
own position without denouncing the government and morality of Rome,
or holding up to scorn the weaker paragraphs of the Cardinal’s
pastoral.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
“In more than one respect ‘Medievalism’ may be compared to Newman’s
‘Apologia’; in its occasion, its fine literary form, and its crushing
polemic it recalls that famous work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 329. S. 5, ’08. 1800w.
U
=Underwood, Joseph Harding.= Distribution of ownership. (Columbia
university studies in history, economics and public law.) pa. *$1.50.
Longmans.
8–832.
“Dr. Underwood attempts to give the history of ownership from the most
primitive times, thru the eras of Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Teutonic
civilizations, to the present day conception of corporate ownership
and the beginnings of a return to restrictions of individual
ownership, not only of land, but also of chattles.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is to be regretted that it is not written in a clearer and more
readable style, and that it is marred by a number of historical errors
which, while perhaps not of serious consequence to the substance of
the work, shake the reader’s confidence in its accuracy.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 435. Ag. 20, ’08. 370w.
“He makes indiscriminate use of a variety of works, good, bad, and
indifferent, upon economics, jurisprudence, and sociology, but nowhere
shows a firm grasp of his subject.”
− =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 450w.
“Without proposing any concrete reforms, and weakened at times by an
unjudicial impatience, it at least indicates valid reasons for
cheerfulness and confidence.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
=Unwin, William Cawthorne.= Treatise on hydraulics. *$4.25.
Macmillan.
W8–47.
A thorogoing class text-book as well as a work of reference. The
chapters are as follows: Properties of fluids, Distribution of
pressure, Principles of hydraulics, Discharge from orifices, Notches
and weirs, Compressible fluids, Fluid friction, Flow in pipes,
Distribution of water, Later investigations of flow in pipes, Flow of
compressible fluids in pipes, Uniform flow of water in canals, and
conduits, Gaging of streams, and Impact and reaction of fluids.
* * * * *
“Considered as a whole, the treatment, from the scientific point of
view, is terse, accurate and concise, but the many admirers of
Professor Unwin will close the book with a feeling of disappointment
that the writing of it has been permitted to partake of the nature of
pastime rather than of strenuous work.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 77. Ja. 16, ’08. 2930w.
“The book will answer the expectations of all but the most critical,
for the mistakes, in it are very few and refer mainly to experimental
results with which American readers are apparently more familiar than
the author.”
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 960w.
=Updike, Wilkins.= History of the Episcopal church in Narragansett,
R. I., including a history of other Episcopal churches in the
state; 2d. ed. ed. by Daniel Goodwin. 3v. *$15. Updike.
8–266.
A revision of a work appearing in 1847. “Dr. Goodwin has retained the
text of the original work in its entirety, merely making necessary
corrections and dividing into chapters. The addition of new matter he
has made in the form of notes, segregated in the back of each volume,
and bulking as large as the original text. The book contains a history
of the Episcopal church in Narragansett and of other Episcopal
churches in Rhode Island, and of all the principal families of that
region, a transcript of the parish register, and reprints of many
interesting old documents, letters and diaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Goodwin’s editing of the present edition shows his eminent
fitness for the work.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
“The work throws so much light upon the social and ecclesiastical
history of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, and gives so many
intimate, self-made pictures of the life of the time that it will be
sure of a warm welcome from all students of that period.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 370w.
Upson, Arthur Wheelock. Tides of spring, and other poems. $1. Small.
8–3140.
The titular piece is a brief one-act drama for whose theme Mr. Upson
“has gone to Scottish history, that almost unworked dramatic quarry;
and about a picturesque incident in the early life of Malcolm
Ceannmor, one of the ancient Scottish kings, has created an idyl of
youth.... The contrast between the cautious wisdom of experience and
the daring intuition of youth lies the philosophical motive of the
play.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume also contains a group of lyrics to
friends.
* * * * *
“Mr. Upson’s lines are full of germinal thoughts.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 196. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=Upson, Henry Swift.= Insomnia and nerve strain. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–18289.
A discussion which urges physicians to hunt for a physical basis in
the cause of mania, melancholia and dementia precox. The author’s main
contention, supported by innumerable cases, is that the nerve strain
of those cases almost always associated with insomnia is not
degenerate and is not incurable. He describes in this connection the
action of the nervous system, in vascular control, in inhibition,
nutrition and shock; and he formulates the difference between vital
and non-vital matter, and between nerve cells and lower tissues.
* * * * *
“The author’s views concerning the action of the nervous system are
not altogether clear and rest upon an interpretation of nervous
phenomena which few students of these subjects are ready to accept.”
− =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A very wilderness of words and well up to the high standard of
obscurity adopted by writers on psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Musical memories. *$2.75. McClurg.
8–30387.
“The ‘memories’ relate to those stars, of various magnitudes, and now
chiefly extinct, that were in their glory, on the operatic stage and
in the concert hall in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and
that cast some rays of their effulgence on the Chicago of that
period.” (Dial.) Patti, Ole Bull, Wieniawsky, Rubinstein, Christine
Nilsson and Theodore Thomas are among the celebrities who call back
from the past pleasant reminiscences. Five chapters treat of the
history of musical societies in Chicago, beginning as far back as the
year 1833.
* * * * *
“Professional criticisms and judgments add to the value of the book,
and there are many amusing anecdotes and crisp characterizations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“A book of unusual interest to those of his own community, and hardly
less attractive to music-lovers and readers generally.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 206. O. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“Mr. Upton’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to
American musical history ever issued, and the numerous personal
sketches and anecdotes interspersed make it as interesting as a novel
to music lovers.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 367. O. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“The ‘memories’ are on the whole entertaining. There are people and
things about whom and which Mr. Upton feels impelled to write when he
has little or nothing to say; some of his critical remarks will call
forth doubt or dissent.” R: Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 543. O. 3, ’08. 950w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard concert guide: a handbook of the
standard symphonies, oratorios, cantatas and symphonic poems for
the concert goer. $1.75. McClurg.
8–23575.
A combination and condensation of the author’s “Standard oratorios,”
“Standard symphonies,” and “Standard cantatas” in a single volume for
concert and library purposes. New matter has been added to bring it
down to date, including notices of works by Brücker, Cowen, Dvorák,
Elgar, Franck, Mackenzie, Parker, Parry, Sinding, Richard Strauss, and
Tchaikovsky. Contains portraits of the composers included.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 50w.
“[The reader] will be puzzled only by one strange thing. In the Index
reference is made to ‘Bürckner.’ His real name is Bruckner.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 321. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The index appears to be quite full and serviceable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w.
“This ‘Guide’ is sufficiently safe and authoritative if one can accept
the seemingly arbitrary method of selection.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 200w.
=Urusov, Sergiei Dmitrievich, kniaz.= Memoirs of a Russian governor;
tr. by Herman Rosenthal. **$1.50. Harper.
8–3431.
“A prince of an ancient Russian family, a member of the first Duma,
tells in these memoirs the secrets about czardom; lays bare the
intricate machinery of the autocracy, the schemes of the police
department, and the intrigues and corruption that underlie the fabric
of government. Prince Urusov is not a revolutionist, not a destructive
agitator, but a constructive patriot, typical of the new Russia “now
rising from the wreckage of the old.” The memoirs form a permanent
document of Russian history.”
* * * * *
“An excellent book and of more value, though of limited scope, than
half the books that set out to give the American reader a general idea
of Russia and the Russians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08.
“Because of the light it throws upon the inmost workings of the
Russian government it is a book which every one will read with
interest.” L. W. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 464. S. ’08. 430w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 400w.
“Here is a book of rare interest written from a rare point of view—an
account by a native official of the intricate workings of the Russian
bureaucracy.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 274. My. ’08. 1300w.
“It is the details of this absurd and anarchic system which Prince
Urusov sets forth most convincingly, and at times in a highly amusing
manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 461. Jl. 27, ’07. 2500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A permanent and vitally valuable historical document.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“These records and impressions are bound to take their place among the
permanent documents of Russian history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“This is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner
history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to
say, by any other volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 332. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
=Urwick, W. E.= Child’s mind, its growth and training; being a short
study of some processes of learning and teaching. $1.50. Longmans.
E 8–29.
“Mr. Urwick’s object is to found the right teaching and training of
scholars from infancy (for which he substitutes the ungainly
expression infanthood) to adolescence on the results of psychology and
biology, so far as these sciences have explained the development of
children’s minds.” (Ath.) “Mr. Urwick’s treatment is based upon the
modern conception of connation. Human behavior can be analysed largely
into connative processes which set towards or away from objects of
positive or negative ‘immediate value.’” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“We cannot admit that he has succeeded in setting forth ‘in simple and
untechnical language’ the results obtained by the investigation of
‘mind-growth as an organic process’; but he has derived from them much
sound advice to teachers in their practical work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 650w.
“We find in the book elementary matter set forth in a complicated and
difficult style; in consequence, the reader who is in need of such a
book will find this one obscure and perplexing, while those who can
readily understand the book do not need to read it.” E: O. Sisson.
− =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 150w.
“One of the most useful pedagogical treatises of recent years.” T. P.
N.
+ =Nature.= 77: 410. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is rather in its scattered suggestions and its point of view than
in its completed statements that it has most value. The reader feels
that the author is on a good trail but needs to follow it out further.
Altogether we commend the book as a most suggestive presentation of
certain phases of educational theory from the point of view of
functional or activity psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 16: 686. D. ’08. 600w.
V
=Vacandard, Elphege.= Inquisition: a critical and historical study of
the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L.
Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7862.
Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the
Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the
primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and
declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not
only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable
consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to
explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a
loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the
inquisition.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.
“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an
apologist afterward.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh.= Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–39197.
A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among
conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of
enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school
tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering
example to school-mates and teachers.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–980.
The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here
as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally
diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy
Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He
connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them,
hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of
her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black
bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits
the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the
real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.
* * * * *
“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary
worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent
compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”
− =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read
lately.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain
very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its
youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.
“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement
that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain
delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes
himself too seriously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.
“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is
ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest
borders of real literature.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Vandewalker, Nina Catharine.= Kindergarten in American education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10422.
A book for teachers and all students of social and educational
problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten
development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been
significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice
is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and
explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase
of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and
well organized.” F. A. Manny.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.
“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the
future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.
8–21627.
A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses.
The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general
heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The
haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy
and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of
optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows
true service, struggle and conquest.
* * * * *
“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful
optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠
“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a
whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and
religious essays of the year.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 260w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1.
Scribner.
8–30293.
A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria
in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who,
a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by
the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the
prophet Elisha.
* * * * *
“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology
of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is
said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is
shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned
beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true
poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive
sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax,
but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most
impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other
than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most
strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the
Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman,
the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.
“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the
poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in
interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply
poetic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of
travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–29361.
The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious
revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that
‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith
that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant
than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding
hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his
sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions,
but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines
poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity
could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the
birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing
and reverent.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen
full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on
general popularity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the
literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of
impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a
devout and poetic soul.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose
eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose
pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent
concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life.
**$1. Scribner.
8–14734.
“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American
epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the
comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the
throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils
the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill
fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it
all.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by I. A. Loos.
=Econ. Bull.= 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.
“Finely wrought chapters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles
which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth
while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke
deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of
legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now
menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all
who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however,
must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement
which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very
different nature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.
=Van Dyne, Frederick.= Treatise on the law of naturalization of the
United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.
7–23477.
“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with
the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical
development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the
judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and
international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book will be found to be of great value to those having
jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to
advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights
of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has
an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by
the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores
every year.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.
“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages
are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective
organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the
failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.
“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst).= Cry of the children: a
study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge.
**$1.25. Moffat.
8–4342.
A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton
mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the
child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She
talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their
schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her
series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea
more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would
any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts
themselves are sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠
“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst
would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she
saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Interestingly told narrative.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book
is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
=Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il.
†$1.50. Scribner.
8–10276.
Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a
married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the
woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of
propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N.
Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.
* * * * *
“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently
agreeable reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.
“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more
words than either.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S.
Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown.
*$4. Dutton.
8–12590.
This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the
introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters,
sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned,
this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials
employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater
interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the
work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance,
Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing
drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or
of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning
permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding,
about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about
stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree
calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a
symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined
strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its
serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay
and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.
“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with
conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the
volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be
too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest
when we consider its comprehensiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
* =Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII).
**$4. Putnam.
“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes
the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other
Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the
political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe
during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo
looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted,
and the nature of his weakness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his
omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant
details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is
obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular
outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false
notion of the renaissance as a whole.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been
unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing
autobiography into the rest of his book.”
− =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great
missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.
8–21632.
A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic
account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian
church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul,
Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull,
Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey,
Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.
* * * * *
“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique
manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and
in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without
obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.
“This book should have a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Vedder, Henry Clay.= Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am.
Bapt.
8–35968.
A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in
polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term
there was no such thing as a closed canon.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Methods and devices for bacterial treatment
of sewage. $3. Wiley.
8–10451.
“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the
bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of
books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical
journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical
removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent
contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters
are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of
engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification
works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the
actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that
this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.
“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea
as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound.
However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of
filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left
in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Verschoyle, W. Denham.= Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.
8–28960.
“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that
something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if
we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us....
The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1)
absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between
them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of
natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related
series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the
_gyron_.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the
existence of forces emanating from the _gyron_, but by means of them
he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the
elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of
life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to
science.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.
“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses,
which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left
quite bewildered.”
− =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative
views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate
constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the
present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the
imagination.”
− =Nature.= 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.
“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential
requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain
the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.
=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26196.
The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she
runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her
relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak
Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the
transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and
charming.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.
“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver
moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.
“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in
this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in
his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.
“A love story full of amusing complications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the
burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly
tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Villari, Pasquale.= Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda
Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–38555.
Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is
history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages
and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom
Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello,
Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico
Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one,
although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert
collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that
is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to
the philosophy of history.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.
“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary
reader. The translation is well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 214. Je. ’08.
“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is
handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of
kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in
the essay.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.
“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most
suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential
teaching.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of
the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a
hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study
still prevails.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of
other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an
earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.
“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English
dress it has lost distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= English society in the eleventh century: essays
in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.
8–17763.
“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is
divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the
other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the
population, and the relations of people and land. Under these general
headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation,
with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable
chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of
special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the
fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English
society at an important moment.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.
“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and
language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them
alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the
cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable
book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in
seeing the work through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.
“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the
whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and
classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.
“Exhaustive enquiry.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w
“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of
this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the
social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel
that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the
Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task
Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.
* =Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by
Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the
author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous
reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement,
an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the
dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem
and the religious suggestiveness.
=Voogt, Gos de.= Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence
and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine
P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–40011.
“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats,
pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style,
with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred
of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in
connection with the schools.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 50. F. ’08.
“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Voorhees, Edward Burnett.= Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay
and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31477.
A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint,
prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It
deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of
particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be
appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements
will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.
“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful
ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.
=Vorse, Mary Heaton.= Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–14521.
A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main
the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned
to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many
seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape
Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were
attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of
infection.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A charming summer book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the
episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of
episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly
have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent
in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study
which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether
delightfully.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be
recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and
frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a
higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom
presumably it was written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.
“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and
the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
W
=Waddell, John A. L.= Specifications and contracts. *$1. Eng. news.
8–983.
Four chapters presenting a “very sound discussion of a number of
typical contracts, embodying comments on many points of trouble or
difficulty, comments drawn from long experience in engineering work.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“These lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their
delivery, as condensing into small space the essentials of the
subjects treated, and in a form particularly adapted to the
instruction of students. The element of illustration and example
embodied in this book will recommend it to professors in technical
schools, giving as it does the results of the extended experience of
two writers eminent respectively in the engineering and legal
professions.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“The scanty literature of engineering contracts is measurably enriched
by Waddell & Wait’s new work. A separation into specifications and
contracts is attempted by Mr. Waddell, with not very good success.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 84. Ja. 16, ’08. 1530w.
=Waddington, Mary A.= King. Château and country life in France.
**$2.50. Scribner.
8–28628.
An intimate account of life in the French châteaux written by one “who
knows her subject thoroughly well, for a good portion of her life has
been spent in rural France amid the scenes and among the people she
writes about so charmingly.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a whole the book has less interest and charm than her ‘Italian
letters.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“We fear that as little pains have been taken with the writing as with
the revision. It contains many agreeable pages which make the reader
regret that an author who has lived among interesting scenes, and
possesses a real power of description, should not have taken pains to
produce a book worthy of her material and her ability.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 1250w.
“It is the human element in Mme. Waddington’s book, rather than her
references to architecture and landscape, that makes it especially
enjoyable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Thoroughly familiar with the scenes she describes, yet with a certain
freshness of view, due to her American origin, Madame Waddington
paints a picture of rural life in France with a charming directness
and simplicity.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“We get some delightful and authoritative impressions from the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 430w.
“Madame Waddington’s former books have led the reader confidently to
expect from her writing agreeable impressions, large social knowledge,
and charm of manner. The present volume confirms that expectation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 150w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Palace of danger. †$1.50. Funk.
8–27097.
A historical novel set in the reign of Louis XV whose ruling spirit is
the fascinating Madame de Pompadour. Across the pages is a shadow of
the Jesuit—Jansenist quarrel, simmered down to strife between church
and parliament; but the story deals principally with Louis, his
favorite, and the love of the Marquise’s protégée for a ruthless
count.
* * * * *
“Though not anything like so strong and compelling as the historical
romances of the elder Dumas, is superior to many of the popular
historical novels of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The author seems nowhere to have been opprest by the weight of her
historical knowledge. It rather comes to the reader as a direct and
spontaneous creation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 679. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
“Plenty of rapid action and many interesting and truthful pictures of
the time enliven the course of the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is a thoroughly human tale and so well constructed that the
interest holds one to the end. Perhaps there are too many dramatic
surprises, but they are all of the kind that might really have
happened.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 120w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Stars of the opera; revised and enlarged edition.
**$1.20. Funk.
7–31432.
A new edition revised and enlarged. Personal interviews and life
studies of Sembrich, Eames, Calvé, Nordica, Lehmann, Farrar and Melba
are followed by critical studies of the operas with which their names
are especially associated.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 230. Je. ’08.
+ =Arena.= 38: 682. D. ’07. 140w.
“The book is notable as a trustworthy guide to those who are
unfamiliar with the operatic stage, while as a source of entertaining
reading to others who in these matters are sophisticated, it makes
further distinct claims.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 165. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
“These interviews are all in good taste and authentic, each having
been proof-read by the singer who gave it.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Rhine-gold: a dramatic poem; freely translated in
poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
7–28637.
As in his “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal.” Dr. Huckel opens the
“Rhine-gold” with a criticism and description of the story. “Then
comes the magnificent rendition of the great poem. It is a free
translation. The author has striven to present as perfectly as
possible in rhythmic form the ideas and mental pictures as well as the
words of Wagner.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“The present volume will be regarded as indispensable by lovers of the
music-dramas of Richard Wagner.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 681. D. ’07. 120w.
“The most valuable part of the book is, perhaps, its careful and
interesting foreword.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Waineman, Paul.= Summer tour in Finland. **$2.50. Pott.
8–34794.
A tour from Helsingfors to Tornea, at the north of the gulf of
Bothnia, “where only a small river divides Finland from Sweden, and
where one is in the luminous summer nights of the Arctic circle.” The
author gives her impressions of the people tuned slightly to the
personal note, because she herself is a Finn; gives word pictures of
mountains, forests and lakes; takes the reader into peasants’ huts as
well as princes’ abodes; and voices thru the whole a regret for the
downfall of feudalism, “for no other reason than that it was more
picturesque than democracy.”
* * * * *
“The writer has the ‘seeing eye,’ and a gift of describing, in poetic,
and sometimes ultrasentimental, language, a variety of scenery. The
book is a little too long, and the account of the railway journey
southward in western Finland rather lacking in interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 539. O. 31. 400w.
“A clever writer’s impression of a delightful country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Quite half the small facts she sets down have no relevance to the
matter in hand, and therefore do not illuminate it.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 368. S. 12, ’08. 1650w.
* =Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past,
present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.
An informing work which “brings home to every ‘thoughtful and honest
man who can look further and rise higher than his own immediate
hearthstone’ the high importance of investigating the ruins of these
ancient cities and bringing to light their treasures of art. Referring
to the fact that the work is to be carried on by the Italian
government with the assistance of an international commission, Dr.
Waldstein points out that it is working together ‘on the very soil on
which our common civilization rests to restore the living testimonies
of culture which belong to us all.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“It is the most complete and most accessible account in English of the
little that is actually known of Herculaneum in ancient, mediaeval and
modern times. It is when we turn to the latter portion of the
book,—the portion treating of Herculaneum’s future, that we find the
author’s method of exposition not only unconventional, but even
disconcerting in its flights of fancy that at times verge upon the
grotesque.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 507. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Waldstein deals in grand projects. He likes to move before the
footlights of the stage. It seems also wide of the mark to call the
excavations of Olympia and Delphi in ‘the bow and arrow phase.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1242. N. 26, ’08. 760w.
“An interesting volume—especially interesting, indeed, because of the
scope indicated in its title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“The volume contains a series of valuable appendices.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 400w.
“Part 2 can only be described as the sort of day-dream in which many
people probably indulge, in church or on a solitary walk, but which
they seldom print. Apart from these fantasies, the authors throw
little new light on questions which they must have considered.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Wales, Hubert.= Old allegiance. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–17994.
The adventures of two Oxford graduates on an island sheltering and
isolating a Jacobite society with whose leader it had become a hobby
to foster the old allegiance. The descendant of the Stuarts was
entertained here periodically. When James VI was expected and
circumstance forbade his coming one of the Oxford men masqueraded as
the Stuart ruler. The adventures of the masquerader including his
clever foiling of a band of dynamiters are of the Anthony Hope order.
* * * * *
“The author is to be congratulated on having made a story of adventure
which, though dealing with familiar topics ... has yet contrived to
get itself invested with a dewy freshness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“His tale is well constructed and well written, with a light touch, a
sufficient realism and a lively fancy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“When we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a due appreciation
of its undoubted merits, it was entitled, ‘Purple and fine linen: a
tale of two centuries, by William Pigott.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 203. Ag. 8, ’08. 220w.
=Walk, Charles Edmonds.= Silver blade: the true chronicle of a
double mystery. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9527.
A Spaniard’s vendetta is responsible for the duplex problem of murder
involved in this story. Among an excited group of more or less
unrelated characters, all of whom are well-drawn types, moves a
detective, unagitated, endowed with the impassiveness of an Indian.
His methods are his own and worth studying.
* * * * *
“Mr. Walk has constructed a very complicated puzzle. There may be a
bit of incredulity mixt with our marvel at Captain Converse, but his
ingenuity keeps us entertained, and what more has one the right to ask
from a story of this kind?”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Walker, Ernest.= History of music in England. *$2.50. Oxford.
8–12789.
A history whose purpose is to sketch the main features of English
music from its earliest artistic manifestation to the close of the
nineteenth century. “The book has been designed from the standpoint of
a musician rather than from that of an antiquarian; and even then more
for the general music-lover than for the technically erudite.” More
stress is laid upon the art itself than upon biographical minutiæ.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 202. F. 15. 170w.
“The best and most useful results of research are embodied; and, what
is more, opportunity is afforded the reader, by means of copious
musical illustrations printed in the text, to form his own
conclusions. We know of no chapter on Handel so luminous and unbiased
as Dr. Walker’s.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 157. F. 13, ’08. 730w.
“Dr. Walker has made an original and important contribution to musical
history in this volume.” R: Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“As a whole, the book deserves nothing but praise, and it is the only
condensed history of English music which is at once competent,
complete, and unprejudiced.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 44. Ja. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Not merely a masterly piece of condensation, based on intimate
first-hand knowledge of the available material, but from beginning to
end it is written with a conviction which commands respect, and with
an incisive energy and felicity of phrase which render its perusal a
most stimulating literary experience.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 338. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
* =Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.
Contains “descriptive matter of the kind usually found in such popular
nature books. A few pages of desultory bird lore are as far as the
author has gone in her endeavor ‘to get together the most important
avian legends and superstitions, and also to discover in them
evidences of apparent truth.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Contains some good photographs of wild birds.” W. J. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Is illustrated in a very satisfactory way. The quotations are apt and
succinct, and there is much information in the text.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 676. D. ’08. 30w.
=Walkley, Arthur Bingham.= Drama and life. *$1.75. Brentano’s.
W 8–65.
The collected studies and appreciations of the dramatic critic of the
London Times. The volume “consists of revised dramatic reviews and
essays taken from the London Times and two longer and more deliberate
papers, the one on modern English and French drama and the other on
selected French and English plays, which were printed originally in
the Edinburgh Review.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is a lightness of touch about his pen that makes his notices of
the dullest plays entertaining reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 140. F. 1. 800w.
“There is much entertaining and a considerable proportion of solid and
instructive matter in this volume. With all his brilliancy Mr. Walkley
is not always consistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Walkley’s humor, which we make bold to call his most delightful
attribute, shines on many pages and is the book’s saving grace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 770w.
“He is not only the shrewdest English-speaking critic of the stage
to-day, but so agreeable a writer that he can be read with pleasure by
people who have little interest in his subject. His ‘Drama and Life’
is like some of the plays he enjoys, but condemns. It has in places
broken the mould of current dramatic criticism. It is the better
reading on that account, and may be commended even to those wise
persons to whom the present English stage is a subject of little
interest.” F. M. Colby.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 777. My. ’08. 1800w.
=Wall, Mary Virginia.= Daughter of Virginia Dare. $1.50. Neale.
8–16952.
A story based upon the supposition that Pocahontas was the daughter of
Virginia Dare.
* * * * *
“A story that will have considerable mild interest for those who have
taken stock in the theory that Pocahontas was a Dare—and no interest
at all to those who turn up their noses at that theory.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Wallace, Edgar.= Angel Esquire. †$1.50. Holt.
8–20673.
An eccentric man bequeaths his millions to the one of four people—a
defenseless girl and three daring criminals—who shall first decipher a
cryptic verse containing the combination of the safe where his gold
reposes. By twos and threes they try to outwit the girl, and finally
one of the three, the most unorthodox of detectives, becomes the
girl’s champion and defends her not only against the other two
possible heirs but also against an evil attorney who takes a hand in
the game.
* * * * *
“A detective story with some novel turns, which can be safely
recommended to connoisseurs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is not a detective story, but that much rarer thing, a dime novel
as well written as detective stories have been since Poe and Conan
Doyle showed us how.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
“Certainly there is no lack of entertainment for the brief time
spent—or squandered—in the perusal of this thoroughly modern story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Wallace’s story will certainly make the lover of tales of crime
‘sit up,’ and will also entertain him with its comedy-side—rare in
this class of fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Walling, William English.= Russia’s message: the true world import
of the revolution. **$3. Doubleday.
8–18337.
Setting out to show what Russia can offer us rather than to suggest
what the world can do for Russia, the author, whose sympathies are
with the revolutionists goes beyond the outrageous atrocities and
presents the world import of the revolution. “This volume is first of
all an indictment of the Russian government. It is not too severe; but
that is only because it is not possible to draw a too severe
indictment. The Russian bureaucracy is the worst government now on the
face of the globe, unless that of the Congo surpasses it in atrocity.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
“The Russian revolution is a phenomenon so vast that no single mind or
book can possibly compass it, but ‘Russia’s message’ is the best
exposition of it that has yet appeared in our language.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 610. S. 10, ’08. 660w.
“We must credit the author with giving us a great deal of learned
socialistic disquisition, yet the work is dry.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Walling, though he violates the law of historiography as it is
handed down to us from Germany, has given us by far the most
noteworthy study of the late Russian upheaval that has appeared in
this country, and one of the very few first-rate books on the subject
that have been written anywhere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 8, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Walling’s work covers the whole ground of the Russian revolution
in a very interesting and instructive way, and though his book is not
likely to convey the same message as his title seems to imply, it will
be indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 409. Jl. 25. ’08. 870w.
“The book is a complete study of the whole situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His passionate devotion to what he regards as the rights of man gives
interest to his book, but also contributes its chief defect. It has
impelled him to make a volume much larger than it need to have been.
It is the work of an avowed partisan.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 764. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“The struggle now going on in the czar’s empire has a vital
significance for the future of human society, and Mr. Walling’s
clear-cut style drives home this truth with great force.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Essays, political and biographical; ed. by
Francis Holland. *$3. Dutton.
8–32327.
A volume of biographical and political essays, very many of which
appeared originally in the Edinburgh review. Among them are essays on
George Savile, first Lord Halifax, George Crabbe, Godolphin, The
dining societies of London, and Croker papers.
* * * * *
“Though hardly profound, they are always agreeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 208. Ag. 22. 360w.
“All the papers are interesting and readable—excellent specimens of
the author’s genial style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 250w.
“We heartily commend this posthumous volume. We regret that the titles
of the books which called forth Sir Spencer’s reviews, and the names
of the periodicals in which they first appeared (with dates) have not
been given. The essays themselves abound in interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
“One of the most enjoyable of the essays is a critical appreciation of
George Crabbe, the East Anglian poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 80w.
“Will add nothing to the historian’s reputation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
“We have found a chapter of reminiscences by his daughter one of the
most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 166. Ag. 1, ’08. 1300w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Popes and science: the history of the papal
relations to science during the middle ages and down to our own
time. *$2. Fordham univ. press.
8–15255.
The “brief of an advocate” which shows that popes are liberal patrons
of science, and that they have encouraged medical research. “He
collects many instances to show physicians in good standing in the
Church did use dissection and make considerable progress in anatomy
and medicine, and argues that the treatment of the sick and insane was
not so heartless and irrational as we have been accustomed to believe.
Finally, he brings forward Crookes, Wallace, Richet Lodge, Lombroso
and the psychical researchers to prove that the tendency of science is
away from materialism and toward the recognition of the spiritualistic
interpretations that it used to sneer at.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He is occasionally tempted to push the claims of his clients beyond
bounds.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 830. S. ’08. 920w.
“His books are not more partisan than White’s ‘Warfare of science with
theology,’ against which they are chiefly directed, and they should be
read in connection with it by those who want to get both sides.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The book is well worth reading for its extensive learning and the
vigor of its style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“The writer’s unbroken silence on the workings of inquisitors and the
censorship is fatal to his arguments. He has vindicated some
churchmen, but not the Church.”
− =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“He is no mean antagonist in debate, and in this case he comes armed
with a wealth of information beyond the ordinary layman’s reach.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 580w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Thirteenth greatest of centuries. *$2.50.
Catholic summer school press, 110 W. 74th st., N. Y.
7–26016.
“All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth
century are reviewed at generous length—the rise and character, the
curricula and the influences of the early universities; the steps
taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the
development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the
period; the Latin hymns of the church, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the
Golden legend, the Romance of the rose, Joceylin of Brakeland, Matthew
Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo
and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law;
and the beginnings of modern commerce.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“Dr. Walsh, who is both a student and a popular lecturer, comes
forward in this volume, laden with the results of omnivorous reading,
and lays his treasures, in almost boundless profusion, at the feet of
his audience.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 532. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“We respectfully commend to the open-minded his presentation of that
great epoch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Walsh’s book, maintaining that the thirteenth is the greatest
century in human annals, is, of course, not scientific, but
interesting it certainly is, and, because of its abundant information,
it is valuable too.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 639. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“As an interesting and accurate account of medievalism, with its
intensity, its enthusiasm, its devotion, as well as its narrowness and
exclusiveness, this volume may be read with pleasure and profit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 419. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
“This dull, thoughtless and styleless volume contains a mass of
interesting facts, most of which were doubtless novel to the
lecturer’s audience; and if we cannot commend his manner of presenting
them, which resembles, on an elephantine scale, that of our snippet
press, we cannot doubt that in many of his hearers he has started the
train of profitable thought.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 175. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
=Walsh, William Shepard.= International encyclopedia of prose and
poetical quotations. $5. Winston.
8–18548.
“Differs from most books of its class in the kind of quotations
included and in the treatment. It in fact combines with ordinary
collections of ‘elegant extracts’ something of the book of phrase and
fable and something of an author book.” (Nation.) “There are
selections from many languages, but all under one alphabet, and all
thoroughly indexed.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Altogether a cursory inspection of the work gives the impression that
it may be more than ordinarily useful. The indexes are full, the
printing careful except for the occasional Greek passages which show a
sovereign contempt for the rules of accent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“So far as it goes [it] is an excellent book of reference. Its
arrangement is such that it is a very easy matter to find what one is
looking for if the matter is among the quotations included in the
book. It is rather startling to discover that a considerable
percentage of the American and English writers of note of our time are
quite ignored in Mr. Walsh’s compilation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
“The volume is a welcome addition to the literature of its class.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 70w.
=Walton, George Lincoln.= Why worry? *$1. Lippincott.
8–16562.
“The author discusses worry and obsession from the standpoint of the
neurologist, devoting most of his attention to how absurd and
dangerous is the mental attitude of those who can’t stop tapping with
the fingers or can’t endure such tapping; who must have the head of
their bed to the north or will not sit with the face to the wall; who
go back three times to see if they locked the door or wash the hands
after touching anything.”-=Outlook.=
* * * * *
“A practical, readable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 140w.
“From this little volume ... it is quite possible for a reasonably
‘fussy’ person or hypochondriac to extract extremely beneficial
prescriptions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Though life us do part. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–26679.
A story which teaches a lesson of inviolable love. Love-making and
marriage under the most promising of circumstances are followed by
disagreement and separation. The husband, a young physician, enlists
in the Cuban war, and after a short period of service is reported
dead. In reality he is not dead, and as a much scarred and wounded
stranger, comes back to his town unrecognized even by his wife, leases
from her his old office, and, thru service, wins her love. Important
also in the negative-lesson sense is the vengeance of a collie upon a
vivisector whose hand on the point of offering a sacrifice to science,
was staid by searchers for the lost dog.
* * * * *
− =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“With the exception of her heroine, she introduces her people to the
reader before she has made intimate acquaintance with them herself.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
“There is a happy working out of the skillful and original plot.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“A story that will interest, if it does not reform, readers who enjoy
Mrs. Ward’s cleverness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“This author still retains a sweetness of the mind in describing
natural scenery or even garden scenery.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“If she were a young writer we might be tempted to say of her recent
work that it has shown increased promise. It seems to contain more
sentiment and less sentimentality, less appeal to the sensibilities of
the schoolgirl and the shoplady, than marked the ‘Confessions of a
wife,’ and (in less degree) its successors.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 600w.
“A love story that will not add to its author’s literary reputation or
give its readers a shock of delight.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ward, John J.= Some nature biographies:
plant—insect—marine—mineral; with upwards of 200 illustrations
reproduced from photographs and photo-micrographs taken by the
author. *$1.50. Lane.
8–12203.
A series of nature studies, originally published in the Strand, Pall
Mall, and other magazines which deal with the observations in the
English woods and field. It “may be regarded as a kind of
kinematograph in book form.” (Nature.) It presents the life history of
certain butterflies and moths, the descriptive material being aided by
some fine photographic work.
* * * * *
“Is one of the best of its class that can be put into the hands of any
boy or girl who loves nature and seeks to be told more about her.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 197. F. 15. 380w.
“Are of interest to American readers, not only because of the
painstaking care with which the author has gathered his facts and his
illustrations, and the pleasing manner in which he has narrated them,
but also because of the fact that some of the chapters ... have no
limitations of locality to circumscribe their interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Interesting and well written, and give evidence both of a sound
knowledge of the best authorities and considerable independent
observation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A better book of its class we have never seen.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 147. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“He writes also in the same pleasant and informing manner on the
development of buds, the decay and fall of leaves, the senses of
insects, and the story of a piece of coal.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 907. D. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Testing of
Diana Mallory. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26683.
In the world of her book Mrs. Ward has once more placed strong men and
weak, and intimately inspects manners and motives, settings and
atmosphere. Her heroine is adorable; her hero, weak of will and an
unconscionable cad. Oliver Marsham confesses his love for Diana
Mallory. He soon learns that she is the daughter of one Janet
Sparling, gambler and murderer. He retreats, leaves the girl to
suffer, pursues his way to parliament, mismanages his campaign, is hit
by an enemy’s missile, and, when failure and death stare him in the
face, turns to Diana, who ministers to him, marries him, and woes him
back to life. Not overcome by the revelation of her mother’s crime,
not resentful when Oliver deserts her, not shrinking when love and
duty send her to Oliver’s bedside, Diana seems to have transcended the
sense of distorted forms to the realities that constitute the life
principle.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“Marsham must be regarded as the weak point in the story. Neither his
position as a rising politician nor his personal charm and brilliancy
impress us as they are intended to do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3, 460w.
“Is not a great novel; it is a moving tale.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 149. O. ’08. 1050w.
“It is all so extremely well informed, and so thoroughly well done,
that it is difficult to understand why we should not be more deeply
moved by it and why it should not make a more lasting impression.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 454. D. 16, ’08. 500w.
“There is not a thrilling scene in the book, nor a single character of
extraordinary fascination; but it is written with a fineness of
perception, a delicacy of expression, that redeems it from the
commonplace.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 896. O. 15, ’08. 970w.
=Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“To its readers’ deepest and highest human feeling it appeals with the
irresistible power of truth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
“Our respect for Diana is put under an almost intolerable strain. Are
such people quite worth presenting to us on so large a canvas?”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Considered as a novel of society, ‘Diana Mallory’ is fascinating and
authoritative; considered as the story of a young woman pathetically
situated, it is moving and satisfying.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 505. S. 19, ’08. 770w.
“A romantic story in Mrs. Ward’s best style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by C. L. Rudyard.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 779. N. ’08. 2400w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“Has an assured welcome in the library, and a space already waiting
for it by the side of ‘Lady Rose’s daughter’ and ‘The marriage of
William Ashe.’” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 697 N. 28, 08. 480w.
“It is not a great novel, but Diana is almost a great figure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 970w.
“Judged by the test of originality, the book stands on a much higher
plane than any of its three predecessors, while the story, regarded
merely as a story, is at least as engrossing, as well furnished with
incident, and as strong in dramatic interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 506. O. 3, ’08. 1300w.
=Ward, Robert De Courcy.= Climate—considered especially in relation
to man. (Science ser., no. 19.) **$2. Putnam.
8–12801.
With the needs of both teacher and student kept in mind the author
co-ordinates and sets forth clearly and systematically the broader
facts of climate. The work is intended to be supplementary to the
first volume of Dr. Julius Hann’s “Handbuch der klimatologie,”
translated into English in 1903.
* * * * *
“The book contains a good deal of interesting historical material as
well as a very clear-cut and informing presentation of the facts of
climate as they are now known.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 524. D. ’08. 80w.
“A fit supplement to Hann’s, presenting clearly and reducing to its
simplest terms a subject over which first-hand knowledge and research
and a cumulative experience in teaching have given him the mastery.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
“An important volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Ward has succeeded in presenting a well-written volume, suitable
for the classroom, being methodical in arrangement, and clear and
direct in statement.” O. L. F.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 841. D. 11, ’08. 820w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 783. N. 14, ’08. 420w.
=Ware, Richard Darwin.= In the woods and on the shore. $2. Page.
8–17814.
A record of several seasons of hunting and fishing in Newfoundland and
New Brunswick, along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the
eastern coast of Massachusetts. “The book has a human side, for there
seems no better way to become acquainted with one’s fellows—not even
the French method, of dividing an inheritance with them—than by
camping out in the wilds with them for a season. On some of his
longest expeditions, Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working
company; so that this book, unlike most of its fellows, has a feminine
touch added to its other desirable features.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The influence of the woods, coupled with the single-mindedness of the
sportsman, has given a simplicity and directness to the style that is
good to meet, and the pages may be aptly described as spacious.”
Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
“Written in a pleasant style by a hunter of experience.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Warfield, Rev. Benjamin Breckinridge.= Lord of glory: a study of
the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial
reference to his deity. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–38253.
“An examination of the designations applied to Jesus in the synoptics,
John, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the Catholic epistles, and the Apocalypse
satisfies Professor Warfield that all the New Testament writers,
beginning with Mark, held His person to be supernatural and divine in
the fullest sense. The result is ‘to throw into prominence the unitary
presupposition by the entire New Testament of the deity of our
Lord.’”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Throughout the book interpretation is strained, yet it is fair to add
that the author’s purpose, to examine the designations of our Lord in
the New Testament with especial reference to His deity, is useful, and
that he has shown wide acquaintance with the writings of New Testament
commentators.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 500w.
“In some matters, one feels that Professor Warfield has been too
easily convinced, e. g., in his treatment of ‘lord,’ and that his
finding is too sweeping in consequence.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 160. F. ’08. 100w.
“The result is the most exhaustive monograph which has appeared in
English on the subject.” I. F. Wood.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 75. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“To one already holding to it, it seems conclusive. To an inquiring
mind, indisposed or unable to scrutinize the argument very closely, it
may carry some conviction.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja, 4, ’08. 260w.
=Waring, Eleanor Howard.= White path. $1.50. Neale.
7–41587.
A story with a problem which deals with a man and a woman each of whom
has lived thru the agonies of an unhappy marriage. Their friendship
terminates in love, but their legal ties prevent marriage, so they are
content to walk in a white path of idealism, eliminating entirely all
material relations.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 36: 97. Ja. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Warren, Maude Radford.= Land of the living. †$1.50. Harper.
8–20711.
Chicago is the scene of this story of love and city politics. An Irish
political boss, who winks at questionable practices that are
profitable, adopts a sturdy little youngster of the streets, and
attempts to bring him up as a machine. The lad’s genius and goodness
foil the machine methods of the ‘boss,’ no less than the corrupt
agencies of reform thru which a rival hoped to win both a bride and an
election.
* * * * *
“The characters are well conceived and contrasted; there is, however,
a trace of weakness in construction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“A book to be cordially commended and read with quiet enjoyment.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 280w.
“Into the oft-told tale of ward politics in Chicago the author has
infused some new effects by making it at the same time a study of two
phases of the Celtic nature—the idealizing and the domineering.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“The book as a whole, while neither deep nor large, has movement and
variety, so that it is readable in more than an ordinary degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 70w.
=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Danton and the French revolution.
**$2.50. Jacobs.
8–15330.
A popular history of the French revolution in the midst of whose war
of ideas the figure of Danton is traced as he rose to sudden power,
was cut off in the heyday of his manhood, and sent to the scaffold in
the thirty-fifth year of his age.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 216. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A book on a great topic, and worthy of it. In but one respect does
the writer mar his reader’s pleasure—he quotes frequently and
copiously without naming his authority. Clergymen who join socialists
and anarchists in prating of revolution, justifying the latter by
allusion to the French revolution, should read Mr. Warwick’s book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“Mr. Warwick shows no evidence of having made any study of original
materials. He shows no remarkable dramatic insight.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 40w.
=Washburn, Margaret Floy.= Animal mind: a text-book of comparative
psychology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–6095.
The facts set forth in this book have been deduced from experimental
work in comparative psychology. The author shows the difficulties
besetting the student who desires to know the contents of minds below
the human level. Knowledge must be obtained by way of inference from
behavior. The questions then confronting the comparative psychologist
are: By what method shall he find out how an animal behaves? and How
shall he interpret the conscious aspect of that behavior? These
questions are answered scientifically thruout the study.
* * * * *
“While the book offers nothing new to the scientist and psychologist,
it is a careful, sane, reliable piece of work.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Renders accessible to student as well as to the studious layman the
kind of data, the critical interpretation of results, and the source
of the guiding principles, that in the modern view are likely to bring
some systematic understanding of animal psychology.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 39. Jl. 16, ’08. 620w.
=Ind.= 64: 758. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“It will be found indispensable to all workers in the subject of
animal behavior, and ought to be read extensively by physiologists.”
S. O. Mast.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 467. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“Psychologists will be unanimous in their gratitude to Miss Washburn
for the very thorough way in which she has accomplished her task.” W:
Brown.
+ =Nature.= 78: 269. Jl. 23, ’08. 480w.
“The author does not juggle with facts; she is sternly scientific in
the matter of deductions and conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 153. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“The strong feature of the work is the systematization and correlation
of facts.” K: T. Waugh.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 205. Je. 15, ’08. 1650w.
“In the chapter on hearing, the author, while giving a good résumé of
the field, makes the mistake of saying that birds have no cochlea. The
book as a whole is so well done that we venture the opinion that its
usefulness will continue for several years to come.” J: B. Watson.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 275. Ag. 28, ’08. 1050w.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Mother’s yearbook: being a practical
application of the results of scientific child-study to the
problems of the first year of childhood. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–16420.
Each month of a baby’s first twelve is carefully followed, the
possible development outlined, and the mother’s preparation and
responsibility dwelt upon; the educational principles of Froebel,
Preyer, and others being applied after a manner that will assure the
most healthful and rational results. The book is a common sense
mother’s book based upon thoroly tested scientific principles.
* * * * *
“For the young mother to whom her new baby is more than merely a
pretty plaything, we have seen no book better than this.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 40w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Negro in business. $1.50. Hertel,
Jenkins & co.
7–37616.
Furnishes some record of the business awakening among the negro people
in the United States. “Part 1 is devoted to accounts of the success
different members of the race have achieved in various lines of
business, the material being mainly biographical in its nature....
Part 2 deals more with general principles. Chapters upon ‘Progress of
the American negro,’ ‘The negro and the labor problem of the south,’
‘The negro and his relation to the south,’ ‘The fruits of industrial
training,’ and ‘The American negro and his economic value,’ are
fruitful in matter and suggestions.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Dr. Washington makes a strong appeal by describing various men and
women. What he has to say should receive careful attention from all
those who feel that the negro is doomed to inevitable failure.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 643. D. ’07. 200w.
“An informing book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
=Wasson, George Savary.= Home from sea. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–11079.
The deep sea fisherman as a type is perpetuated in these tales of
Killick Cove. We hear him speak in terms of maritime vernacular, note
how his life’s strength and savor come from the invigorating tang of
the salt, and how, unmindful of progress and fast vanishing
traditions, he remains a primitive New Englander in freedom of fancy,
bold daring, and bred-in-the-bone superstition. The book is
illustrated from the author’s own sketches.
* * * * *
“Original, wholesome in tone, and full of local color.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“There is a strong flavor of New England, that appears in the dialect,
as well as in the dry humor of the characters.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1351. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
“The originality of the stories does but add to their credibility.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Wasson is doing a distinct service in preserving so faithfully a
type of man rapidly disappearing, to be found nowhere else in the
country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
“There are good, wholesome stories in the collection.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Cement laboratory manual. $1. Wiley.
8–27794.
A manual of instructions for the use of students in cement laboratory
practice. “It opens with a brief chapter on the methods used in
laboratory work, and gives instructions regarding the care and use of
apparatus. The second chapter is devoted to illustrated descriptions
of the apparatus employed in cement tests. Following this chapter is
one in which fourteen laboratory problems are set forth.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 280w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Vest-pocket handbook of mathematics for
engineers. *$1. Wiley.
8–17557.
“Intended as a reference work for the use of those who have studied or
are studying the branches of mathematics usually taught in engineering
courses. It contains the basic formulas of algebra, trigonometry,
analytic geometry and calculus, and brief statements of the principal
theorems of statics and dynamics. Thirty pages are devoted to stresses
and the strength of pipes, cylinders, riveted joints, beams, columns,
etc.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 55. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Should prove a very desirable addition to the engineer’s equipment.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 160w.
“The selection of the formulas has been well done so as to cover the
requirements of most engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14. ’08. 140w.
=Waterfield, Margaret H.= Flower grouping in English, Scotch, and
Irish gardens; notes and fifty-six sketches in color by Margaret
Waterfield; with contributions by E. V. B., S. Arnott and others.
*$6. Dutton.
8–29354.
A garden book whose text and illustrations are full of artistic
instruction and suggestions.
* * * * *
“As a garden-book at once artistic and yet fairly practical, Miss
Waterfield’s leaves little to be desired within its chosen field.” E.
K. Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“To the lover of gardens, and to the student of gardening, it is of
great interest and full to the brim with informing observations and
lessons from experience and long devotion to the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
“The meat of the book is in the illustration, and the meat is
delicious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
Reviewed by A. M. Cecil.
=Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“Miss Waterfield has had the help of able contributors, and has given
garden-lovers not only a book, but an ideal, nay, many ideals.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 70. Ja. 11, ’08. 60w.
=Waters, Robert.= Culture by conversation. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–29842.
“A plea for the resurrection of the old lost art of conversing, which,
says the author of this volume, is as superior to books as living men
and women are to the post mortem stories of their lives.” (R. of Rs.)
Helpful rules and illustrations of conversation are given for
instruction.
* * * * *
“This is a very entertaining book to read because it is full of
anecdote and happy illustration. Mr. Waters has culled quotations by
the score—all of them well worth noting—and if we look at the book as
a series of easygoing essays, it is most commendable. Whether it will
do anything to revive the obsolescent art of conversation, may well be
doubted.”
+ =Bookm.= 26: 674. F. ’08. 820w.
“A few details might call for criticism if space permitted. But these
are trifling blemishes on a good and useful and entertaining book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 40w.
* =Watkeys, Frederick W.= Old Edinburgh. (Travel lovers’ lib.) 2v. $3.
Page.
8–32990.
An account of the ancient capital of the kingdom of Scotland,
including its streets, houses, notable inhabitants, and customs in the
olden time. “The outcome, as the author explains in his preface, of a
recent pleasant sojourn in the Scottish capital, his book will be a
welcome companion to other sojourners and of interest to intending
visitors. It makes no claim to being exhaustive, nor does it seek to
supersede older and more learned historical accounts of the famous
city.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Is an attractive and serviceable book of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The illustrations, printed in brown tone, that are introduced from
rare prints, add greatly to the book’s value.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Watkins, George Pendleton.= Growth of large fortunes: a study of
economic causes affecting the acquisition and distribution of
property. (Publications of the American economic assn.) $1.
Macmillan.
8–4000.
“The object in the present work is not to discuss the social aspects
of the problem, nor to devise plans for corrective legislation; it is
simply to acquaint the readers with the economic factors which have
operated to bring large fortunes into existence. These, roughly
speaking, are, on his showing, identical with the factors that have
made for economic progress generally—the development of improved
methods of production and distribution, the growth of invention and
discovery, the exploitation of natural resources unutilized by
previous generations, the steady and unprecedented growth of
capital.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The treatise presents a good analysis of the conditions, changes and
general causes underlying the recent development of large fortunes,
and may be considered a valuable contribution to the subject.” E. N.
Tuckey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 117. Je. ’08. 1300w.
“He does not cover his subject in its entirety, but within its
self-imposed limitations his examination is certainly thorough and
informative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 324. F. 8, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Watson, Charles R.= In the valley of the Nile: a survey of the
missionary movement in Egypt. **$1. Revell.
8–17702.
A survey of the missionary movement in Egypt from the beginnings of
Christianity in the Nile valley down to the present time. The
peculiarities of the field, the history of the vanguard in entering
it, the gain in power, the outgrowth of the necessity of devising
methods of work, the present need of expanding and extending actual
operations are all enlarged upon out of the fulness of the author’s
own experience.
* * * * *
“His survey of present social and political conditions shows insight
and judgment. It should be read by any one desirous of understanding
modern Egypt.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 440w.
* =Watson, H. B. Marriott.= Devil’s pulpit. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29000.
A “buried treasure” story. “It carries as reckless and unassorted a
lot of adventurers as ever took ship together from Southampton to an
island in the West Indies. Battle, murder, and sudden death go with
them, and so do all sorts of wild and unexpected happenings. But in
the end they get their treasure, such of them as are still alive.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“A thoroughly good, rattling, thrilling story it is.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 719. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Watson, John.= The philosophical basis of religion: a series of
lectures. *$3. Macmillan.
8–12831.
The author concerns himself with the reconstruction of the history of
religious belief, which he deems necessary in view of “the unrest and
confusion of ideas which have invaded our modern life.” He offers a
philosophy of religion based upon rationality.
* * * * *
“In every part of the book subjects of long-standing debate have been
so treated as to bring out the most recent phases of the controversy
and it is scarcely necessary to add that these lectures will be warmly
welcomed by many earnest students of philosophy and theology.” J. G.
Hume.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 507. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“We do not share the author’s views, or find him particularly
convincing. But his position, both in attack and defence, is well
sustained, and we recall few such well-argued expositions of a
standpoint not easily understood.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 200w.
“On the whole—and this is the only serious criticism I should advance
against Dr. Watson—matters are not advanced in a convincing manner
beyond the stage already reached, especially by ... Dr. Edward Caird.
By his present work he has laid both the student of religious
philosophy and those whose main interest lies in the history of the
evolution of dogma under an obligation which is not easily measured;
for he has written a wise book upon a subject whose importance in
these days outrivals all other interests.” H: Jones.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 676. Ap. ’08. 3000w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 260w.
“These lectures eminently deserve the attention of those who agree
with their author that ‘nothing short of a complete revision of
theological ideas can bring permanent satisfaction to our highly
reflective age.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“It is in connection with the main philosophical thesis of the book
that I venture to express the most dissatisfaction.” A. K. Rogers.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 529. S. ’08. 1700w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= God’s message to the human
soul: the use of the Bible in the light of the new knowledge.
(Cole lectures of Vanderbilt university for 1907.) **$1.25.
Revell.
7–32354.
The lectures which Dr. Watson was to have delivered at Vanderbilt
university in the autumn of 1907. “Dr. Watson welcomes the modern
world, its science, its criticism. He recognizes to the full the
change that has come over our idea of the Bible in these latter days.
The book is itself an evolution; that fact alone will enable us to
understand it, and especially to appreciate the imperfect but
developing ethics of the Old Testament. The purpose of the Bible is
religious, not scientific.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It does not equal in merit ‘The mind of the Master’ or the Yale
lectures on ‘The cure of souls.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
“He presents these sane and sound views in a style that catches the
ear as well as the mind and that often has the charm of epigram.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= St. Jude’s. *$1.25. S. S.
times co.
7–21223.
Sketches or studies illustrating the spiritual life of St. Jude’s, a
free church’s congregation in Glasgow.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“The book, though slight, is worth reading, and leaves a kindly
impression of the writer and the man.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 160w.
“The parishioners are every whit as canny, dour and disagreeably
theological as the simpler folk of the Grampian hills but somehow they
are not quite so interesting in the thick and heavy Glasgow
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825 O. 3 ’07 100w.
“They are all good.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 616. O. 26, ’07. 150w
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Scot of the 18th century: his
religion and his life. *$2. Armstrong.
8–8469.
Ten posthumous sketches eight of which are devoted to the Scot’s
religion and two to his life. “In ‘The Scot in his home’ we have a
brief but comprehensive survey of social conditions, and another
section unfolds the familiar tale of Church discipline. The greater
part of the book is occupied with an interesting account—somewhat
marred by repetition—of the men who governed or rent the Kirk, and of
the literary circle which made Edinburgh famous.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The sketches are unequal in value, and the best of them in our
opinion, is that which traces, with no small insight and humour, the
decline and ritual in the reformed kirk. Historical blunders are
fairly numerous, and sometimes serious. There are few misprints, and
some oddities of style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 647. N. 23. 1500w.
“Those who have read the late Dean Stanley’s ‘History of the church of
Scotland’ can never forget it. The same may be said of this harvest
from the same rich field.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 260w.
“The late ‘Ian Maclaren’ could always write in a genial and
interesting way on anything and everything connected with Scotland.
This posthumous volume is a proof of the fact, and of little else.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 320w.
=Watson, Thomas Edward.= Waterloo. *$1.50. Neale.
8–28406.
A vivid account of the battle of Waterloo, to the historical records
concerning which the author brings the aid of a brilliant imagination.
* * * * *
“Worthily serves as an epilog to his life of Napoleon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The story of a partisan who tries to be just and succeeds fairly well
in the endeavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
* =Watt, Lauchlan MacLean.= Attic and Elizabethan tragedy. *$2. Dutton.
“The first half dozen chapters are taken up with a broad general
comparison of the conditions in the two countries under which tragedy
reached its noblest expression, its origins in Greece and in England,
and of the dramatic laws and social customs which governed its writing
and presentation. Then a dozen or more chapters are devoted to the
three great authors of Attic tragedy and their remaining works, and as
many more to the foremost tragedians of the Elizabethan age.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The author has the gift of dramatic, interesting statement, and his
general discussion of the drama is thoughtful and illuminating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“On the whole he has prepared himself for his task by a course of wide
reading which might certainly have been more up to date, but which
includes many high authorities on his subject. Some of his verse
paraphrases are fair, some very bad indeed. The book is mainly
derivative and presents to us nothing essential that has not been said
before, and often said a good deal better. In short, the book is
obviously suited to students who are anxious for a simple,
comprehensive study of a subject more or less new to them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 703. D. 5, ’08. 950w.
=Watts, Mary S.= The tenants: an episode of the ’80s. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–11081.
A mansion whose history is the history of a strange group of human
beings furnishes the stage for this kaleidoscopic drama. The builder,
Governor Gwynne, is succeeded by less prosperous and ambitious
generations, who bask for a time in the glory of his name, then allow
the house to pass to a southern broker who plays the town honor false.
The author finds all sorts and conditions of men to portray, and each
sketch in turn is distinct and impressionistic.
* * * * *
“This is almost an invention in stories.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is a novel of manners rather than startling plot, and the interest
in the depicting of character outweighs the interest in incident.
Perhaps the finest quality of the work is a gentle humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“We hope to see more books like ‘The tenants.’ It is leisurely but not
lengthy, humorous but not boisterous; and it has a gradually
developing plot-interest which does not degenerate into cheap
sensationalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
=Wayland, John Walter.= Political opinions of Thomas Jefferson: an
essay; with an introd. by R. H. Dabney. $1.25. Neale.
8–1940.
The quintessence of Jefferson’s political views. The discussion falls
under five heads: Concerning government, Concerning the American
states, Concerning the United States government, Concerning the United
States in relation to foreign powers, and Concerning various questions
of importance.
* * * * *
“The opinions quoted are at times, too, selected rather than
interpretive.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 452. S. ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Wayland has certainly made an interesting and useful
classification of Jefferson’s political doctrines.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Coming struggle in eastern Asia. *$3.50.
Macmillan.
8–11478.
The last of four volumes dealing with the Far Eastern question. It
contains the author’s “careful revaluation of the old forces in the
Far Eastern situation as they displayed themselves during the first
half of the year 1907.” The author believes that it is the oligarchic
Japan which constitutes the new problems in eastern Asia. “Apart from
his political argument the book is of value for the large amount of
information it gives of the present condition and future prospects of
Eastern Siberia and Manchuria and the financial and commercial
statistics of Japan and China.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The account of the situation in Manchuria is especially valuable;
other parts are somewhat disappointing—not up to his best work—because
some facts and conclusions are to be questioned.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
“The criticisms are often directly opposed to those commonly passed on
the same subjects in Europe and America, but the conclusions are
reached by an acute observer of Oriental affairs and are based on
statements of fact convincing and often startling, a fact which gives
the arguments more than ordinary weight.” C: L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 466. S. ’08. 640w.
“Having called attention to the somewhat dangerous doctrines of the
author, and warned our readers against the exaggeration of many of his
640 closely printed pages, we must not omit to point out that he
supplies an enormous amount of useful information, especially on the
present naval and military preparations of Japan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 225. F. 22. 1400w.
“Although one may not glean from it a great deal that is really new,
one cannot put his hands upon a more sane, compact, and readable
discussion of the subject in English.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 58. Ag. 1, ’08. 830w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“While the political conclusions of the volume must be taken account
of everywhere, its real value lies in the wealth of information and
multiplicity of details which it gives regarding Manchuria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 165. Mr. 28, ’08. 1750w.
=Outlook.= 89: 311. Je. 6, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=Weale, William Henry J.= Hubert and John Van Eyck: their life and
work. *$30. Lane.
8–20537.
A work which makes its appeal mainly to the “true connoisseur and the
genuine lover of art for its own sake. Mr. Weale prefaces his work
with a chronological summary of the chief events that affected the
careers of the Van Eycks, and devotes a considerable portion of his
text to the actual transcription, in order of date, of the more
important of the documents from which he has culled his information,
supplementing his quotations by a very complete bibliography of all
the publications that bear even remotely upon the fortunes of the two
famous brothers.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“In the monumental work before us we have one of the most
authoritative and scholarly works that have been published in any
language for many years. The individuality of the author, his
sincerity and his knowledge, are stamped on every page. Tiresome
little inaccuracies impair the value as a work of reference.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 484. Ap. 18. 2900w.
“Upon its artistic side the book is a notable contribution to the art
works of recent years.” W. C. Larned.
+ =Dial.= 45: 112. S. 1, ’08. 1200w.
“A monumental work ... the value of which to the student of Flemish
painting it is impossible to over-estimate.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 332. F. ’08. 300w.
“His book is a model to all future scientific art-historians; it is a
volume indispensable to all who concern themselves with
connoisseur-ship or the history of art. Here is a compilation from
which fancy is wholly barred out; nothing but absolute facts are
admitted to these stern pages.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 25. Mr. ’08. 1800w.
“In accuracy the work falls far short of the German standard. We
hasten to add that the book as it is is immensely useful. The very
richness and variety of the book forbids us to follow it in detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 40. Jl. 9, ’08. 2250w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 303. F. 22, ’08. 420w.
=Webb, Wilfrid Mark.= Heritage of dress; being notes on the history
and evolution of clothes. *$3.50. McClure.
8–12147.
How we came to have articles of dress as common as the modern coat,
shawl, buttons, safety-pins, etc. is set forth “after the method of
the naturalist.” The origin of dress and its development furnish a
most enlightening discussion for the reader who is apt to take things
for granted and not to inquire into descent.
* * * * *
“Interesting account of the origin and evolution of all sorts of
details of dress, containing a considerable amount of conjecture, but
presenting much curious and instructive matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Webb renders an interesting subject somewhat dull by a pedestrian
style. The value of the book is, however, much enhanced by many plates
and figures.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 124. F. 1, 750w.
“If Mr. Webb has not written a scientific treatise on the ‘Heritage of
dress,’ he has given us, within the limits, an interesting and
suggestive book.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 7. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“His stock-in-trade appears to be a habit of theorising from
insufficient data, and a certain amount of genuine knowledge of
natural history not applicable to his present subject.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 177. Ag. 8, ’08. 1500w.
“This important-looking book contains a good deal that is very curious
and instructive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 440w.
=Webster, Henry Kitchell.= Whispering man. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27494.
The amateur detective who unravels the mystery of a murder that
baffles police and plain clothes men, is not a “Thinking machine” but
a man who knows by instinct when he is looking into the face of a
criminal. He finds the murderer after detectives, professional and
amateur, have done their best to convict various innocent people.
* * * * *
“‘The whispering man’ belongs to the class of the more successful
[detective stories], because of the precision with which the parts of
the plot are fitted together, and the clock-work regularity of the
action.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 457. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A clever detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Webster, Hutton.= Primitive secret societies: a study in early
politics and religion. **$2. Macmillan.
8–3955.
“In which the author discusses the significance of the data collected
in recent years by investigators in Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and
North America. Much of this information regarding initiation
ceremonies and other curious rites found among savage and barbarous
communities will be entirely new to those readers who have never had
access to detailed accounts of these recent discoveries.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“A very welcome and important contribution to the study of early
society, and yet it is perhaps as notable for what it has not
attempted as for what it has performed. Within the limits of his
attempt, it seems to me that the author follows a defective method in
assuming that the motives lying behind the organization of secret
societies are everywhere the same.” W: I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 166. O. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Webster has done all students of social institutions a service by
collecting and interpreting so much evidence to show the significance
and development of the rites by which the boy becomes a citizen with
the responsibilities of the adult.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book that will be of special interest to students of
sociology and anthropology.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 110w.
“It is a comparatively small matter if on the side of theory the book
shows certain shortcomings, notably the tendency we have noticed to
ignore plurality of casual chains of development. As a systematic
arrangement of well-chosen evidence it will take a high place amongst
contemporary aids to anthropological study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 1500w.
“Dr. Webster pursues what we consider a deplorable practice in the
matter of quotation.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 248. O. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“As an example of scholarly research, judicious statement and careful
interpretation the book leaves little for criticism. Perhaps an
additional chapter tracing the historical importance of this
succession would have given the book greater completeness as well as
more well-rounded interest.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 151. Je. ’08. 720w.
“The work is extremely valuable for any student of human life and
social organizations that tries to see things in their beginnings. In
its field it may be compared with Westermarck’s ‘History of human
marriage’ and such other fundamental treatises on the psychical life
and institutions of mankind.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
“Portions of the book are filled with curious and interesting details
which lighten Professor Webster’s somewhat wooden treatment with vivid
detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 430w.
“Although the main usefulness of his work will be for those who read
to write, it has its uses for those who read merely to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 70w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Our trees: how to know them; photographs
from nature by Arthur I. Emerson, with a guide to their
recognition at any season of the year and notes on their
characteristics, distribution and culture, by Clarence M. Weed.
**$3. Lippincott.
8–8141.
A book whose text and very fine illustrations unite in teaching the
non-botanical reader how to identify at a glance any unknown tree. In
the descriptive matter special attention has been given to
distinguishing characteristics of the various species, as well as to
the more interesting phases of the yearly cycle of each, and the
special values of each for ornamental planting.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 152. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by T: H. Macbride.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“We commend the volume heartily to the amateur and the student.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The text, which is pleasantly written, gives a good account of forest
lore, and of facts relative to the range of the species, together with
a sprinkling of fairly selected verse.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The text and pictures together form a complete method of acquiring an
intimate acquaintance with American trees. The descriptions are
accurate and reasonably full.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 80w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Wild flower families. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13637.
The haunts, characters and family relationships of the herbaceous wild
flowers are given with suggestions for their identification. “The
treatment is by families, beginning with such flowers as appear
earliest in spring and ending with those that longest defy the frosts
of autumn.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“One of the most helpful of the wild flower books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“The book always keeps in view the giving of practical information,
which is admirably blended with literary flavor through apt quotation,
largely from contemporary poets.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is well conceived and executed. We particularly like the
instructions given in the introduction about collecting and preserving
plants. We wish the author were not so afraid of using botanical
names, at least the generic ones.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Weir, Archibald A. E.= Introduction to the history of modern
Europe. $2. Houghton.
7–42473.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Selected chapters of this little book will make good supplementary
reading and be helpful and stimulating to any person of culture and
wide-reading, or to the student stall-fed on the husks of political
details.” G. S. Ford.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 50w.
“Here and there his statements are overstrained. Its chief value lies
in the clear and suggestive relations which it presents between the
realms of thought and action. Here the author gives many thoughtful
touches which reveal the connexion between politics and culture.” J.
H. Rose.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 170. Ja. ’08. 820w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 20w.
“To the reviewer it seems that Mr. Weir has erred in essaying the
impossible and that his work would be far more valuable if he had
centred his attention on one phase of civilization, say, politics,
instead of squandering it upon the whole, vast field.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 340w.
=Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer.= Home life of Poe. $1.50. Broadway pub.
7–42108.
A sketch in which the author presents a “thorougly human likeness. The
failings of the man are not concealed, but they are treated humanly,
with neither the attempt to throw the blame for them on others, as
certain advocates have tried to do, nor the more common gloating over
his weaknesses which has been carried on by most biographers from the
jealousies aroused by Poe among his contemporaries. Possibly there is
a touch of undue animosity shown against Mrs. Clemm and her daughter.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Her contribution to Poe literature is a permanent and wholesome one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 260w.
“The author makes a distinct contribution to an understanding of Poe
as a man. No future historian of American literature can neglect it or
is likely to do so.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 730w.
“Within its own field, as an intimate portrait of Poe and of those
with whom he lived from childhood to death, we regard it as the sanest
and truest book yet published.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27, ’08. 380w.
“The final biographer of Poe will be guided in his story of the poet’s
childhood and of his later life in Richmond largely by those pictures
of him which appear in this modest little book.” C: M. Graves.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 71. F. 8. ’08. 670w.
=Welch, Catherine.= Little Dauphin. *$1.50. Scribner.
The life of the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette is traced to the
imprisonment of the French royal family in the Temple, and from there
“the author has no definite theory: but, although unwilling to accept
any one of the forty personages who claimed to be the son of Louis
XVI, she does—and in our view, justifiably—express a decided disbelief
in the fact of the death in the Temple, and sets forth substantial
grounds for dissatisfaction with the official proof of it.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Miss Welch’s book amply justifies its existence. The only blunder as
to fact that we have encountered in the book is the calling of Drouet
‘the postmaster of Varennes’ (twice).”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 294. S. 12. 1750w.
“Miss Welch writes with a lively imagination and a warm tenderness of
feeling that make her narrative vivid and appealing. She has a gentle
sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 1050w.
“Is quite a good book to read. The author has some gift of style and a
pleasant vein of exaggeration. Her case is put with impartiality and
at the same time with decision. It is possible to quarrel with her
conclusions, but it is impossible not to respect them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 271. Ag. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Emily Emmins papers, il. †$1.50. Putnams.
7–39016.
“Emily Emmins, spinster” writes characteristically of her first
impressions of London gained and enjoyed without a Baedeker. She
comments upon “week-end house-parties out of town, tea drinking,
shopping experiences in Piccadilly, and that alluring social game
known as ‘going on.’” (Nation).
* * * * *
“The illustrations add to the liveliness of an uncommonly diverting
narrative.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08. ✠
“An uncommonly lively and readable text.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Her original side-remarks on the peculiarities of British
institutions are full of good humor of the kind that provokes many a
quiet chuckle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Wells, Carolyn=, comp. Vers de societe anthology. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–37621.
A book of light verse culled from poems all the way from Sir Philip
Sydney’s time to the present. “Her own suggestion [that the title
should be Gentle Verse] strikes us as capital, and we could wish she
had boldly made it the title of her book; it fits well her definition
of the kind as depending for its spirit ‘on an instant perception and
a fine appreciation of values, seen through the medium of a whimsical
kindliness.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“One of the best of Miss Wells’ anthologies.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 51. F. ’08.
“An excellent book to read.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 160w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= First and last things: a confession of
faith and a rule of life. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–29004.
It is demanded of all who write concretely of reform that there shall
be some system of belief underlying their schemes. While Mr. Wells
believes that no “trimmed or rounded system of philosophy or religion
is attainable” he does set forth his social faith, and the convictions
and ideas which constitute it, and which have led up to a rule of
life. He turns analyst of his own mind and these pages record the
results.
* * * * *
“A personal testament of this sort must of necessity have an interest,
and, in the case of an intellect such as Mr. Wells’s, a value also.
Fascinating volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 712. D. 5. 1900w.
“Although Mr. Wells’ religion and philosophy may not be, and indeed
cannot be, exactly those of any one if his readers, the book is
valuable as the honest attempt of a man of vigorous and wide-ranging
intellect to explain precisely what he believes and what he
disbelieves.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 658. N. 7, ’08. 2200w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08, 200w.
“Not only has Mr. Wells himself said it all before, but it was never
anything but the stale commonplace of ‘progressive thought.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 700. D. 5, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= New worlds for old. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–8150.
An intimate and first hand study of the socialist movement.
Acquaintance with its leaders, membership in many of its
organizations, and experiments in socialist politics have enabled the
author to arrive at certain conclusions as to the trend and needs of
social development. These he sets down here. He discusses the spirit
of good will in man, the fundamental idea in socialism, some
generalizations on socialism, some objections to socialism,
revolutionary administrative and constructive socialism, and answers
the questions, Would socialism destroy the home and would it abolish
all property? A final chapter is devoted to the advancement of
socialism.
* * * * *
“A most persuasive plea for socialism, which is at the same time fair,
temperate, open-minded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08. ✠
“Not for a long time has the literature of socialism been enriched by
a more reasonable and entertaining book than this. Some of his
difficulties he slurs over instead of meeting them squarely.” H. R.
Mussey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 467. S. ’08. 470w.
“This book is, in our judgment, the very best popular treatise on
socialism that has appeared.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 586. My. ’08. 3350w.
“We highly commend the defence of moderate non-revolutionary
‘Socialism’ contained in the first and several of the other chapters
of Mr. Wells. The main objection that may be taken to the work of Mr.
Wells is that we took to the last collection of the essays of M.
Jaurès, namely, that the title of the best of those essays applies to
the picture that Mr. Wells and M. Jaurès paint—‘Moonlight.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 340w.
“Forms a very good introduction to socialism. It will attract and
interest those who are not of that faith, and correct those who are.”
T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 163. S. 16, ’08. 860w.
“This is at once the most readable, the most sensible and the least
socialistic of recent socialist works.” F. A. Fetter.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 53. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“The vogue which the writer enjoys is to us a mystery, for the content
of his books seems to oscillate between the weird and the grotesque,
and to be distinctly tiresome.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Wells has some particularly irritating mannerisms, and his humor
is not always in the best of taste.” James Seth.
− + =Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 830w.
“Altogether this [that the state should become the over-parent] is a
most seductive, sane and sober argument. Like all sociological studies
made in Europe, it fails to hit American conditions exactly.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“His title might with equal truth have been ‘New words for old,’ for
this book does not present an essential project of Utopian socialism
which he has not elaborated before.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 450w.
“For, despite all the praise which is not grudged him, it remains true
that there is more of the Blue book about this document than anything
yet appearing from his pen. The statistics are tremendously
respectable and convincing, but alas! they are caviare to the general,
and not pure literature, however well they enforce a point.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 167. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“When his analysis of socialism is scrutinized, it is impossible to
share his enthusiasm to any degree.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
“In content the book is very valuable indeed.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 556. S. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Wells temporarily forsakes his role of a writer of fantastic
romances and sets forth his idea in his own clear style of what the
future socialistic state is to be.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 50w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 405. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Wells sets out the grounds of our discontent, and pictures for us
reconstructions of society which are alluring, if not convincing to
the sober imagination.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 900w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= War in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30615.
A book in which Mr. Wells takes the reader step by step to the end of
a triumph of “scientific imagination.” It is a prediction fraught with
achievement. A cockney of a scientific turn, who is carried away to
Germany in a balloon, and from there is taken on the flagship of a
German air fleet setting out to attack the United States, furnishes
eyes for the reader to behold the possible development of aerial
navigation, and the use of air ships in future war.
* * * * *
“His story, however, suffers from being less of a story than it ought
to be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 420w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“The book certainly ‘gives to think,’ and for those who do not like to
think it provides entertainment, with a certain modicum of instruction
perforce and unawares.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“May stand as the best boy’s book of the season if it can stand as a
boy’s book at all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
“It is a novel, a romance, a social study and a prophetic anticipation
crushed into one. Its complexity spoils it as a work of art. The book,
indeed, is worth reading for half a dozen reasons; but it would have
been better worth reading had there not been quite so many.”
+ − =Sat. R=, 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 470w.
=Welsford, Joseph W. W.= Strength of nations: an argument from
history. **$1.75. Longmans.
7–38586.
“Stated briefly, Mr. Welsford’s theme is that the only permanent
source of national strength is national production, and that the
neglect of national production for the sake of temporary advantages,
whether in the shape of tribute from subjects or dividends from
foreign investments, of profits for merchants and capitalists, or
cheap food for the masses, has invariably led to national decay and
disaster.” (Ath.) He uses Rome and Constantinople as his first
illustration of his thesis.
* * * * *
“The argument is plain, and the analogies are good—the historical
lesson all that the most ardent protectionist can desire. There is one
most annoying feature in the book. The authorities, to whom reference
is made in the notes, are indicated by letters only, and further
reference must be made to an index of authorities at the end of the
book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 741. Ag. 3, ’07. 1200w.
“Mr. Welsford’s book can be recommended to classes which are studying
the pathology of history, and want a morbid specimen for examination;
it can serve no other good purpose.” Clive Day.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 347. Ja. ’08. 590w.
“While [the author] is successful in collecting his material, he fails
to round it out into a definite system of ideas. In his zeal for
industry, he forgets humanity.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 51. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The work has been based almost entirely on general histories, and is
loosely reasoned, superficial, and partisan in character.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 130w.
“Those who are already in agreement with him will welcome with delight
an exposition so full of novel and suggestive instances. Those whose
point of view differs from Mr. Welsford’s may think his conclusions
exaggerated and may feel annoyed by his frankly controversial tone,
but can hardly fail to be impressed by the facts which he has
adduced.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 219. Jl. 12, ’07. 1700w.
− =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 900w.
“In spite of the crispness of his style and a somewhat serene
confidence in his ability to discover the real lines of cause and
effect in the labyrinth of the past, the new Orosius of the Tariff
reform league will find at least as many students of history who will
question his synthesis as economists convinced by his arguments. On
the other hand the book does show originality and is decidedly
stimulating.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 563. S. ’08. 220w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Privileged classes. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–28840.
“In the four essays that make up this volume Professor Wendell
discusses the deeper problems of higher education in their relation to
present-day American life. The papers were originally presented as
addresses on literary and educational occasions.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The great merit of this collection of essays is the brilliancy of the
phrasing. That intellectual courage which enables Mr. Wendell to
expound the unpopular side of the problem of equal rights is not
characteristic of the collegiate or social circles in which he moves.
Therefore it is the more honourable to him.” J: Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 357. D. ’08. 1500w.
“We believe Professor Wendell exaggerates the discontent, but be that
as it may, he certainly misinterprets it if he seriously believes it
is symptomatic of revolution based on conviction that our democracy is
a failure.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31. ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 40w.
=Wernle, Paul.= Sources of our knowledge of the life of Jesus; tr.
by Edward Lummis. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–31390.
Aims to prepare for the lay reader a path to the knowledge of Jesus,
and to guide him so far forward in the examination of the sources that
he may himself take part in the answer to the question, Who and what
was Jesus? The author discusses Source—material outside the four
gospels. Our four evangelists, The synoptics, and The sources of the
synoptics.
=Wesselhoeft, Elizabeth F. P.= Rover, the farm dog. †$1.25. Little.
A story of child life on a farm, introducing a delightful
step-grandmother and a number of interesting dogs.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 80w.
“Kindness is the motive behind the adventures in this book.” M. J.
Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1479. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
=West, Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill, afterwards
Mrs. George Cornwallis-West).= Reminiscences of Lady Randolph
Churchill. **$3.50. Century.
8–30607.
With characteristic detachment Mrs. West assembles rambling personal
reminiscences of social and political England during the past thirty
years. To these are added glimpses of court life in Russia and
Germany; impressions and experiences gained from a tour around the
world; knowledge of the Red cross movement gained thru actual service
on the staff of the hospital ship Maine. Her own sprightly description
and comment are interspersed with bits of conversation and excerpt
from letters. The book is handsomely illustrated.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“Lady Randolph Churchill is a true woman in that her point of view is
always the personal one, which gives an original tang to her anecdotes
of great personages, English and foreign.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 300w.
“A valuable and spritely record of men and women.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 899. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There is nothing ill-natured in the book, and apparently nothing
indiscreet.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 1450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“With much good humor sketches the character of friend and opponent,
using sufficient prudence yet making a witty, piquant narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 841. D. 12, ’08. 550w.
“In a volume of this kind the point of view is everything, and it is
that which, to American readers at least, lends a rare charm to these
memoirs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 220w.
“Mrs. Cornwallis West seems to think that to make a good book it is
enough to throw together, without method, arrangement, or dates, a lot
of hazy recollections about famous and fashionable people. But it is
not enough; and since the appearance of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s
memoir we have not experienced so keen a disappointment as in these
pointless and rambling reminiscences.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 800w.
“As boldness generally succeeds, so does Mrs. George West succeed in
writing a most entertaining book without giving any one a harder
knock, we should think, than he is able to bear, or causing more
embarrassment to public characters still living than they are
accustomed to.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 589. O. 17, ’08. 2450w.
=West, Max.= Inheritance tax. 2d ed., completely rev. and enl.
(Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law, v.
4, no. 2.) *2.50. Longmans.
8–831.
“Includes all the valuable, historical material of the first edition
and reviews the many and extensive changes brought about by the
legislation during the past fourteen years.”’—Econ. Bull.
* * * * *
“The work is an unbiased presentation of the data necessary for a
clear knowledge of the subject.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 48. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“We commend his monograph to all interested in the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Westall, Laura May.= Common-sense view of the mind-cure. **75c.
Funk.
8–27799.
Not a contribution to Christian science but a discussion of the use of
will power in curing or driving away common functional disorders.
* * * * *
“There is not much sentiment, and there is a good deal of logical
practical statement in ‘A common sense view of the mind cure.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 548. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=Westell, W. Percival.= Insect book. (Country handbooks ser.) *$1.
Lane.
A brief study of the insects of Great Britain. The author “tells about
insects of the garden, of the waterside, of the wood, and, we may say
of the country generally; finally, about insects of the house. Of
course, he is a friend of the insect tribe as a whole; but he concedes
that the cockroach is ‘an unmitigated nuisance’ in many houses. It
came over to this country in the sixteenth century, a heavy ‘per
contra’ when we are reckoning up the benefits of that epoch.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A delightful little book, easily read at a sitting, and in the main,
accurate. One might also doubt if Mr. Westell has not gone too far in
his aim to be popular and simple, by omitting so generously the
scientific names.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The volume breathes a certain culture and graciousness refreshing as
the conversation of some learned but withal quite human friend.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“A very interesting little book on a subject in which he is an
expert.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 545. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Westlake, John.= International law; a treatise. 2v. ea. *$3.
Putnam.
The author “has not attempted an exhaustive and technical treatise,
but rather a general work, which would appeal both to university
students, publicists and that widening circle of the reading public
interested in international questions. The first volume is devoted to
the law of peace; the second volume to the law of war and of
neutrality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The distinguishing characteristic of Prof. Westlake’s work is that he
has succeeded in emancipating himself from the insular prepossessions
which have heretofore characterized so many of the British works on
international law. While this work cannot be said to present the
subject from a new point of view, it is in many respects the most
satisfactory summary of the present status of international law
available to English speaking students.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 468. S. ’08. 300w.
“Perhaps no work has been written on the leading topics of
international law which is more likely to enable its readers to reason
sanely upon the ‘other topics’ of the subject. The only defect
observable in the book, if it be permitted to criticize adversely one
who has demonstrated himself a master, is the somewhat obscure
language in which the thought has at times been expressed.” G. W.
Scott.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 518. S. ’08. 1750w.
=Westrum, Adriaan Schade van.= The devil. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–27363.
A story based on the translations and adaptation made from the
Hungarian by Alex Konta and William Trowbridge Larned. “It is a
picture of erring human nature, but the sophistries of Satan are set
forth with wit and humor and are made the vehicle of satirical flings
at the modern social order.”
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 814. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
“The task of one who runs dramatic materials into the novel mould—much
simpler than the opposite process—is to avoid adding too much. In this
case the adapter has acquitted himself well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Westrup, Margaret.= Greater mischief. †$1.50. Harper.
8–5583.
A sensitive child at the mercy of a jealous, undemonstrative,
puritanic mother struggles into bloom in the little garden of her
wonderful imagination. A prince charming offers to her when a child of
ten the first real sympathy her hungry little soul has known. She
lives upon the memory of their companionship until in after years he
returns and offers her his love. Their love is changed to grief thru
an ancient grudge which the wooer’s father bears the dead father of
Audrey, and only a heroic sacrifice on the part of the hitherto
uncompromising mother is able to restore happiness.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08.
“Speaking generally, the personages of the story (including Euphemia,
a truly comical dog) are realized far more vividly than in the run of
contemporary novels. It is a pity that their effectiveness should be
so often endangered by the coil of a futile and over-ingenious plot.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent specimen of English skill in the writing of fiction and
of those points in which it is superior to the American novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The problem presented in [this story] is a serious one, and has
tragic possibilities; but the story holds it with firm but skillful
grasp, and surrounds it with so much pleasant humor and charming
suggestion that the reader is never overwhelmed.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
* =Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= An English honeymoon. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
8–32322.
Honeymoon happiness casts its effulgence across every page of this
bright narrative of scenes and sights thru England. In a series of
letters the bride reveals how they convert everything from a king’s
highway to an obscure lane into a byway of lovers; comfortable,
unconventionable “honeymooners” they are who describe scenes, haunts
and structures as they perceive them, and assemble bits of historical,
literary and art information for the reader’s enlightenment.
* * * * *
“It is an attractive volume and written in Miss Wharton’s best style.”
+ =Dial.= 45; 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“It is all charmingly told, and as a bit of travel literature the
little volume is strengthened by the excellent illustrations.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“The travel narrative is an entertaining mixture of description,
quotation, and anecdote.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The happy traveler writes enthusiastically.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Hermit and the wild woman. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27101.
A group of stories dealing “with subtle problems, delicate situations,
the nuances, so to speak, of conduct and temperament.” (Outlook.) “The
title story, ‘The hermit and the wild woman,’ is in the form of an
Italian legend and bears the mark of the author’s familiarity with the
history and literature, the art and faith of Italy. The other stories
are of modern life.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Have all the subtlety and artistry in style and conception that we
associate with Mrs. Wharton.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 644. N. 21. 160w.
“The stories are, of course, admirably told; we must hope that their
uniformity of key is a coincidence, and that the story-teller’s
buoyancy has not taken itself off altogether.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 400w.
“The stories are unequal in interest, although uniformly delightful in
the felicity of their detail and the trained taste of their
composition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
“They are not, however, either so novel in situation or so interesting
as some of their predecessors. They are a little inclined to a certain
form of preciosity from which Mrs. Wharton will do well to deliver
herself.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“Is best read by firelight, when the room is still, when the delicate
perfection of the work makes its just appeal to an alert and impartial
reader.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 702. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“To begin with, we cannot think that she was altogether well advised
in including in a set of ultra-modern stories the mediaeval
quasi-allegory which gives its name to the book. Apart from that, the
almost invariable recurrence of failure, disappointment, and
disillusionment as the leading motives of each episode makes for
depression as well as monotony.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 750w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Motor-flight through France. **$2. Scribner.
8–30288.
A book for readers familiar with France. Mrs. Wharton’s glances here
and there serve as suggestions to start a description that grows out
of the fulness of her historical understanding of the places visited,
and her shrewd, analytical reflections.
* * * * *
“Readers who enjoy style, readers who are fond of automobile riding,
readers who are interested in rural France, whether for its art, its
architecture, or its landscape, will enjoy Mrs. Wharton’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Is rich with the delicate observation of a keen, well-stored mind,
eager for new impressions.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 260w.
“For anyone contemplating a motor trip thru France it should serve,
moreover, as an excellent guide.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“One may say that this is a book to give keen pleasure to all who have
themselves visited the scenes which Mrs. Wharton recalls so surely and
charmingly, but that it is too wide in scope, too crowded with detail,
too hasty in movement, to be very satisfactory to the untravelled.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 830w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton’s novels will not be
disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel
writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“Her keenness of observation and delicate descriptive style never fail
her.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
“A glance at the contents of the book does not suggest anything like
the treasures of novelty to be found within.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 947. D. 5, ’08. 620w.
=Wheeler, H. F. B., and Broadley, A. M.= Napoleon and the invasion
of England. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–6630.
Newspapers, letters, diaries and broad-sides of the period from 1793
to 1805 have provided a wealth of material upon which this narrative
is based. It describes the various plans which the French considered
during this period for the invasion of the British Isles with Napoleon
as leader. “The authors bring out clearly the importance of Napoleon’s
ignorance of matters nautical, an ignorance which assumes great
importance when we remember that one of the most potent factors in the
overthrow of Napoleon was the sea power of England.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Whether we consider the number of new materials, the wealth of
illustrations, both pictorial and literary (most of them drawn from
Mr. Broadley’s fine collection), the skill with which materials and
illustrative extracts are woven into the narrative or the correctness
of the text, the completeness of the index, and the excellence of the
form, the result must be considered highly satisfactory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 396. O. 5. 1920w.
“These caricatures, strange to say, though they are of course valuable
for the side-light they throw on public feeling at the time of their
production, are singularly deficient in real humour, and fail
altogether to appeal to modern taste—an incidental proof of the
increase in refinement that has taken place in that taste of late
years. These are all of stirring interest, and bring out more forcibly
than could any description by a later pen the actual feelings aroused
by the gloomy situation.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 250. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“We cannot pretend to think that it altogether sustains the
authoritative character implied in its rather ambitious title. It is,
in our judgment, palpably lacking in a true sense of historical
perspective and is little qualified to sustain the comparison it
suggests with the works of such men as Colomb, Mahan, and Desbriere,
but it is nevertheless full of entertainment and not devoid of
instruction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1580w.
“The great value of Messrs. Wheeler and Broadley’s handsome volumes is
that they bring together a great deal of miscellaneous material ...
that paint, as nothing else does, the national psychology of England
at this moment of pressing danger. They fill a gap in English
historical literature and may be heartily recommended. At the same
time it must be said that the authors are more collectors than
historians, enthusiasts than stylists; their own share of the book is
occasionally slipshod and is not marked by the historical sense.”
+ − =Nation.=, 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Every critic must unhesitatingly commend the wealth of pictorial
material in these two volumes. It has very high historical value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 260w.
“There can be little doubt that the authors of this book are right in
their contention that Bonaparte seriously intended the invasion of
England after the breach of Treaty of Amiens, and we do not know where
we can find so living a picture of the preparations which were made to
meet it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. S. 28. ’07. 1600w.
“The present work succeeds in giving us in the compass of a single
book a more convincing picture of a period of panic than we can recall
in any library.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. sup. 899. D. 7, ’07. 2120w.
=Wheeler, Henry.= History and exposition of the twenty-five articles
of religion of the Methodist Episcopal church. *$2. Meth. bk.
8–2747.
“A traditional, ‘confessional,’ treatment of the twenty-five articles
as an exhaustive creedal statement of Methodist doctrine.... The book
contains a brief introduction by Bishop Warren, a preliminary account
of the articles, a parallel presentation of the thirty-nine articles
with Wesley’s abridgment, and as the body of the work, a discussion of
each article verbatim, giving origin, aim, and exposition.”—Am. J.
Theol.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 678. O. ’08. 140w.
=Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 70w.
=Wheelock, Elizabeth M.= Stories of Wagner operas told for children.
†$1.28. Bobbs.
8–6994.
Stories of seven of the best Wagner operas are here retold for
children: The master singers of Nuremberg, The flying Dutchman,
Lohengrin, The Rhinegold The Walkyries, Siegfried, and The dusk of the
gods.
* * * * *
“Assuredly a contribution to the every-child-should-know literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44. 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 70w.
“The style of the author is too slavishly dependent upon the incidents
to be distinctive.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1474. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Mrs. Wheelock has been remarkably successful in infusing the real
narrative spirit into these tales, and her book may be placed by the
side of the Grimm and the Andersen fairy tales.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 291. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“Contains very little spontaneous narrative, although the events are
faithfully followed.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
“They are told here as they were told, not written, and retain a
flavor of the human voice, a certain pleasant intimacy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
=Whetham, Catherine Durning, and Whetham, William C. D.= History of
the life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, a forgotten soldier of the
civil wars. *$2.80. Longmans.
The career of a typical soldier of the Commonwealth, including early
life, apprenticeship to a baker, marriage with the baker’s widow,
service for parliament at the outbreak of the civil war in 1642,
governorships, and opposition to the establishment of an hereditary
protectorate. “With the exception of the opening chapter of the book
deals exclusively with Whetham’s public and military life, and a great
part of the work is occupied with explanatory summaries of the state
of parties in England and Scotland and with the causes and course of
the civil war.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It is only by such work that we may ultimately come to comprehend
such periods as that of the Puritan revolution.” W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 121. O. ’08. 440w.
“Rich in illustration, drawn in great measure from original sources,
this book is refreshingly free from superfluous matter; and its style
presents the directness, and restraint regarding the intrusion of
personal sentiments, which belong to true scholarship.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 348. Mr. 21, 2450w.
“The chief interest of the work lies in the account given of the minor
details of the war round Oxford, of Whetham’s defence of Northampton,
and of his later work and difficulties as governor of Portsmouth.” Eva
Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 364. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“A valuable contribution to the history of the seventeenth century.
Generally the book is most interesting. Perhaps its pleasantest pages
are those which describe the rural life of the seventeenth century.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 536. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Whidden, John D.= Ocean life in the old sailing ship days, from
forecastle to quarter-deck. **$1.50. Little.
8–15164.
Old-time sailing ships, the incidents connected with them, the
captains who commanded them and the departed glamour and romance of
the sea are the items for this autobiographic narrative. It is written
out of the experience of an old sea captain who, an orphan at five, on
shipboard at twelve, exposed to temptation in every port, subjected to
hard usage and strict discipline, rose from service in the forecastle
to the command and part ownership of a sailing craft.
* * * * *
“It is to be noted that in the account of his Eastern voyages Captain
Whidden has repeated the old and all but baseless tradition of
Juggernaut sacrifices. The Captain spins a rattling good yarn, and we
commend it to all lovers of sea stories.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One is constantly led to wish that better use had been made of the
abundant material at the disposal of its author; for occasionally he
essays a literary flight outside his usual record in log-book style,
and those excursions seldom fail to interest, instruct, or amuse. Our
legislators should read these pages written in unconscious support of
the present movement to strike the tariff shackles from American
industries.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 676. N. 14, ’08. 380w.
“His book not only relates his experiences as a voyager, but gives
remarkable insight into the ships and seafaring methods of a past
generation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Whipple, George Chandler.= Typhoid fever; its causation,
transmission and prevention; introd. by W: T. Sedgwick. *$3.
Wiley.
8–13622.
Aims to furnish to doctors and engineers “a condensed summary of the
most important facts that have been learned regarding typhoid fever,
so far as they relate to the prevention and spread of the disease; to
furnish to the student of sanitary science a group of illustrations of
some of the leading principles of epidemiology; and to give the
general reader a simple and, it is hoped, a clear and correct account
of the causation, transmission and prevention of the disease, and his
own responsibility in helping to bring about such conditions of
cleanliness that typhoid fever shall soon cease to be a national
disgrace.”—Preface.
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if any work in any language presents the side of the
subject of which he treats so concisely and yet so thoroughly as he
has done.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 181. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“Rarely is a book written with such capabilities for good as has this
one. It is to be hoped that the book will have a wide circulation and
careful reading and heeding among engineers, physicians and
lay-members of boards of health, as well as many others who are
interested in the public wealth and health.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 660w.
“This is the most important work on the subject, in English, since
Curschmann’s monograph was translated and edited by Dr. William Osler
seven years ago.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 417. O. 29, ’08. 940w.
“In the main the work is an admirable one, and worthy of the highest
commendation.” George Blumer.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 733. N. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Whitaker, Walter Claiborne.= Richard Hooker Wilmer, second bishop
of Alabama: a biography. **$2. Jacobs.
7–39218.
A sketch of Bishop Wilmer’s life which renders “simple justice” to his
undaunted courage, self-forgetfulness, and the consecration with which
he discharged his pioneer diocese responsibilities.
* * * * *
“This life of the Alabama clergyman well repays a careful perusal both
from the viewpoint of church history and from that of a lively human
interest.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 917. Jl. ’08. 500w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 550w.
Reviewed by Gaillard Hunt.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 320w.
=White, Albert Beebe.= Making of the English constitution, 449–1485.
*$2. Putnam.
8–29201.
A brief, up-to-date college text which places the emphasis thruout
upon evolution rather than upon description; whose purpose has been to
furnish a logically satisfying account of the genesis of each
institution as far as present knowledge permits. In arrangement, it is
governed by the requirements of the subject-matter, and does not
attempt to conform to either the chronological or topical order. It
aims to make the student understand the origin and growth of the
English constitution as a many-sided but single evolution.
* * * * *
“The book is admirably arranged and written; it is notable for its
simplicity, lucidity, and directness. Something may be said, too, in
its favor on account of its brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Five knots. †$1.50. Little.
8–12766.
A tale of crime and mystery in which a vendetta is executed by two
little yellow men from Borneo. An English ship owner’s road to fortune
led from a heinous crime which he committed among some Malays, two of
whom escape, and later arrive in London to execute their vengeance.
The story is full of thrills.
* * * * *
“Mr. White has done better work along these same lines, and it is to
be hoped that he will do so again.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 200w.
“A more absurd story is seldom written.”
− =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 250w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Yellow face. *$1. Fenno.
8–4908.
A mystery story with an arch conspirator who has upon his track the
usual Scotland Yard sleuths and the more resourceful amateur
detectives. “The story hinges upon a surgical mutilation borrowed from
the Aztecs, involves the aid of numerous scientific discoveries and
inventions; in the end the entire cast is arrayed in all its strength
against the villain.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The plot is well conceived and is executed in forcibly interesting
style. There are a number of minor discrepancies and many earmarks of
overhasty composition, but the story never flags in its rapid,
thrilling movement, the very evident work of an old hand at the art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Arizona nights, il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36101.
A book of scenes and portrayals that flash by the reader as tho
“caught in the films” of a panorama camera. “Mr. White gives a view of
the life on Arizona cattle ranches which is instinct with virility and
love of that out-of-door existence which he knows so well. The stories
run the gamut from ‘The honk honk breed.’ whose humor will delight
every unrepentant nature-fakir, to the last tale ‘The raw-hide,’ a
grim sketch in a vein which will surprise a good many of Mr. White’s
admirers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“That ... Mr. White’s pages as they stand do not give the impression
of being overcrowded is due to the unusual clearness of his mental
vision and to a terse vigorous style which, without abruptness, often
compacts into a sentence the pith of a paragraph. Of this sort of
writing the present book is an admira example.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 524. Ja. ’08. 980w.
“This volume is largely a catena of campfire stories of cowboys,
rustlers, Indians, remittance men and greasers, including some details
too gross to make pleasant reading.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1473. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Shows a hitherto unsuspected ability in character drawing and in the
sensing of dramatic values, which makes of it the most interesting
thing he has written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 123 Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Here are some most readable, and at times exciting, yarns of the
Arizona desert.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 993. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Riverman. †$1.50. McClure.
8–23537.
A story of Michigan rivermen which deals with the fortunes of a
log-driving firm. The hero is a river-boss who is induced by a New
York lawyer, roughing it for his health, to join him in organizing a
company to handle expeditiously all of the logs of the section. The
treachery of the partner is outlined in detail against the sterling
strength of the rugged hero. Local color and atmosphere abound.
* * * * *
“The love story is inferior and detracts somewhat from the merit of
the book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is to be heartily recommended to any and every one who likes a
tale of action that is American through and through, that has no tinge
of melodrama, an occasional incident excepted, but that has thrills in
plenty, and is pervaded with a buoyant spirit of optimism and rugged
health which is good for mind and body.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 150. O. ’03. 1050w.
“It is a good story if you free Mr. White from observing the usual
canons of literary construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1065. N. 5, ’03. 500w.
“The story is good, and we think would be better for a little
abridging of the mass of technicalities relating to logging and to the
financing of lumber companies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 270w.
“It is certain that a great many people will find it quite possible,
and even exciting, to read Mr. White’s frightfully inartistic but in
parts very stirring narrative.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 660w.
“A powerful companion novel to ‘The blazed trail.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
“In and out of this good story-material Mr. White has woven a sub-plot
of villainy which is not at all convincing and is essentially
uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 278. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=White, William Frank.= Scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes,
recreations, essays. *$1. Open ct.
8–3914.
A book of mathematical curiosities. “It deals with more than
D’Israeli’s ‘six follies of science,’ not confining itself to follies
or to impossibilities of the circle-squaring type, but including in
its medley of seventy topics many other points of interest and even
critical importance in modern mathematics, as, for example, linkages
and straight-line motion, and the instruments allowed by Plato in
simple construction.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His book is decidedly worth having and studying.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 60w.
“Though it is inferior in some respects to Schubert’s ‘Mathematical
essays and recreations,’ is yet a miscellany well worth having both on
account of the mathematical curiosities it has brought together out of
a space of more than two thousand years, and on account of its
enlightened comment upon them.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Whitford, Caleb Bailey.= Training the bird dog. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–21503.
A clear, scientific treatise for dog owners and sportsmen on the
development of the hunting dog, written by an expert dog breaker, one
whose methods have produced a long line of prize winners. In leading
up to the ‘first lessons,’ the author discusses the genius of
breaking, the breaker’s ideal, breaking the breaker, rewards and
punishments, and the best age for breaking.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Whitin, Ernest Stagg.= Factory legislation in Maine. (Columbia
univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1.
Longmans.
8–18392.
The first part of this study is historical. “It traces the conditions
of the industrial and the legislative acts from 1821 to 1907. The
second part is equally instructive and deals with administration and
the factory law of 1908. The critique of the child labor law, pp. 130
ff., is especially apt. A complete index of the labor laws of Maine in
force in 1908 is appended to this very valuable little book.” (Am. J.
Soc.)
* * * * *
“Important technological essay.” H. P. J. Sellinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 270. S. ’08. 80w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Whitin’s treatise is of chiefly local interest, but it is a part
of the times in which we live, and which are similar in all states.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 360w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. *$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole is sufficiently attractive, aside from its
occasional overload of polysyllabic adjectives.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 390w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A queer hodge-podge.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 100w.
“Certain phrases might merit the criticism ‘gushing.’ Notwithstanding
such an occasional limitation, the book contains much genuine Italian
atmosphere.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’07. 150w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 320w.
* =Whiting, Lilian.= Paris the beautiful. **$2. Little.
8–32991.
“A little record of the crystalized enchantment of many springtimes
and early summers” spent in Paris. “Most unique and satisfactory of
all, it pictures Paris in its activity to-day. The work that is being
done by scientists is reported as if from the laboratory, and that of
artists from the Salons of last spring. Men like Rodin, Richet, the
scientist Landor, and many others, are described in connection with
labors now in hand. Miss Whiting’s spirit is that of enthusiastic
admiration of the Parisians, whose chief characteristic she considers
is ‘imaginative intensity:’ and admiration also of the city, whose
atmosphere she finds not one of frivolity and wickedness, but of
‘light and color, of the keenest and most sympathetic human response
in joy or sorrow,—an atmosphere too, that is peopled with lofty
visions and with ideals of loveliness.’”(Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is, in truth, just such a record as actual and would-be lovers of
Paris will welcome, because it shows the city not only in its outward
fairness but in its beauty of intellectual and artistic achievement.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 270w.
“There is no doubt that with this book a pleasant hour may be spent in
a literary companionship, which will be a delight to many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Whiting, Robert Rudd.= Ball of yarn: its unwinding. **75c. Elder.
7–31419.
“The ‘Yarns’ are told by several men sitting around the stove in a
hotel office and vary from that of the breath-bound village in which,
on a cold winter’s day, the people all got lost in the frozen fog of
their own breaths to that of the man who had a scheme for beating the
races by telegraphing the list of a day’s winners around the world and
getting it back to New York the day before it started.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A collection of grotesque perversions of possibility somewhat after
the manner of Munchausen tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 130w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Gypsy verses. $1.25. Duffield.
7–31381.
Underneath the flaunting of gypsy colors, and the hoaxes of Romany
spells, this verse reveals regret, weariness and longing for the
“Silver and azure of the open day.”
* * * * *
“There is imaginative distinction in these verses.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 200w.
“There are ... individual lines and epithets that have freshness and
lustre, and once in a while an unhackneyed point of view that gives a
glimpse and promise of something deeper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=Whitty, Edward Michael.= St. Stephen’s in the fifties, the session
1852–3, a parliamentary retrospect; with an introd. by Justin
McCarthy, and notes by H. M. Williams. *$3. Wessels.
7–12661.
The gallery letters written by a young Irish journalist to the Leader,
a London paper, reveal two things: viz., that newspaper writing was an
art in those days and that parliament had many an interesting
character to portray. There are Disraeli, Gladstone, John Bright,
Henry Drummond and many another. “It is the story of rises and falls
in great reputations, of disappointments soothed, of foiled intrigues,
of dogged endurance and loyalty repaid.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Much of [the English journalism of the ‘fifties and ’sixties] has
passed into the ranks of permanent literature, and in this portion a
high place must be given to the book before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 820w.
“Some of Whitty’s portraits are of singular interest and power, and
well deserve the honour of frequent republication.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. McCarthy’s preface is a work of supererogation from beginning to
end, for it attempts to elucidate nothing but the already obvious, and
cumbers the ground with a deal of personal opinion. The oldest
‘Parliamentary hand’ and the last successful candidate at a
by-election can learn much to his edification and amusement by
studying the conditions at ‘St. Stephen’s in the fifties.’”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 623. O. 27, ’06. 2620w.
=Who’s= who on the stage, 1908; ed. by Walter Browne and E. DeRoy
Koch. il. *$3.50. Dodge, B. W.
The dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the
theater, for 1908. It contains careers of actors, actresses, managers
and playwrights of the American stage. A number of illustrations are
included.
=Wide, Anders.= Horne gymnastics on Ling’s system. **50c. Funk.
A little handbook of some seventy pages which outlines the principals
of the Swedish gymnastic system as introduced and developed by Pehr
Henrik Ling. Not only are the physical benefits of the system pointed
out but the ethical and moral as well.
* * * * *
“Is valuable to the man of sedentary occupation, who is anxious to
keep himself in good physical condition.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7. ’08. 70w.
=Wiedersheim, Robert.= Comparative anatomy of vertebrates; adapted
from the German of Dr. Robert Wiedersheim by W. N. Parker. *$3.75.
Macmillan.
8–16426.
The third English edition founded upon the sixth German edition. It
has been prepared chiefly for students whereas former editions have
been used largely by investigators and teachers. The bibliography of
the previous editions has been extended to include six hundred
additional titles of the last German edition.
* * * * *
“The work is without a rival in any language, and is unsurpassed as a
complete and comprehensive compendium of the more significant facts of
comparative anatomy, an indispensable text for college and university
use, and a valuable work of reference in the general library.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
“Notwithstanding deficiencies, the present is the best English
treatise upon vertebrate anatomy, as the original is the best German.
The reviewer sincerely hopes to greet a later faultless edition.” B.
G. Wilder.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 27: 737. My. 8, ’08. 5000w.
* =Wiggin, Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Tales of
laughter. †$1.50. McClure.
A hundred and forty tales of the character that from time immemorial
have entertained the group of listeners about a mother’s knee. They
will prove a mine to little people who like the “huff and puff” of the
story of the three little pigs, and the jigs of the dancing Japanese
kettle.
* * * * *
“All having the humorous quality that the title of the collection
suggests. Uniform in binding with ‘The fairy ring’ and ‘Magic
casements,’ to which excellent volumes it is a worthy successor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 313. D. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1483. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“No better editors could be chosen, and they lay tribute upon many
lands and languages.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Smiling ’round the world. †$1.50. Funk.
8–15165.
A jaunt “of many moons and many miles” of “many jests and many
smiles.” There are no hardships of travel indulged in here; with an
abundance of good cheer and ready wit the author carries his reader
across the continent, over sea to Hawaii, and from there over the
regulation course to Gibraltar and on to New York.
* * * * *
“Full of interesting facts and information that all intelligent people
should possess, so sugar-coated with humor that the dullest mind
cannot fail to heartily enjoy the contents.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 127. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“An amusing chronicle of his trip.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
=Wilder, Victor.= Mozart: the story of his life as man and artist
according to authentic documents and other sources; tr. by L.
Liebich. 2v. *$3.50. Scribner.
8–22792.
Trustworthy, save for a few slips, and interestingly told, this life
is written for general readers. It contains a bibliography of Mozart
literature, both English and foreign, a list of his compositions,
published and unpublished, and twenty-three portraits and facsimiles.
* * * * *
“There is more of biography than artistic comment or criticism in his
book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 487. Ap. 18. 300w.
“It has certainly deserved the honor of a translation, even after this
long interval, because of its lucid style and charm of narrative.
There are reasons to think that the author of this book had not read
Jahn. A few ludicrous blunders appear. The translator has done her
work well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 380w.
=Willcocks, Mary Patricia.= Man of genius: a story of the judgment
of Paris. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17245.
“Miss Willcock’s new story tells of an ambitious young architect who
is loved by two women, one of whom sacrifices herself by concealing
from him that she is to become the mother of his child, lest she
should block his advancement, yet has no understanding of his
imaginative and esthetic nature; while the other, who is in sympathy
with him on these points, keeps herself in the background, urges him
to marry the other girl, and helps them to success and to as happy a
married life as is possible for them—ill mated as they are
temperamentally.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole is thoughtful, if somewhat dull.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 140w.
“It is good, conscientious work, but it fails to convince, chiefly,
but not only, because the man of genius does not convince one of his
possession of the divine quality.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The sentiment cloys, while the characters move forward with no
volition of their own and evident effort on the part of the author.”
− =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“In both characters and story it strikes root in the deeper meanings
of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 600w.
“Far above the average level of the fiction of the day as to
intellectual ability. It is equally true that it conspicuously lacks
those elements of lively entertainment and plot-excitement so dear to
many novel-readers’ hearts.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4, ’08. 240w.
“Had ‘Adam Bede’ never been written, this story would have greater
claim to originality. Miss Willcocks, it is true, constructs her own
plot, but her treatment of character suggests George Eliot, and we
share Hazlitt’s preference for an old book over a new.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=Williams, Eliot Crawshay.= Across Persia. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–9064.
“Mr. Williams made his return to Europe from India via Persia, landing
at Bushire and stopping at Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, and Teheran.
He tells us in leisurely fashion what he thinks of the scenery, the
inhabitants, the remains of Persian grandeur and Greek enterprise. And
he often amuses himself and us by details of Persian manners and
methods. A traveller devoid of the sense of humour is unthinkable, and
the author must have found its possession an invaluable quality at
times.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“He has nothing very new to say, but his observations of men and
manners are fair and just, and the account of his wanderings makes
interesting reading. The value of his book is enhanced by a good map,
some excellent photographic reproductions, and an index.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“A conscientious, but unsatisfying piece of work, and his frequent
reflections are apt to be trivial.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 120w.
“His traveller’s tale has charm and serenity. Picture and text are
mutually helpful and interesting to the reader.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 106. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Williams gives us a most interesting description of the ancient
monuments of the Persian kings ... and his many photographs add
greatly to the charm of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 570w.
“Our author belongs to the class of born travellers to whom travel is
an existence in itself. He is a kindly humourist, and a very patient
one. He travelled with his eyes wide open, and can give us not a
little valuable information.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 250w.
* =Williams, Hershel.= Fairy tales from folk lore. **$1. Moffat.
8–22796.
Twelve folk-lore tales taken from as many countries.
* * * * *
“The interest is relative, and the nationalistic value is beyond the
ken of boys and girls. We do not discount the fancy, but undoubtedly
the student emphasis is too strong.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A pleasing little collection. The stories are all told very simply,
with now and then a touch of homely humor that smells of the soil out
of which they were born.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Princess of intrigue, Anne Genevieve de
Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville, and her times. 2v. *$6.50.
Putnam.
8–12137.
“Born of a race of royal intriguers, thrust from a convent into the
artificial atmosphere of the Hôtel de Rambouillet and the gaiety of a
corrupt court, where her wit and beauty carried everything before
them, married to a man twice her age, who cared nothing for her but
was wax in her hands for any madcap political adventure, Anne,
duchesse de Longueville, found herself, at twenty-five, an object of
universal homage and a power to be reckoned with in the state of
France.” (Dial.) It is of this woman’s career and influence that Mr.
Williams writes having studied exhaustively both contemporary and
modern sources.
* * * * *
“The author generally passes lightly over points of controversy,
though, when he does enter the lists, little fault is to be found with
his arguments or conclusions. The book is undoubtedly interesting and
well written as a whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 250. F. 29. 1900w.
“Compared with some of his previous studies of great Frenchwomen this
one lacks vivacity.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As a history of French society this carefully prepared and richly
illustrated work will be valuable to readers who have no access to the
French material which the author has used freely.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 340w.
“The research, the information, and the discriminative judgment which
have gone to the compiling [of this book] must claim instant
recognition and respect. Mr. Williams has succeeded ... not only in
writing an admirable historical work on the times, but has achieved
the more trying and delicate task of rendering this work as absorbing
as a novel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
“Should make a strong appeal to all who delight in contemplating the
events of history from the court point of view.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
“An interesting chronicle of a most romantic period.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 979. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
* =Williams, Hugh Noel.= Women Bonapartes. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
A biographical sketch of Madame Mère and her three daughters Elisa,
Pauline and Caroline. “The treatment of the theme is chronological,
and necessarily introduces many important characters, both male and
female, besides the Bonaparte ladies.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Messrs. Methuen may be congratulated upon the readableness of the
book. It is not possible to combine the light handling suitable to
such volumes with serious study of the historical facts. The extent of
Mr. Williams’s indebtedness to French authorities will be judged by
the reader’s impatience at the use of French idiom in the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 541. O. 31. 740w.
“The work is really an account of the life and times of Napoleon from
a fresh point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Girl and the game, and other college
stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17249.
A group of college stories as follows: The girl and the game, The
college and the circus, At the corner of Lover’s lane, Leg pull, Reddy
Armstrong’s reformation, The advantage of a college education, The man
in the window, What the old graduate learned, and Talks with a kid
brother.
* * * * *
“Vary in quality, on the whole inferior to the author’s earlier work.
The moral tone is good, if somewhat forced at times.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08.
“They are without wit or humor, they are crudely constructed, they are
even trivial and silly.”
− =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“About most of Mr. Williams’ stories, it may safely be said that they
are more blameless than exhilarating.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
=Williams, Jessie Lynch.= My lost duchess: an idyl of the town.
†$1.50. Century.
8–11087.
With only the window-pane, the half-hidden privet hedge, and the
granite balustrade between them a man woos in his heart an unknown
maiden. He fancies she is the duchess or the goddess of his dreams
when in reality she is a dainty little governess whom he does not win
without trials and discouragement. The characteristic idyl-atmosphere
of leisure pervades the story.
* * * * *
“The situations suggest Van Bibber and the conversations Anthony
Hope.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08.
“If Mr. Williams is a trifle too lively of fancy and broad of touch to
produce a town eclogue of classical grace, he is by that same token
more fit for the moment, more, as it is called, up-to-date.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Williams has shown himself to be just enough of an idealist to
refine the events of daily life without becoming unconvincing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 278. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Nick, the hero, is as worthy and entertaining a protagonist of the
Fifth avenue phase of New York life as Van Bibber was at his best.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“It is as light as froth, but it has in its delicate fabric some of
the irridescent gleams of the soap-bubble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Arts and crafts of older Spain. (World of art
ser.) 3v. *$4.50. McClurg.
8–15871.
A comprehensive, copiously illustrated three-volume work based upon a
wealth of material. The first volume includes gold, silver, and jewel
work, iron work, bronzes and arms; the second, furniture, ivories,
pottery and glass; the third, textile fabrics—silk, clothes and
woolens, embroidery, tapestry and lace. Appendices, a bibliography and
an index complete the volume.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1459. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“If such a work as this is to be of scientific value, its author
should take care to employ technical terms where such exist.”
− =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 470w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 912. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“These volumes serve as a suggestive and stimulating introduction to
all these treasures of the peninsula.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 559. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
“It is sufficient to express appreciation for the author’s practical
treatment of his subject which makes the book a valuable guide for the
modern craftsman, and to close with an added expression of admiration
for the literary charm of Mr. Williams’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 780w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Williams, R. H.= With the border ruffians: memories of the far
West, 1852–1868; ed. by E. W. Williams. *$4. Dutton.
8–12130.
A famous adventure book. “Of English birth, the author came here at
the age of 20 in the year 1852, and for the better part of the
following sixteen years he was in the cyclone belt, and it was blowing
all the time. He fought with the Kansas Rangers and with their Texan
namesakes. He fought to maintain slavery when he wasn’t fighting
Indians or ruffians of one sort or another. Barroom fights and summary
hangings—in one of which the narrator came very near playing the
principal part—alternate with prospecting tours and ranching. Out of
the great welter of struggle and bloodshed one sees the country
emerging, settling, coming to maturity.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a narrative of personal adventure and experience it is remarkably
interesting; as a contribution to local history it presents a vivid
picture of frontier life during an important period.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“A fascinating romance, the interest of which reminds one more than a
little of the qualities which have made ‘Robinson Crusoe’ beloved.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 825. D. 28. 760w.
“An interesting book, whether regarded as a mere story, as
autobiography, or as a description of bygone social conditions.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“Interesting reading and good material for history. The author ...
nothing extenuates nor sets down aught in malice.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“The straightforward tale of a man who from boyhood lived in the thick
of alarums and excursions. He has [told the story of Capt. Williams]
excellently in this roomy, well-made volume.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 780w.
“As recorded in the present volume the story is well told and has its
place as a contribution to the stirring history of that period.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Williams’s memoirs are written with no art, but, if we are
entitled to judge, they are absolutely truthful. One must get inside
the atmosphere of this book really to appreciate how fine a tribute
these words are to the Federal army.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1054. D. 21, ’07. 1550w.
=Williamson, Charles N., and Williamson, Mrs. Alice M.= Chauffeur
and the chaperon. (English title, The botor chaperon.) il. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–16473.
Another guide book glorified by the most whimsical and interesting of
romances. An American girl and her English step-sister inherit a motor
boat and decide to explore the waterways of Holland. Accident procures
for them lovers, relatives and a chaperon. The lively experiences of
the party only make more palatable the real instruction which is
imparted in generous measure.
* * * * *
“When, fired with enthusiasm, one closes the novel and rushes to pack
a hasty portmanteau, he will start for the land of canals with a
pretty clear notion as to what will be his route and where he will
linger on his way.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 220w.
“It is lively reading but is rather too long drawn out.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Their writing, though it does not pretend to literary quality, has
both gaiety and naturalness, so that their glorified tours, duly
spiced with a love interest, are agreeable residing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 92. Jl. 27. 80w.
“It contains rather a larger proportion than usual of guide-book, and
a smaller proportion of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 370w.
“To all who like amphibious excursions and farcical story combined the
book will be welcome, for the journey is charming and the company
merry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Has all the qualities that have made their previous stories so
popular and at the same time has more complexity of plot and more
incident, both exciting and amusing, than is to be found in some of
their stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“The plot is as impossible as usual, but the characters are
attractive, some of their complications amusing, and the guide-book
directions interesting and not too obtrusive.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
“There is, in fact, so much useful and detailed information in the
volume that it is a thousand pities, in the first place, that there is
no index, and, in the second, that the information is buried under so
thick a covering of romance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Williamson, M. G.= Edinburgh: a historical and topographical
account of the city. *$1.75. Dutton.
7–28491.
A book whose purpose is to connect the history of the city with the
chief objects of interest. “The city’s consecutive history begins in
the fifth century A. D., and from that date the author carries down
his narrative to the nineteenth century. He includes a good account of
the golden age of Edinburgh society in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, and of the literary men of old Edinburgh.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Will give the interested reader plenty to ‘think about,’ especially
if he does not already know his Edinburgh.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 341. S. 22. 300w.
“The volume is a good, historical guide book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“If we may judge from these initial volumes, the text and pictures of
the new series are in the hands of competent authorities.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Williamson has had a great subject to deal with, and has treated
it worthily.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.
* =Willis, Bailey, and others.= Research in China. 3v. and atlas, v. 1,
$8; atlas, $7; v. 2, $2. Carnegie inst.
In three volumes are recorded the results of seven months of research
in China conducted by a topographer and two geologists. “The first
part of the volume ... forms a bulky quarto of more than 350 pages,
with upwards of fifty plates, consisting of photographic views of
landscapes, maps, and geological sections. The second part includes
systematic petrography, zoological notes, and a syllabary of Chinese
sounds. The second volume is intended ‘to summarize the detailed
presentation of our results, and to combine them with the work of
others in a systematic discussion of the geology of southeastern
Asia.’ The third volume is to be devoted to palaeontology. The atlas
contains some forty sheets of maps, sections, and photographic views,
most of the maps being on the scale of 1/125,000, or two miles to the
inch, engraved and coloured in the excellent style to which the United
States geological survey has now accustomed us.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“These sumptuous volumes constitute a monumental contribution to
Asiatic geology. They are signal productions not only in their
substance and form, but in the fact that they are a gift of productive
industry to progressive science, and a tribute of one of the newest
phases of civilization to one of the oldest.” T. C. C.
+ + =J. Geol.= 16: 387. My. ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1, pts. 1 and
2, and v. 2.)
“We venture to think that all that was new and important among the
results of the expedition might easily have been comprised within the
limits of this first single volume. The physiographical discussions in
the volume are most unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nature.= 76: 345. Ag. 8, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 1.)
“There is some internal evidence of hasty writing, such as
inaccuracies in translation conveying a rather different sense from
that of the original. The pith of this volume might have been summed
up in a single chapter without losing any important contribution to
science, and the space so saved might have been devoted to a
much-needed bibliography of the subject. The artistic excellence of
the numerous maps by which the volume is illustrated deserves
unqualified praise.”
− + =Nature.= 79: 61. N. 19, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Willson, Rev. Thomas B.= Norway at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22498.
Tells of Norway’s “constitution and government, its national defense,
its religion, literature, music, education, its capital, its social
life, agriculture, rural customs, forests, local government, poor
laws, industrial life, transportation, and, finally, about ‘Norway as
a playground.’” (Outlook.) “A lucid account is given of the
circumstances which led to the separation of Norway from Sweden.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“It shows a full knowledge of the subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 520w.
“His sincerity and sympathy quite win the reader’s heart and shine
through the trite figures of the tame and old-fashioned style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 161. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Willson tells us authoritatively about many departments of life
and occupation in Norway.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Wilson, Andrew.= How to keep well. (Handy information series.) 50c.
Crowell.
7–20716.
A little book of instruction on points of cleanliness, ventilation,
care of body, eating and drinking, and what to do in case of accidents
and illness.
=Wilson, Ernest, and Lydall, Francis.= Electrical traction. 2v. ea.
*$4. Longmans.
8–14350.
“Volume 1 is devoted to direct-current traction and the first part is
given up to tramways, the latter part to heavier traction. In neither
case is the subject carried further back in the system of distribution
than the switchboard.... Volume 2 is devoted entirely to
alternating-current traction, an indication of the extent to which
this system is considered favorably in Europe.”—St. Ry. J.
* * * * *
“Valuable addition to works on subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“The treatment is mostly descriptive, but not always complete.”
Gisbert Kapp.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 169. D. 26, ’07. 1840w.
“There is a demand for a book of this kind, and the authors have been
very successful in their treatment of the subject.”
+ + =St. Ry. J.= 30: 1076. N. 30, ’07. 550w.
* =Wilson, William R. A.= Journeys of the Kit-Kat club: England. **$2.
Appleton.
8–27783.
Meant to serve the present generation as Butterworth’s “Zigzag
journeys” did the last, this volume records the experiences of four
American school boys and their tutor in England. Information
concerning history and literature is served up in story form greatly
enhanced for the youthful reader by the wealth of good illustrations.
* =Wilson, Winter Lincoln.= Elements of railroad track and construction.
$2. Wiley.
8–27791.
“In this volume no attempt has been made to treat the subjects of
railroad track and construction with any considerable amount of
detail, but rather to present a few of the fundamental principles in
such manner that the inexperienced engineering student can form a
general idea of the subjects.”
* * * * *
“Professor Wilson has treated this matter in a very attractive and
common sense manner. He has certainly shown the qualities of a
highclass instructor by presenting his subject in plain and simple
language, unincumbered by complicated or unnecessary mathematical
formulas. and it is written in such a way as not only to interest
young engineering students in this subject, but to impress upon their
minds the essential principles underlying maintenance-of-way work.” J:
F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The author has fulfilled his purpose excellently. While the book is
primarily for engineering students, it can be recommended for general
readers who wish to know something more about railroad track than they
can see from the car window.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 706. D. 19, ’08. 160w.
=Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow.= Constitutional government in the United
States. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17752.
The author states that these lectures do not undertake to discuss
systematically the character of the American government and its
methods, but that they are intended to set forth certain salient
features from a fresh point of view, and in the light of a fresh
analysis of the nature and operations of constitutional government.
“Eight lectures are included in the series; they define constitutional
government and present the author’s views of the application of the
constitutional principle in this country.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Suggestive, valuable, popular rather than profound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 300. D. ’08.
“Dr. Wilson’s lectures are clearly intended for the thoughtful citizen
not necessarily learned in the law—a popular treatise.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29. ’08. 550w.
“A suggestive, but not very profound, examination of certain aspects
of the American system. It is certainly matter of regret that, with
such keen insight and so much literary skill, the distinguished author
should here have held his plough with so light a hand.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Though less detailed, less legal, less scholastic, and possibly less
scholarly than Professor Stimson’s, is broader, more philosophical,
more vital, animated by a clearer perception of actual conditions,
less constricted by reference to the letter of the law.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 313. O. 10, ’08. 740w.
“No American publicist is better fitted than President Wilson to make
such a presentation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 120w.
=Wilson, Thomas Woodrow.= Free life. **75c. Crowell.
8–22491.
In substance, a baccalaureate address which makes a serious appeal to
young people to live a life free from the fetlocks of tradition; to be
transformed by the scriptural renewing of the mind—a renewal which
results in a “return to a sort of youth and naturalness of thought
drawn out of those only fountains of perpetual youth, the fountains of
just thought and true feeling.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
* =Wilstach, Paul.= Richard Mansfield: the man and the actor. **$3.50.
Scribner.
The authorized biography of Mansfield written by a personal friend
with the actor’s papers and correspondence at his disposal. “The book
is full of amusing anecdotes and appreciative dramatic criticism. It
narrates the life of Mansfield from boyhood to the end of his career,
and treats exhaustively of the genius and development of each of the
great parts with which he became identified in his art.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“As a whole the book gives an interesting picture of the stage during
the last thirty years.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 913. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“This is the sort of book that might have been written by a theatrical
press agent, so packed is it with trivial and irrelevant detail, so
devoid of sober judgment, so disorderly in arrangement, so oblivious
of uncomfortable facts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 500. N. 19, ’08. 640w.
“Serious inaccuracies are few in any chapter. Is best from the
twenty-second chapter forward to the end, for that part of the book
relates to Mansfield’s golden prime.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 667. N. 14, ’08. 820w.
“While interesting in itself, an attractive feature of the biography
is the large number of illustrations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“He discloses to the public gaze many passages of personal history
that tend to throw new light on this unique personality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 120w.
=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by
James A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29420.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book has indeed its uses, but I cannot but feel that Professor
Craig, an able and accurate scholar, would have served better the aim
that he had in view, if he had written an entirely new book over his
own name.” R. W. Rogers.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 557. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“In religious matters Dr. Winckler tells us much which is new, and
which, if not always strongly supported by fact, at any rate
stimulates the spirit of inquiry. We have noticed some curious
mistakes or mistranslations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 1650w.
“The style in general is clear, although the author’s fulness of
knowledge and the brevity of treatment make some passages obscure at
first reading. The separate consideration of the history of each of
the nations, Babylonia and Assyria, here found is probably better than
the combined treatment ordinarily employed. But the resulting gaps in
the Assyrian history, with references to the previous treatment,
seriously interrupt the continuity; some repetition would have been
preferable.” G: R. Berry.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 435. D. ’08. 440w.
“Professor Craig, as translator, has done his work well. The
translation reads easily, and Professor Winckler knows how to write in
an interesting and frequently picturesque manner.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 1100w.
=Wingate, Charles Frederick.= Sanitary question-box. 50c. Funk.
A practical guide to the essentials of sanitation and ventilation in
the home, the bedroom, the kitchen, the cellar, the laundry and the
stable.
* * * * *
“Should be widely useful in promoting the spread of knowledge on these
subjects.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 768. My. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Spinster farm. $2. Page.
8–15883.
Tells of the experiences of “the Spinster, Janet Fleming by name, who
purchases a farm and engages in chicken-raising; her lively niece
Peggy; the Professor, who pays persistent court to the Spinster; young
Robert Graves, who does the same to Peggy; and the humbler characters
playing their useful parts in kitchen and barn. Homely reality is
interspersed with romance.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 306. D. ’08.
“Miss Winslow has a penchant for old run-to-seed farms, a humorous way
of describing country scenes and events, and a fresh unconventional
manner of looking at life’s problems and perplexities.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Winslow, Kenelm.= Production and handling of clean milk. *$2.50.
Jenkins.
7–41833.
A complete, plain, practical, authoritative guide to the production
and distribution of clean milk for farmers, health officers, milk
inspectors, students of agriculture and dairying, physicians and
others interested in matters pertaining to dairying and hygiene.
* * * * *
“On the farm side Professor Winslow’s book is better than Professor
Jensen’s, which in other respects is more authoritative and
comprehensive.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
“Dr. Winslow has written an eminently practical treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Winter, Nevin Otto.= Mexico and her people of to-day. $3. Page.
7–34163.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Though an attractive and on the whole very satisfactory treatise on
Mexico, is poorest in its historical sections.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Well arranged, up-to-date, interesting information ... written in a
pleasant, easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 86. Mr. ’08. ✠
“An entertaining account, unfortunately full of repetitions and
inaccuracies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 512. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“When treating of religion Mr. Winter, we regret to say, shows at
times a gross ignorance of the teachings of the Catholic church—an
ignorance which vastly decreases the value of his work.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 682. Ag. ’08. 680w.
“The book is weakest in its historical portions.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Winter writes with the sympathy and insight of one who knows his
subject thoroughly.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Winter presents his observations and study in a scientific
manner, which is most informing, convincing, and impressive, and
cannot fail to attract readers of all classes.” T: B. Connery.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 155. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“His book is especially to be recommended for its account of scenery
and for its delineation of Mexican customs and character.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 100w.
“A thoroughly up-to-date description of Mexico.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 80w.
=Winter, William.= Other days: being chronicles and memoirs of the
stage. **$3. Moffat.
8–28838.
Against a background made by outline sketches of Hodgkinson, Fennell,
Cooper, Edwin Forrest, Junius Brutus Booth, Jefferson, Edwin Booth and
Irving, the author sketches in detail the careers of Jefferson,
Brougham, Boucicault, Charlotte Cushman, Edward A. Sothern, John
McCullough, Barrett, Mary Anderson and Adelaide Nielson; omitting
Mansfield, as the author is engaged now upon a complete “life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 300. D. ’08.
“All lovers of the drama, and one may add of good writing, ought to be
grateful to him for what he has done in the present volume.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 340. D. ’08. 1300w.
“Mr. Winter speaks with the authority of an expert, with the judgment
acquired by long experience, with the knowledge and sympathy which
spring from personal acquaintance and association, and with the
critical acumen and graceful style of the scholar.” G: P. Upton.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 246. O. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“It is mainly because of its human quality that ‘Other days’ is an
important book; it calls the great dead back to life again. He shares
with so great a critic of the arts as Ruskin the merit of being always
right when he is lauding beauty, and the defect of being almost always
wrong when he shifts to the less lofty mood of deprecation.” Walter
Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 504. N. ’08. 1200w.
“There is no one living who has better perspective of the American
stage than Mr. William Winter. His book is indicative of his rich
experience and has a certain permanent worth as an addition to the
literature of the American stage. Its narrative quality is balanced by
a critical and literary side that is as agreeable, even if it is not
quite as classic, as Elia’s opinions concerning the actors and the
dramas of his day.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 913. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His volume will be a welcome addition to every dramatic library. It
is full of fresh and illuminative detail, of analytical character
studies, of sound theatrical philosophy, of witty comment, eloquent
appreciation, and wholesome scorn.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 392. O. 22, ’08. 1300w.
“His new book is full of his own uncommon charm. That is its principal
merit. But Mr. Winter is invariably accurate in his statements, dates,
names, and titles of plays. This is a rare merit with theatrical
historians.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 651. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
* =Wishard, John G.= Twenty years in Persia. **$1.50. Revell.
8–31141.
Persia as seen thru the eyes of a medical missionary. “But it would be
a mistake to suppose this volume exclusively devoted to the history of
missionary labor. On the contrary, while not pretending to the
encyclopedic character of Curzon’s work, it supplements the latter by
a vast amount of detail descriptive of the intimate life of the
Persian of every class, and in this respect, for accuracy and just
observation, far surpasses in interest the records of the casual
traveler.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is, above all, refreshing to find a book on Persia free from the
flippant criticism so often chargeable to western authors, whose eyes
are out of focus in the East and who have no serious interest in the
struggle for reform which has just been inaugurated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 470w.
“Dr. Wishard writes easily and fascinatingly about the Shah’s
country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Wister, Owen.= Seven ages of Washington: a biography **$2.
Macmillan.
7–38230.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book’s worst faults are crude historical knowledge and statements
which are not consistent with themselves.” J: S. Bassett.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 911. Jl. ’08. 620w.
“A truly delightful biography giving a finished portrait, broad and
vigorous in treatment, not overlaid with common-place or labored
detail.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 51. F. ’08. ✠
“Forms a pretty volume, possessing obvious merits, but open to
criticism if considered, to use the author’s words, as ‘a full-length
portrait of Washington, with enough of his times to see him clearly
against.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 73. Ja. 18. 300w.
“At some points extravagant in expression, and at others exhibiting
perhaps not the best of taste, this book presents a picture of the
great man that is clearcut and on the whole true. Unpretentious, the
volume is of just about the value that the author meant it should
possess.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 140w.
“A pleasant and wholesome and patriotic little book.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 491. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“A biography of a new and attractive type.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond.= Rambling recollections. 2v. *$7.50.
Macmillan.
8–11479.
“The most valuable parts of the book are those chapters devoted to the
British administration of the Ionian islands; the account of Wolff’s
interviews with a number of the prominent European statesmen just
prior to the Congress of Berlin of 1878; the description of the
organization of East Rumelia, pursuant to the treaty formulated by
that Congress, and the story of the instigation of the treaty with
Turkey, upon which is based the legality of England’s present
anomalous position in Egypt. Of great interest also are the personal
impressions of the Franco-Prussian war, and the detailed account of
Lytton’s strange interest in occult phenomena, to which he gave
expression in ‘Zanoni,’ and in some of his other novels.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His stories are of curiously uneven merit. All are kind, but fewer
than half are pointed. Gossiping and agreeable book.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 123. F. 1. 1150w.
“Whatever criticism the author may have subjected himself to ... he
will not be censured as having taxed his readers’ attention in a
manner unbefitting this season of rest and recreation.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 14. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 152. Jl. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His main interest is personal, and he ambles gently on from man to
man that he has known. He aims to be exact, and this accounts for a
deal of useless genealogical lumber in his volumes.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
“Interspersed throughout the two volumes are a legion of anecdotes,
some of them timeworn, but others fresh and amusing. These serve to
enliven what would otherwise be a most tedious book, and one which in
its entirety must fail to fulfill legitimate expectations.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 520w.
“His record of witty sayings and amusing incidents is extensive, but
the stories are thrown into the narrative in a curiously abrupt and
desultory way.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 492. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The author manages, without giving away diplomatic secrets, to convey
to us a great deal of the ‘atmosphere’ surrounding the legations of
the great powers in the European capitals.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 100w.
“Not half as good as his conversation. The recollections of a writer
who has been everywhere and known everybody, and done a great many
things in politics and diplomacy, ought to be a great deal more
interesting than these two volumes are. Few men could have written a
better book of recollections; and few have written a worse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 142. F. 1, ’08. 1280w.
“The grammar is often faulty, and there is much repetition. Though he
has much to say of value on politics, he discourses at unnecessary
length of matters which had only a momentary interest. But with all
its faults, his book is good reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 222. F. 8, ’08. 1550w.
* =Wollaston, A. F. R.= From Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist’s
journey across Africa. *$5. Dutton.
The record of an expedition conducted in the interests of the British
museum. “The great merit about the whole narrative is that it insists
upon the romance of Central Africa. Travellers nowadays are apt to be
so very scientific and impassive, and when they expand it is generally
in the direction of politics. But Mr. Wollaston is full of the delight
and romance of strange sights.” (Spec.) “The Duke of the Abruzzi’s
book is largely the record of the ascent of Ruwenzori—a feat which had
never before been achieved by a European—the Wollaston volume is more
exclusively devoted to the natural history, not only of Ruwenzori
itself, but of the whole region which it dominates. The book is
profusely illustrated.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Wollaston’s book is an excellent specimen of how works of travel
should be written. He never bores the reader because he is never bored
himself. Let it be added that the book is admirably written, and that
the author, being a trained naturalist, has a great deal to say about
the flora and fauna which one does not get from the ordinary
traveller.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 676. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
=Wollstonecraft, Mary.= Love letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; with an
introd. by Roger Ingpen. *$1. Lippincott.
Mr. Ingpen in his preface calls these letters written to George Imlay
“the most passionate love letters in our literature.” “The passion of
the letters, which rises on occasion to Sappho’s height, is less
striking than the dignity and independence of the writer. She is saved
reluctantly from suicide, but she does not sentimentalize over her
broken heart. She only asks questions where she is entitled to
denounce; and the final letters, with their studied moderation and
sense of personal agony, are an indictment which can never, one
thinks, have been forgotten, even by a shallow and paltry lover.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 160w.
=Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 200w.
“A prefatory memoir by Roger Ingpen is sympathetic in its tone but
just and discriminating in its estimate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Wood, Eugene.= Folks back home. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8099.
Thirteen stories of central Ohio in which the homely incidents of
simple life are realistically sketched. The “h-yur,” “whur” and “w’y”
stamp the dialect, unmistakably, as the “Ahia” variety.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08. ✠
“Some of the stories are authoritative social studies of village habit
and custom; they are always whimsically correct to the utmost detail,
often tender, sometimes pathetic, and once or twice the laughing voice
of the narrator deepens to tragedy, but the prevailing note is that of
lighthearted humor.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1350. Je. 11, ’08. 300w
“The book is a pleasant, inoffensive example of the applepie school;
chiefly remarkable for the absence from its pages of the time-honored
‘b’gosh’ and the substitution of a new expletive, ‘I jox.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 120w.
“A collection of short stories, vivacious and veracious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The author wields the magic wand that is the possession of all
writers who can reach the hidden springs of common humanity; of those
who write simply concerning things they have known always, and in
which the kinship of us all is discerned.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Wood, Henry.= New old healing. **$1.20. Lothrop.
8–18719.
A book of fragments, related by the unitary principles of psychical
healing. The teachings, says the author “are in accord with a liberal
interpretation of the Biblical and Christian point of view.”
* * * * *
“Contains a number of theses for meditation ‘in the silence room,’ and
brief discussions of old and new forms of faith cure and mental
treatment in a tolerant and comprehensive spirit.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 433. Ag. 20. ’08. 170w.
“Instead of being a study of a very interesting development it is
practically nothing more than a collection of fragments.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
“One who cannot agree with him in defining matter as ‘vibration’ or
health and strength as real ‘entities,’ can admit that his main
contention has a sound psychological basis.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 766. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Almost every page contains some thought that is not only mentally
stimulating but spiritually uplifting, some suggestion of real
usefulness in the conduct of life.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 700w.
=Wood, Henry A. W.= Money-hunger: a brief study of commercial
immorality in the United States. **$1. Putnam.
8–1479.
“After pointing out that at present there is no established basis for
business ethics, and that the home, the church, the schools and the
newspapers fail to supply any standard, the author devotes three
chapters to a discussion of the responsibility of the press for
present conditions of commercial immorality.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It is
a very timely and vigorous moral protest against the worship of Mammon
and the failure to inculcate higher ideals which have resulted in such
a debased moral tone as is found in the business world of to-day.” (J.
Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
“While it lacks the periods of Ruskin and the thunderings of Carlyle
it is nevertheless well done. The view point of the book is distinctly
ethical, set off by touches of innocent ignorance concerning the
operation of economic forces.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 453. S. ’08. 140w.
“The book contains practically nothing that is new, emphasizes perhaps
too strongly the influence of certain factors in our social life, but
rightly recognizes that any social change for the better must come by
a slow process which shall work through public opinion rather than by
any legislative or administrative change.” J. W. Jenks.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 349. D. ’08. 650w.
=Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 174. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Wood, Joseph.= The Bible: what it is and is not. *$1. Am. Unitar.
8–35658.
A discussion which will be of help to people who are troubled because
they have wakened to the fact that the Bible is not infallible; that
it is not verbally inspired. “Once let it be known,” says the author,
“that Christians study the Bible as they do any other great book; that
they believe in its human origin; that they know it to contain
mistakes; that they value it not for its myths and miracles but for
its moral and spiritual records and teaching.” This attitude disarms
the skeptic.
* * * * *
“A reverent treatment of some of the problems of the Bible.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= Animal analogues: Denatured series, no. 24.
**75c. Elder.
Related in idea to “How to tell the birds from the flowers.” “As in
the earlier contribution to comparative biology, the humor is almost
all in the parallelistic nomenclature, and in the pictures which, like
attractive suburban homes at reasonable prices, must be seen to be
appreciated. The puss and the octopus take on a really startling
resemblence under the author’s clever pencil. Happy also is the
hitherto unsuspected similarity between the pipe-fish and the sea-gar,
the doe and the dodo, the cross-bill and the sweet-william, the
pitcher-plant and the fly-catcher, the P-cock and the Q-cumber, the
pansy and the chim-pansy.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Deftly set forth in Mr. Wood’s characteristically buoyant and
convincing style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, 08. 70w.
=Ind.= 65: 952. O. 22, ’08. 40w.
=Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= How to tell the birds from the flowers: a
manual of flornithology for beginners; verses and il. by R. W.
Wood. (Nature ser., no. 23.) **75c; pa. **50c. Elder.
7–24147.
“In a series of clever nonsense verses, each one accompanied and made
clearer by a very earnest illustration, the author gives directions by
which any one can distinguish the bird from the flower that sounds
like it.” (N. Y. Times.) “Obviously a satire directed against the
sentimental nature-study literature which sometimes masquerades as
scientific teaching, particularly in the United States.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Clever little skit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 238. F. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Nature.= 77: 7. N. 7, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Appreciation of literature. **$1.50.
Baker.
7–33230.
The fourth volume in the “Appreciation series,” and one which is
intended as a popular introduction to the art of reading. “In
discussing the first principles in the appreciation of literature,
Prof. Woodberry says that literature is an art of expression, or the
expression of life. The reader’s own experience, therefore, is the key
to literature.” (N. Y. Times.) “The opening chapter on ‘First
principles,’ is one in which the writer attempts a definition of
literature, art, criticism, and such like elementary matters. Then
follows a discussion of the various prominent genres, Lyric poetry,
Narrative poetry, Dramatic poetry and Fiction.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
“From the critical point of view Mr. Woodberry’s new volume is not
particularly significant. Such a volume may be of assistance to
persons of a certain stage of culture who are not indisposed to be
coaxed still farther by a little discreet encouragement.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 872. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Critically the book is slight. And yet by readers at a certain stage
of culture it might be found suggestive and even stimulating. At the
same time it is for just such readers that a good many of Mr.
Woodberry’s statements seem misleading, if not actually dangerous.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 330w.
“What is particularly attractive is the charming simplicity of style,
never suggestive of the savant who feels that he is commissioned to
guide his fellow-creatures from some lofty pedestal, but recalling
vividly the easy, dreamy, conversational manner of the popular
professor in his Madison avenue lecture room.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 117. F. 29, ’08. 2320w.
=Woodbridge, Jahleel Ligon.= Story of the covenant and the mystery
of the Jew. $1. Broadway pub.
7–33914.
Written for the lay reader in order to arouse interest in the subject
and to bring into brief compass the arguments and the scriptural
quotations bearing upon the Abrahamic covenant, and seeks to
substantiate the practice of infant baptism by tracing its historical
connection with the covenant of Abraham.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunately characterized by more zeal than discretion. Its
point of view is wholly unscientific and dogmatic.”
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The exegesis is rabbinical and the whole point of view inaccessible
to the average man.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 319. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 731. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddell (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow).= Silver
butterfly. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30252.
In quest of the owners of a fabulously rich South American mine,
Robert Hayden returns to New York after years of travel to the
uttermost parts of the earth. He feels intuitively that his day of
destiny and a fairy princess await him. The princess proves an elusive
Cinderella who leaves an ornate butterfly in lieu of a slipper.
Immediately he is precipitated in the very “haunt and home of
tantalizing mystery.” Tracing a similarity in names—a coincidence in
which a wondrous fortune-teller plays part—he not only finds
Eldorado,—but wins Cinderella too.
* * * * *
“The story itself has little to recommend it. It has no special
literary merit and though it professes to be a tale of mystery, it is
not sufficiently exciting to keep the reader’s interest from
flagging.” A. C. Rich.
− =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 200w.
“The action moves rapidly and the story is told with much dash and
spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 676. N. 14, ’08. 260w.
=Woodward, Ida.= In and around the Isle of Purbeck. **$5. Lane.
8–29188.
The author has gone into the details of the history of this neck of
land—for it is a peninsula rather than an island—with an area of less
than a hundred square miles. “Its most famous show place is Corfe
castle. This came into historical prominence when it was the scene of
the murder of King Edward. William the Conqueror seems to have added
the great tower, and John shut up here for a while his niece, the
sister of Arthur, and ‘Damsel of Brittany.’ From time to time it
reappears, commonly as a prison. In 1643 it was courageously held by
Lady Bankes for the king. Two years afterwards it was taken by
treachery, and destroyed by order of Parliament. It now remains ...
one of the most picturesque ruins in England.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The omissions, where information was much to be desired, are
numerous; whilst we have come across many statements which are
doubtful or wholly inaccurate. It is only fair, however, to state that
there are various passages which yield sound historic information, as
well as some which are of an entertaining character.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 509. O. 24. 1000w.
“A series of thirty-six plates in color forms a most attractive
feature of the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
=Spec.= 100: 104. Ja. 18, ’08. 250w.
=Worcester, Elwood; McComb, Samuel; and Coriat, Isador H.= Religion
and medicine; the moral control of nervous disorders. **$1.50.
Moffatt.
8–17567.
An authoritative account, furnished by the ministers of Emanuel church
and their medical associates, of the psychological, medical and
religious facts and principles upon which their practice of psychic
healing is based.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“The several contributors do not really agree, nor can the exposition
be said to be particularly helpful to those acquainted with the
current views as to psychic treatment. Dr. Worcester’s insistence upon
an independent and mystic subconscious mind is unfortunate, and does
not strengthen the practical side of the volume. But it will serve a
timely and useful purpose, and for that it should be welcomed.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 17. Jl. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Ind.= 65: 431. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
“The book is marked throughout with an admirable modesty and
moderation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“No more needed book on the general subject of psychotherapy has
lately come forth, and none more likely to exert beneficent influence
wherever read.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
=Outlook.= 90: 702. N. 28, ’08. 1250w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Letters of Wordsworth’s family from 1787 to
1855; collected and ed. by W: Knight. 3v. $7.50. Ginn.
7–38248.
“Three volumes of Wordsworth letters now collected together for the
first time.... The merit of the collection lies rather in the
completeness of the view which it gives us of Wordsworth’s history
than in the novelty of its contents, though these include some
interesting unpublished matter,—notably the newly discovered series of
letters addressed to Coleridge. In bringing together and arranging
chronologically a great correspondence which hitherto has lain strewn
up and down among a multitude of memoirs, remains, and miscellaneous
publications, Professor Knight has done a lasting service to
literature.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
“Ill arranged, scantily annotated, and poorly indexed. With all its
faults, this edition of the ‘Letters’ is indispensable to the student
of Wordsworth.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 630. My. 23. 570w.
“There is not a great deal that is new in Mr. Knight’s ‘Letters of the
Wordsworth family,’ and the editing can only be described as chaotic
yet we may be thankful to have the correspondence of the poet and his
household brought together in any form.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 49. Jl. 16, ’08. 4800w.
“In their store of fresh material, illuminating, by both data and
comment, the characters of most of Wordsworth’s great contemporaries;
in the light flashed upon his own nature from many facts, and in the
complete expression of his opinions upon subjects of permanent
interest,—these letters will henceforth be indispensable to the
student of Wordsworth, and they supply much that will be invaluable to
future biographies, not only of Wordsworth, but of his fellow poets.”
J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =No. Am.= 188: 292. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“It is only to be regretted that he has not stated clearly the source
of each letter, and thus afforded the reader at once a useful clue
thru the labyrinth of already published Wordsworthiana, and the means
of arriving, without the effort of a somewhat elaborate collation, at
what is new in the present book.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 460. Mr. 21, ’08. 1450w.
=Workman, Fanny Bullock, and Workman, William Hunter.= Ice-bound
heights of the Mustagh: an account of two seasons of pioneer
exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. il. *$5.
Scribner.
8–18698.
“The authors show in detail what a serious sport mountain-climbing may
become. The story of their climbs in the ice-world of the Himalaya is
a record of scientific observations and discoveries comprehensible
only to those who are masters of the science of geography, and of
interest only to those who have some knowledge of mountain-climbing,
or those who wish to enlarge their information regarding the
physiography of the world. Here and there in the book the general
reader will find some ordinary statement of fact that will interest
him.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 1200w.
“As mountain climbers bent on increasing the world’s knowledge of
scientific geographical data, they have succeeded to an unusual
degree.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“The volume contains a large amount of interesting matter: running
comment on botany and geology, and even the record of animalculæ at a
height of 17,000 feet; sketches of people and notes on the nature of
the country.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 538. Je. 11, ’08. 700w.
“A book of rare interest to mountain climbers and to all lovers of
travel and of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 112. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“The book is not only a scientific record in narrative form, but also
an invaluable guide for others who may wish to attempt the same
ascents. It has the special interest of dealing with positive
explorations on mighty peaks heretofore never scaled.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The writing is correct enough, but wholly without any sort of charm,
and this chronicle of continual success leaves an impression of
self-satisfaction which is probably due only to the method employed.
It is not a book to read for any literary quality, but only for the
interest of the facts.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 621. Ap. 18, ’08. 1450w.
=Workman, Rev. George Coulson.= Servant of Jehovah; or, The passion
prophecy of Scripture analyzed and elucidated. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The work is a careful historical exegesis of all the ‘Servant
passages’ in the Deutero-Isaiah. Professor Workman’s view is that ‘the
servant is always the Israelitish nation, or the Jewish church,
contemplated by the prophet either from the point of view of its
actual condition or from the point of view of its divine vocation.’
This has come to be the opinion of modern students generally.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Some of the arguments advanced in Prof. Workman’s book may be open to
serious question; but the treatise can nevertheless be recommended as
an able and even eloquent exposition of the prophecy as viewed by a
very influential school of critics.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 170w.
“It is sane and spiritual. The treatment is scholarly, but not
technical; thus the book will be found interesting and instructive by
all who are concerned for such things.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“Deserving of attention.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 160. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
=Worthington, Arthur Mason.= Study of splashes. *$2. Longmans.
An untechnical treatment based upon the author’s photographic study of
splashes. “The numerous photographs of splashes—197 in all—are chosen
for their beauty as well as for their appropriateness in illustrating
different phases of the phenomena, and are well reproduced. The
apparatus used in obtaining the photographs is described, and the
fundamental principles involved in the formation of splashes are also
briefly but clearly explained.” (Phys. R.)
* * * * *
“Should find a place in every scientific library.” C. V. Boys.
+ =Nature.= 78: 666. O. 29, ’08. 1700w.
“A particularly fascinating volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 1400w.
+ =Phys. R.= 27: 223. S. ’08. 300w.
“Is a brilliant monograph, and deserves to pass at once into the rank
of classic works of the kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 110w.
=Wright, Henry Burt.= Life with a purpose: memorial of John Lawrence
Thurston, first missionary of the Yale mission. **$1.50. Revell.
8–10897.
“A memorial to John Lawrence Thurston, who, at the very beginning of
his career as a missionary in China, was ordered home on account of
ill health and soon died of consumption. The volume has been prepared
by many hands of relatives, friends and associates. All who knew him
intimately contributed of their knowledge. Beginning with his
childhood, his life is portrayed and the development of his character
is traced with the utmost detail by means of his own letters and
diaries and the reminiscences of his friends.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87:463. N. 12, ’08. 160w.
“As a human document the volume is of interest to all who value such
intimate studies of mind and spirit as well as for those who care for
the work in which he was engaged.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 239. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird
year for home and school. il. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–38237.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 96. Mr. ’08.
“As a book for children to read to themselves its success is
[somewhat] doubtful, for it contains somewhat solid food for tender
digestions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 327. Mr. 14. 350w.
“It is a useful book altho somewhat padded with poems and other
quotations.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 50. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“The many lovers of Mabel Osgood Wright’s books will find the present
a particularly good example of her work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
“Nothing better in the way of bird-lore for children has appeared than
this pleasant, human, true book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Open window: tales of the months. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–18722.
A story for every month of the year. In lights varying from the cold,
“hard moon” of January to the mellow “moon of falling leaves” nature’s
byplaces and remote hamlets are made to reveal their influence on the
vital things of life. The author is a past master in portraying the
delightful sympathy between nature and its lovers, and in defining the
quality of human kindness which nature-training produces.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08. ✠
“‘Barbara’s’ work is open to the criticism that is often trivial and
sometimes sentimentally false. However, a ‘nice’ atmosphere environs
it, and that counts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 180w.
“Twelve tales ‘of the months,’ good work all of them, each with a bit
of observation of life in it, and with here and there a line of
interpretation.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“She has the graceful affectionate manner of the feminine diarist, the
faculty of chronicling the small beer of experience without seeming
impertinent or dull.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
“Written in an excellent vein, with a strain of imaginative richness
to give color to the narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 160w.
“The anticipations excited by the appearance of a new volume by the
author of ‘The garden of a commuter’s wife’ will not be disappointed.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 412. S. 19, ’08. 750w.
=Wright, Sidney.= Romance of the world’s fisheries: interesting
descriptions of the many and curious methods of fishing in all
parts of the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–2215.
A book for the general reader which describes the methods of fishing
for whales, seals, pearls, sponges, salmon, sardines, anchovy,
mackerel, etc. The implements required, nets, hooks, lines, baskets,
and the trawl of antiquity receive their share of attention.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 747. N. 16, ’07. 850w.
=Wright, Walter Page.= Perfect garden: how to keep it beautiful and
fruitful; with practical hints on economical management and the
culture of all the principal flowers, fruits and vegetables. *$2.
Lippincott.
8–31981.
“Mr. Wright’s aim is to show an amateur how to pick a suitable spot
for a garden, and then, ‘how to keep it beautiful and fruitful.’ He
deals with flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and gives some space also
to glass-houses.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Among the innumerable books on gardening which have been produced
during the last few years, this by Mr. Wright is one of the best.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 546. O. 31. 680w.
“Naturally he offers very little that is original; but he makes all
his points with skill and excellent judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 250w.
“As far as we have examined the book we have found it judicious and
practical.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Wright, William Kelley.= Ethical significance of feeling, pleasure,
and happiness in modern non-hedonistic systems. *50c. Univ. of
Chicago press.
7–36261.
The monograph is a critical study of the teachings of philosophers
from Descartes thru Green and Nietzsche. The divisions of the
study are as follows: Introduction, The perfectionists, The
British non-Hedonists, Modified perfectionism, Kant, Several
nineteenth-century non-Hedonists, and Conclusion.
* * * * *
“He has given a concise and careful statement of the growth of an
ethical problem and of various proposed solutions. Though primarily
ethical in its scope, this essay, in the attention it gives to the
definition of pleasure, becomes a valuable contribution to the history
of psychology as well as to the field of ethics.” Kate Gordon.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 217. Ap. 9, ’08. 1400w.
Reviewed by F. H. Rousmaniere.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 559. S. ’08. 520w.
=Wright, Wilmer Cave.= Short history of Greek literature from Homer
to Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.
7–32173.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It would be difficult to recommend this little book too highly.”
+ + + =Acad.= 73: 272. D. 21, ’07. 410w.
“An excellent sketch.”
+ =Class. J.= 3: 128. Ja. ’08. 10w.
“I have taken up this book on different days and at various hours,
when fresh and when tired, and have never failed to become
interested.” C. F. S.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 242. Ap. ’08. 670w.
“The views expressed are sane and reasonable, and the style is, on the
whole, agreeable in spite of a few lapses into figurative expressions
of doubtful taste. Mrs. Wright hardly does justice to the poetry of
Bacchylides.” H. N. Fowler.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 217. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“It is well done and it will serve either as a reading book or as a
book of reference.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 206. S. ’08. 80w.
“No one has better rendered into English the spirit of the
devil-may-care Archilochus.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 312. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Adequate learning, wide reading, the critical equipment, good taste
and good judgment, a pleasing and readable style, a thread of
individuality shining through the mass of the material—these are the
qualities which impart to this small manual genuine value beyond its
modest pretensions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
=Wundt, Wilhelm Max.= Outlines of psychology; tr. with the
co-operation of the author, by C. H. Judd. 3d rev. English ed.
from the 7th rev. German ed. *$2.25. Stechert.
A new edition whose most notable change is the inclusion of some
twenty figures and diagrams, with new explanatory matter in the text.
* * * * *
“One has only words of praise for this volume as it now stands in its
third English dress, and Professor Judd is to be warmly commended for
the skill and pains with which he has executed his task.” A. H.
Pierce.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 228. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“English-speaking students are fortunate in possessing such a
scholarly translation of the great psychologist’s answer to the
average student’s needs.” Raymond Dodge.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Wylde, C. H.= How to collect continental china. (How to ser.) $2.
Macmillan.
8–13288.
“Mr. Wylde gives the history of all the important old European
factories, devoting most space to Sévres, where soft paste porcelain
reached its perfection, and to Meissen, where the use of hard paste
was discovered. There is also a careful account of the forms and
styles of decoration characteristic of the various factories, many of
whose productions are reproduced in some of the forty excellent
plates. The makers’ marks are also reproduced in facsimile.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
=Dial.= 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Ind.= 64: 526. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Wylde has covered a very great deal of ground, and his book
should be of considerable value to the collector.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 243. S. ’08. 130w.
“Because the description of each type is led up to with a little
exposition of the personality and motives of the potters, the book
leaves an impression of being readable and entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“The information is in the main correct throughout, and given as
concisely and briefly as possible. The experienced collector as well
as the beginner will find this a thoroughly useful book. The index is
quite comprehensive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Wylde’s volume will be found a useful guide.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4. ’08. 280w.
=Wyllarde, Dolf.= Mafoota: a romance of Jamaica. †$1.50. Lane.
8–6988.
The story of a self-exiled wife’s development from a pinched, frigid
girl, disliking her husband, into a lovable woman who returns to him
with the trophies of her better experiences.
* * * * *
“The story marks an advance on the author’s part in a wider and
brighter horizon.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 250w.
“The author appears, to us, to have handled her material with
delicacy, strength, and sincerity. Lovers of straightforward writing,
writing that is also instinct with emotional qualities, will give Dolf
Wyllarde the credit she deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Wyllie, Bertie.= Sheffield plate. (Newnes library of applied arts.)
*$2.50. Scribner.
7–40880.
A handbook “written with a complete knowledge of its subject both as
regards its technical and artistic aspects and with the view of
reviving an industry almost on the verge of extinction. The
illustrations—some six score in number—will serve as a guide to those
ignorant of the beauty of these last products of the old handicraft
methods of working, and may help to preserve others lying about
unregarded, and awaken their owners to a sense of their value.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It will be useful and interesting not only to the collector and
designer, but also to many households throughout the country.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 220w.
“An enthusiastic collector himself, he avoids the dry, statistical
tone that discourages the beginner, and he possesses a happy
faculty—somewhat rare in students of the antique—of saying clearly and
exactly what he means.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 81. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Int. Studio.= 33: 336. F. ’08. 150w.
“One of the most infectiously enthusiastic of recent books on any of
the arts and crafts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 520. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Wyzewa, Teodore de.= Some women loving or luckless; tr. from the
French by C. H. Jeaffreson. **$2.50. Lane.
Sketches of fourteen lives of women of different climes and times all
meeting upon a plane of despair and suffering, and all furnishing in
their life record a human document of universal interest. Among them
are some of Henry VIII’s wives, Sophia Dorothea the wife of George I
of England, Caroline von Günderode, Mary Stuart, Mary Woolstonecraft,
Constanza Monti, Fanny Burney and Mrs. Browning.
* * * * *
“His pronouncements are in general vitiated by a noticeable lack of
the judicial faculty, which is especially apparent in his estimate of
Henry VIII. The translation, though abounding in literalisms ... is
above the average.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 270w.
“There is not one of these papers which is not interesting. They are
written with a Gaelic grace and sympathy, with a strong, even a naif
Catholic lien, yet with the knowledge and insight of a man of the
world.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
Y
* =Ybarra, Thomas R.= Davy Jones’s yarns and other salted songs.
**$1.25. Holt.
The “yarns,” five in number, relate in rhyme how Davy Jones met an
Icecreamberg; how a Swiss Admiral helped him out of trouble in Russia;
how he and the Swiss Admiral chased the Mince Pirates; how he and
Professor Bim went to Cuba to kill the revolution bug; and how he met
with a typhoon. The “Salted songs” are in the same hilarious vein. The
illustrations are as spirited as they are funny.
* * * * *
“A fantastic quality in their humor that is as unusual as it is
delightful.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“The drawings rescue the verses from the commonplace.” W. G. Bowdoin.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Yeats, William Butler, and Gregory, Isabelle A.= Unicorn from the
stars, and other plays. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16447.
Containing The unicorn from the stars, by Lady Gregory and W. B.
Yeats; Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W. B. Yeats; The hour-glass, by W. B.
Yeats.
* * * * *
“The plays impress us as having little dramatic character: we should
say that they conveyed their idea chiefly by symbol rather than by
action. We like to read and enjoy them, rather than criticize them.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 360w.
“It would be easy to exaggerate the importance of them as plays,
impossible to deny their significance as first fruits of a veritable
national drama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 540. Je. 11, ’08. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 217. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=Yerkes, Robert Mearns.= Dancing mouse: a study in animal behavior.
(Animal behavior ser., v. 1.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–34599.
“The book is a thoroughly scientific study of behavior in one of the
higher animals,—a work of really fundamental interest to all students
of comparative psychology.... The first five chapters are devoted more
particularly to the special peculiarities of the dancing mouse; to its
origin and history; to its extraordinary ‘dance’ movements; to methods
of breeding and care; to the controversy that has long existed
regarding the structure of the ear and the sense of hearing. With the
sixth chapter, on the sense of hearing, begins the account of the
author’s own investigations.”—Psychol. Bull.
* * * * *
“This study is the nearest approach yet made by any student of
behavior to giving a complete and systematic account of the varieties
and complexities of the actions of a mammalian race.” J: B. Watson.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 184. Mr. 26, ’08. 2000w.
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=York, Francis L.= Counterpoint simplified. (Music students lib.)
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=Zeuner, Gustav Anton.= Technical thermodynamics; authorized
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“impersonal immortality.”
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