=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50.
Fox.
“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as
Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters,
and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the
sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo,
Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown,
Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler,
Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists,
the Pre-Raphaelites, some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth
century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this
collection ... shows him at his best.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 120w.
“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great
genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the
artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E.
Gallatin.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 259. S. ‘05. 520w.
“Keen insight and a peculiar warmth of description.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent
half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of
art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several
years.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* “For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s
little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant
and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in
many a long day.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Cox’s ideas are sound and put with candour and balance.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 190w.
“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is
not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he
is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other
matters.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8, ‘05. 830w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 282. Ap. 29, ‘05. 300w.
“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an
excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles
de Kay.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 600w.
* “The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple
and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of
limited observation and experience.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and
probity of judgment.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 879. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.
* “Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of
great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment
which can not but delight the more matured art student.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to
novices in art appreciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Storm
center. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee.
“The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert
Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first
time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a
neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this
author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone,
is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being
exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty
construction.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 210w.
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and
yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 140w.
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are
elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 440w.
“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its
plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining
incidents.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15. ‘05. 80w.
=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Successful men of today, and what they say of
success. $1. Funk.
A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of
this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and
opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred
prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway,
and give helpful hints for those who would follow.
=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with
small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the
weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight
misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice
to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who
comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic
characters enter into and complicate the story.
“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a
stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of
mingled laughter and sympathy.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 615. Je. 10, ‘05. 710w.
“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from
the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of
intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”
+ — =Ath.= 1: 746. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and
notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up
her mind as to what she is aiming at.”
— =Lond. Times=, 4: 193. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
* “In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant
dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is
nothing to take their place.”
— + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But
psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the
dilettante.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 847. Je. 24, ‘05. 1070w.
=Craik, Dinah Maria (Miss Mulock, pseud.).= John Halifax, gentleman.
$1.25. Crowell.
All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the
attractive “Thin paper classics” series.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied
arts. **$2. Baker.
Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the
Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of
impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.”
Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early
and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens;
and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A
color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanese sculpture; and the Future of
Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and
many unusual pictures.
* “At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 35. D. ‘05. 210w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
* “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such
brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as
Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book
is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of
the year.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby,
Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh,
Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury,
York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates
the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the
effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of
the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of
names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance
of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their
relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic
standpoint.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Cramp, Walter S.= Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50.
Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth.
The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover
Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came
upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the
ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make
himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the
times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.
“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking
care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its
characters convincing.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“An ambitious and gratifying bit of interpretation.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of
imagination.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 60w.
=Craven, John J.= Prison life of Jefferson Davis. **$1.20. Dillingham.
A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was
surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment,
and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of
his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together
with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of
the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer,
concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in
full.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret: a portrait. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his
American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a
career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead
and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her
voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and
probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with
success.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is
very good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing
in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any
kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the
old artist.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v.
**$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of
events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr.
Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which
reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory
and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when
accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the
stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with
a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their
grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a
dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of
the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without
first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one
volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented
in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.
* “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his
ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders
especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work
could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled
resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just
the lover of good literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 550w.
=Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, F. Marion.= Whosoever shall offend. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each
new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than
ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall
offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of
the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The
new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife
and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining
their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished
according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the
interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters
are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere
tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern
imagination.”
— + =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 100w.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm
and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1133. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry
admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the
English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most
part, however, remains outside.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them,
‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story,
the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations
in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the
‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 496. Mr. ‘05. 370w.
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly
grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for
the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of
character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a
puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well
handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
=Crehore, Albert Gushing.= Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs:
some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single
wire both with and without synchronism. *$2. McGraw pub.
“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems
discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the
Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed
superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a
description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph
systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate
to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to
synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Wm. Maver.
* =Engin. N.= 54: 535. N. 16, ‘05. 590w.
=Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton).= The life and letters of
Mandell Creighton. *$9. Longmans.
The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips
Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded,
steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its
mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or
volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and
most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their
interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They
contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old
century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s
life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining,
fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of
England.” (Ind.)
“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and
flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows
an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and
perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and
limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 558. Ap. ‘05. 3120w.
=Ind.= 58: 324. F. 9, ‘05. 670w.
“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of
distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely
coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a
model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate
proportion. She has also displayed tact.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 95. F. 2, ‘05. 2120w.
=Crewdson, Charles N.= Tales of the road. $1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his
own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give
some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to
‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of
anecdotes.”—Outlook.
* “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it
may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a
self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and
shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes
rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his
majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of
suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father
and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be
one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own
father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of
events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother
gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and
Hope—and Crockett.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 470w.
* “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author
at his best.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his
master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious
and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and
ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a
land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken
brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by
moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 126. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a
pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself
bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 145. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= May Margaret. †$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of
the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited,
quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three
wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not
Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and canonical laws find a way
for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the
text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author
has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the
actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our
memory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 170w.
“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two
elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic
mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31 :666. N. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of
the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 435. Jl. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant
anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the
whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 196. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1100w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its
stories, traditions, characters, humors. **$2. Dodd.
“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the
locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of
facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of
character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history
is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says:
“It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to
focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of
Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”
“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent
literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always,
delightful.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s
books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the
whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much
of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the
infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit
and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 560w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38 :26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Sir Toady Crusoe. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming
little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the
many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others
had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher
in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to
Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter,
by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did
many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very
like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children
will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 80w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style,
humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale
is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of
grown-up sentiment in it.”
+ — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice.= Abridged history
of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek
literature, which the authors of this work have published in five
volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek
literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each
period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no
partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the
account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the
Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their
closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic
literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.
“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which
makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant
phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost,
even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits
some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 314. Mr. ‘05. 900w.
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 152. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1290w.
“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of
infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek
literature.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 38. Ja. 12, ‘05. 1440w.
“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic
English so necessary for the young student.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274.* Mr. ‘05. 140w.
“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number
considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be
commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the
original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a
work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.
+ + — =School R.= 13: 738. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Crosby, Ernest.= Broadcast. *75c. Funk.
Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses,
pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s
systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times
so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love,
cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.
“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and
parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The
more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we
convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that
prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 334. S. ‘05. 930w.
“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in
abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our
social organization, there are also the results of observation
definitely outlined.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
* =Crosby, Ernest.= Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to
the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his
children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of
abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the
greatest war of history.
=Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.= Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.
As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the
“Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he
display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.”
His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’
‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly
calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s
praise.” (Dial.)
— =Dial.= 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 520w.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 780w.
— =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.
“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the
ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has
not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Cross, Wilbur Lucius.= Development of the English novel. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
The seventh edition of Professor Cross’ work which first appeared in
1900. Not only has use proven its principles authoritative, but
judgments which the author offered five years ago have stood the test
of change and advancement.
“The best of its kind, no doubt, in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 20w.
=Nation.= 80: 435. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 310w.
“Professor Cross has done a thorough and useful work.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crowley, Jeremiah.= The parochial school: a curse to the church, a
menace to the nation. $1. Published by the author, Chicago.
In a chapter dedicating his work to the “Emancipate Catholic laity of
tomorrow” the author makes an appeal to the laity. “‘The parochial
school’ lays bare clerical immorality in the United States in a way to
rival the story of the church in Latin countries or in Germany before
Luther’s day. Sad as is this picture, it is, however, far less
painful, than to read how thoroughly good men combine to hide, gloss
over, or condone clerical crimes.... Father Crowley devotes much space
to the dangers of the parochial school. They are an incubus on the
church and a serious menace to her.... The surest way in the world to
kill off Catholicism is to give over education to priests and nuns.
Witness France.” (Ind.)
+ =Ind.= 58: 207. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1030w.
“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and
prelates who have become corrupted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Heroine of the strait. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa
chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the
pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the
young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter
of the frontier.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Love thrives in war: a romance of the
frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe,
and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of
suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the
life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and
times which she depicts.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Verrocchio. *$2. Scribner.
“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now
presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of
fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to
show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such
work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and
painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature
work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of
the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic
capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of
which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only
such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.”
The book is fully illustrated.
“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell
least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the
most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the
subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the
imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in
the temple of fame.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 116. Ja. 28. 1670w.
“It is a thorough-going essay, notable for its clarification of the
master’s works. Her book has gusto; it is written with equal knowledge
and enthusiasm. It is one of the best of those monographs to which I
have referred as based on system and industry rather than on an
original impulse.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 277. F. ‘05. 540w.
“The author has grasped the value of giving attention to the study of
the artist’s works at the expense of vague surmises as to his
biography.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 80w.
“A scholarly and appreciative monograph of great importance.” George
Breed Zug.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 890w.
“Her book is altogether the best on Verrocchio that we have, in
English at least.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Generally speaking, Maud Cruttwell’s work is sober and well informed.
One may regret the vagueness of her general views. Few comprehensive
works of recent years are as useful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 920w.
“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings
of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic
renders an equally important service in discriminating between
Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his
followers sometimes attributed to him.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
=Culbertson, Anne Virginia.= Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others
dream, and many talk sound common sense.
“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms
and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more
accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple
folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to
the laws of versification.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 554. N. ‘05. 990w.
* “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr.
Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect,
they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much
picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception
and treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled
ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern
negro.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Cullum, Ridgwell.= In the brooding wild. †$1.50. Page.
“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown
between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by
a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an
Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with
a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a
lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the
wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the
grotesque.”—Sat. R.
“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author
had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background,
for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs
and bears are of flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and
from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the
outset.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. My. 20. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 450w.
“The story is told with fervor, with a rough, crude force.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
“The book is garishly melodramatic.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
=Cunningham, William.= Growth of English industry and commerce during
the early and middle ages. v. I. 4th ed. *$4. Macmillan.
“In this new edition of the first volume ... substantial additions are
found, together with corrections on various points of detail and
increased precision of statement.... As it now stands, this volume,
which traces the course of industrial progress through early and
mediæval England, more nearly than ever before fulfills its author’s
purpose of indicating clearly the interconnection between the economic
and political facts of the periods reviewed, and of making plain not
only the events but the ideas of the time.”—Outlook.
=Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Curtis, Francis.= Republican party. Vols. I and II. **$6. Putnam.
“The work should command serious interest. The very fact that it is
honored by a foreword over the name of President Roosevelt, and that
the introductory notes ... were written by Senator William P. Frye and
Speaker J. G. Cannon, at once arouses interest. By copious extracts
from government documents, party platforms and newspaper files, the
author shows first the republican party owes its origin neither to
enthusiasts nor to a single movement. The party has been consistent
through its career, and to-day stands for the three great policies for
which it stood at its birth, ‘liberty, honor, and progress.’”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
“But in spite of the fact that the author is neither exact nor
entirely conservative in all his statements, the work as a whole must
command lasting respect.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 127. Ja. ‘05. 300w.
“The period of the Civil war is handled skilfully and with less
partisanship than might have been expected. It will be easily seen
that Mr. Curtis’s work will be accepted only by loyal party men, and
yet it is of great value to the historical student; in fact, it is a
very elaborate historical argument.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 400w.
“It would be ridiculous to call this kind of stuff ‘history’, since it
entirely lacks the historical spirit or sense of proportion, still Mr.
Curtis has compiled a useful record.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 599. My. 6, ‘05. 1400w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2.
Revell.
“Another descriptive informational volume, so many of which have
already come from the pen of the same author. Mr. Curtis tells of
things he has seen, and garnishes his narrative with a great deal of
historical and descriptive information which makes very interesting
reading. There are a number of excellent illustrations in this
volume.”—R. of Rs.
* “To add anything new to these old familiars would be impossible; but
Mr. Curtis’s view-point is at times refreshing.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.
* “There is in the present book the same easy, confident, and
confidential style of sketching and statisticizing (if the word may
pass) that makes not unpleasant reading in Mr. Curtis’s previous
volume.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 403. N. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its reading will amply repay any one interested in either the
ancient or the modern development of the countries treated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Modern India. **$2. Revell.
A vast deal of information has been brought together here, and the
author’s method “is to combine with a mass of observations and
deductions of his own—the observations taken hastily upon his travels
and the deductions—not too carefully checked—statistics, fragments of
history, geography, ethnology, guide book information, and what not
gathered together from all available sources.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
author is happier in his delineation of modern life, and the casual
reader will enjoy the descriptions of town and country, plague and
famine, peasant and priest.” (Nation.)
* “It is a strange medley of wit and wisdom with error and ignorance,
of fun and burlesque with serious study, the good qualities, however,
predominating.”
+ — =Ath.= 2: 639. N. 11, ‘05. 1560w.
* “A very helpful book for those who wish data upon which to base a
reasonable judgment of the actual state of affairs in that country.”
H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“With much that is statistically accurate, the book unfortunately
abounds in printer’s and author’s errors.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
“It would, no doubt, be hard to find in another single volume such a
variety of information about India and Indian affairs, but the
assemblage with all its facts and figures, lacks that authority which
is necessary to give full value to a work of this kind.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 1160w.
“A feature of particular value to Americans is the exposition of the
activities of their countrymen in the religious, educational, economic
and social life of India.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Another of Mr. Curtis’ encyclopaedic but entertaining books.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Cuthbert, Father.= Catholic ideals in social life. *$1.25. Benziger.
Father Cuthbert’s “desire has been to give expression to the Catholic
mind touching some of the most urgent questions of the hour in regard
to social life and conduct.” His essays include: The church and
personal liberty, The Christian state, The education of women,
Marriage, The value of work, The priest and social reform, The
responsibility of wealth, The idea of responsibility, Religious
aspects of social work, The working man’s apostolate, and St. Francis
and you.
“Fresh, hopeful, and courageous essays.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 681. F. ‘05. 540w.
=Cuthell, E. H.= My garden in the city of gardens. **$1.50. Lane.
Gardening in India from October to June furnishes the theme of this
“memory with illustrations.” There is a goodly amount of incidental
knowledge worked in, such as descriptions of prevalent Indian customs
and bits of gossip concerning Hindu every-day life.
“In spite of these faults and such others as an awkward style of
writing and the lack of a glossary of Indian words, the book contains
a good deal that is of interest in regard to life and nature in
India.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 243. O. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“As garden-books go, this one is sufficiently entertaining, and the
descriptions are as good as the photographs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 150w.
“Much of it is good enough reading if the mood fits.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 690w.
“But good as much of the book is, it is a little spoiled by an excess
of carelessness in style and a too pointed assertion of individual
mannerisms.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 291. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1470w.
=Cutler, James Elbert.= Lynch law: an investigation into the history of
lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
Beginning with the origin of the term Prof. Cutler traces the
development of the lynch law from 1830 down to date. He discusses the
present situation, suggests remedies, and gives charts and statistics.
“The volume will repay careful study, even if exception is
occasionally taken to some of the author’s conclusions. The volume
represents a great amount of research work and the author is to be
congratulated upon the manner in which the material is presented.”
Carl Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 280w.
+ + + = Ath.= 1905, 2: 296. S. 2. 1860w.
+ =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“The book is sane, temperate in tone, moderate in statement, and
judicial in conclusions. It is the only really valuable treatise on
the subject, and is not likely to be superseded.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 34. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1310w.
“Dr. Cutler has done much to solve the problem by his laborious,
careful, and candid study of the question, which has already made him
the leading authority upon a dangerous social disease.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 57. Jl. 20, ‘05. 2110w.
“In his final chapters on the justification of lynching and the
remedies for it, Mr. Cutler shows a spirit remarkable for its fairness
and an appreciation of the force of circumstances and the historical
facts of the situation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 1850w.
“Careful and dispassionate study of the phenomenon known as lynching.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“A well-considered and thoughtful analysis of the facts and figures.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 470w.
* “Mr. Cutler’s book should be valuable for its summary of facts, and
for the solemn warning that thoughtful Americans may read between the
lines.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= Little stories of courtship. †$1.25. McClure.
“Tales of plain, everyday, middle-class people—people who are not
overburdened with the world’s goods, but who are educated, cultured
and refined—in short, the people we meet daily about us. The eight
stories which make up this volume are very pleasant reading,
indeed.”—N. Y. Times.
“This collection does not fulfill all the expectations excited by its
unique predecessor, ‘The little stories of married life.’”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 320w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
“Stories of the book are all simple in their theme, but they gain much
by Mrs. Cutting’s sympathetic handling of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The charm of all the stories lies in their perfect naturalness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Some of these ‘little stories of courtship’ are excellent in their
way, indicating shrewd observation and a kindly sympathy. But they are
of very uneven merit.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“They are gracefully spun, and, without being intense, they have the
human touch. They portray life in its usual phases, yet they are not
without variety, and they are very genuine in feeling.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
Cyclopedia of applied electricity; a practical guide for electricians,
mechanics, engineers, students, telegraph and telephone operators, and
all others interested in electricity. Prepared by a corps of experts,
electrical engineers and designers. 5v. $30. Am. school of
correspondence.
The text is divided in five parts and contains over 2,000
illustrations. Part I. treats of current measurements, part II. of
dynamos, part III. of lightning, part IV. of alternating currents and
power transmission, and part V. of telephony.
“We give, therefore, without comment on our part, the opinion passed
by the publishers themselves: ‘The practical value of the work as a
whole can hardly be questioned.’”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 294. Mr. 16, ‘05. 990w.
“A practical guide and encyclopedia of electrical knowledge that
should be of great value to the everyday worker with electricity in
all of its applications.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 428. Mr. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Cynewulf.= Dream of the rood: an old English poem attributed to
Cynewulf; ed. by Albert S. Cook. *90c. Oxford.
With the reproduction of this poem from the Vercelli book, the editor
offers complete sidelight information including an introduction which
discusses the manuscript, translations, authorship—sometimes
attributed to Caedmon—and literary characteristics of the poem. There
are full notes, an appendix and a glossary.
“This little book is full of valuable and all but convincing facts.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 445. Ap. 22, ‘05. 600w.
“The notes proper are full and interesting, and the glossary unusually
helpful.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 686. Je. 3. 280w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 40w.
D
=Dale, Alan, pseud.= See =Cohen, Alfred J.=
=Dale, Thomas F.= Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
An authoritative polo handbook. “Mr Dale has succeeded in
accomplishing what no previous writer on polo has ever done, that is
to present a concise, even graphic, view of the present status of polo
throughout the world. The chapters on polo in England, America, India,
Australia, and New Zealand, while technical, as the rules of each
country are presented in full with illustrative comment, are of
peculiar interest at the present time owing to a growing sentiment for
an international code of rules.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Dale has the happy faculty of writing entertainingly for the
general reader as well as for the scientific student. His book
combines both elements.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1090w.
“A short chapter on the elements of polo is as instructive as it can
be; and the later portions of the work, which deal with training
ponies, stable management, and polo-pony breeding, contain much
excellent matter.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ‘05. 600w.
=Daniels, Mabel W.= American girl in Munich. †$1.25. Little.
A Boston girl’s account of a year spent as a student of music in
Munich. The German life in the little pension, the trials and joys of
her fellow students, her professors, and the operas and symphonies she
enjoyed, are described in a series of chatty letters to her chum. She
meets several real celebrities in the world of music, and weaves into
her story a pretty little German love idyl.
“Pleasantly written and full of delightful humor.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“There is not a ponderous page, yet she has attempted to enliven her
narrative by weaving into it a boarding-house love story. It would
have been wiser to study her German and read her proofs carefully.”
+ + — =Nation=, 81: 83. Jl. 27, ‘05. 680w.
“Delightfully readable are the letters. The book will be primarily
interesting to another girl who has been or is thinking of studying
abroad, but it is written in a chatty, gossipy manner which makes easy
reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A series of bright and entertaining letters. They have a flavor of
genuineness quite apart from their mention of real notabilities and
places.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 70w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Divina commedia; tr. by H. F. Tozer. *$1. Oxford.
“A translation into English prose intended primarily for readers who
are not acquainted with Italian. Mr. Tozer has endeavored to give
Dante’s meaning as fully and clearly as possible without adhering too
literally to the words; and at the same time to present the poem in a
fairly readable form.”—Bookm.
“In rendering the poem itself Mr. Tozer’s prose contrasts lamentably
with the noble, beautiful, living English and the unerring good taste
of Professor Norton.” Abbott Foster.
— + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 970w.
“The translator has coped successfully with the difficult task of
rendering Dante in English prose suitable for the student. From an
artistic standpoint, much is necessarily lacking in the way of music
and connotation of style.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“The most obvious quality of Mr. Tozer’s translation is its
readableness; its inferiority to Mr. Norton’s lies in a less profound
Dante scholarship, and in a certain looseness of style which springs
from a tendency to paraphrase, and now from the use of inappropriate
words.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 298, Ap. 13, ‘05. 750w.
Reviewed by W. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 700w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Inferno: a translation and commentary, by Marvin R.
Vincent. **$1.50. Scribner.
“While owning up to the ‘disenchantment’ of any translation,” the
author, who is professor of sacred literature in the Union theological
seminary, offers his own as a help to ‘make the study of Dante what it
should be—a part of the curriculum of every theological institution.’
The translation “is fortified with about 125 pages of notes which
comprise a commentary on words and phrases and ideas gathered and
sifted from H. F. Tozer’s convenient book of explanation, and from
similar publications. The author has also scattered some things of his
own with lavish hand—principally in the departments of religions and
ethical interpretation, altho there are some of historical fact.” (N.
Y. Times).
“The student is led without useless ornamentation directly to the
poet’s conception; and that is what most students want.”
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Dr. Vincent has made a very strong, accurate and readable
translation.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 2890w.
“It is far from being a successful translation, for the figurative
meanings have almost entirely disappeared with the rhythmical. It is
just as far from being a successful poem, for all that Dr. Vincent
gives us has already been more concisely expressed in plain prose.
These notes are of uniform excellence, and are, as the author
intimates, the result of class-room debates. On the chance that there
are certain intellects which will more rapidly grasp a blank verse
‘Inferno’ rather than one in genuine poetry like Cary’s or in
rhetorical prose like Norton’s, Dr. Vincent’s book may not be deemed
entirely superfluous. For such intellects his notes can hardly fail to
be otherwise than enlightening and stimulating.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Vincent announces that he has made a literal translation based on
the Oxford text of Dr. Moore.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 759. D. ‘04. 80w.
=D’Arblay, Madame.= See =Burney, Frances.=
=Dargan, Edwin Charles.= History of preaching from the apostolic fathers
to the great reformers. **$1.75. Armstrong.
“This, the first of three volumes, carries the subject to the close of
the Reformation period. The two that are to follow will treat of
modern European preaching and the history of preaching in the United
States. Thus a field at present but partially worked will be fully
covered. The present volume treats successively of the patristic
preaching, its decline after the fourth century, mediæval preaching
from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the subsequent
renaissance.”—Outlook.
“Dr. Dargan gives us a careful view of the historic settings and
abundant biographical detail.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 598. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The author appears to have done very little original research, but he
writes a readable style, and has made use of good sources of
information.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26. 130w.
“We know of no other work of this character in which the combination
of pleasing diction and abundant information is more satisfactory. Our
author has depended largely upon Protestant authorities on matters
connected with the Catholic church. The erudition of the author, his
pleasing style and his spirit of equity give to the book a large
value.”
+ + — =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “The book is a treasury of learning of a certain kind, but the
learning is scarcely helpful. As a bibliography, indeed, the volume
may be useful.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: sup. 910. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Heroes of Iceland; adapted from the
translation of Dasent by Allen French. $1.50. Little.
A tale adapted from Dasent’s translation of “The story of burnt Njal,”
the great Icelandic saga, with a preface, introduction and notes by
Mr. French. It pictures Iceland in the tenth century, the old pagan
life, the dawn of Christianity, and the struggle of mighty heroes.
* “In his comprehensive introduction as well as his notes, the author
gives a thoro setting.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“A very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 30w.
* “We have no criticism to make on Mr. French’s execution of his
task.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 904. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Popular tales from the Norse. *$2.50.
Putnam.
The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains
besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which
considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general,
and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the
book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who
gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on
the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896.
It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a
typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited
reward.” (Nation).
“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day
when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of
recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or
the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way
not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation
from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well
of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose
happily may be.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 114. F. 9, ‘05. 530w.
=Daumier, Honore.= International Studio. Daumier and Gavarni. *$2; *$3.
Lane.
A number devoted to Daumier and Gavarni, the two great French
cartoonists of the last century. There are two dozen reproductions of
their work in color and photogravures, and a hundred illustrations in
black and white. Critical and biographical notes on Daumier are
translated from an essay of M. Henri Frantz, and there is an essay
upon Gavarni by M. Octave Uzanne.
“Will be greatly prized by collectors of the works of the great
satirical cartoonists and illustrators. It will prove a valuable
addition to the art-collector’s library.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 338. Mr. ‘05. 690w.
“The essays are after all mere introductions to the plates.
Incidentally the cartoons furnish a fascinating interpretation of
Parisian life and manners. The special numbers of ‘The studio’ are
always interesting, but this one is unusually unique and suggestive.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=Davenport, Frederick Morgan.= Primitive traits in religious revivals: a
study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a purely sociological interpretation of revivals, having no
evangelistic bias or motive. In his development of this theme the
author has introduced accounts of various revivals of this country and
Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
“His collection of materials in this field is highly interesting, and
a valuable supplement to Stoll’s ‘Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der
Völker-psychologie.’” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 160w.
* “It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Every minister
should read it carefully and take its lessons to heart. The social
student will find it helpful in explaining phenomena which have not
received the attention they deserve.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 750. N. ‘05. 190w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 688. N. ‘05. 500w.
“The treatment of his subject is logical and fairly clear, though with
a number of repetitions.” Rolvix Harlan.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 237. S. ‘05. 570w.
“The latter chapters of the book are somewhat disappointing. Instead
of calm, scientific analyses or a logical drawing of conclusions,
Prof. Davenport indulges in an exposition of his own theories and
ideas.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The book is a valuable and highly interesting contribution to the
many recent discussions of the place and value of the emotions in
moral and religious development.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 20. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1660w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 140w.
=Davidson, Andrew Bruce.= Theology of the Old Testament. **$2.50.
Scribner.
Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology
from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God,
of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his
theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of
observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive
style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented
biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a
moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and
untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be
repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate
Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament
literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our
modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’
of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail
to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick
McCurdy.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 346. Ap. ‘05. 5160w.
“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many
brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there
is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the
preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on
any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is
trained in modern historical methods.”
— + =Bib. World.= 25: 283. Ap. ‘05. 2340w.
“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of
the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.
+ =Dial.= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 600w.
“The book contains much good material and is of real value.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 320w.
=Davidson, Rev. John.= St. Peter and his training. *30c. Lippincott.
“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside
the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its
truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.
“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of
his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most
expositors.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Davidson, John.= Selected poems. *$1.25. Lane.
“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd
critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse,
his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of
poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make
the bulk of the book.”—Nation.
“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative
life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy
of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w.
“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest
Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his
work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w.
“Uncommonly masculine volume.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.= Christian
opportunity. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of
Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only
temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents
of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston,
and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence
of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his
cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We
in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize
better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of
English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you
in New England have come to see that even among those whom your
great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something
worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the
common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old
world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)
=Atlan.= 95: 705. My. ‘05. 180w.
“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of
the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment,
catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= : 7. F. 10, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Davidson, Thomas.= Education of the wage earners. *75c. Ginn.
“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York
city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture,
Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of
wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully
studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the
history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M.
Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of
Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of
Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very
real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.
+ + =Charities.= 14: 642. Ap. 1, ‘05. 540w.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
=Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w.
Reviewed by J. Lawrence Laughlin.
* + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 611. S. ‘05. 370w.
=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by
Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards
musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we
might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is
everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is
singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising
vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and
explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.
“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the
author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he
qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to
keep the main drift of his argument in view.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 306. S. 22, ‘05. 610w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 420w.
=Davies, Gerald Stanley.= Franz Hals. $1.75. Macmillan.
This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture
series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century,
Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life
is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best
known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most
important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to
the galleries in which they are hung.
“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic,
imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender
accepted data.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 520w.
=Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn,= ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For
half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part
in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and
development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter
on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W.
Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.”
Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B.
Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters
illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night
school to a model institution of its kind.
“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it
lacks an index.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 337. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w.
=Spec.= 94: 18. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1520w.
=Davies, W. W.= Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. *75c. Meth. bk.
A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to
help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is
given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in
long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.
=Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Davis, Foxcroft.= Mrs. Darrell. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and
finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham.
Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and
his lawyers press Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham
and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator,
who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The
senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.
“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except
for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”
— =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w.
“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the
train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs.
Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.
“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development
cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually
interesting.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
* =Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and
development of the great business combinations and their relation to the
authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now
familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here
attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest
manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical
organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial
companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There
are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length
sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure,
operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.
* “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly
suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition
to economic literature.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 580w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York
capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an
Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the
momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the
sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the
dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and
courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic
prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion
right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been
terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and
ostracized hero.
* “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle
delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its
idealism, and its prejudice.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 500w.
* “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and
some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction
is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 340w.
“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of
the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed
ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Miss Civilization. **50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey
Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in
holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police,
whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars
trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals,
where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur
rendering.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Davison, Charles.= Study of recent earthquakes. $1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the
results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather
than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a
text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight
disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject
attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several
chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming
earthquake.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w.
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which
its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation
amongst those who seek for general information.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 532. Ap. 6, ‘05. 630w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Davitt, Michael.= Fall of feudalism in Ireland. **$2.50. Harper.
“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to
regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian
settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty
years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr.
Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both
interesting and valuable.”—Critic.
“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected,
makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has
done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed
on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
* =Dawson, Miles Menander.= Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing
himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of
life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various
systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates
are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase
their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject
is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and
warning.”—Outlook.
* “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should
find a wide audience.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 320w.
=Dawson, Samuel E.= Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. *$1.35.
Stokes.
“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth
the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the
northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is
accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good
maps.”—Outlook.
“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of
the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical
faculty, which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject
involving a good many disputed points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 116. Jl. 22. 1210w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Ind.= 49: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 230w.
“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most
fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 1920w.
“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover
of romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful
volume.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 478. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Dawson, Thomas C.= South American republics, pt. 2. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent
summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South
American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina,
Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he
[Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil.
During the interval between the appearance of the first and second
volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This
second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are
too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a
tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched
the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of
the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its
value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate
compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently
confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The
illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and
out of date.” Hiram Bingham.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic
situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two
small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the
author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or
bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical
compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the
present situation in the South American republics.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 338. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1189. My. 25, ‘05. 200w.
* “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however,
largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar
acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great
personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth
century in South America.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 696. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Dawson, W. J.= Evangelistic note, *$1.25. Revell.
A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a
successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the
Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic
field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value
of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of
to-day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w.
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one
which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with
the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful,
convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w.
=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English fiction. *$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of
novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen,
then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens,
the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley,
George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others,
closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a
“Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are
considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an
extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a
development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us
for many a day.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 664. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Day, Emily Foster.= Menehunes. *75c. Elder.
A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii,
illustrated by Spencer Wright.
* + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
=Day, Thomas Fleming.= Hints to young yacht skippers. $1. Rudder pub.
Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from
boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects
relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.”
Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity
of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he
owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time,
money, hard work and anxiety.
“The book is full of useful information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
(Detailed statement of contents.)
=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology.
*$1.30. Macmillan.
A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and
especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped
with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s
study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He
carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of
statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but
which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from
actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands
for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 266. S. ‘05. 1190w.
* “The abridgment has been excellently done.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of
a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v.
*$40. Univ. of Chicago press.
Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the
first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and
contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations,
the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the
work of research of the several departments of the university,
organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President
Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago
university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church
history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV
is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and
Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature,
Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language
and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and
Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII
turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the
Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades
the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects
of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with
Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and
Bacteriology.
=Bib. World.= 25: 240. Mr. ‘05. 50w. (States contents of v. 5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 760w. (Survey of
contents).
“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual
activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the
brief period of its existence.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 593. Ap. 15, ‘05. 410w.
=Deecke, W.= Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and
its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt.
$5. Macmillan.
A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning
with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at
geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and
general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the
climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and
touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of
the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history,
and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political
institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the
church, language, and science, and a topographical description of
various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)
“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place,
it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is
simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is
exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the
statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want
constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not
know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate,
and so interesting.”
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 378. Ap. ‘05. 250w. (States contents of
Vol. V.)
“Is all done carefully and well.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 588. My. ‘05. 100w.
“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is
also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”
— — =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be
found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter
so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 760w.
“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German
thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land
and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is
a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written,
and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in
fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in
nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular
places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy
from so many points of view. The topographical part is really
something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for
reference rather than to be read continuously.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 2290w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Slanderers. †$1.50. Harper.
“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an
idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father,
partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek
tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds
that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan
only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes
off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the
greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The
slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the
members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations.
And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity
of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other
people.” (N. Y. Times).
“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these
slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a
mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the
reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr.
Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical
sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the
meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair
of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the
average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is
distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes
its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
— — =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w.
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Dekker, Eduard Douwes.= (Multatuli, pseud.). Walter Pieterse: a story
of Holland. $1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his
vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid
surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a
little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch
Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of
confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty.
The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at
moments.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w.
“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine,
(he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary
iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares.
Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not
already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr.
Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life
in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry.= Peter’s mother. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story.
There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is
contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the
brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering
inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her
finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase
deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one
strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so
lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much
charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w.
— =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w.
=Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w.
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters
can be made interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most
agreeably blended.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= After the divorce. †$1.50. Holt.
The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian
peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment
for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the
confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his
innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both
money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which
liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she
had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the
two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young
happiness is gone forever.
“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She
effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of
her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in
person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w.
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w.
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is
perfect.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w.
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a
manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost
something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still
well worth reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 267. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 20w.
“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the
original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 390w.
=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of
the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order
of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness
that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as
much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal
persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special
attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any
other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”
“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr.
Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin
Cox.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 169. O. ‘05. 840w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 620w.
“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in
the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders
with which its pages abound.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable.
The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story
telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the
wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by
explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a
vitascope.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 50w.
“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1110w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the
chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have
the appearance of being thrown together.”
+ — — =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
* =Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Violin maker;
trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of
Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer
found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took
him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other
masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his
father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in
Mittenwald.
=Dent, Edward J.= Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works. *$3.50.
Longmans.
“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without
blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough
sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his
circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.
“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is
called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a
handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s
library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there
are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart
interest to the manner as well as the matter.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 1470w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 538. Ap. 29. 470w.
* “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard
authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J.
Henderson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 852. D. ‘05. 240w.
“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and
scores.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
=De Pue, Edward Spence.= Dr. Nicholas Stone. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast
manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy
holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them
thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly
escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence
of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and
respected old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere
joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money
go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.
“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that
attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots,
the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed
to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he
discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.
=De Selincourt, Beryl D.= Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the
borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte
Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti,
the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in
which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament
of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen
half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by
Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.
“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s
style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 387. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 340w.
“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and
teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his
surroundings.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“A manifest labor of love.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.
“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way
information.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 502. O. 14, ‘05. 970w.
“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a
vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=Deutsch, Leo.= Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3.
Dutton.
A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account
of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them
to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the
translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving
impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a
reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the
Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were
prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.”
(Outlook.)
“The volume deserves a wide reading.”
+ + =Ann.= Am. Acad. 26: 588. S. ‘05. 120w.
“Very interesting and informing book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 505. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.
=Devine, Edward T.= Principles of relief. **$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity
organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical
aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under
four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the
essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful
idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living
which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief
work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find
their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is
printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical
relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief.