J. Soc.)
“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published
was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph
has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity
produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to
place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the
specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious
student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 554. Ja. ‘05. 670w.
“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully,
the underlying principles on which the charity organization society
movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive
statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving,
whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these
principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a
way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has
mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive
throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will
be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the
authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help
feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias
of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too
exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles
A. Ellwood.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 143. Ja. ‘05. 870w.
“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the
subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More
Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 340w.
“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague
notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no
writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor
relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the
analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at
principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to
the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of
the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and
professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it
is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest
him to any great extent.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 300w.
“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his
practical suggestions are instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 610w.
“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for
Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the
problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so
far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it
presents itself in American cities.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1440w.
“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.
“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear
somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David
I. Green.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 81. My. ‘05. 1190w.
=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in
Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the
social, political and religious field. It tells what American
missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the
Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the
Filipinos themselves.
“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high
degree.” H. Parker Willis.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter
interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= History of education in the United States. **$2.
Macmillan.
The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey
of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of
the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it
an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of
education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education
from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every
phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to
newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of
learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general
organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the
people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational
extension.” (Educ. R.)
“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove
disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should
be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of
fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are
far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth
Brown.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude,
and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment
and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction
from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature
of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter
and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w.
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is
most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity,
whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the
majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would
have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry
Davidson Sheldon.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w.
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization,
accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the
material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a
subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many
details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept
stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them,
and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single
work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so
that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for
criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of
treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w.
“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless
readable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= Weather influences; an empirical study of the
mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions.
**$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of
New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their
divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the
school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the
meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data
for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease,
drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school
children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 135. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
=Ind.= 58: 728. Mr. 30, ‘05. 510w.
=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the
Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the
history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most
eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left
unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of
the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly
struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door
was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s
draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further
researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to
which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
* “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is
obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The
grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm.
Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 306. N. 16, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 600w.
“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of
information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 420w.
=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating
influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general
body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful
soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the
nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old
Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the
second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ...
the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of
opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some
sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 727. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1130w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 5. Jl. 1, 1820w.
“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity
of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the
most extensive developments that will save his work from being
relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 282. N. ‘05. 1260w.
“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of
our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the
counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or
diverted it.” R.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 250w.
“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 500w.
“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 214. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1930w.
“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a
model.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 2180w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 884. D. 9, ‘05. 1000w.
“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 571. O. 28, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and
if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects
during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in
sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests
dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor
Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 86. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1810w.
“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that
there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style
so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books,
it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the
narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation.
There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is
brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to
that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can
imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 880w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,”
says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful
survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for
connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture
and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening
and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it
treats that has yet appeared.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w.
* “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student
and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Dickberry, F.= Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon
suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks
upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had
been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction.
“Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and
a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact
that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the
fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and
receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in
the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly
deficient in good taste.”
— =Bookm.= 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w.
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles
the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire.
There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might
do something better.”
— =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 40w.
“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2.
Baker.
The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very
attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be
perennially a part of the holiday season.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young
people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities
both of literary and artistic workmanship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities. $1.25. Crowell.
Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the
understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever
taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the
“Thin paper classics.”
* =Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has
been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the
Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four
or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic
drawings reproduced.
* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* =Dickerson, Mary Angela.= Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. †$1.
Wessels.
The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes
realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the
wonders of the tale.
=Dickerson, Mary C.= Moths and butterflies. *$1.25. Ginn.
An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower
high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine
butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to
Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to
collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book
contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life,
by the author.
“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in
schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and
high school grades.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 272. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and
it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 76. My. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic
illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for
which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05 100w.
“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the
intelligent minds of young persons in America.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated
guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared
by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is
intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and
the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and
critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music
history, show what are the important subjects involved and their
connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the
student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on
every phase and detail of the subject.”
“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and
general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 780w.
“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness
and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 540w.
“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume
is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 190w.
“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music.
The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very
valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the
history of music.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.
“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers
representing all the various political and social systems of the
world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist,
the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The
closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly
represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up
all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.
* “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”
+ =Dial.= 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast.
**50c. McClure.
An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the
logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen,
reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established
religions.
“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of
a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to
make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has
written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in
its object.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w.
“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general
attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or
others stand in so important a subject as religion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w.
* “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation
of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive
style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w.
=Dickson, Harris.= Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction
period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in
those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge
is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and
is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he
loves.
“Is even better than his first novel.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of
much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and
a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the
symmetry of his story.”
+ — =Ind.= 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The
characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is
aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows,
with happiness and cheer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w.
“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional
for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually
raised in novels of this section.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.
“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s
attention to the end.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a
memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady
Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art
student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many
eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend
of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human
life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s
mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as
sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many
spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument
to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir
which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w.
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his
difficult task with tact and dignity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w.
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should
be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual
life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w.
“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary
aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already
immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to
receive an inspiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w.
=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the
inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its
external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some
length of the relation of the senate to the emperor in the first
century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a
complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N.
Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.
“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his
subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author
makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader
a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws
which governed its development.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w.
“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that
it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we
have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its
improvement.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w.
“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from
Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the
first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for
it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour
of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.”
Henry Jones.
+ + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w.
“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the
conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w.
“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly
and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a
Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w.
“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet
it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture
is the result.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w.
“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who
seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the
political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor
Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the
question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in
pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative
force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing
through bitter conflict to victory.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w.
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
+ + =R of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w.
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he
lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that
direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are
indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he
often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as
numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had
been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think,
have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is
interesting and delightful.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w.
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry
bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the
period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other
Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History
of European morals.’”
+ + + =Westminster Review.= 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w.
=Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope.= Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings
and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a
popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with
any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne
takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of
Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from
breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most
interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of
Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in
which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both
sympathy and information.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w.
* =Spec.= 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Picturesque English cottages. **$2.
Winston.
To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and
“The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the
Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque
English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well
illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text,
covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction,
influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence
upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by
no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)
“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without
blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action
takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the
Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The
story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack
Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a
dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights
his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan,
dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless
to seek a home.” (Outlook.)
* “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is
ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well
sustained.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w.
* “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s
wreath of laurel.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w.
* “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good
style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known
manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge
of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of
artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more
writers like Miss Dix.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
=Dixon, Amzi Clarence.= Lights and shadows of American life. William H.
Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.
Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because
they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common
sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and
girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and
Our destiny, are discussed.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Clansman. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical
novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his
preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of
the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The
clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux
Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the
reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and
strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the
evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens
in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of
revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical
faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the
resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and
carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring
scenes thru which runs a double love story.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous
novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a
novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of
readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be
discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and
superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.
— — + =Bookm.= 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w.
“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that
Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative
pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high
order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is
marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w.
“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous
partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out
of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three
charming love affairs.”
— — + =Ind.= 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book
paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the
North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that
resulted in the South.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w.
“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions
in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be
expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men,
both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our
country and our countrymen.”
— — + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s
style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the
characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the
book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the
epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for
the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of
Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some
impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may
reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of
the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red
rock.’”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his
country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and
the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions
shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such
subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some
sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl,
and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w.
— =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s
private life.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
=Dods, Rev. Marcus.= Bible, its origin and nature. **$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which
Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view
to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received
in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It
contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
* “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w.
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears
as to the critical study of the Bible.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the
brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his
treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to
exaggeration and lip service.”
+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w.
“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with
ingenuity and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been
included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A
sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from
his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman
literature.
* “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are
excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any
favorites.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted
to publish. †$1.25. Pott.
Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the
world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded
village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill
doing, is insane.
“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic
story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost
lost art of letter writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w.
=Donne, William Bodham.= William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by
Catharine B. Johnson. *$3. Dutton.
“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his
friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The
letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s
life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his
‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are
16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny
Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton,
Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has
succeeded remarkably well.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w.
“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great
many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more
interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w.
“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w.
* “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.
“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth
the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w.
“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of
him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in
color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches.
She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common
certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant
that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one
experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have
courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be
conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it
kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the
affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A charming study of child life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w.
=Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth.= Place of industries in elementary
education. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material
equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of
colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a
teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial
epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical
applications. The illustrations are from photographs.
“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of
teachers.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an
unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book
is this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=Dorman, Marcus R. P.= History of the British empire in the 19th
century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh
(1806-1825). *$4. Lippincott.
“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr.
Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe.
His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the
part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental
affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn
from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries.
He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by
General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government,
on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the
position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the
history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly
concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and
impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w.
=Dorsey, George Amos.= Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by
the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of
Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written
an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history
and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have
stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
=Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Dorsey, George Amos,= ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. *$6. Pub. for
the American folklore society by Houghton.
“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into
Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’
the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry
animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are
placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee
delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A
fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote
figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their
medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power
of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederick Starr.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w.
“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s
comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w.
=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation,
Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with
the necessity of separate books.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w.
“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a
separate study of civics unnecessary.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make
government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation
that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
* Double-knot and other stories. †$1.25. Benziger.
Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary
G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other
Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up
this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories,
but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer,
who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire,
and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a
life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters
of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.
=Dougall, Lily.= Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.
The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the
mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The
story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering
religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of
the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s
famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts
of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.”
(N. Y. Times).
“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while
another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of
nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely
exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and
she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect
she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is
remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of
contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character.
The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of
Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and
it deserves success.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s
interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very
end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly
purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure
the book is to be commended.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* =Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= Little girl in old San Francisco. †$1.50.
Dodd.
“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days.
When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the
West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood
past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth
of the city.”—Outlook.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.
* “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a
study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the
wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume
is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps,
diagrams and portraits.
* “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern
America.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w.
“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty
well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of
value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.
“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s
‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the
dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
=Douglas, James.= Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic. *$3.50.
Lane.
Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a
novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’
notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest
place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences
and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and
associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the
campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife;
(3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George
Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of
the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and
Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London
Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English
landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and
inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and
Swinburne.
“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and
critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his
biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and
discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with
Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare
sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth
would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar
charm.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w.
“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and
critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ — =Critic.= 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w.
“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of
the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is
by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving
views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is
rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a
sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held
together.” W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences,
collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas,
form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading
lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America
and England.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement
of contents.)
“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore
Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a
study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of
the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too
little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w.
“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as
critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected,
specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of
Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon
the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces
too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants
to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will
find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon
in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a
clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world
about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not
merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself
in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the
inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)
“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in
Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to
enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the
essays themselves.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.
* “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are
considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w.
“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the
mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest
Frenchman that ever lived.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w.
“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and
machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate
assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of
authorities.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w.
“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of
‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the
graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who
nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the
work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among
biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for
in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w.
* “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that
in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced
with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially
impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of
Montaigne will prize.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w.
“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made
whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book
is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should
have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on
English literature.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w.
* “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive
setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so
satisfactory.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
=Dowson, Ernest.= Collected poems. *$1.50. Lane.
This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson,
including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in
1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur
Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.
“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering
rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris
Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w.
“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence,
and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the
introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final
edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and
the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w.
“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine
quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w.
“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them.
They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having
been lived before they were phrased.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w.
“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and
be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive
to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine,
however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Return of Sherlock Holmes. $1.50. McClure.
Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the
famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days
on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the
second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the
six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.
“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so.
Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w.
“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the
construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving
them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its
predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to
the best he has told before.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.
“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the
professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather
small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his
earlier days.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w.
“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do
they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the
fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w.
=Doyle, Edward.= Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247
W. 125th st., N. Y.
“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of
life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and
the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that
of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor
mark this work and the accompanying poems.
+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w.
“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief
characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily,
almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Drayton, Michael.= Poems. $1.25. Scribner.
“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of
attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a
compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has
accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter
pieces.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
=Driscoll, Clara.= Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. †$1.50.
Putnam.
This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life
on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love
with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates
have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.
“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging
individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting
unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle
tedious.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.
“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.
“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether
flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“It is a very little story and very simple.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Voyageur, and other poems. **$1.25. Putnam.
The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and
gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of
country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star
above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”
“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the
English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w.
“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may
seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for
the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces
written in ordinary English.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w.
=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the
French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of
nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of
nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization
and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic
tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness
with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of
becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who
has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”
“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the
difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence
of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and
rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most
readable in medical or psychological literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w.
=Duckworth, W. L. H.= Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for
students. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry
into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry....
In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the
position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has
accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to
make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man
than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’
in 1871.”—Nature.
“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his
facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w.
“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the
number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of
this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The
chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and
contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that
part of the Primate organization.” A. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w.
“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as
both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.
+ + =Science,= n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w.
“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of
the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w.
* =Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).=
Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6.
Lippincott.
Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is
now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of
water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of
French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions
of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal
sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)
* “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to
be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for
its literary style as well.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Altogether this is a delightful book.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w.
* “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
* “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the
pictures awkward.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Dudley, Albertus True.= In the line. †$1.25. Lee.
The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a
sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the
football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial
games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both
sides of the much-discussed football question.
“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book
is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy,
morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant.= Notes from a diary,
1896-1901. 2v. *$4. Dutton.
These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record
of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir
Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and
administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things
that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse,
stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant
men of his time.
“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more
graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w.
“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of
pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so
that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w.
* “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I
read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w.
“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in
course and at a sitting.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.
“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and
offer diverse suggestion to different people.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by
nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom
comes from a single pen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w.
=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire
down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the
English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon,
occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them
England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w.
“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with
which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
=Nation.= 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Three musketeers. $1.25. Crowell.
This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the
court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and
the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned
after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised
translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker
McSpadden.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Twenty years after. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper
classics.”
=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4.
Macmillan.
In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends
concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids
and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth
century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and
miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the
“Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole
church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western
church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church.
Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be
useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable
erudition.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a
remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we
think.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunbar, Charles Franklin.= Economic essays. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had
been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal
of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before
seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was
comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple,
have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the
author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor
Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a
student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in
slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in
Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who
contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the
progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.
“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the
description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century.
Serve as admirable examples of interesting and intelligible
generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w.
“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy
literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of
unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the
student.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific
inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently
judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present
volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon
his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions
of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful
historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time]
display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with
by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
* “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected
from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation
and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of
the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is
no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.
+ + + =Yale. R.= 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w.
* =Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race
strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in
purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique
position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have
rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical
text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former
by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say
that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual
standard in quality.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w.
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the
gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number
of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and
plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”
“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its
predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich
sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy
deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his
best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health
and out-of-doors.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.
Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the
conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment
of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert
recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of
Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the
three divisions for treatment.
* “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy,
overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real
essentials are lost sight of.”
— — =Ind.= 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w.
“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating
biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of
his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the
bibliography.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w.
“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w.
“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an
ideal biography.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w.
* “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal
affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by
excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
=Duncan, Frances.= Mary’s garden and how it grew. †$1.25. Century.
Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind
Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above
all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific
gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between
the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a
practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the
possibilities for the different months, showing what may be
accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The
illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.
“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do
the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is
intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen. **$1.
Revell.
In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is
vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast
of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored,
and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the
bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers
in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into
it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned
by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr.
Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with
his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its
predecessors from the same pen.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w.
“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least
imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative
of book).
+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the
imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w.
=Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Luke of the Labrador. †$1.50. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The
gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that
virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are
now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.”
(R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an
early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on
the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by G. W. A.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w.
“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the
superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the
rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor
as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but
always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort
of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic
interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild
surroundings.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w.
“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w.
“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new
field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating
sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is
new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke
of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville
actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy
effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her.
It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically
expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of
the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.
* “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two
elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he
wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote
of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach
comfortably.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
* “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick
clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination,
the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab
and his friends.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance
more than in ‘The mother.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new
physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of
matter. **$2. Barnes.
“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of
the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery
of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the
subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions,
the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution
of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old
problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the
book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is
made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its
kind that we have read.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to
permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any
important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so
large and the subject-matter so difficult.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w.
“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its
occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an
expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his
scientific earnestness.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into
suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems
which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists.
There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author
might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W.
R.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.
“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w.
“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific
discussion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough
scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not
find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w.
“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault
that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with
sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its
pages.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w.
* =Dunham, Edith.= Jogging round the world. †$1.50. Stokes.
A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give
an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it
shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange
lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which
give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.
* + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w.
=Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott.= From the West to the West: across the
plains to Oregon. †$1.50. McClurg.
This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely
to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there
are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the
Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of
the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle,
and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the
long list of characters playing a part in it.
“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of
the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical
accuracy.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may
inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of
story writing.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w.
=Dunkerley, S.= Mechanism. *$3. Longmans.
This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the
usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower
and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple
machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with
mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain
forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next
two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The
remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and
cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery....
The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical
examples at the end of the book will be of much value to
students.”—Nature.
“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w.
=Dunn, Henry Treffry.= Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his
circle. **$1. Pott.
The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the
house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet
and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.
“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his
annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text,
and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s
reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and
suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of
which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of
bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w.
“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr.= Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25.
Houghton.
“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’
The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter
of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission
to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25.
Houghton.
Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including,
besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The
meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The
Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and
judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.
“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w.
“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and
cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted
judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading
spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these
are evident.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.
“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong
potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and
not inebriate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* =Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from
Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century
the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and
mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor
Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the
sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and
jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English
political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution,
Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the
epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.
* “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears
abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w.
* “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w.
=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to
distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an
interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance
of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the
peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she
pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which
no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”
“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who
knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and
unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w.
“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic
English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman,
unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w.
“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w.
“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value
of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known
conditions in obscure places.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis,= ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. **$1. Funk.
A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions
and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout
the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for
clergymen, missionaries and students.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell=,
eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical,
statistical. **$6. Funk.
In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the
amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It
contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages
which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There
is also a number of special articles of unusual value, prepared by
experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows
special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races,
as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)
“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography
and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and
admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is
inexcusable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w.
=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50.
Scribner.
The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed,
thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and
will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty
of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,”
eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of
engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in
touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual
kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford
the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental,
and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be
a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have
made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects
discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of
communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food
supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration,
finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results,
the future, and recent events.
“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful
that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity,
uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the
estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 8. Ja. 7. 1430w.
“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense.
In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He
shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army
of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in
the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the
Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future
success.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
* “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on
twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the
problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting
the country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so
wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of
Japanese national life.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w.
“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to
warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in
compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present
stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s
discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work
lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers
of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy
with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at
times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the
‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be
detected.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w.
=Dyer, Louis.= Machiavelli and the modern state. *$1. Ginn.
“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as
lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar
Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of
morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at
Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and
none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the
style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid
overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w.
“A valuable little volume.”
=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s
zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course
of these most interesting lectures.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w.
E
=Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle).= Garden colour; with
fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. *$6. Dutton.
“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ...
which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss
Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months,
giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly
in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby
each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at
the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the
principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish
in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs.
C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden
lovers and writers.”—Dial.
=Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get
some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith
Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and
bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w.
=Eastman, Charles A.= Red hunters and the animal people. **$1.25.
Harper.
“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a
full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air
are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and
feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a
brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of
them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished
from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that
have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to
be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written,
with no affectation or mannerism.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w.
“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly
chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has
failed with them.”
— =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w.
“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so
lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it
is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite,
justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long
enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it
throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few
contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.
=Eastman, Helen.= New England ferns and their common allies; an easy
method of determining the species. *$1.25. Houghton.
“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and
equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a
picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids
are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.
“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that
have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad
for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
=Eccles, Robert Gibson.= Food preservatives, their advantages and proper
use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem;
with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in
practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to
showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made
even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to
that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the
other.” (Ind.)
“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the
excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and
out of court, against the use of preservatives.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w.
* =Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials,
manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.
The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of
manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are
treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working
engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those
who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.
* “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It
is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it
treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered
a masterpiece of compilation.”
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w.
=Eckenrode, Hamilton James.= Political history of Virginia during the
reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.
The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political
parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the
Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President
Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the
Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for
the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the
Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a
party measure.”—R. of Rs.
“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources
satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably
justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.”
William E. Dodd.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w.
=Eckman, George P.= Young man with a program, and other sermons to young
men. *50c. Meth. bk.
The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young
men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They
treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at
his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his
meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the
supreme passion.
=Edgington, T. B.= Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.
The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of
Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional
experience and an extended study of original sources of information.
Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe
doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the
Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims
against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its
origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are
in this book described with no little narrative skill, with
clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).
“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most
serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling
sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents.
Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and
suggestive.” John H. Latané.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 601. My. ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 553. Ap. ‘05. 360w.
“Mr. Edgington preserves a calm and historical spirit in all his
comments on the interesting subjects of which he treats, and the
argumentation in which he not infrequently indulges is that of a
candid jurisconsult rather than that of a partisan.” James Oscar
Pierce.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 122. F. 16, ‘05. 1190w.
=Edmunds, Albert Joseph.= Buddhist and Christian gospels: being Gospel
parallels from Pali texts. *$1.50. Open ct.
The third edition, complete, and edited with notes by Prof. Anesaki of
the imperial University of Tokio. The editor “holds to the
independence of the fundamental documents of the Buddhist and the
Christian scriptures. He only raises the question whether the Gospel
of Luke, ‘in certain traits extraneous to the synoptical narrative,’
is indebted to a Buddhist source. This question he submits to the
reader who compares the parallel texts here presented. Much more than
merely such parallels are presented; pretty nearly every book of the
New Testament supplies matter for a comparison with the Buddhist
scriptures, which even the amateur in such studies will find
interesting. The New Testament suffers nothing in the comparison.”
(Outlook.)
“As a contribution to the study of comparative religion from a
Japanese scholar, this volume has a peculiar interest as well as a
positive value for the student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 90w.
=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a
midsummer ramble in the Dolomites. $2.50. Dutton.
In this third edition the text is the same as that of the first
edition of 1873, but the footnotes and other explanatory matter that
appeared in the second edition of the book have been included in the
present volume. The district here described is in that part of the
Southeastern Tyrol lying between Botzen, Brunecken, Innichen and
Belluno; within this space are the limestone Dolomite mountains. There
are numerous illustrations in half-tone.
“Now as twenty-five years ago, the indispensable work is Miss Edwards’
‘Untrodden peaks.’”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 529. Je. 29, ‘05. 480w.
“A pleasant volume of travel and guidebook information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 340w.
“A new and welcome edition of a thoroughly readable book of travels.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-.= Home life in France. *$2.50.
McClurg.
Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school
life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of
public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy
and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the
home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city
keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom
fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to
whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”
“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal
reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the
average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing
only to the cultivated few.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w.
* “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her
own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w.
* “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of
the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good
humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of
ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on
knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 300. N. 16, ‘05. 1180w.
“The value of a book which is in the main not less valuable than
interesting is somewhat impaired by this persistent ignoring of the
seamy side of life.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 570w.
* “She has succeeded on the whole, in writing a very entertaining book
full of detailed information, with statistics that here and there need
slight correction.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 491. D. 14, ‘05. 1010w.
“An extremely interesting, and in many ways valuable, book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 1000w.
“The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France,
and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that
country.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “A description of French domestic life and conditions which is
written with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 50w.
“Miss Betham-Edwards selects matter which on the whole may be intended
more for women than for men, but the latter will not enjoy it the less
on that account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “There are also here and there signs of hurry and awkwardness in the
style. All this could easily be put right in another edition, which
the book, if only for the valuable amount of detail it contains,
certainly ought to reach.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 259. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1570w.
=Edwards, William Seymour.= Into the Yukon. **$1.50. Clarke, R.
In a series of papers which were originally home letters, the author
tells of the travels of himself and wife thru the Canadian northwest,
the gulfs and fjords of the North Pacific, the valley of the upper
Yukon, the golden Klondike, and some parts of California and the
Middle west. The book gives an apparently unbiased view of conditions
on the Canadian Yukon in the summer of 1903. It is profusely
illustrated with snap shot photographs.
“If it says nothing new, at least says it brightly and interestingly.”
Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Edwards seems to be a clear-sighted observer, and his narration
is straightforward and unpretentious. He appears to possess the knack
of gathering and summarizing popular opinion without the exaggeration
or superficiality usually characteristic of hasty news-gatherers. The
most interesting portion of the book is naturally that relating to the
Klondike region.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“A readable narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Daughter of the South. †$1.50. Lothrop.
A war’s-end romance which follows the adventurous career of the
Commodore of a cotton-buying fleet. While braving great danger for the
sake of great profit he encounters the heroine in distress and carries
her northward on one of his boats to love and to safety.
“His art must be described as crude. Nevertheless, he tells a story of
some interest, and keeps fairly in touch with reality.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“‘Decent under difficulties’ should be the title of this last story.”
— =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.
“Exactly like all the rest of his novels.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 557. Ag. 26, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether, while not by any means a great book, this story is
agreeable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Our first century. **$1.20. Barnes.
“The design of this book ... is ... to present in a connected and
picturesque narrative those facts of American history during the
seventeenth century which were characteristic as to life and manners
and customs. The book has the story element in a marked degree. It is
liberally illustrated.”—Outlook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 390w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
“After reading this lively little narrative one can without hesitation
commend it to those who find the ordinary one-volume histories dry and
meagre, and who have not the time or inclination to consult the larger
works.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 797. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.