=Eggleston, George Gary.= Rebel’s recollections. *$1. Putnam.
A fourth edition of a book first published in 1874, with an additional
article upon “The old regime in the Old Dominion.” It contains much
that is interesting, and gives a good idea of the Confederate soldier,
and the Confederate commissary, also civil administration.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.
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the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston
overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in
that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt
to ignore.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of
the Civil war.”
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=Eldridge, George Dyre.= Milibank case. †$1.50. Holt.
A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian
border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer,
supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians.
The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a
surprise for detective and reader alike.
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+ — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w.
“Is only a fair example of the art.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe.= East African protectorate. $5.
Longmans.
“Up to the time of his recent resignation, the author had been
commissioner for the British government in the protectorate. He
describes the country, its peoples, gives its history, and discusses
its prospects as a field for European colonization; he also describes
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factors essential to an understanding of the country in its relation
to human welfare. Other parts of the book are interesting, and the
sociologist might find some useful information in the accounts of the
native races.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 170w.
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its limits, comprehensive handbook on the subject than was previously
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+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1260w.
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“One of the best of recent travel books on a subject which is growing
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information, but the reader is never bewildered among the details, and
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discussed. The style is simple and colloquial, but it is never
slipshod.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 552. Ap. 15, ‘05. 2030w.
=Eliot, Charles William.= Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
A new edition of this forceful, kindly book by the President of
Harvard university. Under the headings: The moral purpose of the
universe; Lower and higher pleasures; Family love; Pleasure in bodily
exertion; The pleasure of reading; Mutual service and co-operation;
The selection of beliefs; and The conflict with evil, he shows how to
“cultivate the physical mental, and moral faculties through which the
natural joys are won.”
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=Eliot, George.= Adam Bede. $1.25. Crowell.
This volume of “Adam Bede” is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
It takes up little space on the library shelf, and its flexible cover
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=Eliot, George.= Romola. $1.25. Crowell.
“Romola” in this edition is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
=Eliot, John.= Logick primer. *$6. Burrows.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 716. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Elkin, William Baird.= Hume: the relation of the Treatise of human
nature, bk. I, to the Inquiry concerning human understanding. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
“As a stepping-stone in philosophy from the old to the new, Hume still
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works, the ‘Treatise on human nature’ and the ‘Inquiry concerning the
principles of morals.’”—Outlook.
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=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott.)= Two in Italy. *$2.
Little.
Italian studies and sketches, so chatty in form as to be largely in
dialog, which give glimpses of Italian life and character under the
chapter headings: Anacrap; The inn of Paradise; Buona Fortuna; The
Castello; Savonarola Finnerty; In old Poland; and, The hermit of
Pietro Anzieri. There are six full page illustrations from drawings by
John Elliott.
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how to write.”
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=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.
This is the first of a new series of Indian stories which continues
the adventures of the author’s famous character Deerfoot, the
Shewanoe. The time and incidents depicted are those of the Lewis and
Clark expeditions. The plot of “Deerfoot in the forest” centers about
the rescue of two boys by Deerfoot, and the thrilling adventures
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writers of this class, are replete with interest, action and
excitement, and the present volume ... is fully up to the standard set
by Mr. Ellis in his popular series of tales that have preceded the
present books.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 570w.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.
This third and last volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” takes the
Indian guide and his two boy companions in a whirl of adventure from
the Pacific ocean to their home in Ohio. The recapture of Deerfoot’s
wonderful stallion, Whirlwind, a single handed encounter with five
ferocious braves, and a hair breadth escape in a raging mountain
torrent, are among the incidents which will recommend this story to
all boy readers.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot on the prairies †$1. Winston.
In this second volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” the popular Indian
hunter accompanied by his two boy friends and his Blackfoot guide
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bears, and other dangers of one hundred years ago beset their path and
create many strange adventures for them.
=Elton, Charles Isaac.= William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed.
by A. H. Thompson. *$4. Dutton.
A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would
doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author
lived, have been collected by and published by Mr. Thompson, with a
memoir written of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. There are chapters on
Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s
time; on his family and descendants; on the history of Blackfriars’
theatre, and many other subjects of both interest and value. There is
a complete and accurate index, which renders this work, with its
wealth of facts, of great value to the student.
“Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the learned antiquary
ranges so very far afield, that the drift of his argument is not
seldom obscured. The book abounds in the best kind of biographical
material. It is a work of the very greatest value to the student of
Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 194. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1600w.
“This work is a large and scholarly one, with perhaps more of detail
about the great poet’s life and surroundings than would be essential
to such an idea of the man himself as is given by Mr. Mabie in his
picture. Mr. Elton’s volume, however, will be welcomed by scholars.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 80w.
=Ely, Helena Rutherford.= Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.
A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects
referred to, or to take the place of other books upon gardening. It
is, the author states in the preface, “a brief statement of simple
methods of conducting gardening operations, particularly in the small
home garden,” and it contains the result of the author’s own
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autumn work in the flower garden, and the flower garden in spring.
There are many half-tone illustrations from photographs of flowers,
trees and gardens, taken at various seasons of the year.
“The new book is wider in its scope than its predecessor.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 9g. My. ‘05. 100w.
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“Her books are far from being sentimental, but are infused with a very
vigorous personality, and with occasional touches of humor that prove
she is not taking herself too seriously.” Edith Granger.
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“The charm of the book rests in the reader’s companionship with an
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unobtrusive and instructive manner, and, here and there, gives touches
to her sketch which makes the book more than usually readable.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 160w.
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“It seems a quite practical book for the amateur gardener.”
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=Ely, Richard T.,= ed. See =Adams. T. S.= and =Sumner, Helen L.= Labor
problems.
=Ely, Richard Theodore.= Labor movement in America. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly
twenty years ago.
* “At present we have no book that could be a satisfactory substitute
for Professor Ely’s volume.” A. W. S.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 50w.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 520w.
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=Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Emch, Arnold.= Introduction to projective geometry and its
applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.
“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and
pencils, perspective and involution by means of the anharmonic
ratio.... The second chapter deals with collineation.” There is “a
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conics which pass through four fixed points; ... the cubic curve,
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devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.
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is required to understand the book, which is clearly and carefully
written.” Virgil Snyder.
=Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“The author is a very clever draughtsman, and his skill as a writer is
equally pronounced.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 77. My. 25, ‘05. 210w.
“The exposition of the interesting connection between collineations
and the surprisingly beautiful doctrine of linkages deserves special
mention, as do also the clearness, directness and swiftness of style
in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.
+ + + =Science.= n.s. 22: 114. Jl. 26, ‘05. 290w.
=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary
edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from
the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three
volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and
biographical sketches,” “Miscellanies,” and “Natural history of
intellect and other papers.” “The last of them is provided with an
elaborate general index to the entire edition. No less than five
papers in this closing volume are now printed for the first time. The
editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo
Emerson, offers a shining example of what such editorial work should
be, and makes the present form of the writings far more desirable than
any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).
“The present edition, in its Notes by Dr. Emerson, contains the first
complete commentary on the author’s writings.”
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=Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most
comprehensive and perfect in matter and form.”
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=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith.
**50c. Crowell.
Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By
giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its
obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of
simpler living.
* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25.
Holt.
The chief purpose of this book is to cultivate a liking for good
English prose in the college student who is taking introductory work
in literature. The material chosen is therefore interesting in thought
and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when
entire chapters or essays are not given. Essays by Bacon, Milton,
Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle,
Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the
volume is fully annotated for class use.
+ =N. Y. Times= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
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=Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus).= Epistles of Erasmus,
arranged in order of time: English translations from the early
correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological
arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan
Nichols. 2v. ea. *$6. Longmans.
“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the
letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news
of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The
second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year
1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later
letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his
correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the
first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the
whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 686. Ap. ‘05. 240w. (Survey of contents of
vol. II.)
“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for
the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They
are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an
easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a
decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a
while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 684. P. ‘05. 290w.
“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture
mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little
formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an
indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great
humanist.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 570w. (Review of Vol. II.)
“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value
to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w.
=Erskine, Mrs. Steuart.= London as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for
her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and
wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home
of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others,
and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A.
Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward
Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The
volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings,
reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).
=Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 80: 33. Ja. 12, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
=Esty, William.= Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of
correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.
“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared
with the special object of giving the beginner, and the so-called
practical electrician, a working knowledge of alternating current
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and treats of the alternator, commercial types of alternators,
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switchboard apparatus, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by David B. Rushmore.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 590w.
=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Napoleon myth. bds. *75c. Open ct.
The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures
according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction
by Dr. Paul Carus and a reprint of “The grand erratum” by Jean
Baptiste Peres. “The whole is a summary of the results of ‘higher
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* “The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference
between fact and legend, or point out the means of distinguishing
between the two spheres.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 526. Ap. 29, 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
=Everett, William.= Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.
The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell
course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to
show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth
century gave forth a literature which is great without the
contributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of
lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca,
Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso,
Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers
concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation
and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).
“His attitude towards his subjects is sympathetic, his appreciation is
sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the
more regrettable that he should have allowed his work to stand
disfigured by so many slip-shod, loosely constructed and even
absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and
treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 719. Je. 10. 660w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the
instinct of every lover of literature. Eloquent panegyric upon Milton,
and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point
of view of the scholar, little exception is to be taken to this work.
To say that the book is readable is to do it much less than justice.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 49. Ja. 16, ‘05. 700w.
“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and
sometimes ungrammatical. The most vexatious quality of the book,
however, is due to Dr. Everett’s scorn of all methods and opinions
save his own. We admit that his views are sometimes refreshingly
independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away
from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison
of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are
generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the
copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them
are very valuable to the general reader.”
+ — — =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 450w.
“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the
finest sense, but also a poet of broad and subtle imagination and of a
most delicate harmonic sensibility. The torch of classical effulgence
dropped from the hand of Ticknor, of Longfellow, and of Lowell, he has
caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one
point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to
the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have
furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci,
who at this writing is very much alive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the
translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author
would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more
suitable for lectures than essays.”
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“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of
the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* =Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.
Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of
sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years.
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Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her
observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.
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=Fairless, Michael, pseud.= Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose
and verse. $1.25. Dutton.
Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous
volume. “‘The grey brethren,’ which gives its title to the volume, is
a tenderly and reticently touched reminiscence of two maidenly
ladies.... A German Christmas eve is a descriptive sketch of
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and her devout worship of an altogether ridiculous doll.” (Acad.)
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+ =Acad.= 62: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“This little volume will be welcome to all lovers of ‘The road
mender.’ It has, not, indeed, the finished perfection of that book,
but some of the stories and poems display the same fine artistic
sense, and the same sacramental reverence for natural glory, the same
deep tenderness and sympathy.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 300w.
“Is marked by an exquisite simplicity of diction and a delicacy of
spiritual insight that are far out of the common.”
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=Fairlie, John Archibald.= National administration of the United States
of America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Written chiefly from official records such as the Constitution of the
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judicial decisions, this volume gives an account of the administrative
system, treating the legislative and judicial branches only in their
direct relations to the executive administration. There are chapters
on the powers of the president, the senate, congress, the cabinet, and
the various departments and bureaus. A complete bibliography is
provided.
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“Dr. Fairlie’s treatise on this subject is marked by all the scholarly
treatment, painstaking accuracy and thoroughness which characterized
his work on municipal administration.”
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“The book is written in a readable style. For the most part it is
easily understood.” David Y. Thomas.
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as a generally trustworthy guide.”
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* =Fairweather, Rev. William.= Pre-exilic prophets. *35c. Lippincott.
In this volume in the “Temple series of Bible handbooks” “Mr.
Fairweather treats of the prophets from Amos down to Jeremiah—Amos,
Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah. The
general character of the eighth century before Christ is discussed in
the opening chapter, which is followed by a consideration of the value
of written prophecy in relation to the Israelitish history of the
period, the significance of prophecy for Divine revelation, ‘The older
and the new prophecy,’ ‘The golden age of Hebrew prophecy,’ ‘The
religious ideal of the prophets,’ ‘The century before the exile.’”—N.
Y. Times.
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=Falkiner, C. Litton.= Illustrations of Irish history and topography.
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The period covered by this book is mainly that of the 17th century.
The author treats of the history and development of Dublin, and
“follows the history of the counties of Ireland giving their origin,
constitution, and gradual elimination. What to us is of the greater
interest are the accounts of the Irish people by contemporaneous
authors. Fynes Moryson describes Ireland as he saw it at the close of
the reign of Elizabeth.... The convivial habits of the Elizabethan
Irish are dwelt on.... Luke Vernon’s “Discourse of Ireland” it is
believed was written about 1619.... The last two chapters give the
impressions of Sir William Brereton and a rather dandy Frenchman, M.
Jorevin de Rocheford. The latter giving this account of his impression
of Ireland, 1666.” (N. Y. Times).
“The notes to these papers are numerous and characterized by scholarly
care. In general Mr. Falkiner must be credited with a volume which
will be permanently serviceable to students of Irish history.” Edward
Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 920. Jl. ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“For the rest Mr. Falkiner writes with such exceeding care that he has
left little for a critic to find fault with. Here and there, we think,
he might with advantage have developed his subject more fully.” R.
Dunlop.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 796. O. ‘05. 1750w.
“Mr. Falkiner has been successful in his choice of descriptions
determined by their rarity, representative character, and difficulty
of procurement by the ordinary reader.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1230w. (Survey of contents.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 115. F. 25, ‘05. 1480w.
Famous battles of the nineteenth century, 1875-1900, ed. by Chas. Welsh.
**$1. Wessels.
This fourth and last volume of “Famous battles of the nineteenth
century,” contains an account of the famous battles fought from 1875
to 1900. It includes descriptions of The storming of Kars by Major
Arthur Griffiths, The Boer war of 1881, by Archibald Forbes; The
bombardment of Alexandria, by Max Pemberton; Port Arthur, 1894; The
battle of Manila; and With Roosevelt on San Juan hill, by A. Hilliard
Atteridge and other descriptions by these and other authors.
* “The book is designed for boys, who will undoubtedly find it quite
to their taste.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “It is not possible to name the collection one of absorbing interest
or to praise always either the fairness or the dramatic quality of the
battle-pieces, but the book has considerable interest and some value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 810w.
=Fandel, Peter.= Judgment of Paris. $1. Badger, R. G.
The story of the judgment of Paris cast in dramatic form. The awarding
of the apple, the chariot race which brings Paris to the notice of his
father, Priam, the indignation of princes and people, and the flight
of Paris are dealt with in four short acts.
=Fanshawe, Anne Harrison (Lady Richard Fanshawe).= Memoirs of Lady
Fanshawe, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bt., embassador from Charles II
to the courts of Portugal and Madrid, written by herself; containing
extracts from the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe; ed. with
introd. by Beatrice Marshall, and a note on the illustrations by Allan
Fea. *$1.50. Lane.
“The memoirs were first published in 1830, and were well worth a place
in ‘The crown library’ series.... Both Sir Richard and his wife were
representative of the highest type of Royalist—cultured, refined and
humane. Sir Richard, who died in 1666, devoted his leisure years under
the Commonwealth to literary labours of love.... The memoirs yield
much information as to the events and social practices of a most
interesting period in history.”—Ath.
“Attractive memoirs, which we have read with very great pleasure in
the delightful form in which they now appear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 730. Jl. 15, ‘05. 990w.
“Certainly the memoirs have a charm which is by no means dependent on
the time of which they treat.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 320w.
* “Holds a high place in the biographical literature of the Stuart
era.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 470w.
“Her memoirs are bright and full of good stories of the doings of two
and a half centuries ago.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 760w.
“The editing might have been done with greater skill and energy than
Miss Marshall has brought to her task.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 189. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1380w.
=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV.
*$3.50. Century.
A beautiful book profusely illustrated. The sketch is a four-fold one
including The palace, The park, The king and The court, each of which
divisions presents the subject inductively and so prepares the way for
the next. Beginning with the plans for the palace and the laying out
of the grounds the author leads up to the finished work. With this for
a back-ground, the king is presented and viewed from the standpoint of
his daily life, methods of work, personal appearance and character,
and the intricacies of court etiquette. Then the stage throngs with
the gay and the wicked courtiers who were as perfect in manners as
corrupt in morals.
* “Our author has given us a volume of real value as an admirable
pen-picture of the court.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 659. D. ‘05. 600w.
* “An interesting subject is interestingly handled.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but
he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the
physiology of court life.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 420w.
* “Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no
suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its
last page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 770w.
* “The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays
the volume down with a regret that it is not longer, or one of a
series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest.= Dictionary of slang and
colloquial English. *$2.50. Dutton.
This is an abridgment of the seven-volume work by the same authors
entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and
their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than
fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this
volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.
* + =Nation.= 81:75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 220w.
“For ordinary use the present book is ample.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79:1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.
=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Under three divisions, History, Man and nature, and Devotion, are
included poems as varied in length and verse as in subject. They range
from long poems such as “King Herod,” and “Christianity in the
apostles,” which are cast in poem-drama form, to little verses such as
“Microcosm,” and “Clouds and dawn.”
“In his volume of collected poems Mr. Farquhar takes a deeper plunge
into the psychological mysteries of youthful hearts, and now and then
succeeds in striking a truly poetic note.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10:585. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Fenn, Frederick, and Wyllie, B.= Old English furniture. *$2.50.
Scribner.
Mr. Fenn has written the chapters on oak furniture, the walnut period,
and the introduction of the making of furniture, while those upon
chairs, sofas, painted furniture, and inlaid mahogany and satinwood,
are by B. Wyllie. There are ninety-four illustrations of articles
either owned by the authors or in collections to which they have
access. The volume belongs to the “Newnes library of applied arts.”
“Is ... trustworthy, but it leaves us with a somewhat unpleasant
feeling of having been ‘taken in hand.’” Edith A. Browne.
+ — =Acad.= 68:79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.
“The accompanying text is full of valuable information and pregnant
hints to the inexperienced amateur.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25:82. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“What we like especially about the text is its reserve, and quiet
tone, and plain statement of the impossibility of fixing dates very
closely.”
+ + =Nation.= 80:319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 790w.
“Its style is intimate rather than didactic, impressionistic rather
than scientific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
+ — =Sat. R.= 99:846. Je. 24, ‘05. 660w.
=Fernández Guardia, Ricardo.= Cuentos ticos. $2. Burrows bros. co.
These ten short stories of Costa Rica, have been translated into
English by Gray Casement. The author, who is a writer of reputation
among Central Americans has strikingly set forth the social, political
and religious ideas of Costa Rica in these brief narratives, which
combine both pathos and humor. There is a good introduction by the
translator; there are also many illustrations of street and country
scenes.
“Although here and there reminiscent of Castillian story tellers, the
tales and the style in which they are related make one wish to know
more of Señor Ricardo and his works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w.
=Ferree, Barr.= American estates and gardens. $10. Munn.
The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the
country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These
houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners,
but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and
there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in
“Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and
gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the
well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.
“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic
architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it
will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is
to-day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 160. F. 23. ‘05. 470w.
=Fetter, Frank Albert.= Principles of economics; with applications to
practical problems. *$2. Century.
A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers,
as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given
in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to
practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are
likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on
the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all
methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion,
the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book
on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A.
S. Johnson.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 144. Ja. ‘05. 1840w.
“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of
its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics
that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More
Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 563. Ap. ‘05. 850w.
“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially
of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding
of modern thought and modern conditions.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 333. Ag. 10. ‘05. 240w.
“Among the numerous text-books of economics which have appeared in
England and America in the last year or two, Professor Fetter’s book
is likely to take high rank. For those who share his views on
fundamental economic doctrines, his work may well serve as a
first-class text-book. The present writer, while admiring the
structure of Dr. Fetter’s course, and appreciating the fact that
students following such a course are likely to have a keen interest in
economics developed, finds himself in the position of a critic
compelled to assail the very foundations of Dr. Fetter’s economic
system.” A. W. Flux.
— + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 109. D. ‘04. 2020w.
* “As an economic synthesis bottomed on the accepted modern theory of
value and extended to all phases of economic analysis, it stands
unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81 :367. N. 2, ‘05. 1000w.
=Fiebeger, Gustave Joseph.= Civil engineering. *$5. Wiley.
A book intended to give military cadets who have to master many
sciences and languages as well as military science and tactics an
elementary knowledge of civil engineering.
Reviewed by H. N. Ogden.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 22: 397. S. 29, ‘05. 690w.
=Field, Edward Salisbury. (Childe Harold, pseud.).= Child’s book of
abridged wisdom. **75c. Elder.
A little book of rhymed advice amply illustrated with humorously
grotesque drawings. The binding is artistic and the wisdom will amuse
the parent rather than edify the child. It is upon this order,
“At dinner use your fork and spoon;
It may prolong your life,
My grandfather once cut himself
While eating with his knife.”
* “A series of irresistibly comic verses containing good advice for
the young.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* “The decorations are clever, and so is the verse it contains.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 25w.
=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c.
Ginn.
A book designed to introduce Fielding as an essay writer to both
college students and general readers. It contains selected essays from
his novels, and some of the best work from the “Miscellanies” of 1743
and the periodicals. The text is in most cases based on the first and
second editions. A biographical sketch, an introduction, full notes,
and an index are provided.
“To the present volume there is prefixed an introduction ... by which
we can see that the praise is lavish rather than discriminating.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 870. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1230w.
=Finerty, John Frederick.= Ireland: the people’s history of Ireland.
*$2.50. Dodd.
The first history of the Irish people “pro-Irish rather than
pro-English in spirit and view” since McGee’s “History of Ireland,”
three-quarters of a century ago. Mr. Finerty, the president of the
United Irish league of America, aims to throw “more light in a simple
and comprehensive manner on the history of that beautiful island, the
blood of whose exiled children flows in the veins of not less than
twenty millions of the American people.” The history, two volumes, is
a very rapid survey of Ireland from the earliest period down to the
career and ascendency of the fearless avenger of Irish liberty,
Parnell.
* “Writes from that patriotic point of view, but with no obvious bias
that would prevent him from being fair and trustworthy in regard to
opposing views.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
* “It will not do to say that his style is everywhere excellent. If
Mr. Finerty had studied the history of his native land in the light of
European events, the policies of England would have become
intelligible to him, and the ‘People’s history of Ireland’ would have
been a far more trustworthy work.” Laurence M. Larson.
— — + =Dial.= 38: 412. Je. 16, ‘05. 1230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 162. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w.
“The work before us, despite its prefatory promise of breadth and
fair-mindedness, is itself a striking example of the way in which
Irish history should not be written. In so far as the ‘political
misfortunes’ of Ireland are concerned, bias prevails—the bias of a
narrative constructed along pronounced pro-Catholic lines by an
uncompromising sympathizer with the Irish cause. Strictly speaking,
moreover, the work is not a history, but merely a chronicle in which
the familiar superlatives, epithets, and errors of overstatement and
understatement are painfully in evidence. There is also room for
criticism from the standpoint of proportion.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 340w.
=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history:
an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture Prof. Firth finds fault with the present school of
history. He also declares history to be neither a science nor an art,
“but it partakes of the nature of both. A twofold task lies before the
historian. One-half of his business is the discovery of the truth, and
the other half its representation.”
“A very plain-spoken expression of opinion, and, as it is always well
to have ideals set before us, likely to be useful.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
**$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.
“There is ample room for a brief biography of the Emperor Constantine
along the lines on which Mr. Firth has constructed his present book.
Going directly to contemporary sources, and examining them with an eye
keen to the detection of bias, Mr. Firth gives in small compass a
careful exposition not only of the career and personality of the first
imperial champion of Christianity, but of the period to which he
belonged and of the nature and extent of the influence exerted by him
on his generation and on posterity. In other words, an analysis is
made of the elements essential to a correct evaluation of the validity
of Constantine’s claim to greatness.”—Outlook.
“We may, however, fairly criticize the author for having taken no
account of some recent investigations which ought not to be ignored.”
— + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 1470w.
“Of this period and of its central figure the author has written
sensibly and satisfyingly.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 324. My. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. Firth makes a slip at the beginning of the book in speaking of
the conquerors of Valerion as the Parthians.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 710w.
“Though written as a volume for a popular series, this book should not
escape the attention of scholars, since it is based on a first-hand
study of the authorities, and is the fruit of independent reflection.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1250w.
“It is on the whole, a well balanced piece of work. The book opens
with an absurdly bad genealogical table, and continues to practically
a dateless limit.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 125. F. 25, ‘05. 780w.
“Indeed we cannot but feel that, if only through an excess of
impartiality, he paints the shadows at times all too deeply. And, for
a similar reason, we gain the impression that here and there the pagan
receives more and the Christian less than his due. We could wish, too,
less disquisition regarding the untrustworthiness of the annalists of
the period, less detailed picking of flaws—a habit so pronounced as to
become tedious. These blemishes, however, are not vital defects. The
work is well arranged, well written, and, with the exceptions noted,
well balanced.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “We have little but praise of the writer’s treatment of the
ecclesiastical and theological side.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Firth’s account of him is an excellent performance.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 360. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.
“Is an interesting biography and an excellent study of an important
phase in the earlier history of Europe.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Highways and byways in Derbyshire. $2.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of ‘narration rather than
description.’ He tells the reader where he may profitably go, and what
he may expect to see ... [and] takes occasion to mention the literary
and historical associations of the places which he visits.”—Spec.
“Mr. Firth’s ‘Derbyshire’ is to the full as thorough and as
companionable as any of its predecessors.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1040w.
“Mr. Firth, has, beyond doubt, produced some five hundred pages of
attractive and interesting reading.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 551. My. 6, 2160w.
“Above all, there is a style that stamps the book as more than a
guide, yet takes nothing away from its usefulness.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 210w.
* “Mr. Firth has a talent for description.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
“There are a few other references to people and scenes of especial
interest to the scientific world, but the book will not be valued by
these so much as for its bright narrative of literary and historical
centers of Derbyshire, and its fine illustrations.”
+ =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The drawings ... are singularly charming—are, in fact, when all is
said, the best part of a very good book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
“The book is rich in literary associations and personal anecdotes, and
is decidedly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
“If a little slapdash at times and opinionated, Mr. Firth writes with
real spirit.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
=Fischer, George Alexander.= Beethoven: a character study; with Wagner’s
Indebtedness to Beethoven. **$1.40. Dodd.
In this study of the great composer’s life and character is given not
only the influences under which he developed but the effect which his
work had upon the music of to-day and upon the work of Wagner.
“Is perhaps the most rational, convincing, shrewd, and sympathetic
estimate yet made.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“His method is straightforward enough, but his style is an
exasperating journalese, without distinction of any kind. It is not of
any special value or significance.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It is a character study rather than a biography and criticism. The
chapter on humor is one of the best in the book.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is presented in a straightforward style, though without much
distinction; and what the author has added in the way of critical
estimate is unimportant. Nor has he thrown any new light upon the
character and artistic nature of Beethoven.” Richard Aldrich.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“A simple, straightforward, and readable biography. An excellent and
useful book for the young amateur of music.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50.
Holt.
An American novel with a decided French twang. The scene is laid in
Kentucky with an unsophisticated country girl for a heroine and a
mushroom grower for her Adonis. Impossible situations follow one
another in rollicking succession which involve cases of mistaken
identity, mishaps, and weird meetings of moonshiners in caves. It is
rightly called an extravaganza.
“The plot is nought, and the manner everything. A racy and rollicking
book it is, warranted to dispel the most chronic case of blues.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is a rollicking and impossible tale, in which the author gets
rather beyond his depth, while the reader is just sufficiently amused
to flounder after him in astonishment.”
— =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fisguill’s story is one which might well have remained in
manuscript.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 29: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.
“This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the
citizens of the United States ... the history of the ‘Spoils
system.’”—Spec.
“The most valuable part of the book is the second section, dealing
with the genesis of the spoils system. This is a genuine contribution
to the history of the subject.” L. M. S.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 172. O. ‘05. 1260w.
“This book is distinctly a history of the patronage, and as such
deserves recognition as a valuable contribution in this particular
field.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 380w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“His book is brief but thorough.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 170w.
* =Fisher, Ruth B.= On the borders of Pigmy land, **$1.25. Revell.
“A record of missionary experiences in Central Africa, with
interesting descriptions of the country and its people.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 15w.
* “Very interesting is the story she tells in this volume—tells with
an admirable combination of the humorous and the serious.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 294. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w.
=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina,
including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American
revolution. $2. Neale.
“North Carolina’s claim to be the first battleground of the Revolution
is zealously advocated in this monograph, which is, briefly, a study
of the ‘viper’ episode of 1765.... In it also is incorporated some
interesting documentary matter in the way of legislative acts,
Regulator’s ‘Advertisements,’ and contemporary letters and
addresses.”—Outlook.
“The work is flimsy, incoherent, prejudiced.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 951. Jl. ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 960w. (Abstract of
contents.)
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 709. Mr. 18, ‘05. 260w.
* =FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.
This fifteenth volume of the “New pocket library” contains Euphranor
“very fitly presented after the text of the first edition of 1851. Mr.
Frederick Chapman, who supplies a preface, dwells upon the value of
the little work ... not only as a classic specimen of English prose,
but as reflective of Cambridge and its contemporary life, and the
author as a part of them.” (Nation.)
* “To possess ‘Euphranor’ in the present convenient form will give
pleasure to many lovers of the famous letters and the more famous
quatrains.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 850. D. ‘05. 390w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 339. O. 26, ‘05. 90w.
* “A pleasing preface. There are some sixty Greek words and more than
twenty mistakes.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 397. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
=Fitzgerald, Edward and Pamela.= Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald; being an
account of their lives; compiled by Gerald Campbell. $3.50. Longmans.
“A volume compiled by Gerald Campbell [their great grandchild] from
the letters of those who knew them, in which is told the ‘life story’
of the Irish rebel leader and his wife. Unlike other memoirs of Lord
FitzGerald, this is not founded on Thomas Moore’s ‘Life and death of
Lord Edward FitzGerald,’ which appeared in 1831. The letters cover in
all a period of sixty years—from 1770 to 1831. The object of the first
part of the volume is to give a picture of the home life of Lord
Edward’s family, and incidentally portraits of the writer of the
epistles. No attempt has been made to give a connected account of the
story of his life. The letters have been left to show how he was
regarded by those who knew and loved him best.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole the work of the editor has been well done.” G. H. O.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 613. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 10. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Outlines contents).
=Fitzgerald, Percy.= Lady Jean, the romance of the great Douglas cause.
*$3.60. Wessels.
A revival of the famous Douglas case, the story of Lady Jean Douglas,
who at the age of 50 married a broken down gambler in order to provide
heirs for her brother’s estates. The author takes the side of the
Hamiltons and contends that Lady Jane’s twin boys were hers not by
birth but by purchase.
“Mr. Fitzgerald has, in fact, given us a somewhat repellant chapter of
gossip, narrated in a style so slipshod as to suggest doubts as to its
accuracy in other points.”
— =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 650w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 779. Je. 24. 490w.
* =Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“These essays contain no personal reminiscences; they are
interpretative rather than descriptive, and they often run far afield
into legend, history, politics, race characteristics and development,
the inter-play of one race upon another, and other problems remote
from the point of view of the guide-book.... It is as a luxurious and
leisurely commentary upon travels past or to come, as a collection of
delightful essays and beautiful pictures, that ‘In the track of the
Moors’ should be judged and enjoyed. The book is the result of
collaboration by Sybil and Augustine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing
the essays and the latter the pictures. There are sixty-three
full-page illustrations excellently printed in color.”—Dial.
* “If the author displays here no great erudition, she certainly shows
a real and sympathetic acquaintance with the lands in question,
considerable powers of observation, and a pretty taste in the
literature of travel.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* “The essayist is equipped for her task by a thorough knowledge of
the subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to put the results
of analysis into trenchant and finished form.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 480w.
* “The feature of ‘In the track of the Moors’ lies essentially in its
illustrations.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “The pictures, much the more satisfactory element, are often
charming, although also at times very trivial in subject.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 240w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10.
Longmans.
The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly
extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from
letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and
from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking
letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of
Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign
affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of
the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the
Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the
second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are
material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout
the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”
“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though
his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds
within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the
historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1121. O. 28, ‘05. 1650w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice’s book is both interesting and important.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 497. O. 14. 2800w.
“Lord Edmond has put together a vast amount of interesting and
entertaining information about many people besides Lord Granville.
Lord Granville’s own personal charm was perhaps too evanescent a
quality to be reproduced on paper.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 338. O. 13, ‘05. 3880w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has done a very good piece of work in his
life of Lord Granville.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 1270w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 558. O. 28, ‘05. 2320w.
“Even Mr. John Morley has not drawn so full a picture of the
unfortunate Cabinet of 1880 as Lord Edmond has been able to supply,
and it is certain that no future writer will be able to address
himself to this period unless he has thoroughly studied Lord Edmond’s
volumes.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 609. O. 21, ‘05. 1760w.
=Flandrau, Rebecca Blair=, tr. See =Kielland, Alexander.= Professor
Lovdahl.
=Fletcher, A. E.= Thomas Gainsborough. *$1.25. Scribner.
A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present
volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain
a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of
Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in
the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its
relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the
Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of
English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working
at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist
in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).
“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a
too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.
“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of
Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of
a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining
biography.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of
Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a
remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter
Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it
either.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight.= History of
architecture. *$6. imp. Scribner.
A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for
students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000
illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and
interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a
glossary, and a full index.
“The present edition is certainly an improvement on the former ones in
clarity and fulness of information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 440. Ap. 8. 300w.
“Is a veritable encyclopedia of its subject, and presents in compact
form an immense amount of information.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“The peculiar excellence and convenience of this work....”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie.= Introductory history of England, from
the earliest times to the close of the middle ages. *$2. Dutton.
“Mr. Fletcher’s book is ‘introductory’ in a double sense. Besides
being intended for boys, it stops at the beginning of the Tudor
period. In style, it is explanatory, and the author is enabled, by
excising a large number of subjects, to treat those that remain with
tolerable fulness of detail.”—Nation.
“He gives a fresh and really interesting connected narrative of
England’s emergence from barbarism and the beginnings of her national
and institutional life. There are surely very many older readers who
will find the book more fascinating than most novels.”
+ =Ind.= 58:671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even
when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we
may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might
pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of
essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one
whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history
of England.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his
own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and
good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly
intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us
here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is
the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman,
and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the
capital little chapter of geological history.”
+ + =Nature.= 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w.
=Fletcher, Margaret.= Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls.
60c. Benziger.
Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life
which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the
realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is
no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.
* “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high
order; her aim is in the right direction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Flint, Austin.= Handbook of physiology. *$5. Macmillan.
The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to
present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology
with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have
endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the
subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been
treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped,
pure physiology and biology.”
“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the
extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has
achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional
writers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Flint, George Elliot.= Power and health through progressive exercise.
*$1.50. Baker.
In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light
weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development.
He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts,
but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality
of brain and brawn.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.
* =Flood, William H. Grattan.= Story of the harp. *$1.25. Scribner.
The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest
form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the
Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with
a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of
the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices
upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The
volume is illustrated.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w.
* “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed
and critical discussion and description would have made a book more
valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Best policy. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Dave Murray, special insurance agent, is the central figure about whom
center the incidents which fill these twelve stories. All phases of
the life insurance plea are presented, including comedy, tragedy,
speculation, failure, error, sacrifice and grievance.
“Considered as fiction the book is one of the brightest and best
volumes of short stories of the season.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 180w.
* “The insurance companies of the country should pay Mr. Flower a
royalty on this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 360w.
“This is a timely book, unique and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the
art of soliciting business.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
“The fact that his stories are good ones, or would be if it were not
for the trail of the serpent of bitter knowledge that lies over them,
only adds to the seriousness of his offense.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Slaves of success. †$1.50. Page.
These eight short stories form a study in state politics. The grafter,
the boss, the spoilsman, the reformer, the honest country member of
the legislature, all are true to their parts and serve to bring out
the various phases of American business and political methods as
viewed from the inside.
“The eight chapters of ‘Slaves of success’ are rather as many
narratives than stories.” Churchill Williams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 173. O. ‘05. 1030w.
“Is rather a series of sketches than a novel, and the chapters have
very unequal merit.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 70w.
“One of the many merits of his book is that it is not one of unalloyed
pessimism. ‘Slaves of success’ is not only of absorbing interest, but,
if as widely read as it deserves, cannot fail of being a power for
good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
=Flux, A. W.= Economic principles: an introductory study. *$2. Dutton.
Prof. Flux has written an introductory text book and has rendered it
unsatisfactory for advanced work by giving no references, save in a
general way. His object is to avoid introducing controversies which
would interest only students more advanced than those for whom he
wrote, and to give himself more freedom of expression than would be
possible if he gave credit for each point of doctrine to those who
first defined it. The work is, on the whole, of the classical point of
view, as found in Marshall, but whatever the economic prejudices of
the reader, he will find the work accurate and thoro, as well as
modern.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 230w.
“It is not too much to say that the book is pretty nearly everything
else than a textbook could be fairly expected to be; but it is not
that. It is accurate, thoughtful, forceful, thorough, critical,
logical, learned, temperate, clear; but it is difficult, abstract, and
over-condensed; even for the practised economist it is hard reading.
This is not to imply that it is not surpassingly well worth while, a
positive contribution to the literature and thought of the science—it
is all of this; but that only very advanced classes will find the book
possible of handing; and for these it covers too wide a field, and can
be of great service only for reference purposes or for collateral
reading. On the whole, a work of great merit and significance. So much
the more could better treatment from the publisher, especially in
point of binding, have fairly been expected.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 114. D. ‘04. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines scope of
book).
“It is in some important respects one of the most satisfactory
systematic treatises on economics to appear within recent years.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
=Forbes, J. T.= Socrates. $1.25. Scribner.
The latest in the “World’s epoch makers” series. The political
conditions of Socrates’ time, the civic ideal, and the religion of the
Greeks are discussed in the introduction. With the environment of the
philosopher’s activity established, the author shows how he developed
his great system which looks upon the individual as the moral unit.
“Mr. Forbes has done a real service to the educated public by issuing
a bright, sound estimate, biographical and critical, of the charm and
limitations attaching to the Greek primal path.” James Moffatt.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 227. O. ‘05. 760w.
“While his work is conscientious and sufficiently thorough, it is not
always interesting, nor do the discussions leave a clean and clear
impression.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“It is an exacting as well as a fascinating subject, and its demands
for a comprehensive view and critical insight are well met in the
present volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
* =Ford, Paul Leicester.= His version of it. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The pretty little fiction of the horses’ interest in the love affairs
of Miss Fairley—who was ‘a beauty, but not what her mother was at her
age’—and the noble Major, while the odious Mr. Lewis played the
despicable role of villain, is told with great vivacity by the prime
movers, the horses.... The book is attractively illustrated by Mr.
Henry Hutt, and should be a pretty addition to any Ford
collection.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Charming story.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “One of the cleverest of this author’s short stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Island of enchantment. †$1.75. Harper.
A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young
captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from
the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate
doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm.
The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the
volume its chief character.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w.
* “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to
compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than
in this novelette.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Tommy Carteret. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far.
It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the
nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome
and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back
country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of
marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him
with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals
and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 984. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.
“This story is fundamentally unsound, superficially clever, and for
the most part entertaining.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 298. S. 2. 280w.
“The story is one of unusual cleverness, and full of surprises to the
end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 520w.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is quite readable, even entertaining, though it is
the kind of book some superior persons sneer at and consign to the
limbo of nothingness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The book is full of sentimental absurdities and affectation, and in
the end degenerates into a most unpleasant pseudo-pathological study.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
“A book that unites so much power and charm, so much insight and
kindliness and truth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 260w.
“In spite of its faults, therefore, it is impossible to condemn the
novel entirely, though it is difficult to read it without feelings of
sorrow that so vigorous a pen should be employed in so vulgar a
manner.”
— + =Spec.= 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the
function of the American government. *$1.25. Century.
Dr. Forman says, “I have constantly kept in mind the truth that
instruction in Civics should have for its aim the indoctrination of
the learner in sound notions of political morality.... In Part I. the
underlying principles of our government are presented. The essentials
are placed first in order.... In Part II. is an account of the
governmental machine. In Part III. the every-day work of government is
considered and the practical problems connected with the work are
discussed.”
“A thoughtful, compact, direct, and comprehensive account of the
machinery, operation, and problems of the governmental system.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Fortier, S.= Progress report of co-operative irrigation investigations
in California.
“One of the most interesting lines of work here described is an
investigation of pumping water for irrigation, by Prof. J. N. Le
Conte, of the University of California, and others. Thus far
descriptions of 750 pumping plants have been secured. Both field and
laboratory tests of pumping plants have been made. These are here
summarized briefly, but will be reported on more fully at a later
date. Studies of evaporation and methods of applying water to land are
also described in the pamphlet.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Arbitration and the Hague court. **$1. Houghton.
“A brief review of events dealing with arbitration up to the
convention of The Hague peace conference. It gives the circumstances
under which that conference was called, the reasons why The Hague was
appropriate for such an assemblage, and the eminent men employed and
spirit of the conference.”—Bookm.
“The exposition is clear, the conclusions logical.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 190w.
“This is a valuable hand book. His book, however, has the peculiar
value of being historical and impersonal.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 350w.
“His publication, important in more than one respect, is, so far as we
know, the first to give, in a small compass and an interesting way,
the present status of arbitration and its practice under the Hague
convention.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 19. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1390w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Fox, Frances Margaret.= Rainbow bridge. †$1.25. Wilde.
From the “little pilgrims’ home” Marian Lee traverses her rainbow
bridge to the ideal home of her dreams where love and privileges
abound.
* “Another interesting, natural story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 40w.
=Fox, John, jr.= Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through
Manchuria. **$1.25. Scribner.
One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his
impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in
Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the
Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.
“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded,
and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William
Elliot Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 170w.
“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in
which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice
against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 416. Je. 16, ‘05. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay
in Tokio.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
— + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.
“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a
record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”
— =Spec.= 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Fox, Middleton.= Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50.
Lane.
Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of
the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s
strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the
villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they
believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s
tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic
betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.
“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of
occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an
attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”
— =Acad.= 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w.
“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w.
* “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual
possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as
yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”
+ — =Critic.= 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and
the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of
the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long
past.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Words of
St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. *60c. Dutton.
“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might
be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at
one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these
things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she
tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to
life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.
“An admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Francis, M. E., pseud.= See =Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).=
=Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Eighteenth century artists and
engravers. 2v. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her
work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who
reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion,
when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval
portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her
text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James
Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures
from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to
the student.”—Atlan.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95:274. F. ‘05. 530w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin;
ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume
classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of
Franklin, and notes by the editor.
“The selections in the book are well chosen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:730. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from
the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.
The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a
biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his
relation to the history of his time.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his
city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and
is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.
These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,”
set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little
English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is
strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts
of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth
whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that
bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner,
carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The
requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s
oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of
how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into
action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w.
=Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= Maid of Japan. †$1.25. Holt.
The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of
the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked
into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and
left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed
one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to
her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes
her back to his England.
“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary
finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or
slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.”
William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.
“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from
Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and
possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 446. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1400w.
“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect
idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 592. Jl. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan
she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in
the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 200w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Sa’-Zada tales. †$2. Scribner.
“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The
keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the
animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell
stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the
jungle and how he came to be captured.... They indulge in repartee and
sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family,
united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly
illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love
to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* “Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently
knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* “The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story
telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of
forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all
popular nature books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Free, Richard.= Seven years’ hard. *$1.50. Dutton.
A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary
work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or
Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he
and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and
intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters
have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and
old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the
district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the
mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be
met with, are well described in this volume.
“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series
of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers,
debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science,
history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of contents).
“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in
the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic
as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half
lives.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 180w.
=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= Western Europe in the eighth century and
onward. *$3.25. Macmillan.
The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the
rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are
first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can
give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a
period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered
opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes
with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great
historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is
learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid
passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was
thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.
“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit
in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed
account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less
relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the
habit of overloading his writings.”
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 913. Jl. ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 540w.
“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is
unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W.
Brooks.
+ — =Eng. Hist.= R. 20: 548. Jl. ‘05. 1330w.
“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it
thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 420w.
“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care.
Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at
times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of
this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on
it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made
the subject peculiarly his own.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 231. F. ‘05. 180w.
* =Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been
ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength
to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all
creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister,
who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his
queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and,
above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her
father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are
real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.
* “As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much
subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of
disconnected studies of character rather than of a single
well-proportioned whole.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small
things that make up manners and customs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 490w.
* “One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and
‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless
phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are
remarkable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25. ‘05. 270w.
=Freer, A. Goodrich-.= Inner Jerusalem. *$3. Dutton.
In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a
view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under
the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought
out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in
these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from
error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest
maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we
may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian,
will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page
illustrations, chiefly from photographs.
“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding
life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a
sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its
widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the
European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such
as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with
discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious
ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
* “She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a
clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues,
with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 992. O. 26, ‘05. 430w.
“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without
being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in
spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of
actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1380w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Rejuvenation of Aunt
Mary. †$1.50. Little.
Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy
years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew
Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes
discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with
an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the
old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town,
indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so
alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful
young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt
Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the
giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.
“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably
superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend
Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier
part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”
+ + — =Arena.= 35: 556. N. ‘05. 780w.
* “There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively
enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 250w.
* “Clever little comedy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“She has only succeeded in producing a broad farce.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.
Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died
neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn
worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is
followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward
the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.
“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The
present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest
excellence.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 450w.
“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity,
intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can
glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the
word.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 40. Jl. 16, ‘05. 650w.
“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful
rather than literal.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story
and read the reflections and sermons.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 430w.
“On the whole not ill translated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but
intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with
convincing truth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.
“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and
carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not
the creation, of a genre.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 320w.
“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are
abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But
it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w.
“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and
straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low
German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 1150w.
=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of
‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on
adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy,
Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the
development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental
congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows
that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it
adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the
highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776,
and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared
independence of England.”—R. of Rs.
“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in
this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of
study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 148. Ja. ‘05. 910w.
“Very suggestive study.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 550. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
“An elaborate and careful monograph.” H. E. E.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 612. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that
has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.
* “A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that
produced that famous document.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an
adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it
does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept
within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 460w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 110w.
=Friedlander, M.=, tr. See =Maimonides, Moses.= The guide for the
perplexed.
From servitude to service: the history and * work of Southern
institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
A book for students of Southern educational institutions and their
problems. There is an outline of the history and work of six of the
leading Southern institutions engaged in negro education: Howard
university, Berea college, Tuskegee institute, Hampton institute,
Atlanta university, and Fisk university.
* “A book of great interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 760w.
* =Frost, Arthur Burdett.= Book of drawings; with introd. by Joel
Chandler Harris, and verse by Wallace Irwin. $3. Collier-Fox.
“A new edition of the happy combination of the humor of these men
already firm in the hearts of their public.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
=Frost, Thomas Gold.= Incorporation and organization of corporations
created under the “Business corporation acts” of all the states and
territories of the United States. *$3.50. Little.
“A treatise describing and comparing the incorporation laws of the
various states and territories of the Union. Every step in obtaining a
charter, incorporating, issuing stock, and going into bankruptcy is
fully described for every class of corporation and with reference to
the statutes of every commonwealth. The legislative, judicial, and
executive powers of the various branches of the federal and state
governments over corporations are given clearly and succinctly, and
185 pages are devoted to a synopsis-digest of the incorporation acts
of the several states and territories.”—N. Y. Times.
“It teaches the whole important art of incorporation in a very
satisfactory way, and without an excess of citations.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.
“This digest is remarkable for its careful condensation of the very
wordy acts into a form available for quick and reliable reference.
Nothing essential is omitted, and nothing unnecessary is included. As
a book for the reference of the lawyer and the information of the
prospective incorporator, we do not know of any work comparable to
this.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 285. Ap. 29, ‘05. 350w.
=Fuchs, Carl Johannes.= Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies
since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“An admirable translation by Miss Constance Archibald of the
well-known work of Prof. Fuchs on the fiscal question.... The drawback
to the book is that the original was published in 1893, and that the
figures are out of date.”—Ath.
“With the exception of a few blemishes, the book is one which it was
right to translate. The work of translation and editing has been
admirably performed.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 748. Je. 17. 1310w.
“It is a drawback that the book is not brought up to date; Dr. Fuchs
has changed his mind at least as to one point since he wrote.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 320w.
“We unreservedly welcome this translation of a Freiburg professor’s
work.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 312. S. 2, ‘05. 1050w.
=Fuller, Anna.= Bookful of girls. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A half-dozen sketches of as many different types of winsome young
womanhood—Blythe, enthusiastic and lovable; Madge, the artistic;
Olivia, the young philanthropist; Polly, capable and devoted sister;
Di, the dear peacemaker; but best of all, Nannie, who floured her face
and did Lady Macbeth in a nightgown to an admiring audience of
one—Miss Becky Crawlin, seamstress, whom she afterward took to a real
theatre, with many amusing results.”—Outlook.
“The book is adapted for young girls’ reading and has a wholesome and
stimulating tone. It should be popular.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 30w.
“A very rare and pleasing collection of girls are these.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 430w.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Golden hope: a story of the time of King
Alexander the Great. †$1.50. Macmillan.
An accurate picture of the life of the time, with the wars and
conquests of Alexander as a background. The story follows the
adventures of Clearthus, a rich young Athenian, in his search for his
betrothed, Artemesia, who had been taken from him on the eve of their
wedding, thru the influence of a relative who covets the young Greek’s
fortune. A Theban and a Spartan accompany him and they become involved
in Alexander’s campaigns.
“The characters are conventional, the plot is laboured, and an air of
unreality hangs about the whole.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17. 320w.
“The book ends peacefully, and is one to absorb the attention.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 230w.
“It is as good as many other historical novels of the day.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“To readers with a predilection for historical fiction this romance of
Alexander’s wars of conquest will more especially commend itself.
Others may find it over long and rather too heavily freighted with
descriptive detail.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“Not without signs of ability and interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 20w.
=Fullerton, Edith Loring.= How to make a vegetable garden: a practical
and suggestive manual for the home garden. **$2. Doubleday.
“The illustrations!—truly, they illustrate—everything from seedlings
and tools to the aspect of the garden in winter.” (Dial.) “Besides
being a good picture book, it contains practical and detailed
directions for making the best use of a small garden from the
preparation of the soil to the cooking of the vegetables.”—Ind.
“Mrs. Fullerton’s book is a pleasing record of experience.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 140w.
“The writer has managed to avoid everything dull and prosy, without
omitting anything essential.” Edith Granger.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1255. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“A very worthy contribution to the world’s sanity.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Furness, Horace Howard=, ed. See =Shakespeare, Wm.= New variorum
edition of Love’s labour’s lost.
=Fyvie, John.= Women of wit and beauty of the time of George IV. **$3.
Pott.
The lives of eight famous women are dealt with in this volume: Mrs.
Fitzherbert; Lady Hamilton; Mrs. Montagu; Lady Blessington; Mrs.
Lennox; Mrs. Grote; Mrs. Norton; and Lady Eastlake. Excellent
portraits add much to the interest of this collection of biographies.
“We must be grateful, however, for Mr. Fyvie’s addition to our
materials, although we still await the wizard who shall transform them
into flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 871. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
* “As a whole, Mr. Fyvie’s sketches are agreeably and discreetly
written, but they contain little evidence of original research.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 205. Ag. 12. 350w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 40w.
“The biographies are told con amore, the women placed before us with
firm strokes and careful shading; and the result is wholly pleasing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “In all, Mr. Fyvie, who is indefatigable in research and clever in
arranging his ‘finds,’ makes the best of his theme.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 229. Ag. 12, ‘05. 420w.
G
=Gallatin, A. E.= Whistler’s art dicta and other essays. $3.50.
Goodspeed.
A collection of five essays which originally appeared in the
International studio, the Lamp, the Critic, the Weekly critical review
of Paris, and the Literary collector. The title essay deals with
Whistler’s “Gentle art of making enemies,” “Aubrey Beardsley: man of
letters,” contains a review of his last writings as found in “Under
the hill, and other essays in prose and verse,” (John Lane). “Notes on
three hitherto unpublished drawings by Beardsley,” describes three
unfinished sketches here reproduced, a border design for Mallory’s “Le
morte d’Arthur.” The closing papers are “Whistler’s realism” and
“Whistler’s memorial exhibition,” in Boston, February and March, 1904.
“The volume has little interest but for those already much interested
in Whistler and his work.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 300w. (Reviews each
essay.)
“The title of this little volume is somewhat misleading, and its price
out of proportion to its value.”
— =Int. Studio.= 25: 366. Je. ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 290w.
“This exquisite volume will be a valuable keepsake to those who admire
Whistler. It is remarkable, first, because of its superb print,
secondly, because of some remarkable facsimiles, and, thirdly, because
of a criticism which may well be a vade mecum to those who would
better understand Whistler—to those who have thought him an
impressionist, for instance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the
Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy. †$1.50. Page.
A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked
duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful
Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and
sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young
nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the
wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ganz, Henry F. W.= Practical hints on painting, composition,
landscape, and etching. *$1. Lippincott.
This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame
work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to
be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets
the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with
representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
* “While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should
prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of
painting alone.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: sup. 22. N. ‘05. 120w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 250w.
=Ganz, Hugo.= The land of riddles. $2. Harper.
This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman
Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work
originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives
in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and
his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life.
He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which
are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing
more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and
the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a
mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter,
the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a
visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing
picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no
answer.
“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that
Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to
‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has
the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for
popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are
ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”
+ — =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 1130w.
“Toward solving the ‘riddles,’ the author’s guesses imply only average
insight or acumen, but the book is readable, and the style is
pleasing.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 170w.
“There is little in the book that adds to the recent knowledge poured
forth so profusely concerning that unhappy land. The translation, by
Mr. Herman Rosenthal, is into excellent English.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1073. My. 11, ‘05. 420w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 530w.
“In its present English dress the book contains, however, much
additional matter, and some of it valuable. He states throughout the
truth boldly, as he sees it, and in most cases gives his authority, or
authorities, for his facts and conclusions.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1800w.
“Mr. Rosenthal’s translation is excellently well done. The style is
smooth and interesting.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 757. D. ‘04. 310w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel M.= Silence of Mrs. Harrold. $1.50. Harper.
The author is a New York lawyer and has chosen his home town as the
setting for his novel. The plot hinges upon a marriage in which both a
man and a woman promise to ask no questions relative to their
respective pasts. The compact is kept, but the husband’s jealousy is
aroused, and finally it develops that “Mrs. Harrold” in her youth had
eloped with a member of a circus troupe. Her father, following them to
the man’s home in Austria, kills her husband, whose own father suffers
imprisonment for the crime, the real murderer being shielded by his
daughter. There are many complications but the book ends with the
complete vindication of the silent wife.
“Had it been half as long, ‘The silence of Mrs. Harrold’ might have
been twice as good.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17, 260w.
“A novel of strong and complex interest.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 391. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w.