The author has made his narrative suitable in every respect to young

readers. He tells of the discoveries and adventures of such men as

Cartier, Jean Ribaut, Rene de Laudonnière, Champlain, Nicollet,

Joliet, La Salle, and Father Hennepin, in an interesting fashion,

basing his story, upon standard authorities; he has provided notes

upon Indian tribal connections and customs, and introductory chapters

which deal with the origin and distribution of the Indian race and

give a view of Indian society.

* =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.

* “Mr. Johnson’s descriptions of the great French explorers are

calculated to serve the purposes he had in view and to stimulate

curiosity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 450w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France, †$1.50. Turner, H.

B.

This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the

new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his

people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor,

that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her

his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle

America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is

subordinated to the forest love story.

* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 10w.

* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 300w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

=Johnson, Wolcott.= An old man’s idyl. *$1. McClurg.

A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a

husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his

honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow

up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a

long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl,

and a prayer.

“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent,

speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George

William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved

dreamers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10. ‘05. 220w.

“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one.

Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the

progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr.

Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of

this unpretentious little volume.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 106. Je. ‘05. 230w.

=Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita.= Ireland’s story; a short

history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers.

**$1.40; school ed. *$1.10. Houghton.

Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of

Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch

upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America,

on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary

revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the

derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views,

portraits and maps.

“Written in a quiet, almost gentle style, the narrative moves calmly

forward and is easily followed. The treatment is sufficiently fair and

charitable to satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tolerance is

properly developed.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 411. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w.

“The writers of the present work have managed to condense a vast

amount of information into their sketch of some 400 pages.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 250w.

“The first five chapters ... absolutely worthless for any purpose

whatever. The rest of the volume, however, appears to be of some

value.”

+ — =N. Y.= Times. 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 590w.

“A well-arranged outline history of Ireland. The authors, while

frankly revealing both their political and their religious sympathies,

write with moderation and fair-mindedness.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.

“All in all, this volume gives an excellent epitome of Irish history.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 150w.

“A book which ought to have a place in the libraries of our high

schools.”

+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 70w.

=Johnston, Rev. John Octavius.= Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon,

canon of St. Paul’s cathedral and sometime Ireland professor of exegesis

in the University of Oxford. $5. Longmans.

A detailed and sympathetic account of the life and character of the

late Dean Liddon, strict ritualist and devoted Puseyite who was almost

constantly involved in controversy. It is a faithful record of

unfaltering devotion to duty and his steady advancement to well-earned

success; his friendly relations with Gladstone and Salisbury and his

refusal to accept a bishopric from either; his success as a pulpit

orator; his famous sermons; his pleasing personality, high scholarship

and untiring energy.

“A worthy addition to the literature of biography.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 234. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2020w.

=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 400w.

=Jones, Amanda Theodosia.= Rubáiyát of Solomon, and other poems. $1.25.

Alden bros.

One-third of this new volume of poems “is given up to versification,

in the familiar rubáiyát form, of certain of the sayings of Solomon

and Koheleth.... It is elsewhere in Miss Jones’s volume that we must

look for her most meritorious verse. We find it, for example, in the

group of ‘Kansas bird songs,’ in the lyrics of childhood, the tender

personal tributes, and the pieces that touch on contemporary history.”

(Dial.)

“It can truly be said that she has looked upon the sun and has been

undismayed; for, at intervals ... the clear voice of this fearless and

fiery-hearted Deborah has been heard and heeded by those who may be

reckoned as the jealous custodians of the gates of song.” Edith M.

Thomas.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 412. N. ‘05. 1650w.

“There is in the book always a first-hand view of nature,—often a

touch of mysticism. Some of the experiments are not fortunate, but now

and again there is a narrative poem, or a lyric that clings to the

memory.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 414. N. ‘05. 290w.

“After a long silence, Miss Jones has put forth a new volume of poems,

which may perhaps secure for her work something of the appreciation

which has long been its due.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.

* “The variety of achievement in this modest volume is in pleasing

contrast to that offered in most collections of its size.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 802. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.

* =Jones, E. Griffith-.= Economics of Jesus; or, Work and wages in the

kingdom of God. *35c. Meth. bk.

A study of the money parables,—“a series of problems arising out of

the deep-seated and manifold inequalities of life.” The little volume

belongs to the “Freedom of faith” series.

=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Manoeuvres of Jane: an original comedy in four

acts. **75c. Macmillan.

“Mr. Nangle, a wealthy widower, places his wilful daughter in charge

of Mrs. Beechinor, retired matron of a young ladies’ boarding-school,

in the hope that she will transfer her affections from a man who is in

moderate circumstances to Lord Bapchild, a nephew of Mrs. Beechinor’s,

Jane arranges matters to suit herself and marries the man whom she

loves.”—Bookm.

“The situations are the work of an undoubted expert, and the dialog is

skilfully written. Now that Oscar Wilde is dead, Mr. Jones has only

one equal in England, the Ibsenized Pinero.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 140w.

“It reads well, although the literary form emphasizes the fact that it

is really more of a farce than a comedy.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 30w.

=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Mrs. Dane’s defence. **75c. Macmillan.

This four-act play was given in New York in the years 1901-1902. It

concerns a woman with a past and a skilful lawyer who forces the truth

from Mrs. Dane.

“Undeniably clever.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 20w.

=Jones, Rev. J. D.= Elims of life, and other sermons. *$1. Revell.

“These are discourses by a prominent Congregational pastor in

England.... The spiritual and ethical element predominates, the form

is plain and lucid, the aim is practical.”—Outlook.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 100w.

=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Dying message of Paracelsus. pa. 50c. Unity pub.

“Appropriate as an Easter gift, and dedicated as such by the [author]

to his Browning classes, is this elegantly printed pamphlet,

illustrated by Albrecht Dürer’s picture of ‘Melancholia.’ ... A few

paragraphs of Mr. Jones’s lecture on Paracelsus accompany Browning’s

text as introduction and commentary.”—Outlook.

=Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

=Jones, Paul.= Commercial power of Congress. $5. priv. ptd. C. S.

Nathan, N. Y.

The object of this book “is to trace the history and show the present

authoritative interpretation of that pregnant declaration of the

constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall have power ... to

regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states,

and with the Indian tribes.’” (N. Y. Times.) Present interest centers

about the application of this provision to trusts and railway rates.

“It is carefully done, but lacks a table of cases.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 258. S. 28, ‘05. 80w.

“It bears evidence of a lot of painstaking work, is written in a style

excellent for its purpose, and offers very few of those slips of the

pen or the proofreader that are apt to invade in force the pages of

the amateur.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 312. My. 13, ‘05. 900w.

=Jones, Rufus Matthew.= Social law in the spiritual world, **$1.25.

Winston.

“While the title at once suggests the famous work of the late Henry

Drummond, and the book is in a way an attempt to deal with the same

problems as those discussed in his Natural law in the spiritual

world,’ Professor Jones is concerned rather with the psychological

aspects of the subject than with the biological. In his view, there is

a greater stress to-day in the psychological than in the so-called

natural sciences.”—R. of Rs.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w. (Outlines scope).

“Professor Jones very tersely sums up the present-day meaning of

personality and social relationship. His discussion of the modern

religious problem is from a somewhat novel point of view.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 180w.

=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.

Thirty-eight letters originally dictated by Mayor Jones, Golden Rule

Jones, to his stenographer and delivered to his women with their

wages. Each letter begins, Dear Friends, and closes, Very faithfully

yours, and in each the master and man meet on common ground as

brothers. Equality, coöperation, harmony, fellowship, patriotism and

even picnics and vacations are advocated in these letters, and many

other subjects of general interest are discussed.

=Jonson, Ben.= Plays and poems, *$1.25. imp. Scribner.

“This latest addition to the irresistible ‘Caxton’ series is the

representative work of Jonson as a dramatist and as a poet.... The

frontispieces and the title-pages in this series ... are often as in

the case of this volume, admirable pieces of typographical and

illustrative work.”—Outlook.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and

glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.

A contribution to the “Yale studies in English.”

=Jonson, Ben.= Poetaster; a thesis presented to the faculty of the

graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Dr. of

philosophy; ed. by Herbert S. Mallory. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This 27th volume in the “Yale studies of English” series, contains the

text of the play, a long critical introduction, notes, glossary,

bibliography, and index.

=Jonson, Ben.= Staple of news: a thesis presented to the faculty of the

Graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of

philosophy; ed. by Dr. De Winter. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This twenty-eighth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series

contains the critical text of Jonson’s play, with elaborate notes, a

glossary, and an introduction.

=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“The least satisfactory part of the work is that devoted to

bibliography, which contains, as usual, a number of inaccuracies.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.

=Jonson, G. C. Ashton.= Handbook to Chopin’s works, **$1.50. Doubleday.

“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to

make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it

forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those

amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the

first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A

brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a

brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary

chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.

Reviewed by Ingram A. Pyle.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.

“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte

music should have at hand for daily reference.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.

“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.”

Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.

=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.

Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the

fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of

ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed,

those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those

which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its

various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored

to their place in the series and discussed along with those still

extant.” (Dial.)

“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles

Atwood Kofoid.

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 84. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1680w.

“There is no thorough classification or system. The table of contents

of the chapters make matters only worse. A single page with an outline

of the arrangement would be a boon.” H. C.

+ + — =Nature.= 72: 625. O. 26, ‘05. 1600w.

=Jordan, Kate (Mrs. F. M. Vermilye).= Time the comedian. †$1.50.

Appleton.

A man who was about to elope with a woman who is to desert for him her

husband and child is shocked on the eve of their departure by the

suicide of the husband with one of his wife’s guilty letters in his

hand. He will not marry her now, but gives her a liberal allowance,

and years later when he has come to love her daughter, his old letters

to her mother keep them forever apart.

* “The characters are well drawn and the plot worked out logically ...

and the story is written with a sureness of touch and a briskness that

keeps the interest unflagging throughout.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 90w.

“A bright, entertaining society novel, not without a moral for light,

frivolous, and selfish people of both sexes.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

Jubilee gems of the Visitation order. Sisters of the visitation of Holy

Mary. *$1. Christian press.

“The present publication aims successfully at giving, in clear and

simple language, an authentic account of the foundation of the order,

and a picture of the ideals which have obtained in the community and

borne fruit in the saintly lives of its members.... It will help to

fill the lamentable lack of books suitable for Catholic school

premiums.”—Cath. World.

“The volume is well gotten up and attractively written.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 406. Je. ‘05. 350w.

=Judd, Sylvester.= History of Hadley, including the early history of

Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Mass. *$6. H. R. Huntting &

co., Springfield, Mass.

This work was originally published in 1863. It is now reprinted with

an introduction by Geo. Sheldon and family genealogies by Lucius M.

Boltwood.

“Introduction is, by the way, decidedly more interesting than Mr.

Judd’s ‘History.’”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 320w.

“His compilation is replete with authentic information as to manners

and customs, and is highly browsable.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 330w.

“The new edition will find a wider field than the first met, and

should create and fill a demand for itself.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1010w.

Judith: an old English epic fragment, ed. by Albert S. Cook. 40c. Heath.

This volume is section I of the “Belles-lettres” series contains the

text of Judith, passages from the Vulgate Judith, an introduction,

bibliography, and glossary.

* =Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal

regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.

“The volume is divided into two parts, the first part, comprising

about one-fourth of the book, deals briefly with the power of the

federal government over interstate commerce and with the statutes that

have been enacted in the exercise of that power. Part two discusses in

more detail the interstate commerce act of 1887, the anti-trust law of

1890, the safety appliance legislation of 1893 and 1896, and various

other minor acts of legislation regarding interstate commerce. The

latter part of the book is devoted to the presentation of information

regarding ‘procedure before the Interstate commerce commission.’”

(Ann. Am. Acad.)

* “The volume is systematically arranged, it is well proportioned and

carefully written. It is both a good treatise and a valuable book of

reference. Neither the lawyer nor the economist interested in

transportation can afford to neglect part two of Mr. Judson’s book.”

Emory R. Johnson.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 756. N. ‘05. 310w.

* “Mr. Judson has a good power of statement, and his volume is a

valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 230w.

Juliana, ed. by William Strunk. 40c. Heath.

A volume in section I of the “Belles-lettres” series, English

literature from its beginning to the year 1100. The original text of

the Exeter manuscript is given, all deviations being indicated in the

variants. An introduction discusses the text, the author, and the

legend, and complete notes, bibliography, and glossary are provided.

“The notes have been most carefully edited, the type is clear, and the

notes and glossary are adequate.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 340w.

=Jungman, Beatrice.= Norway: text by Beatrice Jungman; with 75 il. in

col. by Nico Jungman. *$6. Macmillan.

“Mrs. Jungman does not concern herself ... with the past history of

Norway, except with a few of its legends; nor does she allude to the

present unsettled state of its politics. But the fact of Norwegian

unrest ... makes ... an interesting background to her brilliant series

of passing impressions.... Mr. Jungman is a charming artist, ... and

he has done nothing more attractive than these portraits of Norwegian

girls and children.... His sketches of Norwegian landscape are also

most characteristic.”—Spec.

“She is always readable,—partly, no doubt, because she is so

absolutely unpretentious; and the book is a welcome addition to an

interesting and valuable series.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 645. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.

“The limited scope of his work suffers considerably by comparison with

the comprehensive title of the book.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 791. Je. 24. 660w.

“The ‘text’ is friendly gossip about a trip in Norway, quite natural,

with no straining after effect. The colour of the pictures is gay; it

is too vivid for our liking.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w.

“Mrs. Jungman’s ‘text’ is quite as interesting, in its way as her

husband’s pictures.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.

K

=Kasson, John A.= Evolution of the constitution of the United States of

America and history of the Monroe doctrine. **$1.50. Houghton.

An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work

published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the

Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but

condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original

‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of

the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those

articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by

which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to

provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they

accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)

Reviewed by C. L. Raper.

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 150w.

“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook,

and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s

well-known treatise.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 188. Ag. 31, ‘05. 900w.

Reviewed by R. L. S.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 530w.(States scope of book).

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 150w. (States scope of book).

=Katherine, pseud.= See =Stephens, Louise G.=

=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord

Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.

In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the

following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of

Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the

conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and

Results.

=Keats, John.= Poems; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt.

$2.25. Dodd.

“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of

orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a

logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain

nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by

side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text

stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an

even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.

* “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking

research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s

ideas untouched.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 326. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1420w.

“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his

introduction and notes to this edition.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 534. O. 21. 3260w.

* “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel

the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 150w.

“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical

student of poetry as a fine art.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 310w.

“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his

effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has

succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems

that it has really done that.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.

“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the

expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.

=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.

The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value

both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader.

Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical

anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of

the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an

address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”

“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness,

though without the technical language.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 484. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.

“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but

some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical

profession.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.

=Keith, Marian.= Duncan Polite, the watchman of Glenoro. †$1.50. Revell.

Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small

Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found.

Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the

other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord

which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he

wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new

things.

“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite

of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.

“Anyhow, it wad hae made a bonnie, wee short story.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 470w.

=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.

“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the

principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the

greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such

a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on

‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have

determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the

spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just

now.”—Outlook.

“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought

into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 110w.

“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of

information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that

it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof.

Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally

satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 164. S. 16, ‘05. 690w.

“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the

study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book

is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 340w.

“In general, entomologists will agree with the schemes of

classification.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 207. S. 7, ‘05. 690w.

“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... contains much

interesting reading for any nature-lover.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 100w.

“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and

Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general

text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt

+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 563. N. 3, ‘05. 1160w.

=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.

“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional

institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation

of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried

on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that

her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies,

their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and

business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.

“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on

this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear

and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out

advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the

measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate

usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 558. Ja. ‘05. 110w.

“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of

housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it

indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political

positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly

set forth.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 220w.

“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned;

and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple

and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte

Perkins Gilman.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 580w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“The volume is worthy of high praise and it should be widely read.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 290w.

Reviewed by S. P. B.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 295. Mr. ‘05. 530w.

“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss

Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the

information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who

are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in

American cities.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.

=Kelly, Myra.= Little citizens. †$1.50. McClure.

Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future

Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She

“shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school.

Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They

are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and

faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty.

Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories

about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and

teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of

the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous

and entertaining.” (Acad.)

“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the

countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of

novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and

with a convincing sympathy.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 480w.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.

“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and

limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are

only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 210w.

“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present

prodigiously amusing.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.

“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary

dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen

observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent.

Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously,

unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect

is picturesquely and easily handled.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 623. Ap. ‘05. 380w.

“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an

original and attractive kind.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 150w.

=Kendrick, A. F.= English embroidery. *$2.50. Scribner.

“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history

of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the

eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of

this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.

“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic

standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 500w.

“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and

readable throughout.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 60. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.

=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.

=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of

Virginia, 1773-1776. *$10. Putnam.

The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond

will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in

Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction

containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and

unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial

Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.

“The work of editing the volume has been ably done.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.

“A very satisfactory introduction.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed

his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the

state.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 770w.

=Kennedy, Sidney Robinson.= Lodestar. †$1.50. Macmillan.

In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist

and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with

whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the

story, and there are many amusing complications.

“One of the pleasantest of summer books.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.

“Something of a disappointment.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w.

“Clever and readable novel.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.

=Kent, Arminie Thomas.= Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. **$1.25. Lane.

Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various

magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric,

which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.

“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”

— =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w.

“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of

style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American

scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute

defects.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 540w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.

“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the

technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the

sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very

little to be desired.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 93. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w.

=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical

narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of

the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.

“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the

writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological

order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them

up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which

they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible

form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old

Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the

beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical

narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4)

‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’

(6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general

readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.

“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his

volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it

with discrimination.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1060w.

“It is a credit to the university served by Professor Kent.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.

=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history,

from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75.

Scribner.

Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts

regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has

undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the

narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and

biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses,

laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and

didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first

volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly

translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early

narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions

of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be

read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.

“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the

editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 530w.

“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit,

its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper

interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the

subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work

has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.

+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 309. Ap. ‘05. 1020w.

=Ker, William Paton.= Dark ages, **$1.50. Scribner.

“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special

title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of

European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He

begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term....

Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture

on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second

chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole

period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts,

treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic

languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and

Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast

field.”—Am. Hist. R.

“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary

expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can

understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already

perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé

of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too

abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and

concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is

fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is

useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and

compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 628. Ap. ‘05. 410w.

“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional

happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who

are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of

actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w.

=Kerr, Robert Pollok.= Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for

Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.

The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly

presented in this little book which is intended for class study in

Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of

questions is given at the close of the volume.

* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Beethoven: the man and the artist, as

revealed in his own words: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has

been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries

heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under

appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven

lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human

observations.

* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed

in his own words; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together

“an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for

that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The

outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there

is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic,

intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”

* =Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.

This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a

picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of

its characters take us at times to the far West with the

forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young,

to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of

Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the

Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are

associated.”—Dial.

* “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of

brilliancy.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well

sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a

fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.

* “The chief merit of the story lies in its character drawing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the

general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s

strongest qualities.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.

=Ketcham, Heber D.= Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The

Methodist pulpit. Second series, *50c. Meth. bk.

In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his

readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty

of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The

unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the

seasons.

=Key, A. Cooper-.= Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors

and dealers. *35c. Macmillan.

“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief

explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted

to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing,

and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and

management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is

certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead

to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For

those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after

they have left the manufactory the book should be equally

valuable.”—Nature.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w.

“Is what such a handbook should be.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w.

“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose

benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.

=Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid.= With the pilgrims to Mecca,

*$3.50. Lane.

An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special

correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and

speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies

which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange

religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars

and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the

original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon

the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.

“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of

the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared

with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry,

jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment

of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave,

with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense

of accuracy.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w.

“A welcome book for our libraries.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 220w.

“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and

it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.

“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s

accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is

different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of

truth.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 560w.

“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly

of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we

know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 820w.

“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah

is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that

increases one’s interest.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 300w.

=Kielland, Alexander L.= Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by

Rebecca Blair Flandrau. *$1.25. Turner, H. B.

“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the

downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole

community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper

places.”—Bookm.

“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and

outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all

horribly futile and Scandinavian.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 250w. (Outline of plot).

=Kildare, Owen.= My Mamie Rose: the story of my regeneration. $1. Baker.

A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a

newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who

could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight

earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the

story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru

the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on

the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit

it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.

“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a

photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to

demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker

with greater hope.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 975. S. ‘05. 280w.

=Kinealy, John Henry.= Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical

treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low

pressures. *$5. Spon.

“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of

centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline

showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of

centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less

common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and

disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the

ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for

mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.

“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the

practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.

— =Engin. N.= 53: 644. Je. 15, ‘05. 2060w.

=King, Charles.= Medal of honor: a story of peace and war. *$1.25.

Hobart.

This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of

course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal

of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point,

and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in

military tactics at a western university. There are many complications

and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out

again.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.

* =King, Charles Francis.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.

A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen

crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well

meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing

the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal

caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers.

There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a

less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army

stories.

=King, Henry Churchill.= Personal and ideal elements in education.

**$1.50. Macmillan.

“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation

of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their

researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes....

The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious

conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural

address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college

course.”—Dial.

Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.

=Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in

education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in

the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from

modern psychology, **$1.25. Macmillan.

“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of

psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct

practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of

those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he

quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of

the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they

suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character,

happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these

ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be

actual.’”—Outlook.

* “A serious and amazingly comprehensive study.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 100w.

“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented

the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical

counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our

nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding

writer.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.

Kingdom of Siam. See =Carter, A. Cecil=, ed.

=Kingsbury, Sara.= Atonement, $1. Eastern pub.

The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each

points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a

millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor.

Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness

for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally

with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter

of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.

=Kingsley, Charles.= Hypatia. $1.25. Crowell.

A new volume in that pleasing pocket edition: the “Thin paper

classics.”

=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50.

Dodd.

Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow,

cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection

of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining

she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the

traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes

out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and

an old lover.

* “Clever and pleasant tale.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7. ‘05. 290w.

=Kinzbrunner, Charles.= Testing the continuous current machine in

laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and

engineers. $2. Wiley.

“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for

carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The

author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the

exercises with a view to their practical application and has

endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to

students.”—Engin. N.

“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American

readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat

similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other

well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.

+ + + =Engin.= N. 53: 638. Je. 15. ‘05. 820w.

=Kipling, Rudyard.= Seven seas. * *$2. Appleton.

“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding

high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the

unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with

decorative borders in green.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 70w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

=Kirk, William Frederick.= Norsk nightingale: being the lyrics of a

“Lumberyack.” **75c. Small.

“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme

and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer

form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.

“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute

us in this volume of dialect verse.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 190w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.

=Kiser, S. E.= Charles the chauffeur. $1. Stokes.

“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning

and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had

to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as

few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and

frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly

diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.

“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be

just the kind of story they will like.”

+ =Sat. R.= 10: 342. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w.

=Kitton, Frederic George.= Dickens country. $2. Macmillan.

A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist

which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and

incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are

fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of

Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.

“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of

the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should

carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant

travelling-companion.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11, ‘05. 1140w.

“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never

be attempted again.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 430w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11. ‘05. 280w.

“The book is coherent and accurate.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 870w.

“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a

well-filled mind.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.

=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.

Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years

ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B.

Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious,

instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous

matter.

“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this

crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in

the capacious index.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1160w.

“A highly interesting book.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 436. S. 28, ‘05. 240w.

=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.

Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its

people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our

land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved

France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria,

St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and

Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is

dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his

successful French work.

* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 110w.

“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé

himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will

no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 162. S. 16, ‘05. 2210w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 719. O. 21, ‘05. 210w.

“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the

acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record,

and will attract many readers.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 190w.

=Knapp, Oswald G.=, ed. Artist’s love story. *$3.50. Longmans.

The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally

Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and

the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of

consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other

hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken

from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.

+ =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w.

“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when

people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom

or intelligence.”

+ + =Ind.= 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w.

=Knight, William A.= Retrospects. Vol. I. *$2.25. Scribner.

“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar

and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading....

After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived

from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that

are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided,

fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that

distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in

the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds

to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds

and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among

the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D.

Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.

“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any

embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor

Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as

fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely

lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.”

Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents).

“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and

professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a

more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents).

* =Knipe, Emilie Benson=, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and

verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at

play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.

=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.

A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and

singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and

love of country.

“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true

poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high

and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so

eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”

+ + + =Arena.= 33: 557. My. ‘05. 3050w.

“Graceful workmanship.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are

also some very bad ones.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 150w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one

a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature,

making reference and identification easy.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w.

=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w.

“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and

while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject

matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes

refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the

heart.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w.

“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical

virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.

“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such

beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when,

abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells

simply some little story with feeling in it.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w.

=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.

“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in

semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters

speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the

clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.

* “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we

have read for several years.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1264. D. 2, ‘05. 320w.

“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is

too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many

readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish

traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite

character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.

=Knowles, W. Pitcairn.= Dutch pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.

A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the

correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a

connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from

which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed.

Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch

atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the

development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker

accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into

partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with

the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.”

(Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”

“Our author is a reliable, as well as an entertaining guide.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 460w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 840w.

“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put

at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by

beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.

=Knox, George William.= Japanese life in town and country. **$1.20.

Putnam.

“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its

liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and

interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down

to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism

and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts

made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular

preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian

sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the

samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes

three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography

of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has

lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.

“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into

small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.

Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette,

Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing

chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many

illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.

* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity

with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely

achieved.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.

Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia

Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters

upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas;

and Some actresses in summer.

=Kobbé, Gustav.= Loves of great composers. *$2.50. Crowell.

In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of

Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is

set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated

material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is

illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers

themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von

Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and

sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of

Countess Potocka.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their

complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.

* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w.

* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of

old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal

investigation and study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “Two charmingly written volumes.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.

=Kobbe, Gustav.= Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.

“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living

opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is

interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists

considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba,

Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard

De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of

Rs.

“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as

giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own

lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

* =Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.

“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck,

which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives

the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The

author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal

impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced

herein.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.

* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some

interesting commentary from the composer.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.

* =Kolle, Frederick Strange.= Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland,

†$1.50. Grafton press.

“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good

lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on

modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the

automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled

sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are

in keeping.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w.

* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy

tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w.

* =Konody, Paul G.= Filippino Lippi. $1.25. Warne.

This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of

Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.

* + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w.

* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this

series have offered us.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w.

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.

=Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.).= Tale of the kloster: a

romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico. †$1.50. Am. Bapt.

A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata,

where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions

which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the

pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and

suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.

“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the

strange community the story has its own value. It is written with

simplicity and grace.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w.

“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to

American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the

different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our

national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of

our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.

=Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’.= Russian literature. **$2.

McClure.

A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in

mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal

information about its great figures and copious extracts from its

masterpieces.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w.

“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its

scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although

occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w.

“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the

nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of

view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this

volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition

to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w.

“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored,

no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and

profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language,

as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible

information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to

know something about.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w.

“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as

the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other

works of the kind in our language.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w.

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.

“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared

in English on the literature of Russia.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w.

L

=La Colonie, Jean Martin de.= Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La

Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.

“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown

to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real

historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of

war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a

bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits

and other illustrations.”—Outlook.

“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the

details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other

readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer

appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a

copious index are duly provided.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w.

“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to

historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully

illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w.

“This book contains little information regarding politics or society,

but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as

an art.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w.

“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit,

as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close

of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The

translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the

pages of great value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.

* =La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide.= Days and hours of Raphael, with a key

to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.

“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously

illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full

page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the

twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality.

The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary,

presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the

reader.”—Dial.

* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author

does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed

sentences.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.

* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are

comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any

collection of Raphaeliana.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.

=Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de.= New voyages to North

America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of

original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd.,

notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography

by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.

Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The

author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a

detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover

many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and

strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and

personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a

general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to

Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was

very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later

doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently

fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.

“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render

accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that

has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the

bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w.

“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes

entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr.

Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a

scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w.

Reviewed by John J. Halsey.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w.

+ + =Ind.= 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.

“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which

have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western

travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.

“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w.

* =Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis

Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty

King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.

* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half

leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The

collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of

Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the

most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale,

Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The

introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and

its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the

present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest

specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w.

* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of

technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original

work and restorations.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters, v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.

“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which

has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the

quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and

pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an

inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition

of the ‘Letters’.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.)

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w.

“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years

of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’;

yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint

Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.

+ + =Critic.= 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.

=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable

allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but

unknown to us.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w.

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w.

* =Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne.= Tales from Shakespeare. *$2.50.

Scribner.

“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each

play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price.

These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect

keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and

educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself....

The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait

gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.

* + + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from

Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in

London.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w.

* “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w.

* =Lamb, Osborn Rennie.= Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.

This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is

developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic

essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic

force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective

thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the

creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic

critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own

opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so

often found in newspaper criticism.

=Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn.= Iberian: Anglo-Greek

play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.

Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The

Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek

drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same

to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play,

435 B. C., the time.

=Lamia, pseud.= See =Austin, Alfred.=

=Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard.= What is history? Five lectures on the modern

science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25.

Macmillan.

One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and

sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of

Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development

and present character of the science of history; The general course of

German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to

the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of

psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in

general; and Problems of universal history.

“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though

the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the

English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w.

“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of

them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable

for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English

terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail

occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w.

“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from

psychology and kindred sciences.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w.

“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w.

+ =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w.

“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the

obscurities of the original.” A. G.

+ — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w.

“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he

adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an

awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good

psychology, it certainly is not history.”

+ — — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w.

“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.

“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard

to get at.”

— =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w.

“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than

to the historian proper.”

+ =Yale R.= 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w.

=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.

A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and

shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow

at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native

plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)

“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.

* “Lively reading—and informative as well.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w.

“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of

Wi.’”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w.

=Lancaster, R. V.= Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c.

Presbyterian com.

The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus

from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his

book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The

creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan;

Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory,

and Kindred subjects.

“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without

insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w.

=Landon, Percival.= The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.

“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the

history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the

present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became

acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission

sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely

illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.”

(N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who

headed the mission to the Forbidden land.

“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting

reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information

extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art,

religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w.

“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into

the earlier and historical pages of the work.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w.

“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s

work throughout.”

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w.

“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w.

“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All

in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and

exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.

+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w.

“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large

amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or

index.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w.

“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and

philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w.

“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and

somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr.

Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w.

“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so

competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan

life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above

all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w.

=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.= Tibet and Nepal. *$5. Macmillan.

“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He

describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country

through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He

has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being

reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are

portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches,

animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his

preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.

“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer

can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere

and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most

enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too,

for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute

artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur

of mountain scenery.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w.

“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it

impossible to follow his tour geographically.”

— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w.

“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the

story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H.

Addington Bruce.

— =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.

“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and

even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture

of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The

colored pictures are striking and effective.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.

“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some

obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest

expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader;

but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters

far behind him.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w.

=Lang, Andrew.= Adventures among books. *$1.60. Longmans.

Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books,

Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell

Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish

romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet,

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted

cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An

old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w.

“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide

knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly

work.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w.

“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his

delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.”

Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w.

“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before

they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s

‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w.

“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a

permanent quality.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.

“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of

teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up

this volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w.

=Lang, Andrew.= History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3,

*$3.50. Dodd.

The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins

with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s

rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully

considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St.

Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch

invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland,

finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of

theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles

of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But

out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain

commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr.

Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.”

(Outlook).

“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its

predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized

them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of

events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although

interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the

general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and

some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls,

Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.”

Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w.

“The impression received from this work is that the author is not

attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using

the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of

earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those

who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will

find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd

investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary

reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and

relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful

events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern

scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and

other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w.

“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as

usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His

work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr.

Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh

light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and

enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in

his story.”

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w.

“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the

facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for

scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most

plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this

accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the

spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in

dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind

him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic

historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most

readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant

leader [Montrose].”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w.

“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s

‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal

more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”

— + + =Spec.= 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w.

=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.

In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to

get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He

criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives

much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle

with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much

gentle irony.

“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary

temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon,

gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think,

rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w.

“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the

best life of Knox we have.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w.

“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular

traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to

the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John

Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w.

“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the

resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading,

to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.

— =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is

a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he

writes a charming book is a matter of course.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w.

“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his

biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human,

powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w.

“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general

assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits

history.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w.

* =Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.

“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or

etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines,

Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph

Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no

artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need

discussion now.”—Acad.

* “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w.

* =Lang, Andrew,= ed. Red book of romance. **$1.60. Longmans.

“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’

says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be

read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has

provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright

color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces,

perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of

the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of

Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.

* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its

compiler.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.

* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w.

* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s

Christmas books.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.

* “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy

style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous

fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w.

* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old

person with a young heart.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.

* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has

done it admirably.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w.

* + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.

=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.

“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru

which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its

further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a

course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author

during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution,

London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted

into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two

hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs

of specimens in the Natural history museum.

* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful

collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’

there has been published no book on this subject combining so

successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w.

“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will

draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers

to its pages.”

+ + + =Nature.= 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as

youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w.

“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy,

somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary

technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by

no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific

readers.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w.

=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v.

$4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.

“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who

wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general

history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and

useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with

discrimination.”—Ind.

“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions

conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use

of excellent and recent materials available in English.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w.

* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless

of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods

measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real

historical unity.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well

calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is

said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w.

=Larson, Laurence Marcellus.= King’s household in England before the

Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.

A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the

University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of

the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the

various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal,

butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the

development of their offices is traced.

“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average

doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid

style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas,

lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on

his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our

knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w.

“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr.

Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”

+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w.

=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations

from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with

descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.

“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected

series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham....

These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on

them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer

of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the

ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the

pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)

* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once

comprehensive and suggestive.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w.

“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr.

Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great,

that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied

by plans.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w.

“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of

knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy

realization of her work.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w.

* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too

little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.

=Laurvik, John Nilsen=, tr. See =Michaelis, Karin.=

=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Pathfinders of the West. **$2. Macmillan.

This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored

the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the

Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for

him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an

account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of

which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author

to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name

from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an

historical appendix and an index.

“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the

Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first,

Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson

Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much

of Radisson’s narrative.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w.

“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w.

“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always

be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch

of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w.

=Nation.= 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w.

“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western

United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of

historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions

of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her

characteristically clear style.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w.

=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de

Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.

Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French

and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of

Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of

the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he

took part is stirring.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w.

“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society,

and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting

sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.

=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis

Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.

An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted

his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy

king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying

in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up

as the son of a half-breed.

“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his

statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references.

He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”

— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w.

“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking,

Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having

recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest

altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical

mysteries.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.

=Leach, Albert Ernest.= Food inspection and analysis, for the use of

public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food

economists. $7.50. Wiley.

“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of

America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of

chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions

necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The

mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with

the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the

author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred

carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of

fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants,

etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field

of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic

references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.

“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his

notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful

consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no

less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There

are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is

the best manual on its special subject in the English language,

possibly in any language.” William Frear.

+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w.

* =Learned, Arthur G.= Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from

world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G.

Learned. $1.75. Estes.

“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere

man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as

Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides,

Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ...

about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude,

the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well.

The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by

Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more

elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous

illustrations are not.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w.

* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing

gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for

pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.

* “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Songs from the silent land. **$2. Brentano’s.

An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such

subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.

“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’

rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s

part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w.

“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and

something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of

a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.”

Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.

“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

=Lee, E. Markham.= Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.

The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s

exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is

helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses,

summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of

Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music,

orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn

with illustrations of the principal themes.

“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his

descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.

=Lee, Rev. Frank T.= Bible study popularized. *$1.25. Winona pub.

“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information

about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of

the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The

rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods

of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and

incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib.

World.