required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite
conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary
sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Lee, Robert Edward, Capt.= Recollections and letters of General Robert
E. Lee, by his son. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate
ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written
without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light
on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy,
seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living
personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal
commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by
defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United
States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern
Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A
private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the
South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The
reconstruction period.”
“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in
perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced
hand.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w.
“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt
Lee.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w.
* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who
finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those
who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of
peace.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s
disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder
that he developed qualities of leadership.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w.
“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier,
we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge
of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private
citizen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w.
=Lee, Sidney Lazarus.= Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century.
**$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures
delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an
opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the
personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser,
Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire
activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no
subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship
and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best
essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w.
“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has
handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of
essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
+ + + =Cath. World=, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w.
“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was
never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors
to place these men before us in the light of their personal
environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their
time.” J. W. Tupper.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w.
“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of
the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we
remember anywhere to have read.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with
minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the
facts.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays
on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through
the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius
loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna,
Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of
the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)
“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight
into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a
clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a
delightful companion.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w.
“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages,
and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers
and engaging of companions.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal
equation, the temperamental interpretation.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of
the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in
whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w.
“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they
are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause
thought in those who read them.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which
is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at
the genius of places.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal
enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth
reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.
* =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for
dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the
legend is necessary for the smile.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a
collection of John Leech’s pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Golden flood. †$1. McClure.
The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New
York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing
assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the
great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his
laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited
until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.
“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend
his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and
its excellent character touches.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most
ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very
simplicity of which lies its strength.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to
recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers,
Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they
are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive.
There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful
things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady
Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they
were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of
promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old
silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household
gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a
book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in
literature.
“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr.
Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine
literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life,
his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which
never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w.
“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of
beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s
attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”
— + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w.
“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things
in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted
shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or
very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He
does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance
to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.
+ =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Romances of old France. **$1.50. Baker.
Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in
pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains
the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile;
The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of
Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all
retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions
and comments.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited,
without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most
readers will care to hear.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near
enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an
undoubted interpretative value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard,= tr. See =Hafiz.= Odes from the Divan of.
=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the
history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4.
Oxford.
The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in
the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made
his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of
the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de
Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts
of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the
body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the
appendix.” (Dial.)
“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects.
The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner
and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out
of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among
university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w.
“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all
interesting.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has
lavished upon them.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming
refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the
serious student of the French revolution.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Ford, The. †$1.50. Lane.
“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with
those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between
the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the
millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say,
indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne,
unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s
wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the
jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens
not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s
sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike
in politics and love.”—Sat. R.
“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of
his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of
work.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and
tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters
are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the
ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is
interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w.
“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which
should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily,
and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious
epigrams.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to
the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A
book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w.
=Lent, Edward Burcham.= Being done good. *$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of
various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot
cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths,
patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy.
The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are
ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire,
upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w.
“In genuine humorous style.”
=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Leonard, Mary Finley.= Story of the big front door. 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings
of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey
Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors,
their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly
repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs
thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
* =Leonard, William Samuel.= Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr.
Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the
students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise,
comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools
is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The
names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in
general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop
practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Le Poer, John Patrick.= Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.
A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told
by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign
legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the
‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and
recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).
“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes
are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth
reading.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.
“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is
intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures
accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with
all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of
good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of
militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils
attendant upon armed strife.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w.
* =Le Queux, William.= Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love. 50c.
Smart set.
A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a
series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland,
Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots.
The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international
criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and
the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have
rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form
but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.
* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them
harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town and country. **$1.20.
Putnam.
“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents
of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and
manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude
recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this
light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family
organization, and their social status. On questions which are still
undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing
judgment.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in
attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w.
* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the
essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.
=Le Strange, Guy.= Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia
and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than
that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during
the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of
course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.
“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he
will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well
indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has
already given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w.
“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the
students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for
the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of
suggestion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells
such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a
strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at
the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable
work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of
Arabian geography.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Mediaeval art from the peace of the church
to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.
“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals
with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of
the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals
with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This
chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second
half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth
century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text
cuts.”—Nation.
“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of
foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 758. Je. 17. 1260w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 130w.
“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more
than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new
grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy
whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.
— =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 430w.
“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief
styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school,
and the western, or Gothic.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 260w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable
willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive
opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1230w.
“His book is crowded with illustrations, yet there is not one too
many.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 110w.
“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical
definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources
referred to.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1700w.
“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts
of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight
into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 270w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz.,
production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s
work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation,
forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.)
The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and
economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and
strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.
“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement
other books. The translators’ work is well done.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 110w.
“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost
incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Levasseur’s ‘Elements’ is fluent, commonplace, eclectic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to
several good textbooks which already exist in English.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 910w.
“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present
version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave
the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and
well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear
discrimination in dealing with new theories.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Levetus, A. S.= Imperial Vienna. *$5. Lane.
An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to
the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle
implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416),
an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages)
about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but
there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre,
dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the
common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all
there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches,
palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected,
and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in
charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).
“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most
interesting of European capitals.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are
scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and
atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is
so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 369. F. ‘05. 220w.
“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational
in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary
grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and
some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the
most careless proof-reader.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 140. F. 16, ‘05. 710w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.
Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region,
furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who
is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and
shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by
killing seven Indians before her eyes.
* “The book is not compelling in interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous
makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well
developed humor of their own.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western
tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 368. Je. 3, ‘05. 330w.
“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known
‘Wolfville days.’”
— =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and
gun play.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 210w.
“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of
quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he
is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra.
**$6. Putnam.
Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record
the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to
Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute
descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the
natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of
the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description
of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the
city.
* “Many interesting, unique, and valuable features.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 380. D. 1, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.
“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical
geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good
description of the present condition of the country through which the
Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative
is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 450w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 210w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman.
†$1.50. McClurg.
The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts
him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then
makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and
order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota
plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the
situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment
and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear
sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its
ground away.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Studies in religion and literature. *$3.25.
Herder.
“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are:
‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’;
‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s
life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.
“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility
displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But
whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s
work is always interesting and instructive reading.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Partners of the tide.
†$1.50. Barnes.
A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his
parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the
influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some
years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking
schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the
young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business
success.” (Dial.)
“Without being remarkable, the book inspires a hearty liking.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the
narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old
and the rather young.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether
about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 433. Jl. 1, ‘05. 630w.
“Honest fun and oddity of character make the tale lively reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.
“A salty story, full of quaint characters with quaint turns of
speech.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.
Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of
available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual
debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency,
choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art
of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas
debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at
Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by
Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the
campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of
Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).= Good form for
men. **$1. Winston.
The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct
and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough
to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of
established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in
treatment.
“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has
appeared in America.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 553. N. ‘05. 180w.
“What he says as a rule is to the point and unexaggerated.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 70w.
“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints
that should be helpful.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 940w.
* Liquor problem, **$1. Houghton.
“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of
the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time
through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes
embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of
considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was
occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one
with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.
* “For the general reader this little book is the most important
treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 150w.
* “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any
reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp
criticism made upon the work of the committee.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 871. O. 12, ‘05. 880w.
* “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the
investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real
conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small
compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers
contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 310w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 160w.
=Litsey, Edwin Carlile.= Race of the swift. †$1.25. Little.
Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their
trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run
of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the
story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white
but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a
gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old
raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic
tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope
depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated
by Charles L. Bull.
* “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of
them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly
and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and
without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“These seven tales ... are unusually interesting reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 300w.
=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.
“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the
world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full
experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically
and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is
especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with
unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and
Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various
approaches to that land.”—Spec.
“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere
original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are
vivified by their connexion with human history.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 361. S. 16, ‘05. 2400w.
“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some
time.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious
condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a
confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but
a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 1900w.
“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume,
full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an
essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading
public.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 626. O. 26, ‘05. 780w.
“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far
East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an
abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C.
Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 2510w.
“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite
enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with
the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and
people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special
interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 409. S. 23, ‘05. 1720w.
“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a
lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an
accomplished geographer.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 528. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
=Littlefield, Walter=, tr. See =Noussanne, H. de.= Kaiser as he is.
=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.
“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with
that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own
series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier
sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have
the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of
those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is
all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 775. Je. 24. 1590w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 264. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make
this section complete.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 604. N. 4. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work
commend itself to those who have to do with books.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 622. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
* “The value of the work will increase.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 843. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 947. Je. 24, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is nothing very remarkable in this portion.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of
Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, †$1. Scribner.
A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs,
her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real
estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled
Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in
the story, which overflows with good humor.
“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is
written by one who knows his ground.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 260w.
“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very
bright reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully
subtle thrusts at modern American society.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 100w.
=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.
A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance
morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his
clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a
Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his
slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the
end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.
“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his
admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an
essential—vitality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 664. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in
the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth.
Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a
peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 107. Jl. ‘05. 430w.
“It is clever throughout, despite the sentimentalism.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13. 280w.
“It is a refreshingly whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 364. Je. ‘05. 670w.
“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being
rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals
most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 820w.
=Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 60w.
“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out
with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 710w.
“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant,
and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well
written.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 812. Je. 17, ‘05. 510w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Robert Burns. *60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume
contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has
been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and
readers.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Sir Walter Scott. *60c. McClurg.
The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly
edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the
“Library of standard biographies.”
=Lodge, George Cabot.= Cain: a drama. **$1. Houghton.
A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic
defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.
The fire and love of liberty, the pride
Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by
spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly
becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”
“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is
sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 740w.
“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with
smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He
has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression
of reversed dynamics.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due
abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise.
There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward
attention.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story
of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus
daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is
the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly
formalist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine
specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There
is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded
boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival
“the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism,
both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.
“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter
of style.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 809. Ag. 5, ‘05. 300w.
“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too
loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer
street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 138. Jl. 29. 300w.
“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the
present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”
+ + + =Bookm.= 22:35. S. ‘05. 620w.
“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the
dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”
— — =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element
and outside of the verities.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.
“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality,
and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has
led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion
of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
=London, Jack.= The sea wolf. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish,
but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of
hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the
captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a
creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the
hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle
between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last
product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather
more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between
the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds
our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf
Larsen.”—R. of Rs.
“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but
we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and
brutality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 310w.
“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an
American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though
powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a
novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C.
Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 452. Ap. ‘05. 610w.
“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of
character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a
narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological
study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned
to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its
telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.”
W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Outline of plot).
“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale,
yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with
a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 39. Ja. 5, ‘05. 820w.
“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power.
Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into
literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a
hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the
cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr.
London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for
babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would
ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before
him.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 378. F. ‘05. 600w.
“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr.
London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification
of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of
their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and
strength.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 500w.
=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into
them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse
nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish
patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty
of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The
stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but
dramatically.”—Outlook.
“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others
as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
* “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its
heroism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show
first-hand work.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 140w.
=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class
struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A
review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a
socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to
“enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.
“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and
pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is
scarcely a safe guide.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and
cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War
of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the
sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.”
Robert C. Brooks.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 61. S. ‘05. 1990w.
“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in
these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in
the text have not been more carefully edited.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1190. My. 25, ‘05. 140w.
* “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his
characteristically forcible and striking style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 550w.
“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need
statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read
this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of
conditions or its proposals for remedies.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 520w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 390w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Loney, S. L.= Elements of trigonometry; with answers. *90c. Macmillan.
This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane
trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.
“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher
compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other
text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call
for special mention.”
+ =Nature.= 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories, †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which
gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer
and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The
siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who,
at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The
remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;”
“Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.
* “His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 686. N. 18. 280w.
* “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack
of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent
them from being wholly bad.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety
seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and
he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it
sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. †$2.50. Lippincott.
A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins,
Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various
full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the
interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from
England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new
and subtle charm.
* “In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his
well-known style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his
heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed,
tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his
farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s
reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart.
Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while
old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into
the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the
end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.
* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the
far north. *$1.50. Ginn.
“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of
Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children
home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that
caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going
out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family,
that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and
leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar
bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild,
unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence
and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr.
Long has made so popular.”—Ind.
* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for
children attain.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or
intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid
descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord
this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.
“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the
reasonableness of his inferences.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.
* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories
are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the
Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
Long day. See =Richardson, Dorothy.=
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a
return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.
A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon
and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn
in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book,
stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.
* + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w.
“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a
time.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep
the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after
the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in
Minerva.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w.
* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and
it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis
offers. They are surely worth a reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w.
“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the
subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in
America. $1.50. Buck.
“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the
prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and
material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the
argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first
of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the
country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of
disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and,
thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts
himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and
thinking.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat
objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of
the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is
much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w.
“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w.
“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a
potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w.
“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and
in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable
book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w.
“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows
have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and
the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner
of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for
the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w.
“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.
=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller, *$2.50. Revell.
A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco,
Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor,
Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is
given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps
and pictures.
“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not
been done by a classical expert.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w.
“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in
others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and
misprints.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries
bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what
elsewhere must be picked out of several.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w.
=Loring, Andrew.= Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George
Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.
“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and
Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented
vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the
letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has
fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the
divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes
key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.
“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger
still without being any better.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.
“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but
truly scientific.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“This may be a very useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=Loring, J. Alden.= Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring,
Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.
“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently
effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the
tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself
is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily
managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* =Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)= Ben Pepper.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The
hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy.
Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand,
Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks,
and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or
enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the
features of the story.”—Outlook.
* “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper
family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Lott, Noah, pseud.= See =Hobart, George Vere.=
* =Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.
A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author
has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying
and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of
the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to
arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals
about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox,
mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and
others.
=Lovett, W. J.= Complete class book of naval architecture; practical,
laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full,
worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions.
*$2.50. Longmans.
“This work is intended primarily for British students attending
technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture,
theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.
“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited,
and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except
elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.
+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w.
=Low, Berthe Julienne.= French home cooking. **$1.20. McClure.
The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country
twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants,
hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed
their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal
dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple
and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which
I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is
called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the
very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks
by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their
cookery.
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w.
“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be
invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
=Low, Sidney.= The governance of England. *$2.25. Putnam.
“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the
government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the
British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained
by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low
gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the
prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses
of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in
Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord
Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is
declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and
especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)
“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual
excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to
whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has
given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much
interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally
available, he has mastered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w.
“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is
easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion
that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w.
“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but,
in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is
superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w.
“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived
and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first
reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional
drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere
hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional
slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence
of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of
the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book
is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent
comparisons instituted between the English and American political
systems.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w.
“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and
comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly
complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* =Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson=, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous
pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous
pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie
Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.
“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor
writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture
under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and
sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into
verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures
and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these
certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that
are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many
of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante,
Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.”
(Ind.)
* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’
is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the
arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* =Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of
the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.
“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish
colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals
with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its
predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An
interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal
organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The
work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and
critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.
* “Scholarly work.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as
embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the
vexed themes involved.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and
citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his
book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of
distinct value to the historical student.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
=Lowrie, Rev. Walter.= Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon
the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.
Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice,
confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is
designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services,
and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.
=Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* =Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe
Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews,
Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who
is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia
and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous
style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the
relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame
Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the
religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the
co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity
of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths,
she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.
* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little
of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will
not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the
ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness
of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives
of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Lucas, Abner H.= Call of to-day. *50c. Meth. bk.
Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair,
N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The
commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of
usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.
Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith,
Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others
have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful
volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.
“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such
collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be
something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life
to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries....
At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his
own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period
in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb
between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of
these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin
Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips,
Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of
the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and
artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived....
For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb
the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two
volumes.”—Lond. Times.
* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something
like over-confidence in his minute research.”
+ + — =Acad.= 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w.
* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from
the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively
image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features
of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s
contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from
travesty.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w.
* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of
‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the
editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of
Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote,
much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely
fresh.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w.
* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of
entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to
overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is
the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which
ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w.
* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so
generously told the story of both lives in the language of his
subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W.
Mabie.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the
essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast
compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not
thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and
indexed in a masterly manner.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w.
* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly
delightful writer and admirable man.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as
illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to
intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr.
Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a
more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not
only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of
our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.
“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or
Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the
travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume
should have a warm welcome.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.
“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this
charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland
voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like
sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.
* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his
untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to
one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one
would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if
one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.
“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description
for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original
qualities.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.
“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor
dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise
reflection.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.
“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art
that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
=Luccock, Rev. Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c.
Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which
apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the
titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a
surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The
gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The
song of Moses and of the Lamb.
=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by
H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered
idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities
of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They
sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic
serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the
False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of
the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the
‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth
volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to
classical biography and mythology.
* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a
work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some
daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is
secured.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s
‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.
“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of
their translations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.
“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors
are to be thanked.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity
reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned
not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive,
of ancient authors.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.
=Lucke, Charles Edward.= Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.
“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with
rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses
on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder
arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The
necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with
both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.
“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.”
Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.
=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish
to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a
foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count
Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his
attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era
of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of
lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now
famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof,
Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely
the results of the most recent research on technical points in
conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of
Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing
characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and
succinct English. Excellent book.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the
style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a
compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest
added.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.
=Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn.= Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of
Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was
big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of
the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he
served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to
St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is
compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his
friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in
regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that
have been going on during the last thirty years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.
“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even
the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really
great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.”
Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.
=Ind.= 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.
* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by
delicacy of perception.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.
“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also
in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes,
dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained
throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a
work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct
value to the historical student, and of interest to the general
reader.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to
tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.
=Lydston, G. Frank.= Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal,
the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers
are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the
oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and
labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The
book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It
is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many
blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the
book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in
hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social
problems.” C. Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his
inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times
crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the
subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises
and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of
craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains
here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither
sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the
student. Nor is the style attractive.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical
standpoint.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.
=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering
Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who,
refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their
services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian,
Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the
exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon
on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of
thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from
intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial
courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a
shut-away Missouri farm.
* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of
absorbing it.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which,
far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s
style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.
“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a
new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.
“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the
book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.
“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no
doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and
power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.
* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast
importance and fairly accurate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes.
$1.25. Amsterdam.
The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman,
lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the
Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a
biography.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a
good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has
indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary
of dates.”
+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.
=Lynch, Frederick.= Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.
A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort
showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is
but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life
eternal.
=Lytton, Lord Bulwer-.= Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed
on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather,
and contains a frontispiece of the author.
M
=Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz).= My poor
relations. †$1.50. Appleton.
Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where
the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother”
Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love
of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,”
“The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all
horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost
too real.
“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”
— =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to
tragedy.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will
undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so
uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly
to that master’s best.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Fairy tales every child should know. **90c.
Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various
countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of
today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali
Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red
riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack
and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not
state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics
was written.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright,= ed. Myths every child should know: a
selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c.
Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It
collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen
myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the
young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’
furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr.
Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from
Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’
are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.
* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before
a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
* + — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too
difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time
misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl,
Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to
white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career
and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is
negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the
uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the
negro question.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy
washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the
wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town
inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make
the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A
change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two
Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and
sentiment.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron.= Essays; ed. by Lady
Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the
essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister.
There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and
portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay
as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to
put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey,
yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to
compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an
easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up
small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the
requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it
possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall
a better edition than this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.
=Macbean, L., and Brown, John.= Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here
reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters
hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including
pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious
possession.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of
her.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Dial.= 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.
=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has
been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American
minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of
the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty;
and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young
Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her
father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful
sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the
keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the
tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the
year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more
intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual
concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the
gods.’”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but
the end is disappointing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.
“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully
comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the
Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is
interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent
fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of
its conclusion.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40.
Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by
Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken
together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is
rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the
important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest
of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and
value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a
man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib,
fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching
study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of
those great movements which they have generated.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality
of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent
reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later
English politics.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Dial.= 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us
anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy
writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the
essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully
be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly
readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry,
tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism
to say that he has not written a weighty history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)
“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes
affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness
of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of
recent events.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of
reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed
enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The
English is slovenly.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* + — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.
An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work,
his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902),
covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up
of the Nationalist party.
“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be
compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political
environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every
Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure
claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr.
Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual
documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and
anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.
“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled
near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a
dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed.
There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles,
enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the
interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.
“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy
has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled
it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has
not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”
— =Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the
supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
+ — =Ind.= 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.
“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an
impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather
pleasing piece of make-believe.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry
whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of
this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the
silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.
“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his
descriptions of the forest.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.
“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby
as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her
admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of
wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.
=Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping,
happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.
“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at
historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite
refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating
story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=McCaul, Ethel.= Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50.
Cassell.
An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect
the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is
given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical
of the land and the people.
“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a
tonic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume
under review cannot be questioned.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are
overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.
“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much
that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
=McClain, Emlin.= Constitutional law in the United States. *$2.
Longmans.
“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the
“American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical
bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together
furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt
with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ...
first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the
government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature
and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial
branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the
relations of the states to each other and to the federal government.
The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the
government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with
assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in
many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of
containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical
references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a
fairly satisfactory index.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.
“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for
classes of civics or history in our schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail,
and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of
topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the
whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a
considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=McClellan, Elizabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an
introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in
Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by
Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of
the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth
century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles,
commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations
being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic
sources.”—Reader.
“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at
completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its
greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of
regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more
frequent.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.
“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of
the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on
the subject.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.
* “A valuable book of reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been
offered.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Our presidents and how we make them. $2.
Harper.
The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to
date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a
narrative of its various conventions.
“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of
American national politics, and only here and there does the author
make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.
“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and
to the point.”