plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final
chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other
miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the
extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable
truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* =Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.
Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this
story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after
the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well
drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black
fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their
secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic
scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.
* =Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and
to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a
feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young
engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts
his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies,
natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but
he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.
* “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the
book is true to life.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is
an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that
is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own
growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every
other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=Metcalf, Maynard Mayo.= Outline of the theory of organic evolution.
*$2.50. Macmillan.
A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s
college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a
technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the
biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader.
It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals
with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.
“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the
subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking
reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it
aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It
is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in
America.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of
organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the
general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of
Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth
of clear and very well selected illustrations.”
+ + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the
clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented;
second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous
popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well
illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book
as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the
important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of
evolution.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
“The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is
far better than the least technical books on evolution previously
published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical
books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to
write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same
field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer
recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in
its non-technical bearings.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution
that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is
its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for
criticism.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the
French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public
with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass
together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their
toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and
microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection.
This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular
plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired.
The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of
experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity
always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective
activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably
unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic
activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w.
* “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a
purely practical point of view.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w.
* “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason
why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very
clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton.= Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional
commentary. *$1. Union press.
The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored
honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but
pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the
commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the
margin of each page.
* =Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study
of the experience of the United States, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly
convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or
their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest
Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously
enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the
book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated
railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up
conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.
* + — =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w.
* “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however,
Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is
summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the
railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of
federal legislation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w.
* =Meyrick, Rev. Frederick.= Memories of life at Oxford and experiences
in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.
“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it
throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as
on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and
incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last
fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a
considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university
social life at Oxford.”—Critic.
* “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and
incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt
laboriously through the pages of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it
belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.
* “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the
appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey,
of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in
the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are
more seldom drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w.
=Miall, Louis C.= House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.
This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the
University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth
of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the
cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract
his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an
interested observation of the things around us.
“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical
suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and
thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement
can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these
and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning
whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is
to teach teachers rather than pupils.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w. (Survey of
contents.)
=Michael Angelo Buonarroti.= Sonnets; now first tr. into rhymed English
by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. *$1.25. Scribner.
The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s
sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following
the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the
sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions
over which Buonarroti worked.
— =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings,
which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack
color and lightness of rhythm.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity and
taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Michael, Oscar Stewart.= Sunday-school in the development of the
American church. *$1.50. Young ch.
“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author
is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of
interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within
the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the
value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.
“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school
work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of
Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum=). Andrea, the
tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.
The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose
father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes
her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul
struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when
her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely
death.
“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story,
though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“The story is a classic.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w.
=Michelson, Miriam.= Madigans. †$1.50. Century.
Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very
names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity
that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the
foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in
too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the
rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart
of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty.
It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a
fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are
happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.
“Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w.
“Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the
author. *$2.60. Oxford.
Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which
contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the
author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for
the first time in this collection.
* “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr.
Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more
instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at
communicating it in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.
* “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of
the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in
both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the
phases of feeling expressed.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the
platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way
impressive.”
— =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Fleeing nymph and other verse. **$1. Small.
A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and
nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very
notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use
of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there
is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant
softness.” (Nation.)
+ — =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w.
“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted
with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical
qualities.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this
is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free
from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of
sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w.
“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that
makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his
narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w.
“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the
light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a
corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he
may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into
his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a
real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his
political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by
deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
— =Bookm.= 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his
performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to
consider its details.”
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and
characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous
book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to
its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as
execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”
— =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“A hysterical novel of political corruption.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w.
“Is a masterpiece among political novels.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Miles, Eustace Hamilton.= Boy’s control of self expression. *$2.
Dutton.
“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the
care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and
external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes
with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a
boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about
excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and
diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w.
“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training
of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it
in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the
wheat from the chaff.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
=Millar, A. H.= Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.
In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen
Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward
tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was
warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once
gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the
faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which
suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested
motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar
believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by
Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due
regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is,
in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan
through thick and thin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w.
“Well written volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **30c. Crowell.
This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty
of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish
service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Inner life. *50c. Crowell.
In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if
the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful,
this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for
us will be re-created.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= When the song begins. **65c. Crowell.
Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people
in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more
usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering,
The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly,
Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.
=Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller).= Kristy’s
surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.
“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends
besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which
Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.”
(Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago
fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue
of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic
adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N.
Farnsworth.
* =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle
youth.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w.
* “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Miller, Peyton Farrell.= Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New
York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting
reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van
Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R.
Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief
account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of
New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting
reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Mills, Edmund James.= Secret of Petrarch. *$3. Dutton.
“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has
turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the
lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own
theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some
translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and
genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive
chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her
identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her
relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)
“The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad
disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only
designed to introduce the drama.”
+ — — =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w.
“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He
found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where
twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a
self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’
ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his
poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than
do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“The volume lacks coherence.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w.
=Mills, Edmund Mead.= Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist
pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The
all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his
heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A
withered hand.
* =Mills, Weyman Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.
“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century
was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress,
yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to
enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s
aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly
important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the
meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub.
Opin.
* “A slight but spirited novelette.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and
setting. The style is flowery.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author
produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a
representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the
“Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him
calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of his discussion is to
reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical
circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The
author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the
political, social and religious life of a great world-power.
“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of
which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies
of its author on the transliteration of names.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w.
“With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best
available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from
the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 268. N. 1, ‘05. 760w.
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 1040w.
“A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but
will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 556. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1430w.
“A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present
constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven
and fermentation at present working in that state.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
* “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of
Russian conditions.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 200w.
=Minor, Benjamin Blake.= Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by
Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. *$2.
Neale.
“A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place
in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that
of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and
proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of
eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally
connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for
cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of
American literary history.”—Critic.
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
“In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s
book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 494. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1350w.
=Mitchell, Charles Bayard.= Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in
the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The
Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy
Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.
=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to
St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes
involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and
misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his
murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and
the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s
selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in
theme and characters.
“It is told in a masterly fashion.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 386. Je. ‘05. 1640w.
“A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated
less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the
use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular
power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his
success.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 490w.
“The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If
Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is
inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out
of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the
imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
— — + =Forum.= 37: 104. Jl. ‘05. 1000w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“This is a good story.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1011. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 540w.
“It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does
overcloud the romantic interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
“The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less
skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too
painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind,
full of insight, experience and skill.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“It is undeniably powerful. The workmanship is of a high order.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance
was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part
of Dr. Mitchell.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Youth of Washington: told in the form of an
autobiography. †$1.50. Century.
To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express
them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of
men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked
upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring
implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of
dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great
writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the
man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of
study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been
brought to bear on his unusual task.
“Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of
Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very
dull.”
— =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the
reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be
possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the
conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory
in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 444. Ja. ‘05. 430w.
“Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished
successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in
this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it
is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed
his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and
delightful.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
=Mitton, G. E.= The dog. $2. Macmillan.
The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good
home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class
retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes into the hands
of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the
dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to
end his days in luxury.
“The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his
fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 250w.
“Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a
dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or
supernatural attributes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and
girls, touching older hearts as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so
skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane
Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an
isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women
to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and
the England with which she was familiar.”
* “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the
praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds,
Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the
blame, to the author.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1170. N. 11, ‘05. 980w.
* “Is the next best thing to reading one of Miss Austen’s own
stories.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has
something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 150w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.
“Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell
the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have
a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and
the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the
famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast,
and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Scenery of London. *$6. Macmillan.
“Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text,
while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert
Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in
colors.”—N. Y. Times.
“As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over
long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a
fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are
entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done
some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1000w.
“Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real
addition to the literature of London.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 363. S. 16. 900w.
=Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 530w.
“Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that
called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is
her wont.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 280w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90.
Macmillan.
“The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work
is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the
table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency
of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and
subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally
easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’
is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for
those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references
indicate.”—Pub. Opin.
“A very solid book on the history of education.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in
analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although
there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional
grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition
of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for
purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is
the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles
Elliott Fitch.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 909. D. 23, ‘05. 2510w.
“This must be rated as a work of the first rank in its class.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.
“A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w.
* “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of
data.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the
16th century. **$1.20. Appleton.
This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning
point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is
important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete
information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth
century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the
spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational
activities of the times.”
“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical
and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.
* =Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Poet, Miss Kate and I. **$1.50. Baker.
Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is
David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but
twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months
bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write,
write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York
surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until
he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more
bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him
die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that
all is to be well with him.
* “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study,
and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided
charm.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Montgomery, David Henry.= Elementary American history, *75c. Ginn.
This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been
prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history
of our country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.
“Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language
is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only
another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with
shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.
+ — =El. Sch. T.= 5: 518. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Montgomery, David H.= Student’s American history. $1.40. Ginn.
For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many
facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and
constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on
the division of the nation. References have been made more complete,
and some new maps added.
“It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern
high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it
compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs.= First view of
English literature. *$1. Scribner.
“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English
literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy
teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that
especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each
epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for
their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the
form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.
“The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the
Renaissance and of Romanticism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative
matter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
* =More, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3.
Macmillan.
“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a
minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates
and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He
writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the
renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the
painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome
of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the
erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of
Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and
England.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly
allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand
without a reassertion of the most important of them.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 385. N. 9, ‘05. 980w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.
* “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same
creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which
characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But
where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to
the verge of iconoclasm.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 850w.
* “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced
classes in our universities and a reference book for readers
generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is
specially copious and exhaustive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early
love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are
devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a
semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and
their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel,
Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter
into the story.
* “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the
worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in
his present novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
* “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w.
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of
Byron the poet it is a failure.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do
with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose
every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 110w.
* “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of
his attempt.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 529. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Children of other days. †$1.50. Stokes.
The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after
paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended
to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book
of real value to little people.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 535. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that
is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of
lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples
of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with
engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing
how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen,
full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and
an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of
reference.”—Nation.
“A very handsome and interesting book.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the
agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 380. N. 10, ‘05. 1100w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 1530w.
* “A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest
days.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 797. N. 18, ‘05. 230w.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Dürer. *$2. Scribner.
An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s
paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically
considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of
his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four
copper-plates.
“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific
criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an
illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement
to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not
replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s
life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the
volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the
arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 173. F. 25, ‘05. 1100w.
“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified.
There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of
the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 247. F. 25. 1680w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 475 My. ‘05. 130w.
“An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 590w.
“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his
sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 190w.
“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book,
written for lay readers, should be.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 150w.
“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are
intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed
somehow escapes one.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 590w.
“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find
brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the
language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the
history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and
connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an
epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for
study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist,
and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting
than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating
addition to the series in which it finds place.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
=Moorehead, William Gallogly.= Outline studies in the New Testament,
Philippians to Hebrews. **$1.20. Revell.
“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians
as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now
dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the
Scriptures.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=More, E. Anson.= Captain of men. †$1.50. Page.
Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days
when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the
richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the
heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there
is much cruelty.
* “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w.
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 3 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work
of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived
a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit
of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of
Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses
the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains
papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and
FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature,
and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence,
Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history,
Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don
Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
+ =Acad.= 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.)
=Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.)
* “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’
reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that
he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth
century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third
series.)
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of
unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to
take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of
wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely
and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 670w. (Review of first series.)
“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought
sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although
the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they
were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. (Review of second series.)
+ + =Dial.= 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 410w. (Review of third series.)
“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is
likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its
predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in
his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 252. O. ‘05. 1320w. (Review of second series.)
“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the
critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American
literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 460w. (Review of third series.)
* “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the
most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of second and third
series.)
“His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every
nerve.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 104. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of second
series.)
“Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. (Review of second
series.)
“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner
realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent
and he thinks for himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 700w. (Review of third
series.)
“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man
of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous
endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as
genius is its inspiration.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 678. N. 18, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of first-third
series.)
“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of
well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something
called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the
old-school essayists.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. (Review of second
series.)
=Morgan, Lewis Henry.= League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed.
by Herbert M. Lloyd. **$5. Dodd.
This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition
of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal
reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of
Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of
Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many
illustrations.
“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable
in the way of critical apparatus.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 180w.
“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject.
For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of
information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of
literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all
students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with
genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 119. F. 16, ‘05. 2300w.
=Morris, William O’Connor.= Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the
revival of the military power of England. **$1.35; hf. lea. **$1.60.
Putnam.
“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations”
series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but
almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it
were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected.
The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter,
and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated....
The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of
the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There
are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and
plans.”—Nation.
“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a
correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for
the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M.
Johnston.
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 692. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
=Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career
and his influence on the military power of England that has been given
in compact and popular form.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s
conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high
authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of
the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably
be indorsed by most readers of the book.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in
this book more than a good example of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 76. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1050w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Green diamond. †$1.50. Page.
The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona
and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the
wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and
blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless
author and reader give up the chase.
“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of
mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’
is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of
the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 342. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 501. Mr. ‘05. 180w.
* =Mortimer, Alfred Garnett.= It ringeth to evensong. *$1.25. Whittaker.
The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for
people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it
to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out
drearily upon old age.
=Mother Goose.= Only true Mother Goose; ed. by Edward Everett Hale.
†60c. Lothrop.
A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in
Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has
furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose
fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old
songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
=Nation.= 81: 257. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “A quaint little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 60w.
Mother-Light: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the
headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the
Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its
mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida
Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.
* =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 290w.
=Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Mott, Frederick Blount.= Before the crisis. †$1.50. Lane.
A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and
during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of
graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading,
the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted
are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows
conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were
corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of
one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on
familiar, melodramatic lines.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those
readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors
in representing negro character and negro dialect.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in
the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian trapper, outlawed by the Hudson
Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of
the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the
frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can,
but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to
ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands
against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the
“petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly
with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted
him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole
being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of
happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis
content.”
* “The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older
readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the
trapper.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 220w.
* “It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not
be too much to say that it is great.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 450w.
* “It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and
dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
* “They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives
and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G.= Second epistle to Timothy: short
devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul. *$1. Union press.
The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the
single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading,
not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages
for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they
are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of
St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.
=Moyer, James Ambrose.= Descriptive geometry for students of
engineering. $2. Wiley.
This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight
revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of
diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the
left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end
of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand
pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the
student.” (Engin. N.)
“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering
colleges, and in a number of important features is the most
satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 535. My. 18, ‘05. 510w.
“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be
better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined
with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius
J. Keyser.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 160w.
=Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A.= Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and
coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic
Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.
“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and
is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture
considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation
of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of
Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth,
inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than
sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from
the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by
pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but
his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length
of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical
changes.” Shailer Mathews.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 343. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by H. B. Sharman.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 233. Mr. ‘05. 970w.
“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent
spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most
valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic
gospels.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Muirhead, Lewis A.= Times of Christ. *60c. Scribner.
“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly
and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of
junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition
of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive
and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish
people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
=Mulets, Lenore Elizabeth.= Stories of little fishes. †$1. Page.
This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with
the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to
catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the
reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a
mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the
combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.
* “They are entertainingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
=Mulock, Miss, pseud.= See =Craik, Dinah Maria.=
=Mumford, Ethel Watts.= Joke book note book. **75c. Elder.
This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried
out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant
jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes
reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces,
which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the
general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.
* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Mumford, Ethel Watts; Herford, Oliver, and Mizner, Addison.= Complete
cynic’s calendar of revised wisdom for 1906. **75c. Elder.
The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as
attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.
* “This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its
predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been
retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* =Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.
Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grand cañon of the Colorado, with
which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also
such little-known phenomena as the Meteorite mountain and the oddities
of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the
structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the
habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book
is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 120w.
=Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke=, eds. and trs.
Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors. *$1.25.
Century.
“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and
students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many
authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval
history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries
are limited in scope.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Prepared with praiseworthy care and good judgment.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 690w.
“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be
practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even
readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will
find much that is new to them.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Survey of contents.)
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
* =Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone.= Criticism and elucidations of
Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained. *$4. Stechert.
A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some
time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes
a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by
Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book,
have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh
notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made
occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book,
as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form.
This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge
of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical
scholar.”—Ath.
* “Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the
present generation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 190w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Americans; tr. by Edwin B. Holt. **$2.50. McClure.
“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently
published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the
American people—their history, their customs and their political and
social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting
such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro
question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.
“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen
incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the
style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one
gets somewhat barren generalities.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 389. Ap. 8, ‘05. 3090w.
“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one
is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in
years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far
as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s
desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the
aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to
indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his
treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have
dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.
— — + =Arena.= 33: 333. Mr. ‘05. 1700w.
“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place
in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr.
Bryce.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 490w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 150w.
“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the
work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The
self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but
with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements
or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that
we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot
candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced
into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 3900w.
“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little
of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once
betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at
random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 12. Ja. 5, ‘05. 450w.
“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American
traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It
is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English
people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement
and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a
distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen
such a complete record of American achievement, individual and
national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts
of our development.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 446. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.
“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national
character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 210w.
“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole
book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at
the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 894. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives
the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined
monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of
the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These
will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far
as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the
Oversoul.’”—Outlook.
“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with
extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space
allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the
theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us
unsatisfactory and weak.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 537. Jl. ‘05. 690w.
“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.”
Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 200w.
“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of
the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s
philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and
space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot,
in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 415. Je. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
=Murfree, Mary Noailles.= See =Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud.=
=Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery.=
Sketches on the old road through France to Florence. *$5. Dutton.
Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and
southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally
artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr.
Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to
both the mind and the eye.
“His book is beyond doubt the best colour-book yet issued.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 216. Ag. 12, 370w.
“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and
charm of the places he has pictured.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Murray, Grace Peckham.= Fountain of youth. **$1.60. Stokes.
The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along
the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set
forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated
handbook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 659. O. 7, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
=Mustard, Wilfred Pirt.= Classical echoes in Tennyson. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A
book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings
by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the
old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference
notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and
the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something
very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson
as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The
erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and
critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian
editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson
himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed
by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he
happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 401. Ja. ‘05. 840w.
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things
which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language.
Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception
of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his
imagination.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 670w.
=Muther, Richard.= Jean François Millet. *$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,”
gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is
pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 860w.
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we
find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
My garden in the city of gardens. See =Cuthell, E. H.=
=Myers, A. Wallis=, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905. *$1.25. imp.
Scribner.
“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during
the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo,
lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing,
coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by
biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The
illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions
of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y.
Times.
=Nation.= 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w.
=Myers, Albert Cook=, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative;
the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of
Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her
lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.
In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man,
is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah
Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles,
autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving
an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 723. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended
for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the
book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1, 393. Ap. 1. 530w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history,
and not unattractive to the general reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 270w.
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious
record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of
the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6, ‘05. 640w.
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home
life the book also has value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 397. Je. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Myers, Frederick William Henry.= Fragments of prose and poetry. *$2.50.
Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and
leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his
death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his
struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin,
Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him
into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his
poems. The whole is well illustrated.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 540w.
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a
poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are
so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of
rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 438. F. 23, ‘05. 870w.
* =Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the
days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in
unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western
tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are
strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in
northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The
book altho both novel and historical, is not a typical historical
novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles
Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs
not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text.
The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix
provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are
portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other
characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.
N
=Nansen, Fridtjof.= Norway and the union with Sweden. 70c. Macmillan.
A resumé given temperately and concisely from the Norwegian point of
view of the events leading up to the present crisis. These events
cover about a hundred years; the real strife beginning when in 1895 a
change in the Swedish constitution practically took the administration
of foreign affairs out of the hand of the king and placed them under
the power of parliament.
“A sound little book on the Norwegian side of the dispute, by the
Norwegian who is most competent to write upon it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 13. Jl. 1. 160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
* “Thus the book is one to be read before attacking Otté’s larger and
more exhaustive work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 882. D. 9, ‘05. 1540w.
“Nansen’s book, admirable in restraint, will certainly do nothing to
embitter feeling in either country.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Dr. Nansen states the Norwegian case in a lucid and forcible way.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Nares, Robert.= Glossary of words, phrases, names, and allusions in the
works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare and his
contemporaries; ed. by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. *$3. Dutton.
This work was originally published in 1822, and the present edition
follows the original text, but includes many new words, phrases, and
expressions which have been found since the publication of the first
edition or were overlooked by the author.
=Nation.= 80: 69. Ja. 26, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 202. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.
=Nason, Frank Lewis.= Vision of Elijah Berl. †$1.50. Little.
This story of California is the story of Elijah Berl, a dreamer and
fanatic, who undertook the great work of making a barren wilderness
“blossom as the rose,” and, blinded by the light of his glowing
vision, sought base methods to attain his noble end. His partner who
applies the “moral straight-edge,” the girl who helps, and the weak
wife who hinders are strongly drawn. The company’s affairs, the orange
industry, the building of the irrigation dam, and the feverish land
boom just before its collapse give the typical atmosphere of the early
West.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 440w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 260w.
“Mr. Nason has drawn the character of Elijah with excellent precision
and clearness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“The author evidently knows conditions in California, and is wide
awake in his study of human character.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
National documents: state papers so arranged as to illustrate the growth
of our country from 1606 to the present day. *72c; lea. *92c; pa. *42c.
Bell, H. W.
“A valuable little volume containing important state papers, from the
charter of Virginia, given in 1606 to the Panama ship canal treaty of
1904.”—Arena.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Naylor, E. W.= Elizabethan virginal book. *$2. Dutton.
“In his ‘critical essay’ on the contents of the Virginal book in the
Fitzwilliam museum at Cambridge, ... [the author] gives a careful
study of nearly 300 pieces of the Tudor period which are almost
entirely unknown.” (N. Y. Times.) These pieces of Elizabethan music
include 130 dances, 17 organ pieces, 46 arrangements of forty
different songs, and certain madrigals, and fantasias, etc.
=Acad.= 68: 562. My. 27, ‘05. 600w.
“But the volume as a whole is interesting and instructive; moreover,
it is the first book on the subject, and therefore welcome. It
contains many musical illustrations, and there is a capital index.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 510w.
* “It is a careful and scholarly work.” W. J. Henderson.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 60w.
“It is a valuable work of reference, for it embodies all that can be
required by one who is desirous of gaining a clear idea of the music
of this interesting period.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It must be admitted that he makes out a good case for his thesis.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“It certainly is a stimulating and graphic method of studying musical
history that he has embodied in the book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 770w.
=Needler, George Henry,= tr. See Nibelungenlied.
=Neidig, William Jonathan.= First wardens. **$1. Macmillan.
Thirty-seven poems upon such themes as Alvah and Azubah, The adoration
of the Magi, Wine of laurel, and Lex mundi. There is also a series of
sonnets called A woman’s ring.
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 130w.
“Much of Mr. Neidig’s verse, for all its originality and
unquestionably poetic diction, makes too hard reading to fulfill the
proper function of poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + =Dial.= 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 250w.
* =Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Alphabet of history. **75c. Elder.
“A thin little book done in brown tones and with a flexible cover....
It is printed in old art style and bound in Rhinos boards.... Taking
history alphabetically, the book goes from Alexander to Zenobia, and
includes such prominent people as Lucullus, Raleigh, William Tell, and
James Watt.... The illustrations show without overmuch seriousness the
eminent individuals whose life stories are told.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Twenty-six historical personages ... are portrayed with accuracy,
completeness, and much cleverness.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.
=Neville, James J.= Letters of a self-made president. $1. Ogilvie.
The apparent object of these letters is to ridicule Roosevelt, his
friends, and his official and unofficial acts. Altho names are
transposed and facts perverted, there is no real attempt to disguise
the identity of the executive who entertains Booker at dinner for the
sake of the negro vote, and assembles the navy at Clam bay for the
edification of a few visiting friends.
“Now and then the malice has a spice of wit, but generally speaking
the letters of a self-made president are rather heavy.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 543. Ag. 19, ‘05. 220w.
=Nevinson, Henry W.= Books and personalities. *$1.50. Lane.
“The reviews and criticisms of which this book is composed deal with a
varied company of literary personalities. The net is spread very wide.
Great and small—Mr. Belloc and Browning, Goethe and Aubrey Beardsley,
Æschylus and Mr. Yeats, Dolling and De Wet, Carlyle, Heine, and Mr. Le
Gallienne, and many others—are gathered in. And in dealing with them
all Mr. Nevinson either has his point of view, or manages to reflect,
brightly enough, the general tendency of educated opinion.”—Ath.
“Readable and stimulating these short studies undoubtedly are.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + =Atlan.= 96: 848. D. ‘05. 390w.
“Mr. Nevinson has a charming and lucid style that cannot but give
interest to his restrained thoughts.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“He writes in a brisk, self-confident, effective way, with no lack of
plausible generalizations (not based on painfully exhaustive
collection of particulars) and a ready supply of apt illustrations. As
short essays in criticism of the lighter sort, these chapters, despite
a slight tendency to the dogmatic in their tone are excellent
reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 320w.
“We have read them all with interest—seldom, indeed, have met with a
book of the kind which we were so unwilling to lay down—and many with
much pleasure.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=New, Edmund H.= Evesham. *50c. Dutton.
“Americans rarely see Evesham and the beautiful, broad vale in which
it lies, although they are near it when they make, as all good
Americans do, their Shakespeare pilgrimage. This little book, one of
the ‘Temple topographies,’ is, with its line drawings and pleasant
narrative, an introduction and an incentive to visit a charming
countryside.”—Outlook.
“In this volume thorough justice is done to the buildings of a
charming little Worcestershire town.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient
Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
A small volume which gives a comprehensive sketch of the Egyptian
monarchy from its founding to its disintegration, three thousand years
later. The story is told in the light of the many important
discoveries which have been made within the last decade. It is a book
that will arouse the student’s interest in the subject and lead to the
study of larger works.
“There is a painful lack of proper proportion. The presentation in the
little book of the new results from the archaic age deserves
consideration as a serious contribution. The American edition has some
serious misprints.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 843. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“They have written with exactness and clearness, and their product
should offer the reader an attractive synopsis of the latest
discoveries.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Newell, William Wells.= Words for music: symphonic series. *$3. Small.
A little volume of brief lyrics of nature and life.
“The most noticeable fault of the pieces is found in the frequent
omission of articles and other small words necessary to the
construction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“In ‘Words for music,’ ... a mild and rather wordy mysticism sometimes
bears poetic fruit in verse of a pleasing, gossamer-like tenuity.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 190w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
Mr. Newman’s fearless attitude toward music and composers results in
an iconoclastic treatment of some of the old masters and a
proportionately exalted consideration of others of more modern
schools. In the latter class is Strauss to whom “Mr. Newman
attributes ... pretty nearly everything except the creation of the
world.... The essay on programme music is unquestionably the most
lucid, original, and convincing discussion of that question ever
printed.” (Nation.)
“Our author is a clever and thoughtful writer, and even those who
differ from him will respect his frankly expressed opinions.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 280w.
* “His scholarship is good and his point of view established favorably
for perspective. He writes frankly of old and new masters, and his
comments are stimulating to the mind of the reader.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Newman takes his work with vast seriousness and digs very deep.
The subjects warrant such treatment, but as a result the reader must
look for matter rather than manner.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Newman also ventures to fly in the face of public opinion with a
few pages of very depreciative remarks on Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Here he is
decidedly in error. In the other essays of this volume we find our
author much more sane and satisfactory, and less self-contradictory.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 284. O. 5, ‘05. 1500w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
The average lover of music will find Wagner made comprehensible in Mr.
Newman’s monograph; “not the whole Wagner,” but the “essential Wagner”
as a musician and a dramatist is the author’s province. Following a
chapter on Wagner’s development, each of his operas is studied in
turn, and the really essential motives are given. A chronological
table and bibliography are included.
“A refreshing independence of judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 463. Je. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“It is stimulating and refreshing to come upon so strong and original
and drastic a piece of criticism as he has delivered in this little
book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 660w.
“Mr. Newman always has something to say that is worth saying, and he
says it without indirection, uninfluenced by partisanship.” Richard
Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
=Newman, Eugene William. (Savoyard, pseud.).= Essays on men, things, and
events, historical, personal, political. $2. Neale.
The sub-title includes the following list of men, who with associated
events, “historical, personal, political,” are considered in this
volume: Roscoe Conklin, Thaddeus Stevens, Matthew H. Carpenter, Andrew
Johnson, John J. Ingalls, Seargent S. Prentiss, Oliver P. Morton,
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Samuel J. Tilden. The family of Field, Marcus A.
Hanna, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin H. Hill, George F. Hoar, Frank
Wolford, Stephen A. Douglass and Thomas C. Platt.
“The form on the other hand is very old-fashioned, with much
embroidery of classical and Biblical allusion and a generous supply of
adjectives of heroic size. Altogether people interested in men and
politics, whatever their individual bias, can hardly fail to derive
entertainment from Mr. Newman’s essays.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 19. Ja. 14, ‘05. 750w.
Nibelungenlied; tr. into rhymed English verse in the meter of the
original by G. H. Needler. *$1.75. Holt.
The first metrical translation of this great epic into the English
language will appeal to students and readers alike. The historical
background of the work has been supplied in a full two-part
introduction: the first of which treats of the Nibelungen saga, its
history, development and forms; and the second, of the Nibelungenlied,
and the various editions thru which it has passed.
“Mr. Needler does not show a very keen sense of rhythm nor a great
command of language. His translation lacks case, and indulges in
uncomfortable inversions.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 380w.
“The book is an interesting work of reference, the value of which is
enhanced by a scholarly introduction.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
“What distinguishes this translation of the great German epic from all
previous attempts is, in the first place, the faithful and happy
reproduction of its metrical form. Professor Needler has added a
succinct but adequate introduction ... altogether the best summary of
the whole subject to be found in English.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 94. F. 2, ‘05. 500w.
“The author of this book says that his apology for presenting it is
that none of the preceding translations reproduces the metrical form
of the original. His book certainly justifies itself, and stands in no
need of any apology. The scholarly introduction deserves unqualified
praise, and is, indeed, quite a model of what such a work ought to be.
At first sight the versification is not attractive, but the liking for
it will be found to grow with increasing familiarity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 510w.
“A very satisfactory piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Nicholl, Edith M. (Mrs. Bowyer).= Human touch: a tale of the great
Southwest. †$1.50. Lothrop.
This strenuous story tells of cattle feuds, train robberies, and
kidnappers, and of David Kingdon unhappily married to a woman who
leaves him and spends her life in travel. While she is on the
continent David meets Sylvia and “the human touch” draws them
together. The wife is reported lost at sea, Sylvia and David marry and
live happily on the great cattle ranch until the first wife reappears.
Heartbreaking scenes follow, the wife is selfish, but Sylvia and David
are brave and at last are reunited thru the medium of the divorce
court.
* — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7, 320w.
“In fact, it is a story of unusual excitement, and will hold the
reader enthralled just so far as his taste may run in this kind of
shotgun literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
=Nicholson, Joseph Shield.= History of the English corn laws. $1.
Scribner.
A volume which “emphasizes particularly the connection of the corn
laws with British social legislation in general, and warns against the
danger of appealing to historical precedents without taking into
account all the circumstances of the case.... He makes it clear that,
though the corn laws did not produce constant high prices, the
fluctuations in price which they did produce were an evil both to the
farmer and to the consumer.”—Nation.
“This volume, though avowedly prepared to meet the present
discontents, is entirely free from partisanship.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 437. Je. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“The book is a useful treatment, in popular form, of a subject always
of historical interest, and now closely connected with a topic of the
day.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
* =Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The story of a young man whose grandfather has willed him the house of
a thousand candles, which includes an Indiana estate, upon the
condition that he live in the house a year, otherwise the estate goes
to Marian. There is a villain, and there are secret passages, and
other mysterious things, there is shooting and slugging, until the
reader is prepared for anything, and cheerfully accepts the fact that
Olivia, whom the heir loves, is really Marian, and is quite prepared
at the end to greet the grandfather, who, it appears, is not dead
after all.
* “A story bristling with adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 380w.
* “The story is told with spirit and the people in it are alive—in one
case, even though dead.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* =Nicoll, Rev. William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.)= Garden of
nuts; mystical expositions with an essay on Christian mysticism. $1.25.
Armstrong.
“A brief series of articles dealing in detail with some texts in the
Old Testament. The method of Dr. Nicoll’s interpretation is to allow
Scripture to be the commentary on Scripture. Without deprecating
modern criticism, he claims that his exposition moves in a region
which criticism does not touch: ‘The great passages in the Word of God
are timeless.’”—Ath.
* “These pages should commend themselves to many who have been struck
by the sterility of much of the historical handling of the Bible which
is now in vogue.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 90w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 240w.
=Niemann, August.= The conquest of England; tr. by J. H. Freese. $1.50.
Putnam.
A translation of “Der weltkrieg-deutsch traume,” which is graphically
based upon the supposition of war between Germany and England. “For
the dreams of the German, in the view of this author, are of
overthrowing the English power, and of an imperial army taking
triumphant possession of London.... The story, considered as a
historical romance, is of a type familiar enough.... Throughout it is
taken for granted that England is the arch-enemy of civilization, that
its foreign policy is a complex network of rapacity and hypocrisy, and
that it is deaf to the voice of the higher idealism.” (Dial). “Is
related in a workmanlike manner. It is a fairly good story, and is
curiously interesting from the way in which it represents, upon every
possible occasion, the point of view of the German anglophobe.” W. M.
Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. *$1.25. Putnam.
Nine editions of this book have appeared in Japan. Bushido is the
Japanese feudal equivalent for chivalry, and signifies “the code of
moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to
observe.” “It embodies the maxims of educational training brought to
bear on the Samurai, or warrior class of Japan, the class that
throughout the feudal age, which ended only fifty years ago, set the
standard to the whole people in manners, ideals of character, and
mental and moral codes of obligation.”
“Is a misleading piece of special pleading. He makes out his case by
partial statement and wholesale suppression.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 1510w.
“Professor Nitobe’s work is not exhaustive. It is the only work,
however, on the subject given in a language of the West.” Adachi
Kinnosuke.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 430w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 180w.
“A delightfully written exposition of Japanese philosophic and social
thought.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 248. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1790w.
=Noble, Edward.= Edge of circumstance. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A sea story in which an English captain and a Scottish engineer
contend against every ill-hap that could befall a cranky,
theoretically-built steamship, owned by men who hypocritically profess
to make her a co-operative enterprise embodying every new patent and
labor-saving device, while they really mean to save money at the
expense of the crew’s comfort and safety.”—Outlook.
“‘The edge of circumstance’ is a striking book, one to be read. Mr.
Noble attracts immediate attention yet does not shout; he gives us
exciting situations, yet leaves something to the imagination. Mr.
Noble is too much of an artist to overload his picture.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* “In ‘The edge of circumstance’ Mr. Noble has created a book with the
qualities of a masterpiece. The portrait of the derelict alone will go
down as a wonder of sincere portrayal. The poetry of the things is
here plain, founded on a knowledge sharper than fancy.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 750w.
“It is a rarely good—even a great—book in some respects, and it seems
destined to take high rank in the sea literature of its class.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14. ‘05. 990w.
“The author’s method is much like that of Joseph Conrad, but we miss
Conrad’s glow of imagination.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “A sea-story quite exceptional in vivid strength and well worth
perusing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 30w.
“It is impossible to render full justice to Mr. Edward Noble’s
striking story in this column.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 710w.
=Noble, Esther Gideon.= Macbeth, a warning against superstition. $1.
Badger, R: G.
Dwelling upon the strong negative lesson conveyed thruout the tragedy
of Macbeth, viz., the warning against superstition, Macbeth himself is
viewed in the light of one steeped in superstition, and the Weird
sisters, whose material existence is denied, as doing no more “than
‘harp’ his fear aright.” “Shakespeare made Macbeth distinctly a man of
thought, calculation, and caution. It is the abuse, the misdirection
of this great power for thought which makes the tragedy,” so maintains
the author of this monograph.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
=Noble, Rev. Franklin.= (comp.) Thoughts for the occasion: fraternal and
benevolent; reference manual of historical data and facts; helpful in
suggesting themes and in outlining addresses for the observance of
timely or special occasions of the various orders. $2. Treat.
The book is divided into four parts which cover—Social and benevolent
brotherhoods, Beneficiary and fraternal orders, Religious
fraternities, and various orders and societies, and includes nearly
all the fraternal organizations in America.
=Noldin, Hieronymus.= Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, intended
especially for priests and candidates for priesthood; trans. from the
Germ. by Rev. W. H. Kent. *$1.25. Benziger.
“A history of the cultus and observations upon its theological and
ascetical importance.”—Cath. World.
“The historical sketch is brief but valuable. We think, however, that
this curious evasion of the twelfth promise question will be the sole
objection which devout clients of the League will make to this book.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 396. Je. ‘05. 590w.
* =Nordau, Max. Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy
tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The stories were told to Maxa, Mr. Nordau’s little daughter, from her
fourth to her seventh birthday, and are translated for the benefit of
other little ladies by Mary J. Safford. There are twenty stories in
all, and they are about everything from beetles to fairies and from
rosebushes to white mice. For instance ... there is a tragic account
of a last year’s fly, which shows how sad it is to outlive one’s
generation; there is a story of an ungrateful mouse; and a doll that
was excessively haughty—in fact, there are stories about
everything.... Young people—and even older ones—will read with
breathless interest. The book is illustrated with a number of line
drawings.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “Is worthy to be read and loved by many other children for its
originality, its pleasant style, and its gentle lessons with touches
of deeper meaning.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 270w.
* “The grown-up reader is as pleased as the child—with everything but
the pictures.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustav, and Andersson, Dr. Johan Gunnar.=
Antarctica; or, Two years amongst the ice of the South pole. *$5.
Macmillan.
“It will be remembered that the Nordenskjöld expedition, in the vessel
Antarctic, left Europe in the summer of 1901, and spent the following
Antarctic winter in the South polar regions.... The Antarctic was
caught in the ice, ‘nipped’ and sunk, and it took two relief parties
to finally rescue Dr. Nordenskjöld and his followers. Notwithstanding
the loss of the vessel, with many of the scientific notes, much of the
geographical and other scientific results were saved.... This volume
is Dr. Nordenskjöld’s own story (prepared in collaboration with Dr.
Andersson and Captain Larsen, of the Antarctic).”—R. of Rs.
“In the rapidly increasing literature of Polar enterprise Dr.
Nordenskjöld’s volume will take a high place. The translator, who has
preferred to be anonymous, has performed his task with success.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 466. Ap. 15. 2250w.
“It is mainly as a narrative that the book must be judged, for it
contains little of scientific interest.” Albert White Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 171. O. ‘05. 1300w.
“Their story is told in a sufficiently attractive fashion, tho it
lacks somewhat of the personal touch that ordinarily vivifies
narratives of polar exploration.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 455. Ag. 24, ‘05. 920w.
“To the general reader, the book’s main interest will lie in ... its
story of romantic adventure. It is as fascinating reading as Robinson
Crusoe. Antarctic scenery and natural phenomena are vividly
portrayed.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 720w.
“The story is vividly told, and the quaint English of the translator
rather adds to than detracts from the reader’s enjoyment and interest.
The illustration of the work is excellent; the index and maps are all
that could be asked.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 39. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
“A simple but effective account.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 708. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w.
=Norris, H. L.= Rice papers; stories and sketches of life in China.
†$1.50. Longmans.
In order to while away the leisure hours of a three years’ service in
China, the author wrote these nine stories of the Chinese as he saw
them, placid and cruel, childlike and shrewd. He has created Hong, the
gate-keeper, who spins marvelous yarns to a youthful audience of two,
and other characters, which might be real, but are not.
+ =Acad.= 68: 241. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“He has turned out capital stories, witty, satirical, yet seemingly
jumping with facts, even though he says the stories are not true. They
are better than true; they are well-found. Nine stories ... all good,
all worth reading and re-reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 410w.
“But Mr. Norris as a critic is perhaps too irresponsible to carry much
weight. His attitude is primarily that of the amused onlooker, and his
aim is plainly to entertain rather than to instruct. In this he is
almost uniformly successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 556. Ap. 15, ‘05. 660w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Barham of Beltana. †$1.50. Longmans.
Barham of Beltana is a prominent Australian and the love story centers
about his son and daughter and the son and daughter of Mr. March, an
Englishman. The book is full of complications, obstacles and
surprises, into which eccentric old Lady Warden and her secret, two
huge mastiffs, and a ghost enter.
“The scenes are pleasantly varied, the situations quietly effective,
and the characters consistent though not vital. The story is readable
because it runs smoothly from start to finish, and the interest is
allowed to accumulate cleverly.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is not particularly well-written.”
— + =Arena.= 34: 335. S. ‘05. 170w.
* “There seems almost as little to say against ‘Barham of Beltana’ as
in its favour.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 524. Ap. 29. 200w.
“Is fresh, vigorous, interesting; original in its situations,
unusually clever in its dialogue. A thoroughly enjoyable book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 710w.
“This author always writes pleasantly, and entirely in unexceptionable
English, but the humor and story-interest which his early books had
are here reflected only in a faint and feeble light.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Norris is always readable. The present novel contrives to avoid
the sameness from which some of Mr. Norris’s recent books have
suffered.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Embarrassing orphan; il. by Steeple Davis. $1.
Winston.
A South American millionaire leaves his daughter to her uncle, Sir
Edward Denne, with instruction that she and every one else are to be
kept in ignorance of the fact that she is wealthy until she is happily
engaged. His object is to save her from fortune hunters, but as it
happens, this provision leads her into refusing the right man. All
ends well, however, through the efforts of her uncle.
“The story is ingeniously complicated and amusing, though after all
somewhat monotonous.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 378. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.
“There are a few dry passages that detract somewhat from the
cleverness of the balance.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 90w.
=North, Sidney H.= Oil fuel; its supply, composition and application.
*$1.75. Lippincott.
“A concise and valuable record of the developments in the use of
liquid fuel for the generation of power ... he deals with the
distribution and sources of supply of petroleum ... the economic
aspect of liquid fuel ... the absolute economy as a fuel ... the
chemical composition of fuel oils ... conditions of combustion in oil
furnaces.... Turning from consideration of the oil itself to the
methods of burning it, the author gives a very useful historical
summary of the early experiments down to the year 1883.... A chapter
is then devoted to modern burners and methods.... [There are chapters
upon] the use of oil fuel for marine and naval purposes, [and] oil
fuel in locomotives.”—Nature.
“The whole work compares very favorably indeed with the far more
pretentious treatise on the subject which until now has been the only
book of reference.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 531. Ap. 6, ‘05. 760w.
* =North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an
old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from
his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“‘Old Greek’ was the nickname, or, more correctly speaking, the pet
name, by which Edward North, the professor of Greek [for fifty-eight
years] was known to the students and alumni of Hamilton college. This
volume, the primary object of which is a biography of Professor North,
will certainly serve as an illuminating document to explain the
genesis of the old-fashioned college in the United States, and the
reasons for its growth and persistence.”—Nation.
* + =Nation.= 81: 427. N. 23, ‘05. 2020w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 690w.
=Noussanne, Henri de.= The kaiser as he is; or, The real William II.;
tr. from the French by Walter Littlefield. **$1.25. Putnam.
From the point of view of one “who does not like the Germans and
hardly seeks to conceal his contempt for distinctive German
qualities,” we have an intimate, graphic, much biased, and at times
sarcastic sketch of the German emperor, including domestic, social,
political, national and international relations. There are chapters
dealing with Germany at the accession of William II.; with the manner
in which “this young man” rid himself of Bismarck; the imperial
treatment of the Poles; William II. and socialism; William II. as a
family man, as guest and landlord, at home and on his travels, as head
of the army, as bandmaster, painter, patron, etc.
“It is sensational journalism in all its horror. In the less
objectionable portions of the book there is a mixture of readable
gossip, more or less well founded, with mere padding.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 398. Ap. 1. 140w.
“The translator has, in general, done his work acceptably, though
numerous misprints and mistakes in capitalization are to be noted, and
there are many minor errors of statement that might well have been
corrected in the English version. The chief objection to the book is,
however, the prejudice of the author.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16. ‘05. 230w.
“Pity it is that M. de Noussanne did not use a finer satirical pen and
a less spiteful, even tho he has given evidence as to the healing of
the Sedan wound.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 725. Mr. 30, ‘05. 180w.
“There is obvious malice, obvious Gallic animus, obvious indulgence of
a spirit of levity and mockery, obvious hospitality to anecdotes in
which the kaiser is a figure of comic opera. Mr. Littlefield, whose
translation is at many points very happy and who has caught the spirit
of the whole excellently, regards the more serious parts of the book
with perhaps a little too much favor.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. F. 18, ‘05. 1570w.
“As a tirade, an example of skilful satire of the boulevard type, it
is a masterpiece; as sober biography or character analysis, it is
worth nothing.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“A very witty and keen arraignment of Kaiser William.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 10: 512. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“M. de Noussanne shows us the man behind the monarch, but spares the
relation of court tattle and backstairs scandal.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Noyes, Ella.= Story of Ferrara. $2; lea. $2.50. Macmillan.
“The city that was the birthplace of Savonarola, the home of Ariosto,
and the refuge of Tasso, will never be wholly forgotten.... The author
devotes about two-thirds of her book to the history of the city....
The whole account centres about the ruling family of Este.... In the
last third of the book we are given a descriptive view of the city,
its palaces, pictures, streets, churches, and abbeys. In forming an
idea of what remains of Ferrara’s greatness, the reader is aided by a
number of interesting illustrations drawn by Miss Dora Noyes.”—Dial.
“A readable book and a faithful guide to the city’s antiquities, but
not a history, in the large sense, admitting us to the council of the
fates.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 138. O. ‘05. 710w.
“The work is written in easy, dignified English, the narrative is
interesting, and the historian displays good taste and judgment both
in her choice and her rejection of materials.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“So comprehensive is the writer’s grasp of her subject that her little
volume might well be called a microcosm of the renaissance. It is hard
to do justice to Miss Noyes’s exquisite style and to the penetration
which comprehends the significance of the motley manifestations of the
vivid, passionate life of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 899. Ap. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The style is somewhat spiritless. At best, it will prove an
authoritative guide for the student tourist who has much time to spend
in Ferrara.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
The author deals with the subject of freight rates rather than
passenger fares, showing how rates are made, and how they should be
made, examines the questions of classification and discrimination,
considers the effect of free competition on the one hand and
consolidation on the other, shows the movement of rates for the last
forty years, and compares American rates with those of foreign
countries.