=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Works. Cornhill ed.; ed. with biography,
bibliography, and special introd. by W. P. Trent, and J. Bell Henneman.
$37.50. Crowell.
The “Cornhill” Thackeray has achieved a well merited distinction above
all recent issues of the great novelist’s works in that it includes
material heretofore unclaimed for the author, but conclusively
identified as his during recent months of research. There are two
thousand pages thruout the various volumes which have never appeared
in any set before. The editorial work in charge of Prof. Trent of
Columbia college, and Dr. Henneman of the University of the South,
includes special introductions to every volume, notes and critical
comments of exceptionally high character, a complete bibliography
based on the chronology of Thackeray’s life, and a full topical index
to the entire set. Aside from the better known novels, are the essays,
burlesques, Christmas stories, criticisms of letters and art, quips in
Punch, drawings, poems and a new collection of typical personal
letters. Among the three hundred and more illustrations are a series
of photogravure portraits of the author, and many of Thackeray’s own
quaint and whimsical drawings. The books with their substantial
bindings, heavy paper and good type, deserve a prominent place among
the great book achievements of the day.
“The edition is highly satisfactory, both for completeness and
inexpensiveness.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“By far the most satisfactory edition of Thackeray we have seen in
recent years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Henry Esmond. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics” series this volume contains the
history of Henry Esmond, Esq., with an introduction by J. B. Henneman,
and a portrait of Thackeray as a frontispiece.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton
Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.
An annotated edition of Henry Esmond planned to meet the needs of
advanced high schools and elementary college classes. The text is that
of the new “Dent edition.”
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an
introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray, **$1.50.
Century.
Thackeray the man, with his habits, opinions, prejudices, genial
friendship, love for home and his own, lending an active personal
charm, fascinates the reader no less than Thackeray the better known
objective master of the novel. These letters, all of them heretofore
unpublished, were written to various members of a New York family in
whose home the novelist was a frequent visitor during his two lecture
tours in America. They include mainly, letters written from his
lecture points, full of bright, frank comments upon American people
and their ways. There are facsimiles of portions of letters, and of
Thackeray’s own characteristic drawings.
“Not a line inconsistent with his published writings is to be found.
‘The style’ is emphatically ‘of the man’ himself. The so-called
cynicism that sought to mask a tender heart and too expressive face,
the great fondness for children and old friends, the gentleness and
the whimsical humor,—all these traits and qualities are here revealed
in letters as charmingly colloquial as were ever written. The
introduction by Miss Lucy W. Baxter strikes just the right note as to
revelation and reserve, and enables us to realize the charm of the
‘brown house’ in Second avenue which Thackeray found so potent.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
“The charm of these letters, written in grateful affection to his
friends ...”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 187. Mr. 16, ‘05. 890w.
“The half-humorous, half-tender familiarity and freedom of these
communications ...”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 502. Mr. ‘05. 390w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 120w.
“A number of easy conversational and very characteristic missives.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 257. F. 18. ‘05. 970w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Vanity fair. $1.25. Crowell.
“Vanity fair” has been compressed into one small volume of the “Thin
paper classics” series, and appears in this handy form without
sacrifice of clear type. It contains a frontispiece from a drawing by
Frank T. Merrill.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Johnny-Ivan Winslow, the man of the hour, is the son of an Iowa plow
manufacturer and a Russian princess whose altruistic dreams took shape
in championing the Nihilists’ cause. Believing in the redemption of
the toiler, this mother’s son throws himself and his money at the feet
of struggling strikers, working in the midst of rioters with the best
against the worst. The intensity of his subjective relation to his
cause records only failure in the end, not because of his inability to
stand at the helm, but because of the operation of a wrong principle.
There is a steadfast Peggy in the tale whose magnificent faith in the
triumph of Johnny over his Ivan theories is fully rewarded.
“This novel considered as fiction merits special notice. It is one of
the best romances of the year. As a sociological study, it is
impossible to speak in such favorable terms, for though there is much
that is fine and true in its spirit, and though we believe that the
author desires to be fair and just, she has signally failed at many
points.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 445. O. ‘05. 800w.
“While the story is not lacking in strength, nor in that finer
character-drawing that the writer’s previous work has associated with
her name, one feels more than once that the plot has been moulded to
fit a preconceived thesis.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 133. O. ‘05. 390w.
* “Miss French has given us a book of very genial and human sort, and
brought to it a gift of shrewd and sometimes humorous observation,
such as comes only after long practice in the art of fiction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 660w.
“The latter half of the book is stuffed with not very enlightening
discussions of labor problems, and it ends in an absurdly conventional
way.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 140w.
* “Octave Thanet is at her best in depicting children. She loves them
in any rank of life, and gets them on paper in all their whimsicality,
their straight-to-the-mark directness, their consistent
inconsistency.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.
“It is interesting and well developed. Its pages are full of evidences
of the author’s keen and kindly study of men and things and of her
aptitude for the lively narration of the results of her observations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 590. S. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“Fine in spirit and thoroughly readable also as a story of character
and incident. It is not a novel of purpose in the sense that argument
is substituted for entertainment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Miss French seems to us to have done as good work in this truly
American novel as in her many admirable short stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 110. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.
A collection of jests, anecdotes, and repartee culled from the “Tales
worth telling” column of the Philadelphia public ledger.
=Thatcher, Oliver Joseph, and McNeal, Edgar H.= Source book for
mediaeval history: selected documents: illustrating the history of
Europe in the middle ages. *$1.85. Scribner.
“The documents include ... the charter of the Ministerials of the
Archbishop of Cologne, 1154, ... the charter granted by the bishop of
Hamburg to the colonists, ‘the Hollanders,’ in 1106; the privilege of
Frederick I, ... for the Jews of the Worms, in 1157; the charter given
to the Jews of Speyer by the bishop of that city, 1084; a few market
charters issued at the time of the freedom of the cities of Germany,
several documents illustrating the rebellion of these cities against
the lords who governed them, and their acquisition of municipal
rights, &c. There are also the important charter of Magdeburg, and
some documents concerning the origin of the Rhine league and the early
history of the Hanseatic league. An explanatory note, and the names of
authorities consulted, precede each document. Following is the charter
given to the Jews by the bishop of Speyer.”—N. Y. Times.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 430w. (Survey of contents.)
=Thaw, Alexander Blair.= Inaugural ode. *50c. Brentano’s.
“[This] ode written for the inaugural of President Roosevelt ...
breathes the same spirit of desire that the American republic should
fulfill its destiny as that destiny has been conceived by the best and
finest of its citizens.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 30w.
“It is agreeable to find in a poem for such an occasion an abstract
idea conveyed with dignity and free from silly optimism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 190w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
In this one volume the history of Venice is given from the origin of
the city in 452 to its fall in 1797. It sets forth the growth of the
republic, the greatness of the Venetians and compares Venice and her
contemporaries.
“The first chapters of this history leave much to be desired but the
final portion of the book is, on the whole, just, admirable and
inspiring.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 132. O. ‘05. 1930w.
“It is readable and interesting.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Thayer’s outline of Venetian history is a vivid sketch of a
considerable historical and literary merit. Mr. Thayer is, however, a
little too one-sided in his undisguised hostility to the Church.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“We must relegate small cavils to the background, and speak with warm
recognition of the skill, discernment, and idealism which mark this
book.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 221. S. 14, ‘05. 2220w.
“We are acquainted with no other writing in the English language,
which is a better introduction to a prolonged, serious study of the
subject.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 640w.
“It is open to criticism in almost every essential respect.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
“A model ‘Short history of Venice’ has been written by Mr. William
Roscoe Thayer.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 110w.
“This is a book of considerable value, telling the story of Venice
succinctly and lucidly.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.
=Thiers, (Marie Joseph) Louis Adolphe.= Moscow expedition; ed. by
Hereford B. George. *$1.25. Oxford.
This is a reprint of an extract of Thiers’s “Histoire du consulat et
de l’empire,” which was published between 1845-1862. It follows
Thiers’s text in the French but is supplemented by explanatory notes
in English, and a personal and geographical index.
“On the whole, however, this volume deserves a cordial welcome. It is
the first time that a competent authority has produced a careful and
critical commentary on this portion of Thiers’s work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 82. Ja. 14, 370w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. Ja. 18, ‘05. 670w.
* =Thirlmere, Rowland.= Letters from Catalonia. 2v. *$6. Brentano’s.
“In addition to attractive descriptions of Ribas, Alcoy, Jativa, and
many other places visited by English travellers, the book contains a
large amount of information on Spanish politics and most other aspects
of Spanish life.”—Ath.
* “The tone and temper of the book are excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 630w.
* “Though they make no special appeal to travellers, can be read with
pleasure by any one who has a taste for light reading of a
miscellaneous nature.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 167. My. 26, ‘05. 680w.
* “But the whole book undoubtedly has character and reality, a record
of such sensations, impressions and ideas as lead to essential truth.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 310w.
* “He is a good observer and a good narrator.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mr. Thirlmere pays more attention to life than locality, but he
never forgets his backgrounds. His thumb-nail portraits, his
meditative and fanciful humor, his apt quotation, and his continual
cheerfulness leave a very pleasant sensation in the mind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 921. Je. 24. 210w.
=Thomas, David Yancey.= History of military government in newly acquired
territory of the United States. *$2. Macmillan.
“Prof. Thomas discusses, not only the legal status of the new
territory and the legal basis for military government, but also
presents an account of the actual management of new acquisitions from
the time of occupation until the organization of territorial or state
governments. Dr. Thomas contents himself with a statement of the facts
connected with our military occupation of Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and attempts to give no verdict as to the character and
accomplishments of the military governments.”—R. of Rs.
“There is failure also to give the general constitutional and legal
basis of military government. The manner in which the foot-notes are
handled is open to serious criticism. The existence of a monograph of
this kind is of doubtful utility, if references are not plentiful and
exact. Frequently the details of military government are overlooked or
cast aside. The best part of the author’s work is that relating to
Florida, New Mexico, and California. These acquisitions have been
remarkably well treated and in general the judgment passed upon events
is very fair and to the point. Turning to California, we reach the
most satisfactory portion of the book. Mr. Thomas has given a
comprehensive outline of the government of territory acquired by the
United States before the Civil war. His work in that field will
undoubtedly stand the test of time, and it is questionable if other
writers can add much to the results obtained.” A. H. Carpenter.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 678. Ap. ‘05. 1200w.
“The fullest and most valuable part of the book is that dealing with
the four great acquisitions of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, and
California. The treatment of military rule in other annexed
territories ... is much briefer and on the whole less satisfactory.
There is probably nowhere in print a better summary of military
government in the Philippines and Porto Rico than that given us by Dr.
Thomas. The work throughout is based on the best of documentary
materials, and these are referred to in the foot-notes with a fair
degree of frequency. The index to the work is rather inadequate.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 800w.
=Thomas, Edith Matilda.= Cassia and other verse. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The initial poem has a tragic love theme from Zola’s “Rome.” There are
poems dealing with the soul struggles met with in life to-day, and
over two score sonnets.
* “Her level is a high one, and she seldom falls below it. On the
whole, it is higher than that of any other woman who has written
poetry in America.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 130w.
“Too reflective a singer for the higher sort of lyrical utterance, but
there are touches of distinction upon nearly everything she writes.
Plainness of speech and subtlety of thought mark her work, and make it
very precious to lovers of the graver kind of verse.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 450w.
=Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Cassia is a most charming poem, but without the splendor, pomp, and
grim reality of the ancient city in which the fable had its birth.
Miss Thomas is most felicitous on her own ground, spending her
abundant and chastened fancy upon the moods that arise from modern and
personal associations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 50. Ja. 28. ‘05. 320w.
=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E.
Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
A picturesque treatment of Wales with brush and pencil, by Mr. Fowler,
with descriptions and quaint tales by Mr. Thomas.
* “Between the illustrations and the letterpress there is absolutely
no connexion.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 270w.
“The illustrations are excellent; some of great beauty and admirably
reproduced in color. Mr. Thomas is flippant and tiresome; in at least
one place he is decidedly irreverent.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“The color-pictures show a fine, strong sense of distance and
perspective, and the artist is also to be praised for his restraint in
his color-schemes. The literary part of the work is somewhat rambling
and inchoate, and the note of jocosity is at times forced.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
“The illustrations have some merit. The author’s egoism and style are
irritating.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1450w.
=Thomas, Frederick Moy,= comp. and ed. See =Robinson, John R.= Fifty
years of Fleet street.
=Thomas, Theodore.= Theodore Thomas: a musical autobiography; ed. by
George P. Upton. 2v. *$6. McClurg.
This work was well under way at the time of Mr. Thomas’ death January
4, 1905. Volume I., entitled “Life work,” tells in the great
orchestral leader’s own words of his life, his back-sets, his
determined struggles “to make good music popular,” and his final
success. Mr. Upton, his friend for thirty years, adds a chapter upon
“Last days of Theodore Thomas,” and there is further reminiscence and
appreciation. Volume II., “Concert programmes” has an introduction by
Mr. Thomas and contains selected programmes covering fifty years,
beginning with the Mason chamber concerts and ending with the concerts
of the Chicago orchestra. Both volumes are illustrated with portraits
and views.
“To students of musical history in particular, as well as all music
lovers and musicians, this record of the life and work of Theodore
Thomas is of great and permanent value.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 650. Ag. ‘05. 860w.
“The interest of this book naturally centres in the hundred pages or
so of the autobiography. These chapters constitute a very
matter-of-fact statement, bare of all ornament, and devoid of the
slightest literary pretense, yet highly important by virtue of their
subject-matter.” William Morton Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 227. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2990w.
“A final record of ‘Works introduced into this country’ by Mr. Thomas
is a disappointment and lacks the expected value because of its many
inaccuracies and misstatements.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 329. Ag. 10, ‘05. 770w.
* “Is a fascinating record of a noble life. It is accompanied by 1,200
of the great conductor’s programs, a collection of the highest value
for its indication of the development of musical taste and
appreciation in America.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 359. My. 4, ‘05. 1320w.
“His own writing is a highly characteristic expression of the man, and
the book as a whole makes interesting and important contributions to
American musical history, and to the knowledge of the part played in
it by Theodore Thomas.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 273. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1940w.
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 476. S. ‘05. 550w.
=Thomas, W. H. Griffith.= Apostle Peter: outline studies in his life,
character and writings. **$1.25. Revell.
This is a suggestive handbook, which will be of value to anyone who is
preparing sermons or lectures on this subject.
“It is well arranged and full.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1014. My. 4, ‘05. 50w.
“His book is of a higher type than many manuals of Bible readings, and
abounds in materials for expository addresses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 447. F. 18, ‘05. 60w.
=Thompson, A. Hamilton=, ed. See =Elton, Isaac.= W. Shakespeare, his
family and friends.
=Thompson, Arthur Ripley.= Shipwrecked in Greenland. †$1.50. Little.
A party of four boys and three men, one of whom is a sea captain and
another black Caesar the cook, while camping near St. John’s,
Newfoundland, find a steamer abandoned and adrift and set out to
rescue her passengers and crew. They pass thru many thrilling
adventures on the coast of Greenland and Labrador in which icebergs,
sunken rocks, an arctic hurricane, shipwreck, fire and other perilous
things have a part. They see life as it is lived in the Eskimos’
villages, but in the end the faithful Caesar succeeds in bringing Phil
Schuyler safely home to his mother.
* “A capital book for boys and boys’ sisters.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“An exciting story of life in the arctic regions based upon fact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Thompson, Garrett W.= Threads. †$1.50. Winston.
A tragic tale of an unhappy marriage in which a wife sees only neglect
of her interests in her husband’s devotion to his career. Her morbid
imagination fraught with jealousy and hatred works her ruin. There is
retribution in the visitation of her weakness upon her child. It is a
negative lesson of psychological import.
=Thompson, Vance.= Diplomatic mysteries. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Particular mysteries of which the veil is supposed to be rent away in
this case include that of the madness of Ludwig of Bavaria.... Another
story purports to relate what really happened when the powers took a
hand in Crete and gave that island autonomy.... Yet other stories
pretend to tell what really happened during that delightful comedy
wherein the crown prince of Germany gave his grandmother Victoria’s
ring to Miss Gladys Deacon; yet others are of how President Faure of
France came to his end, and how the present great war between Japan
and Russia ... was ‘made in England.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Thompson’s style may never be free from affectation and
unnecessary embellishment, but at least he has done far better work
than this.”
— =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rather fascinating reading, in spite of the circumstance
that the real truth is probably as different from Mr. Thompson’s
version as Mr. Thompson’s version is from official history.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 390w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The chief thing that they lack, however, is verisimilitude.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.
“The stories themselves are engaging and well told.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
=Thonger, Charles.= Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical
gardening, v. 25.) *$1. Lane.
“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of
garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity,
avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with
suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out
drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this
scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic
plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive
lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.
“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who
take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a
garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with
everything that they want.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 230. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N.
Y.
Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most
energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or
student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry
away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the
human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the
pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is
the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts;
Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life:
physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.
“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the
practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the
principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the
chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“This book differs from other brief psychologies in being
pre-eminently teachable. The book is distinguished from its rivals by
its comprehensiveness and balance.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
=Thorndike, Edward Lee.= Introduction to the theory of mental and social
measurements. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Thorndike has prepared this book primarily as an aid in
doing statistical work of the sort required in laboratories of
experimental psychology.... It begins simply, and by affording
abundant material for the student to practice what the text preaches
gradually develops in his capacity to master the more difficult later
chapters. The writer makes a point of keeping within the comprehension
of young students.... The topics to which most attention is given are
the choice of units of measurement; the measurement of individuals, of
groups, of differences, of changes, and of relationships; and the
reliability of measurements and sources of error. Strong emphasis is
laid upon tables of frequency.... The last chapter contains references
for further study, and the appendix a multiplication table up to
100x100, a table of square roots up to 1,000, and a collection of
miscellaneous problems for additional practice.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In its special field the book is worthy of a man who is a teacher as
well as a psychologist.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 697. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“An extremely practical and well-planned volume.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The author has written in an attractive style ... and has made this
one of the best products of his active pen.” Edward Franklin Buchner.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 210. S. ‘05. 650w.
=Thorpe, Francis Newton.= Divining rod: a story of the oil regions.
†$1.50. Little.
A romance which deals with the early days when oil was discovered in
Pennsylvania. It follows the fortunes of a farmer in whom the divining
rod which points out his first well awakens a thirst for the wealth to
be gained by developing his own land. His daughter is the center of
the love motive, but the strength of the story lies in the oil, the
crowding out of the small producers by the large, the uncovering of
unscrupulous methods, the mad desire for more land, more wells at any
price.
* =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
=Thorpe, Francis Newton.= Short constitutional history of the United
States. *$1.75. Little.
A brief “history of the state and federal constitutions, their
origins, principles, evolution, and the interpretation of them by the
courts.... As an appendix, the constitution of the United States, with
citation of cases, is printed. There is a special index to the
constitution, giving article, section, and page, as well as a general
index to the work at large.... After a rapid survey of the early
colonial unions and congresses, and of the Articles of confederation
and their defects, there is a short chapter on the making of the
constitution, followed by an analysis of The Federalist to show what
were and are the fundamental principles of the constitution.”—N. Y.
Times.
“The style is not attractive, though not often very bad; the
arrangement is unsatisfactory, and the general method of presentation
is not telling; the author’s conception of his subject, as in his
early volumes on constitutional history, is limited. These faults
might be passed over without too serious consideration if the book
were accurate in details, and if, with all its apparent weight and
sturdiness, it were done with care and circumspection.”
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 923. Jl. ‘05. 360w.
“The book is to be especially commended for its well assorted
information upon recent constitutions in the various states.” Jesse
Macy.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 355. Mr. ‘05. 300w.
“There is a lack of digestion and a want of perspective. This failure
to give proper emphasis makes the book sure to fail as a text-book—a
use for which the author designed it—except in the hands of a very
experienced teacher.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “Exhibits an immense amount of learning on that subject, ill
arranged and almost devoid of historical sequence.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“For so small a volume its scope is remarkable; and, notwithstanding
the heaviness of his theme, and an occasional involved sentence which
detains the reader, the author presents his matter in a manner to hold
the interest of even the layman in politics.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 810w. (Outline of scope.)
=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Girl of Virginia. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this story of the lovable, light-spirited
daughter of a professor of the University of Virginia, and a picture
of college life from the towns-people’s point of view.
* =Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants.
*$4. Van Nostrand.
The author who has designed turbines both in America and in Europe and
who has had charge of the hydraulic work in important constructions in
Canada, says: “The object of this book is to give such information in
regard to modern turbines and their installation as is necessary to
the hydraulic engineer in designing a water-power plant, and no
attempt has been made to treat of the design of turbines.”
=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; the fact that vows do not
make a priest free from temptation; the struggle in a high-minded
priest’s nature between right and passion; the serious meaning of duty
and renunciation—all these things are clearly set forth. The author
has intimate knowledge of the priesthood and has no intention of
disrespect to the cloth. Father Tom, the elder of the two priests
described, is a capital character—humorous, shrewd, and
practical”—Outlook.
+ =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
“It is one of the strongest pieces of psychological fiction that has
appeared in English in many a long month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 268. My. ‘05. 340w.
“In his zeal the author has introduced too many mechanical instances
for the proving of his cherished point, permitted himself too many
passages of didacticism and argument,—so that his novel, strictly
speaking, is spoiled.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 150w.
“It is a story of considerable power, but its frankness exceeds the
bounds of what is artistically permissible.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“It is an interesting book and a clever pen picture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point
of style and manner.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w.
“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that
lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of
first quality.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles
frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a
noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to
some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge
whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his
enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl;
but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling,
compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming
old roué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently
respectable lover.”—Outlook.
* “If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to
the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courage
to work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia
Howard Dunbar.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ‘05. 300w.
* “The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we
could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“The defects of Mrs. Thurston’s literary style and the crudity of her
methods are more obvious here than in ‘The masquerader.’”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 140w.
“Is not inferior in interest to her most widely known novel, while it
greatly surpasses its predecessor in the vitality of its characters,
the cohesion of its plot, the fidelity of both to possibility and its
literary art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 380w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
“The moral lesson is obvious, perhaps too obvious. As a story the book
will not compare well in force and originality with ‘The
masqueraders.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
* “While it is not likely to run through as many editions as ‘The
masquerader,’ it has a higher ambition than that absorbing modern
fairy tale in that it tries to present a serious study of character as
well as a series of more or less dramatic incidents.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 110w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Masquerader. $1.50. Harper.
The chance meeting in a London fog, of a wealthy member of parliament,
who is an opium eater, and a young writer in reduced circumstances,
reveals the fact to each that he has a double. This strange revelation
is seized upon by the former as a means of providing himself with a
political substitute when the craving for the drug is upon him. They
change places temporarily with the result that the masquerader wins
political distinction and the affections of his double’s alienated
wife, who fancies that she has fallen in love with her husband. In the
end the drug does its work and the masquerader is made to see that his
duty lies in quietly continuing the deception.
“The development of Loder’s character is so well shown and the
interest of the story is so great that it is only when the book is
finished that we realize the impossibility of the whole thing, an
impossibility which militates very strongly against the artistic
excellence of the novel.” Mary K. Ford.
+ — =Current Literature.= 38: 321. Ap. ‘05. 1340w.
“The story is so ingeniously told and cleverly constructed that its
very boldness is in a measure justified.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The author performs the feat of fitting an impossible plot into the
realities of daily life, and doing it in a way that deceives the
reader and holds his interest—while he reads. There is a sense of
strain about the whole thing—the style, as well as the plot, is
artificial.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 320w.
“The quality of the particular adventure is delicate and perilous and
the book’s evasion of pitfalls is not less admirable than its more
positive qualities. The critical sense of the reader is stilled by the
hypnotic and engrossing nature of the narrative. One is delightfully
deluded and beguiled.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 259. Ja. ‘05. 290w.
“The ethical problem involved in the secret change of place is solved
in a new and eminently sane manner. The gradual disintegration of
Chilcote’s character is a strong piece of work, as is likewise the
description of Loder’s inner growth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748-1846: a series
of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary
volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic
conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early
American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
Thirty-one volumes containing accurate reprints of rare manuscripts.
They have been carefully chosen from the mass of material descriptive
of travels in the North American interior which this century of
continental expansion (1748-1846) provided, and no manuscript has been
included unless it possessed permanent historical value. The result is
a series which the casual reader will find interesting, and the
historian, teacher and scholar, will find invaluable, as it makes
available sources of information without which the development of the
West, its history and its people cannot be fully understood. The
editor has provided numerous footnotes and an introduction to each
volume which contains a biographical sketch of the author, an
evaluation of the book reprinted and bibliographical data concerning
it. The closing volume is devoted to a complete and exhaustive
analytical index to the entire series.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 694. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Statement of contents
of vols. VII-XII.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 120w. (Review of vols. XI. and
XII.)
* “Like their predecessors are amply and intelligently edited.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 13-15.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 227. O. ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 16-18.)
=Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 80w. (Review of vol. VI.)
“The works included naturally vary in literary merit and
attractiveness, but many of them will compare favorably with the
better class of modern books of travel, while some, like John
Bradbury’s ‘Travels in the interior of America, 1809-11,’ to which
vol. V. is devoted, are as fascinating as the best fiction.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vols. I.-V.)
“Much of the material is as entertaining as it is quaint, and will be
thoroughly enjoyed by the ordinary reader no less than the
specialist.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 18.)
“Thus far the whole series of ‘Early western travels’ is worthy of
hearty commendation.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 611. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w. (Review of vols. IV-VIII.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 9-17.)
=Nation.= 80: 152. F. 23, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Nation.= 80: 209. Mr. 16, ‘05. 320w. (Review of vols. XI. and
XII.)
+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 660w. (Review of v. 10.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 590w. (Condensed narrative
of Vol. XI.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 500w. (Review of Vol.
XII.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 240. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w. (Review of vol.
XIII.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 14 and
15.)
“He [Mr. Thwaites] leaves out dates.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 532. Ag. 12, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 16 and
17.)
“The present editor has done little for it except provide an
introduction and make clear a few points. He corrects a month date in
a note, but seems unable to insert year dates at all.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 810w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w. (Review of v. 11.)
“His story is not often thrilling in its manner of telling, but it has
some value as a record of early observation of Indian customs and of
the primitive life of white pioneers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13.)
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 870. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. (Review of v. 10 and
11.)
=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.
This tale of the Red Keg lumber region sets well into the foreground
the villainy of a country editor whose vicious attacks and
blackmailing schemes all but wreck the happiness of a town. The “man
from the Red Keg” is one of the many whose reputations have been
hammered and slashed by the odious editor of “Chips,” but who
determinedly resolves to reform his enemy. He works out his
metaphysical problem patiently disregarding the call of his fellow
townsmen to deal with the offender summarily, bides his time, and wins
his reward.
* “It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the
instructive value of a biography.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “The story is not quite as good as its predecessors.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis.= Harm Jan Huidekoper.
*$2.50. Clarke.
An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796
at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and
became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the
founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and
genealogy.
“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from
family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the
style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a
literary point of view.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland
land company should have some historical value.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 153. F. 23, ‘05. 380w.
“A volume nominally biographical but ... picturing a vanished state of
American society.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“The book is full of instructive and charming reminiscences of those
early days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13. ‘05. 580w.
=Tigert, John James.= Christianity of Christ and his apostles. 80c. Pub.
house of M. E. ch. So.
A book provided as a shelter in the present storm of theological
criticism.
=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar:
a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
Life at Mount Cedar seminary is vividly given in this story of its
teachers and its students, their pranks, plays, merriment and
misfortunes. Interest centres about the group of girls who call
themselves “the thistles,” and especially about the wild little
Hungarian, Verena.
* — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“It is most refreshing to stumble over a book that can be safely
handled by our children, or our sisters, without fear of antagonizing
their morals or giving them a false idea of life in general.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.= Literature of the French renaissance. *$4.50.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying
between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of
Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French
language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters
of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not
only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary
or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times).
There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which
merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming
fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in
this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is
hardly so full as might be desirable.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 647. My. 27. 2270w.
“The critical attitude of our author is judicious and eminently safe.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 215. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1420w.
“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly
arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment
of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his
conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation.
It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes
all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students
of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes
much of little.” Christian Gauss.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 17. Ja. 14, ‘05. 3100w.
=Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.= Woman’s confessional. 75c. Life pub.
Epigrammatic extracts from the diary of a woman who was born of a
distinguished family in Vienna, came to America and “lived and loved
and erred.”
* “All of the epigrams are worth reading, even if one does not always
agree. The strong personality is pervasive and attractive.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The smartness of the woman’s sayings is indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Tipple, Ezra Squier,= ed. See =Asbury, Francis.= Heart of Asbury’s
journal.
=Tobin, Agnes.= Flying lesson. **$2. Elder.
“This is a second series of translations from Petrarch—containing ten
sonnets, two canzoni, a ballata, and a double sestina.... If they do
not succeed in achieving the impossible, that is, in a perfect
reproduction of the Petrarchian spirit, they have, at any rate, much
of the rare atmosphere which pervades ‘The house of life’ and
Rossetti’s translations from the Italian.”—Ath.
“These translations are of great poetical merit.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 190w.
“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and
we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not
wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”
— =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 730w.
* “Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure
beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s
impassioned lament.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
=Todd, Mary Ives.= American Abelard and Heloise. $1.50. Grafton.
A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his
congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter
of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she
could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother
and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and
starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of
the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed
shall have become a reality.
“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary
love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 260w.
“Mushy contents.”
— =Reader.= 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaievich.= Anna Karénina. $1.50. Crowell.
This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg”
series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell
Dole.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Soldier of the wilderness. †$1.50.
Wilde.
Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on
history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort
Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The
adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young
hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent
in those times.
=Tomson, Arthur.= Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25.
Macmillan.
A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet
and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with
“the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and
Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic
school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules
Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and
two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include
examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists
studied.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 735. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.
The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a
young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West
Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has
always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in
the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light
of great danger, comes to know her own heart.
* “Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every
page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea
and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its
simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 803. N. 25, ‘05. 510w.
“Told with not a little spontaneity and incident.”
* + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.
* “The author develops a very pretty romance and refreshes us with
much charming sea-lore.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Tooley, Sarah A.= Life of Florence Nightingale. *$1.75. Macmillan.
A biography written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the
famous mission to Crimea. The story of that two years’ service which
made Miss Nightingale’s name a household word throughout the British
empire is fully given, and the dignity which her noble and efficient
labors give to the hitherto stigmatized profession of nursing is well
described. There is a full account of her life from her birth in
Florence, 1820, of her childish ministrations to dolls and animals,
her labors in field and hospital, her work for the soldier after her
return from the front, her friendships, her literary career, and her
life at the present day. There are twenty-two illustrations.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 452. My. ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 460. Je. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 1750w. (Condensed narrative
of book.)
“The story is here told with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 170w.
“The story has been well told by Miss Tooley.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 350w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Reuben Larkmead. †$1.25. Dillingham.
An unsophisticated young millionaire whose fortune was founded upon
western beet sugar, comes east to New York and ingenuously relates his
experiences. Ridiculed in society, fleeced in his business
transactions, the prey of an army of grafters, he ends by marrying the
widowed mother of the girl he failed to win.
“The supine insipidity of the hero destroys whatever interest might
have been aroused in him at the beginning of the book. A thin plot of
sentimentality runs through this recital of Reuben’s adventures.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 490w.
“A crude social satire.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=Townsend, Fitzhugh.= Short course in alternating-current testing. *75c.
Van Nostrand.
“Eight sets of experiments are outlined, in each case preceded by a
concise discussion of the operating characteristics of the machine in
question. They deal with: (1) Properties of circuits; (2) the
alternating current generator; (3) the voltage wave of a generator or
of a circuit; (4) the transformer (operation, losses and efficiency);
(5) the induction motor (operation and efficiency); (6) the
synchronous motor (operation and phase characteristic); (7) the rotary
converter (operation when driven from either end); and (8) operation
of alternators in parallel.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 110w.
=Tozer, H. F.=, tr. See =Dante Alighieri.= Divina commedia.
=Tozier, Josephine.= Travelers’ handbook: a manual for Transatlantic
tourists. **$1. Funk.
“A little book to be put in the handbag of all who are making their
‘first trip.’ Money values, how to buy tickets, send luggage, to tip
the foreign hordes that have to be tipped, to avoid being overcharged
by cabmen and hotel clerks ... all these things are intelligently
explained, and many little hints given that will grease the wheels of
a European trip most acceptably.”—Critic.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
“Is one of the most intelligent of its kind. We have detected no error
worth noticing in the writer’s advice to travellers.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 320w.
“Her book supplements the ordinary guide books admirably.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Great mogul. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures
of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian
realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the
man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as
they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son,
and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful
princess Nur Mahal.
“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will
reward reading.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
Trade unionism and labor problems, ed. by John R. Commons. *$2.50. Ginn.
This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is
“planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a
deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of
the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in
view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite,
typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further
the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the
study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The
chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide
field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross
references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader
as well as to the student.
=Train, Arthur.= McAllister and his double. †$1.50. Scribner.
“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a
blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly
at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told
in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen
illustrations.
* “The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but
the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of
‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1232. N. 23, ‘05. 150w.
“The stories are certainly lively and readable in a high degree, and
the book is sure to meet with popular success.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 70w.
* “Is immensely entertaining in an irresponsible sort of way.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Tremain, Henry Edwin.= Last hours of Sheridan’s cavalry. *$1.50.
Bonnell.
“A reprint of war memoranda by a late brevet brigadier-general, major,
aide-de-camp in the United States volunteers, originally published in
sundry journals, and now reprinted in response to frequent requests,
with an additional chapter compiled from official records and an
appendix containing further interesting matter. The illustrations are
a portrait of Sheridan, a map of the Appomattox campaign, and a
picture of the holding up of Lee’s supply train.”—Critic.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
“A sprightly and vivid account of the operations which brought that
war to a close. An unusually valuable compilation of contemporary
notes. Sheridan’s work in weaving the final toils around the fated
Confederacy is here graphically narrated.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Valuable as a historical record, the volume has also the merit of a
personal story charmingly and unaffectedly told that will make it of
interest not only to the participants in the campaign, but to those
thousands of others who like to read the stories of battles fought and
victories won. So complete, so personal, and so interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=Trench, Rt. Rev. Richard Chenevix.= English, past and present. *75c.
Dutton.
“This is a new edition of Archbishop Trench’s well-known book
published many years ago. Emendations and corrections are supplied by
Dr. A. Smythe Palmer, though surprisingly few of these have been found
necessary.”—Outlook.
“The editor has very seldom laid himself open to criticism, and has
performed a task which cannot have been light with care, tact, and
skill.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 622. My. 20. 430w.
“Dr. Palmer ... has done his work carefully without insulting his
author’s memory.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 627. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
=Trent, William P.= Brief history of American literature. *$1.40.
Appleton.
A thorogoing text book containing a condensed account of the
development of American literature, rather than a series of essays on
leading American authors. The study is presented with marginal topics,
and has at the end of each chapter a bibliography which has been based
upon the equipments of the average school library, and which also
contains helps for further study.
“A manual both sound and stimulating.” Charles Sears Baldwin.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 317. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
“It is marked by some errors of perspective and emphasis, by a certain
indiscriminateness and at the same time a curious timidity of
judgment, and also by a peculiar dryness; but it shows also a rather
unusual first-hand knowledge of the facts and an equally unusual
orderliness and lucidity in disposing of them.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author has restricted himself to the limitations of immature
pupils, and has tactfully written on the level of their
comprehension.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers.
**$1.20. Crowell.
Eight papers which are designed especially for “those interested in
the problems that confront the critic and the teacher of literature,”
but which will not fail to claim a larger audience by reason of their
timeliness, and their sane, wholesome, and thoroly delightful
treatment. The first paper takes up the question of, Greatness in
literature; the second gives, A word for the smaller authors and for
popular judgment; then follow, The aims and methods of literary study;
Criticism and faith; Literature and science; Teaching literature; Some
remarks on modern book-burning; and The love of poetry.
* “Though Professor Trent is a very clear and fluent writer, there is
a certain lack of savor, of closeness of grain, in his style.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 650w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Southern writers. **$1.10. Macmillan.
Altho the Intention Has Been That of Furnishing Supplementary Reading
for Students, Professor Trent Has Prepared an Instructive Book for
General Use. the Literature of Representative Writers Of the South Has
Been Divided Into Three Periods: 1607-1789, the Literature of the
Colonies and the Revolution, Including Records Taken From diaries of
colonial gentlemen; 1790-1865, the literature of the Old South,
including speeches by distinguished southern statesmen; and 1866-1905,
the literature of the New South, reflecting the spirit of the literary
renaissance.
“Is altogether an admirable piece of editorial workmanship.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 121. S. 1, ‘05. 860w.
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 249. O. ‘05. 400w.
“On the whole a praiseworthy effort, and in the main a successful
effort, to redeem the South from the charge of actual literary
sterility.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 332. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is open to the criticism that it tends to foster the
provincial illusion that the larger the number of names the greater
the repute of the locality. For reference it is valuable, and appears
to be well done.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
“May be confidently recommended to all students of American
literature, North or South.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 440w.
“This volume has a distinct educational quality for the average
Northern reader. He will find it in many things of permanent value and
much that will delight and inspirit him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Trent, W. P., and Henneman, J. B.=, jt. eds. See =Thackeray, W: M.=
Works.
=Trevathen, Charles E.= American thoroughbred. **$2. Macmillan.
“This is the latest volume in the ‘American sportsman’s library.’ ...
The author has supplied the book with pictures of some of the best
known racers and other ‘thoroughbred’ horses. He opens it with a
chapter entitled ‘Whence the American thoroughbred?’”—N. Y. Times.
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 670w.
=Ind.= 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ancestry of the
American race horse.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Interesting and useful, though ... marred by typographical errors in
the names of both horses and owners that ought not to mar such
volumes.” Charles Tracy Bronson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 1320w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England
from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is
written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is
noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of
England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the
outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the
significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the
continental people of Europe attained nationality only through
military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the
same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting
and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His
personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this
being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the
second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and
Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into
the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook).
“The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious
aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)
“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the
word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned
and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary
qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of
real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and
condensation.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 135. F. 4. 2780w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 330. Mr. 18. 2580w.
“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.”
Edward Puller.
— =Bookm.= 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its
outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 38. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1860w.
“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and
atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is
undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a
discriminative use of authorities.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 454. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.
* “Is one of the best pieces of historical writing that has appeared
in recent years.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“This book brings sound scholarship, sensitiveness of temperament, and
breadth of outlook to bear upon an historical theme of perennial
importance.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 366. N. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
“The book ... is evidently an attempt to combine what may be called
the Green and the Traill methods. The early part of his volume might
be termed an abstract of Gardiner, while the latter is merely a
summary of Macaulay with improvements. This strict restriction to the
political history in the latter part of the book is especially
unfortunate. Altogether, Mr. Trevelyan’s treatment of Cromwell is
scarcely illuminating, either on the military or the religious side.
Allowing for his plan, is carried out with a skill and ability worthy
of his family tradition, but the plan, I must still contend, is a
faulty one.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 1840w.
“Succeeds in interpreting the period ... in terms at once attractive
and convincing. His style is that of the picturesque school, his
treatment that of the philosophic, a combination calculated to produce
excellent results. This must be accounted a work of high merit,
embodying the results of the latest research and developed along sound
lines.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 330w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. 3v. ea. *$2.
Longmans.
A new edition in three volumes of a work which originally appeared in
two parts. It is issued now with a new preface, a portrait of the
author, and some revision and rearrangement. “The special features of
this history are the fullness with which it brings out English
sentiment before and during the Revolutionary period, and the
clearness with which it presents the Revolutionary struggle as a part
of the great fight for Liberalism in England.” (Outlook.)
“It is certain that, as far as the revision goes, the author has left
uncorrected several mistakes of which he had been duly apprised, in
all three volumes.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 230. Mr. 23, ‘05. 350w.
“[The revisions] have been performed in a truly careful and judicious
manner. “As our recent notice called attention to some uncorrected
errors, it is only fair to say that many others in part I. have been
expelled.””
+ + =Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
=Trevelyan, Lady=, ed. See =Macaulay, Lord.= Works.
=Trevelyan, R. C.= Birth of Parsifal. *$1.20. Longmans.
“This may be described as a lyrical-dramatic fragment ... the theme of
which is drawn from those Graal romances which furnished Wagner’s
great music-drama.... The writer’s task is to make us feel the dread
and impressiveness of a curse denounced by ... the Graal and its
vague ... priestly knighthood; and to move us by the sorrows and
interior struggles of the dim figures affected by that curse.”—Acad.
“Mr. Trevelyan has poetic feeling and a measure of accomplishment. But
his resources are not equal to the ambitious demands of poetic passion
and imagination which he makes upon them.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 171. F. 25, ‘05. 440w.
“Of more than ordinary merit. It is to Mr. Trevelyan’s credit that
there are no purple patches.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 850w.
“Mr. Trevelyan has used, to his own loss, the dramatic form for a poem
that is never dramatic. The poem as a whole will disappoint those who
know Mr. Trevelyan’s earlier work.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 145. My. 5, ‘05. 410w.
* “If it does not rise to any great heights, at least is free from the
faults of much of the blank verse put forth at the present time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25. ‘05. 120w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Other side of the lantern: an account of a
commonplace tour around the world. $5. Cassell.
The other side of the lantern, as seen by the king’s physician, is not
bright. His story is tinged by the sadness of the scenes he saw by
sick beds and in hospitals, but what he saw, he saw clearly and
describes with color, charm and reality. He tells of Gibraltar, Crete,
Port Said, India, Burma, China and Japan, and gives a few words to
America, which he visited on his way home.
“Written throughout with an animation obviously unforced.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 91. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
“The point of view is that of a cultivated man of the world who is
able to set his impressions down in excellent English, and the result
is thoroughly readable.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, 05. 840w.
“The book is both trivial and ordinary, pictures and all. Those who
like the commonplace may enjoy this book.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 459. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“A book written in terse and epigrammatic style, as full of cleverness
as anything written by Kipling, and intensely interesting. But there
is nothing deeper in the book than first impressions. It is the best
book of travel that has been written for years.” T. H. H.
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 553. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1470w.
“He has at times a very pretty knack of description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 990w.
“... So vivid are the pictures which the traveller draws for us, so
penetrating his criticism of life and manners. It is the chapters on
Japan that we find the most interesting part of a highly interesting
book. We have to thank Sir Frederick Treves for a quite admirable
volume of travel.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 442. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1970w.
Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an
empress. *$1.50. Harper.
“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent
passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly.
It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany,
describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a
wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’
and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies
desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.
“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its
composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material
of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 643. S. 30, ‘05. 590w.
=Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Trollope, Anthony.= Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.
“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most
industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of
the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the
excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same
publishers.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 450w.
=Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
=Trollope, Henry M.= Life of Molière. Dutton.
Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable
sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with
it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky
volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a
useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing
concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.
* “It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again
for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read
it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance
of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal
style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had
it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1193. N. 18, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is with honest regret that a reviewer is forced to record his
opinion that this biography of Mr. Trollope’s is not worthy of its
theme, and that the biographer has been unable to rise to the height
of his subject. So far as the mere compilation of the facts is
concerned, it is possible to praise the book, although not without
many reservations in matters of detail. But he has not succeeded in
casting any new light on the facts, and he has failed totally to evoke
the noble figure of Molière himself and to make us realize the real
achievements of the greatest of comic dramatists.” Brander Matthews.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 816. D. 2, ‘05. 2310w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Selene. **$1.20.
Harper.
A dramatic poem in blank verse which gives a version of the story of
Endymion and the moon goddess.
“There seems, to us, in the choice of theme and in its treatment, a
true revival of essential poesy, opulent, free, unclouded by
psychological problem or symbol-compelling obscurity.” Edith M.
Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 561. Je. ‘05. 850w.
“Through the major part of the long piece the princess has written
admirable blank verse.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“There is no demand upon intense sympathies, the story is well and
swiftly told, and the poetry fulfills at least two-thirds of Milton’s
requirement.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 390w.
“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in
delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its
imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 200w.
=Trow, Charles Edward.= Old shipmasters of Salem, **$2.50. Putnam.
“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to
sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East
Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages, down to the
decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text
is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies
are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody
(1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of
ships.”—Nation.
“Seems to know little of its connexion with English or American
history.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 750. Je. 17. 240w.
“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up
with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 241. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to
hold the general reader.”
— =Ind.= 58: 1251. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The field of narration is not extensive, and the subject is treated
with all the fulness it deserves. The writer commands an excellent
style.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 1560w. (Abstract of
contents.)
“The author seems to have made a faithful study of the documentary
materials, and the result is a book of no little historical and
biographical value.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 372. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
=Trumbull, Charles Gallaudet.= Pilgrimage to Jerusalem; Pilgrim’s ed.
$2.50. S. S. Times co.
An account is here given of the “cruise of the delegates to the
World’s Sunday-school convention held in Jerusalem and of the travels
of the members of the party elsewhere.” (Outlook.)
+ =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 100w.
“Long and over-detailed.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian
by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.
Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the
present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in
the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has
given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to
make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a
distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it
seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of
private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a
study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.
— + =Acad.= 68: 732. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1300w.
“Is rather too slight in substance to make a book of.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most
women’s books of its brand.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes
slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to
the author.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Tuckwell, Rev. William.= Reminiscences of a radical parson. $2.
Cassell.
“All unconsciously the Radical parson reveals to us in this book a
very charming and thoroughly human personality. A college don, a
schoolmaster, and then, in later years, the incumbent of a college
living, Mr. Tuckwell first attracted public attention by his
unconventional methods of working his parish.... He was getting on in
years before he delivered his first political speech, though ... he
had delivered nearly a thousand orations before he decided to
retire.... There are many political reminiscences of Gladstone, and
indeed of many other famous men.”—Acad.
“Mr. Tuckwell’s latest volume is full of entertainment.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 360. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 455. Ap. 15. 1780w.
“The combination of scholarly polish, graceful wit, and hard common
sense in the author of this veracious and on the whole convincing
narrative, is very pleasing.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 80. Ag. 16, ‘05. 2040w.
“Mr. Tuckwell writes with a vigor and a directness, and a positive
candor, and an intensity of conviction that make interesting reading.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w.
“With himself the preacher is exceedingly well contented.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 705. My. 27, ‘05. 1140w.
* + — =Spec.= 95: 688. N. 4, ‘05. 790w.
=Tuker, M. A. R., and Malleson, Hope.= Rome: painted by Alberta Pisa.
*$6. Macmillan.
Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate
the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people,
religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.
“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and
paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy
between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best
in all this fine series.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 633. Je. 17, ‘05. 770w.
* “Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth
of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of
inaccuracies.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 620w.
“The text is almost as fascinating as the illustrations.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 740w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 2, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s
existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less
valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 373. Je. 10, ‘05. 1730w.
“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many
acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the
people of Rome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
=Turbayne, A. A.= Alphabets and numerals designed and drawn by A. A.
Turbayne. *$2. Van Nostrand.
Twenty-seven full-page plates which give “severe readable types” of
letters and numbers. They have been designed “for the designer or
craftsman to copy, alter, and arrange in their handicraft after their
own fancy,” and they are based upon old Roman, Gothic, and Italic
forms.
“One of the best books for practical purposes that we have had before
us for a long time.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 310w.
“A splendid and inspiring vade mecum for the artistic ‘letterer,’
whether engaged in designing posters, advertisements, or elaborate
lettered signs.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
=Turner, Harry Winthrop, and Hobart, Henry Metcalf.= Insulation of
electric machines. $4.50. Macmillan.
This book is “the result of twenty years of practical work.... Among
the topics discussed are some properties of insulating materials, the
insulation on ‘magnet wires’ employed in armature and field windings,
mica and mica compounds, drying insulations, taping machines and tapes
and bands, transformer insulation, impregnated cloths and fabrics, oil
for insulating, &c. There are a bibliography and an index, a large
number of diagrams, plans ... tables and footnotes. The book appears
in the ‘Specialists’ series.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will be welcomed by the electrical engineer as a most valuable
addition to his library.” Ernest Wilson.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Turner, Henry Gyles.= History of the colony of Victoria from its
discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. $7.
Longmans.
“The history begins with an unsuccessful attempt to found a convict
settlement at Fort Philip, and carries the story of Victoria down to
the end of the nineteenth century.... The municipal history and the
astonishing growth of Melbourne ... are particularly well told. The
same may be said of the chapters dealing with the discoveries of gold
and with the political and social turmoil which the discovery of gold
entailed; also of those describing the methods of parceling out
government lands, ... the causes of the panic and the financial
disasters of 1890-1893, and ... the long-drawn-out agitation which
finally led to the establishment of the Australian commonwealth. There
is an admirable index.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Turner’s work is obviously that of an old settler—a labor of love
on which many years have been spent. Regarded as such, his history of
Victoria is well done, and far above the average of colonial histories
written from this standpoint. It is written in a good clear style, and
generally carries the marks of much industry and care. While few but
specialists will be likely to read Mr. Turner’s two volumes from
beginning to end, they contain much that is of value and usefulness to
more general students, and especially to students who are interested
in the various new phases of democratic government as it has been
developed in Victoria.” Edward Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 676. Ap. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Turner is more at home in dealing with politicians than with the
natural features of the country, so that, while the early history can
be perhaps read with more profit elsewhere, the political story from
1850 downwards is told with great trenchancy and knowledge.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 270w.
“Their sustained interest depends on the fact that he is in truth no
mere chronicler of passing events, but a reflective historian. It is
plainly and frankly critical.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 249. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2000w.
=Turner, Herbert Hall.= Astronomical discovery. *$3. Longmans.
Six papers comprising the matter originally given in a series of
lectures at the University of Chicago. Their object is “to illustrate
by the study of a few examples, chosen almost at random, the variety
in character of astronomical discoveries.” The subjects treated are:
“Uranus and Eros,” “The discovery of Neptune,” “Bradley’s discoveries
of the aberration of light and of the mutation of the earth’s axis,”
“Accidental discoveries,” “Schwabe and the sun spot period,” and “The
variation of latitude.”
“The book is readable and interesting; and also accurate and
trustworthy, as much ‘readable’ popular science is not. Judged
according to its scope and purpose, there is little fault to be found
with the book.” C. A. Y.
+ + =Astrophys. J.= 21: 383. My. ‘05. 560w.
“There is ample internal evidence, not only that the lectures were
carefully prepared, but also of judicious selection. The second
chapter or lecture is probably the least satisfactory in the book.” W.
E. P.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 410. Mr. 2, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“Even to a non-scientific reader, and to the amateur of astronomy the
book should prove absorbing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 126. F. 25, ‘05. 640w.
“Apart from such bearing as it may have on the philosophy of discovery
Professor Turner’s book gives excellent accounts of several
interesting chapters of astronomic history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 633. My. 13, ‘05. 1030w.
“Lucid and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 30w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec. Tweedie).= Sunny Sicily. *$5.
Macmillan.
An Englishwoman’s observations of Sicily, “its rustics and its ruins,”
as they now are. Descriptions of real Sicilian eating-houses, market
places, lotteries, the Mafia, the superstitions of the evil eye,
Sicilian theatres, etc. There is also a brief Sicilian history and an
account of various visits to places of interest. The volume is
illustrated with photographs and a map.
“Mrs. Tweedie is certainly flippant, with a recklessly slipshod style,
many inaccurate statements, and spelling that is peculiar either to
her or to her printer. Is valuable as a sort of ‘chatty’ Baedeker,
being not only readable, but full of practical hints for the
travellers who may be attracted by it to this wonderful island.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 122. F. 9, ‘05. 330w.
“Provides in a very informal and personal way both information and
entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 690w.
“Though by no means so erudite, the present volume, in actual
information as to present conditions, is worthy of a place alongside
that standard work, Mr. Paton’s ‘Picturesque Sicily.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“She has the delightful, but uncommon, quality of an entertaining
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+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
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+ + =Spec.= 94: 618. Ap. 29, ‘05. 560w.
=Twigg, Lizzie.= Songs and poems. 60c. Longmans.
“Miss Twigg’s ... muse belongs frankly to Ireland. The hills, the sea,
the bogs, the sunset and the dawn, she celebrates in verse that is
sincere and frequently moving. She ... sings only the earthly charms
of the green island. The sky and the soil breathe beatitudes for her,
and she beholds the flowers and cliffs and fields through an
atmosphere of golden sentiment.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“It takes a well-nigh perfect ear for music to write such verse as
this. We may well be glad that it is so spontaneous and unaffected, so
free from bookishness and imitative endeavors.” Wm. M. Payne.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 500w.
Tybout, Ella Middleton. Wife of the secretary of state. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
A story of cosmopolitan Washington of no particular time or
administration which weaves mystery into a strange mixture of love,
intrigue and credulity. The wife of the secretary of state plays with
fire thru her traitorous delivery of valuable state papers into the
hands of a Russian diplomat. How she manages to come thru apparently
unharmed, and how the count relinquishes his villainy in a very
un-Russian like manner are strangely at variance with the expected
outcome that might require retributive punishment. The khedive’s opals
owned by the secretary’s wife flash a sympathetic accompaniment to her
heart moods all thru.
* “It is a story replete with adventure and excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 280w.
* “The conversation is lifelike and the characters are distinctly
individualized. An entertaining novel burdened by no especial
problem.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Tynan, Katharine.= See =Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan.=
U
=Ular, Alexander.= Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.
After announcing in his preface that his book will come as a shock to
some very sincere friends of Russia and that the facts he reveals are
authentic altho they “do not make pretty reading” the author proceeds
to give “a series of brilliant pictures, written manifestly from the
standpoint of the revolutionist and lashing furiously the heads of the
Russian state.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Though not without its faults, it has the conspicuous merits of being
clearly and forcefully written and of leaving a series of definite
impressions on the mind of the reader.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 409. N. ‘05. 920w.
“The book is not without value for him who can sift the facts from the
fiction and the denunciation; but it is altogether untrustworthy, and
cannot but mislead the untrained reader.” Charles H. Cooper.
— =Dial.= 39: 269. N. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“The historical portion is full of inaccuracies. Having warned our
readers that Dr. Ular’s statements require confirmation, we must admit
that his book is interesting and suggestive, that his knowledge is
considerable, that his view of M. Witte’s regime appears to us to be
very just, and that the remarkable story of the elaborate ‘oligarchic’
intrigue which eventually led to the war in the Far East certainly
contains an element of truth.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 222. Jl. 14, ‘05. 710w.
“People who like to read strong statements couched in language which
is plain to the verge of violence at times, and never courteous, will
thoroughly enjoy Mr. Ular’s arraignment of everybody and everything in
Russia—save, possibly, the revolutionists.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 363. N. 2, ‘05. 2060w.
“The rashness of language which makes the book particularly readable
serves, of course, to discredit it as a serious study—but it is
infinitely suggestive.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 1360w.
— — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 150w.
“It is certain Mr. Ular’s readers—if he has any—will not take him
sufficiently seriously to experience any shocks but those of
contempt.”
— — =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘04. 420w.
“Much of his work is of value, but we confess that his account of the
characters of the Emperor and his Court does not convince us. It is so
full of a lurid sensationalism that it fails of its purpose.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 340w.
=Underhill, Evelyn.= Gray world. $1.50. Century.
An imaginative story which dwells experimentally upon the transition
from life to death, and upon reincarnation. A little slum-child dies
in a hospital, carrying a vague consciousness of his earthly existence
to the Gray world of spirits. The awful terrors of the new realm crowd
in around him until his soul cries for release. So he goes back to the
world as the son of a London tradesman—bewildered, as once more a new
consciousness dawns, in the process of unifying his former existence,
his world of spirits, and the present life. The book follows the
development of this being thru the struggle to conquer the Gray world
and its depression. The book is unusual, with language and scheme
wholly in keeping with the vague, and the unreal which envelop it.
“Her book, then, is not only readable, but gives rise to that
intelligent form of gratitude which has been defined as a lively sense
of favors to come.”
+ =Atlan.= 95: 698. My. ‘05. 240w.
“A book of unusual imaginative quality, but too morbid to win a
general popularity. The volume is a very curious and unique
psychological study, along the borderline of madness.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 183. Ap. ‘05. 660w.
“It is intensely serious, no doubt, but it is also animated and even
enlivened by touches of a highly effective humor.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 124. F. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 540w.
“A weird and fantastic story. The best thing in the book is the pathos
of the description of the unrestful ghosts.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
“The earthly side of the book is as original as the spiritual, though
far less attractive.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 390w.
=Underwood, Earl.= Representing John Marshall & co. †$1. Dillingham.
A genial, slangy, and withal good-hearted drummer “spills” his inmost
thoughts into the white pages of this book. He jauntily tells of many
happenings so peculiar that as the news of each of them reaches Mame,
his queen, she promptly breaks off her engagement. Each chapter
chronicles a spicy adventure, a break, a reconciliation, but in the
end Mame seems thoroughly convinced that her drummer is a hero.
“It is amusing in its way if taken in small doses.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=United States. Library of Congress.= Catalog of the Gardiner Greene
Hubbard collection of engravings; presented to the Library of Congress
by Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Lib. of Congress.
“The plan of the compilation was very generous, and included the
catalogue proper of engravers, and index of engravers under a
chronological scheme, by centuries, an index of artists, a portrait
index, and a list of authorities.... The collection was presented to
the nation in 1898 by Mrs. Hubbard, and in default of a national art
gallery the Library of Congress was the most fitting place of
deposit.... The editor of the volume is Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, who is
in charge of the collection.”—Nation.
“The catalogue is clearly arranged and carefully written.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 718. Jl. 8, ‘05. 300w.
“No similar catalogue exists of an American collection of engravings;
it will, therefore, prove a convenient book of reference for
collectors.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 353. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
=United States. Library of Congress.= Some papers laid before the
Continental Congress, 1775. 15c. Supt. of doc.
The papers here published are: The declaration on taking arms, July 6,
1775; Franklin’s Articles of Confederation, July 21, 1775; Reports on
the Trade of America, July 21, October 2, and October 13, 1775; Report
on Lord North’s motion, and reports on the committees on Recess and
Unfinished business.
“The value of the pamphlet lies principally in the care which has been
taken to show the evolution of the final document in each case from
the first draft through the intermediate forms.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Upson, Arthur.= City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.
In this new edition of “The city,” a poem-drama in which Abgar, King
of Edessa, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Tiberius is cured of
his infirmity thru a message from the great Healer crucified at
Jerusalem, the author has made a few changes which, while they add to
the poetic effect of his work, do not detract from the dramatic
strength. The volume also includes Octaves in an Oxford garden,
written under the spell of the things of which he sings, and some
two-score sonnets, upon such widely different topics as Sultan’s
bread, Mona Lisa, The Rezzonico palace and our own Wheat elevators and
The statue of liberty.
* “Has something of the cool charm that springs from the imitation of
Greek models together with appeal that inheres in a Christian theme.
It never, however, attains any considerable tragic power.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
=Upward, Allen.= International spy: secret history of the Russo-Japanese
war. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The latest doings of that marvelous man, Monsieur H. V., are
chronicled in this volume, in which he himself tells of his adventures
when sent to Russia by England in the hope of averting war. He carried
a peace message from the Czar to the Mikado, was adopted into the
Japanese royal family, returned to Russia and after barely escaping
death at the hands of various enemies he succeeded in stealing a
torpedo boat from the Kaiser for which he was forgiven when his
mission became known. The beautiful and desperate Princess Y— has an
important role in this intimate story of courts and rulers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
V
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Brothers. †$1.50. Dodd.
These two brothers are each half of a complete whole, they succeed
together, each fails alone. Archibald, strong and magnetic, delivers
the sermons written by his weak and stammering brother, and by their
spiritual and intellectual force he wins Betty Kirtling, who discovers
after she has married him, that it is his brother whom she loves.
“It is an exceedingly well-told tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“The book is free from annoying defects, has a well-sustained
interest, and may be accounted a worthy addition to the season’s
output.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 220w.
=Vacher, Francis.= Food inspector’s handbook. $1.50. Van Nostrand.
The fourth edition of this handbook has been brought down to date and
an additional chapter on “Statutory powers” included.
“The author gives sensible advice, and his little volume should be
found very useful to those for whom it is written.” C. S.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 243. Jl. 13, ‘05. 320w.
=Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington.= Hecla Sandwith. †$1.50. Bobbs.
This story of a woman of moods, the daughter of a Pennsylvania iron
master, who married a young mining engineer, regretted it, left him,
and later awoke to the realization that she loved him, is also the
story of the mines, the iron workers, and the blast furnace.
“A leisurely and very charming picture of a Quaker settlement in
Pennsylvania in 1856.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 330w.
“It is a pleasure to notice a romance of American life so instinct
with artistic, literary and scientific excellence as ‘Hecla Sandwith.’
Here speaks the poet, the historian and the psychologist.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 106. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“The chief fault of the book is lack of concentration.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 380w.
“There is too much narrative here. The descriptions of nature are
poetic, the minor characters are particularly well drawn, and many of
the pictures linger in the memory.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
“The story is a long one, and not firmly knit together. A book that
preserves with almost photographic fidelity the manners and customs of
a time fully departed.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“The book has the merit of careful husbandry in an unworked field, and
it is well written; a novel of unusual power and interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“It is unevenly written. But, on the whole, the sense of the art of
literature is so high and fine and the adhesion to this sense so
accurate and faithful, that the entire result should be greeted as a
reawakening among us. There are pages that any novelist, living or
dead, might have been glad to claim.” James Lane Allen.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 241. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Charming style, keen powers of analysis, and skill in snapshot
portraiture as well, characterize this study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.
“His book is full of nature and of human nature: it rings true.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50.
Wessels.
Terence O’Rourke, an Irish gentleman and soldier, in the capacity of
commissioned defender—tho backed by the courage and chivalry which
make an undertaking his own affair—arrays himself in a series of
adventures against unscrupulous, even villainous royalty. Thru his
quick wit and marked swordsmanship he rights the wrongs of good women,
at last winning for himself the love of the princess for whom most of
his battles are fought.
+ =Ind.= 59: 697. S. 21, ‘05. 170w.
“Readers of many and varied tastes will delight in the author’s
fertile imagination and the ever-ready humor which produces and
disposes of Terence’s trials and tribulations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“A bit of simple and entertaining romance of the old-fashioned style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 487. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“There is plenty of action, humor, and romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
=Vandam, Albert Dresden.= Men and manners of the third republic. **$3.
Pott.
“In part a posthumous work; a charming review of the principal events
of the third republic as seen in the men and events of the times....
We have a glimpse behind the scenes, and ... we are brought into such
intimate relations with the actors that we are able to form for
ourselves a clear and accurate conception of the motives that caused
the movement that led to the establishment of the third republic. We
are introduced to Thiers and Gambetta.... But it is idle to mention by
names the great Frenchmen who appear in the pages of the work; suffice
it to say that none of those who were prominent in the days following
the downfall of Louis Napoleon are neglected, much less
omitted.”—Baltimore Sun.
“Delightful collection of facts and thoughts.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 500w.
“Much that is here said about the iniquities of French political life
may be quite true, and the book, taken in small quantities at a time,
is not devoid of a certain interest. But a rigorous criticism would
show that the historian must quote it, if at all, with care.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 440w.
=Van de Put, A.= Hispano-Moresque ware of the 15th century. *$4. Lane.
“A contribution to its history and chronology, based upon armorial
specimens.” This is a small quarto containing 34 plates illustrating
pieces taken from many public and private collections. There is a
brief general treatise which, while stating frankly that material for
a history is lacking, gives much historical information. There is a
full description of some of the plates.
“This is the first orderly and intelligent treatise devoted to it.
Goes far to supply the obvious need of a manual.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 490w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A group of twelve essays and addresses, which may be generally
characterized as the creed or confession of an idealist, and an
application of his principles to life.”—Outlook.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 957. D. 23, ‘05. 750w.
“These essays bear his stamp. They are not written solely for
scholars. They are easily understandable, readable, while his ‘sane
idealism’ shines through them all.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 520w.
=Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things.
†$1.50. Scribner.
“The thirteenth edition of a well-known series of essays arranged in
the form of a holiday book illustrated with most agreeable drawings by
F. Walter Taylor.” (Critic.) The volume contains beside the title
essay: The thrilling moment; Talkability; A wild strawberry; Lovers
and landscape; A fatal success; Fishing in books; A Norwegian
honeymoon; Who owns the mountains? A lazy, idle book; The open fire; A
slumber song.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 40w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Van Dyke, Henry=, ed. Little masterpieces of English poetry, by British
and American authors; ed. by Henry van Dyke, assisted by Hardin Craig.
6v. ea. **75c; set, **$4.50. Doubleday.
“A companion to the ‘Science,’ ‘Fiction’ and ‘Humor’ series.... For
the many ... such a collection as this, wisely selected, and adapted
to the limits of both time and purse of the average reader, is of real
and not inconsiderable value.” (Outlook.) “In the first of the six
little volumes we find ballads old and new, in the second, idyls and
stories in verse, and in the four remaining volumes lyrics, odes,
sonnets and epigrams; descriptive and reflective verse; and elegies
and hymns. Each of these major divisions is subdivided according to
subjects. Living poets are excluded.” (Critic.)
* “The principle of arrangement followed in this new one is as
excellent as it is novel. As a rule, admirable judgment has been shown
in combining these handy volumes, the most remarkable defect being the
omission of Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “Dr. van Dyke’s name is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of
the selection.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Music and other poems. **$1. Scribner.
A collection of poems which take many forms and follow many themes.
The opening “Ode to music” is followed by sonnets, lyrics, and other
verses treating of the open, the silent hills, and the hearth and
home.
“Dr. Van Dyke’s work is that of a scholar in poetry endowed with a
graceful gift of lyric speech.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 420. S. ‘05. 570w.
“They are delicate and graceful in workmanship, the expression of a
refined and sensitive poetic instinct rather than the outpourings of a
creative mood.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“Dr. Van Dyke has nearly every good poetic gift except creative
genius.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “In spite of his popularity even Dr. van Dyke, who attempts to
supply our want of a reflective poet, leaves much to be desired in
depth and significance.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“There is much that is charming and appealing in these verses. From
first to last there is evidence of an unusual gift for verbal music.
If they are a little too honeyed, too academic, they are also the
production of a skillful artificer in words and of a mind of high
culture and high ideals.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 498. Mr. ‘05. 430w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= School of life, **50c. Scribner.
In this thin little volume is “eloquently expressed an optimism based,
not on temperament, but on faith in character, discernment of the
spiritual possibilities of life, and sound judgment of ethical
values.” (Outlook.)
“The characteristic charm of Dr. van Dyke’s former works is extended
to the present volume.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 328. My. ‘05. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Spirit of Christmas. **75c. Scribner.
Four essays for the Christmas tide. The first, “A dream story,” shows
how power and knowledge are both insufficient to reclaim the world
from sin, but that the secret of success lies in greater love; the
second, “Christmas giving and Christmas living,” offers helpful
suggestions on the spirit of giving; the third, “Christmas keeping,”
shows the possible purification in the Christmas thought; and the two
Christmas prayers make a plea for the home and the lonely ones.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “Full of Dr. van Dyke’s spirit of helpfulness, and pervaded by the
very human charm of his style.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
=Van Dyke, Paul.= Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.
Professor van Dyke’s survey embraces “the England, Germany, and Italy
of the sixteenth century. His concern is primarily with three
individuals—Pietro Aretino, the Venetian satirist; Thomas Cromwell,
the unscrupulous minister of the still less scrupulous Henry VIII.,
and the Emperor Maximilian I.—but the standpoint from which they are
regarded is such as to necessitate a close examination of their
times.”—Outlook.
* “His book appears to have been printed without the proofs being
read, though this appearance may be due to the author’s own style,
which is vicious.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 852. D. 2, ‘05. 1240w.
* “The results, not the details, of research are here exhibited, and
in a setting of idea which gives color and meaning and movement.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 310w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A novel with a ‘poor white trash’ mill-girl heroine, and a dissipated
labor agitator for hero, does not sound promising.” (Outlook.) It “is
clearly meant as a tract on industrial conditions in the new South....
[It] pictures the life of the factory hands in the cotton mills—a
life ... which is mainly sickness, suffering and death. There is much
in the book to arouse sober thought, and certain passages are rich in
description and characterization.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Apart from errors in style, and, here and there, in feeling, there is
a capacity to portray life which shows real power.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 230w.
“Is not a strong story, though it shows in places, the wish, if not
the power, to say something vital about love and life and death.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w.
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
+ — =Forum.= 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
“Mrs. Van Vorst paints with a strong hand the terrible life in the
mills.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 610w.
“Interesting and good work, although its story is improbable and over
weighted with propagandist theories and statistics.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
“In ‘Amanda of the mill’ she does not control her material; it
controls her. Over-seriousness forces her into melodrama, with
improbabilities that were never intended.”
— + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.
“An interesting but rather improbable story.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 30w.
=Vardon, Harry.= Complete golfer. **$3.50. McClure.
“Mr. Vardon has four times won the open championship of Great Britain
and once the American championship. There is no doubt, therefore, that
he knows how to play golf; and this book proves that he knows how to
tell others how to do it.” (Outlook.) The book is amply illustrated.
“Will be read with unusual interest as being the work of one who is
not only original in his methods and fascinating in his style, but
also perhaps the most finished and graceful player that has ever
lived.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 295. S. 2. 1300w.
“It is a very good book. He never leaves one in doubt as to his
meaning, and he brings to the succour of his pen a pleasant geniality
and optimism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 530w.
“Vardon’s manner of writing is as straightforward and interesting as
his manner of playing golf.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“He has accomplished what has often been called the impossible, the
writing of a helpful book in an entertaining manner by one who is an
acknowledged expert of the game.” F. W. C.
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Scotland are rarely entertaining. His book is full of valuable hints,
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volume consists, we should particularly recommend the last five as
appealing more generally to the unbiased reader.... The first five
seem rather to lead up to the others, and to be an attempt at more
technical and erudite writing. Much is new of what the author says
about crises.... The ‘Theory of modern welfare,’ ... the significance
for the business world at large of the advance in workingmen’s
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is the formulation of many of his statements in symbols of
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discovered. And yet, despite the fact that the author’s attitude
renders the highest approval of either the scientific or the ethical
standpoint impossible, the book is an uncommonly suggestive one. The
penetrating glance into certain broad and seamy aspects of our
industrial life prompts to a reflective testing of one’s social
beliefs and ideals.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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and often to a tortuous mode of expression. By reason of its many
evidences of keen and profound thought, of a high grade of scholarship
and of a breadth and sureness of vision, the book is notable among
recent contributions to economics; and tho its usual style is
difficult, it is yet penetrated by flashes of inimitable satiric wit
that is delightful.”
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excellent qualities of scholarly reasoning and scientific
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acquaintance with the existing economic literature....” A. M.
Wergeland.
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sensational magazines: but it is a travesty of economics and an unjust
aspersion of our business morality.”
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=Vesey, Arthur Henry.= Clock and the key. †$1.50. Appleton.
An American girl in modern Venice sets her two lovers the task of
bringing to her a casket of jewels which disappeared five centuries
before. One man is an Italian duke, the other an American. With the
girl as the prize, the search for the jewels soon results in a series
of complicated and exciting adventures, but at last by the aid of an
old and intricate clock, which is itself the key, the jewels come to
the girl, and the girl to the man she loves.
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Views of early New York; with illustrative sketches; prepared for the
New York chapter of the colonial order of the Acorn. priv. ptd. Colonial
order of the Acorn, N. Y.
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French from views of New York in the early stages of its history....
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Origines islandicae: a collection of the more important sagas and other
native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland.
2v. *$14. Oxford.
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of notes made in the eleventh or twelfth century ... relating to the
old law and customs of the Norsemen settled in Iceland.... Tales and
legends relating to the conversion and early church history of
Iceland, Sagas relating to the history of Iceland during the first two
centuries ... divided into four sections, which treat of the South,
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of this matter has, we think, been printed before in Iceland or in
Denmark, but much of it is now accessible only in books that have
become scarce, and in texts far from accurate.”—Nation.
* “The present work is by no means free from some of the faults which
marked its predecessor, the ‘Corpus poeticum boreale’; but fortunately
the comparison of the two works will hold for the merits as well as
the defects.”
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