“There are some repetitions from the former volumes. And the style
leaves something to be desired, being, to say the least, neither
original nor distinguished.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Handsomely gotten up and written in interesting style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 260w.
=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= Fifteen decisive battles of the
world, from Marathon to Waterloo; new ed. $1.25. Harper.
8–30944.
A new edition containing the complete text of Creasy’s “Fifteen
decisive battles” and eight additional battles as follows: Quebec,
Yorktown, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sedan, Manila bay, Santiago and
Tsu-Shima. The battles are described by well-known historians and are
accompanied by chronological lists of important events.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 120w.
=Creed= of Buddha, by the author of “The creed of Christ.” *$1.50.
Lane.
8–15891.
“In addition to the several chapters in which the author sets forth
and discusses the teachings of Buddha, he enters into a comparison of
the view-points of the East and the West.... In another chapter he
discusses ‘the bankruptcy of Western thought,’ by which he means that
the higher thought of the Western world has come to a point where it
no longer has anything to offer in response to its own demands. In the
final chapter he sets forward the theory that it remains for Western
intellect to borrow and assimilate the ethical ideas of the East and
evolve from these ‘a science of the soul’ that will enrich the Western
poverty of thought.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The layman who wishes to get a clear idea of the ethical teaching of
Buddha, apart from his philosophy, will find a concise and
illuminating discussion and interpretation of ‘The creed of Buddha,’
by this anonymous author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 220w.
“It is suggestive and stimulating, and even if we doubt its being a
correct representation of the philosophy of the Buddha, it contains
much that will do the European reader no harm to keep in mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
=Creel, George.= Quatrains of Christ; preface by Julian Hawthorne.
**75c. Elder.
8–22554.
The esoteric meaning of Christ’s life and mission gleams forth from
these quatrains which tell the wonderful and radiant story with
reverence and spiritual insight. The quatrains “are in form, the
Rubaiyat of Omar over again; but save that they are full of veritable
poetry they are as different from them in purpose and issue as light
is different from shadow.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“This new poet seems a real interpreter of the religious life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
=Cresson, William Penn.= Persia; the awakening East. **$3.50.
Lippincott.
8–17797.
“The author, who is a prominent architect of Washington. D. C., and a
fellow of the Royal geographical society, tells the story of a caravan
journey across Persia, old Kurdistan, and the countries of the middle
east taken by himself and his brother. His book, however, is more than
a description of the country, for he pays especial attention to the
political condition of the countries through which he passed, and
throws a great deal of light upon the so-called awakening of Persia
and upon the diplomatic complications caused by the rivalries and
conflicting interests of Russia, England, and Germany in that remote
part of the world. The book is profusely illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A volume well written and well illustrated, but Mr. Cresson does not
live up to his avowed purpose as indicated by his title and his
introductory statements.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 220w.
“The value of the volume is not impaired because its politics, is a
little out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 557. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Notwithstanding the somewhat superficial character of the book, it is
instructive, and the author’s style makes it easy reading, while the
photographic illustrations add much to its interest and
attractiveness. We regret that there is neither map nor index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 189. Ag. 27, ’08. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“While not so exhaustive, scholarly, or authoritative as is Professor
Jackson’s recently published book, Mr. Cresson’s may prove to be even
more popularly instructive; certainly it is a good preparatory book to
read before attempting the other.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Well and interestingly written account of the present condition of
the Shah’s empire.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Crocker, Francis Bacon.= Dynamo-electric machinery: an
authoritative treatise on the theory, constructive details,
calculation, characteristic curves, and design of dynamo-electric
machinery. $1.50. American school of correspondence.
8–23578.
“The book is intended for correspondence instruction, and is well
arranged for this purpose. There are four sections to the book
covering the fundamental principles and various classes of generators,
calculations and characteristic curves. A valuable feature of the work
is a well-selected list of problems relating to the design,
construction and operation of such generators, appropriate solutions
being given in outline.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Good as his previous work has been, he may be said in this work to
have crystallized clearly and summarized succinctly the fruitful
results of study, practice and didactic disquisition, and is to be
congratulated upon a book that to a certain extent does him justice
and that cannot fail to be a helpful guide to the aspiring electrical
engineer.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 362. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
“Anyone who is seeking a lucid and logical presentation of the very
elements of the design of direct-current generators will not be
disappointed with this text.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“Overlooking [several] shortcomings, the book may be considered as an
excellent elementary text relating to standard low-speed
direct-current generators.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 280w.
=Crockett, Charles Winthrop.= Methods for earthwork computations.
*$1.50. Wiley.
8–10844.
“The author formulates a series of rules by means of which the terms
requisite for the numerical computation of volumes by the prismoidal
formula and the average end area method may be written directly from
the notes, without any intermediate steps and without drawing any
figures, the symbolized form of the rules enabling the computer to
apply them without difficulty.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 230w.
“The book as a whole presents the subject of the computation of
earthwork quite clearly and fully. The rules derived could be more
readily understood by the student if expressed in words as well as by
formulas, as the notation used in some of the special cases is not
evident even by reference to the summary. In general, however, the
statements are clearly made and the methods easily followed.” C: L.
Crandall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Deep moat grange. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9175.
A tale of murder and mystery with a north of England setting.
* * * * *
“Great skill is shown in the handling of so numerous a company. We
fancy, however, in spite of this and the excellence of the local
colouring, that the tragic element is a trifle too lurid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 150w.
“A soufflé of slang and shudders.”
− =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“The plot is well managed and the style is sprightly and vivid,
although Mr. Crockett is prone, as usual, to be amazingly long-winded
and to use three times as many words as are necessary for the telling
of his story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 256. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
“A crazy tale about crazy people.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Iron lord. (English title, Vida; or,
The iron lord of Kirktown.) il. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–274.
An unscrupulous ironmaster sends his wife and daughter to sea with
orders for the ship to be scuttled at a suitable moment. The child is
rescued and unknown to her father grows to womanhood in his mining
village. The story introduces a variety of characters and situations
that are more or less identified with the final achievement of the
father’s repentance.
* * * * *
“Let the reader read if he chooses. The book will not injure his
feeblest virtues, but do not let him purchase it under the impression
that he is buying one of S. R. Crockett’s dark o’ the moon tales.”
− =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 320w.
“The plot of the story, if its sequence of incidents can be called a
plot, is loose and struggling, and conventional enough to be worthy of
the respect due to age. There are a number of exciting incidents very
well related, and there are some excellent scenes portraying the life
and work of the employes of the Incubus mines. These last are, indeed,
the best part of the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Is it possible that Mr. Crockett is trying how far a well-established
favourite can presume on the indulgence of the fiction-reading public?
Mr. Crockett has a masterful way of picturing women and their ways
that recalls Charles Reade, and the dialogue is as vigorous as ever.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Redcap adventures. †$1.75. Macmillan.
8–24454.
A continuation of “Red cap tales.” They are drawn from “Ivanhoe,” “The
fortunes of Nigel,” “Quentin Durward,” “The pirate,” and “A legend of
Montrose,” the portions being retold in a manner simple enough to
interest children.
* * * * *
“Will be sure to hold his young readers.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 50w.
“The connecting links are excellent, while the stories are told with
spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The volume is attractive in every way. For itself, and as a foretaste
of the great teller of tales, whom many people do still read, the book
is most acceptable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Cromer, Earl of.= Modern Egypt. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
8–8125.
A two-volume work which sets forth “how this ancient land has been
policed, financed, and irrigated after the latest European models.”
(Lit. D.) It makes its appeal to the Englishman for its detailed story
of General Gordon and his mission to Khartoum; to the student of
history for the light thrown on European diplomacy and politics; to
the student of political science for the manner of solving difficult
problems and handling troublesome policies; to the student of
ethnology for the light thrown upon the race development question.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“Earl Cromer’s volumes are at once thorough, scholarly and
sympathetic.” C. L. Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 725. My. ’08. 600w.
“He writes with a largeness of view, a generosity of temper, and a
sense of responsibility which belong characteristically to the man who
has been at the helm of Egypt through his eventful and fruitful
quarter of a century.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 345. Mr. 21. 1750w.
“The opinions of so acute and well-informed a statesman, even when not
on the scene, are of great value.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 376. Mr. 28. 3300w.
“It is and will continue to be the most reliable and illuminating
history of a momentous epoch in British foreign politics.” J: W:
Russell.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 492. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“No one has [told the story of English rule] so well, as Lord Cromer.”
J. W. Garner.
+ =Dial.= 44: 237. Ap. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Since the days of Cæsar, Lord Cromer is the first great ruler who has
written his own story in such vigorous, clear and noble language.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 747. Ap. 2, ’08. 1200w.
“It is the highest tribute we can pay to this book to declare that he
has manifestly carried out his noble purpose and he has related his
experiences with modesty, succinctness, and eloquence.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 490. Ap. 4, ’08. 850w.
“Teachers of English would do well to weigh the style of these
volumes. A master of lucid statement and apt phrase, able to convey
his thought vividly and precisely in language which yet attracts no
more attention to itself than the dress of a woman of perfect taste.
The book is so noteworthy because the intellect and the character
which have gone to its making are so exceptional.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 235. Mr. 12, ’08. 1550w.
“We are confident that Lord Cromer’s book, as a whole, would have left
a better impression upon candid minds had he refrained from his too
evidently labored attempt to justify his course in respect to the
governor generalship appointment and the Zobeir episode.” C. R.
Miller.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 149. Mr. 21, ’08. 5000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Should be read and re-read by all who have aught to do with the
government of dependent races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 2550w.
“His story of his achievements is well worth reading, well worth
studying.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“The chapters dealing with the financial and economic reforms in Egypt
are most interesting, and the whole is one of the most noteworthy
historical works of the past decade.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 70w.
“Without attempting to pose as a political philosopher, he yet gives
us ... a number of principles of political action, which are all
marked by that sanity and simplicity of judgment, that broad and
masculine good sense, which has been the foundation of his success.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 374. Mr. 21, ’08. 3200w.
“Valuable in a high degree from the historical side.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 374. Mr. 7, ’08. 2400w.
“He sees how the oriental mind works, and takes the necessary steps to
keep his own mind free from either prejudice or entanglement. [The
book] is throughout written, not only with the force, directness, and
good sense which would be expected from its author, but also with no
little insight and literary charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 420. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Cronson, Bernard.= Pupil self-government: its theory and practice.
*90c. Macmillan.
7–36886.
The scheme for pupil self-government as outlined, developed and
operated by a New York principal. Ethical as well as civic training is
insured through the author’s methods. The book is fully illustrated,
and furnished with blank pages for notes.
* * * * *
“Not entirely satisfactory because of its scrappy character, but
suggestive and especially useful as there are no other books on the
subject and only occasional brief magazine articles.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 175. Je. ’08.
“The principal who is interested in the subject will find in this book
a very definite statement as to methods and as to conditions essential
for success.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
=Crooker, Rev. Joseph Henry.= Church of today: a plea. *75c. Pilgrim
press.
8–12536.
A practical treatment of the church problem, of the obstacles in the
way of the attainment of the church’s ideals, of religion as a
corporate life, of the church’s contribution to modern life and
inspiration, and of the functions of the church as a social
institution.
* * * * *
“Though the author is a liberal thinker, his work is quite
conservative in tone. It is a strong, able and earnest plea for closer
union of men and women for the carrying forward of the fundamental
truths of religion and the elevation of society to a higher and nobler
plane of existence.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 300w.
“Is remarkable both for comprehensiveness and sobriety. The author
works up to the line of truth, and rarely if ever transcends it.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 370w.
“A modern and candid statement of the problem before the church.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 160w.
=Cross, Victoria.= Religion of Evelyn Hastings. $1.50. Kennerley.
Evelyn Hastings’ religion evolved from childhood and girlhood
experiences is the religion of living, constant prayer. It is
materialistic inasmuch as it limits the omnipotence of God, and it
permits of dream communion with absent loved ones.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= By the Christmas fire. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–33150.
A collection of wise and humorous essays by the author of “The gentle
reader” and “The pardoner’s wallet,” which will incite in the reader
as he smiles and chuckles a feeling of peace and good will toward all
his fellows. Besides the Bayonet-poker, Christmas and the literature
of disillusion, Christmas and the spirit of democracy, with their
hopeful and kindly Christmas philosophy, the book contains the essays,
The ignominy of being grown-up and On being a doctrinaire.
* * * * *
“A new volume of those charming, humorous, observant papers of his,
which often lead one nowhere in particular, but benefit him none the
less all the way.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1173. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Although the spirit of Dr. Crother’s style is optimistic and hopeful,
there is an undercurrent of whimsical warning for the contented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One finds a wealth of entertainment which is not the less delightful
because it carries with it an abundance of intellectual profit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is quite good enough to take its place in the ‘Standard library of
pleasant books’ which some wise publisher will some day bring out.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
=Crouch, Frances.= Feminine finance. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36412.
Here are set forth in amusing fashion the high-handed methods to which
two bachelor maids resort in bringing about the payment of a
promissory note which an unfortunate woman holds against her cousin.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Entertainment of the lightest variety may be found by easily pleased
readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 843. D. 21, ’07. 100w.
=Crowninshield, Francis W.= Manners for the metropolis: an entrance
key to the fantastic life of the 400. **$1. Appleton.
8–31014.
A humorous Baedeker to the social realm. It contains concise rules of
deportment for all the more important social ceremonies—“from a
tete-à-tete to a betrothal, a picnic to a funeral, a partié-carrée to
a divorce, an ushers’ dinner to a Turkish bath, and a piano recital to
a rout. It also contains excellent advice on the choice of a motor
car, a summer residence, a wife, or a brand of cigar.” (Preface.)
=Crowninshield, Frederic.= Under the laurel. **$1.50. Dodd.
7–34589.
A book of poems divided into three groups as follows: Miscellaneous
poems, Sonnets, and Character studies and narrative poems.
* * * * *
“Contain little that is distinctive, such qualities of sincerity and
imagination as they do possess are much obscured by faulty
expression.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 310w.
“It is a source of real joy to meet with a collection deserving, as
does Mr. Crowninshield’s, a generous welcome from the world of
culture.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 200w.
“He is not sure enough of his rhythms, and is somewhat too fond of
unusual words to set the sensuous chords within us vibrating, but, as
a seeker after the meaning of life, perplexed at times, often
indignant, always courageous, he stands notably apart from the crowd.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 260w.
“In his shorter pieces, where he is more narrowly impelled by his
idea, he is most nearly successful.” Christian Gauss.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Crozier, Alfred Owen.= The magnet. †$1.50. Funk.
8–1779.
A novel which embodies the Wilmington lawyer’s methods of winning out
in a campaign against predatory wealth now looking for its greatest
triumph in a central government bank. Mr. Crozier’s aim is not to
injure Wall street’s useful and harmless business but to purge it of
its dangerous powers and practices, to end margin gambling, and the
demand for usurious interest rates. The book thrills with such
problems, and portrays a tigerish, conscienceless Wall street magnate
pitted against an honest, daring, invincible United States senator.
The battle is to the strong—the strong in courage and principle.
* * * * *
“‘The magnet’ is a book that should be bought, read and circulated by
every patriotic American between now and the coming election. This we
say in spite of the author’s amazing protection views and in spite of
his failure to realize that the more the government seeks to regulate
criminal corporations, the more those corporations will debauch
politics for the sake of the enormous revenue that can be wrested from
the people so long as they control the regulating force of government
and are able to continue their career of lawlessness.” B. O. Flower.
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 479. Ap. ’08. 5300w.
“His moral purpose in exposing financial iniquities in high places is
deep-seated and throughout the story it remains persuasive.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Of course it should never have been written under the head of
fiction ... but as a treatise on stock gambling the book has genuine
force, and perhaps is even not without its message.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the churches and minor
museums of Florence: a critical catalogue with quotations from
Vasari. (Art collections of Europe ser.) *$1.25. Dutton.
8–18753.
A critical guide book, illustrated with numerous miniature
reproductions of pictures and frescoes.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 64: 1300. Je. 4, ’08. 40w.
“It is a painstaking and apparently accurate piece of work, and should
prove of great value to the traveller interested in art.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 41. Jl. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The criticism is helpful to the tyro as well as to the advanced
student.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Cuenot, G.= Deformations of railroad tracks, and the means for
remedying them. *$2. Railway gazette.
8–3513.
“Gives the results of many experiments on the lines of the
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean railway. The deformations studied include
creeping, the reduction of gauge on tangents, the spreading of gauge
on curves, the compression of tie at its supports, the tearing out of
screw spikes, the poor holding of the joints, and the vertical
deformation of the rail.” Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The various matters are discussed scientifically and in detail. The
mechanical work on the book is rather poor. The translation is also
somewhat awkward at times. A more serious matter is the entire
omission of an index.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 661. D. 12, ’07. 700w.
“The monograph is such a valuable contribution to the subject of track
deformation that it deserves a very careful study.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 721. D. 28, ’07. 430w.
* =Culbreth, David M. R.= University of Virginia: memories of her
student-life and professors. *$5. Neale.
A volume of reminiscences written by a “casual alumnus” who entered
the University of Virginia in 1872. He gives intimate pictures of the
working of the inner life of the institution—of its class room and
debating society, social and religious life, of its students and
professors, and its environment and ideals. Across the whole moves the
spirit of Jefferson, its founder and supporter.
=Cunningham, Brysson.= Treatise on the principles and practice of
harbour engineering; with 18 pl. and 220 il. in the text. *$5.
Lippincott.
8–21779.
“The book on ‘Harbor engineering’ is introduced by an historical
chapter tracing the growth of navigation with its necessary
concomitant, the harbor.... The second chapter is devoted to harbor
design and the effect upon such design of the configuration of the
land, the tides and winds and the climatic conditions of the place.
The next six chapters take up the methods and materials of harbor
construction.... Finally a chapter is given to channel demarcation,
signals and lighthouses.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“To the profession in general the discussion of the behavior of
structural materials in and about sea-water will be the most valuable
part of the book. In particular the study of the effect of sea-water
on concrete is worthy of separate publication.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 430w.
=Curle, Richard H. P.= Aspects of George Meredith. il. *$2. Dutton.
8–16941.
After an introduction which estimates Meredith as novelist and poet
and defines afresh idealism, realism and poetry, the author deals with
the following subjects: Meredith’s personality explained by atmosphere
and style, Philosophy of nature, Lyrical view of nature, Philosophic
conception of social problems, Insight into character, The eloquence
of Meredith, etc.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“A blend of fun and poetry, and, especially, youth.” F. M. Colby.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Curle’s careful nuances of definition at times weary the reader
without pleasurably enlightening him.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Much, perhaps most, of Mr. Curle’s philosophy is true enough, and not
a little of his criticism is substantial and helpful; but, judging the
book as a whole, we frankly do not take pleasure in this tone of
literary religiosity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 464. My. 21, ’08. 400w.
“There is nothing much to ridicule in Mr. Curle’s book, and much to
honestly admire. The analyses of the various novels are suggestive and
illuminative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Currency= problem and the present financial situation: a series of
addresses delivered at Columbia university, 1907–1908. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–8335.
A series of addresses thru which run “an unexpected harmony of
thought, and a close agreement not only as to the ultimate ideal to be
attained in our financial relations, but as to the next step to be
taken in the legislative reform of our currency.” (J. Pol. Econ.) See
Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
“No more timely or important treatment of the problems which now
confront the American people has appeared anywhere than will be found
in this volume.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 520. My. ’08. 100w.
“Some of the most prominent men of affairs in New York have
contributed to the volume and it is evident that they are speaking out
of the fulness of practical experience, and have thought deeply on
various subtle points of theory.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 463. Jl. ’08. 160w.
=Curriculum= of the elementary school; reprinted from Teachers
college record. (v. 7, nos. 1 and 4; v. 8. nos. 1, 3 and 4.) $2.
Teachers college, Columbia univ.
A curriculum for the first seven grades of the public school. “As an
indication of how means may be adjusted to ends, of how teachers of
widely differing temperaments may be united in purpose, and of how a
norm may be utilized to direct concerted action throughout a large
institution, the study of the curriculum herein given is particularly
worthy of attention.”
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols: a history; with a foreword by Theodore
Roosevelt. **$3. Little.
7–40050.
Mr. Curtin’s panoramic view is epic in its sweep of “vital historical
events” which have had so large a share in aiding or marring the
development of Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a closely written,
illuminating history of the rise of the Mongol empire and its
decadence, popular in treatment yet scholarly in its authenticity and
choice of material.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding the imperfections of this work ... it puts before the
public the outlines, at least, of an epic of such wonderful interest
and which is so little known to us, that we must be thankful that it
has seen the light.” W. W. Rockhill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 562. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Nothing in this volume is so readable as the seven animated pages of
‘Foreword.’”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 528. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A scholarly, comprehensive, authentic work upon the rise and fall of
the Mongolian empire.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“The volume is one of the most important historical works of recent
years.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 497. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Valuable to the ordinary reader, and with its index and map will be a
useful addition to the library. In its composition, Mr. Curtin has
followed the bent of his genius; but it cannot accurately be called a
history.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Dial.= 44: 178. Mr. 16, ’08. 850w.
“Will be eagerly read, particularly at the present time, as a
contribution of first importance to the literature which aids us to
comprehend, if not to understand, the Orient.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 80w.
“It fulfills none of the conditions demanded by modern historical
methods. Fact and fable are mingled without any attempt at criticism
and without reference to sources, and the essential relations of cause
and effect are entirely ignored. It is a monotonous and repulsive
narrative of battles and sieges, devastation and slaughter.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
“One can not say that this is the ideal book on the Mongols, and yet
it is probably the best single work on the subject yet published in
English.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Complexity is an almost insuperable fault of the book from the
unlearned reader’s point of view, though chapters like that which
deals with the so-called Assassin commonwealth ... are of great
interest, and the whole volume is of immense value.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 1900w.
“Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have
few.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 650. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 230w.
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols in Russia. **$3. Little.
8–30035.
A continuation of “The Mongols.” Beginning with a detailed history of
Russia previous to the Mongol invasion, the author proceeds to a study
of the domination of the Mongols in Russia after their expulsion from
China by the founders of the Ming dynasty. From the Mongol invasion
the history continues thru two hundred and forty years of Mongol rule
and oppression to the breakup of the Golden Horde at Sarai in 1505.
* * * * *
“Fills a gap in English historic literature and fills it well.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 320w.
“When you have waded through the 481 pages you have no more ordered
idea of the relations of Russian and Mongol than you had when you
opened the volume, though you have perhaps learned many names and
incidents.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 669. N. 14, ’08. 1300w.
=Curtis, Carlton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants.
**$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“That this book successfully meets the demand intended to be supplied
by the author is certain, and this is abundant justification for
anyone who has the courage to run the gauntlet with a new book.” R. H.
Pond.
+ + − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 455. D. ’07. 590w.
“The author, meanwhile avoiding the more technical sides of his
subject, carries his argument forward in a style so clear and simple
that the most inexperienced reader may easily follow the fascinating
story.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Quite the best general text-book of botany that has recently come to
our attention. The book is beautifully made as well as well
proportioned, clearly written, and attractively illustrated.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“A careful examination has shown the treatise to be trustworthy. It
is, moreover, interesting, and it should be very useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Curtis has produced an excellent and readable book which may be
confidently recommended for the use of junior classes in this
country.” J. B. F.
+ =Nature.= 77: 436. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Curwood, James Oliver.= Courage of Captain Plum. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30131.
A stirring tale of the Mormon colony on Beaver Island, in Lake
Michigan. At the center of the plot lies the perfidy of James Jesse
Strang who as self proclaimed king ruled the island during the
administration of Franklin Pierce. Captain Plum, who visits the island
in the interests of righting a grievance of piracy, is plunged into
the thick of a revolt, and, at the peril of death, snatches two
persecuted young women from the meshes of the Mormon net.
* * * * *
“The tale is well told and abounds in exciting, melodramatic scenes.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Curwood is to be congratulated upon having utilized an
insignificant crumb of national history for the making of a
well-constructed and interesting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 320w.
* =Curwood, James Oliver.= Wolf hunters: a tale of adventure in the
wilderness. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–20578.
A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness. A young
half-breed, his tenderfoot friend, and a toughened Indian pathfinder,
share perilous dangers in the north country during a winter of
trapping, wolf hunting and Indian fighting. The gruesome find of a
cabin containing the skeletons of two men, who from all evidences, had
fought to death, results in the discovery of the location of a gold
mine. The author ends his story with the return to the post. The hunt
for the gold mine, postponed until spring, would furnish good material
for a sequel.
=Cushing, Otho.= Teddyssey. $1. Life pub.
7–33618.
Humorous drawings after the “mock heroic order” which picture eleven
episodes in the life of President Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“The President is the subject of perennial interest to all good
Americans, and whatever may be their political affiliations they will
find Mr. Cushing’s pictorial account of the particularly strenuous
moments in a strenuous career entertaining and possibly not without
food for thought.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 430. D. 16, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Cuthell, Edith E.= Wilhelmina, margravine of Baireuth. 2v. *$6.
Appleton.
6–33598.
A biography of Wilhelmina, sister of Frederick the Great. “Miss
Cuthell follows the fortunes of her heroine, using for the most part
the Margravine’s own pencil, as traced in her memoirs and in her
voluminous correspondence with the king, her brother, and with her
literary father-confessor Voltaire.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Miss Cuthell, although her method is at times too crude and
colloquial to be altogether pleasing, has given us a picturesque and
readable account of a woman who is invariably interesting.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 35. Ja. 13, ’06. 1700w.
“These deductions [poor style and deplorable Latin] from the value of
an entertaining and not unimportant historical biography are
regrettable, especially as most of them might have been avoided by a
little more care in the correction of the press.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 858. D. 23. 1230w.
“Except where it touches on the English marriages and, on the war, the
book is very interesting, though it is written in a vulgar, slipshod
style that seriously mars its attractiveness and sometimes, as in the
symbolic allusion to music at the outset, degenerates into pure
nonsense. Some of the illustrations are good.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 44. F. 9, ’06. 1170w.
“Miss Cuthell has performed a valuable service to literature in
presenting in vivid and masculine English a new life of the Margravine
of Baireuth, who will always remain one of the most fascinating
characters in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 620w.
“As a biography the book is inclined to err on the side of length, and
the style is occasionally slipshod, while a number of obvious blunders
should be corrected, but the author deserves praise for giving us a
thorough and always brightly written account of a really interesting
personality.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 82. Ja. 20, ’06. 2860w.
“The ideal biographer should be first artisan, then artist. Miss
Cuthell shows well in the former capacity by her skill in quarrying
the extensive material of her subject and her industrious archival
researches in Berlin and London, and also by her examinations of
certain controversial questions touching the authenticity of the
Margravine’s memoirs. But as artist the lady leaves something to
desire.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 621. Ap. 21, ’06. 2400w.
=Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Seems almost too purposeful for the caliber of the characters
involved.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 312. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“There is a similarity about Mrs. Cutting’s suburban ladies that makes
them seem as if they had been cut out after the same pattern and
provided with different coloring and wardrobes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 390w.
“The author’s humorous appreciation of certain disadvantages of such
place of residence enliven her serious and forceful consideration of
some of the causes that make for marital infelicity in town and
country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 126. Ja. ’08. 160w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= The wayfarers. †$1.50. McClure.
8–19022.
Another story dealing with the problems of married life. The lure of
wealth induces a young suburbanite to assume a trying factory
managership under a coarse, greedy taskmaster. It is the shadow of the
struggle to “make good” that darkens the home for a time and in this
half-light the true-as-steel character of the wife is revealed and the
essential manhood of the husband.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is full of careful portraiture, luminous little flashes of
sympathetic understanding ... but according to the strict requirements
of construction, the novel as a whole lacks cohesion.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 576. Ag. ’08. 760w.
“She presents understandingly both sides of a very intricate problem
of human existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A book of close appeal to those who study life and to those who
live.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 330w.
“Mrs. Cutting presents a set of exasperating characters in her clever
novel and casts them in a domestic drama that is distinctly depressing
and at times extremely harrowing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 660w.
D
=Daggett, Stuart.= Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies,
v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
“This four-hundred-page work is the result of an investigation
extending over a period of several years, during which the author
collected, classified, and carefully studied the facts concerning a
large number of railroad reorganizations. Nine chapters are devoted to
the study of the reorganization of some of the greatest railroad
systems in this country.... The tenth and concluding chapter
constitutes a general treatment of railway reorganizations in which
are framed rules and general principles deduced from the preceding
study.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Mr. Daggett’s work on ‘Railroad reorganization’ is doing an
inestimable service in discussing one of the most recondite as well as
most important phases of railway management—and mismanagement.” J: J.
Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 45: 165. S. 16, ’08. 980w.
“The work should be of great aid to the investor who is involved in
any of the current reorganizations, as well as an important source of
materials for class-room study.” T: W. Mitchell.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 535. O. ’08. 1800w.
“While these studies show great attention to accuracy of statement and
an unusual grasp of the sources of information, yet the reader is not
burdened with unnecessary detail. Excellent judgment has been
displayed in the selection of the significant events and in the
omission of irrelevant material. Too much praise cannot be ascribed to
this scholarly book. It approaches the study of corporation finance
from the right direction.” F. H. Dixon.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 721. D. ’08. 1100w.
=Dahlgren, Ulric, and Kepner, William Allison.= Text-book of the
principles of animal histology. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–19603.
“After seven introductory chapters dealing with protoplasm, the cell,
multicellular organization viewed from the phylogenetic and from the
ontogenetic standpoints, mitosis and amitosis, epithelium and glands,
connecting, supporting and filling tissues, there are taken up in
order, tissues for the production of motion, electricity, light and
heat; tissues connected with circulation, sensation, pigmentation,
alimentation, ductless glands; tissues concerned with respiration, gas
secretion, excretion, protection, reproduction, accessory reproductive
tissues and tissues for the nourishment of the young.”—Science.
* * * * *
“The most careful scrutiny reveals almost no defects. It easily takes
first place among histologies, chiefly because of the invaluable
comparative element.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 144. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“The work as a whole is much more than a text-book, for it contains a
large amount of original observation here published for the first
time. This applies to every chapter, but particularly to those which
deal with the production of light and electricity, and with the sense
organs. In the opinion of the writer the most serious criticism of the
work for use as a text-book is that it ‘falls between two stools’; it
can be used advantageously only by advanced students who have had a
pretty thorough training in zoology, while much of the material
described is quite inaccessible to average classes.” E. G. Conklin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 520. O. 16, ’08. 1150w.
=Dalliba, Gerda.= Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by
Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
“An earth poem” sets forth man’s needs, capabilities and progress thru
long eons of evolution from materialism to spiritual understanding.
“In the first part, Children of sod, man is seen in his mere
sense-hunger and earth-wrestle; in the second part, Children of air,
man begins to wonder over life and to send his restless heart across
the stars; in the last part, Children of sun, man dreams of the long
purpose of God and fares forth in daring adventures of spirit.” (Edwin
Markham’s introd.)
=Darwin, Leonard.= Municipal ownership. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–16481.
A series of four lectures delivered at Harvard in 1905 which reveal
England’s attitude towards the relations of taxation, wages, direct
employment, and subjects allied to the question of public ownership.
He maintains that the great evil of municipal ownership lies in the
indirect results of municipal employment, and shows the influence a
local policy exerted even by a small body of municipal employees. “His
own remedy for existing evils is not municipal ownership, but a
continuance of the system of private ownership, with insistence on
short-term franchises and wise restrictions.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Recommended for libraries which do not have Major Darwin’s larger
work entitled ‘Municipal trading.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“Attempting to present the arguments, both for and against municipal
ownership, it fails to command the respect of either advocates or
opponents of increased functions for the municipality, nor does it
deal with the subject in a sufficiently scholarly manner to raise it
above the necessity of taking sides.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 160w.
“We take pleasure in commending the book as a fair presentation of
most of the stronger of the arguments against municipal ownership,
while at the same time reviewing, often with approval, some of the
arguments for municipal ownership.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 542. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“With a naive generosity he supplies his own reductio ad absurdum.”
− =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“As well worth reading as an example of scholarly argument as to
obtain a concise statement of opinion from the most unprejudiced and
authoritative writer on the subject of municipal ownership.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Darwin’s treatment is far less partisan and far more convincing
than Professor Meyer’s. It may fairly be described as a calm and
judicious discussion, having for its object the pointing out of better
ways of controlling public utilities than have obtained in the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Darwin is so well known as a great fighter against municipal
extravagance that his views must be of interest. Disappointingly here
he comes to no conclusion, and consequently gives little help in
solving what has now become an essentially practical question. He
treats the question of municipal corruption too complacently.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 801. D. 28, ’07. 570w.
“Contains scholarly and dispassionate arguments.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 640. Ap. 25, ’08. 1800w.
=Dasent, Arthur Irwin.= John Thadeus Delane, 1817–1879, editor of
“The London times”: his life and correspondence; compiled from
hitherto unpublished letters by his nephew, Arthur Irwin Dasent.
2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
8–20731.
A sketch of the working life of Delane who at the age of twenty-three
became editor of The London times—“a biography which, unlike some
others, keeps documentary evidence carefully separate from gossip.”
(Ath.) “We ascribe his ascendancy in politics and society to the fact
that he was an honourable English gentleman, endowed with a double
dose of mother-wit, and, placed by accident in a commanding position,
with the strength to be just, to tell the truth, and, above all, to be
master of his own house.... It is surely a rare combination of moral
qualities that makes a man loved and hated, feared and trusted, and
that made John Delane ‘the greatest editor the world has ever seen, or
is ever likely to see.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“In editing his uncle’s correspondence Mr. Dasent, we consider, should
have been much more liberal with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 501. Ap. 25. 1800w.
“An extremely clear picture of an extraordinary man.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 43. S. ’08. 1400w.
“Written in a style that comes so near to being good as almost to
tantalize the reader. We must bestow a word of praise upon the
excellent index and occasional footnotes, and the two clear portraits
of Delane.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 56. Ag. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“To pass swiftly over the defects of these volumes, they are diffuse
and padded, yet leave much lacking. We are let very little into the
inner life of Delane.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 467. My. 21, ’08. 1350w.
“Of eulogy there is no lack, even if it is not always discriminating.”
E: Porritt.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 296. Ag. ’08. 1750w.
“It is, indeed, something more than a biography, for Delane was so
conspicuous a part of the history of his time that Mr. Dasent
necessarily reviews that history in considerable detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 480w.
“The biography of such a man is bound to be of absorbing interest; and
Mr. Dasent’s only difficulty has been that of selection.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 533. Ap. 25, ’08. 2400w.
“Mr. Dasent’s style is not light nor easy; he distracts the reader
with numerous unnecessary footnotes, and he has not bent the materials
to his will, but has rather let them take charge of him. The tokens of
his industry, however, are everywhere, and nothing can disguise the
instructiveness of these volumes.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 619. Ap. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Daulton, Agnes McClelland.= Fritzi, or The Princess Perhaps, il.
†$1.50. Century.
8–8100.
A story for children whose little heroine loses her mother in a New
York accident, and, too young to remember her home and father in
Germany, is taken by a blind musician and his wife, who develop her
young genius for the violin and train her in matters of self reliance.
Later she becomes the temporary possession of a palmist who deserts
her; then chance drops her into a Staten Island “eyrie” with a nest
full of frolicsome boys and girls. Here she experiences her first home
happiness, and thru the aid of her kind friends finds her long-lost
father.
* * * * *
“Is written with such knowledge of human nature of all ages that it
will appeal to their elders quite as much as to the youthful members
of the family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Daulton has a charming narrative style, and manages to make her
readers as much in love with the characters she draws as they were
with Fritzi.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Davenport, Cyril James.= Book: its history and development.
(Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–18737.
Written from the craftsman’s point of view, this study begins with a
chapter on Early records in which the author follows the steps in the
evolution of true writing from the chaos of inscription. In like
manner he follows the steps that mark the evolution of bindings,
paper, type and printing, and illustrations: after which are chapters
devoted to the perfection and ornamentation of bindings, and to
book-binding materials and tools. There is a bibliography following
each chapter, and an index at the end of the book.
* * * * *
“Probably no other Englishman possesses so wide and detailed a
knowledge of the history of bookbinding and the commercial and
artistic development of the art. On other aspects of his subject he
writes with much less authority, and occasionally with some confusion
of thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 370w.
“The volume is remarkably free from technical terms, and the
interested reader who desires to inform himself as to the history and
development of book-making, as well as the many processes through
which a volume passes, cannot afford to miss this excellent
contribution.”
+ =Bookm.= 28: 51. S. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“All lovers of books may find pleasure in this skillful but
untechnical account of their history and manufacture. Mr. Davenport’s
style is clear and attractive, and the book is profusely illustrated
in the best meaning of the word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 50w.
=Davenport, Cyril J. H.= Jewellery. (Little books on art.) *$1.
McClurg.
A twenty-five page introduction tells something of the work of
Eligius, the patron saint of jewellery, and of Cellini; of early
jewellery in various countries; and of the treatment of precious
stones. The chapters of the body of the book are: Necklaces; Pendants;
Diadems; Earrings, nose-rings, labrets; Bracelets; Finger rings; Pins
and brooches. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“Is as general in its application, and as critical in its comparison
of the habits of many nations and many times, as could be desired.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 110w.
“Has the double value of practical usefulness to the craftsman and
interest to the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
* =Davenport, Cyril James.= Miniatures, ancient and modern. (Little
books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
An introductory chapter treats of miniature painting of antiquity,
following which are three chapters devoted to English miniatures, one
on foreign miniatures, one on enamels and one on wax miniatures.
Illustrations, bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“A sound explanation of this minute and delicate portrait painting. It
is desirable that the title of his book should be changed so as to
describe more exactly its contents.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 170w.
“Combines artistic criticism with practical detail in an
extraordinarily compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Davenport, Eugene.= Principles of breeding: a treatise on
thremmatology; or, The principles and practices involved in the
economic improvement of domesticated animals and plants; with
appendix by H. L. Rietz. $2.50. Ginn.
7–32122.
Seeks its audience among the students of agriculture in colleges and
experiment stations and practical breeders upon the farm. It aims to
define the problems involved in animal and plant improvement, to free
the subject from the prejudice and tradition that have always befogged
it, to bring to the study whatever facts are known to biological
science, to recognize and define present limitations of knowledge and
to indicate directions from which understanding is to come. It urges
exact methods of study and practice.
* * * * *
“The only book published on the general subject of reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“The index is very full. Prof. Davenport is to be congratulated on so
happily combining scientific accuracy with practical advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“If it has failings the book has great merit.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 51. My. 21, ’08. 650w.
=Davenport, Herbert Joseph.= Value and distribution: a critical and
constructive study. *$3.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–6683.
The author explains that there is nothing new in his entrepreneur
point of view in the computation of costs and in the analysis of the
process by which distributive shares are assigned, that it need be
only “clearly distinguished, consistently held and fully developed.”
To this end he rids the science of the doctrines that do not belong to
it and selects, articulates and expands the necessary propositions
bearing upon the subjects of value, demand and cost.
* * * * *
“This is an excellent technical book on economic theory which, while
it is exceedingly well done and ought to be in all libraries large
enough to buy books for the academic student of economics, is beyond
the understanding of the general public.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“A lengthy and ponderous volume leading to no practical conclusions.
It is certain that he has placed before the economic world a book
which will be read only by a few because of its difficult phraseology,
unnecessary indulgence in detail quotations and involved
investigations into the questions which do not concern even the
average economist.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 260w.
“The chief objection to the author’s own views are that they lean too
much in the direction of the impressionistic school of economics which
frequently mistakes figures of speech for facts, and the quantitative
expression of a thing, or, rather, the expression of the quantity of a
thing for the thing itself.” T. N. Carver.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 115. Je. ’08. 600w.
“This book, the reviewer believes, will in future years rank as the
best and ripest fruit of a period of intensive critical study of
economic theory.” A. S. Johnson.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 380. Je. ’08. 2350w.
“It is the irony of fate that the work must be a sealed book except to
that inconsiderable number of trained economists who have followed the
windings of the higher economic analysis of the past two decades. To
read the book is altogether too much like trying to follow Lasker
playing three games of chess at the same time.”
− =Nation.= 87: 416. O. 29, ’08. 460w.
“The book is profound and technical and not well suited to popular
reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
“Undoubtedly an original and in some ways a stimulating work, it is
unduly elaborate, distressingly wordy, and cumbered with a most
formidable terminology.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 330w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 161. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=Davey, John.= Tree doctor: the care of trees and plants. *$2.
Saalfield.
7–36735.
A book of judicious advice and instruction based upon a study of
trees, their injuries, diseases and methods of preservation.
* * * * *
“From first to last, the author presents the whole matter just as an
enthusiastic tree-doctor might talk to a sympathetic audience. But we
must express regret that so good a book should be without index or
even table of contents. Even the two hundred photographic
reproductions, most of them good and well-chosen, cannot make up for
this unnecessary defect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 383. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Some readers may be disappointed that Mr. Davey does not go more
thoroughly into the science of tree doctoring, but what the volume
lacks in this respect is more than compensated for in the
well-directed appeal for intelligent education in the principles of
tree life instead of merely emotional admiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=Davidson, Augusta M. C.= Present-day Japan. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Founded upon a study of the ethical forces and the national religion
of the Japanese, their daily goings in and comings out,—their social
life, and their amusements.” (Dial.) It touches “lightly the surface
of Japanese life, or if seriously attempting to enter the arcana of
thought and inheritance, shows little acquaintance with the historic
monuments or the native literature except through translations. For
this very reason, it may be, the work will be attractive to those who
prefer to know about the Japan of to-day and do not care to probe
phenomena for reasons. The text is based on letters written at the
time and on the spot, and afterwards topically arranged.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There are few books about Japan more illuminating and entertaining
than this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
“As sympathy is itself a key to interpretation, many of the popular
customs, festivals, and daily acts are made more intelligible to us by
this educated English woman than by the average traveler who writes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 180w.
“Her book is reminiscent of letters written from foreign lands for
publication in a village weekly newspaper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Davidson, Lillias Campbell.= Catherine of Braganca: infanta of
Portugal and queen consort of England. *$5. Dutton.
8–21033.
Five hundred pages which aim to “trace the blameless life of Catherine
of Bragança and to unfold the wrappings that leave long hidden the
character refined and ennobled by much unnecessary suffering; to
unwind webs, and to disentangle threads.” It is a biography based upon
long research, and becomes a defense and an apology for the life of
the unhappy queen of Charles the second.
* * * * *
“We have felt bound to call attention to the lapses in taste and
judgment which are the outstanding features of a book claiming notice
as a serious contribution to historical learning.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 174. Ag. 15. 2000w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
“The book should take its place alongside those other books of good
women, Maud Jerrold’s ‘Vittoria Colonna,’ for instance, and Sidney
Lee’s ‘Queen Victoria.’”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book gives an excellent, picturesque account of
England, and especially of London during Charles’s reign. We think a
biographer’s chief end has been successfully reached: Catherine
herself is and remains the central figure.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 234. Ag. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Davies, F. H.= Electric power and traction. (Westminster ser.) *$2.
Van Nostrand.
8–21956.
This book is intended to appeal to members of trades allied with
electrical engineering. “Four chapters deal with the generation and
distribution of power.... Two chapters are devoted to D. C. and A. C.
motors, and their principles are expounded.... The chapters on the
application of electric power are the best in the book, and the
advantages of electric driving are clearly brought out.... The last
ten chapters of the book are devoted to electric traction.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“It is devoted to English methods and machinery when the minor, but
notable, departures from well-known American practice are noted.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
“It contains a good deal of sound practical information, and can be
recommended to the class of readers for whom it is intended.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 74. N. 28, ’07. 660w.
“It covers practical ground, and at the same time is technical enough
to meet with the approval of those who are fairly well grounded in the
study of electrical science.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 60w.
=Davies, Randall.= English society of the eighteenth century in
contemporary art. (Portfolio monographs.) *$2. Dutton.
7–37521.
To the impressions of eighteenth century society gained from books and
letters, Mr. Davies has added the “oddities and characteristic
features” that the art of the century reveals. He sees the eighteenth
century thru the paintings of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley,
Zoffany, Rolandson, Stubbs and others.
* * * * *
“The idea of this volume is a good one, and the result should not be
missed by anyone interested in old manners and old pictures.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 162. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“From the scanty materials at his disposal, he has succeeded in
producing an agreeable book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 640w.
“May be called a happy vade mecum for readers of the novels and
letters of the period. It is not an erudite book. The charm of the
book lies in the parallel reproduction of eighteenth century life in
text and illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
“Throws an interesting light on the gay life of a time in English
history that was far from being commonplace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 70w
“His book is something of a curiosity in literature, and is worth
having, not only because of the pictures, which are beautifully
reproduced, but because the chapters in which the phases of the day
are described have been written with knowledge and sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 590. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil=, comps. Stories of the English
artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
A book for the general reader not well versed in art but who may be
“interested to learn what manner of men they were who founded the art
of painting in England or who worthily sustained the traditions of
their greater predecessors.” The man himself is the theme in each
instance; so there are given personal details, anecdotes, scraps of
gossip, and bits of conversation to guide the reader in forming an
idea of the character, habits and thoughts of the painters introduced.
* * * * *
“Within the narrow field chosen the work is acceptably accomplished by
the free and acknowledged use of material gathered by others. It is,
therefore, not surprising to find an almost equal meed of praise
bestowed upon each artist in turn, and the uninformed reader will have
to look elsewhere for anything like discrimination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 726. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
=Davis, Charles Belmont.= Stage door. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–15297.
Ten stories of New York stage life. “The stories are alike in taking
their savor from the stage, and generally develop the idea that the
people of the theatre are much like other folks, having their own
failings, to be sure, but developing unsuspected virtues under trial
as well.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Realistic and well written stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study is the triumph of atmosphere, the triumph of
environment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“The tales are slender in texture, but they are entertaining, with
much atmosphere of newspaper life as well as dramatic, and both
touched with the pen of a familiar.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 250w.
“Stories which have originality, plot-invention, and unusual skill in
narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 40w.
“Without preoccupying himself overmuch with the graces of style, Mr.
Davis creates a very satisfactory and convincing atmosphere for the
up-to-date characters introduced in these clever tales.” Charlotte
Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Davis, Charles H. S.= Consumption: its prevention and cure without
medicine. *$1. Treat.
A new edition which contains additional chapters on bovine
tuberculosis, the use of milk, general tuberculosis, marriage and
offspring, and a list of institutions in the United States where
tuberculosis patients are received.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 80w.
=Davis, George Breckenridge.= Elements of international law: with an
account of its origin, sources and historical development. 3d ed.
$3. Harper.
8–23585.
The third edition of a text-book for students into which have been
incorporated the results of the work of the second Peace conference.
The appendix includes the texts of the several treaties and
declarations concluded at the Hague, on October 18, 1907, and such
notation and comment as will enable them to be understood readily. A
number of chapters have been recast and amplified.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 276. N. ’08.
“Mr. Davis has put under obligation not only every student of law, but
every publicist and newspaper editor who needs a reliable book of
reference on the international questions of the hour.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Davis, Nathaniel Newnham-.= Gourmet’s guide to Europe. 2d ed.
*$1.50. Brentano’s.
The second edition of a book devoted to the interests of the epicurean
tourist through Europe. There are directions for luxury-loving people
concerning where to eat, what to eat and what to avoid.
* * * * *
“Should be appreciated by many travellers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Ap. 11. 120w.
“The greater part of our way lies through a succession of menus and
national tastes that is instructive, interesting, and valuable from
the practical point of view, but lacks the touch that makes
literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 330w.
“A veritable masterwork of its own genre.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 970w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Congo and coasts of Africa. **$1.50.
Scribner.
7–37527.
Mr. Davis records what he saw and heard in the Congo region, picturing
much of the former and vouching astutely for the latter. He writes
entertainingly of the Berlin conference, the “stewardship” of King
Leopold, the failure of the latter to fulfil the letter of his
promises, and the resulting present state and outlook of the Congo
situation.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual graphic style. Will appeal to some
readers, familiar with his other books, who would not read a valuable
and reliable work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The reader who wishes to be entertained will find this book one hard
to lay down. He who reads to get information on the subjects covered
by the title will be greatly disappointed.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 500. Mr. ’08. 180w.
“A ‘good work’ in other than a literary sense.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 180. Ag. 15. 780w.
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 823. Mr. ’08. 270w.
“This is an interesting record.” E. D. Jones.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 134. Je. ’08. 320w.
“It certainly contains nothing that is new or authoritative.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Has made no noticeable contribution to our knowledge of a question on
which issue has been joined so sharply. Even as journalism the book is
slovenly.”
− =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 270w.
“His ignorance of the political history and origin of the Congo Free
State is abysmal, and the amount of his geographical misinformation
stupendous.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 1120w.
“Has made a very readable travel book out of his experiences in
equatorial Africa.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Vera the medium. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17791.
Whether Stephen Hallowell, at the point of death, shall return his
millions to their rightful owner or leave them to a charitable
institution—the latter being the scheme of a legal adviser to throw
the control of the fortune into his own unscrupulous hands—is to be
decided during a séance conducted by Vera the medium. She has been
instructed to decide in favor of the tricksters, but under the
influence of the man who had bared to her view the falsity of her
life, at the crucial moment of the séance, she repudiates the fraud
and dishonesty of her seamy profession.
* * * * *
“Of more than ordinary interest, written in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“There is in it scarcely a trace of Mr. Davis’s former power of vivid
narration.”
− =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 60w.
“The material is not of a durable kind, but it is well-tailored.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The book has a certain interest, but it is of an artificial and not
elevated sort. Possibly the book’s strongest merit is the distaste it
inspires with the sort of life which it describes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 330w.
“Must be regarded as a short story of double the average length rather
than as a novel. So looked at, it has pith, life, and plot interest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The movement is as brisk and the style as crisp as usual.” Charlotte
Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 120w.
=Davis, Theodore M.= Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou. *$12.50. Dutton.
8–20521.
Including The finding of the tomb, by Theodore M. Davis; Notes on
Iouiya and Touiyou, by Gaston Maspero; Description of the objects
found in the tomb, by Percy E. Newberry; and Illustrations of the
objects, by Howard Carter.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the most important part of the book [is] in the shape of a
catalogue with full descriptions of the different objects found in the
tomb from the capable pen of Prof. Newberry. One of the handsomest
publications we have seen for some time.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 724. D. 7. 1150w.
“The publication takes its place at once as a valuable contribution
and as a definitive work.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 410w.
=Dawson, Mrs. Nelson.= Enamels. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A helpful little volume for the handicraft student and general reader.
An introduction touching briefly upon the origin, history and
development of enameling precedes the following chapters: Cloisonné
enamels; Champlevé enamels; Painted enamels; Oriental enamels; Irish
enamels; and Modern enamels. A list of books and articles on enamels
and an index complete the volume.
* * * * *
“This breach in logical sequence is a matter of regret, for nothing is
more to be desired than a treatise which shall insist upon the unity
of design and of processes between East and West, the middle ages and
modern times. In short, the value of the book ceases with page 140,
and the close of the discussion of European enamels.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 360w.
“The history and the description of different methods are given with
care and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 220w.
=Dawson, William James.= Prophet in Babylon: a story of social
service. †$1.50.
Revell. 7–31420.
John Gaunt, the rector of a prosperous New York church, awakens from
the preaching which has been along the line of least resistance,
“speaks out, consequently incurring the wrath of his fat flock, and
finally [goes] out into the highways and byways,—according to his
Master’s bidding,—and establishes a great, unselfish League of
universal service, a new social force, that ‘League of universal
service, whose emblem is the cross, whose motto is the union of all
who love in the service of all who suffer.’” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is not without flaws in treatment and taste, and to some readers
will be unconvincing, but its sincerity and strength will as certainly
attract others.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 708. My. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Dawson ... seems to be suffering from religious, if not moral,
megalomania. The methods used for his propaganda are evangelistic,
sensational, and meretricious. And we cannot think Dr. Dawson’s novel
a serious contribution to the solution of the question.”
− =Ind.= 64: 370. F. 13, ’08. 620w.
“A serious attempt to express in the form of fiction the upshot of his
speculations as to the connection between religion and modern life.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 700w.
“This story will be widely read, and with good desert. It will miss
its appeal to a certain class of minds because of the strain of
mysticism and miraculousness that runs thru it. The Hellenists will be
repelled by its abounding Hebraism. But on the whole it is well suited
to find the hearts of all those who love a story of purpose and moral
passion.” C: Ferguson. “I have read every word of it, and I doubt if
anyone who starts the book can help going through it to the end. It is
strong, vital, and it handles a great theme that is bound to attract
attention and do good.” C: H. Parkhurst. “I think so much of Dr.
Dawson’s book that I have already recommended it to my congregation as
a good book to read, and I expect personally to give away quite a
number of copies of it.” P. S. Grant.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 857. D. 28, ’07. 3350w.
“Dramatic situations, striking personalities, pathetic and tragic
incidents, domestic love and sacrifice, are interwoven with literary
skill, and the whole is suffused with religious passion and enthusiasm
for humanity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The whole story shows Dr. Dawson’s keen analysis of character, his
sympathetic and high-minded idealism, and his fine English style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
“We do not assert Dr. Dawson’s novel to shine forth as a literary
masterpiece; far from this we could point out bad flaws in treatment,
technique, taste. But we do affirm that here before us lies a book
inspiring and uplifting through its clean, direct sincerity,
integrity, virility.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 127. Ja. ’08. 360w.
=Day, Clive.= History of commerce. (Longmans’ commercial
text-books.) *$2. Longmans.
7–22933.
Professor Clive “begins his story with thirty pages on antiquities,
but gets down to serious business in his description of medieval
commerce—town, sea and levant trade, gilds, fairs, economic theory and
exploration. Modern commerce begins with the opening of the sea
routes, and here our author reviews the origins of commercial
enterprise, mercantilism and the development of credit—taking up each
European nation after a general survey of economic principles. The
industrial revolution—machinery, international trade and recent
economic transformations—receives the proportion of space which its
importance warrants, and for the benefit of the American student
nearly one-third of the volume is devoted to the commercial history of
the United States.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The best general treatise on the subject in English.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“This is the best single-volume treatise that has thus far appeared in
English on the history of commerce. From the bibliographical
standpoint the book is a model.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 517. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Writing as he does from a great university in the United States, he
takes a point of view which coincides with that of his own country,
but those who are not his fellow-citizens may also read his volume
with pleasure and advantage.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 820. D. 28. 730w.
“A work of this kind, in the production of which the author has had
but little help from similar attempts by predecessors in the endeavor,
cannot be expected to attain anything like perfection before it
reaches a second or a third, or even a fourth edition, a success to
which this one will, no doubt, attain.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 548. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Will undoubtedly take front rank in the all too meager text-book
literature of the subject, tho one cannot help regretting that the
author, who is well equipped for the task, had not undertaken a more
monumental work. The chief features of the book are excellence of
arrangement, proportion, clearness of presentation and extensive
bibliographical apparatus.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14. ’07. 160w.
“Some shortcomings may be noticed. The author, in pitching the key of
his discourse, sometimes strikes too low. Some indefiniteness is
permissible in so general a text, yet it would often be a good
investment to have the exact fact.” J. P. Goode.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 309. My. ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 120w.
“This work is an interesting specimen of the new textbooks which the
subject requires.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Eagle badge; or The Skokums of the Allagash.
†$1.25. Harper.
8–29336.
The Maine lumber tracts are once more the scene of a wilderness sketch
which is a companion piece to “King spruce.” The young hero is a
gritty lad who joins a driving crew, who by hard knocks develops the
muscle and alacrity necessary for facing a jam’s toils and perils, and
who eventually thru heroic service succeeds the retiring Andy Tedd as
master of the drive.
* * * * *
“Boys who like stories of out-of-door adventure will be apt to read
this tale of the Maine forests a second time. The story is wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= King Spruce: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11702.
A strong story of the Maine timber regions in which Dwight Wade, a
young college man, invincible in the might of essential manhood, is
pitted against a timber-baron personified in King Spruce. For daring
to love the magnate’s daughter, Wade receives from him only anathemas
and curses. He plunges into the hard life of the woods, where his
winning struggles against fire and flood, tyrants and bosses,
treachery in ambush and in the open elicit the “well done” alike of
friend and foe.
* * * * *
“The descriptions are vivid, the situations often verge on the
melodramatic, and the love story is inadequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“It is too much technical speech for easy reading, but we do not need
to understand all the terms employed to enjoy the tale, which is both
virile and exciting.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Day’s story stands up like a mountain peak among lesser fellows
for its large proportions and virile treatment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“It has the breath of the woods in it, not nature faking woods, but
the real thing, and is moreover an excellent tale, with love that
suits the wild setting, rough humor and a philosophy that has the
merit of vitality. There is a sense of bigness about it, whether of
muscle or environment; a deep breath taken into lusty lungs, the full
sound of a man’s voice.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Like all Mr. Day’s stories and poems, it is fresh and is inspired by
honest love of the woods and the woods-people. It is sure to be widely
read.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Presents a side of the vital question of trusts on which little is
written, and is, therefore, useful for debates particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The chancellor of the Syracuse university has made himself a foremost
champion of the Standard oil company and its confederates, with the
result that public antagonism has roused his temper, and his style has
become furious. Dr. Day must produce a substitute policy more
consistent with economic progress and actual conditions if he is to
command the respect we would fain give to all college presidents.”
− =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“It is not argument at all. It is extreme glorification on the one
hand, and bitter denunciation on the other.”
− =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Day, Lewis Forman.= Enameling: a comparative account of the
development and practice of the art. *$3. Scribner.
W8–71.
“In this volume enameling is dealt with from its historic rather than
from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the
art in early times as the result of the goldsmith calling in the
glassmaker to help him. The different varieties of Champlevé,
Cloisonné, Limoges, and other enamels are all clearly described in
separate chapters of the book.” (Spec.) “To quote almost his own
words, he has sought to put in a handy, readable, and intelligible
shape the gist of what he has learnt from the works of many able
specialists; to write a book for the beginner which shall smooth his
way to understanding; and to point out the progress of one of the most
ancient of the arts.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lewis Day ... avoids, on the one hand, the appearance—it is often
no more—of great learning; on the other, triviality and misleading
platitude.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 805. D. 21. 870w.
=Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 50w.
“In this book he has produced a model work of its kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 70w.
=Dean, Sara.= Travers: a story of the San Francisco earthquake.
†$1.50. Stokes.
7–24768.
Travers, driven from service as a British army officer under suspicion
of theft, tires of braving the odium of his accusation and determines
to reap the profits of his reputation. He turns burglar and is in the
act of robbing a Palace hotel guest of her diamonds when the
earthquake shocks him to his better senses and effects a moral
revolution. He rescues the girl, administers to her wants during the
days following, and even wins her love through service.
* * * * *
“That the author has a big theme, one may even say without fear of
contradiction, a tremendous theme, becomes evident before we are a
third of the way through the volume. That she has handled certain
phases of it with real power and an intelligent recognition of what
she is trying to do must also be conceded. And if, at the end, we are
forced to admit that the plot was bigger than the execution of it,
that is not to the author’s discredit, because only one of the giants
among the makers of fiction could have told that story as it deserves
to have been told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 700w.
“The relation of the man and the girl, however fancifully brought
about, is a sound and credible one. In short, though the tale is not
of power, it is of interest both as a story and a document.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dearmer, Mabel White (Mrs. Percy Dearmer).= The sisters. (English
title, The alien sisters.) †$1.50. McClure.
8–8089.
“The two sisters of the title are daughters of one father; one the
delicately nurtured and fine-natured child of a wife of supreme
sweetness and beauty of character; the other the illegitimate daughter
of a vulgar and avaricious courtesan, who is presented only too
realistically. The two love the same man. Hypnotism and the subliminal
consciousness are dragged in to give a modern touch.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“With bolder handling the story, which is full of incident, might well
have been dramatic; from a coarser pen it would certainly have been
offensive; but Mrs. Dearmer’s work is neither the one nor the other.
The plot is evolved with too great elaboration of detail to be
specially effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 200w.
“The scenes that hurt are not introduced in the detestably ‘knowing
and showing’ manner of lesser novels, but a greater writer, we think,
would have conveyed the moral with less offence.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The study of the two characters is detailed and interesting. The
story is told with much strength and skill and shows a good deal of
power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“Most painful in character, and the undoubted intellectual ability of
the author, and even her genuine moral intention, do not compensate
the reader for the sorrow and suffering he is called on vicariously to
suffer.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Dearmer’s new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound
enough, probes the seamy side of nature too deeply to suit the
requirements of all readers, and cannot be recommended without
reserves.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 674. Ap. 25, ’08. 550w.
=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bertrand of Brittany. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12223.
This is a story of mediaeval adventure. The hero is the neglected son
of an unloving mother who blasts his youth with her heartless taunts.
The faith and trust of a little maid of seven spurs him on at last to
a vindication of himself in a tournament at Rennes. After that through
the changing fortunes of war Bertrand carries with him this memory
which causes him to perform deeds of heroism by which his manhood is
finally triumphantly revealed.
* * * * *
“The book gives a faithful picture of the times, but is neither
inspired nor has it much atmosphere.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Deeping has a good story to tell and he tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 90w.
“This is the author’s success that he has created an illusion of the
life in ancient Brittany that is faithful to the modern imagination of
that period.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
“It has a certain youthful gusto which should commend it to the honest
citizen.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The action is rapid, and the coloring rich and vivid. Warwick Deeping
does this sort of thing better than he does stories of modern life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Deering, John Richard.= Lee and his cause; or, The why and how of
the war between the states. *$1.50. Neale.
7–41770.
Historical items “more or less involved in the solution of questions
which have arisen as to the rightfulness of secession; the origin and
conduct of its cause; the character, motives and sentiments of the
people who espoused and defended it as well as of those who forced
them to fields of blood.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“The book belongs to that increasing group of works by Confederate
veterans in which, thru iteration and allusion to the perfect
character of General Lee, the attempt is made to save the South from
infamy in history.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Perhaps this little volume of memorial day sentiment and of countless
purple patches made up of fancy and fact, is not entirely worthless.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
=De Guerin, E. W.= Malice of the stars. †$1.50. Lane.
A woman somewhat inclined towards a crooked path is wooed and won by a
man who believes her to be good and honest. “Thankful to be rescued
from all that impended, she was a good wife, and a good mother both to
their own children and to his by a former marriage. But finally came
the time of revelation and retribution for the misdeeds of her youth.
Then her husband’s love saved the day, and out of something that came
near to being wreckage for every one concerned, his devotion wrought a
salvation that turned out to be ‘somehow good.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is much that is good in this story and a little that is bad. It
is written with a charming humour and a real and sympathetic knowledge
of, at any rate, womankind. The plot is weak and sensational and
smacks strongly of a serial in a halfpenny paper, and even a marked
unconventionality of treatment ... does not save it from mediocrity.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 298. D. 28, ’07. 100w.
“He offers us no little entertainment: a story of mystery and
complexity of motives, of unhappy passion and abiding repentance,
woven around a plot of cunning structure, told, too, with much
delightful humour and some real insight into human character. Defects
of style ... will, we trust, be remedied in future volumes from the
same pen.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 684. N. 30. 90w.
“Related with much lifelikeness and with a certain mastery of touch
and charm of manner that make it a very readable tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Here is the generous one, the impulsive one, the good one, the shoddy
one. With such characters it is not a surprise to find the narrative
developing mechanically—a striving to be clever.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is very interestingly told; the characters depicted in it are
natural and are developed in a lifelike manner. There is plenty of
incident, and the author evidently understands girls and school-girl
life thoroughly.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=Deland, Margaret Wade.= R. J.’s mother, and some other people.
†$1.50. Harper.
8–15300.
Six short stories as follows: R. J.’s mother, The Mormon, Many waters,
The house of Rimmon, A black drop, and The white feather. Here are
portrayed the simple tho deep things of common experience that lie
close to universal suffering and awaken in the reader a sense of
sympathy and kinship.
* * * * *
“None, with the possible exception of the title story, comes up to her
best work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08. ✠
“Skill and invention are shown in all but one of the six stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 695. Je. 6. 150w.
“If ‘R. J.’s mother’ has its shortcomings, they are more than offset
by the fine workmanship in such a story as ‘Many waters.’” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 577. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“The tear they bring to the easy eye is not, one reflects, a tear to
be proud of. The fact of artifice is too readily apparent, the means
employed too patent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The stories may be taken very seriously by serious persons, or they
may be read merely for their interest by the frivolous. But the tales
will live in memory even as did the story of Helena Ritchie’s
temptation and her triumph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 600w.
“The new volume holds a bit of quiet tragedy, more than a hint of
comedy, and an insight into silent grief and an outlook upon final
joy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 40w.
“A book of delightful short stories.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 220w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Deborah of Tods. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23924.
An American edition of the author’s first book written before “Peter’s
mother” and “The lonely lady of Grosvenor square.” “A self-reliant
Devonshire young woman, who owns and works her own farm, marries an
elderly Major, a typical clubman and worldling. Under the glamour of
the fact that he knew her father as a brother officer, and even lent
him money, poor Deborah takes her Major for a noble soul. The tale of
her disillusionment is told with simplicity, and she is to the end a
wholesome, large-hearted, lovable woman.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The character is unusual and well drawn, and the delicacy and
refinement of the author’s earlier stories are prominent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“In stories like this, with their naïve waiver of those psychological
and pathological problems which encumber our fiction, there is much to
content and soothe, if not profoundly edify, the old-fashioned reader
who resents, now and then, the increasing claims of the story-teller
to be guide and philosopher as well as friend.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“There is, however, no sign of immaturity in the workmanship, no
indication of extreme youth in the tale as a whole—unless a certain
sober freshness, a clear-eyed idealism be thus accepted. The entire
novel leaves behind it a scent as sweet and comfortable as wild herbs
and balsam, young grass and ripe fruit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A little compression would have improved the book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 130w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Grey knight. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–15880.
The story of a titled Englishman of sixty who weds the woman of
thirty-three who in the capacity of trained nurse had cared for him
thru a critical illness. Family oppositions and misunderstandings run
their course before affairs are turned into a placid channel. “The
most attractive parts of the story are the descriptions of the Welsh
country in which most of the action passes, and of the fine old Norman
castle which is the property of Sir Harry Gwynne, the elderly hero.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“The descriptions of Wales and of life in an old manor house are
good.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08. ✠
“Though constructed from unpromising materials, the story has much of
Mrs. de la Pasture’s usual charm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 130w.
“Depends for its interest on delineation of character rather than on
construction of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 250w.
“An excellent field for her delicate scrutiny of human motives in the
everyday relations of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“The author has proved herself so unmistakably serious by her previous
work as to deepen the sense of disappointment in her lack of
craftsmanship.” E. L. Cary.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“The sketches of the ordinary persons in the book are drawn with Mrs.
de la Pasture’s accustomed skill, and the whole volume is eminently
readable.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=De la Pasture, Elizabeth.= Unlucky family. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–8101.
Thirteen members constitute the family whose misfortunes are amusingly
set down in this story. They inherit a country estate and a deal of
money and enter upon a course of blunders in assuming the
responsibilities of their luxurious surroundings “with dukes and
admirals and mayors as calling neighbors.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The humor is rather English, and of the kind that will be
irresistible to one and tiresome to another, as humor is apt to be,
English or American.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“Her gifts of delicate humour and characterization are thrown away in
the region of broad farce, and the conjunction with Mr. E. T. Reed
seems to us unfortunate.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 100w.
“Capital fun.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The series of ridiculous contretemps involved have the kind of
virtual plausibility which distinguishes good nonsense from mere
inanity.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“A humorous story which smiles and chuckles.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“A diverting blend of extravaganza and reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Of course, neither the story nor the pictures can be said to have
much to do with life or nature; but this does not prevent them from
being amusing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
=De la Ramée, Louise (Ouida, pseud.).= Helianthus. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–26831.
Ouida’s last story, published, as she left it, in its incomplete form.
Helianthus is a land, supposedly Italy, in which is enacted an
international drama whose poignant note is liberty. The characters
include the royal family; the action turns on the situation of Prince
Elim, the people’s idol, when he finds himself brought by accident
into the direct succession to the throne at a time when he is
engrossed in the cause of the revolutionists. Many rulers of Europe
figure in the story.
* * * * *
“Resembles her earlier books in many of its flamboyant qualities, its
exaggeration, but also in its revelation of a continued power of a
beautiful talent.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“In spite of defects, perhaps because of them, it smacks of ‘Ouida’ on
every page, and is another interesting revelation of her remarkable
talent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=De La Warr, Constance, countess.= Twice crowned queen. *$3.
Appleton.
7–42478.
The life story of Anne Duchess of Brittany, wife first of Charles
VIII. of France and afterwards of Louis XII. Her rather dull life
takes something of color from its settings, but first to last she was
conceded to be a great lady.
* * * * *
“Although Lady De La Warr has made diligent use of the best available
material, the result of her efforts is a somewhat pale presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 610. N. 17. 1570w.
“The Countess De La Warr is not a very lively historian, though she
describes the costumes and trappings worn at pageants with great
accuracy and particularity, and records faithfully all the essential
facts.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Lady De La Warr has written a pleasant and careful monograph vividly
reproducing contemporary life, on one of the most interesting
personalities of the period when the Borgias reigned at Rome.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 780w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= Ashes; tr. from the Italian by Helen. H. Colvill.
†$1.50. Lane.
A Sardinian story of peasant life in which the hero, illegitimate of
birth and deserted by his mother, is brought up in his father’s
household. “He grows up ardent, ambitious, and idealistic, the two
great aims of his life being to win a position which shall enable him
to marry his patron’s daughter, and to find and reclaim the mother who
had deserted him in his childhood. The conflict of these aims makes up
the drama of ‘Ashes.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A profoundly melancholy book, but its sadness is tempered by many
passages of great idyllic charm, and it would be unjust to call it
morbid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.
“Most readers will feel that the story wanders through its fascinating
setting too slowly, with too many dreamy pauses and backward looks. It
is, as a whole, a readable and adequate rendering of ‘Cenere.’”
− + =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 340w.
“Is tense with the tragedies born of love and of hate and of the
destiny man makes for himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
* =Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the
second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and
the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–30303.
A narrative of a government expedition which is practically a
continuation of the author’s “Romance of the Colorado river.” It
contains the full story of the Powell’s second expedition under the
direction of the Smithsonian institution, and gives the daily
experiences and actual camp life of the explorers at the same time
furnishing in its accuracy of statement a trustworthy guide for
navigating the river as far as Kanab canyon. The book is handsomely
illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 260w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Somehow good. †$1.75. Holt.
8–4365.
A headstrong girl had gone from London to India to marry a young
officer. On her way she falls into evil hands and is betrayed. She
continues her journey, marries her lover who is awaiting her; after
the ceremony, the truth of her wrong to him becomes known and a
separation follows. After nearly twenty years of absence from his
wife, during a complete suspension of memory and loss of identity, the
husband, thru an accident, finds shelter in the wife’s home, now in
London. At this point the story opens, and is an intimate analysis of
the peculiar situations that would attend such a lapse of memory no
less than a handling of the Magdalene’s wrong, from the standpoint of
him who for spiritual charity’s sake would not cast the stone rather
than from the scribes’ and Pharisees’ condemnatory point of view.
* * * * *
“It is characterized by deliberation, quiet, often quaint, humor,
remarkable character drawing, and delightful literary style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The book has real charm. One of the good things in it is the
description of a London fog. This is so well done that the seasoned
Londoner may almost catch his breath.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 252. F. 29. 500w.
“‘Somehow good’ makes me fully aware of Mr. De Morgan’s as a solid
corporeal head and shoulders, set square and calm above the fiddling
impatience and impotence which shrills its wares in the popular market
place of letters.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 176. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The plot, while simple in one sense, is extremely ingenious and
complicated in another. And the writer’s style—simple and natural,
freighted alternately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy—is
so enjoyable on its own account that it makes garrulity a virtue, and
gives point to the most pointless of digressions.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 132. Mr. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The book is not one to be swallowed at a gulp like most novels of the
day. It is to be leisurely sipped, so as to enjoy the flavor. Every
paragraph has its charm, and after reading it one wants to read it
aloud to those few friends who share one’s own good taste in
literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 369. F. 13, ’08. 860w.
“The fact that we have to record is that on this theme Mr. De Morgan
has written a book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any
in the range of fiction.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 900w.
“If you are of those that know not Joseph, the son of Christopher
(builder, drains promptly attended to) and Alice that was short for
Alicia, yet love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and
have your reward. If you know Joseph and Alice you do not need to be
told anything more.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 67. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“Those who like leisurely narrative, shrewd observation, and gentle
satire will find the novel mellow and quietly entertaining. It is a
book to read at one’s ease, not to rush through in order to kill an
idle hour.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“An extraordinary example of creative power.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 617. Ag. ’08. 350w.
“Though granting his style to be lightly touched by Meredithian
eccentricity, one must avow of this man that the distinction belongs
to him of having written some real English literature.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
“It is formless, it is prolix, it is magnificently old-fashioned, it
is built up on improbabilities and coincidences.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 450w.
“To define the secret of Mr. De Morgan’s success is not easy. But we
should be inclined to attribute it, first and foremost, to his
unfeigned and wholehearted enjoyment in the exercise of his great
gifts as a born storyteller. He loves his characters.... He is an
inveterate optimist.... He is an _improvisatore_ with a touch of the
clairvoyant; and as he is entirely on the side of the angels, and at
the same time a most entertaining companion, the popularity of such a
benefactor may be welcomed without misgiving or reserve.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 230. F. 8, ’08. 570w.
=Dennis, Rev. James Shepard.= New horoscope of missions. (The John
H. Converse lectures on missions, 1907.) **$1. Revell.
8–15498.
Lectures which summarize from a missionary point of view the
significance of the awakening and development in principal mission
fields. The titles are as follows: A new world consciousness;
Strategic aspects of the missionary outlook; A new cloud of witnesses;
Fresh annals of the kingdom; The message of Christianity to other
religions. Index.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Such a book as this should be put especially into decadent churches,
of which there are far too many. It might rouse them from shameful
stagnation.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
“Students of the subject will find interesting and valuable this
summary.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
* =Dennistoun, James.= Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the
arms, art and literature of Italy from 1440–1630; new ed., with notes by
Edward Hutton. 3v. **$12. Lane.
Reprinted verbatim in the original three-volume form. While finding
most of Dennistoun’s facts sound, the editor disagrees as to critical
estimates. “In the divisions dealing with art Mr. Hutton has found it
necessary frequently to disagree both with the facts and views
expressed by Dennistoun. When the work was first published, it was
these divisions which called forth most praise from critics, but many
of the opinions he gave utterance to, especially those concerning
modern tendencies, will fail to find general acceptance now.” (Int.
Studio.)
* * * * *
“The work as a whole, containing as it does much matter of interest
that cannot easily be found elsewhere, will prove a desirable
acquisition to the library of the student of Italian history.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 166. D. ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hutton’s notes, written as they are with wide knowledge and with
the greater steadiness of the present day, add so much to the value of
the work as to increase one’s regret that he did not produce an
original volume. Pleader though he may be, and not always in the best
cause, Dennistoun is still a charming writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 669. N. 28, ’08. 1500w.
“Dennistoun’s book is valuable chiefly as a storehouse of curious and
varied information, collected with great industry from a multitude of
out-of-the-way sources; and it has the additional merit of being
written in a distinguished and pleasant, though a slightly pompous,
style. As Mr. Hutton points out, the chapters upon art are the weakest
part of the book. Not only do they suffer from inevitable deficiencies
in knowledge, but their whole point of view strikes the modern reader
as curiously out of date.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 838. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Denys, Nicolas.= Description and natural history of the coasts of
North America (Acadia); tr. and ed., with a memoir of the author,
collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by W: F.
Ganong. (Publications of the Champlain society, v. 2.) Champlain
society, Toronto.
8–19184.
One of a series of reprints elucidating the history of French
exploration and occupation of what is now British North America.
* * * * *
“We are under especial obligations to Professor Ganong for this
excellent translation of Denys’s work, and for the painstaking and
scholarly manner in which he has accomplished his difficult task. Some
readers will doubtless wish that the bracketed English words intended
to clear passages from ambiguity, as well as the French words likewise
in brackets, which are readily found in the French text, had been left
out altogether or placed at the bottom of the page, leaving the page
clear. These however are minor blemishes in a good piece of work.” J.
P. Baxter.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 161. O. ’08. 830w.
“Denys gives admirable simple descriptions.” J. P. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 828. O. ’08. 150w.
“Denys’s book possesses no charm of style; but his omnivorous eye and
his painstaking, businesslike method of observation and narrative have
resulted in a mass of information in regard to the geography,
resources, and fauna of the old Acadia.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=De Saix, Tyler.= Man without a head. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22800.
A detective story which “has to do with two murders widely separated
in time and place, but strikingly similar in method. The victim’s head
is removed with surgical skill and taken away by the murderer. In each
case a respectable and honored gentleman is suspected of the crime,
but each time he has disappeared.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is good of its class.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 160w.
“It is not only ingenious to the _nth_ degree, but it is written with
a knowledge of human nature and a touch of imagination rarely found in
these stories of murder and mystery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 270w.
“The story is gruesome but readable.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Great Ralegh; being the life and times of Sir
Walter Ralegh. (Memoir ser. v. 40.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–34204.
Written for the general reader this biography aims “to make the
character of Ralegh live again, and draw a picture of the times in as
lively a manner as the author sees it.” “There are several chapters in
the book which alone would make its perusal worth while—particularly
the chapters dealing with the friendship of Ralegh and Spenser,
Ralegh’s trial, and his life in the Tower.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a most readable
contribution to the lighter side of Elizabethan history; and some
peculiarities of style and taste should not be allowed to depreciate
the excellent work of selection, and, we may add, criticism, which it
represents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 327. S. 19. 880w.
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already familiar with the facts.”
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distinguish between vivacity and a cheap smartness and between
legitimate illustration and irrelevance.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 750w.
“It is not critical ... and it is spun out to an unconscionable
length. Yet it is impossible to read it without real enjoyment, so
full is it of ‘atmosphere,’ so rich in philosophic touches and flashes
of terse, vivid characterization.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
“We cannot say that the author before us has added anything of value
to the controversy. He gives us no new facts.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 1950w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= High adventure. †$1.50. Lane.
“In intention, this is a delicate and very serious study of an
idealistic temperament perplexed by the facts of sex till, under the
stress of an innocent love and marriage, the problem solves
itself.”—Nation.
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dragged in, and the various specimens of gush would come more aptly
from the lips of an Early Victorian maiden than an advanced folk here
portrayed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 150w.
“From no point of view can much be said for it as a novel.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. De Selincourt is a very thoughtful writer. He is, indeed, rather
too thoughtful, like his hero, who is apt occasionally to bore us with
his perpetual concern about his state of mind and his lack of
purpose.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 90w.
=Desmond, Harry W., and Frohne, H. W.= Building a home. **$1.80.
Baker.
8–35360.
A book of fundamental advice for the layman about to build. In a
thoroly practical manner the authors discuss the selection of a site,
the respective duties of architect and builder, materials, methods of
construction, details of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating,
ventilating, and decoration.
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principles.”
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* =Dewe, Rev. Juhl Adalbert.= History of economics; or, Economics as a
factor in the making of history. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–14737.
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thought.... The writer declares that the influences which shape the
events of history, may be summed up under three categories: physical
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first and last named (for religion is rather slighted) have affected
history from Greek and Roman times to the present.” J. Pol. Econ.
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vagueness in the facts collected; their significance and correlation
are not brought out with the fullness required by even an introductory
scientific study of economics.”
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neglected.”
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=De Weese, Truman A.= Principles of practical publicity; being a
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far-fetched theories that are advanced to explain its influence upon
the public mind.” (Preface.)
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=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
A text whose significance lies in its effort to awaken a vital
conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of
reflective thought in dealing with them objectively and definitely.