morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical
interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic
problems which characterize the present.
* * * * *
“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been
waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it.
These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the
general utility of the work both as to form and content. The
references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of
contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal
not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics,
politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.
“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material
are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general
direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the
work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third
divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.
“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing
in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample
treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society,
amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=Dewey, Thomas Emmet.= Poetry in song, and some other studies in
literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M.
Harger, Abilene, Kan.
7–41998.
“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended
piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s
recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and
the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and
stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems
which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with
great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The
selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest
and best.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Diamant, Sidney.= Curves for calculating beams, channels and
reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers,
draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.
8–21493.
A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and
channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate
diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range
from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for
using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are
stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined
live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such
computations to make.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.
“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as
he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and,
since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite
economical.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo.
il. *$1.25. Jacobs.
7–42350.
“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the
graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the
life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book
is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet
one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight
into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of
double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the
tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Light but interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight
descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of
word-painting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political
dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.
Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a
philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and
Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the
practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the
Platonic type, which is founded on status, or hereditary caste....
Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy
nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality
of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making
everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their
faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all
property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals,
if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the
timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of
parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The
cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets
that it was founded on slavery.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= True story of my life: an autobiography.
**$3.50. Lane.
Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her
precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England
where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her
growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her
mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and
triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity
that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which
chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must
rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in
Mme. Diehl’s stories.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.
“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a
‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her
notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been
better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us
about the stormy period of her marriage.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.
=Dillon, John M.= Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.
8–20148.
An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of
England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book
with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal
enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture
and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings,
sacred and profane, of historical interest.
* * * * *
“There is no justification for its being offered to the general
public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and
historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks
on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations
familiar.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
“A document of considerable general interest, with informing
descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of
literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer
will want to know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dinger, Henry C.= Handbook for the care and operation of naval
machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–8476.
A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very
complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering
department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information
as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the
navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and
auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it
deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks,
feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant,
gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or
fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for
whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with
naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young
teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving
his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research
and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the
organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals
and worthiness for the profession of teaching.
* * * * *
“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its
practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Charm of the English village. *$3.
Scribner.
8–20520.
A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns,
mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even
such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and
pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation
of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the
reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as
heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as
adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author
pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is
disjointed and scrappy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.
“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright
dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it
comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr.
Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.
=Diver, Maud.= Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an
artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their
wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such
wider issues as frontier warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera
camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy
and power.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and
women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people;
and her style shows refinement and distinction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.
“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria
rather than realism.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Dixon, E.=, ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250.
Putnam.
Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous
illustrations by John D. Batten.
* * * * *
“A capital selection of fairy tales.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Dobson, (Henry) Austin.= De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30143.
A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books,
interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon
the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books
and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book
illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh
facts about Fielding.
* * * * *
“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and
sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing
from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.
“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack
distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the
standard.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most
agreeable prose writers of our time.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Dock, Christopher.= Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s
pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into
the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S.
W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.
8–17821.
“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about
school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the
admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of
an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule
of force, long before the change had been made in the school
world.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in
educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones
of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+ =Dial.= 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.
“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of
Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt
to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the
making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster
he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.
=Dodd, Anna Bowman.= On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3428.
A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the
romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion
come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is
captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has
been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that
she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.
* * * * *
“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some
errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
− =Nation.= 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.
“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there
is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies
the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages
and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough
feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman
Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.
“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of
living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have
been left to the imagination of the reader.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Dodd, William Edward.= Jefferson Davis. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–820.
A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend
the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply
to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate
his career to the main current of American history.”
* * * * *
“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of
wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not
adequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed
lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own
destruction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly
sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing
sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet
not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= Napoleon: a history of the art of war.
(Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.
4–13231.
=v. 3.= Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of
the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.
=v. 4.= Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of
Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.
* * * * *
“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature;
certainly there is nothing else in English possessing the same scope
and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the
student may search every other language in vain for a general military
history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better
than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
“A scholarly work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent
even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity.
In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his
powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.
+ =Dial.= 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The author lacks the balanced judgment, wide information, and sense
of preciseness in language, without which the attempt at framing
historical generalities becomes a snare.”
− =Nation.= 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a
military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and
maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general
merits of the book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study
of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be
found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 836. Ap. 11, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa.
$2.50. Dole.
7–42340.
The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of
the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried
thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or
passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their
pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as
presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution
or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of
short poems complete the volume.
* * * * *
“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of
lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything
characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for
more than an entertaining experiment.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.
“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which
transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.”
Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Teacher of Dante, and other studies in
Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.
8–11089.
Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the
volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in
“The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque,
Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the
Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.
* * * * *
“Seven delightful chapters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for
we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much
more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 130w.
“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or
as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little
value.”
− =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 270w.
“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and
political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the
characteristic forms of literary expression.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 170w.
“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Dorland, W. A. Newman.= Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the
records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers.
**$1. Century.
8–26841.
In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the
acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of
modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of
400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average
initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies
between forty and sixty.
* * * * *
“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite
inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements,
of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive
activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a
realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.
=Dorner, Herman B.= Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.
8–11765.
A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in
handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will
enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of
success.
* * * * *
“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little
volume will be a real help.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 352: Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“The instructions are succinct and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Doubleday, Roman.= Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.
8–6663.
A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney
comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy
killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in
the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident
was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter
unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible
for.
* * * * *
“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author
that has appeared in recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to
disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not
depend on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in
the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding
there was no murder at all.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed
and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.
=Doughty, Charles Montagu.= Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of
“Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett.
*$4.50. Scribner.
8–21785.
An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago.
The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the
author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the
original volume.
* * * * *
“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr.
Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot
be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more
ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the
literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr.
Doughty’s book belongs.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.
“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct
and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his
insight.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from
its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.
“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of
desert life ever written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.
“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it
either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually
might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Douglas, Hugh A.= Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 8–12.
Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the
usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores
bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to
palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to
the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover
very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks,
each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at
his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than
by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.”
(Bookm.)
* * * * *
“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is
clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to
Venice should be without it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.
“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple
truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether
instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.
“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of
ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Dow, Earle Wilbur.= Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.
7–29562.
Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This
atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the
different peoples of Europe.
* * * * *
“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not
entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠
“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of
one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best
historical map making.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 270. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.
“Excellent work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable
undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in
connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.
+ − =School R.= 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.
=Dowd, Jerome.= Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
7–40054.
=v. 1.= The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a
sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This
instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black
races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the
Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the
Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).
* * * * *
“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint
is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on
economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of
high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes
up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of
great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in
brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all
who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in
social studies.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“It is in high degree valuable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.
“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of
the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic
life of these primitive races.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult
and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted
scholar.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in
completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz
Boas.
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.
“An important work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as
accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50.
Harper.
7–38206.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the
comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they
are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 49. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28056.
“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the
light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might
well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with
the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the
following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The
club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost
special.
* * * * *
“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one
regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and
highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his
quite seriously conceived tales.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.
“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his
admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders,
ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur
reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity
in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of
his genre, he should not attempt them.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough
thrills to last him for some time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.
8–16226.
The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer
world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and
aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never”
fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new
role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it
because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even
the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠
“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but
from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of
the author’s own literary history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.
“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s
‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this
kind.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not
very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and
what he does not like.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.
“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome
mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound.
A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of
reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline
and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by
pedantry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than
greatness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 350w.
=Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Drake, Allison Emery.= Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon,
Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental
kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic
tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.
8–448.
A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists
in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from
which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.
* * * * *
“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’
will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves
consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear,
disappointed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.
“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every
scientific student of comparative philology.”
− =Bib. World.= 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.
“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to
resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify
the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the
vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”
− =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is
unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its
being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a
certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”
− =Nature.= 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Draper, George Otis.= More: a study of financial conditions now
prevalent. **$1. Little.
8–8153.
A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience
in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such
subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of
profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism
to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts,
tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence,
public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible
perfection.
* * * * *
“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are
just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in
making either a readable or very helpful book.”
− + =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.
“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.
“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or
whoever buys or sells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
=Draper, William Franklin.= Recollections of a varied career. **$3.
Little.
8–26882.
Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following
excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member
of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a
diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my
private life covers invention in important lines, and a business
career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large
industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is
owned by its managers.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to
the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to
the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 700w.
“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.
=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the
spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a
supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.
8–16563.
“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and
advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the
higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the
dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.
* =Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.
8–30363.
A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become
physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of
his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are
as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting
self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to
a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The
true Christian science.
* * * * *
“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable,
and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one
of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A.
Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Drewitt, Frederick G. D.= Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs
of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its
conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished
documents. $3.50. Longmans.
8–3992.
“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian
history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive
government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The
present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public.
It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was
the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist.
R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr.
Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in
the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ.
Bull.)
* * * * *
“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a
conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the
name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.
“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in
the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts
from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which
Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this
respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.
=Drucker, Aaron P.= Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.
8–10427.
“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ
from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict
those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned
Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court,
that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the
Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“Highly interesting brochure.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with
a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–28424.
A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained
unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with
his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are
in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others
relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a
biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his
poems.
* * * * *
“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of
‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Du Bois, Mary R. J.=, comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.
8–33902.
Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated
with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.
“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic
old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.
=Duncan, David.= Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5.
Appleton.
8–17798.
By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan
supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective
study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the
philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in
the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about
one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The
rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt
with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer
entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found
its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The
filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08.
“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work
that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.
“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid
or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic
record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era
of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.
“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does
succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of
Spencer’s character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well
worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened
paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.
“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in
the just proportion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.
“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with
admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.
“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included
and excluded.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
7–40289.
Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of
Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart
period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint
Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the
time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an
interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of
minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old
songs.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious
information about minstrelsy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history,
but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little
fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic
curiosity.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without
parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always
accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26677.
Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained
strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human
kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is
“The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan,
tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in
fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’
this, now: that I _is_. An’ if I _is_, I _was_ an’ _will be_. But
sometimes I misdoubt the _was_; an’ if I loses my grip on the _was_,
Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the _will be_?”
* * * * *
“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and
haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of
‘slow Jim Tool.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the
compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of
steady faith in God and man.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to
healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’
characterize these tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
=Duncon, John.= Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd.
by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.
W8–115.
A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649
edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady
Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter
is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady
Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief
and comfort.
* * * * *
“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity,
of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to
all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and
interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout
churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.
“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little
narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his
religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful
and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.
=Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics.= 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.
W 8–14.
=v. 1.= Hydraulic machinery.
This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The
flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines;
Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and
Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.
=v. 2.= Resistance and propulsion of ships.
“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of
stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental
investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of
certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition
to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will
doubtless be corrected in future printings.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 71. Ja. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in
pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having
access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is
worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and
proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the
material it contains.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of
the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a
cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the
original papers by Rankine and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that
has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie
in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical
of the state of engineering at present.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable
recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats.
Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should
be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book
was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no
account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last
two or three years in this country and the United States.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy
of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
7–39520.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not detailed, but an unprejudiced, comprehensive, and scholarly
summary of arguments on a subject of great present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“A well-balanced, carefully-written book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 174. My. ’08. 170w.
“The value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his lucid and careful
examination and summary of the causes which led to the loss of the
place which the United States once held in the ocean carrying trade,
and of the arguments for and against further government aid to the
ocean transport business.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 400w.
“To speak in general terms, the discussion is largely a summary of
arguments upon the question at issue—a summary which is convenient
because of arrangement, (this is marred by typographical errors in
part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of
materials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must
be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even
as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 119. F. ’08. 420w.
“His narrative is as convincing as his argument.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his answer to the
question, How shall we increase our foreign trade marine?”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 81. My. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“It is a meritorious work, painstaking and unbiased, though brief and
necessarily incomplete.” Royal Meeker.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 720. D. ’08. 700w.
=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day in Palestine. **$2.50. Pott.
7–38636.
“Substantially a reproduction in print of the information which the
author gives to the parties whom he takes through the country,
together with descriptions of the scenery and the present condition of
the places visited. As the result of observations of ten journeys
during the last fifteen years, he has a high opinion of the character
and capabilities of the people.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His chapters are too condensed to be of great value to the student or
interest to the general reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08.
“The want of an index detracts much from its usefulness as a book of
reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“The necessary condensation of the subject matter, of which there is
too much for the size of the book, gives it the haste generally
associated with such reading matter.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Durham, Robert Lee.= Call of the south. $1.50. Page.
8–9811.
A race-problem story whose purpose “is plainly to enforce by a
horrible example the argument that any attempt to give social
recognition to the negro must needs result in the mingling of the
races.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Durham has created a disagreeable situation, and made the most of
it.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The situation ... might have been made to yield an interesting
picture of human life, if there had been a more successful effort to
show us the complex workings of the human mind.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year
in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“An interesting book less sensational and better written than Fraser’s
‘Red Russia’; but neither of them to be compared in permanent value
with Pares’ ‘Russia and reform.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 40. F. ’08. ✠
“This book will rank as one of the most important as well as most
interesting of recent accounts of conditions in Russia.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 519. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“This is a work that will interest all students of present-day
conditions, and especially those who have at heart the cause of social
justice and free government.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 38: 671. D. ’07. 970w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 120w.
“Mr. Durland seems to us the ideal newspaper reporter—born, not
made—with an unfailing sense for the thrilling, the striking, the
pathetic, the place, and the persons.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1034. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Illustrated, indexed, written carefully, each sentence judicially
weighed, this is the book of the hour about Russia.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 460w.
“The best book on present-day Russia that has so far been written, for
completeness, clearness, and picturesqueness of treatment.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 270w.
“Worthy of more than casual reading. Written in a graphic, nervous,
journalistic style which holds the attention throughout.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 130w.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Tortoise and the geese, and other fables of
Bidpai. †$1. Houghton.
8–28835.
The fables here translated into English were written about 300 B. C.
They embody the moral wisdom and philosophy of Bidpai, a sage of
India. Starting in Sanscrit, they have passed into Pehlevi, Arabic,
Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and on to modern languages. They take
their place beside Esop’s fables.
* * * * *
“La Fontaine and Aesop drew from this Indian philosopher, and we
should imagine, to judge by the present book, surpassed him in
liveliness.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=Dyar, Muriel Campbell.= Davie and Elisabeth, wonderful adventures.
†$1. Harper.
8–29338.
The simple happenings of a quaint, sweet spirited, contented couple
who try daily to make up to each other for their childless estate.
E
=Earhart, Lida Belle.= Systematic study in the elementary schools.
(Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college
series, no. 18.) Teachers college.
8–22123.
A thoughtful discussion based upon long experience. The divisions of
the study are as follows: The nature of logical study, Relation of
logical study to the study of the text-book, The ability of children
in the elementary school to study, Are pupils being taught to study
systematically in the elementary schools? and Can pupils in the
elementary school be taught to study systematically?
=Earp, Edwin Lee.= Social aspects of religious institutions. *75c.
Meth. bk.
8–2648.
“Prepared as a syllabus for the studies of theological students in a
department of thought not familiar in divinity schools. It was natural
that a wide territory should be covered, as religion touches all forms
of life. From the technical standpoint no one subject could be
exhaustively treated in such a plan, but the young minister is brought
into sight of numerous problems and stimulated to follow them under
the guidance of specialists.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
Reviewed by C. R. Henderson.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 858. My. ’08. 80w.
“He shows that he fails to distinguish between the duties which a man
can discharge to another man and those which he can discharge only
through or to a social group. It is no wonder then that this book
makes little concrete contribution to the supply of the most insistent
demand made upon the church.” A. T. Burns.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 667. O. ’08. 640w.
=Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The light which the author throws upon Indian motive and sentiment,
for he always shows how and why the Indian’s action is reasonable,
from the Indian’s point of view, makes his book very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 560w.
“For simplicity and modesty the book has a charm not found in many
Caucasian authors, and Dr. Eastman’s contribution to good storytelling
is conspicuous and his principles well worthy of imitation by white
writers.” I. L. Bridgman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 621. F. ’08. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Eaton, John.= Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen: reminiscences of
the civil war with special reference to the work for the
contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley, from Jan.
1862–1865; Ethel Osgood Mason, collaborator. *$2. Longmans.
7–38431.
“These reminiscences have to do chiefly with the civil war, having
special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the
Mississippi valley. An interesting biographical sketch of General
Eaton, prepared by Miss Ethel Osgood Mason, serves as an introduction
to the volume.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The memoirs are well-planned, well-written and interesting
throughout. By way of introduction and setting, Miss Mason, who has
shared in their preparation, adds an admirable biographical sketch and
appreciation of the author.” P. S. Peirce.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 657. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“It is a distinct contribution to history and a very interesting book
for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
“The most valuable part of the book is a summary of Eaton’s work among
the blacks of the Mississippi valley during the war.” W. L. Fleming.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 520. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A work of much interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 226. F. 22. 850w.
“Is an interesting and valuable addition to the historical literature
of the civil war period.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The book contains an unusual number of good stories of Lincoln and of
Grant.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 70w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 360w.
“This book makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the actual
processes of emancipation and of the two men who did most to compass
it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“There is something altogether winning about the tone and temper of
this book. Next to the account of the work among the freedmen, Eaton’s
narrative of his intercourse with Grant is the most suggestive part of
the volume.” W. A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 320. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“The story which he tells is one of great interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 231. F. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Eaton, Walter Prichard.= American stage of to-day. *$1.50. Small.
8–31171.
Contains chiefly articles which the author as dramatic critic for the
New York sun has contributed to that paper. A chapter on Our infant
industry (the creating of an American drama) shows that the authors
who are at the fore in the movement are dramatists who connect our
drama with life, who are leading our stage on toward better things by
making it a vital force in the community. Informing descriptive and
critical chapters follow which measure up some of the successful
present-day plays.
* * * * *
“If not of any importance or weight, the book is certainly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Eaton is a young man of much natural ability, fortified by
extensive reading, who has a copious vocabulary, a fluent and
attractive style, a pretty wit, the courage of his opinions, and a
fine contempt for those who do not happen to agree with them. But he
is lacking in catholicity of taste, breadth of view, and power of
comparison.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 471. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The book is not quite as large as the title. It will not circulate in
so many states. But it is all readable. It is a cheerful and buoyant
little work, which is rare when the subject is theatrical.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 880w.
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Ganton & co.: a story of Chicago commercial
and social life. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–28058.
A story built up around the indefatigable energy and industry of one
Ganton of a mammoth meat-packing concern. Social and labor problems
abound, with a full characterization of the self-made man of low
ideals whose god is money and whose highest aim is commercial power.
* * * * *
“Because the ponderous indomitable far-seeing figure of old Ganton is
never out of our sight for a moment, whether he is on the scene or
not; because his mood controls at all time the mood of the book;
because in short the tempo of the story is so admirably sustained from
first to last,—because of this the comings and goings of a little
world of rather unimportant people becomes fraught with a rather vital
interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 380. D. ’08. 530w.
“He has attempted only to make a study of life, customs, and character
against the background of a huge business concern. On the whole, the
task has been rather too large for him, but he must be credited with
remarkable success in his delineation of the personality of old man
Ganton.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 670w.
=Edminster, Clothier Franklin.= Structural drawing. $2.50. Pub. by
the author; for sale by Williams.
7–38620.
“The book opens with the usual instructions concerning drafting
materials, which are followed by a collection of geometrical problems.
Simple projection such as is used in preparing working drawings is
then explained, after which structural drafting is taken up in
detail.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The mechanical draftsman who may have, from time to time, structural
drawing to do, as well as the student and mechanic interested in
structural drawing, will find this work of value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 420. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“As a portfolio of plates supplementary to oral instruction the book
may have some value to a beginner, but the paucity of explanatory text
deprives the drawings of much of their usefulness. The drawings
themselves would be clearer if they had been drawn with a view to
reproduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 120w.
“The book as a whole is an excellent outline of the somewhat special
class of drafting necessary for steel.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Edwards, Alba M.= Labor legislation of Connecticut. (Publications
of the American economic assn. Third ser., v. 7, no. 3.) pa. $1.
Macmillan.
7–30620.
The purpose of the author is “to discuss the labor legislation of
Connecticut historically and critically, and ... to trace the economic
effects of the different laws.” “In scope the work covers factory
legislation (including child labor), the employment contract,
employers’ liability, boycotting and blacklisting, free public
employment bureaus, mediation and arbitration, the union label, the
barbers’ license law, and convict labor, with a separate chapter on
the State bureau of labor statistics.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature of social legislation.” J.
L. Barnard.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“May be placed side by side with Miss Whittlesey’s work on the labor
legislation of Massachusetts. The information is valuable, and
generally it is presented in a plain, straightforward manner, though
at times the main points are somewhat obscured by a mass of historical
detail.” J: C. Kennedy.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 120. F. ’08. 850w.
=Edwards, John Harrington.= God and music. *$1.25. Baker.
A new edition which corrects errors and eliminates the more fanciful
portions. The object is still to “give reasonable proof that music, by
its constitution, correlations, and effects, discloses a Supreme
Being.”
* * * * *
“Vague, dogmatic, diffuse, and rather tiresome.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 474. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
* =Egerton, Hakluyt.= Liberal theology and the ground of faith: essays
towards a conservative re-statement of apologetic. **$1.25. Dutton.
“A contribution towards a conservative restatement of religious
thought” which is directed in part against the “new theology” of Dr.
Campbell. There are two essays, Liberal theology and The ground of
faith. “His attitude toward science and toward the Bible is
distinctively liberal. The apostolic presentation of Christian
doctrine is viewed as ‘temporal,’ changeable in changed times. The
conservatism he stands for is contrasted with liberalism, not as
non-progressive, rather as not preoccupied with ‘novelty.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Egerton has written a brilliant and valuable essay [Ground of
faith]. It deserves to be published by itself, and not to be
discounted by being bound up with the longer and greatly inferior
treatment of ‘Liberal theology.’” E. S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 670w.
“With no unkindly words for his opponents, he reasons in a calm,
irenic style against all modernists of the Ritschlian and Hegelian
type.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Two gentlemen of Virginia. †$1.50.
Lothrop.
8–22541.
“Mr. Eggleston, scion of an excellent Virginia family, brought up in
the west, and domiciled in the North these many years, writes of
Virginians specifically for the New England reader—his book Virginians
have the same relation to the real Virginian that the black-faced
comedian in the minstrel show—of which Northern audiences are so
fond—has to the real cornfield darky.... This particular story deals
with a pretty girl who was saved from a convent in New Orleans, with
an old gentleman of the old school, with a grand dame of the old
school, and with two young men who are in love with the pretty
girl.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The book fails of its purpose, because it has not enough virility to
save the men of the book from mere foppishness.”
− =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“By and large Mr. Eggleston’s Virginians are fantastic figments—the
delicacy of his heroines and the theatricality of his heroes is all of
melodrama and none of life.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Warrens of Virginia: a novel founded on
the play of William C. De Mille. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–22798.
A story based upon the play whose subject “belongs to Mr. Eggleston’s
chosen field, but the spirit sought in the play was the spirit of
Thomas Nelson Page—of ‘Marse Chan’ and ‘Meh Lady’—not the spirit of
‘Dorothy South.’... The love story is the old story—the story of ‘Meh
Lady’—of the girl of the South and her lover of the North—of battles,
scoutings, captures, life in prison, chivalrous conduct on both sides,
(and the reverse,) misunderstandings, bitterness, and reconciliation.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Belasco’s atmosphere is romance, his instrument illusion. Mr.
Eggleston produces no illusions.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Egypt= and how to see it; il. by A. O. Lamplough. **$1.40.
Doubleday.
8–35364.
A handy little guide for the Egyptian tourist, whose aim is to point
out the things most worth seeing, and to help the traveler to
economize time, money and fatigue. “The text is written in a style
considerably less impersonal than that of the out-and-out guide-book,
but it is systematically arranged, and there are outlines of tours of
various length, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of hotels and
banks, time-tables of the Egyptian state railway, and much other
useful information for travellers. And a traveller through Egypt
everyone who looks at Mr. Lamplough’s pictures will long to become.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“Appears to be a practical, useful guidebook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= In the potter’s house. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–4438.
“This exhibition of shapes of clay includes the wide extremes that may
be met in a Maine village untouched by modern thought. It embraces the
minister who is of the oldest theological type, and the particularly
unpleasant and explicit primitive man. Between these are to be found
every shade of the godless and the hell-fearing; deacons and
Dogberries with varyingly elastic views of theology and
conduct.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“While certain incidents may be classed as ‘powerful’ the really
strong is outweighed by the repellant.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Though the author has failed in creating the impression he presumably
intended to create, he has written with sincerity, and he succeeds in
holding the reader’s interest in the thread of his story. The book is
a promise rather than a performance.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“It will be admitted that there is a great deal of strength in [the
book].”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Meryl. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9814.
A story of kidnapping and theft planned for the purpose of depriving a
young girl of her heritage. The drama is enacted on the shores of
Winnepesaukee lake, and one Bob Hernald, booked for a rest at a club
house, chances all unwittingly to play into the hands of the
kidnappers. Straightway he learns of his mistake, and atones for his
blunder by proving most useful in solving a mystery and rounding up a
villain. He does not go unrewarded by the heroine.
* * * * *
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Elgood, George S.= Italian gardens, after drawings by G: S. Elgood,
R. I., with notes by the artist. *$12. Longmans.
8–14727.
The descriptive and historical bits concerning the formal,
time-honored gardens of Italy here so handsomely pictured have been
subordinated to the drawings. The gardens reproduced are those
surrounding Roman, Florentine and Tuscan villas, villas of Frascati,
Viterbo and northern Italy. Fountains, clipped trees and hedges,
foliage in masses, and flowers of varied hues all test the artist’s
skill for reproduction.
* * * * *
“His strength lies in detail, whether it be a blaze of colour, as in
the group of crimson azaleas, or some beautiful spot with an
architectural feature as a centre; but the garden in its broader and
serener aspects is hardly represented here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 768. Je. 20. 560w.
“A fitting companion to the delightful book on English gardens which
Mr. Elgood brought out some four years ago.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 250. Ja. ’08. 360w.
“The artist has studied his subject exhaustively, but, we regret to
say, prosaically, for in these water-colours the wonderful poetry and
romance of the villa gardens of Italy have escaped the painter.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
* =Eliot, Charles William.= University of administration. **$1.50.
Houghton.
8–32425.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1908. They compass all the branches of
university administration in its numerous departments of teaching, in
its financial and maintenance departments, its museums, laboratories,
and libraries, in its extensive grounds and numerous buildings, and in
its social organization. The chapters are: University trustees; An
inspecting and consenting body—alumni influence; The university
faculty; The elective system; Methods of instruction; Social
organization—the president—general administration.
* * * * *
“We may look upon this volume as an epitome, or record, of a life
devoted to the service of Harvard, and, through Harvard, of the nation
and the world—a devotion and a service for which the fitting reward is
the gratitude and regard of thousands of men and women and the
approval of conscience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 2000w.
=Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural
features, products, commerce and present conditions; with an
introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
7–40116.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“There has been little attempt to go back to the original sources.
Indeed the great collections of documents do not appear to have come
within Mr. Elliot’s horizon. The book should really be judged simply
as an entertaining handbook. From this standpoint the work has been
well although rather hastily done.” Hiram Bingham.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 919. Jl. ’08. 550w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The account of economic conditions will be of greatest value to the
more general reader rather than the economist.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 122. F. 29, ’08. 170w.
“The only thing that can be suggested as an improvement to this work
is the addition of a smaller and more easily handled map for frequent
reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 290w.
“A perusal of Mr. Elliot’s book certainly leaves the impression that
it is a compilation made at home rather than a digest of data acquired
personally on the spot. It is not devoid of interest and, so far as it
goes, it does justice to the Chileans, but it is too deficient in
selection, proportion and topical arrangement to be of much value to
the public.” W: R. Shepherd.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 348. Je. ’08. 650w.
“He has produced a clear and readable narrative. Mr. Scott Elliot’s
book should prove invaluable to those who want to know something about
the most virile and the most law-abiding of all the South American
peoples.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 103. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Fair Moon of Bath. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–8093.
Bath is the scene of this story of the times of the Jacobite uprising.
The hero is an intrepid youth who readily enlists his wits and sword
in the cause of romance and whose Hanovarian sympathies are never
allowed to come between him and his friendship for friends pledged to
the House of Stuart. The heroine, the Moon of Bath, is less exacting
and more charming than the usual cloak-and-sword story heroine.
* * * * *
“A light, pleasant book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“A good example of the fiction produced by the theory that its
ultimate and highest function is merely to entertain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 280w.
“Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her success in dealing freshly
with this well-worn theme.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 180w.
“The motive power is neither history nor human nature, and, except for
a pleasant touch here and there of fancy, the story left us
uninterested and unmoved. If the author would try another branch of
the art the result might be very different, for the book shows
dramatic power and a sense of humour.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 381. D. 13, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is an excellent specimen of its sort, light and daintily
written, with verve and taste to attract any one who likes work well
done, aside from the mere story interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Ellis, Havelock.= Soul of Spain. **$2. Houghton.
8–17935.
Twenty years of close study and close scrutiny lie back of Mr. Ellis’
impressions which offer a series of inductions and psychological
conclusions. Some of his sixteen chapters are the Spain of old
romance, The women of Spain (in which he refutes the “Carmen” idea of
the woman of Spain), The art of Spain, Velasquez, Spanish dancing, Don
Quixote, The gardens of Granada, Seville in spring, and Spanish ideals
of to-day.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“It is unquestionably one of the best books on Spain published during
the last few years. We have noted a few oversights for correction,
apart from misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 820w.
“There is perhaps little that is new in the book, yet the discussion,
being philosophical and suggestive, forms interesting reading.” G: G.
Brownell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 113. S. 1, ’08. 400w.
“His latest book is a delightful blend of the comments of a thoroly
informed and appreciative traveler and the observations of a keen
student of races and social affairs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book, as a whole, both pleases and stimulates.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 480w.
“One of the best and most enlightening books on Spain and the
Spaniards that have ever appeared. Mr. Ellis is that rare combination,
a scientist who is also a poet, and he is sensitive of much that
scientists, as such, never feel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 1070w.
“We may be grateful to him for his careful and often profound study of
the character of the people.” A. J. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 500w.
“Seldom, if ever, we are persuaded has there been written a more
closely woven, subtle, and fascinating analysis of a national
character and type by a writer of another widely different stock than
Havelock Ellis’ ‘Soul of Spain.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Arkinsaw cousins: a story of the Ozarks.
†$1.50. Holt.
8–5878.
The Thornberry cousins whose “little nothingnesses” of every-day life
make up this story include individuals differing in occupation and
standing, but clannish in family relations and loyal to their
cousinship claims. It is the homely, intimate pictures of humdrum
village life, enlivened by clear cut characters that give the book a
touch of realism and charm.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 600w.
“‘Arkinsaw cousins’ is striking among stories of its kind for its
spontaneity, its zest born of affectionate intimacy with the subject.
Consequently, though it is not without crudity of detail, the affair
as a whole is unusually refreshing.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It is a sprightly narrative, told with a good deal of humor,
especially in its portrayal of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Not an inviting picture. The effect of the narrative is crude, though
there is good material in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Elson, Arthur.= Music club programs from all nations. $1.25.
Ditson.
7–39405.
Giving an historical outline of each national school of music, with
questions for study, and a series of programs for the use of clubs and
other organizations. In arranging his programs, Mr. Elson offers three
grades: easy, medium and difficult.
* * * * *
“The selections have been made with judgment, and the whole work will
prove a distinctly practical help to students of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The distinct value of this publication lies in its direct appeal to
common sense and ordinary intelligence. Stripped of the mystifying
‘shibboleth’ of the average singing master, the treatise well deserves
study from either professional or amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 120w.
“Undoubtedly meets a genuine need.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Such a book, undoubtedly, has been a desideratum. Excellent judgment
is shown in the choice of pieces. Mr. Elson’s book might also be used
as a brief sketch of the history of concert music.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Modern studies. *$2.10. Longmans.
8–5194.
These essays characterized by “their good sense and compendious
material” include informing studies on Tennyson, Swinburne, George
Meredith, Henry James, Living Irish literature, Recent Shakespeare
criticism, The meaning of literary history, Giordano Bruno in England,
Literary fame, Color and imagery in Spenser and A word on mysticism.
* * * * *
“Without the vigour of poetic originality, he has the beautiful
correctness of poetic sensibility. If we say, then, that his critical
work is not very great work, we must add that it is very fine
work—work that, in the present condition of our civilization, is
becoming dangerously rare.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1000w.
“His traditions of literary criticism are the best; his appreciation
of the growing importance of natural science in the literary field is
significant of his keen and forward vision; his advocacy of
comparative literature must win unhesitating approval; his outlook on
life is clear and wide; his sympathies are at once advanced and
catholic.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 206. Ap. 1, ’08. 2800w.
“Altogether this is a book of erudition and insight, although its
materials are not always fused into complete uniformity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 530w.
“Is a wholly delightful book, scholarly, acute, and invariably
interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“Solid and versatile attainment is the principal quality that strikes
us in reading these reprinted essays. In respect of illumination their
merits are patchy. Above all—to state at once the most serious defect
and so have done with it—they rather lack that first of critical
virtues, simplicity. To read these essays is to breathe the atmosphere
of enlightened but rather thick quarterlies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 766. D. 21, ’07. 1420w.
“Each ‘study’ appears to us to be a masterpiece of compressed and
accurate knowledge.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Eltzbacher, Paul.= Anarchism; tr. by Steven T. Byington. $1.50.
Tucker, B: R.
8–5260.
“Through extracts from the writings of anarchists we have a methodical
presentation of the views of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Balcuim,
Kropotkin, Tucker, and Tolstoi, as well as summarizing chapters giving
the opinion of the author. The translator, a follower of Tucker, adds
a critical preface pointing out the strong and weak points in the book
and some critical notes especially in the chapter on Tucker, which has
also been augmented by him.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is particularly timely. The style is scientific in the
extreme, heavy and uninteresting, yet to the student in search of the
fundamental principles underlying the science of anarchy, the facts
are presented in a masterful way, worthy of the highest commendation.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Eltzbacher deserves great credit, not only for his own fair and
luminous exposition of the philosophy of anarchy, but also for the
manner in which he has presented the thoughts of the greatest
anarchistic masters in their own words. The work ... should find a
place in the libraries of all thinkers interested in political, social
and economic philosophy.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 380. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“Every public library should have for completeness’ sake some
representative of this school of thought, and this small volume
presents it in its most authoritative and least objectionable form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
“This translation makes available for English readers one of the most
complete and concise accounts of the teachings of the leading
anarchists.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 247. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The weakest part of the book is the preliminary statement of Dr.
Eltzbacher’s own views on law, the state, and property—views presented
with needless wordiness and repetition, difficult to grasp and made
more difficult by a fondness for terms of many syllables.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“This is perhaps the handiest and most satisfactory manual on the
teachings of leading anarchists. The book should be in the hands of
all students of modern movements who have not time to investigate for
themselves.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 558. S. ’08. 130w.
=Emerald= and ermine: a tale of the Argoat by the author of “The
martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50. Harper.
7–33591.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Is a reversion to type, absurd because it is out of drawing with the
mind of the times.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“There is a vivid quality to these pages, and the characters are drawn
with an intense sympathy, a sympathy that communicates itself to the
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 180w.
=England, Minnie Throop.= Statistical inquiry into the influence of
credit upon the level of prices. (In Nebraska. University.
University studies. v. 7, no. 1.) pa. $1. Univ. of Neb.
7–19450.
“A monograph inspired by the question ‘does business create money or
money create business.’ It is a statistical argument in favor of the
quantity theory of money, or rather of the influence of credit on
prices, in opposition to the views held by Professor Laughlin, who has
maintained that this is a reversal to cause and effect. The method
employed by Miss England ... consists in noting the years of lowest
and highest points for prices, clearings, loans, note circulations,
deposits, etc.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 571. N. ’07. 200w.
“The tables which Miss England has constructed are of much value and
interest to the economist even though we may not all concur in some of
the conclusions she draws from them. These criticisms, however, relate
more to the form of the statement than to the contentions of Miss
England, against whose statistics, and the general conclusions from
them, we have no fundamental objections.” I. F.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 238. Ag. ’08. 640w.
=Enock, C. Reginald.= Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru.
*$5. Scribner.
7–38359.
The Peru of romance gives way in this treatment to the Peru of present
day practicalism. The author is a mining engineer who in the light of
modern progress discusses with professional keenness the mineral
wealth, the undeveloped resources of the country, the prospects of
creating means of access to the interior, and the facilities of
communication for commercial purposes. Good maps illustrate, and an
index adds to the value of the book.
* * * * *
“It should be of service to those whose interests, commercial,
scientific or geographical, are concerned with that wonderful part of
the world.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
“In describing the Peru of to-day, Mr. Enock is at his best. His
philosophy is not deep, but his statements are often interesting.
There is little that throws any light on modern Peruvian history or
politics.” Hiram Bingham.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Enock’s criticism of the various institutions and his comments on
South American relations are essentially different from those of a
citizen of the United States, nevertheless they do not detract from
the utility of the book.” H: R. Ringe.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 728. My. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock’s book presents a sufficiently graphic picture of some
aspects of the country in an early transitional stage, but its
treatment is too slight and unscientific to make it of much permanent
value. To the general reader it may be more confidently recommended,
for it contains hardly a dull page.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 679. N. 30. 1650w.
“His rovings were conducted in such a hearty spirit, with such a
commendable leisure, and are written down in such a pleasing manner,
that his book adds much to our rapidly accumulating library on South
American affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 200w.
“It is as a scientific engineer and a mining expert that Mr. Enock is
especially strong. On the subject of the church in Peru he shows he
can write in a spirit of pure prejudice on a subject of which he has
no first-hand knowledge.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 1150w.
“Every student of Spanish America owes him a debt of gratitude, for he
has made a study of modern Peru such as no other foreigner has ever
attempted.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“One of the best of recent books about South America. Mr. Enock is a
good traveler, whose records of his travels is blemished only by an
occasional and unsuccessful attempt at fine writing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 851. D. 21, ’07. 370w.
“Informative text.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Although Mr. Enock’s book is entertaining and in many respects
instructive, it is too desultory to give the reader anything like a
complete view of Peruvian conditions. As literature, its value is
seriously impaired by an irresistible bent toward fine writing.” W: R.
Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 349. Je. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock writes with a fullness of knowledge—and a superfluity of
words—gained by much travel across the mountains into the Montana. He
is but slightly historical, though he has not a little to tell of the
vestiges of Inca civilisation; and the chief interest of the book lies
in its graphic sketches of scenes and people.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
=Erman, Adolf.= Handbook of Egyptian religion; tr. from the original
German by A. S. Griffith. *$3. Dutton.
8–35517.
A popular manual which serves as a guide to the Berlin Imperial
museums. During more than thirty years the author has studied the
monuments of Egyptian religion and his conclusions set down here
represent the working basis of the Berlin school’s theories.
* * * * *
“An excellent popular presentation by an authority on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Perhaps the greatest inversion of facts to fit the author’s theories
occurs in Prof. Erman’s constant resort to punning or assonance as a
link between unrelated words. The book is an excellent guide to the
rich Egyptian museum of Berlin.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 117. Ag. 3. 1000w.
=Essays=, philosophical and psychological, in honor of William
James, professor in Harvard university, by his colleagues at
Columbia university. **$3. Longmans.
8–12972.
These nineteen essays “diverse in point of view, in subject, and in
quality,” (Nation.) contributed by nineteen expounders of philosophy
and psychology, treat of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic,
psychology, and the history of philosophy. The book is a tribute to
Professor James’s work and his influence on his colleagues.
* * * * *
“This sort of book is the delight of the reader and the despair of the
reviewer.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 830w.
“The present papers are on a high level of excellence.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 160w.
“The book, as a whole, is easy and pleasant reading, and shows serious
attempts to grapple with some of the most important problems of
philosophy. The method of short essays has the drawback that no really
difficult subject can be treated as fully as would be necessary for an
adequate discussion; but, within the inevitable limitation, many of
the essays will be found stimulating and highly suggestive.” B.
Russell.
+ =Hibbert, J.= 7: 203. O. ’08. 1700w.
“For those interested in the development of philosophy in America, and
qualified to do serious reading on the subject, a more excellent index
to the present status could hardly be found. It is to be regretted
that none of these admirers of Professor James is capable of imitating
his light and lively style.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 780. O. 1, ’08. 670w.
“This beautiful volume is an honor not only to William James, but to
the contributors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“It is a book whose tone is distinguished for breadth and tolerance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 422. Ag. 1, ’08. 660w.
“Apart from all personal association ... this volume has a distinctive
value.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 170w.
“Remarkable volume of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Their interest is less their positive contribution to thought than
the light which they cast upon the directions in which American
thought is moving.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1500w.
=Eve, George W.= Heraldry as art: an account of its development and
practice, chiefly in England. *$5. Scribner.
8–15734.
“A ‘trade catalogue’ of the well-known engraver of book-plates and
designer of heraldic decorations whose name appears on the title-page,
a considerable percentage of the large illustrations being from
examples of his own works. The book contains some three hundred pages,
mostly made up of the elementary chapters which appear in the work of
every writer on heraldry who has not got beyond the limits of the
current handbooks.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“In many ways it is as good a work as any other manual at present in
the field for the beginner in heraldic art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 230w.
“Will prove extremely useful to designers who have occasion to
introduce heraldic symbols into their work. Mr. Eve is thoroughly at
home in the subject, and his exposition of the rules governing the use
of heraldic figures is both lucid and exhaustive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 70w.
“The utility of such a popular treatise as this must lie in its
illustrations, unless indeed it is wrought into a rather dull book of
reference, a mere glossary of technical terms.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 219. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 829. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Everts, Katherine Jewell.= Speaking voice: principles of training
simplified and condensed. **$1. Harper.
A practical handbook whose aim is to furnish simple, practical
instruction in the training of the speaking voice. Miss Everts demands
only fifteen minutes each day for the training which will convert “our
high-pitched, harsh, hard American instrument of torture into the
low-toned, efficient agent of personality it was intended by nature to
be.” The divisions of the study are the following: The tuning of the
instrument; Learning to re-enforce the tone; The technique of the
instrument; and Studies in the vocal interpretation of literature.
* * * * *
“A vivacious discussion of the proper management of the voice in
ordinary conversation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Miss Everts’s interesting and thoroughly usable book combines in rare
degree the knowledge of the mechanism of the voice with skill in
making practical suggestions for individual study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 611. N. 21, ’08. 500w.
=Everyman=: a morality play; ed. with an introduction, notes and
bibliography by Montrose J. Moses. *$1. Kennerley.
8–20701.
A student’s “Everyman” furnished with an eighty-page introduction
tracing the dramatic development of which it is a part; with notes;
and with a bibliography of works concerning the different periods
surveyed in the introduction.
=Ewald, Carl.= Old room; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–10275.
“A study of domestic tragedy, complicated by the strange moods of an
abnormal man and a still more abnormal woman. Over all hovers the
furtive shadow of that madness which gives to the story its dreadful
climax. The old room is a secret chamber which sturdy ancestors
consecrated as the altar of the family and the home.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“If one is strongly addicted to Ibsen, and delights in allopathic
doses of the dismal, ‘The old room’ may be very heartily endorsed. For
what Carl Ewald started out to do has been very admirably done.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 350w.
“This searching allegory probes deeper than all the ‘divorce novels’
ever written. The little volume is as full of suggestive symbolism as
an Ibsen play, and its simple but illusive language will be as
variously interpreted by different readers.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 809. Ap. 3, ’08. 550w.
=Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. An. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as modern, as openly significant, and as puzzling and
elusive in its significance as an Ibsen drama, and far more
beautifully and poetically imagined and worked out. The translation
seems to have preserved to a remarkable degree the unique flavor of
the original. It possesses the welcome distinction of not being
illustrated.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 650w.
“We do not see in it the great beauty of form or thought claimed for
it by its admirers, and especially by the translator. It will appeal
to readers who crave the somber excitement offered by several
continental writers of dramatic fiction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Ewart, John S.= Kingdom of Canada, imperial federation, the
colonial conferences, the Alaska boundary, and other essays.
$2.50. Morang & co.
8–19240.
“John S. Ewart, the Canadian lawyer and publicist, has brought
together in a volume of some 370 pages a number of public addresses
and several essays—all devoted to the large problems of Canada’s
political destiny. Independence is not the goal toward which Mr. Ewart
would point the way—that is to say, not independence in the sense of
political separation from the British empire.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“While there may, therefore, be differences of opinion as to the
correctness of all Mr. Ewart’s conclusions, his essays may be taken as
representative of the views of at least one strong and growing school
of thought in Canada; and to that extent they are of distinct interest
and value.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 210. O. 1, ’08. 850w.
=Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
=Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Excerpta= Cypria; tr. and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham.
*$6.30. Putnam.
“The book, of over 500 quarto pages, is made up of extracts in English
dress concerning the character, history, and antiquities of the
island, gathered from the works of eighty different travelers of
varied nationality, ranging in date from Strabo to the second half of
the last century. A few documents are included, and a rather full
bibliography appended, including one on the not yet forgotten Cesnola
controversy.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The book is eminently readable, and the translations are made in good
style, and, so far as tests have been possible, with reasonable
accuracy. But the compiler’s assertion that within the range of the
individual excerpts nothing has been omitted which directly concerns
the island is not quite true, at any rate of the quotation from
Strabo.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Cyprus is a treasure island for historical research. A guide for this
terra incognita has now been found in Mr. C. D. Cobham. No one could
be better fitted to point out its sights.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 518. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
F
=F., C. R. L.= Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, 1890. *$1. Dutton.
Simply an account of a visit which Mr. Gladstone paid to Oxford late
in life as a guest of the Fellows of All Soul’s college. “Odds and
ends on all sorts of subjects, history, the classics, the personal
side of politics, life ‘then and now,’ art and music, are given.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The little book gives glimpses of Gladstone that one is thankful not
to have missed.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“If we can imagine Boswell become a self-conscious Oxford don,
extremely afraid of his eminent friend and yet privately aware of
being better informed than he on all topics, we should have had a
document like the present instead of his master-piece.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 750w.
“The author ... has, perhaps, given us a more intimate view of the
great English stateman’s recreation hours than any work of the kind
previously attempted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately C. R. L. F. seems somewhat wanting in the imagination
that rekindles. Let us agree that some of the scraps here given are
very entertaining. It is not easy to put the book down till most of it
has been read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 1050w.
“Not only a very pleasant narrative, but a real contribution to our
knowledge of the man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 367. S. 12, ’08. 1500w.
=Fagan, James O.= Confessions of a railroad signalman. **$1.
Houghton.
8–25159.
Mr. Fagan’s confessions are the outgrowth of his experience as a
signalman during twenty years. His shrewd observations and logical
deductions regarding mismanagement of railroads and incompetency of
employes may well cause railroad officials disquieting moments. The
book aims to stimulate reform. “He does not content himself with an
idealist’s statement of what ought to be, but takes into account
existing conditions in the operative departments of our great
railroads, and attempts to show how with all the recognized
difficulties of administration there may yet be worked out a scheme
that will assure a far smaller proportion of fatalities in the running
of our trains.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Clear, thoughtful papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fagan, in his present book, forcefully discusses, with more than
ordinary intelligence, some of the problems in American railroading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1005. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“One cannot feel sure, after reading this book, that the case for the
employee has been fully presented, or that officials have been charged
with their proper share of responsibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 350w.
“His book certainly deserves the attention of railroad men of all
kinds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“To the layman Mr. Fagan’s writings on the subject of railroad
accidents impress themselves as singularly judicious, fair, and well
considered.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 240w.
=Faguet, Emile.= Literary history of France. (Library of literary
history.) $4. Scribner.
7–36933.
An authoritative survey of French writers and their works from the
origin of French literature in the middle ages to the end of the
nineteenth century. M. Faguet makes a point of the influences in
French literature directly traceable to English literature.
* * * * *
“Poor as his book is on the whole, and even mischievous in parts, it
yet has a redeeming feature in the liberal tribute which the author
pays to the greatness of England’s greatest novelist, Samuel
Richardson.” Rowland Strong.
− + =Acad.= 73: 142. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“Scholarly, enthusiastic, independent in judgment, suggestive, and
readable. A defect in the book is the lack of English rendering of
many of the extracts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“The facts are right; and the inferences from them often right; but
where are the ideas, the personal views of things, which give value to
a living book?”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 435. O. 12. 1350w.
“Is not only the newest, but one of the best. What is professedly
translation, the history itself, is very well done by the anonymous
translator, and either for reference as to literary and biographical
facts, or for critical disquisitions on the work of particular
authors, the English reader may go with complete satisfaction to the
history of M. Faguet.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
“After the publication of such a volume as this, ignorance or neglect
is indeed without excuse. It is literally crammed with information;
every page is interesting and valuable. We must, however, express our
regret that the translation is hardly on so high a level.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in
glaze varnish on a white ground. (Univ. of Michigan studies.
Humanistic ser., v. 6.) *$4. Macmillan.
8–852.
“The white Athenian lekythoi, or oil-jugs form a distinct class in the
history of Greek vase-painting. The two large classes into which the
author divides his material are lekythoi in which the lines of the
drawing are in glaze, and lekythoi in which the lines are in dull
color. The present volume deals with the glaze-outline lekythoi; the
second class is reserved for another occasion.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The present monograph supplies a much-felt need.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 408. Ap. 30, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 60w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Essays in municipal administration.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
8–2954.
“The author has here gathered together various of his public addresses
and a number of valuable articles, now in many cases revised, which
had previously appeared in different periodicals, besides adding a few
new ones. Of two of the groups of essays one centers around ‘the
problems of organization and the legal relations of the cities to the
state’ and the other deals with ‘municipal functions and activities.’
A third group contains the portion of the volume which is new (about
one-sixth), and gives brief sketches of various municipal activities
in Europe, among which may be mentioned rather neglected Vienna.”—J.
Pol. Econ.
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“It is well up to Professor Fairlie’s former standard. Only two errors
of any consequence have been noted.” A. R. Hatton.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 409. N. ’08. 1100w.
“The essays are helpful and instructive, the facts are reliable, and
the book plainly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“The make-up of the book is good, it is provided with a usable index
and its contents are such as to make it well worthy of ownership by
any and all serious-minded students of one of our greatest problems,
the government and the proper functions of municipalities.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Some of the chapters are worth preservation in a book, but others are
already out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
“The essays of the third group are hardly more than ‘observations,’ as
the writer calls them, and are inferior to the rest of the volume in
value.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“In general it is a serviceable and informing compend, touching
various phases of city history, organization, and administration.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“It is a pity that Prof. Fairlie is unlikely to have a numerous circle
of readers, owing to the nature of his topics, but the judicious will
recognize the thoroughness of his work, and the industrious will find
in the book a storehouse of facts, and ample references to original
authorities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 270. My. 9, ’08. 400w.
“In outline form, Professor Fairlie’s work covers a wide range, and
students of municipal government will find it helpful in many ways.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
“All the papers are worth reprinting in their present form.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 571. S. ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Farman, Elbert Eli.= Egypt and its betrayal: an account of country
during the periods of Ismâil and Tewfik pashas, and of how England
acquired a new empire. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–10621.
A discussion based upon personal experiences of the author while
United States consul-general at Cairo, and Judge of the International
court of appeals at Alexandria. The author attacks England’s policy
and points out the possibilities and short-comings of the Cromer
administration.
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“The book is decidedly well worth reading, especially for those
already somewhat familiar with the subject, to hear ‘the other side,’
if for no other reason.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 623. N. ’08. 240w.
“We should have liked the book better if Cromer and his administration
had been left out and treated of in a separate work.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Farrar, James M.= Junior congregation. 1884–1908. **$1.20. Funk.
8–29743.
Outlines in a practical way Dr. Farrar’s methods used in perfecting
his young people’s organization known as the “Junior congregation.”
=Farrington, Herbert M.= Gates that shall not prevail. †$1.50. Lane.
“In this volume the limelight is always in evidence. It plays round
the head of the modern St. Anthony, who is a famous preacher in the
East End, and poses for the picture which is to set all London
talking; it dances round Violetta, frail and fair; and lights her path
to a public confession; and it envelopes both the prologue, where the
story of his mother’s dishonour is related to the schoolboy whom we
next meet as Brother Paul of Hoxton, and the equally dramatic close,
where he discovers a father in the peerage.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A strong, inspiring and uplifting romance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“The picture is too highly coloured to afford sustained pleasure, but
should appeal—and that not unsuccessfully—to the popular taste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 120w.
“The author of this book is not devoid of humour.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Farrington, Margaret Vere.= Fra Lippo Lippi: a romance. **$1.75.
Putnam.
Set in the atmosphere of Fra Lippo Lippi’s art and its inspiration,
this is the pathetic story of his love for the beautiful nun of Santa
Margherita, Lucrezia Buti, and of the shadow cast upon it by the
venomous interference of the jealous princess Beatrice. The book
contains four photogravure illustrations.
=Faulkner, John Alfred.= Erasmus, the scholar. (Men of the kingdom.)
*$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–5815.
Erasmus the scholar, the impartial friend and critic of Catholic and
Lutheran alike, is portrayed thruout the course of his great labor of
love to bring both bodies to a mutual concession. The study is an
important one because in the light of modernism freed from theological
difference one may best interpret this great Erasmian spirit which is
coming to its own.
* * * * *
“The frequency of acknowledged quotation gives an air of frankness to
the work which is hardly borne out by an examination of the many
unacknowledged quotations, especially in the translations, which are
not only freely borrowed, but are mangled at discretion in a way to
make their defenseless authors wince. The best parts of Professor
Faulkner’s work are his little summaries of Erasmus’s supposed views
on doctrinal points.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 170. O. ’08. 320w.
“Professor Faulkner’s memoir is not only adequately appreciative of
his subject, but also duly critical, not wanting in humor, and
illuminated by ample extracts from Erasmus’s famous works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Faunce, Rev. Daniel W.= Mature man’s difficulties with his Bible.
*75c. Am. Bapt.
8–9798.
Addressed not so much to theologians, nor yet to men of leisure who
may read extended treatises, but to busy men who still find time to
read the newer books and magazines which raise questions concerning
biblical facts. The chapters treat the Bible in relation to
mathematical certainty; scientific spirit; historical spirit; the
morality and method of the Bible; and the biblical Christ and human
thinking.
* * * * *
“A book containing many good things. But on the whole it must be
pronounced inadequate to its purpose. The author does not fully grasp
the difficulties occasioned to the Bible student by the modern
scientific world-view.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Contains much sensible counsel concerning Scripture.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Fay, Charles Ryle.= Co-operation at home and abroad; a description
and analysis. *$3. Macmillan.
8–33820.
“An English university scholar, a research student in the London
School of economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable
information covering the entire field of co-operative activity in
European countries—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for
production, sale, and land tenure, (3) in workers’ societies for
production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and
industrial, concluding with an account of co-operative law, and a
large bibliography.... It is ‘not the herald of socialism, nor is it a
means to combat it,’ but simply a natural outworking of the
associative instinct in a line of self-help not cultivated by
socialism.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 267. S. 5. 170w.