this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 220w.
“It does not detract at all, but in our judgment rather enhances, the
value of Mr. Fay’s work, if we see reason to demur to some of the
distinctions which he draws.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 806. N. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Fea, Allan.= Nooks and corners of old England. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–227.
Away from beaten tracks “the author covers with pencil and camera
counties as widely apart as Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcestershire,
Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, and he has
reproduced over fifty excellent photographs of both known and unknown
manor-houses, churches, hamlets, and interiors. One can only be
grateful to him for his notes on Beckington castle, Croscombe church,
with its wonderful canopied pulpit, Melplash court, said to have been
a residence of Nell Gwyn, Postlip hall, with its Elizabethan gables,
and Hautboys hall, a beautiful old Tudor house, a few miles to the
south-east of Oxford. In no sense a guide-book proper.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“A sensible, chatty record of devious wanderings in the byways of old
England, and as such may be honestly recommended to those who are not
in a hurry and who love old England.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“The most we can say of the book is that it may prove attractive to
those who are content with cursory descriptions of attractive places,
and may lead the ordinary tourist to things of particular interest in
his own country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 237. Ag. 31. 280w.
“Mr. Fea has a large store of curious information.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 530w.
=Fenn, George Manville.= Trapped by the Malays. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A book which recommends itself to girls as well as boys. It is the
story “of a young English officer, not much more than a boy, and his
exciting experiences in the English dominions on the other side of the
world. Captured by treachery by a native prince, he and one of his
soldiers escape on the rajah’s elephant, with which they have made
friends.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Manville Fenn continues to deserve well of the youth of England.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 652. N. 23. 130w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
“In this tale of bayonet and kris Mr. Manville Fenn shows all the
spirit, the humor and the knowledge of character and place which have
made his stories so popular with both young readers and those whose
business it is to select books for them.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Ferris, George Hooper.= Formation of the New Testament. **90c. Am.
Bapt.
7–28619.
A “study of the rise of the books of the New Testament to pre-eminence
among early Christian works, and the causes contributing to it.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ferris sketches the rise of the New Testament canon with bold and
telling strokes.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 274. Ap. ’08. 350w.
“An able and intelligent study. The presentation is popular and at the
same time scholarly.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“He has given the results of his study in clear flexible English, that
never declines and never wearies the reader. This is a piece of
excellent theological writing.” E: A. Wicher.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 138. Ag. ’08. 980w.
“A forceful and enlightening study. It should establish the author’s
reputation as a writer on religious history who can at the same time
master facts and exhibit their vital bearing.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“There can be no question, however, but that Mr. Ferris has put his
finger upon the source of endless confusion of mind and barrenness of
doctrine.... Awakening to the facts which Mr. Ferris has brought into
the clear must serve as an emancipation to not a few.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 241. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“A careful, scholarly, courageous work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 795. Ap. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Fessenden, Francis.= Life and public services of William Pitt
Fessenden. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
7–37243.
A biography of a man “best entitled to rank as Maine’s prime
contribution to American statesmanship.” It is the “story of a public
man who never ‘put his ear to the ground’ to listen for the voice of
duty, never ‘climbed into the band-wagon’ in search of office, never
chose to go against his conscientious judgment a hair’s breadth rather
than ‘get left.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“To such a hero, this book is a fitting tribute.” D: M. DeWitt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 622. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“William Pitt Fessenden was a great senator and deserved a proper
biography, but it cannot be said that the volumes by his son fulfil
the need. The author shows slight acquaintance with the historical
literature of his period.” W. L. Fleming.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A piece of biography so morally invigorating as to deserve, in its
own very different way, a place alongside the reminiscences of Carl
Schurz.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 73. F. 1, ’08. 500w.
“A good life.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The literary form and method of this work mark it as a real addition
to the historic literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 450w.
“The arrangement of the matter is defective, but the matter itself is
of the first class.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 127. F. 6, ’08. 2650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 630w.
“A work which, if in parts rather dry reading, is a distinct
contribution to American political biography. Some of the numerous
letters and autobiographical statements which it contains throw fresh
and really helpful light on civil war men and measures.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
“Few biographies written by relatives show less bias—less of what
Macaulay was fond of calling the ‘lues Boswelliana’. The narrative
sometimes backs and fills in a manner that is confusing, and exception
could easily be taken to some of the statements; yet, as a whole, the
work has been well done.” P. L. Haworth.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 132. Mr. ’08. 850w.
“Full and very satisfactory account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Field, Louise Maunsell.= Katharine Trevalyan. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10431.
Against the unhealthy background furnished by craven types selected
from fashionable New York, the author places his unworldly-minded
heroine. She is drawn into a net of matrimony by a contemptible
fortune hunter, frees herself from its meshes, and slips away
disillusioned, having discovered that reciprocity—a thing she had
never experienced—is at the foundation of the human bond. Her supreme
moment comes when real love proves the truth of her theory and she is
no longer outside of life.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 370w.
“It has plenty of flesh-and-blood characters, and an easy style, but
it falls short of absorbing the attention.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 242. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Field, Michael, pseud. (Catherine Bradley and Edith Cooper).= Wild
honey from various thyme. *$1.65. Wessels.
“A collection of sonnets and lyrics of which, the inspiration is
mainly classical, but which show an unclassical luxuriance of
imagery.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The undoubted poetical taste and feeling displayed ... are largely
discounted by a serious lack of discriminating power.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 414. Ap. 4. 330w.
“Here are nearly two hundred lyrics and sonnets, packed with thought,
and arresting in their originality of expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“Each of the poems in the present collection conveys to the mind a
picture with color and design and atmosphere.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is always musical and accomplished, and now and then, as in
‘Chariclo,’ it attains real distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 40w.
=Figgis, John Neville.= Studies of political thought from Gerson to
Grotius, 1414–1625; the Birkbeck lectures delivered in Trinity
college, 1900. *$1.10. Putnam.
7–32802.
A literary revision of the Birkbeck lectures, delivered nearly ten
years ago. The author discusses the transition of political thought
from the province of the church to that of the state. “The nature and
source of all authority is the final object of political research.
From this everything else flows easily: communication is established
on this basis with all the controversies that distracted medieval
society and that form the subject of this book. The relationship of
church and state—involving of necessity interminable arguments about
the nature of a state, its rights, its moral code—the position of the
individual in society: such are some of the catchwords of dispute
throughout this fruitful period of political theorising.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 145. Ag. 10. 2200w.
“In detail, unfortunately, the volume leaves a good deal to be
desired.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 352. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“This is an extremely valuable contribution to historical and
political science. It embodies broad suggestion rather than detailed
information; it is philosophical, not descriptive. A deep and accurate
scholarship is revealed on every page, and the insight that gives life
and usefulness to mere learning is not less conspicuous. There are
very few points on which a critic familiar with the subject would
venture to question the accuracy of Mr. Figgis in either his facts or
his interpretations.” W: A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 708. D. ’07. 1320w.
“We congratulate Mr. Figgis on the publication of these lectures, and we
hope that the wider audience will appreciate their value.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 455. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
* =Filippi, Filippo de.= Ruwenzori: being an account of the expedition
of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, to the
snow ranges situated between the equatorial lakes of Central Africa; tr.
by Caroline de Filippi. *$8. Dutton.
“The volume is introduced with a preface written by the Duke himself.
As compiled and written Signor de Filippi’s book is a narrative
describing the adventures as well as the scientific researches of the
Duke’s party from Mombasa to those snow-capped peaks in the interior,
which were called by the ancients ‘Mountains of the moon.’”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The translation is satisfactory, and the illustrations fully deserve
this second mention in so brief and general a notice as the present
one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 665. N. 14, ’08. 980w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fillmore, Millard.= Millard Fillmore papers; ed. by Frank H.
Severance. (Buffalo historical soc. Publications, v. 10–11.) 2v.
*$7. Buffalo hist. soc.
A memorial prepared to perpetuate the name of the organizer and first
president of the Buffalo historical society. “Besides the ‘Fillmore
papers’ there are biographical introductions, an historical address by
General J. G. Wilson, some interesting reminiscences and a dozen or
more portraits. The papers themselves are arranged by Mr. Severance
chronologically under appropriate headings and consist chiefly of
legislative speeches, political addresses and private correspondence.”
(Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The editor has shown excellent judgment, excluding the trivial or
local matter which is too often allowed to cumber the pages of
historical society publications. In both volumes few errata have been
noticed and only a few slight errors. On the whole, one derives from
these papers an increased respect for the honest conservatism of the
man’s character and a deepened sense of his limitations as a
statesman.” T. C. Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 876. Jl. ’08. 600w.
“While Mr. Severance has evidently spared no pains, and has collected
in his introduction and notes a mass of data for which some future
biographer will be grateful, his editorial work cannot be
unqualifiedly praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 700w.
=Finley, William Lovell.= American birds, studied and photographed
from life. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36870.
“The text is divided into twenty-one chapters, each treating some one
species or group of species, from the hummingbird to the golden eagle.
Most of the studies were made in the extreme west ... but with few
exceptions all have closely related eastern representatives, with
habits differing but slightly. The facts relate chiefly to the conduct
of parents at the breeding season and to the appearance, growth, and
general characteristics of the young.” (Nation.) The illustrations,
chiefly from Herman T. Bohlman’s photographs, are numerous and
excellent.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“One is tempted to dare a superlative and call this the most
delightful bird book that has been written.” M. E. Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, 07. 300w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“Fortunately, whatever errors the text might contain, the pictures can
be trusted.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 240w.
“The text is uneven. Some chapters are excellent and thoroughly
enjoyable; others are spoiled by a padding of unimportant details of
uninteresting actions. The work is accurate as to observation and
forms a real addition to our knowledge of Western bird life. It is,
however, as a splendid record of the photographer’s skill in
portraying the more intimate home life of wild birds that the volume
deserves especial mention.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 440w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text is delightful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The chapters on the ‘Hummingbirds’ and the ‘Barn owls’ are especially
interesting and instructive.” R. W. Hegner.
+ =School R.= 16: 272. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In spite of the criticisms of such matters as are here suggested, the
volume is a fresh contribution to popular ornithology, and is both
interesting and informing in an unusual degree.” F. H. Herrick.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 182. Ja. 31, ’08. 2450w.
=Fisher, Herbert Albert L.= Bonapartism: six lectures delivered in
the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
8–19594.
Six lectures which show that the Bonapartist governments of both First
and Second empires “were to a large extent inspired by the same
principles, rested upon the support of the same intellectual and
social forces, ... and shared in the same kind of ruin.” The lectures
are as follows: The bequest of the revolution, The growth of a legend,
The Napoleonic state, Napoleon and Europe, The rise of the Second
empire, and The downfall.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 686. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“That the author has telling gifts of historical presentation is clear
on every page; his lucidity and power of summary are aided by a
constant attention to literary form, and by a skilful use of some
striking bits of literary material.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 870. Jl. ’08. 960w.
“Deftness of touch and a happy choice of illustrative details are
among the attractions of this volume. Among the chief defects of his
method of treatment is that it tends to undue emphasis; and at several
points we think that Mr. Fisher’s statements are strained, just as his
style is occasionally tense and overloaded with adjectives.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 279. Mr. 7. 1400w.
“Vigorous and suggestive in grasp of matter and style of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“He ranges from the campaign of Italy to that of Sedan with a strong
grasp of fact and a power of generalization that never flags. The book
has the true historic ring, and should be useful for students of the
period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 150w.
“He writes about ‘Bonapartism,’ a word which he does not define, the
existence of which he does not prove, and he has consequently produced
by a tour de force a work of coruscating phrases, of high lights and
deep shadows, but one which will not command the assent of the
historian, the politician, or the man of common sense.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 303. Mr. 7, ’08. 1200w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Rate of interest: its nature, determination and
relation to economic phenomena. *$3. Macmillan.
7–36195.
Professor Fisher of Yale bases his thesis largely upon the theories of
Rae, Boehm-Bawerk and Landry. He expands these former versions of the
theory by the introduction of an “income concept.” The solution he
offers is that the rate of interest be made to depend upon the
character of the income stream.
* * * * *
“This is a notable work. Professor Fisher has made an enduring
contribution to the progress of economic thought in emphasizing the
peculiar psychical relation which the value of income sustains,
through the principle of discount, to the value of capital.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The treatise throughout is ‘Fisheresque’ ... that is to say, it is
worked out with the author’s well known and unflinching thoroughness
and his merciless (from the reader’s point of view) marshalling of
details. It is also characterized throughout by a certain scientific
hard-headedness which is not always found nowadays in writings upon
capital and allied topics.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 25. Ap. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 635. D. ’07. 3050w.
Reviewed by E. A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 820w.
=Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Fisher, Sydney George.= Struggle for American independence. 2v.
**$4. Lippincott.
8–14831.
A continuation and enlargement of “The true history of the American
revolution” with which, a few years since, the author startled out of
their complacency people who were willing to avoid “their own
country’s birth pangs.” Rejecting tradition and substituting facts
ascertained from original sources, the volumes become “an excellent
corrective, worthy of careful study by all who would know of the
revolution as it was.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He has gone to the original sources for information; his citations
and references are numerous and valuable; the arrangement of his
material is good, and his style is readable and attractive. Yet
however creditable his work, it must be confessed that the author
seems excessively ‘otherwise-minded,’ and his spirit of criticism and
correction seem, in a measure, to outrun his spirit of historical
impartiality and fairness.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 143. O. ’08. 1150w.
“Gives a full, detailed, interesting account but is written in a bad
spirit and sometimes places wrong interpretations and emphasis upon
accepted facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“His ‘true’ history of the American revolution does not differ in
large degree from those heretofore written.” E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 45: 110. S. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The story here told is interesting and convincing. Mr. Fisher has
good literary ability and the faculty of knowing a point when he sees
it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 96. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“Whether Mr. Fisher’s position be admitted or rejected, his volumes
cannot be overlooked by any who wish to be well informed upon the
origins and fundamentals of our nation or the future of England’s
colonial relations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 160w.
“However he may have erred in detail, he has taken a large view of a
large subject, has explored it with painstaking, honest effort, and,
despite his unfortunate preface, has written a book that will be
enjoyed even by those most inclined to dissent from its conclusions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 39. S. 5, ’08. 1700w.
“He has made a commendable attempt to deal frankly with this
evidence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“There is no end to the histories of the war of independence, but Mr.
Sydney Fisher can give a good reason for writing his.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 870w.
=Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with
special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s
lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39069.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 102. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The work is valuable for its clear English, its direct statements and
its rounded treatment of a broad subject within the compass of a
text-book of less than three hundred pages, including the excellent
bibliographies appended to each chapter.” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 522. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“On the whole the book is a worthy addition to the ‘Citizens’
library,’ and will prove stimulating to college students taking
courses in commerce or economics.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 495. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
“Throughout the book the treatment is concise—possibly, at times, too
concise—and is descriptive and expository rather than controversial.
The book is especially strong on its pedagogical side.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 168. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 564. S. ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 60w.
=Fitzpatrick, Samuel A. O.= Dublin: a historical and topographical
account of the city; il. by W. Curtis Green. (Ancient cities.)
*$1.75. Dutton.
8–3118.
“Six of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s eleven chapters are given to the different
periods of the city’s life; another deals with Trinity college. The
social life of the city from the time when records of the subject
begin to be available, the municipal history, the theatre, which has
achieved no small distinction, are successively treated, and there is
a separate account of ‘Historic houses and distinguished Dubliners.’
The cathedrals of Christ church and St. Patrick are duly
described.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Is not only the best book that has so far been written on Dublin—it
is the best volume which has yet appeared in the series.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“The author is a careful man, and has learnt a great deal about his
subject.... In recording so many facts an author cannot be infallible,
and we add some suggestions, which may be of use when a new edition is
in sight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 754. Je. 22. 1080w.
“The volume is not so attractive in style or dress as Mr. Chart’s, but
as a guide to Dublin, old and new, it is equally exact and useful.
There is no modern map.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23. ’08. 100w.
“To many the most interesting part of the text will be its account of
early history. That of Dublin is specially interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
“A carefully written and interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 169. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
=Flammarion, Camille.= Mysterious psychic forces. **$2.50. Small.
7–30610.
The author “describes his first experiences at seances, his own
experiments, with Eusapia Paiadino, the experiments of the Dialectical
society of London and of Sir William Crookes and others, drawing from
them his own theories and conclusions.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 60w.
“An honest record of long and careful scientific study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
“A complete account of the like investigations on the continent of
Europe has as yet been wanting. This book comes nearer than any other
to filling the gap.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 846. D. 21, ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 40w.
=Flandrau, Charles Macomb.= Viva, Mexico! **$1.25. Appleton.
8–28075.
A description of Mexico and the Mexicans which gives an intimate
insight into the social, political, religious, and commercial life. It
is the traveler’s Mexico that is projected in panorama upon the
author’s canvas with the certain details that catch the tourist’s eye
but which are too often omitted from guide books.
* * * * *
“An entertaining book in which the author with unrestrained frankness
quaintly discusses Mexican things that interest him. It touches upon
social, religious, political, and business topics, and handles them
all in bold, independent fashion and with as much carefulness as a
writer with a whimsical and somewhat humorous disposition could be
expected to exhibit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
=Fleming, John Dick.= Israel’s golden age: a story of the United
kingdom. (Handbooks for Bible classes.) *45c. imp. Scribner.
8–32325.
“The standpoint of the author is historical, his spirit is profoundly
religious.... The difficulties of the narratives of this early period
are frankly recognized and the religious limitations of the time are
fully allowed for, but the emphasis of the book is on the positive and
progressive elements in the history, rather than upon its defects and
weaknesses.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“A student who works through the period of Saul and David under
Professor Fleming’s guidance will have a new conception of Old
Testament history and religion.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The author possesses interpretative insight in a marked degree, and
is master of a pleasing style. The historical judgment of the author
is well balanced and his book may be highly commended to all teachers
of Bible classes.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 79. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Fleming has treated it in a scholarly manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 60w.
“Professor Fleming has found his way through the conflicting sources
with no small skill, and his manual affords sufficient help for the
serious student to form his own opinions intelligently.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 110w.
=Fleshman, Arthur Cary.= Educational process. (Lippincott’s
educational ser.) $1.25. Lippincott.
An attempt, the author says, to organize a new doctrine of education
out of an old theory of thought. The author yields to the latter-day
conclusions that life is a spiritual process; that activity is
spiritual. He takes the problems of education out of the domain of the
mechanical, experimental, physiological, physical and psycho-physical
and explains them as spiritual processes.
* * * * *
“Is neither original in method nor brilliant in style.”
− =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Fletcher, Beaumont.= Richard Wilson. (Makers of British art ser.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
8–33825.
A sketch which aims to give proper prominence to a famous landscape
painter whose merit during the century and more since his death has
been overlooked. The sketch takes into account the conditioning
factors of his life, his education, and his place in art. The volume
is made complete by reproductions of his pictures, a list of
authorities consulted, and an index.
* * * * *
“It is quite time something of the sort should have appeared.” E: E.
Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 208. O. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“That the facts are so few may well be no fault of the author, but as
much cannot be said for the paucity of ideas.”
− =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“To those interested either in his work or in the larger question of
the development of landscape art the book can be recommended. Whether
agreeing with the author’s estimate of the artist’s importance or not,
the facts presented and the opinions of other writers freely drawn
upon give value and interest to the biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 312. My. 30, ’08. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Law of the rhythmic breath: teaching the
generation, conservation, and control of vital force. *$1. Fenno.
Explains the bare truths of the rhythmic breath as taught in ancient
Hindu philosophy and developed by the author.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 170w.
=Fletcher, Horace.= Optimism, a real remedy; with a foreword by
William Dana Orcutt. **75c. McClurg.
8–1690.
Horace Fletcher, identified with furthering the Gladstonian doctrine
of excessive chewing, shows the life-prolonging influence of
physiologic optimism. He discusses the passing of medicine, optimism
as opportunism, and happiness after fifty.
=Fletcher, J. S.= Book about Yorkshire. *$2. McClure.
“A book about Yorkshire, with thirty-two illustrations, half of which
are attractive sketches in colour, covers the wide field of things
worth seeing and saying as well as a single volume could. Much more
might, of course, be said about scenery, and charms of wood and water;
but these things are in the guide-books, and we think the author was
well advised in laying stress rather on Yorkshire dialect, customs,
folk-lore, and oddities as well as the churches, castles, and
great-houses which always figure in these county records.”—Ath.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 130w.
“All in all, his book is an important contribution to the literature
of his country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 540w.
“He has selected and arranged his material admirably.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has used his eyes and the historical records with judgment, and
has done his best to give us a real notion of the wealth of interest
and association that lies in the great shire.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 65. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Harringtons of Highcroft farm. il. $1.50.
Dodge, B. W.
8–8308.
The story of a Yorkshire homestead which introduces an over worked,
much abused young hero. “There is something pleasant about the air of
the sixties, which is the period of this tale. Uncle Benjamin stands
for what villain there is, and Uncle Dick is that misunderstood and
self-sacrificing artist whom we may remember even further back than
the sixties. And is not the wilful daughter of an earl who weds in due
time with the yeoman’s son a creature of that bygone generation?”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“The very headings of the chapters acquaint us that we are committed
to an old-fashioned and somewhat dull story.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 150w.
“Chronicle is a better name than novel for this book. Its interest is
not so much in how it all turns out as in the personality of every
separate member of the Harrington family.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“The manner of the book is charming, quiet, placid, but with much
depth and richness of feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 233. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Mothers in Israel: a study in rustic
amenities. †$1.25. Moffat.
8–19023.
The two “mothers in Israel” are two Yorkshire farmers’ wives with
marriageable daughters. They begin their backbiting when they learn
that the young minister has become engaged to the schoolmistress. The
rustic amenities referred to in the sub-title are lying, slander,
evil-speaking, and malice. “There are not wanting graphic touches of
village landscape and figures, and if some readers feel cheated out of
tragedy, others will take comfort in comedy, for the curtain falls on
backbiters thoroughly frustrated, if not in the least reformed.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“He handles [Yorkshire village life] tenderly and with a sense of
humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 130w.
“The study is made with the utmost seriousness of intention, and the
utmost solemnity of belief.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The book is redolent of fresh Yorkshire butter, sun-baked fields, and
blooming chestnuts, and it makes amusing and restful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author has managed to invest his characters with reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 342. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from the special purpose of the book, ‘Mothers in Israel’ is a
well-constructed picture of life in a Yorkshire village, and the
portraits of the two principal characters and of the clergyman’s
housekeeper, Elizabeth, are drawn in a very clear and lifelike
manner.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 383. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Flexner, Abraham.= American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
An analysis of the educational procedure of the American college from
the moment when it tells the secondary school how the boy is to be
made ready for college to the day when he receives his bachelor’s
degree. The chapters are as follows: The problem defined, The
development of the college, The college and the secondary school, The
elective system, Graduate and undergraduate and The way out.
* * * * *
“The author’s tone is very dogmatic, far more so than either his
experience or his knowledge of the subject would seem to justify. What
he has chiefly done is to record his impressions of the impressions of
other people. Mr. Flexner’s aims are of the best but his diagnosis is
faulty and his information is neither sufficient nor exact.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 513. D. ’08. 720w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Mirabeau and the French revolution. 3v. v. 1.
**$3.50. Putnam.
8–25730.
=v. 1.= The youth of Mirabeau.
The first instalment of a three part biography. The divisions as
outlined for the three volumes accord with the well marked phases of
Mirabeau’s life, and are as follows: (1) His youth; (2) His public
career to the beginning of the revolutionary crisis; (3) His
activities in the assembly. The aim is to study Mirabeau as a product
of his times, to follow his emergence from a background of historical
conditioning forces. In this first volume the sketch of his first
twenty-five years is preceded by a presentation of the struggle
against arbitrary government in France, and of the origin and rise of
the Riqueti, also by four chapters on the direct antecedents of
Mirabeau.
* * * * *
“It is careful, learned, and rich in bibliographical references.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 809. N. 28, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is characterized by a large and coherent plan, a mastery of
voluminous material, a power of presenting characters in just relief
against the background of the age, by moderation of judgment and
detachment of view. The style is marred by an occasional awkwardness
of phrase and a translation at times too literal. The note at the
bottom of page 153 contains some errors of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Prof. Fling has achieved something very like a masterpiece in [its]
kind. If the forthcoming volumes are as interesting and valuable as
the first they will be welcome to all students and to the general
reader as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Floy, Henry.= Compilation of the records of the Colorado Springs
lighting controversy; with an introd. and epitome. *$4.
Illuminating engineering pub. co., N. Y.
8–3931.
“In an introductory section, the author gives a historical résumé of
the case, together with comments on its main features and
conclusions.... The report of the testimony comprises the great part
of the contents of the book.”—Elec. World.
* * * * *
“The book will be of particular value to central stations having
municipal contracts for street lighting.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 730. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It is a work that will be of permanent value to electrical engineers
and lawyers throughout the country.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 300w.
“The immediate interest of the book to engineers lies in the
statements under oath of several men generally recognized as experts
in arc-lamp illumination.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Flynt, Josiah.= My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2.
Outing. pub.
8–30135.
The self-written “life” of the man, who, instinct with human
curiosity, sounded the depths of the under-world and brought back
experiences which he casts in the human document form. Early life, his
rebellion against order, his days in a reform school, his escape and
early tramping experiences, his voyage to Germany as a coal-passer,
his life and wanderings in Europe, the friendship with Arthur Symons
whom he called his literary god-father, his meeting with Tolstoy are
all full of human interest.
* * * * *
“His narrative is all the more characteristic from its lack of polish.
Like all that he has written, it is extremely interesting, even though
far less interesting than his talk is said to have been.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 338. N. 16, ’08. 1850w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“The book will perhaps sufficiently appeal to those who care for
autobiography for its own sake. There is much of the joy of
vagabondage in it, little of achievement. The telling of the story is
easy, in spite of its disjointed quality. In the latter part of the
book coherence is lacking, and its anecdotal quality is but mildly
interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Politician; being the English tr. of his
“Daniele Cortis,” done by G. Mantellini. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
8–4034.
A strongly emotional story of a young Italian politician’s love for
the wife of a thoroly bad senator. Duty prevails to the point of
renunciation, grief is quelled by the call to work, and one must be
satisfied with the triumph of moral justice.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The American reader who happens to possess no special knowledge of
the affairs of church and state in modern Italy may find it more
readable than the novels of the trilogy. Not only is the English
thoroughly shiftless and awkward, nowhere rising to the plane of
Fogazzaro’s Italian, but the pages are sown thick with the most
astonishing errors in translation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Translated into excellent and sympathetic English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 96. F. 15, ’08. 60w.
“A keen, fond eye for natural scenery, and the passionate Italian
temperament of the interlocutors, pervade the narrator. This, as well
as ‘The sinner,’ while not lacking in dramatic situations and tragic
interest, has little of that significance for the neo-Catholic
movement which gave such popularity to ‘The saint.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Folwell, William Watts.= Minnesota, the North star state. (American
commonwealths.) **$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
A concise narrative, based upon original sources, in which events are
unfolded in their relation to the political and economic development
of the state without diminution of their dramatic interest. The author
has been identified with the public interests of the state for the
past forty years, holding for many years the chair of Political
Science at the state university.
* * * * *
“Mr. Folwell offers a readable compend of the state’s history, and by
reason of having had access to several sources of original information
not previously available he has made considerable additions to those
already before the public. The final chapter would have been of more
interest and value had it treated more fully recent political
developments.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 653. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Folwell writes with considerable dash and vigor, and with a
frankness that will scarcely be relished by the survivors among the
land and timber manipulators and other corruptionists who were so much
in evidence in Minnesota during its formative period. This frankness,
however, and an uncompromising insistence on viewing the facts of
history from the standpoint of a sturdy morality, far more than
compensate for certain minor defects in treatment and construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 789. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Fontaine, Lamar.= My life and my lectures. *$3. Neale.
8–16524.
The experiences of an invincible hero who as school boy, Indian,
hunter, or civil engineer, escaped the arrows aimed at the vulnerable
heel. During sixteen years he wandered in China, Egypt, India,
Palestine and South America after which he enlisted with the Fourth
Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army.
* * * * *
“In spite of the savage delight he had in killing and fighting and in
writing about it ad nauseam, the author has a graphic way in relating
details of adventure that is often admirable. The book with all its
brutality, bad grammar, and conceit, was well worth while as
presenting a character the like of which may never be seen again. One
ought to be sufficient.”
− + =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“He tells of [his adventures] interestingly and with happy, pleasant,
humorous touches that serve to lighten the narrative of peril and of
suffering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 140w.
=Forbes, Henry Prentiss.= Johannine literature and the Acts of the
apostles. (International handbooks to the New Testament, no. 4.)
**$2. Putnam.
7–15616.
“The general view taken of the Acts is that ‘it is history in the
ancient, Oriental, religious, not in the modern, Occidental, critical
sense.’ The Fourth gospel is regarded as an idealization of material
more or less historical by ‘an Asian Christian’ of the second century,
and is presented as such with the remark, ‘The truth of fiction may be
most lifegiving; it is the ideal which endures.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“One will find much suggestive treatment of important passages without
the confusion of encyclopedic detail. A bibliography might have been
added without defeating the object of the series and one finds the
index to the four volumes too compact.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 479. Jl. ’08. 670w.
“Concise and useful introductions and commentaries prepared from the
critical point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 480. Je. ’07. 30w.
“The author contrives to inspire faith in his guidance as a
well-equipped interpreter, with stores of learning of which he makes
no parade, and sufficient warmth of religious sympathy to prevent
anyone from being wounded by his clearcut decision.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 460. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“Mastery of critical material, however it be interpreted, and
spiritual appreciation of Jesus are alike conspicuous in this volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 190w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Side-stepping with Shorty. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–12803.
Sprightliness, sympathy with human nature and an abounding sense of
humor are the requisites for “side-stepping with Shorty.” When once
the reader has acquired the necessary momentum, there is no stopping
until he reaches the last page. For Shorty makes no pauses for
observation; he sees in transit, thinks while on the move, and
delivers himself of his wit at every breath. The twenty skits present
people with their foibles lying close to their saner ideals.
* * * * *
“The substance has that essential vulgarity of which a sound realism,
however unflinching, is never really in danger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
“Shorty sees a good deal of life and tells about it with a zest and an
unconventionality of expression that make his stories as breezy as the
sidewalks round about the Times building on a windy day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 90w.
“A very humorous story, containing some of the mirthful qualities of
‘Mr. Dooley,’ Dickens’s Sam Weller, and the dry wit and shrewdness of
Mark Twain.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 80w.
=Forel, August Henri.= Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and
disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert
Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.
7–20717.
The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view
of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a
singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and
physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of
development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the
mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology
of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is
treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of translation well and
faithfully, and there is a good index.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.
“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any
notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate
acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain
language a convenient survey of the data now available for the
understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.
“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved,
and deserves to be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.
=Forster, Hugh O. A-.= English socialism of to-day: its teachings
and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–17762.
A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the
point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his
liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the
constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his
liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf
of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the
socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his
practices however right his theories may be.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic
principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is
as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets
which he criticises.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.
“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly
that the result is far from satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.
“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little
more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not
desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when
it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the
selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original
additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing
which much needed doing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.
“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with
which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in
particular.” W. A. Bruce.
− + =Outlook.= 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most
effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate
references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.
=Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor.= Positive preaching and modern mind:
the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907.
*$1.75. Armstrong.
8–9053.
“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It
is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for
the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern,
taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach
these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus,
theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine
Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy
God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.
“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read
by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour
of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral
earnestness or their intellectual grip.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.
“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been
approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious
earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes
humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is
to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very
agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of
the discarded ‘period.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism,
these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to
the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their
defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout
these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and
other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.
8–30937.
The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which
was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.
=Foster, William Trufant.= Argumentation and debating. **$1.25.
Houghton.
8–19899.
A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of
debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it
insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone
of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and
terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A
copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for
briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for
instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league,
together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Four-Pools= mystery. †$1.50. Century.
8–8103.
The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern
plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a
vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy,
involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of
Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man,
a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and fear
of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly
portrayed.
* * * * *
“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but
with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so
frequently attend the tale of mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing.
The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of
Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality;
potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has
appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive
dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue
penciled’ to the skeleton.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many
crime-tales, and original in its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
* =Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= Miss
Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29869.
A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a
clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband
too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived
her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son.
The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of
the husband furnish incidents in plenty.
* * * * *
“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place
improbabilities.”
− =Ath.= 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author
has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are
woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A
strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced
melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid
persons.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed
story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such
interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the
extreme.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Fox, Edgar Alonzo.= Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the
Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–39010.
In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent
writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school
work.
=Fox, John, jr.= Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27497.
“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a
particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver,
a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training
of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her
mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of
triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the
stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the
arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order
through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with
an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and
heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the
plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on
the local colour.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.
“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life,
even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight
errantry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous
an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an
hour of uncritical pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of
the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very
winning charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of
writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this
autumn.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.
=Outlook.= 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.
“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the
strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Francis of Assisi, St.= Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi;
newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold.
(Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.
A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the
seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and
mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and
charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is
able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal
legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced
from a fourteenth century manuscript.
* * * * *
“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of
this classic of religious literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.
“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Frank, Henry.= Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.
8–24255.
A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force,
telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical
requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the
psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the
third to the moral agents.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.
=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Heart of a child.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11080.
From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in
London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm
with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown
of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her
eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the
pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London
music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she
was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously
works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with
his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of
her truth and simplicity.
* * * * *
“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and
improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the
girl shows originality of conception.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.
“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a
thesis.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.
“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often
come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a
few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for
its wholesome tone.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w
“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting
thoroughness.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but
otherwise the story is cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more
closely.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her
case, because she is an impossible creature.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of
character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it
well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an
acquisition to her new station.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see
away is in chap. 21.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Franklin, Fabian.= People and problems: a collection of addresses
and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.
8–14656.
Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the
chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of
the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty
editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed,
but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of
the last decade and more.
* * * * *
“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put
forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.
“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a
whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’
as to make the entire volume attractive.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“These comments on current events are not merely of historical
interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American
editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and
readable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must
be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and
fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.
“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the
work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent
form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American
student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them
conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good
newspaper editorial writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry.= Elements of
mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–23872.
“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to
bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student
keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the
laundry it is the force, 4π^2n^2rm which wrings the water from the
clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can
tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his
hands.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point,
the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that
inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific
principles are numerous.” E. G. C.
− =Nature.= 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.
7–39017.
Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other
houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the
highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing
kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural
characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations
add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s
“Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of
old Navarre.”
* * * * *
“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and
convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be
found by consulting many books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find
an eager welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war
and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.
W8–35.
“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men
who through the centuries since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a
long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still
carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen
herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd
policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet
in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for
Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous
ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full
and skilful use of local colour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has
certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on
others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute
to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Fraser, Edward.= “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the
enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us
to-day. *$1.50. Lane.
“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the
name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII.
Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of
fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.
“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting
information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services
and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history
of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of
ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt,
running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our
appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18373.
Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays
another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry
Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry
had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent;
there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old
mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief
career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the
altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East
Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival,
a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for
others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of
conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.
* * * * *
“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book
is full of human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.
“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s
other dramas of conscience and of New England.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.
“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of
her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.
“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will
interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes
of the book already mentioned.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type
and individual.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin.= World’s
commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants
of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by
T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–22708.
“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic
plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more
clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The
work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of
statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored
plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the
chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.
“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a
good general summary of information concerning the more important
economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.
“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and
exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The
maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the
letterpress itself.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Freemantle, Elizabeth.= One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–23925.
In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and
misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes
that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to
marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the
elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the
“big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices
of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with
simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.
* * * * *
“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital
woman.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times=. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.
8–26824.
Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial
story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New
Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an
advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.”
His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a
trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his
assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of
the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.
* * * * *
“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s
books.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.
“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her
characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent
unconsciousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
* =French, Anne Warner.= The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25.
Small.
8–29870.
An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a
furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing
struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.
* * * * *
=Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50.
Century.
8–8098.
A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a
companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college
professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee,
now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and
name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the
niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’
romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John
authenticates in his inimitable way.”
* * * * *
“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular
author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor
characters are a little overdone.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore
inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor,
one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should
be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the
very last chapter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.
“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France
with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should
not be read at one sitting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
* =French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its
arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.
8–28317.
A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the
important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes.
“The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts
of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces,
windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole
house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different
plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and
followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated
in the mean.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a
narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the
consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–23712.
“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval
corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is
sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in
Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to
quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the
march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like
looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the
outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern
action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial
times.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly
interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of
romantic or sentimental appeal.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.
“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale
for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the
unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that
ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause
of peace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every
reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is
worthy of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.
“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the
questions which it suggests.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Frothingham, Paul Revere.= Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–29414.
“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude]
by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained
and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls
attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all,
love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right
living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with
occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen,
Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers,
ancient and modern.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail,
and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume
can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can
be digested piecemeal.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much
persuasiveness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
=Frye, Prosser Hall.= Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–27523.
Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing
with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand,
Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with
Hardy’s naturalism, Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden
and Emerson.
* * * * *
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.
“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think
impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from
the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance
of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from
the deeper consistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his
subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One
cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr.
Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and
profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as
Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
* =Fuller, Henry Blake.= Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23926.
Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence,
Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains
his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza
Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4; 269. N. ’08.
“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation
of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in
vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work
than this; he has done it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr.
Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much
cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest
and sparkle.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Fuller, Robert Hart.= South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22497.
“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is
evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the
conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing
present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers
a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and
town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and
industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his
temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous,
without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of
the Boers.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.
“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the
knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that
his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who
would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is
in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Government by the people: laws and
customs regulating the election system and the formation and
control of political parties in the United States. **$1.
Macmillan.
8–13760.
“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as
it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It
consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing
the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and
means of control of political parties in the United States. It
contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information
expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the
qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary
elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties
in our public life.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠
“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every
voter.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.
“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American
citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.
“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a
part of the instruction in civil government.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in
college courses in government.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to
the state of New York, it has general value.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American
citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.
=Fulton, Charles Herman.= Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.
7–37731.
This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to
students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an
office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best
order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores,
and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest
degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and
silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that
has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which
is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a
character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to
scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.”
Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.
=Furnival, Frederick James.= Babees’ book: medieval manners for the
young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith
Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and
meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on
courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is
bound in brown leather with clasps.
* * * * *
“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.
“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor
of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good
manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
* =Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John.= Shakespeare’s life and
work. Cassell.
An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals
with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the
chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary
activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in
Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”
* * * * *
“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice,
writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the
different spelling we give above.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.
“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively,
picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great
dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition
of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or
for private reading cannot be found.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration
gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the
literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept
all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–13276.
A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with
another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best
of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side,
that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed
persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which
are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and
his automobile unconsciously aid.
* * * * *
“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an
occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9816.
A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van
Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a
game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of
exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never
played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after
a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim
“you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever
“thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective
marvels.
* * * * *
“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the
earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather
the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R.
A. Whay.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment;
with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very
obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the
subject, but not to the average reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 12. Ja. ’08.
“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove
decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy
entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable
contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic
control of racial development.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.
“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students
for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian.
Both the text and illustrations are good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold
of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of
primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and
capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book
for popular consumption.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.
“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader
as well as to the student of anthropology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
G
* =Gaige, Roscoe Crosby, and Harcourt, Alfred=, comps. Books and
reading. (Humanity essays.) **$1.50. Baker.
8–29755.
An anthology of the “most human things said about books” including
some eighty odd contributions. The groups into which the selections
are gathered are as follows: By way of preface; My book and heart;
Friends in council; The little ships; Some ancient worthies; The
glorious court; Philobiblon; To those who write; Beside the fire; and
Complete essays.
* * * * *
“Has been compiled with care and devotion, and contains some of the
choicest passages in literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 170w.
* =Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an
historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–34724.
An historical survey which is made under the following heads: The
Lollards, Royal supremacy, The fall of the monasteries, and The reign
of the English Bible. “The first of these deals, in a fairly full and
entertaining fashion, with the rise, spread, and subsequent decline of
Lollardy, and the general position of affairs on the eve of the
reformation.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The most severe critic would find it difficult to catch Dr. Gairdner
tripping on his own ground; but there is a curious lapse with regard
to an important religious house which played a significant part in the
story of the suppression. A work of the highest standard, wherein is
marshalled, with innate honesty of purpose, an abundance of facts
concerning a most complex and perplexing period of English history in
Church and State.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 499. O. 24. 2300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“In most cases we disagree with his interpretation, and we have spoken
of his work as biassed. But his bias, while it governs his argument,
has not led him into anything of the nature of misrepresentation of
facts. His work is careful, conscientious, and learned.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 883. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
* =Gale, Zona.= Friendship village. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30534.
A village of no definite geographical location is the scene of
happenings which are recorded by one who drops quietly into the life
and ways of the towns-folk for a short season. From the lowliest to
the village autocrat, the chronicler selects her types, and gathers
them into a sheaf for the reader. The volume has a large
brotherhood-of-man value in its lessons of neighborly kindness and
charity, in its substitution of the spirit of simplicity and
genuineness for superficial worldliness.
* * * * *
“We close the book, lingeringly, just as we should leave so friendly a
town, with the feeling that America is sound at the core, while it is
possible to recognize the truth of such affectionate portraiture.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“We mean no offense by comparing the book with ‘David Harum,’ Calliope
being a feminine David, and many of the scenes being similar. This
book especially makes for higher thinking and better living, and
emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as
high.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 470w.
“Miss Gale is a newcomer who has quietly taken her place with those
who can bring a smile on the face of life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
“There are genuine every-day Christian faith and hearty fellowship in
these pretty, homely, and decidedly clever sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Sorceress of Rome. il. $1.50. Page.
7–36915.
The second volume in the author’s trilogy of romances on the medieval
life of Italy. Old monkish chronicles have furnished the material for
the story which in the main tells of impassioned love of Otto III, the
boy emperor, for Stephania, the wife of Crescentius, their deeds to
outwit friend and foe, the tragedy of their life and death.
* * * * *
“Undoubtedly the author is giving us only such facts as he deems
necessary to a clear understanding of the times and the events he
chronicles; but the average reader would have been better satisfied to
be somewhat less instructed and somewhat more entertained.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 673. F. ’08. 290w.
“Fantastic, over-drawn, surfeited with the extreme and the erotic, the
production was not worth the labor and research expended upon it.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 834. Mr. ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“It is a well-written tale, full of color and action, whose pages teem
with weird wonders and gruesome surprises.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Galsworthy, John.= A commentary. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–33812.
“A series of little pictures, or idylls, strangely disquieting, of
misery and comfort, satiric, ironic, tragic. The chapters bear such
captions as ‘Old age,’ ‘Fear,’ ‘Fashion,’ ‘Sport,’ ‘Justice’; but
these abstractions are the shadows cast by characters of flesh and
blood.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“These sketches are determined etchings from life, but have been
bitten-in without much regard to art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 126. Ag. 1, 120w.
“A series of stories that really deserve to be preserved because of
their literary merit, and because of the curious light they shed upon
the two natures of poverty.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s animating motive, a desire to puncture the
thoughtless complacency of the comfortable classes, has produced in
this volume of organically related sketches a work of original
distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1. ’08. 370w.
“He puts these reflections into various mouths, they occasionally miss
any particular illumination, they do not favor continuous reading, and
here and there they too obviously suggest the notebook. Yet there is
throughout the volume a clearness of thought, a fine treatment of
circumstance, a sane, sardonic humour which would atone for much more
serious defects and interest us even more in the author than in his
present material.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Island Pharisees. Revised and rewritten. †$1.50.
Putnam.
8–27808.
Richard Shelton, a young Englishman born to the “ninety desiring peace
and comfort for their spirit ... who will have it that the fashions
need not change, that morality is fixed, that all is ordered and
immutable” joins the ten Pharisees who grope for a philosophy to
uphold the conviction that “All things that are, are wrong” in place
of “All things that are, are right.” This story depicts subjectively
the struggle of Shelton as he is torn between social conventionality
and allegiance to the tramp with whom and with whose philosophy his
whole nature sympathizes.
* * * * *
“Shelton falls immeasurably short of his purpose; he is too weak a
vessel for his message, emotionally and intellectually. Wishing to
strike at the fundamental evils of society, he succeeds only in
impeaching order and respectability. He is not virile, but puerile.”
− =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 420w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Villa Rubein. $1.50. Putnam.
8–20136.
A highborn English girl and a poor peasant artist are the principal
characters in this story whose incidents grow out of the struggle
between class tradition and the will of youth that knows no allegiance
to convention.
* * * * *
“Whether judged by itself or as a measure of his subsequent
advancement, ‘Villa Rubein’s’ publication in this country can only
heighten, not diminish, the reputation Mr. Galsworthy has already
won.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 47. S. ’08. 950w.
“One wonders what is the motive of the book. It is so much like life
as to be meaningless. The absolutely tame ending obscures its drift.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 119. Ag. 6, ’08. 360w.
“It is a sustained story of human emotion and absorbing incident.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13. ’08. 200w.
“It is good enough to make one wish it were better.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Purple and homespun. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12767.
With scenes shifting from Washington to the East Side of New York and
to London this story portrays the determination of a young, self-made
United States senator to show himself worthy to marry the daughter of
a British ambassador, in spite of the fact that he traces his origin
to the slums of New York. The willingness to recognize American
democratic true worth is opposed by the English traditional demand
that every god have his Olympian corner.
* * * * *
“Mr. Gardenhire’s book has the merit of originality, but he needs to
free himself from artificiality, and his knowledge of English society
is evidently slight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Gardenhire’s style is stodgy, but he has packed a good deal of
experience into his pages, and thereby made them quite readable.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Gardenhire has somewhat disorganized his story by hypodermically
injecting an East Side romance, together with a touch of socialism.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 140w.
“On the whole, the affair is labored and inconclusive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= World and the woman. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–38265.
“The story is that of a woman who tries to make her way in Washington
society without money, and of the desperate straits into which she
fell.... The main part of the tale is concerned with her life there,
the devious ways into which her struggles force her, the daughter’s
social success and final marriage.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Here is another novel which quite ruthlessly unmasks the
double-dealing, pretence, and petty spite which play so sinister a
part in the social life of the capital.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“The pictures of Washington society are written with much color and
cleverness and many a touch of cynicism. The characters stand out very
distinctly, although a bit weak in some places, and the story is
developed with a good deal of intensity and charm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Gardner, Edmund Garratt.= Saint Catherine of Siena: a study in the
religion, literature and history of the XIV century in Italy, with
some unpublished letters of St. Catherine. *$4. Dutton.
8–14840.
A study from original sources of Italian life and thought as reflected
in the work and personality of Saint Catherine of Siena, “the
successor of Dante in the literature and religious thought of Italy,
and the connecting link between St. Francis of Assisi and Savonarola.”
* * * * *
“A book which gives for the first time a satisfactory chronology,
rectifies many misconceptions, and leaves us with a full and rational
account of the progress of events.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 845. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“An admirable work, both scholarly and interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Gardner has told Catherine’s story with a completeness scarcely
attempted by any of his predecessors.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 500. O. 24. 780w.
“Here indeed is the full story of Catherine’s activities from the
beginning, narrated with sympathy and reverence only equalled by
historical acumen and literary skill.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 452. Jl. ’08. 3700w.
“The orderly arrangement of the book is particularly noteworthy;
notwithstanding the wealth of detail, clearness is never sacrificed.”
L: J. Block.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 83. Ag. 16, ’08. 2400w.
“Scholarly in an old-fashioned way, and well written. Obviously the
work of a devout Roman Catholic scholar, not a scientific investigator
of history, it is inevitably colored by the habit of mind of the
believer. Yet the book is rich in documentary value for the student of
the times.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
“Rarely do we find the critical faculty so happily blended with
enthusiasm. The book is perhaps, the best which has been written about
Italy by an Englishman since the death of John Addington Symonds; and
indubitably it is the best ever written about St. Catherine.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Into the pitfall [of copious detail] Mr. Gardner has fallen with
ready feet. Nevertheless, his study of Catherine and her times is full
of interesting glimpses and suggestions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 360w.
“The volume under consideration, apart from its value to students and
to all intelligent readers, has a peculiar charm of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Gardner, however, insists upon the times rather than the life.
Not that we quarrel with the scholarly writer for this: he has set
himself a certain task; he has clearly defined it; and he has carried
it to an end with an orderly sequence and a wealth of erudition that
excite our warmest praise and liveliest admiration.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 208. F. 15, ’08. 1250w.
=Gardner, William Amory.= In Greece with the classics. **$1.50.
Little.
8–14834.
“On a slight thread of pleasant narrative of the author’s own hasty
spring tour in Greece are strung original translations of the passages
from the Greek poets, which one would wish to recall, upon the
Acropolis, at Conolos, Marathon, Aegina, Eleusis, Mycenae, Delphi,
Olympia, or Corfu. The original texts are given in a convenient
appendix.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Our author, having come with a thirst, has drunk his draft to the
full, not at Dirce’s or Arethusa’s fount, but at that well undefiled
the Greek spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1148. My. 21, ’08. 240w.
“Is the kind of guide book for which the sentimental traveller, bored
to extinction by archaeology, has been yearning. There is no attempt
at completeness, and the relevancy of some of the selections is
questionable. The translations, while lacking distinction, are
readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Shadow world. †$1.35. Harper.
8–29371.
Here are recorded a series of surprising experiments with psychical
phenomena conducted by Mr. Garland among a group of his friends, some
half-afraid, some avowedly skeptical, while all were curious and
earnest. A number of the actual sessions of this group with a psychic
present are given in detail for the purpose of showing evidence
concerning the process of mediumship. Then follow experiments throwing
light upon the more elusive part of the problem—the question of
identity. The volume records dignified, serious investigation that was
conducted in the interests of science.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“It is the nature of a crank to go off on any tangent, and Mr. Garland
has offered the largest tangent ever provided for a soul-sniffing
public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Offers practically nothing new for consideration and investigation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 586. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“For the benefit of those inclined to take his book at all seriously
it may be added that the ‘phase’ of mediumship with which it is almost
wholly concerned is precisely that which has been most conclusively
demonstrated to be permeated through and through with fraud.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Garnett, Porter.= Bohemian jinks: a treatise. *$1.50. Porter
Garnett, Bohemian club, San Francisco.
8–21800.
An account of the woodland midsummer dramatic and musical performances
given, one a year, by the Bohemian club of San Francisco at the close
of a two-weeks’ encampment.
* * * * *
“The book makes very interesting reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Porter Garnett has put a great many of us under obligations to him by
giving us his little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5. ’08. 760w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 367. D. ’08. 470w.
=Garnett, Theodore Stanford.= J. E. B. Stuart (major-general)
commander of the cavalry corps, Army of northern Virginia, C. S.
A. *$1. Neale.
7–42107.
An address delivered at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of
General Stuart, at Richmond, May 30, 1907. It furnishes a suggestive
outline for a fuller biography which it is hoped the author will soon
undertake.
* * * * *
“The address by Judge Garnett furnishes a good outline of Stuart’s
career.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 140w.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Studies in the inner life of Jesus. *$2.25.
Armstrong.
8–19128.
A study of the mind, heart, and will of Jesus as portrayed in the
Gospels. “Two men constantly struggle for the mastery in this
volume—the Scotsman and the German, the dogmatic theologian and the
religious psychologist, and when the balance is not maintained it is
the latter that usually goes under.” (Hibbert J.) In justifying his
study of the inner life of Jesus Dr. Garvie says “an exaggerated
importance is attached to a knowledge of contemporary customs and
costume” and that “enough has been written about the scenery, the
upholstery, and drapery of the life of Jesus.”
* * * * *
“Dr. Garvie’s studies ... are not only the work of a scholar, but of a
spiritual seer; of a man who thinks deeply as well as widely. The
outlook is modern, but is balanced by distinctly conservative
leanings.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 934. Jl. ’08. 1500w.
“Principal Garvie will have a wide hearing, but his work would have
gained from greater conciseness.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Garvie’s conclusions are conservative.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 210w.
* =Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis Aidan.= Greater abbeys of England. *$3–50.
Dodd.
8–27782.
“Here we have brief histories of [thirty-one] abbeys, beginning with
St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and ending with Whitby. Every name among
the [thirty-one] is more or less famous, but among the most celebrated
are St. Albans, Battle, Furness, Fountains, Glastonbury, Rievaulx,
Sherborne, and Tintern.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“These pictures are for the most part full of charm and supply
accurate ideas of the condition of a large number of the ruined and
dismantled abbeys of England. He has managed to write in a bright and
interesting fashion on each of the thirty-one greater abbeys herein
described. His selection of information for this series of short
essays shows a thorough mastery of the subject, and in several cases
details are supplied which have seldom, if ever, found their way into
print.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 767. Je. 20. 1300w.
“The book is written from a strongly sympathetic standpoint, which is
not the least of its charms, and with its mine of information and
admirable illustrations, commends itself to the reader as a valuable
contribution.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“The stories of the various abbeys are told in good English and with
the same ripeness of knowledge as in his other works on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 170w.
“The task of setting these beautiful ruins and their history before
American readers has been well done. The fireside traveler is likely
to enjoy the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“The illustrations would alone make the book valuable. We could wish,
indeed, that they had stood by themselves, or been accompanied by a
neutral account.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 793. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Cupid, the cow punch. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37708.
“This is not so much a novel as a collection of magazine stories,
loosely connected and numbered as chapters. Cupid is the name of Alec
Lloyd, a cowboy, who, besides being a philosopher and sentimentalist,
has a local reputation as a matchmaker. The narrative comes from him
and is in dialect.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Overdone, but will interest a good many.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08.
“Is clean, wholesome, and amusing—in other words, not commonplace.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book shows an intimate knowledge of the western plains, and is
full of good, honest fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“While Cupid’s good nature and clever turns of phrase are infectiously
amusing, one is left rather breathless at the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 39. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Gause, Isaac.= Four years with five armies. *$2. Neale.
8–3950.
A short history of campaigns, privations and engagements within the
experience of one who served in the armies of the Frontier, of the
Potomac, of the Missouri, of the Ohio and of the Shenandoah.
=Gauss, Henry Colford.= American government: organization and
officials; with the duties and powers of federal office holders:
an original summarization; with a compilation of data from
original sources. $5. Hamersly.
8–6616.
A standard work of reference on the structure and regulations of the
American government and the duties and powers of federal officials
whose aim is to make federal practice “less of a mystery to the
millions who are at once the sovereigns of the respective states and
of the federal nation.”
* * * * *
“The information is complete, encyclopedic in scope, but without
literary pretension. Not for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“There are serious limitations upon the usefulness of the book,
because no sense of proportion is maintained.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 120w.
“The fault of the book is that its policy in matters of detail is not
at all uniform. In general, the expository matter is clear and
accurate, treating of actual practice rather than theory.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The compilation contains nearly nine hundred pages, and every one of
them is informative, giving just the sort of information which a busy
publicist, journalist, lawyer, or merchant often requires at short
notice.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 250w.
* =Gebhardt, George Frederick.= Steam power plant engineering. *$6.
Wiley.
8–27111.
“The author devotes chapters to fuels, boilers, furnaces,
superheaters, coal and ash handling, chimneys, mechanical draft, steam
engines, turbines, condensers, feed water and feed heaters, pumps,
separators and traps, piping lubrication, general costs, testing and
typical specifications. In each chapter a rather elementary
description is made to lead up to a condensed discussion of the most
recent practice.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“But slight adverse criticism can be made on the book, and that only
in a few minor details. The whole work seems modern, comprehensive and
reliable and, while professedly prepared for students, it should serve
as a good memory aid for the older engineer and a guide for the
younger. Its bibliographies alone make it a valuable reference.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 534. N. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Cannot fail to be of value to engineers in general, and, as a
reference, will prove useful to steam specialists.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Gehring, Albert.= Racial contrasts: distinguishing traits of the
Graeco-Latins and Teuton’s. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–26696.
A study in race psychology made with the purpose of differentiating
the moral, intellectual and spiritual qualities revealed in the
literature, life, and art of the Græco-Latin people from the
characteristics of the Teutonic race as seen in the same fields. The
following divisions are made in the study: Racial contrasts, The
fluctuations of beauty and morality, On homology of thought and
action, On temporal expansion and contraction, and Organic evolution
in the light of comparative philology.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“These essays promote breadth of intellectual view, hospitality to new
ideas, freedom from provincialism and prejudice, generosity of spirit
toward all men.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=George, Edward Augustus.= Seventeenth century men of latitude;
forerunners of the new theology. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–14321.
The life and writings of some broad-minded men in a century of
narrowness constitute the theme of this study. Among them are John
Hales, William Chillingworth, Benjamin Whichcote. John Smith, Henry
More, Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Richard Baxter.
* * * * *
“While not a contribution to scholarship, the general reader may find
this little labor of love a helpful supplement to the closely-packed
article on latitudinarianism and Cambridge Platonism in volume 5 of
the ‘Cambridge modern history.’” A. L. C.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 171. O. ’08. 340w.
“It shows no philosophical grasp and makes little or no pretense to
connect these English writers with the great currents of European
thought. It is written with enthusiasm. It ought to have great
refreshment for those to whom Tulloch’s work is too long and too
solid.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 190w.
“In Mr. George’s story of their lives and varied experiences,
illuminated with ample citations from their writings, one recognizes a
work of loving and careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
* =George, W. L.= France in the twentieth century. **$1.75. Lane.
A discussion of conditions in France of today, bearing upon church and
state, social life, and literature and the drama.
* * * * *
“The author is too prone to generalization which is not always
accurate. His inaccuracy also extends to specific facts.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 36. Jl. 11. 740w.
“In the great political struggle between Church and State he is openly
and avowedly on the side of the latter. It is the one topic on which
he loses his attitude of careful, cold analysis and becomes a militant
partisan. Throughout this part of the book the reader sees the English
part of Mr. George in conflict with the French part. He gives both a
chance to be heard, and the self-revelation of the conflict between
the two adds no little to the charm of a thoughtful, comprehensive,
and eminently readable book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 970w.
“On the whole his views are sensible if not very original.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
* =Gerhard, William Paul.= American practice of gas piping and gas
lighting in buildings. *$3. McGraw.
8–17561.
“Chapters of greatest interest to engineers are on (1) the arrangement
of gas pipes in buildings, (2) specifications, tables, rules and
regulations of companies in regard to piping generally, (3) piping
systems for coal, water, natural, air and acetylene gases, (4) testing
of piping installations, (5) burners, (6) pressure regulators, (7)
globes and holders, (8) fixtures, (9) bibliography. The chapters more
easily read by laymen are on topics like prejudices against and
fallacies of using gas, advantages of gas as an illuminant and for
heat and power, gas meters and gas-meter stories, interior
illumination, lighting of country houses, relations of gas companies
to consumers, practical hints for consumers, accidents and dangers to
public health.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“For the ordinary householder probably a half of the book will be a
little too technical and too tedious to hold his attention until he
gets well into the back half and finds there the general hints,
suggestions and discussions which he can more readily grasp.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 660w.
“The book is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative in its
special field, the use of gas by the consumer. It should be a great
help to the architect in answering the many questions clients ask
regarding gas supply, for it is a book that may be safely recommended
to any house owner as a guide.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Modern baths and bath houses. *$3. Wiley.
8–3516.
“A comprehensive treatment of water baths for private dwellings,
municipalities, schools, factories, military barracks, prisons,
hospitals, clubhouses, etc. The classes of baths named are, of course,
indoor establishments. In addition there is a chapter on river and sea
baths. Besides water baths, the author treats in considerable detail
of air and sun baths, and medical and electric-light baths.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“An excellent book on different forms of baths.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.