sanitation and of social welfare. It contains more repetitions than
are pleasant to a person who reads the book from beginning to end. It
is a far more comprehensive work than ‘Public baths and wash-houses,’
by Alfred W. S. Cross.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 207. F. 20, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 40w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Sanitation of public buildings. $1.50.
Wiley.
7–37728.
“The public buildings here considered are hospitals, theaters,
churches and schools. In addition, the various buildings and
accessories of markets and abbatoirs are taken up. The selection of
sites, some of the elements of general design, water supply, lighting,
heating, ventilating, cleansing, plumbing, sewage and refuse disposal
are the main divisions under which each class of buildings is treated.
Fire protection is also given a prominent place.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is well written, and the layman who is interested in civic
affairs will find it easy reading and not so technical in its
terminology as to be tedious.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 69. Ja. ’08. 340w.
“As a manual in the true sense of the word ... the volume deserves
commendation. It would serve admirably for the use of boards of health
and their inspectors.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 655. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“What he has to say on school sanitation and his detailed advice for
the care and cleansing of schoolrooms should be studied by parents,
teachers, superintendents, and school boards, while his chapters upon
church, theatre, and hospital sanitation are of import to all who
frequent these edifices.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 190w.
“A useful little work. It is believed that this is the first American
book to treat these subjects in a practical way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Gerry, Margarita Spalding.= Toy-shop: a romantic story of Lincoln
the man. **50c. Harper.
8–25742.
A child’s lisped request for tin soldiers sent Lincoln, burdened with
the nation’s troubles, one day to a toy shop. While selecting them,
and marshaling them quite unconsciously into drilling order, and
listening to the French shop-keeper’s eulogies of Napoleon’s methods
of warfare, the inspiration comes to Lincoln to put Grant at the head
of the Union army. It is with this incident that the little volume
deals.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“A study of Lincoln the man which is very human and tender.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Gibbs, George Fort.= Medusa emerald. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35622.
An “emerald unaccountably disappears while being displayed to the
guests on [board Alexander Wharton’s] yacht one evening, suspicion
falls on a young man, Edward Dillingham, who refuses to empty his
pockets, as all the other men insist on doing. After this the evil
powers of the stone certainly appear to wreak themselves upon the
suspected youth. However, all’s well that ends well; the matter is
finally cleared up satisfactorily, after many adventures by sea and
land that follow with kaleidoscopic variety and rapidity.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Romance of George Villiers, first duke of
Buckingham and some men and women of the Stuart court. *$3.50.
Putnam.
8–12964.
This favorite of James I. and Charles I. who in history and in fiction
figures so courageously and so daringly is here portrayed in the light
of patriot, egotist, and friend—always the darling of fortune. His
many-sided nature now gleams out on the side of virtue and again
close-linked with vice. He stands out as the “greatest and last
example and victim of a political system which may fairly be called in
his case a system of favoritism tempered by assassination.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“He has written one of the brightest, cheeriest, and most readable
books that have come under our notice for a long time. The inevitable
passages of special pleading do not offend us, because in every case
Mr. Gibbs is honest enough to emphasize the saving clauses, and
because it is perfectly clear that he does not realize that it is
special pleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 595. My. 16. 2400w.
“He has got his materials well together, and has made a book that can
be read with interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 218. Mr. 5, ’08. 500w.
“Not by any means ignoring the larger historical issues, English and
European, of Buckingham’s career, he shows a special sensibility to
its human and picturesque aspects. The result is a book both readable
and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 126. Mr. 7, ’08. 800w.
“We are not surprised that Mr. Gibbs, who has the right touch for work
of this kind, has made a very readable book on the subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 474. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“He can hardly be said to have made a cool or unbiassed study of
Buckingham.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 133. Jl. 25, ’08. 1450w.
* =Gibson, Adam H.= Hydraulics and its applications. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“An attempt has been made to consider the science, and its application
to the design of hydraulic machinery, in a manner suitable for a
student who has some initial knowledge of mechanics.”
* * * * *
“The book stands in much the same relation to the works of Merriman
and Church that Cotterill’s does to the ordinary treatise on
mechanics. The subject matter is not handled with uniform discretion,
some parts being excellent and others rather loosely thrown together,
and the language in places is that of a lecturer rather than of a
writer, and worst of all, the citations of experimental data are not
always accurate.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 90: 534. N. 12, ’08. 1700w.
“We think that in one or two cases the matter might have been arranged
to rather better advantage, but, on the whole, we have no hesitation
in saying that the book is an excellent contribution to the literature
of the subject, and embodies the result of no little personal
investigation and research. It is specially a student’s book, and will
appeal more particularly to those who are already equipped with some
fundamental knowledge of hydraulics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 218. Jl. 9, ’08. 800w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Interpretation of the Bible: a short
history. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–6097.
“Beginning with the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament, Dr.
Gilbert traces the history of the interpretation of the Scriptures
through the Catholic and the Alexandrian Fathers, the mediaevals, the
reformers, the movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
down to the birth of scientific interpretation in the nineteenth.”
(Bib. World.) It “deserves commendation to all Bible readers who are
concerned for reality, for the facts inlaid in the Scriptures, and for
their meaning.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Covers a large field which has been but lightly touched upon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“The careful reading of this book would be a liberal education for the
average man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Its defects are due chiefly to its brevity. Within so brief a compass
the author could not do justice to many phases of this important and
interesting subject. The book lacks the fulness and ornateness of
language, the wealth and variety of illustration, the suggestiveness
and brilliancy of Farrar’s; but as a brief, clear, strong and careful
presentation it occupies a field all its own and will serve a useful
purpose.” J: C. Granbery.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 214. S. ’08. 870w.
“This treatise keeps the salient and noteworthy to the front, and
allows one to follow interestingly a remarkable and instructive
history.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 95. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Gilbert has made an interesting contribution to the
curiosities of literature in his numerous citations of Biblical
interpretations from Philo Judæus to Jonathan Edwards.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the
Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“On the whole the book is entertaining, especially in the bits of
naive moralizing on every subject from the cleanliness of the poor to
Christian Science, that cling like mistletoe to the trunk of the
story, and appeal potently, if unconsciously, to the reader’s sense of
humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2. ’08. 110w.
=Gilbey, Sir Walter, and Cuming, Edward W. D.= George Morland: his
life and works, il. *$6. Macmillan.
8–17200.
An authoritative biography which makes its appeal to the lay reader as
well as to the student. “We have for the first time a plain,
unvarnished Morland, a just estimate of his character as an artist and
a man.” (Ath.) Fifty reproductions of Morland’s pictures add to the
value of the volume.
* * * * *
“It is far and away the best of the many books on Morland. The weakest
feature of the book is the apology for an index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 1000w.
“This admirable volume forms a valuable and important acquisition to
art literature on account of the completeness of the biographical
portion and the excellence and number of the illustrations.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: 83. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Morland’s warm brown tone, however agreeable in the original oil
paintings, does not harmonize with white paper and printer’s ink, and
as colored book illustrations the plates are singularly ineffective,
not to say unpleasant.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Gilbreth, Frank B.= Field system. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–2205.
A work which gives in detail the open methods for proper, prompt and
economical execution of work which have made Mr. Gilbreth’s contract
business so successful. “The various forms employed throughout the
different stages of work are given, with explicit instructions for
their use in ordering materials, checking work, keeping time sheets,
etc. Instructions are also given on the mixing of cement and concrete,
the handling of forms, use of drills, care of engines, air compressors
and hoists, pumping, etc. Throughout the work are interspersed tables
and formulas.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 189. F. ’08. 350w.
“It should prove stimulating to every one concerned in the conduct of
engineering work, [tho] its arrangement is heterogeneous and confused,
in parts.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. *$1. Century.
7–32169.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“This volume is one of the very few books of verse that have appeared
in recent years that is worthy of a place in the library of lovers of
poetry instinct with the ethical spirit.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 675. D. ’07. 460w.
“Now and then, irregular rhythms are essayed in this volume, and even
poems in prose, but these experiments we cannot regard as upon the
level of the work done in accordance with the rules of the poetic
art.” W: M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 76. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“On the whole, it is, perhaps, these rhythmic intermissions of Mr.
Gilder’s on one subject and another which give his book a kind of
distinction or difference, lending it a bold, adventurous. innovating
air, among the increasing legions of mildly meritorious versifiers,
whose names have outgrown enumeration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 180w.
“This latest book by Richard Watson Gilder, who holds an
unchallengeable place among the poets of to-day, is above all a poet’s
book. There is much else, genius of the féministe type, vital and
large-hearted, if not rugged technique as fluent and varied as it is
delightful, nobility of ideal, and a reality of feeling that lifts the
product it permeates to the summits of enduring poesy.” Florence
Wilkinson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 1200w.
“In this volume he also continues his experiments with relaxed meters;
not always with success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 143. Ja. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A complete edition of Gilder’s poems containing the substance of his
nine books of verse and also additional pieces which have not appeared
in a collection. Mr. Gilder’s versatility due to broad sympathies,
love of mankind, human instinct, and the dreamer’s idealism accounts
for his wide range of verse. There are poems dealing with the affairs
of every day life; poems characterizing men of worth and genius; and
poems which bring to the consciousness the immortal value of certain
monuments of music and art.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron.= Government regulation of the
Elizabethan drama. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–24263.
Based upon official documents of the time, this monograph “deals first
with the general regulation of the drama by the central government
then traces the rise of the master of the revels and of the extensive
powers which finally came into his hands, and follows this with a
study of the censorship of which the master was the official
administrator. Then follows a detailed account of the local
regulations in London and of the long and bitter strife which was
waged between the municipal government and the royal authority as to
whether the drama should or should not be enacted in the city. A
chapter upon the Puritan victory ends the study.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A very thorough piece of work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 218. O. 1, ’08. 40w.
“The author has gone into the subject very thoroughly and presented in
clear and succinct form, although perhaps a little dry in manner, an
immense accumulation of facts.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Gill, Augustus Herman.= Engine-room chemistry. *$1. Hill pub.
8–813.
“Aims to give such information concerning oils, fuels and the
phenomena of combustion and steam-raising, all expressed in fairly
nontechnical language, as will enable the average reader to understand
what is necessary from the point of view of chemistry to obtain the
maximum efficiency in the power plant.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Accurate little book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“The book is not intended to appeal to the chemist or technical man.
It is too elementary to do this. On the other hand, it is hardly
practical to give the uneducated man a volume which, in one hundred
pages, tries to give him sufficient knowledge to enable him to
undertake analyses which the student of chemistry never performs until
he has studied the fundamental principles on which such analysis is
based, for at least a year or a year and a half.”
− + =Engin. D.= 3: 72. Ja. ’08. 320w.
“If there is any criticism to be made of the book it is that to read
or study it intelligently probably somewhat better knowledge of
inorganic chemistry is necessary than even a good engineman or the
superintendent of a small shop may be expected to possess.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“A little book, professedly written for the engineer and engine man,
but useful for a much wider circle of readers.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gill, George Creswell.= Beyond the blue-grass; a Kentucky novel.
$1.50. Neale.
8–12785.
A picture of the life of the people among the hills of Ginseng county,
beyond the Blue-Grass region. “Almost all of his characters are rural
Kentuckians, and we see them in their homes, at work on their farms,
and congregated in their villages, all of them picturesque and all of
them more or less interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is not thrilling and his style is quite lacking in literary quality:
but there is a certain merit in his book in spite of its
shortcomings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 441. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Gillette, Halbert Powers, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Concrete
construction: methods and cost. *$5. Clark, M. C.
8–13350.
Treated from the viewpoint of the builder of concrete structures. “The
authors have collected ... a vast number of examples of concrete work.
These are presented in concise form, with the unimportant details
removed; there is an attempt to preserve a certain uniformity of
treatment so as to permit comparison between similar constructions. In
addition to these specific examples the authors have added, in
connection with every branch of work, general instructions deduced
from observation and formulas for quantity and cost estimates.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work should prove of exceeding value not only to contractors and
engineers ... but to designing engineers and architects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 420w.
“On the whole, the book is a welcome addition to concrete literature.
It is frankly a compilation and suffers from some of the ordinary
faults of a compilation, but the work of compiling has been done with
so much more care than is usual in such books and so much original
matter has been added that the statistical nature, often the bane of
collated material, is largely lost. We believe every concrete designer
and constructor should have a copy.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 950w.
“While the expert engineer may glean some points from the book, it is
liable to prove dangerous in the hands of inexperienced men,
especially as to its cost features.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Gillmore, Inez Haynes.= June jeopardy. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–17784.
Around a diamond necklace worth a half million and its paste
counterpart is woven a story whose exciting events are all crowded
into a single night. The character cast includes maids and their
lovers, robbers, scheming servants, and the dog Veritas.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story puts very little strain on one’s mental powers, and, with
the added attraction of a quick-moving plot, ought to find favor with
summer readers:”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande: a guide to the
opera; with musical examples from the score. *$1. Schirmer.
7–41522.
Complete instruction with full consideration for the inspirational
side is offered in this little volume. Mr. Gilman discusses Debussy
and his art, The play—its qualities and its action, and The music—a
revolutionary score, and the themes and their treatment.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Stories of symphonic music: a guide to the
meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from
Beethoven to the present day. **$1.25. Harper.
7–35627.
A practical handbook for the concert-goer which offers in compact,
accessible form, information which will enable him to listen
intelligently to orchestral music. “It tells stories which underlie
the most important works in the orchestra repertoire, describing the
drama, legend, picture, mood, or poem which the music expresses. It
presents clearly and without technical analysis the basis of every
considerable descriptive work in the symphonic repertoire.”
* * * * *
“A compact little book, for intelligent concert goers rather than
professional musicians. Scrappy and journalistic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08.
“The comment is of a highly intelligent character, providing real
information and avoiding the meaningless rhapsodizing into which
writers upon music are tempted to fall.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 433. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is a compilation from many sources, but it is well made, and the
book will serve a useful purpose—it is in all respects worthy of place
on the music-lover’s shelves besides Mr. George P. Upton’s series on
the ‘Standard’ operas, oratorios and so on.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 106. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Gilman has covered the field well, and collated thoroughly all
the annotators.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“The information contained in his volume really ought to be printed in
the programmes distributed in the concert-halls. Is one of Mr.
Gilman’s most useful and readable contributions to musical
literature.” H: T. Finck.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 281. F. ’08. 1650w.
“A useful handbook for the opera and concert goer.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 30w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Church and modern life. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–9795.
A practical as well as inspirational study, seeking an audience among
pastors and teachers but aiming to arouse to activity the young men
and women to whom the future of the church is committed. The author
shows that the roots of religion are in human nature; that like all
living things, religion grows; that our religion is Christianity; that
Christianity is a social religion; that as the life of religion is
nurtured in social worship and service, so its fruit is gathered in
the transformation of society; that the church has imperfectly
performed its function; that a new reformation is called for; that the
church is called to redeem society; and that for the redemption of
society a new evangelism is needed.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a good one to put into the hands of those who are
inclined to be discouraged over the outlook for the church.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 280w.
“Dr. Gladden’s essay will make for sanity as well as earnestness in
the current debate on the relation of religion and the church to
social reform.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 160w.
“The book is interpretative of the present movement in the American
churches, and will add to that movement both guidance and new
impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 80w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson G.= Ancient law. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–2945.
The hero of this novel is a modern Jean Valjean, who goes wrong on the
stock exchange and after five years of imprisonment seeks refuge in a
southern town under the name of Smith. “It is a long, weary, beaten
road that he travels, and he is but the concrete embodiment of a
world-old tragedy and world-old problem which has survived crumbling
ages. What makes him distinct among many of his brothers is an
all-encompassing vision that comprehends both the letter and the
spirit of the law that enchains him. Herein is the keynote of an
absorbing and convincing story.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The characters are drawn with a sure, skilful hand, the story
uncommonly well told.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08. ✠
“In spite of these drawbacks the book is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 180w.
“Its figures, with one exception, are puppets, not human beings. They
have no blood or breath of their own. We may be thankful for the lack
of funny business in Miss Glasgow’s book, but we have still to regret
its lack of proportion, of perspective, of that indefinable
circumambient atmosphere, of insight and sympathy with which true
humour surrounds its material.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 59. Mr. ’08. 860w.
“Miss Glasgow’s latest novel has both dignity and charm, although
certain almost melodramatic happenings, huddled into the closing
chapters, do not seem quite in keeping with the sincerity and
restraint of what has gone before.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 14: 134. Mr. 1, ’08. 520w.
“But Ellen Glasgow has ascended. She has omitted the family portraits
and most of the pedigrees in her new story and made ready for a long,
wide sweep of the wings. She has not parted company with the populace.
She has simply assumed a nobler attitude to it.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 720w.
“Miss Glasgow writes, as always, with fluency, gravity, and a species
of ‘empressment’ which may go a long way toward achieving the effects
of depth and subtlety. [The story has an] anti-climax, and [it] sinks
through chapters of crude melodrama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 480w.
“It is a book calculated to make you pause in the survey of rapid-fire
fiction and realize that here is the real note of study, of character,
and of observation. It is indeed a novel of dignity and of
distinction.” I. F. Marcosson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 53. F. 1, ’08. 1480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“There are many fine and haunting passages.” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 445. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“The book is eminently dignified and worthy. In its nature it is less
entertaining than other novels by Miss Glasgow, but it is a fine piece
of literary work notwithstanding.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“She has silhouetted several characters with extreme cleverness, but,
more than this, she has chosen a situation and developed it up to an
interesting point with some of Mr. Howells’ skill, concluding the
story where it is evidently impossible for her to go on. There are
very grave defects in her hero’s character, defects that are
inconsistencies, for whose weakening influence on the story Miss
Glasgow alone is responsible.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 80w.
“The story is founded on a basis of false sentiment and false
psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Though written in a different vein from some of Miss Glasgow’s other
books, none the less this story furnishes very excellent reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Glover, Ellye Howell.= “Dame Curtsey’s” book of novel
entertainments. **$1. McClurg.
7–34781.
A veritable mine of suggestion for the hostess who entertains a great
deal. The plans for parties, dinners, luncheons, and games have been
thoroly tested and are offered in so great variety that there is
something for every day of the year.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“[Contains] many things that are exceedingly valuable in the way of
suggestion to the entertaining hostess.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Goddard, Harold Clarke.= Studies in New England transcendentalism.
(Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1. Macmillan.
8–14677.
A doctoral thesis. “Taking these five—Channing, Alcott, Emerson,
Parker, and Margaret Fuller—as the foremost representatives of the
movement in New England from traditionalism to free thought, Dr.
Goddard goes into a minutely inductive study of its genesis and
nature, beginning with an investigation of the intellectual and
literary influences that affected each of the five in their
environment, their reading and studies, and their influence on each
other; after which he discusses their relations, severally, to
practical life.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He has the true scholarly spirit and a certain aptness for getting
the ear of his audience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 380. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The grasp of general ideas, the sound and penetrating criticism, the
orderly marshalling of material, and the literary virtues ... lift
this thesis above the mass of ephemeral doctoral dissertations, and
give it permanent and substantial value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 500w.
“This monograph is rich in its personal portrayals of the notable
characters it is concerned with, and is also a most valuable
contribution to the religious and philosophical history of the first
half of the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering. bk. 2, Concrete. lea.
*$2.50. Edward Godfrey, Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
“The book starts with a chapter headed ‘A survey of the field of
concrete design and construction, in which will be found some theses,’
which is a rapid survey of the scheme of the book. This is followed by
a short treatment of the materials which go to make up concrete
structures, and the methods of handling, finishing and constructing
the concrete. Next there are given some isolated cost figures of no
exact value, as the conditions under which the work was carried on are
omitted. This completes the original portion of the book. There follow
articles selected from Engineering news, and thirty pages of
cuts.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Altogether Mr. Godfrey’s work is a valuable contribution to the
literature of concrete and concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“In his theory the author is sound; the main objection to his
presentation ... is an almost too apparent didacticism and a slight
intolerance of any other views but his own. The plan is ambitious and
it seems a pity to have it fall so far short of its proper usefulness
on account of easily-corrected details of arrangement and composition.
The physical make-up of the book only adds to the confusion.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 543. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Hollis.= Man who ended war. †$1.50. Little.
8–28057.
A stirring novel which exploits an ingenious scientific achievement. A
man who conceals his identity informs nations that he is destined to
stop all war. He orders disarmament, gives a year for it, and, at its
end, when no move is made, proceeds single handed to destroy one
battleship after another making use of his remarkable and mysterious
invention.
* * * * *
“It is a very interesting and wholly manly story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Godrycz, John.= Doctrine of modernism and its refutation. *75c.
McVey.
8–17779.
The author “follows the text of the Papal encyclical against
modernism, and first gives his statement of what modernism is in a
form for easy reply, and then follows it by a ‘Refutation.’... His
refutation begins by asserting that modernism is based on positivism,
which is rationalistic and irreligious.... He supports his attacks on
the modernists by quotations from Newman Smyth and George Washington,
and concludes that ‘one of the greatest persecutions that ever swept
over the church is preparing in Europe.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 686. Ag. ’08. 700w.
− =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Interesting is it to thoughtful Protestants.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 330w.
=Goerens, Paul.= Introduction to metallography; tr. by Fred
Ibbotson. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–21497.
A study of the structure of metals which contains much information
quite inaccessible to the American student. The first section deals
with the physical properties of matter, including allotrophy, cooling
curves, and pyrometry; the second, on the physical mixture, deals with
the theories of solutions and freezing-point curves of aqueous
solutions, fused salts and alloys; the third and fourth are concerned
respectively with practical microscopy of metals and the metallography
of iron and its alloys.
* * * * *
“We believe it will find important service as a text-book, and as side
reading for practicing metallurgists. The lack of lucidity is, we
think, the fault rather of the form and substance of the original text
than of the translator.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 79. Jl. 16, ’08. 920w.
“In the whole, the book is hardly more than an introduction into the
subject, but as such it is valuable and will prove useful to students
of this subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
“Enough has been said to show that the standard work on metallography
is yet to be written, but that students will find Dr. Goerens’s book
admirable as affording them a glimpse of the methods of investigating
metals and alloys.” T. K. R.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 387. Ag. 27, ’08. 630w.
“The exposition of the theoretical side of the subject is not as
complete as it might have been but it will give the beginner an
excellent idea of equilibrium phenomena. The explanations of the
freezing-point diagrams have been duplicated unnecessarily, perhaps
not for the beginner, but certainly for those using the book for
reference. For the latter class of readers there is too much detail.”
H: Fay.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 489. O. 9, ’08. 420w.
=Goodrich, Albert Moses.= Cruise and captures of the Alabama. *75c.
Wilson, H. W.
7–27369.
Material that came to light with the publication of the naval records
of the rebellion has been supplemented here by Captain Semmes’ diary,
which after the war was expanded into a memoir, by diaries of the
Alabama’s officers, and by various consular reports. The material
worked over with care has been presented in a trustworthy form,
readable and informing.
* * * * *
“A graphic, impartial, and trustworthy résumé, based upon the
documents of what was perhaps the most picturesque and important
episode of the ocean warfare.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27. ’08. 140w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Gleam o’ Dawn. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–17835.
A story of the Canadian border whose hero is a young half-breed, a
poet in feeling and an artist in expression. The spiritual within him
wars against the elemental savage desire to avenge the death of his
mother, Gleam o’Dawn, who had been deserted by his white father. On
the side of vengeance he is spurred on by an Indian who had been his
father’s rival; the white path of forgiveness is urged by the “li’l
brown girl” whom he loves. Repentance, revenge, tragedy and conquest
are the subjective notes of the book.
* * * * *
“The plot is slight, and the story somewhat sensational, but it is
breezy, graceful, full of the charm of outdoor life, and contains some
excellent characterizations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08.
“Mr. Goodrich is to be congratulated upon having first designed a
worthy pattern, and then upon having woven it with delicate and
skilful art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 503. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“One is tempted to think that a masterly short story has been partly
sacrificed to the mistaken call of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The plot has many threads, yet it never becomes tangled, and it is
brought to a powerful climax, in the virility and tenseness of which
there is no touch of melodrama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Gordon, Alexander R.= Early traditions of Genesis. *$2.25.
Scribner.
8–9521.
“Embodies a reverent and at the same time thoroughly scientific
reconstruction of the traditions and historical facts recorded in the
earlier portions of the book of Genesis.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This book cannot be praised too highly for its scientific method and
its thoroughness. It is written with full mastery of the earlier
literature and brings many new and valuable suggestions to the
solution of the problems. It may unhesitatingly be recommended as the
best book in English on the subject, and it is doubtful whether there
is a better treatise in any other language.” L: B. Paton.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 466. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“The author is fully abreast of the most recent discoveries and
speculations, and he also possesses the power of lucid and attractive
exposition. Valuable additions to the work are the appendixes. The
index is inadequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 500w.
“The method is thoroughly critical and historical, and excellent use
has been made of the best literature. The results achieved indicate
breadth of view, sanity of judgment, and a competent independence of
opinion. This is certainly all in all the best book in English on the
early stories of Genesis.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“This book is a valuable and welcome piece of constructive criticism
by one who has a sympathetic appreciation of all that is elevating in
Hebrew tradition.” A. A. Madsden.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 140. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
“He is content to walk mainly in trodden paths; but he has seen things
for himself by the way.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“This is one of the best books we have read for a long time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“We must be content with saying that Professor Gordon’s theories show
great learning and ingenuity, and that the whole book is well worth
careful study. This or that theory may fail to satisfy us, but the
effect of the whole study is largely to widen our outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 156. Ja. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Robin Aroon: a comedy of manners. *$1.25.
Neale.
8–28989.
A story of the South just before the revolution in which the spirit,
grace, hospitality and glory of old colonial days are happily
depicted. Captain Paul Jones figures in the tale.
* * * * *
“An interesting and amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, 08. 100w.
=Gordon, C. H. C. Pirie-.= Innocent the Great. *$3. Longmans.
8–3997.
“The essay is divided into ten chapters, which deal with the period of
Pope Innocent’s pontificate, the person and family of the Pontiff, his
dealings with the empire, the fourth crusade, the Pope and Sicily, his
dealings with the Albigensians. Innocent III. and England,
difficulties with the city of Rome, etc., and the character of the
Pope. Besides these chapters, the book contains six appendices, four
maps, and eight genealogical tables.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Our author has brought to his work some important qualities of a real
historian; he endeavours, for example, to guage the spirit of the
times about which he writes, and to judge the deeds and opinion of the
chief actors by the standards of the days in which they lived, and not
too hastily to condemn them by measuring their works and sayings by
the principles or practices of more modern times. He has also
obviously taken great pains to understand his materials, although
perhaps in some cases he has given himself unnecessary trouble.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 55. O. 26, ’07. 1680w.
“The essay is an undigested product. The diction of the book is fairly
startling by its affectation. A more serious criticism of the work is
its inaccuracy.” E: B. Krehbiel.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“This is a portentous work eked out with appendixes, but of little
real value.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 200w.
“Though it does not add to historic knowledge, it contains much that
has not hitherto been easily accessible to English readers. It is
provided, too, with many references to original authorities, with
useful appendices, and good maps.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 379. D. 13, ’07. 1440w.
“A hopeless style might be excused if the things it was intended to
convey were worth the telling; but at no point of his narrative does
Mr. Pirie-Gordon rise to the height of even a modest demand for
historical soundness.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 470w.
“It cannot honestly be said that he throws any new light on a baffling
period, or brings us to any more vivid understanding of the pontiff
under whose sway papal pretensions reached their high-water mark. The
author would do well in the future to prune his style of its very
irritating classicisms and other affectations.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Gordon, William John.= Round about the North Pole. *$5. Dutton.
8–10293.
An account of the heroes of arctic exploration. “In telling the story
of the different expeditions from that of Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553,
to Robert Peary’s in 1906, the author has divided the region into
sections, beginning with Spitsbergen and following the circle to
Greenland, describing the exploration of each section by itself. The
main incidents and achievements of the various expeditions are grouped
together with numerous extracts from journals and anecdotes.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“As a popular account of Arctic adventure the book has its use; but
the serious history of Arctic exploration is still to seek.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 820w.
“A more inspiring record of bravery, endurance, sacrifice of self for
the sake of one’s comrades, unflinching devotion to duty in the face
of deathly peril, it would be difficult to find.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“As an introduction to Arctic travel for the use of those to whom
references to original sources are unnecessary we do not know a better
book, nor do we think that a work of this kind, where a vast amount of
a material is condensed within a few pages, could on the whole be made
lighter or more readable without sacrificing its serious character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 538. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
“We recommend this volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Gore, Charles.= New theology and old religion: being eight
lectures, together with five sermons. *$2. Dutton.
8–14749.
These lectures and sermons constitute an apologetic which places the
new and the old side by side, and on the one hand points to the
benefits to be derived from a study of the new, while on the other
maintains that the old contains scientific beliefs which cannot be
abandoned but which are integral to the creed of Christianity.
* * * * *
“The five sermons at the end, to our thinking are the most valuable
part of the volume. Like all Bishop Gore’s writings, they are a little
unattractive and hard. His style is lucid without grace, and strong
without elasticity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 183. F. 15. 2000w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 128. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“In maintaining these views, Bishop Gore represents the sane,
sensible, English attitude which is to be expected of him. While his
treatment will not satisfy all who are in sympathy with modern
science, yet on the whole it is reasonable and helpful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 500w.
“This volume might be described as a kind of Anglican Catholic
encyclical on Modernism: interesting but inconclusive to the man who
is animated by the modern spirit.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“His weak point is his style; he tries to be simple and impressive,
but only succeeds in being heavy. At present he treats his hearers as
if they were children, and not very good ones.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 796. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
* =Gorky, Maxim.= The spy: the story of a superfluous man. $1.50.
Huebsch.
A realistic story of revolutionary Russia which depicts the workings
of the secret service and the bitter trials of the revolutionist in
his struggle for liberty. In the portrayal of the “superfluous man”
from stunted childhood to weak, anaemic manhood the author reveals in
all their flagrant hideousness the abortive influences rife in Russia
to terminate manhood development and to produce betrayers of the Judas
type.
* * * * *
“The reader may have to set his teeth, not to say to hold his nose, as
he reads—but he will be convinced if he sticks it out that this life
of which Gorky writes is a fact.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 1000w.
“In his characteristic vivid manner the author realistically describes
revolutionary Russia of the present day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“One of the most fascinating and interesting pieces of literature that
has been issued of recent years. It is a great book, but for our part
we scarcely like this close anatomisation by a son of a father.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“Written with great charm, with delicacy of feeling, poetic insight,
and not a little humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 41. F. ’08.
“If the writer should achieve anything like lasting remembrance, it
will be due to this work rather than to any of the studies, essays, or
verse in which his learning and versatility have won praise. This book
is unique.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 6. Ja. 4. 1800w.
“As a personal revelation, this book must take its place in the small
group that includes such vital records of the soul as Amiel’s
‘Journal’ and ‘The story of an African farm.’” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 527. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“No book could better show the vast difference between plausible but
wholly imaginary biography and autobiography ... on the one hand, and
the actual record of a human soul on the other, than this detailed
account of the warring of two discordant temperaments.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 96. F. 16, ’08. 1520w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 315. F. 6, ’08. 470w.
“If it be not a document, as the writer calls it, is, we admit, an
extremely subtile and fascinating analysis of two human minds.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 197. F. 27, ’08. 1850w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 694. My. 30, ’08. 1250w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Henrik Ibsen. (Literary lives.) **$1.
Scribner.
7–41565.
A biography which sketches the influences, positive and negative, that
set the great poet to weaving such an individual life tapestry.
Ibsen’s adventures as an author are recorded with an idea single to
their unity. There is no attempt to set forth the plots of his dramas,
nor to treat the spurious “lessons” and supposititious “problems”
which so many look for in Ibsen, but to recognize among the
“irregularities and audacities,” qualities of merit Mr. Gosse says
that it has been Ibsen’s misfortune to attract people who “treat all
tulips and roses as if they were cabbages for the pot of didactic
morality.” The closing chapters deal with his last years, and his
personal and intellectual characteristics.
* * * * *
“A compact, agreeable, informing biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Gosse has rarely given such proof of his vivacity as in this
biography.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 364. Mr. 21. 400w.
“Mr. Gosse has drawn an admirable portrait of Ibsen—from a definite
point of view; and it goes without saying that this point of view is
entirely Mr. Gosse’s own.” Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 260. Ag. ’08. 580w.
“Mr. Gosse has by no means, as he seems to think, made ‘obsolete’ the
standard biography of Ibsen by Henrik Jaeger. That solid performance
is likely to outlast many such books as the one Mr. Gosse has given
us, agreeable and informing as it is, and it hardly becomes him to
belittle a work which is so much more searching and philosophical than
his own.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 108. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Gosse’s life of Ibsen is well fitted to supplement the running
commentary of Mr. Archer’s introduction. We have in English no other
book which gives what we need to know about the man and his methods to
understand his achievements.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 921. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Gosse’s book is more complete than those of Jaeger and Rudolph
Lothar, and it is also more concise; but it falls short of both in
understanding and in sympathy. The figure of Ibsen reflected by the
curved mirror of Mr. Gosse’s mind is almost a caricature. Still the
book is not without merits. It is briskly written, though not always
in good taste, and it gives a fairly just estimate of the plays.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 660w.
“To humanize this sphinx is plainly Mr. Gosse’s aim; if he has not
wholly succeeded, he has at least given us a most interesting, sane,
and authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“To be noted as of curious interest is the fact that, while Mr. Gosse
sometimes adopts the statements of certain Norwegian authorities on
Ibsen and his work, he sometimes ignores no less authoritative
assertions when they happen to conflict with his pet theories on the
subject.” S. R. Cook.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
“His sense of character is too strong to be hushed down by his natural
instinct for hero-worship. Just as he sees Ibsen, so does he display
him. And the irrepressible sense of character is enforced by a not
less active sense of humour.” Max Beerbohm.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 330. Mr. 14, ’08. 1600w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Borderland studies. 2v. v. 2. *$1.50.
Blakiston.
7–20140†.
Miscellaneous addresses and essays pertaining to medicine and the
medical profession, and their relations to general science and
thought. Some of the chapters are: The history of the house, The seven
deadly sins of civilization, Disease and sin, Some intellectual weeds
of American growth, and Concerning crank, megalomaniac,
morphinomaniac, dotard, criminal and insane physicians.
* * * * *
“While the author commonly has the professional reader in mind, the
layman will find much of interest besides getting a good idea of the
cleverness of the writer, of his fondness for mannerisms, which are
almost sophomoric, and of his use of the sledge-hammer even when a
tack-hammer seems quite sufficient.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; with a
bibliography by Laura Stedman. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14835.
A series of impressions intended to be of service to anyone who may
undertake the task of furnishing a critical estimate of the methods
and development of Hearn’s imaginative power and literary development.
They deal “with the young man as we find him, uneducated, friendless,
without formed character, with a lot of heathenish and unrestrained
appetites, crippled as to the most important of the senses,
poverty-stricken, improvident, of peculiar and unprepossessing
appearance and manners, flung into an alien world in many ways more
morbid than himself.”
* * * * *
“On the whole, the picture of Hearn drawn by Dr. Gould does not differ
materially from that to which we were accustomed. It is a little
sharper in outline, a little more explicit in detail, that is all.” F:
W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 44: 300. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“The reader of the book will desire rather less repetition and a few
more authoritative facts.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1348. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“In the actual details of Hearn’s life Dr. Gould presents not much
that is new. By far the most valuable parts of the book are those in
which Hearn’s literary activities are traced.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 1100w.
“We have not had enough stylists to be able to afford to neglect the
memory of Hearn, and Dr. Gould has done a welcome service in so
efficiently covering the ground while avoiding the miry and
unwholesome places.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 950w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 250w.
“Some readers, we are sure, will be sorry that these pages have been
written. They are singularly painful. Many things were against Hearn.
And yet we cannot find fault with the book. It presents a very curious
picture; and if it leaves a painful impression, one feels at the same
time that it makes, or ought to make, for righteousness.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-=, ed. Book of nursery songs and rhymes.
**$1.50. McClurg.
With short introductions and ten pages of historical notes there are
given here seventy-seven songs, ten game rhymes, a hundred and more
jingles. The illustrations and borders are the work of members of the
Birmingham art school.
* * * * *
“I cannot believe in half-hearted scholarship and on the other hand I
fail to recognize the need for scholarship in relation to rhymes and
jingles in a book for young folks.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1484. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 50w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Devonshire characters and strange
events. *$7. Lane.
8–32992.
Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr.
Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There
are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to
erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called
Devonshire “oddities,” and the author portrays them with their
peculiarities on the outside.
* * * * *
“This book is thus frankly a book of gossip, and, as we have said,
makes capital reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 550w.
“Scrappily put together, to be sure, but containing a good store of
entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“This is an odd book. The compiler has managed to bring within his
covers much curious information, both about characters and events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w.
“We can promise our readers many happy hours in the perusal of this
volume, for it contains eight hundred pages, has some excellent
portraits, and is a mine of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Graham, David.= Grammar of philosophy. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–26258.
“A robustious apology, by a Scotch barrister, for the philosophy of
the Scottish school.... In the blessed and reverently capitalized name
of Common Sense, all the great non-Caledonian thinkers and even the
heterodox Scots—Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Mill, Darwin, Leslie,
Stephen—are quite simply shown to be intellectually akin to the
inmates of Bedlam, though less consistent than the latter in the
matter of practice. Intuitive ethical truths like those of
mathematics; the argument from design; the foundation of the legal
institution of the dock in the eternal nature of things—these and many
similar archaisms are triumphantly demonstrated.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The philosopher may find other lay contributions to philosophy that
are as anachronistic and as absurd; but he will not in many summers
find another so breezily refreshing in its anachronism and so
consistently amusing in its absurdity.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w.
“The author is an ingenious, though not convincing barrister-at-law.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Graham, Harry.= Group of Scottish women. *$3.50. Duffield.
A series of biographical portraits of Scotswomen of the past who by
reason of their heroism, courage, piety or wit, have affected their
generation and lent to it the strength of their individuality. Among
the women so treated are Dervorguilla; “Black Agnes of Dunbar”; Jane,
Countess of Sutherland; Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale; Lady Grisell
Baillie; Ann, Duchess Buccleuch and Monmouth; Catherine, Duchess of
Queensberry; Mrs. Alison Cockburn; Elspeth Buchan; Jane, Duchess of
Gordon; Lady Anne Barnard; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Lady Louisa Stuart;
and Mrs. Clementina Stirling Graham.
* * * * *
“This is a lively and entertaining book, dealing at its best with the
leisure and gaiety of bygone days, and written in a style appropriate
to so light a theme.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 2: 359. S. 26. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 630w.
“A reaction takes place in the reader’s mind when he ... discovers
that the author is selecting among materials for the purpose merely of
amusing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 470w.
“The Captain writes with brilliancy and ease, is of an epigrammatic
habit, and has many a shrewd or amusing comment to make on his
heroines and their times, which he indicates in each case, and
succeeds in making real enough to excite interest.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“The book is eminently entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 180w.
“A series of lively and sympathetic sketches.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 70w.
“As biography the book before us is of average quality. That is to
say, the early part is worse and the end is better than the common run
of such books. It is no exaggerated praise to say that Mr. Harry
Graham tells us as much about our own age as the past.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“He feels it his duty to give a sentence a humorous turn even when the
subject does not demand it. and the result is sometimes a galvanized
gaiety which is a little trying. There are a few trifling blunders of
fact and a few odd opinions. Captain Graham has written an
entertaining hook, which, unlike so many gossiping biographies,
suffers from no faults of taste. He has also the gift, which is
becoming painfully rare to-day, of writing Scottish dialect in its
correct and classical form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 330. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
* =Grahame, Kenneth.= Wind in the willows. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–29339.
“A simple-hearted Mole, a Water Rat of a poetical temperament, and a
wealthy, boastful, and extravagant Toad, with a fine Tudor mansion and
a passion for motor-cars, are the principal personages in Mr. Kenneth
Grahame’s story.” (Ath.) “From broad farce and the most grotesque
combinations of animals and things and speech this book now and again
touches poetry as one touches it in life, incidentally, and by the
way.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The author seems not to have given himself up whole-heartedly to his
fantasy, and is apt to hinder the charm of his incongruities by
spasmodic efforts to make them congruous. These cavillings apart, the
book, with its scenes of river, forest, and field, and its whimsical
incursions into the human world, forms an all but perfect blending of
idyll and inconsequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 200w.
“Some may call it nature faking of the baldest sort, but such pedantry
carries its own punishment. The book is not easily classified—it is
simply destined to be one of those dog-eared volumes which one laughs
over and loves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Quaker and courtier: the life and work of
William Penn. *$3–50. Dutton.
8–16919.
“The book is not strictly a history. It is a ... study of Penn’s
character and career by ‘a direct descendant,’ with considerable
citation of letters and contemporaneous writing and an agreeably woven
web of comment on the men and manners and conditions of the time.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Subject to a few reservations, the book is written pleasantly and
unaffectedly enough. It contains, indeed, we think, nothing that is at
once new and important.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 477. Ap. 18. 1000w.
“Mrs. Grant tells her story pleasantly, and throws about the events of
her great ancestor’s life a good deal of the historic framework that
such a narrative requires; but apart from the use she has made of a
few hitherto unpublished letters, she cannot be said to have produced
an original work or one that fills any aching void in literature.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“It seems a pity that, with such good material at hand, and with her
sympathetic interest in her hero, the author has not given us, in a
less sketchy way, some account of Penn’s relations to the political
and religious parties of his time, the development of his own
opinions, his schemes, and his failure in colonial government.” A. G.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 618. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“In Mrs. Grant’s book the reader will find much not altogether new,
but freshly pieced out with new material.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 600w.
“Simple and candid and sympathetic.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 181. Ap. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“By no means a superfluous addition to the existing memoirs of a great
figure in our colonial history. Mrs. Grant’s work is evidently the
fruit of careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
“A good bit of work. The story of a life very full of interest is told
in a sensible, businesslike fashion, without any rhetoric, perhaps
without any distinction of style, but in a way which does justice to
the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Grant, Elihu.= Peasantry of Palestine: the life, manners and
customs of the village. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–37961.
During Mr. Grant’s residence as missionary teacher at Ramallah, near
Jerusalem, he visited the mission stations and schools in central
Palestine. “Intensely interested in the village folk, Dr. Grant
recorded with camera and pencil the details and surroundings of their
life—utensils, houses, songs, customs, superstitions, linguistic
peculiarities, antiquities.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Peculiarly valuable, not only because of the region in which he
worked and from which his material is mainly derived, but also because
of a singular combination of painstaking care and sympathetic feeling
for the ways and habits of the people of the land. Moreover, he asked
himself very practical questions, and in answering them for himself he
has gathered material which answers just those questions which the
average intelligent man or woman would like to put to the Palestinian
explorer, if he could reach him personally.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 146. Ag. ’08. 1050w.
“A really valuable addition to the literature on Palestine, and the
Bible scholar will find it helpful in the study and in the classroom.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“Charmingly written and abundantly illustrated. Convenient foot-notes,
referring to passages in both the Old and the New Testaments, which
are illuminated or illustrated by the book, make it a useful manual
for the Bible student.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Written with the utmost simplicity and straightforwardness, and will
doubtless be of much interest and value to all who are concerned with
the study of folk-life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 70w.
=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Search of Belisarius: a Byzantine legend.
**$1.25. Brentano’s.
7–42002.
A poem written in the Spenserian stanza based upon the legend of
Belisarius in which the interest is concentrated on the acts and
emotions of a single character, “the deus ex machina of an impressive
and emotional drama of Byzantine times.”
* * * * *
“Told in verse which is neither marked by special virtue nor flagrant
fault, which, not offending, yet does not linger in the memory. The
book has the dignity of a sincere effort and an appreciation of
beauty. Tells you a legend, touching, lovely. But it does not add to
your understanding of life, because it is written from the outside and
not the inside of its author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 56. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“A noble poem, whether we consider it from the point of view of
Arnold, that true poetry is but a criticism of life and the highest
expression of the best literature, or from the other extreme of Poe,
that poetry is merely ‘the rhythmic creation of the beautiful.’ The
appreciative reader will have keen enjoyment in this work of a man of
rare intellectual attainments and spiritual insight, and on laying
down the volume will find it no easy task to call to mind another
living author equally capable of writing such a poem.” J. S. Auerbach.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 293. F. ’08. 1200w.
=Granville, Roger.= King’s general in the West: the life of Sir
Richard Granville. **$4. Lane.
8–34202.
A life which is important for the light it throws on “the drama of the
Puritan revolution.” It records the military achievements and domestic
short-comings of a man who, “loyal, brave, obstinate, contentious,
wrongheaded, rash, overbearing, at times cruel, quarreled with his
family, his wife, his friends, his fellow-officers and his superiors
to the end, scarcely less of a terror to his own side than to his
enemies, yet with a certain curious hold on his followers through it
all.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 120. O. ’08. 440w.
“One gets vivid glimpses of the age, but we have already many books
which are more illuminative.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Grasset, Joseph.= Semi-insane and the semi-responsible: authorized
American ed. tr. by Smith Ely Jelliffe. **$2.50. Funk.
7–41081.
A work which makes its appeal to the physician, alienist, lawyer and
layman. The author believes in responsibility for the diseased as much
as for the criminal, and maintains that the question, Should the
accused be punished or should he be treated? ought to be considered.
The object of the book is to demonstrate that to this burning question
the magistrate, assisted by the physician, may make three different
replies according to the case in hand: (1) The accused criminal is
entirely responsible ... he ought to be put into prison; (2) The
accused criminal is entirely irresponsible ... he ought to be treated
and placed in a hospital; (3) The accused criminal has attenuated
responsibility ... he ought to be both punished and treated.
* * * * *
“The book is primarily a practical one. In spite of a somewhat loose
style and too frequent controversial digressions, the volume arouses
interest in its topic.” W. B. Pitkin.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 132. F. 27, ’08. 1070w.
“The work as a whole raises many large and difficult questions. Its
main thesis, however, is a thoroughly defensible one, in the light of
modern science. It is an indication of a point of view, and a method
of approach to all problems growing out of mental and moral
aberrations which are certain to command increasing attention and
respect.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 235. F. 15, ’08. 750w.
“The volume is well written and is destined to become the expert’s
vade mecum in future medico-legal discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Most interesting to the layman, no doubt, is Dr. Grasset’s cumulative
clinic of eminent historical instances of demifous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 55. F. 1, ’08. 1320w.
=Gray, Andrew.= Lord Kelvin: an account of his scientific life and
work. (English men of science ser.) *$1. Dutton.
“Not strictly a biography, but aims to give a survey of Lord Kelvin’s
scientific work with a mere sketch of his personality. The sections
describing his methods in the classroom and laboratory will be found
the more interesting.... The author gives clearly the impression of
the originality and of the enormous vitality and energy of this
intellectual giant who ranks with Galileo and Newton.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 307. S. 12. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the well posted scientist, who has made it a point to keep
in touch with the minute data of investigation, much that the book
contains will be new.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15. ’08. 1250w.
“This book is admirable for scientific students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 430w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 474. O. 3, ’08. 420w.
=Gray, Rev. James M.= Antidote to Christian science. **$75c. Revell.
7–23291.
“The author here tries to show wherein Christian Science fails as a
religion and where the Bible and Christian Science clash. He closes
with a chapter on what the church may learn from Mrs. Eddy’s
teachings.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A little book marked with a sweet temper, a forebearing spirit, and a
familiarity with Biblical texts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 863. D. 28, ’07. 210w.
=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett).= Suspicions of Mrs.
Allonby. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23105.
Mrs. Allonby, the wife of a London novelist, tiring of fogs, and
piqued over her husband’s failure to regard as necessities five new
chic and costly hats, finds fault with his relations with his
stenographer, and goes off in a huff to the Riviera. Out of motives of
protection he bids the stenographer, quite unrecognized by the wife,
travel in the latter’s company; and he follows in disguise. A comedy
of suspicions ensues, all harmless and without foundation. The story
is sprightly and abounds in local color.
* * * * *
“Whoever, remembering that well-told and interesting story, ‘The
silence of Dean Maitland,’ takes up this book with pleasant
expectations, is doomed to severe disappointment.”
− =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
“The author hardly does herself full justice in writing a novel so
entirely pleasing to the young ladies who gossip around soda fountains
or at the matinees.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
=Grayson, David.= Adventures in contentment. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–40003.
“Mr. David Grayson in these papers dwells on country life, its
broadening and elevating influences. He describes the beautiful things
of nature—the smell of freshly plowed loam on a spring day, when the
clouds hang low and the birds are calling from the budding trees; the
joy of seeing the little green blades pushing up, of watching them
grow and grow till the bearded heads wave with every breath of wind in
billows over the field; and, finally, the delight of harvesting the
goodly crop. He is fair, too; he admits that country life has its
disadvantages.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“David Grayson’s merry, commonplace adventures with the book-agent,
the millionaire, the infidel, will nourish dozens of earnest readers
to whom Mr. Benson’s exquisite interpretation of the one hundred and
nineteenth psalm must still be as husks.” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 107: 711. My. ’08. 200w.
“So sweet-tempered and wholesome is Mr. Grayson himself, so much the
most interesting thing about his book, that we feel sure that he must
have got the best out of life anywhere, and could have adventured
quite as contentedly in a three-room flat a folding-bed and a
fire-escape.” M. S. Watts.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 7. Ja. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“His enthusiasm is such that he almost infects a millionaire with his
views.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Grayson, William John.= Selected poems; selected and compiled by
Mrs. W: H. Armstrong. $1.25. Neale.
7–36212.
Mrs. Armstrong’s aim has been that of rescuing from the forgotten past
a few of her father’s poems which should live for the character and
ideals revealed in them typical of his genius and of times in the
south before the war.
* * * * *
“He was not one of the grand old masters, yet lovers of American verse
will remember him gratefully, and should be glad now to salute him who
was about to die.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23. ’08. 350w.
=Green, Alice S. A. (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Making of
Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The main theses of Mrs. Green’s vigorous and freshly written work are
two. The first is that in the course of the three centuries ... the
Norman and the Gaelic elements in the population had coalesced so as
to produce a race practically homogeneous and a civilisation
distinctly national. The second is that the independent national life
thus evolved was wantonly arrested from unworthy motives of mercantile
jealousy by the policy of the Tudors, and trampled underfoot by the
violence of their agents in the Irish wars of the sixteenth
century.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“A remarkable book—a history in name, a French pamphlet in nature. It
would require a long time to verify her references, and so far as we
have done this, we have found the statements on which she relies. But
the interpretation of them is another matter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 117. Ag. 1. 1600w.
“Not a few of Mrs. Green’s generalizations, it is true, appear to rest
on insufficient data, giving occasion for the criticism that she
inclines to take an over-roseate view. But the great corrective value
of her work to students of Irish history is unquestionable, and it
should also prove of practical benefit in assisting to uproot
prejudices that have long operated to the disadvantage of the Irish
people.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 330w.
“If it is impossible not to feel gratitude to Mrs. Green for a book
which, whatever else is to be said of it, is undeniably stimulating
and informing, it is equally impossible not to regret the spirit of
acute partisanship in which it has been written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 50. Jl. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Green, F. E.= Small holding. (Country handbooks.) **$1. Lane.
Shows how a small farm of twenty acres or more may be obtained and
worked to the owner’s profit.
* * * * *
“While he has a wide knowledge of conditions as they exist in England,
it is extremely doubtful if all his theories could be applied to
practical use in this country.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Thoughtful and practical little book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 450. S. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Green, W. Curtis.= Old cottages and farm houses in Surrey; with
introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green. $7.50.
Helburn.
One hundred collotype reproductions of typical surviving examples of
Gothic domestic architecture in Surrey, an introduction emphasizing
the vitality of the architectural designs of old cottages, and notes
and sketches describing and analysing the details of construction
constitute a noteworthy contribution to the series of “old cottage”
books.
* * * * *
“Naturally, most of the interest is the photographer’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 247. Ag. 29. 360w.
“Mr. Green gives the result of much original research.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 241. S. ’08. 350w.
“While this very beautiful book is primarily intended for the
practical architect or student of architecture, the photographs and
descriptions will be found full of charm for any one to whom a house
means an opportunity to exercise the imagination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 560w.
=Greenslet, Ferris.= Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. **$3. Houghton.
8–27511.
Material from a wide range of sources has entered into the structure
of this biography. While letters and memorials form the ground work of
the sketch, the author’s personal knowledge of Mr. Aldrich, gained
during a period of close friendship, form the basis for estimates
concerning his career, temperament and character, which narrative is
supplemented by reminiscences. The biography in addition to being an
authoritative “life,” sets Aldrich among a group of his
contemporaries.
* * * * *
“He has used nice discrimination in selecting his material and
presents it with dignity, grace and a full appreciation of his
subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“It is in the generous selections from Aldrich’s correspondence that
the chief interest of the book lies—by the wise intention of the
selfsuppressing biographer. A biography that will not soon be
superseded.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 250. O. 16, ’08. 1700w.
“It is difficult to conceive any better biography of Aldrich than Mr.
Greenslet’s.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 500. N. ’08. 1900w.
“To those who admired the vigor and independence of Mr. Greenslet’s
book on Lowell, this later work in the biographical field brings some
disappointment.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 560w.
“It is pervaded from the first page to the last by his personality,
which was something unique among the men of letters at his period.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
“If Mr. Greenslet fails to satisfy us anywhere, it is in the last
chapter in which he sums up his criticism of Aldrich’s writings. What
he says is good and sound, but somehow it is not quite sufficient; it
lacks the last transmuting touch.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 331. O. 8, ’08. 370w.
“No more fitting choice could have been made for biographer of Aldrich
than Ferris Greenslet. He brings to his subject all needful sympathy
and comprehension. He writes of the ‘singularly fortunate life’ of
Aldrich with the spirit of one who knew that estimable man of letters
well in his later years and understood his nature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 553. O. 10, ’08. 2750w.
“Mr. Greenslet happily strikes the golden mean between condensation
and undue expansion; no one will miss any essential fact, nor will any
one feel that the story is a page too long.” H. W. Mabie.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 718. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 160w.
=Greenwood, Granville George.= Shakespeare problem restated. *$5.
Lane.
8–21629.
The author “attempts to prove that two men, hitherto considered great
were both collossal frauds, and that though hundreds of contemporaries
must have been in their common secret, not one of them breathed it in
life, and all ‘died and made no sign.’ Mr. Greenwood explains the
chain of arguments by which moderns believe they have made this
discovery, a chain hardly strong enough at any point to bear the
burden of proof, and lacking altogether in many of its links.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Though the volume itself shows wide and careful reading it is, after
all, only an extended ‘case’ prepared by a lawyer who holds a brief
for the plaintiff.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 7. Jl. 4. 2700w.
“This book is more or less valuable as a specimen of a myth in the
making.”
− =Nation.= 87: 295. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“It is a well-written book and interesting enough of its kind, and we
have no objection to the kind. It can do no harm.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 1050w.
=Gregory, Caspar Rene.= Canon and text of the New Testament.
(International theological lib.) *$2.50. Scribner.
7–42092.
“The title indicates the two separate lines of investigations which
[the author] pursues. He does not, like most, assume that an
unalterable collection of books—‘the Canon’—exists, but explores the
evidence for the early existence of the writings most highly valued by
Christians for both private and public use, and therefore classed by
themselves as canonical, i. e., standard works.” (Outlook.) He
distinguishes an “original text,” a “rewrought text,” a “polished
text,” the first and second Syrian revisions and leads up to the
concession that “The text of the New Testament is in the main
assured.”
* * * * *
“Professor Gregory’s work on the canon arrests and holds the reader’s
interest beyond any book ever written on the subject. Its pages
possess a quality of vivid interest, even fascination, very rarely
attained by works of like solid scholarship. For a classroom manual,
we should have welcomed clearer definition as to the critical points
in the history of the canon, and fuller information as to the most
recent treatises and discussions of them.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 272. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The book is the best on its subjects that we possess. The
presentation is popular, even entertaining, in its freshness.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“We cannot help thinking that the desire to write a vivid and
effective narrative—certainly a most laudable aim in this province of
knowledge—has affected the plan of the book, more especially in the
section which treats of the text. There is far too much detailed
information regarding certain facts and incidents in the history of
the documents, and far too little discussion of critical problems and
processes.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 430. D. ’08. 940w.
“He has an eye for the essential points of his subject and the gift of
clear arrangement and rapid narration.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 536. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“Since so large a treatise must make its appeal chiefly to students,
it would seem that the author would have done better to write for
scholars only, with greater conciseness, more frequent abbreviation,
and consequent emphasis upon matters of real importance.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“The book is popular in the best sense of the term, being at once
readable and accurate.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“It is a splendid combination of high scholarship and brilliant
style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
“Lucidity of statement and cautions expression of opinion on open
questions are prominent characteristics of this noble work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 789 D. 7, ’07. 370w.
“A man who was entirely ignorant of the question could understand
every page of Dr. Gregory’s book—or nearly every page.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 798. Je. 20, ’08. 600w.
“We would especially commend to the attention of our readers the
account of the Latin translations, of which the Vulgate is but one.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Gregory, Isabella Augusta, lady.= Book of saints and wonders, put
down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and the
memory of the people of Ireland. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–12836.
“S. Brigit, S. Patrick, and S. Columba are given due honour here, but
there are also many tales of lesser saints, their hymns and their good
works. The two famous ocean stories, the Voyage of Maeldun and the
Voyage of S. Brendan, are repeated at length. Thus a good deal of the
book is devoted to matter that will not be new to readers who know
anything of Irish legend.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“One might search through many workhouses in England, we fear, without
discovering so much as a strange oath, not to speak of legends and
traditions such as are recorded here. It has pleased us more than
almost any book we have read of late.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 264. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
“Lady Gregory’s literary art is well known, and the present volume is
a good instance of it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 90w.
“To a reader who knows not Ireland, one of the strongest of several
kinds of pleasure which this book has to give will come from its
constant suggestion of the soft, musical, melancholy voices of the
players in that company.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 374. D. 6, ’07. 600w.
“Lady Gregory’s style has this great advantage to Irish readers that
it carefully preserves the un-English, curiously inverted forms of
speech of the Irish country-people.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 154. F. 13, ’08. 930w.
“It is to be regretted, perhaps, that Lady Gregory has seen fit to
take such liberties with the English idiom in her enthusiasm for the
Gaelic effect.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 50. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
“Some of the stories would have gained by more elaboration; they are
so condensed as to be obscure. But they are eminently characteristic
of the quick imagination, the sensibility, the love of mystery, the
gift of temperament, of the Celtic race. They contain episodes and
passages of unusual and extraordinary beauty, with much that is
prosaic and uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
“Lady Gregory has passed in this book from pagan to Christian legend,
and has gleaned from mediæval Irish texts, and coloured in places from
her own knowledge of oral tradition, a series of charming old-world
stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 12. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, and Hunt, Arthur Surridge=, eds. Fragment
of an uncanonical gospel from Oxyrhynchus; with translation and
commentary. *40c. Oxford.
A reprint from the Oxyrhynchus papyri of pt. v, no. 840, containing
one of the finds made by the Egyptian exploration fund in the mounds
at Oxyrhynchus. The fragment pictures dramatically the coming of Jesus
with his disciples into the place of purification in the temple, the
rebuke of the Pharisee for entering unwashed, and the answer of Jesus
to the effect that he and his disciples had been dipped in the waters
of life.
* * * * *
“Insignificant as it seems, its contents bring it at once into
prominence for all who are especially interested in the thoughts and
words of Jesus.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 518. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“The fragment which Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt have published in this
separate form is edited with the care and scholarship which have
characterized their previous productions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 540w.
=Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Grey, Zane.= Last of the plainsmen. *$1.50. Outing pub.
8–24293.
The record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known
as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert, and
of a hunt in “that wonderful country of yellow crags, deep canons and
giant pines.” The author fulfils his desire to show the color and
beauty of painted cliffs and blue-bell dotted aisles in the forests;
to give a suggestion of the tang of the dry, cool air; and to throw
light upon the life and nature of the remarkable character, Buffalo
Jones.
* * * * *
“A fascinating, out-of-door book, full of the charm of the desert and
the cañon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Grey is an enthusiastic sportsman, alive to the picturesqueness
both of Western scenery and Western character. He is also a skilful
photographer of still life, and has furnished many interesting
pictures of the country in which he hunted.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Grey is never dull in his narrative, but one tires of the undue
straining after verbal effect in the descriptive bits with which his
story is interlarded.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 287. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
“Dr. Grey has a vivid style and a keen sense of dramatic situation, as
well as poetic appreciation of the weird beauty and sublimity of the
country through which he journeyed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12. ’08. 200w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= George Sand and her lovers. *$3.75.
Scribner.
7–36995.
The author “tears away the ‘romance’ of George Sand’s life all drapery
that had been left in the shape of ‘hypocrisy.’ He exhibits her as she
was, a grisette by blood and instincts, and in the whole conduct of
her emotional life. If the story of her ‘romances’ was worth telling
in full, which is questionable, here it is told undoubtedly with
perfect fulness. Whether it is prudery or not, we infinitely prefer
the final chapters—in which Mr. Gribble tells of George Sand’s
friendship with Flaubert, of her ‘growing old in dignity,’ and of the
genuine importance of her novels—to those in which he expounds his
purpose and fulfils his self-imposed mission.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Gribble tells everything there is to tell with perfect frankness,
and he brings his evidence from all sources, not betraying any
prejudices by the way.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1. 1050w.
“Those interested in this branch of literature will probably not be
disappointed in this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is interesting and informing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 950w.
“Having noted this exception to his title, however, it is but fair to
say that the present study has its warrant and justification. His book
is written in the interests of truth, not scandal.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 19. Ja. 11, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book contains little that is new. It is a string of
readable, very readable, gossipy anecdotes and not the portrait of an
extraordinary woman.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 277. F. ’08. 1580w.
“The story is not edifying, but it is amusing; and Mr. Gribble tells
it with a frank cynicism which is not inappropriate.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
“This volume will be valuable, from the literary and sociological
points of view, as throwing a sidelight on the romantic movement in
France. Whether it is a permanent contribution to the ‘literature of
the heart’ is quite another matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Montreux; painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis
and May Hardwicke Lewis. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The author “draws upon his intimate knowledge of the personages who
lend a fascination to the history of Geneva, and he uses Montreux as a
name to designate the whole district of the ‘Swiss Riviera,’ a vague
region stretching from Vevey to Villeneuve. Six chapters on the Castle
of Chillon, its history and associations; and some delightful sketches
of the Regicides, the Pietists, the Salvation army, Byron, Obermann,
and Madame de Warens—and ‘you see the trick on’t.’ ... The charming
illustrations in colour to this pleasant book, by J. and May Hardwicke
Lewis, are beautifully reproduced.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is interesting to see how pleasingly a skilful writer like Mr.
Gribble accomplishes a difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 270w.
“The only novelty in Mr. Gribble’s volume is the illustrations, for
the text consists almost entirely of literal transcriptions from the
same author’s ‘Lake Geneva and its literary landmarks,’ welded
together after the manner of a musical potpourri.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
“If fault could be found with Mr. Gribble’s text, it is that so much
emphasis has been placed on the various historical personages
connected with the region as to leave not enough for descriptions of
nature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 370w.
“All that has to be told about the place and people is told very
pleasantly by Mr. Gribble, and the pictures of the two artists who
co-operate have the charm which we are accustomed to look for in
Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25. ’08. 200w.
* =Gribble, Francis Henry.= Rousseau and the women he loved. *$3.75.
Scribner.
“Justification for this new life in English, of one whom Mr. John
Morley (as we still like to call his lordship) has made the subject of
an excellent biographical study, is sought for in the recent discovery
and publication, by certain delvers in French archives and private
papers, of many letters and other documents that throw new light on
the philosopher’s idiosyncrasies and demonstrate the palpable untruth
of certain portions of his own autobiography.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It presents with provoking trenchancy and thoroughness that one-sided
view of the darker aspect of Rousseau’s genius which is commonly held
in a loose, vague way. The ‘Confessions’ to judge from the evidences
of the pages before us, seems to be the only book by his author which
Mr. Gribble has studied thoroughly, and even this he misinterprets
through taking too low a view of the whole subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 566. N. 7. 820w.
“If one is interested in Rousseau’s life—and who can help being more
or less interested?—it is better to have the real facts than
falsehoods; and so Mr. Gribble has rendered a not unuseful service.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 414. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A book of real importance. He argues a good deal from biographical
premises, sometimes unsound.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 468. N. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Gribble is a careless, slipshod writer, and his work often
produces the impression of having been hurried over, its faults being
rather those of a man who doesn’t care than of one who doesn’t know.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 740w.
“Lord Morley in his famous essay on Rousseau says of the ‘Confessions’
that their pages are too often contaminated by the ‘reek of the
satyr.’ Mr. Gribble has managed, by adopting the point of view he has,
to preserve throughout his book much of this aroma without the style
which alone makes it at intervals endurable in the original.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book, almost painfully plainspoken as it sometimes is,
will be useful to the English reader of to-day, whom it invites to
realise the origin of doctrines which appeal to ‘the blindest part of
us, our sensibility.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
* =Griffis, William Elliot.= Fire-fly’s lovers, and other fairy tales of
old Japan. †$1. Crowell.
8–24870.
Representative Japanese fairy tales which include the legend of the
Fire-fly princess who holds court among the stamens of the lotus-lily,
the story of the dancing tea-kettle, and many tales of giants,
dragons, dwarfs and imps of Japan’s picturesque wonder-world.
* * * * *
“The author has studied Japan, its people, and their customs, and,
while original, the work embodies the spirit of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in
the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is a learned, novel, and interesting argument.” A. K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 512. Jl. ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Griffis’ faith in Japan’s possibilities of growth is inspiring.
An immense amount of material, geographical, legendary, archæological
and historic, produces some confusion when condensed into so small a
book, and the frequency of strange names adds further difficulty in
reading.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 273. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The work is one that should find a place in all well-ordered
libraries, as it contains precisely the very information that all
intelligent people wish to possess about this wonderful people,
presented in a most charming manner. The volume is beautifully
illustrated.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The personal element. Dr. Griffis’s own observation on the state of
society under the old régime, is the most valuable feature of the work
and distinguishes it from the numerous second hand and superficial
books on Japan now in the market.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 528. Mr. 5, ’08. 450w.
“He has brought together, in convenient though somewhat ill-ordered
shape, the results of his reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Griffis refers to his having been an educator in Japan a
generation ago. He seems not to have come into direct contact with
present conditions there.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 1100w.
“No book has yet been written which should do more than the present
volume to affirm the ground for the Japanese demand for social
equality. Dr. Griffis’s book offers a compact and highly interesting,
if highly eulogistic, history of Japan from the earliest epoch to our
own.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 509. F. 29, ’08. 1400w.
=Spec.= 100: 1006. Je. 27, ’08. 430w.
=Griffith, Elmer C.= Rise and development of the gerrymander. $1.25.
Scott.
7–36715.
A doctor’s thesis based upon exhaustive study of source material. He
discovers this form of political trickery (“the formation of election
districts on another basis than that of single and homogeneous
political units as they existed previous to the apportionment, with
boundaries arranged for partisan advantage”) a hundred years before
1812, on which latter date it took its name from Governor Gerry of
Massachusetts. He reviews the subsequent gerrymanders in various
states and the attempts to eliminate them.
* * * * *
“A painstaking investigation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 502. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
“The subject is more interesting than the manner in which it is
handled. Professor Griffith rarely philosophizes. He likewise abstains
from dealing with the subject as a sociologist. His style is at times
obscure. Viewed as a catalogue of misdoings, [the dissertation] is not
without value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 573. S. ’08. 200w.
“Aside from the first or introductory chapter, which is merely
personal opinion and poorly worked out, this is a solid piece of
research, and deserves commendation.” E. D. Fite.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 113. My. ’08. 350w.
=Grimm, Carl Robert.= Secondary stresses in bridge trusses. $2.50.
Wiley.
8–12774.
The portion of the field of bridge literature occupied by this book
has been heretofore unoccupied. “The author limits his treatment
mainly to secondary stresses due to riveted joints in trusses. After
some introductory historical notes, a consideration of the nature of
the problem and some means for its solution, he presents five methods
for the calculation of secondary stresses, devoting a chapter to each
one. The four principal methods were developed by Manderia,
Muller-Breslau, Ritter and Mohr, respectively, while the fifth one is
designated as the method of least work.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The author has rendered a valuable service to the engineering
profession in this country by writing this book which gives the
results of previous investigations and directs attention in an
effective manner to the importance of the subject. The book deserves
careful study by every engineer who is responsible for the design and
maintenance of bridges.” H: S. Jacoby.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 646. Je. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Fiji and its possibilities. il.
(Geographical lib.) **$3. Doubleday.
7–31404.
The author calls herself “a wanderer about odd corners of the globe.”
She is the first woman to penetrate into the interior of the Fiji
islands. “The reader is continually surprised at the incidents which
befell the author, and at her exposition of the manners and customs of
a people who thirty years ago were cannibals. She was received with
remarkable hospitality by the chiefs of every town through which the
party passed, and was treated with the utmost deference and respect at
all times.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“She took some very interesting photographs which alone make the book
a valuable record, and her story, though written with praiseworthy
modesty, inspires the reader with genuine admiration of her pluck. The
book would have been greatly improved by the addition of a map.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 198. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
“Though not a serious study the book gives an excellent idea of social
and economic conditions on the islands. A bulky, heavy book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“The account is very lively and interesting. It is, however, diffuse
and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 100w.
“Would be excellent were it not for lapses into subjects beyond the
writer’s competence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 133. F. 2. 860w.
“Her whole book reads as if made up of letters. She tires the reader
by repetitions, long digressions, feebly humorous passages, frequent
allusions to cannibalism, and prolix accounts of trivial and
uninteresting incidents. Her book would have been far more readable
had she confined herself to descriptions of the country and the
natives.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 107. Ja. 30, ’08. 750w.
“It is always bright and readable, but shows little literary skill.
The temptation to idealize and indulge in sentimental description has
not been overcome, but, whatever its faults, the book is a timely,
educative, and interesting work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 21. Ja. 11, ’08. 700w.
“The book is written with sympathy and evidently from a background of
extensive knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The author gives the reader an excellent though superficial idea of
the conditions under which white people live in these distant
islands.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 240. Ag. 24, ’07. 1080w.
=Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= In the strange South seas. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
8–34208.
A tourist’s impressions derived from leisurely travel among the
eastern groups of the South sea islands.
* * * * *
“Many things in it are truly excellent—notably, certain personal
descriptions, and the author’s judicious observations on lepers,
missionaries. and manners. But the book is tainted throughout with the
taint of journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 300w.
“As far as they go her conclusions are just and accurate, though, as
she seems to be unacquainted with the writings of those who preceded
her, and to rely for her information on the loose talk of traders, she
makes a good many mistakes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 360w.
“Her book is worth while. The subject matter has been covered before
in more or less appreciative fashion by many writers, but few have
approached the task with a keener sympathy, a wider vision, and a
daintier sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 380w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Vaiti of the islands. †$1.50. Wessels.
8–30710.
The heroine of this tale is the half-caste daughter of a Maori
princess and a derelict Englishmen, the drunken captain of a
trading-schooner casting about in the South seas. The primitive,
guileful, Maori nature within her wars with her English daring and
love of adventure. Aside from the interest attaching to the not easily
classified heroine, the story is interesting for its other Polynesian
types and South sea adventures.
* * * * *
“Something new in heroines, and stories, too. Her doings ... are
adventures unique and perilous enough to have sated the desires of any
wandering seeker after excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 706. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Grohman, William Adolph Baillie-.= Land in the mountains: being an
account of the past and present of Tyrol; its people and its
castles; with an introd. by C. Landis. *$3. Lippincott.
7–31993.
A fully illustrated book “which is neither a glorified form of
Baedeker nor a treatise on the science of rock-climbing, but a volume
dealing, in a fashion fitted to appeal to the ordinary reader, with
the history of Tyrol and its feudal castles.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In the present work the author is at his best.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 11. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“The pages before us are easy reading, though they disclose some signs
of haste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 231. Ag. 31. 1300w.
“To the mere ‘tripper’ who knows Tyrol only from the piazza of an
Innsbruck hotel, this book will not appeal; but to the more serious
traveller and reader it will mark a valuable contribution to the
history of a brave little land.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is an admirable book, admirably written, dealing exhaustively with
all the subjects which fall within its scope, too bulky, indeed, to
serve as the traveller’s pocket companion, even if his pockets are
large, but nevertheless invaluable to the more intelligent class of
tourists who wish to realize and understand, as well as to see, this
mountain land which the modern influx of tourists has not yet
succeeded in spoiling.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 155. My. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“The work supplies a felt want. Of the charming illustrations with
which the volume is adorned ... it is difficult to write in fitting
terms.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Meantime, not the least interestng chapter of the present volume is
the introduction by his American friend, Mr. Landis. It tells us much
of a remarkable personality and it makes us wish to hear more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“The best part of the book is concerned with the huntings of that
mighty sportsman, the Emperor Maximilian, whose fame the author has
done much to revive.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Grohman, W. A. Baillie-.= Tyrol; painted by E. Harrison Compton;
described by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. *$2. Macmillan.
Deals largely with the historical side of the subject and is written
by “an old resident, thoroughly familiar with the character and habits
of the Tyrolese peasant, as well as with the remoter districts of
Tyrol.” (Nation.) “The pictures by Mr. E. Harrison Compton which
accompany the text are far better than is usual in such volumes.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“In spite of trifling defects we can thoroughly recommend the book,
and think it will be useful to those who are planning tours.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 97. Jl. 25. 300w.
“The point of view of the insider, whose familiarity with the land and
its people is vital, is often fresher than that of the traveller or
the student.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 120w.
=Groot, C. Hofstede de.= Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most
eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century; based on the
work of John Smith by C. Hofstede de Groot (with the assistance of
Dr. W. R. Valentiner); tr. and ed. by E. G. Hawkes. 10v. v. 1,
*$7.50. Macmillan.
=v. 1.= Includes the works of Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Garard Dou,
Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, and Johannes Vermeer of Delft. “It
is essentially a catalogue and not a treatise on the art of the
painters dealt with, though to each is given a short biographical
note.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The critical scholarship of Dr. de Groot and the wealth of research
lavished on the work by his assistants will render this publication
precious for a long time to come.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 159. Ag. 8. 2350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 170. Ap. ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A useful undertaking, and seems to have been conscientiously and
thoroughly carried out.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; ed.
by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 4.= Begins with an article on Quadrille and continues thru the
biographical sketch of Marie Szymanowska.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Complaint was made years ago that there was no sense of proportion in
this dictionary, and we fear the same objection still holds good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 107. Jl. 25. 770w. (Review of v. 4.)
“But why should such a dignified and important musical work of
reference be disfigured with such a hodge-podge of mediocre and
poorly-executed illustrations in these days of pictorial excellence?”
G: P. Upton.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The volume is marked by many of the admirable qualities which have
distinguished its predecessors. Unfortunately this fourth volume also
contains more than its share of blemishes and mistakes.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 897. O. 15, ’08. 688w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 79. Jl. 23, ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes-.= Hilary on her own. +$1.50.
Baker.
8–24457.
The story of a spirited young girl, who finding her home atmosphere
stifling, breaks away from it and goes to London to look for a
secretaryship. The hardships of position-hunting are leavened by the
girl’s frankness and irresistible sense of humor, which qualities
recommend her to readers, young and old.
* * * * *
“Passing over manners, which would have horrified Jane Austen, she is
a genuine living being, worth knowing for her hearty picturesque talk
and her power of humorous characterization.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 230w.
“The subject is hackneyed enough, but the tale is written with a
freshness of touch and a constant liveliness of fancy that makes it
entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Guest, Antony.= Art and the camera. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35390.
A book which makes its appeal especially to “those who wish to attain
greater skill in rendering colour in monochrome.” It is a “practical
guide-book to the methods of making artistic prints from photographic
negatives. The proper appreciation of the artistic possibilities of a
subject, the rules governing point of view, composition, lighting and
the like, are dwelt upon; and afterward the method of treating
negative and print in order to produce such qualities as are shown in
the pictures which illustrate the book.”
* * * * *
“There is a singular freedom from banality and platitude in his
book ... and a pleasing absence of the irritating split infinitive.
Scattered through the pages are remarks which reveal much keenness of
insight and bring a thrill of appreciation to the reader. One
pronouncement of Mr. Guest’s, that the task of the worker without
colour—the photographer—demands a keener perception of tones than that
of the painter, seems to call for some demur.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 794. Ag. 17, ’07. 1720w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 218. Ag. 24. 80w.
“Mr. Guest’s position is a thoroughly sound and reasonable one; he
makes no extravagant claims for photography.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 337. O. ’07. 160w.
* =Gulick, Luther Halsey, and Ayres, Leonard P.= Medical inspection of
schools. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–31120.
A by-product of the “Backward children investigation,” research work
supported by the Russell Sage foundation. It is a practical, reliable,
frank presentation of facts gathered from the study of “retardation”
among school-children, a knowledge of which aids in the “betterment
and safeguarding of the health and vitality of the future citizens of
America.”
* * * * *
“Cautious without quenching enthusiasm, lucidly exhaustive and
admirably arranged, the monograph will assist not a little in the
great work, scarcely begun, of supplying the sound body that is needed
for the sound mind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“A refreshingly optimistic study of many subjects which will appeal
not only to the teacher, but also to the layman. His psychology is, in
the main, sound, although his desire to express himself in colloquial
language at times leads him astray. His indebtedness to Prof. William
James, which is evident throughout the book, might well have been more
often acknowledged.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
H
=Haber, Fritz.= Thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions: seven
lectures; tr. by Arthur B. Lamb; with 20 figures. *$3. Longmans.
8–19027.
The author “endeavors to make clear the significance of heat factors
in gas reactions, with especial reference to the specific heats of the
interacting substances and to the heat evolved during the reaction.
The gathering of these lectures into book form has been for the
purpose of effecting a contribution to technical, rather than to
theoretical, chemistry, and the aim of the author has been to present
in the clearest manner the application of the mechanical theory to
chemistry.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It is a work that will thoroughly interest chemical engineers and
metallurgists.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The whole work is suggestive, illuminating and unique, and should
prove most valuable to those who desire to study certain of the
phenomena observable during the explosion of gaseous mixtures. The
work of the translator has been done most satisfactorily.” L. S.
Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 730w.
“While chemical thermodynamics is certainly still far from having
reached finality, it is important for our chemical engineers to know
what has been accomplished. This book is an excellent guide for this
purpose, although it is by no means easy reading.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 550w.
“After a single perusal of the book the reader may not appreciate the
infinite pains, or the critical acumen amounting nearly to
inspiration, with which the author has extracted the truth from a
great mass of uncertain and frequently contradictory experimental
material.” G. N. Lewis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 344. S. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of
English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
=v. 3.= Completes the “treasury” and extends from the Jacobean to the
Victorian writers.
* * * * *
“While fully recognizing the excellent intention of this work, we have
some doubts as to its utility.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 181. Ag. 15. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In general, the brief critical remarks in the introductions are
well-balanced despite their extreme brevity and occasional wit.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hague, Charles Arthur.= Pumping engines for water works. *$5.
McGraw pub.
7–42484.
“Furnishes in language as free from technicalities as practicable a
description of the principles upon which pumping engines operate, a
brief outline of their development and a detailed discussion of their
parts, without taking up the actual computation and drafting-room
practice of the designer.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The book is worth criticising and well worth improving in a
subsequent edition.” n.s. Hill, jr.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 294. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“The book is far the best work on pumping engines that we have in
English at the present time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Haile, Martin.= James Francis Edward, “the Old Chevalier.” *$4.
Dutton.
8–15743.
A study “of Jacobitism in relation to wider issues. The author is
thoroughly alive to the significance of the Orleans-Hanover compact;
does justice to the Quadruple alliance in its bearing on the Jacobite
expedition of 1719; explains the attempt of James to mediate between
France and Austria in 1735, and shows how serious a blow to his hopes
was the renewal of hostilities between those powers in 1740.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A painstaking study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 950w.
“As a study of personality, of the Jacobite movement in England, and
of the views of a Stuart restoration held by the great powers of
Europe, Mr. Haile’s work will be found both thorough and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“On some points his researches seem to have been thorough and
complete; but on many other matters he appears to have contented
himself with _a priori_ deductions.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 41. Jl. 16, ’08. 670w.
“Is really an historical study of an exceedingly interesting epoch.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“Admirably complete and readable volume. The constant introduction of
quotation marks tends to destroy the illusion and impede the
narrative.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Haile does more than merely write a biography of the Old
Pretender; he gives us a thoroughgoing and most valuable study of
English Jacobitism, based in many of its details on material hitherto
inaccessible to the historian.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 121. My. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“Interesting but often too lengthy chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Valuable to student, and to general readers interested in the
subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08.
“The author is notably open-minded and fair.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Haines sees as a railway man—he sees as truly as one of the great
travelling and shipping and consuming public. The tone and the temper
are as admirable as though he might be a university professor of
railway economics engaged in academic discussion. His book is an
admirable chapter added to the fruitful discussion of railway
problems.” J: J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“Faults of form and substance do of necessity detract much from the
value of the book; but it must not be supposed that it is without
merit.”
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 33. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Other similar utterances seem to indicate that the book was hurriedly
compiled and failed to receive proper revision; it certainly did not
receive adequate proof-reading.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 394. Ja. ’08. 310w.
“The author’s wide experience in railway affairs and his acquaintance
with the theoretical side reveal themselves in a clear statement of
the development of common carrier service, and of American railway
regulation. We note only two errors of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 322. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Haines has written so much on the railway question that it was
evidently difficult for him to advance any new ideas.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans: the story of the South
American republics. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Somewhat superficial, but reliable and very useful for general
information. Popular in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. ✠
“He will give the average reader a better appreciation of the south
continent and the people, but with all this there is still much to be
desired. There is no unity of treatment.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 203. Mr. ’08. 170w.
“No recent book on South America is so well adapted to the needs of
the general reader as is this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“This book deserves careful reading. It is too obviously made up of
miscellaneous magazine articles written at various periods and loosely
connected with each other. Still it makes easy and interesting
reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is written in a readable manner and sympathetic attitude.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“As long as Mr. Hale confines himself to the details of travel his
work is not only helpful, but interesting. Unfortunately, he felt
called upon to enter the field of broad philosophical analysis.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 360w.
“Very informative volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, George Ellery.= Study of stellar evolution: an account of
some recent methods of astrophysical research. (Decennial
publications, 2d ser., v. 10.) *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–18034.
The modification of the author’s original project to furnish a
handbook to the Yerkes observatory has resulted in the adoption of the
plan of describing a connected series of investigation, laying special
stress on the observational methods employed, in the hope of
explaining clearly how the problem of stellar evolution is studied.
“The book is one that does not require great technical familiarity,
either with astronomy or with physics.... For the physicist, however,
and especially for one who has experience with the difficulties and
the charm of the experimental side of his subject the book possesses a
fascination that is quite unusual.” (Phys. R.) There are over one
hundred plates.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“Is of the greatest value to all who are following the developments of
what is emphatically called the new astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 580w.
“Interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 44. Jl. 16, ’08. 360w.
“The last part is particularly suggestive and valuable to amateur
observers who are provided with moderate sized telescopes and who are
skilled in photography.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 700w.
“The author writes of problems to whose solution he has himself made
important contributions, of instruments which he has designed, or
investigations with which, owing to his acquaintance with other
astrophysicists, he has a thorough personal familiarity. This fact,
together with the pleasing style and complete absence of any trace of
egotism, gives to the book a character and charm that are rarely met
with.”
+ + =Phys. R.= 26: 549. Je. ’08. 520w.
“It is non-technical, readable and gives a clear explanation of the
purposes and observational methods employed by the author in his
notable researches upon the sun and the chemistry of the stars.” C: L.
Poor.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 804. D. 4, ’08. 540w.
=Univ. Rec.= 13: 24. Jl. ’08. 760w.
=Hale, William Bayard.= A week in the White house with Theodore
Roosevelt: a study of the president at the nation’s business.
**$1.25. Putnam.
8–17769.
An accurate, realistic picture of President Roosevelt as he appears at
close hand actually engaged in the arduous duties of his office. The
chapter headings are as follows: The president in the White house, A
view of the president at work, The spirit of the White house, A
typical day with the president, A cabinet day at the White house,
Giving audiences to two hundred, An estimate of Mr. Roosevelt, and The
president on Mr. Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“It is written effectively and at times picturesquely, if not
photographically. One feels that it is all quite true.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 162. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
=Hall, Bolton.= A little land and a living; introd. by William
Borsodi. $1. Arcadia press.
8–19079.
In no way a repetition of the author’s “Three acres and liberty.” The
book was stimulated by a letter from Mr. Borsodi to Mr. Hall in which
the former points to the farm as the real hope, the one ray of
sunshine that is destined to lighten the burden and cheer the lives of
the needy of our large cities. Its aim is that of encouraging the
overworked wage earner to reach out for a better, saner living, thru
cultivating the little lands.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“We heartily recommend this work to all our readers who live on the
land and to all those who dream of some time coming into intimate
touch with the Great Mother.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 382. O. ’08. 600w.