7–32318.
Adventure lovers will fairly gallop thru these pages of crime and
mystery. An embezzler attempting to escape the law hides on an island
of the Everglades. His secret and the crime committed to cover it are
discovered by the knight of the tale who, fever stricken, wanders thru
the cypress swamps, happens to hit a trail, and comes upon the refugee
and his unsuspecting party in camp upon the island’s oasis.
* * * * *
“The author falls into the ruts of conventional fiction when he gets
his characters back to civilization; but the island episodes are
good.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 180w.
=Hurt, Walter.= Scarlet shadow: a story of the great Colorado
conspiracy. $1.50. Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan.
7–40797.
“Treats of the war of extermination waged by the Mine owners’
association against the Western federation of miners. Mr. Hurt has
given the side of the miners and has shown in an admirable manner many
of the facts in the great conspiracy case. He also rightly holds up
for the scorn of honorable citizens the Mine owners’ association and
its ill-famed servant, Governor Peabody, and the malodorous Pinkerton
thugs.”—Arena.
* * * * *
“This book is written in the bright, crisp style of the modern alert
newspaper man. It contains many strong and some very brilliant
passages. It is highly dramatic and often grimly tragic. Much of the
work is a vivid historic presentation, and so effective is this
portion of the book that we specially regret that the author should
have mixed romance with the history. Mr. Hurt’s book will appeal to
socialists.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 252. F. ’08. 1100w.
“Any man credulous enough to believe the hundreth part of this
book—could one so sublimely guileless be found—would certainly have a
pleasant idea of life in the great west to-day. Wholesale murder,
abduction, and torture are but incidents in this extraordinary tale.
As for the journalistic life, which plays so large a part in the
story, it is as saffron-tinted as one would expect from Mr. Hurt’s
literary style.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’08. 400w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= That little——: a sporting novel. †$1.50. Longmans.
An irascible father drives his son away from home because the latter
will neither go into the English army nor accept a position in a
certain London office. Richard goes abroad to seek his fortune,
leaving the girl he loves to ride her horses, drive her car and look
after his wise little terrier. The country setting makes the story,
for the author has the trick of taking “a village in the shires and
showing how much diversion and variety, not to mention useful
activities, are to be found within and without its borders.”
* * * * *
“The characters are as familiar as their surroundings. They have all
been shown before, sometimes better, sometimes worse.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“A genial and pleasant story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
* =Hutton, Edward.= Country walks about Florence. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Hutton is a guide to the Florence “of old renown” and bids his
reader linger in the vineyards, hear songs, see the olives silver in
the wind, stoop to the flowers, make haste slowly because of the
beauty of the day, and not think of hurry because of the beauty of the
night.
* * * * *
“The Florence of Mr. Hutton’s present book is worth a fireside journey
through it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“A useful addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 814. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Florence and the cities of northern Tuscany, with
Genoa, il. *$2. Macmillan.
“Impressions, experiences, reflections.” “You feel that while each
palace and church and soaring tower of Florence has its own special
message for [the author] and while ‘amid the hurry and bustle of her
narrow splendid ways’ he thinks only ‘of old things for a time,’ the
appeal of the country life outside of Florence, with its ‘beautiful
gay roads,’ its ‘numberless villas whispering with summer, laughing
with flowers,’ is even stronger to him, ‘for there abide the old ways
and the ancient songs, which you will not find in the city.’” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“His present volume, though it contains little that is new in the way
of thought or description, has a few chapters agreeable to read, and,
scattered up and down pages somewhat overloaded with ornament and
disfigured by repetitions, a good many passages of graceful writing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 266. S. 5. 540w.
“Although small, compact and yet comprehensive enough to do valuable
service as a supplementary guidebook among the Tuscan cities, the book
is written with a sympathetic understanding, an individual touch, a
genuine charm of style which make it equally adapted to the needs of
those who are preparing for first impressions and of those who are
seeking to revive old memories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“He has a happy quality of seizing an impression and transferring it
to words, and his slight historical sketches, though necessarily
incomplete, are quite adequate for the purpose he has in hand. His
judgments are sometimes biased by feeling, and he does not always
understand the Italian temperament.” K. H. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 623. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Worth reading and deserving of shelf room beside Mr. Symons.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Hutton indulges rather too freely in sentimentality. He seems to
be an amateur in history, art, in emotion, addressing amateurs.
Nevertheless, he succeeds sometimes in speaking about art and life
less affectedly than we fear he will.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
“We are very grateful to Mr. Hutton for the sheaves of golden fact
which abound in this closely packed volume. The fifty-three pages on
Pisa are the best thing we know in English on the treasures of the
city and the fortunes of the Republic.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
=Hutton, Frederick Remsen.= Gas-engine: a treatise on the
internal-combustion engine using gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol,
or other hydrocarbon as source of energy. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–345.
“In the first two editions the author had prominently before his mind
the idea of examining what the machine does and how this is
accomplished. In this edition, on the other hand, he considers the
gas-engine from the quantitative view-point more fully, that is, with
the idea of examining the size it must have to do a certain amount of
work in accordance with the limits set by natural laws.” (Engin. D.)
“There is a more complete treatment of gaseous and liquid fuels and
differs from the earlier edition in an expansion of the discussion of
producers and of carbureters.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The subject matter generally is brought up to date in a satisfactory
manner, with, however, some notable exceptions. It reads like the
first draft of a book, written without verifying the quantities
recorded, without digesting the information given, and without any
attempt at accurate statement. The reviewer has gone into what may
seem to be minor and trivial points, but in this particular case he
feels it is necessary to call attention to these inaccuracies and
carelessnesses of statement because they occur in practically every
paragraph of the first half of the book. It is a pity that they have
not been rectified, for the general plan of the book is good; but
until they are corrected the book is too unreliable to be recommended
for the use of students.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 438. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
* =Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Age of revolution: being an outline of
the history of the church from 1648 to 1815. (Church universal ser., no.
7.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20491.
A sketch in which “the author restricts himself to the history of the
churches which claim an episcopate transmitted continuously from the
first century. He imparts to it an interest, which might have been
missed in brief treatment of a long period, by giving prominence to
important episodes and representative individuals—e. g., Jansenism and
Port Royal, the French revolution, Bossuet and Fénelon, Wesley, Joseph
II of Germany. A salient feature of this ‘age of revolution’ impresses
the reader who contrasts the present servility of the clergy to the
Vatican with the free spirit often manifested then.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His account of the intrigues which led to the suppression of the
Jesuits is masterly, and the whole book is singularly readable. On one
or two points, however, we are disposed to quarrel with him. On the
whole, however, we have nothing but praise for this excellent book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 60w.
“This valuable little book corrects some current impressions of the
eighteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= Aphorisms and reflections from the works of
T. H. Huxley: selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. (Golden treasury
ser.) $1. Macmillan.
W8–95.
A little volume of quotations from Huxley’s writings. “An elaborate
index makes this little book a veritable boon to the literary worker
In need of apt illustrative quotations.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Huxley was one of the meatiest of writers, and bears well this
somewhat searching test of the quality of his thought.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 341. F. 13, ’08. 110w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.= Little brown brother. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24469.
A story whose scene is laid in the Philippines after the capture of
Aguinaldo. “The hero is a familiar character in fiction—a noble-minded
Englishman who, as the result of scrupulous unselfishness, is under a
cloud.... The action mostly concerns the attempt of an inadequate
force to quell a rising of pulajanes, or murderous Christian
fanatics.” (Ath.) “The heroine is a high-spirited English girl who
likes men who ‘do things,’ and who shares with her father, a wealthy
hemp buyer of Calbayog, a belief that it is the white man’s business
to keep the little brown brother in his place with a strong hand.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“A story of unusual interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“The author is at his best in realizing the sympathy which draws brave
men together; he touches love with nobility and restraint, but his
irony is too fantastic to be convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 130w.
“This book is much bigger and deeper than its central thread of
romance.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 263. N. ’08. 600w.
“For sheer graphic force and the rare ability to make one see, it has
a kinship with Mr. Dawson’s ‘African nights’ entertainment,’ and with
the earlier Kipling, the Kipling of ‘Plain tales’ and ‘Soldiers
three.’ The great fault of the book in point of technique is the
manner in which it intrudes the writer’s personal views.” Philip
Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 409. O. ’08. 1450w.
“Considered merely as a novel, this book is of unusual interest. But
the book is more than a novel; it is also a sensational political
pamphlet. The interest of the narrative is overshadowed by the
sweeping indictment of the American administration of the
Philippines.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“The book must rely for its popularity upon its merits as literature.
And they are not scanty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 740w.
“The great advantage that the story has over bluebooks and reports is
that it will be read,—no one who takes up Mr. Hyatt’s story will lay
it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 100. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Psychical research and the resurrection.
**$1.50. Small.
8–18413.
Contains essays relating to the subjects discussed in the author’s
three previous volumes. “The present volume covers more or less of the
whole field and may be regarded as a supplement to ‘Science and a
future life,’ with conclusions quite the same.” A concluding chapter
gives in detail the reasons for not accepting the proverbial story of
the resurrection from the point of view of science, and offers the new
interpretation of the facts as viewed in the light of psychic
research.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 550w.
“The reader, who in opening this book hopes to discover some positive
deductions relating to the nature of a future life, will surely close
it with disappointment. Nor do we find this discussion of cases in
itself very satisfactory, for we are asked to trust not only the
writer, but every word of every person whom he trusts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“It is impossible for any fair-minded person to read [this book],
without admitting, however reluctantly, that he, at least, has
preserved something of the scientific instinct and method in his ghost
hunting, and that his work and his theories deserve that serious
consideration the general absence of which he, now humorously, now
bitterly, resents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 800w.
“It is a great pity that he has seen fit to burden his pages with much
controversial material. Still, the book is undoubtedly useful to those
who wish to keep abreast of the progress of psychical research in the
United States.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 19, ’08. 330w.
I
=Iles, George=, ed. Little masterpieces of autobiography. 6v. ea. **75c.
Doubleday.
This series comprises six handy pocket volumes of biography as
follows: Greatest Americans—Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall
and Lincoln; Soldiers and explorers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Roosevelt,
Stanley, Peary, and King; Men of science—Darwin, Huxley, Newcomb,
Geikie, Nasmyth, Bessemer, Edison, Acheson, Curie and Carnegie;
Writers—Longfellow, Poe, Tennyson, Burns, Scott, Hawthorne, Dickens,
Brontë, Eliot, Stevenson, and George; Artists and composers—Millet,
Breton, Story, Nasmyth, Stillman, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Gounod,
Grieg and Haydn; and Actors—Jefferson, Booth, Cushman, Morris, Irving,
H. B. Irving, Terry, Mansfield, Salvini, and Ristori; Letters,
passages from famous biographies, and pages from diaries enter largely
into the sketches.
=Inchbold, A. Cunnick (Mrs. Stanley Inchbold).= Lisbon and Cintra;
with some account of other cities and historical sites in
Portugal. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–21792.
An interesting, beautifully illustrated presentation of present day
Lisbon, Cintra and other Portuguese cities. The buildings, monuments
and ruins are seen in their historic settings, and linked with names
famous from medieval times; while the questions of modern development
and relative power of the cities are given due attention.
* * * * *
“As she avoids the temptation to gush, the tone of her book is
excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 287. Mr. 7. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 515. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
“Mrs. Inchbold’s descriptive style is easy and pleasant, and the
colored illustrations, by Stanley Inchbold, add to the artistic
attraction of the volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 130w.
“The travellers by proxy will find this an interesting book, with
charming coloured illustrations, giving them a vivid picture of a
country full of historical buildings of great beauty; and the
travellers in practice will learn of a hunting-ground full of promised
delights, or will be able to compare notes and impressions.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton.= Lead and zinc in the United States. *$4.
Hill pub. co.
8–18051.
Comprises an economic history of the mining and smelting of lead and
zinc and the conditions which have affected the development of the
industries. “It attempts not so much to stimulate an antiquarian
interest in the early discoveries and feeble attempts at exploitation
of the lead and zinc deposits of this country, as to direct attention
to the natural features, technical improvements and commercial issues
which have contributed to the development of the industry.” (Engin.
N.)
* * * * *
“The book, while seemingly compiled with some haste, is for the major
part clear, and contains so much pertinent cost data that it will
prove valuable for reference as well as for study.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 440w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott-.= Wulnoth the wanderer: a story of King
Alfred of England. †$1.50. McClurg.
The song of Gyso, the gleeman which saved from the oblivion of the
past the heroic deeds of Wulnoth the wanderer, has made possible this
drama of the Viking days. Here are immortalized the friendship of
Wulnoth for Gruthred; the wanderings, perils, and warrings and his
slaying of Hungwar, the Dane; the friendship with Alfred and Bretwalda
and his love for Edgiva; and his last fight with Jarl Edric.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Province of Burma: a report prepared on behalf
of the University of Chicago. (Colonial administration in the Far
East.) 2v. ea. *$12.50. Houghton.
7–31201.
These two volumes form the first instalment of Mr. Ireland’s report
which was undertaken for the University of Chicago, and which will
extend thru twelve volumes. A year of preliminary study in London, two
years of travel in the Orient, and three years given to the
examination of six thousand volumes, mostly official documents, have
been spent in preparation for the task. “The volumes contain masses of
information concerning every branch of the administration, even down
to the rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative
council” (Lond. Times) furnishing a basis of fair comparisons with
other governments.
* * * * *
“In reference libraries it must become a useful and indispensable
handbook in its field.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A most comprehensive and invaluable compendium.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 584. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Truly encyclopædic. Of much value to the student of colonial
administration.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 300w.
“The reader a little above the average will discover much to attract
him in the skilful collation of document and statistical abstract,
which, even in the absence of interpretative comment, tell more or
less of a story by themselves.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“The author has been highly successful in these two volumes in
amassing material on which he can base comments of permanent value.”
G: R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 1000w.
“The volumes on Burma promise thorough and painstaking editing for the
series.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 523. S. ’08. 1350w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 438. Ap. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“No one who has a serious interest in the great administrative
problems of empire can afford to be without access to such an imperial
encyclopaedia. We congratulate Mr. Ireland on an enterprise which bids
fair to rival the greatest feats of German research.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 302. F. 22, ’08. 1200w.
* =Irving, John.= Stories from the history of Oxfordshire. Oxford.
“Mr. Irving who is head master of a boys’ school at Oxford has made
thirty little stories out of the historical and legendary material of
a country rich in traditions. It is his purpose to stimulate the
child’s interest and imagination, and to lead him imperceptibly on to
desire a more substantial acquaintance with history.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Irving has achieved simplicity and lucidity to a laudable extent,
and his ‘Stories’ are interesting throughout.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 94. Jl. 25. 160w.
“Desirable book for children’s reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 90w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.= Lady of the Mount. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–5226.
Set in the northwestern part of France, this story is an illustration
of that struggle between métayers and inexorable nobles which entered
so largely into bringing on the French revolution. The Mount is a
stronghold of the government ruled by an unyielding lord who conceded
nothing to the people and pursued only the “set tenure of his way.”
The leader of the opposition is the son of a seigneur whom the
governor of the Mount had wronged and whose lands he had confiscated.
Thru all the strife of uprisings runs the thread of romance—the love
of the high-born lady of the Mount for her half-peasant hero.
* * * * *
“This is one of the best novels of its class that has appeared during
the present year.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ives, Howard Chapin.= Switches and turnouts. 50c. H. C. Ives,
Worcester, Mass.
“This study consists of three articles which originally appeared in
the ‘Journal of the Worcester polytechnic institute.’ The author calls
attention to the following points: First, the descriptions of the
different forms of switches and their effect on the lead; second, the
statements of practical conclusions to be found at various places in
the text; and third, the design of the slip switch, the mathematics of
which are believed to be original, not having been found elsewhere by
the author.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“While not developing any new theory, the arrangement of the material
is good and the mathematical treatment concise, so that it forms a
handy reference book to add to the railway engineer’s handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 80w.
J
=Jacob, Violet.= History of Aythan Waring. **$1.25. Dutton.
8–3675.
Two cousins love “a delightful young Diana of the uplands,” thereby
incurring for one of them the jealousy of a vindictive woman. “The
hero is found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to death. His
lady-love is a winsome creature, and his rival, the villain, is
remarkably human for a character of his type. Hester is a striking
figure; her delineation is a sombre study of the madness which may
arise from a woman’s jealousy.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The tale is leisurely melodrama, presented with more fidelity to
detail, and rather more logical sequence and characterization, than is
usual in this class of story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 130w.
“The characters are vaguely drawn; the dialogue is perfunctory and
bookish; the melodramatic plot is dawdling, lifeless, and absurd.”
− =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The book is somewhat above the average novel in style,
characterization, and vigor of treatment. Mrs. Jacob, however, falls
short in the most essential quality in fiction—the dramatic touch.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
“The story is very well told.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 70 w.
“Nevertheless, though its execution is not so good as its conception,
it is a fine story, thoughtful and imaginative. It is because Mrs.
Jacob writes so well that we expect her to write better.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 200w.
“It is characteristic of Mrs. Jacob’s method that she is able to
dispense with all the trappings and actualities and decorative
apparatus of modern society without in the least impairing the
intrinsic interest of her story.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 191. F. 1, ’08. 720w.
=Jacobi, Mary Putnam.= Stories and sketches (1860–1871). $1.50.
Putnam.
8–11830.
A collection of the writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi which are “partly a
memorial to the life of a talented woman, whose notable success as a
physician and whose personal influence are worthy to be remembered,
and partly a tribute to the intrinsic value of her few literary
productions. All of these stories, sketches, and essays, eight in
number, date previous to her graduation in 1871 from l’Ecole de
Médecine, for after that event she decided to concentrate her energies
upon her chosen scientific and professional work.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“They make interesting studies from the historical point of view.
Undoubted talent is exhibited in them, but they belong to another day;
and probably the author was wise in giving up literary work for the
scientific life to which she adhered subsequently.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 210w.
“Intent as she was on the scientific pursuits that were to be her life
work, she could yet write papers of such delicate wit, such incisive
expression, such clearness of thought and appreciation of the
picturesque as raises them quite above the level of the magazine
article for which purpose they served, and makes them as vividly
interesting now as at their first printing, thirty or forty years
ago.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 310w.
“In the stories and sketches the appeal is usually to the intellect
rather than to the emotions, and a striking feature of both these and
of the essays is the firm touch with which the author goes to the
heart of a character or a situation, and puts its essential feature
into terse, telling, and concrete form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 180w.
“A feeling for the supernatural, an appreciation of good style in
writing, and a pleasant play of imagination characterize the stories.
The book will be of especial value to the many friends of Dr. Jacobi.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Jacobs, Philip P.=, comp. Campaign against tuberculosis in the
United States, including a directory of institutions dealing with
tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. $1. Charities pub.
com.
8–27800.
This work, compiled by Mr. Philip P. Jacobs under the direction of the
national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is
a survey of the Anti-tuberculosis activity during the past ten years.
The book has been made possible thru the coöperation of the Russell
Sage foundation.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Salthaven. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–30011.
“A little seaport, a simple-minded captain, a pretty girl, a young man
full of assurance and ingenuity, a pert maidservant with her sailor
lover—we have met their like many a time in his pages, yet his story
is so good humored that it is impossible not to enjoy it.” (Sat. R.)
“The novel shows a keen appreciation of the conversational cruelties
of women of the lower middle class; and an officious captain who
contrives to be bedridden in the house of a couple returning from
their honeymoon is prodigiously amusing.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Jacobs is one of those happy men who can be as funny as they
please without detracting from the love-interest of their stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 110w.
“The author is here at his most characteristic. The growth of his
familiar episode into a book has not impaired its quality.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There are no thrills and no breathless passages, but it is thoroughly
restful and charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 240w.
“The sly turns, the badinage and chaff, the oddly conceived
situations, are all Jacobs at his best.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Jacobs has found no fresh ingredients for his latest dish, but
his skill in varying the old recipe is so great that we hardly notice
this until we have come to the end.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 130w.
“Another of Mr. Jacobs’s delightful stories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Jacobstein, Meyer.= Tobacco industry in the United States. *$1.50.
Longmans.
7–36149.
“Deals in a dispassionate way, yet clearly, with the facts of the
development of the tobacco trust which has of late been the subject of
such heated presentation and litigation. The book covers the whole
field from the first plantations in the colonies to the foreign trade
and the tobacco tax.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Jacobstein knows his subject and the monograph gives evidence of
much careful work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 130w.
“The author has covered a large field in a relatively small compass
but has done it in an eminently satisfactory manner, and has shown
both good judgment in his selection of facts and wise discrimination
in the emphasis he has given to the different parts of the subject.
Few readers of the work will be inclined to feel dissatisfied with the
completeness of the author’s statements or the reliability of his
conclusions. The monograph is written in an excellent style and proves
easy and interesting reading. Perhaps the only serious criticism of
the work from scientific standpoint is the lack of a bibliography.
Even the references in the footnotes are not abundant and apparently
do not include all the sources of information used by the author.” M.
B. Hammond.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 124. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant
Bibles compared. (Gould prize essays.) 2d ed. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–5163.
The scriptural controversy embodied in the Gould prize essays has
resulted in the demand for a justification of the positions assumed by
the authors. Such a justification is found in this second edition,
which, in addition to the original essays, also includes the sources
from which material has been drawn.
* * * * *
“The bibliography is a valuable piece of work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 228. Je. ’08.
“Extended notes and bibliographies add much to the value of the
papers.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The authors of the essays were somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of
facts which they were supposed to include in a brief popular
presentation of the subject, and their accounts are bewildering to the
reader who is not at home in the history of Biblical translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 78. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
“The work thus completed far outranks all others on the same subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 220w.
=James, George Wharton.= What the white race may learn from the
Indian. *$1.50. Forbes.
8–17541.
Out of the fulness of a varied experience with red men, Dr. James sets
down essentials of health and happiness which the Indian observes, and
by a study of which the white man may profit. The author rejects the
Indian’s shortcomings of slovenliness and dwells upon racial
characteristics that are manifested in the lives of the best men and
women and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions and
desires regarding physical, mental and religious development.
* * * * *
“His account of the life, labor, customs and mental attributes is
excellent. The book is valuable and could be read to advantage by all
whites.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“Many writers have treated of the Indian in a more or less interesting
manner, yet we know of no modern essayist who approaches Mr. James in
appealing at once to the artist, the utilitarian and the
humanitarian.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book is no mere apologetic essay in behalf of a wonderful people;
it is a characterization of qualities which have been largely
overlooked.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 400w.
“Both hygienically and ethically this book is profitable in the easy
chair, and those who would travel to meet ‘the call of the wild’ will
find direction in it.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=James, Henry.= Novels and tales of Henry James. 23v. $46. Scribner.
7–41582.
A collective and definitive edition of Henry James’s novels. “To each
volume the author contributes a preface, telling the circumstances
under which he composed the story, the purpose he had in view, the
difficulties under which he labored, and the final result as he now
views it after the lapse of many years.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The prefaces will be a delight to all Jamesians, even to many who
modestly disclaim such a title. To such a one these prefaces may be
interesting chiefly as helping on toward one’s conception of the novel
as a literary form.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 44: 174. Mr. 16, ’08. 2050w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“The same principles which Mr. James has discust in his other critical
writing now take on [in the prefaces] an unwonted intensity and
intimacy. They furnish the key to the whole admirable work he has
accomplished; and show it as a goodly structure, reared upon a
coherent plan.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“These prefaces ... are written, we regret to say, in Mr. James’s most
exasperating style. The sentences are clogged with qualifying clauses,
as if Mr. James’s readers had not sufficient intelligence and
imagination to perceive qualifications in the very frame of the phrase
and connotation of the words, but insisted that it all be put down to
the last syllable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The prefaces, in spite of the exasperating style, continue as
interesting as in the first volumes of the set.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“The preface, in which Mr. James criticises his own work, is somewhat
less interesting than earlier prefaces in this edition.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
=Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Nation.= 87: 115. Ag. 6, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“If a new quarto of ‘Hamlet’ should appear done over like the text of
‘The Americans’ the judicious scholiast would promptly declare that
stage directions had, as inextricably as inexplicably, got tangled up
with the text and helplessly corrupted it. Apparently the judicious
reader will consult his interest and his pleasure if he reads the new
preface very carefully, looks over the revised version for passages of
exposition and comment, and then recurs to the original text.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 13. Ja. 11, ’08. 3800w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“The most proportioned of his productions after ‘The ambassadors.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 111. F. 29, ’08. 1120w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 5 and
6.)
“One is glad to have the preface with the new edition, and to any
reader who does not yet know Mr. James’s works thoroughly we heartily
commend both.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 7
and 8.)
“To these books he has prefaced essays of very considerable length and
of characteristic thoroughness, which are really chapters in
autobiography.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=James, Henry.= Views and reviews; now first collected; with introd.
by Le Roy Phillips. $1.50. Ball pub.
8–16451.
There are included here a dozen of Mr. James’s essays which were
contributed to magazines during the sixties and seventies. They are as
follows: The novels of George Eliot, On the drama of Robert Browning,
Swinburne’s essays, The poetry of William Morris, Matthew Arnold’s
essays, Mr. Walt Whitman, The poetry of George Eliot, The limitations
of Dickens, Tennyson’s drama, Contemporary notes on Whistler vs.
Ruskin, A note on John Burroughs and Mr. Kipling’s early stories. Mr.
Phillips says: “A true lover of Mr. James’s work feels the same
delightful sense of intimate discovery in touching these early papers
that an artist does in finding a portfolio of early sketches by a
beloved master.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 120w.
“These miscellaneous articles by Mr. James have a real interest, often
from the topics, still alive after two decades; always for the sake of
their accurate thought and penetrating judgments.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Le Roy Phillips has done something which will give every reader
of Henry James a distinct pleasure in collecting these early papers.
The clarity of the views, the justice of the criticisms evident in
these pages on writers long since become classical, are surprising.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 385. Jl. 11, ’08. 670w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. 18, ’08. 270w.
=James, R. A. Scott-.= Modernism and romance. *$2.50. Lane.
8–17229.
“Intended to form a continuous argument; and various authors and books
are selected ‘as examples of certain intellectual or emotional forces
which are working in our midst and are moulding the psychical organism
of society.’ There are sixteen chapters with such captions as ‘Science
and vandalism,’ ‘The decadents,’ ‘The apostles of protest,’ and ‘The
new romance.’ In each chapter he discusses representative authors;
thus under ‘The fugitives’ he writes of Lafcadio Hearn, Miss Edith
Durham, Pierre Loti, and Jack London; under ‘The self-conscious poet,’
of Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Stephen Phillips, and Mr. John
Davidson.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The individual essays in the book are bright as well as thoughtful,
although one must often differ from the writer’s opinions, literary or
other. Judging the volume as a whole, we must feel, despite the many
meritorious parts and frequency of suggestive or even stimulating
passages, that the author has not achieved the unity and
comprehensiveness for which the title and introduction led us to
hope.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Is made up of rambling essays, light in their quality in spite of the
formal introduction, and all readable enough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 840w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Pendleton twins. il. $1.25. West. Meth. bk.
In this Pendleton book the twins occupy the center of the stage. Their
frolics and thrilling adventure furnish for the young reader wholesome
excitement.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author understands child nature, and in the midst of fun and
mischief keeps a steady view of the inherent honor to be found in
well-brought-up children.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
=v. 6. Davies, William T.=, ed. Bradford’s history of Plymouth
plantation. 1606–1646.
After an eventful career the manuscript of which this volume is a
reprint was deposited in the Massachusetts state library where it is
protected by a fire-proof safe but daily exhibited under glass to
visitors. It is the only extant history of the Plymouth colony’s early
years. It tells of reformation and persecution in England, plans for
removal, the voyage of the Mayflower, the growth of the colony,
troubles with England, the policies of governors, the growth of the
Salem church, beside numerous details of struggle and progress.
* * * * *
“Accepting ‘Narratives of early Virginia’ as it stands, too high
praise cannot be given the splendid editorial work which has been
done.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 909. Jl. ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volume contains an admirable index.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 621. N. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“Mr. Davis has performed his editorial functions with good judgment
and without prejudice, and has kept his comments refreshingly free
from the incense of ancestor worship.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The editor has given the text a rather more liberal annotation than
has been customary in this series of reprints, and has prefaced it
with an excellent biographical and historical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“An excellent reprint.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Jeanrenaud, Henriette.= Duke of Brittany; tr. from the German by G:
P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23710.
The story of the brief career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet
and Constance of Brittany. It records the events of Arthur’s youth,
the death of the father, the relations of his mother to Philip of
France, the boy’s love for his uncle Richard, his service in the field
with Philip, his betrothal to Marie of France, the war with John, and
his capture and assassination.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Mathematical theory of electricity and
magnetism. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–14346.
An elementary text book for the student and physicist, aiming to cover
the mathematical theory of a range of electro-magnetism, the
understanding of which is necessary before proceeding to the study of
special branches or developments of the subject. The work is more
elementary than Maxwell’s treatise.
* * * * *
“We feel that in a treatise which is designed to guide students so far
it would have been advantageous to insert more references to the
authorities on parts of the subject for which space could not be
found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 640w.
“The most important book in the field of physics of the year—or of
many a year.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 315. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
“In a few places there are slips which can hardly be assigned to the
printer. The type of reader for whom the book is best adapted is the
student preparing for a mathematical examination, such as the
Cambridge tripos, in which theory plays the principal part. It should
also, however, prove a good book of reference to the physicist of
superior mathematical attainments. For either of these types of
readers it seems likely to be a really useful book, so far as its
scope extends.” C. Chree.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 537. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
=Jebb, Camilla.= Star of the salons: Julie de Lespinasse. (Memoir
ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–16930.
While the author scarcely lays bare the secrets of Mlle. Julie de
Lespinasse’s success as a salonist, she does reveal the fascination of
her personality, the intellectual charm which cast its spell over men
of ambition and genius, and the piquant sorrow of her love first for
the dying Marquis de Mora, and then the Comte de Guibert. “The four
great scenes in French society are first depicted in a vivid,
entertaining manner, and then Julie de Lespinasse is portrayed among
them—an incarnation of the gloom, passion, and heroism hidden beneath
the gay, untroubled surface of life in her age.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 503. Ap. 25. 970w.
“The chief feature of interest in this new biography ... is the minute
study it contains of the times in which she lived.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Is in substance an informal ‘doing into English’ of the biography,
already officially translated, of M. de Segur. It makes, however, with
its twenty illustrations, a fresh and delightful contribution to the
subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“The writer is less engaged in the hunt for scandal than is usual in
works of this kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Jebb uses the material discovered by M. de Ségur, but refashions
it, with feminine wit and love, into a different effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“It is a sincere, sympathetic, cultivated and even learned biography.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 506. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Jebb, Caroline Lane.= Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse
Jebb, by his wife Caroline Jebb; with a chapter on Sir Richard
Jebb as scholar and critic, by Dr. A. W. Verrall. $3. Putnam.
8–3928.
So far as the biographical portion is concerned it is an informing
revelation of the influences brought to bear upon rare birthright
ability to produce a profound scholar, teacher, and man of the world
in the best sense of the trite expression. His letters “are long and
numerous, and are gracefully written, vivid, self-revelatory to a
sufficient degree to give them a strong personal flavor, and full of
brilliant comment upon people and literature.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 189. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 645. N. 23. 2150w.
“His wife has performed her task as editor with most commendable tact
and cleverness, giving enough, even of his letters to her, to show
what manner of man he was, and yet never overstepping due bounds.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 330w.
“Written with taste and discretion, free alike from fatuous English
and sentimentalism. But, apart from Dr. Verrall’s admirable chapter,
she and her helpers have hardly paid attention enough to the scholarly
side of the subject. Further she has not attempted any distinct
portrait of the man.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 609. N. 16, ’07. 1450w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Character of Jesus. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–24445.
Dr. Jefferson, of the Broadway tabernacle, discusses Jesus, the man,
as seen by contemporary friends and enemies. The studies include such
phases of Jesus’ character as strength, sincerity, reasonableness,
poise, originality, narrowness, breadth, trust, brotherliness,
optimism, chivalry, firmness, generosity, candor, enthusiasm,
gladness, humility, patience, courage, indignation, reverence,
holiness and greatness.
* * * * *
“The preacher’s attitude is one of healthful devotion, and is not
marred either by polemical conservatism on the one hand or by barren
criticism on the other.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 367. N. ’08. 60w.
“Among the almost countless host of books on the life of Jesus Christ
this volume has a place by itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Colour in the flower garden. *$3.75. Scribner.
W8–153.
A fully illustrated volume based upon extensive knowledge, wide
experience and good taste. The author shows how successfully a garden
“may make a picture, or a succession of pictures”; she believes “that
color and massing are as important to the gardener as to the artist.”
“Of course, it may be said that this is gardening in excelsis. Still,
it supplies an ideal; and we are the better for having an ideal,
whether we can reach it or not.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The book may be thoroughly recommended to amateur gardeners, while
even professionals may obtain from it much useful information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 274. S. 5. 500w.
“Everyone with a trace of gardening instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll’s
book, and those who work under anything like the same conditions will
find it very helpful.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 460w.
“The volume is worthy of the highest praise from all points of view.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 210w.
“The photographs are charming, and, studied in conjunction with the
plans, instructive; but there is considerable repetition in the
letterpress.” A. M. Cecil.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 500w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 626. Ap. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Photography for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–18279.
A book for beginners which describes the use of the camera, chemicals
and processes, and gives definite instruction on all points of picture
taking and making. There are chapters also on the history and
chemistry of photography.
* * * * *
“In his effort to be clear and explicit the author is very verbose,
and the book could have been condensed to advantage.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 273. N. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“A great deal of valuable information and practical advice are
contained in Tudor Jenks’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Four philanthropists: a clever satire. 75c. Cupples
& L.
With London for a setting this story with many a shrewd scoundrel
tells, in the main, how three men started a society to do away with
philanthropists. A girl of seventeen is the fourth philanthropist and
heroine-in-general, who makes a sure target of the hearts of the other
three in her innocent arrow practice.
* * * * *
“Frankly, it is not up to his standard, and has nothing of the
romantic interest which he got out of his stories in earlier days.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 90w.
“The narrative is well-sustained, and, with its avoidance of mere
facetiousness, is a bit of agreeable fooling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tangled wedlock. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8097.
A group of sponging artistic and literary freaks of Bohemia form the
background of this tale which places well to the fore the self-reliant
daughter of one of “The circle” and her lover, a sculptor, who
together strike some well-aimed blows at the lotus-eating elect of
their Bohemia. The crisp, refreshing methods of the eccentric heroine
in dealing with the butcher’s boy who kicked a cat, with her mother’s
finances, with the subject of model-posing, and with marriage itself
place her in an original class. The unconventional plot with its
tangle of marriages is full of novel construction.
* * * * *
“The pages are enriched with some fine touches of involuntary humor;
but on the whole, recalling the dictum that easy writing makes hard
reading, one is led to the conclusion that ‘Tangled wedlock’ must have
flowed lightly from a facile pen.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“The ill-chosen title does not prepare us for this very readable and
well-written novel. The work is finely tempered, the style one of
commendable clarity, and the whole is pervaded by humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The satire lacks subtlety, and the psychological analysis with which
the other writers have added value to their chaff is wanting.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 50w.
“His work is a triumph of manner, and after reading his story it is by
the way he has handled his subject rather than by the subject itself
that one is impressed.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 52. Je. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Jerningham, Sir Hubert Edward Henry.= From West to East, notes by
the way. *$4. Dutton.
7–42345.
Although no portion of Sir Hubert’s travels from Paris to Japan and
Manchuria is left unrecorded the interest centers in his impressions
of Japan and the scenes of the late war. “The greater part of the
volume, therefore, is devoted to an account of the Japanese
experiences. These included interviews with several noted men, among
others Admiral Togo and Marquis Ito. The government gave him
permission to go to Mukden and Port Arthur, the battles and siege of
which places are described with much detail.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Sir Hubert writes pleasantly always, if without great literary
distinction; he has observed sensibly, and all men of intelligence
must be interested in the chatty record of his observations.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 161. F. 16, ’07. 450w.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 700w.
“A reading of this book leads one to look upon the author’s report of
his six months’ journeying as a sort of ‘disjecta membra,’ written by
a man who is capable of more valuable and entertaining writing than is
contained in the present volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 41: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The work is quite superficial ... [though] free from the faults of
the books of the majority of globe-trotters, frequently suggestive,
and entertaining from beginning to end.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 600w.
“It is difficult to see the ‘raison d’être’ of the book, except the
pleasure which the author evidently had in writing it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 230w.
“The author’s descriptions are always gracefully written and are often
enthusiastic enough to be vivid, but they reveal only a mind of rather
commonplace order. Sometimes his observation was too hasty to be
accurate and his generalizations more picturesque than true.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“[There are] some vivid descriptions of visits to battlefields of the
Russo-Japanese war, and some incisive, picturesquely put opinions of
Japanese national policies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 80w.
“An interesting and well-informed diary. The best part of the book is
that dealing with the scenes of Japan’s great struggle with Russia
from Port Arthur to Mukden.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 180. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.= Highways and byways in Kent; il. by Hugh
Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
8–11802.
Guide book haste is eliminated from these pages which are intended for
the sojourner rather than the lightning tourist. “Mr. Jerrold writes
but little description—barely enough to keep before the reader’s eye a
vague vision of the appearance of the country, but he peoples every
road and field, every village and historic relic with an impressive
company of spirits, the men and women who have made twenty centuries
of history, the figures of legend and tradition, and the characters of
history.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book is pleasantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“Some of his illustrations suffer from undue haste. Notwithstanding
criticisms, the general charm of the drawings prevails over any
possible defects in a few cases. There is a good deal of pleasantly
written and slightly informing matter throughout these pages, and
certainly the writer takes some pains to relieve them from possible
dullness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 34. Ja. 11. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“An exhaustive and informing volume.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Treated with fulness and fine reminiscent flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Jerrold seems to know, with both love and knowledge, every foot
of the ground and all its literary and historic associations. The
illustrations show a quality in the treatment of picturesque corners
and a skill in the suggestion of space and distance comparable with
those of Joseph Pennell, although worked out with much more attention
to detail than is usual with that artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Thomson’s figures are specially delightful; never careless and
always in the right place, they in no case mar the general effect, as
too often foreground figures will.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 45. Ja. 11, ’08. 1250w.
“A book which at any rate will stand for long as the best ‘hors
d’œuvre’ to the Kentish banquet.... Mr. Jerrold is staid enough, and
though never startling in epithet or enthusiasm, is a very agreeable
cicerone. Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator, is very unequal. When he
is not good, he is almost bad; but when he is good, he is very good
indeed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 470w.
=Jevons, Frank Byron.= An introduction to the study of comparative
religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the
world.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
The author treats his subject from the standpoint of the missionary in
foreign countries, who must understand other religions besides
Christianity in order to establish common ground for the basis of
operation. The subjects treated are immortality, magic, fetichism,
prayer, sacrifice, morality and Christianity. Bibliography and index.
=Jewett, Sophie (Ellen Burroughs, pseud.).= Pearl; a middle English
poem; a modern version in the metre of the original. **$1.
Crowell.
An accurate and melodious modern version of a middle English poem.
* * * * *
“A translation whose fidelity is instinctive, grace answering to
grace. It is not too much to say that Miss Jewett’s translation crowns
the series.” K. L. Bates.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 450. D. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Sport of birdstudy: a book for young or
active people. *$2. Outing pub.
8–17737.
Designed for beginners in bird study, and tells how to become
acquainted with the birds of any ordinary country town, how to go
about the sport and what the results are likely to be. The book is
profusely illustrated and “besides being an accurate piece of
scientific work, forms a bird-census of a region never before
investigated or written up.”
* * * * *
“Although written for adult readers, will be enjoyed by many young
people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Job will do well to see that hereafter his fine pictures are not
stultified by this pointless use of his text.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 605. Ag. ’08. 1000w.
“Deserves most commendation because it shows boys in story form how
much pleasure and sport may be found in studying birds in any ordinary
country place.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“It is quite devoid of unwholesome sentimentality, and yet shows for
the bird world as loving sympathy as man can well have with the lower
species.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A book to delight the average healthy-minded boy, and one to create
an interest in a fascinating form of recreation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Johnson, Allen.= Stephen A. Douglas: a study in American politics.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
8–11832.
An interpretation of Douglas’s personality as a representative figure
in the controversies that preceded the civil war, covering carefully
the circumstances that shaped him into the “natural spokesman of the
conservative slaveholding democracy and filled him with the ideas of
expansion and local control out of which popular sovereignty was to
grow.”
* * * * *
“Admirable both as a biography and as a contribution to American
history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08. ✠
“The very limitation of the subject has led to omissions that prevent
the study from being a complete picture of Douglas. The description of
the politician, however, is very satisfactory.” C. W. Alvord.
+ =Dial.= 45: 211. O. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“He has given us a brilliant and well-balanced biography. To a notable
degree he has succeeded in portraying a man moving in his
environment.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“A careful and animated account of a vehement and stormy career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“On the whole, Professor Johnson has made good his sub-title, for he
has produced ‘a study in American politics’ that has all the life and
realism of a moving picture in which Douglas is the most conspicuous
figure.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“His style is clear and pleasant, and he quotes so freely from his
authorities, naming them so numerously, that his book will be one of
authority.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 700w.
“Well constructed, well written, and eminently sensible.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 859. Ag. 15, ’08. 970w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 475. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
=Johnson, Alvin Saunders.= Introductory economics. $1.50. School of
liberal arts and sciences for non residents, N. Y.
8–9770.
“In the main Dr. Johnson has written a series of studies illustrating
the operation of the two economic principles of diminishing utility
and diminishing returns with some additional chapters on general
economic subjects such as money, financial institutions, international
trade, etc. The volume does not claim to be a general text-book on the
whole field of economics. Its aim is rather to reach the lay public
than the student body, for the author believes that, ‘in a democratic
state economic science should be for the many, not for the few.’”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“By those economists who hold the productivity theory of distribution,
this book can merit naught but praise. It is a clear, logical
presentation written in terse English. To that growing group of
economists, however, who have broken from the Clark idea of marginal
productivity and adhere to the price or exchange theory, the book
offers little of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 200w.
“In point of scholarship leaves nothing to be desired. Unfortunately
the mechanical execution of the volume is not all that is should be.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Assuming that there is a real need for a book of this character—which
some of us will consider questionable—the one before us must be
accounted to have met that need very successfully. The style is simple
and effective; the illustrations happy; the tone moderate and candid.
The peculiar doctrines of the school represented are so diluted by
qualifications or contradictions that their objectionableness is much
diminished; while the treatment is so concrete as to give an air of
complete reality to a body of doctrine which is, to say the least,
somewhat transcendental.” F. M. Taylor.
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 459. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“If any criticism is to be passed upon his work it is that it is
confessedly eclectic rather than hewn from a single quarry. The
absence of an index is inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“If the other books in this series succeed as well as this one in
popularizing modern learning the School of liberal arts will have
accomplished much for the education of a large number of Americans who
are now deprived of such advantages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 240w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Elm-tree fairy book. †$1.50. Little.
A third collection of Mr. Johnson’s versions of wonder tales. It
follows the plans of his two previous volumes. He retains the charm,
goodness and interest of the old classics but cleanses them of lies,
cruelties, bloodshed and suffering.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“The illustrations are decorative in arrangement, but the characters
are rather gross in type.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Pacific coast.
(American highways and byways ser.) **$2. Macmillan.
8–26885.
A book of leisurely tourist jaunts over mountain trails, into rural
byways, among mountain foothills, and thru farming regions of the
Pacific coast country. Emphasis is placed upon typical and picturesque
country life. At the end of each chapter are to be found notes
containing suggestions for prospective travelers.
* * * * *
“A more readable book of travel is not often published.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Besides a book written primarily to entertain, Mr. Johnson has
brought together here so much practical information in regard to the
places which he has visited that his work should prove to be of value
to those contemplating a trip on the western coast of the United
States.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Johnson, Henry.= Life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F. R. G. S.,
modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia; based on his
journals and letters. *$5. Dutton.
8–15733.
Captain Wiggins, the Hudson of the Northeastern seas, was the
discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia. From extracts and
journals the story is told of his years of seafaring life and his
thirty years of struggle and hardship to open a highway thru the
Arctic seas, and of his dying without its establishment.
* * * * *
“A deeply interesting volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 1200w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“The book is well written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“A spirited story of the undertaking.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1058. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Johnson, Herrick.= Ideal ministry. **$1.75. Revell.
8–16404.
Ideal ministry as here set forth “merely brings home to conscience the
responsibility attaching to the individual sinners, and the offer of a
salvation obtained for each by the cross of Christ as an expiation for
their guilt.” (Outlook.) “We may specially mention what seems to us a
very sensible summary of the respective advantages of the extempore
and the written discourse, and of the _memoriter_ method.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“His sage counsels are distinguished by rugged common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“That the ideal ministry must be based on the theology of
seventeenth-century Presbyterians, as Dr. Johnson insists, none
disputes more incisively than his fellow-presbyter, Dr. Carter, in his
recent book, ‘Wanted—a theology.’ Nor will the ideal ministry draw Dr.
Johnson’s line between sacred and ‘merely secular’ topics, to exclude
the latter from the pulpit. All real interests in God’s world, however
secular, have a sacred side. But, while open to these criticisms, this
volume is, as the work of an acknowledged master should be, a valuable
addition to the cultural apparatus of preachers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Much that he says will be found of value. And all through there is
manifest a most earnest spirit, and a desire to give his readers or
hearers of his very best. We should like to have had a much fuller
bibliography.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 595. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Johnson, Robert Underwood.= Poems. 2d ed. **$1.20. Century.
8–16592.
Includes poems formerly published under the titles, “The winter hour,”
and “Songs of liberty,” also two new groups of poems under the
headings “Italian rhapsody, and other poems” and “Moments of Italy,
and other poems.” “Who longs for music merely longs for love” suggests
the characteristic philosophy of the poet in abstracting absolute
qualities of resemblance and presenting them on the plane of the
ideal.
* * * * *
“Gracefulness and facility are the dominating qualities of Mr.
Johnson’s verse, together with a sense of technique, and skill in the
using of it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 265. S. 5. 300w.
“This is clearly a case in which the effect of the whole is greater
than the sum of the effects produced by the several parts. For one
thing, the collective volume shows us the surprising breadth of the
poet’s range.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Johnston, Charles H. L.= Famous cavalry leaders. $1.50. Page.
8–22309.
Accounts of the forced marches, dashing raids and glorious charges of
fifteen heroes of sabre, spur and saddle: Attila, Saladin, Genghis
Khan, Chevalier Bayard, Count Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, Prince
Rupert, Old father Ziethen, Frederick William Baron von Seydlitz,
Francis Marion, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan
and George Armstrong Custer.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 70w.
“It is a historical book and a good one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 60w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Lewis Rand. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23560.
An historical novel set in the administration of Jefferson. Federalist
and democrat-republican are pitted against each other in political
combat. The hero, Lewis Rand, is a republican; his rival in love and
politics, a federalist. Rand, self-made, a protegé of Jefferson, is on
the way to fame when he is tempted by Burr to join the latter in his
mad and treasonable enterprise of setting up an empire beyond the
Alleghanies. The tragedy of Rand’s temptation and fall is powerfully
portrayed, intermingled with the gentleness and devotion of the
wonderful Jaqueline.
* * * * *
“The story is in marked advance of Miss Johnston’s earlier ones.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“An historical novel extending over 450 closely printed pages subjects
the reader’s patience to an unduly severe test, and we cannot say that
the interest is always maintained; but the charm of Miss Johnston’s
writing makes amends for much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 130w.
“A well imagined and strongly told tale, within the limitations laid
down by the conventions of this particular kind of story telling.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 430w.
“The tragedy of Rand’s life is cleverly worked out; though he
occasionally indulges in a display of sentimentality that scarcely
fits the strong man’s character and tediously delays the march of the
action.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 259. N. ’08. 470w.
“The story is a strong one, richly furnished forth with the
accessories of historical fact and of the manners of Virginians a
century ago. It provides a vivid presentation of a deeply interesting
period in our national annals, and it throbs with a very real life,
albeit a life romantically tinged.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Made notable by a sudden maturing of its author’s power to portray
the depths of character.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The book is, we think, a piece of permanent literature and must rank
as one of the finest novels of its class which have appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24. ’08. 380w.
“The story is notable for a deepening of thought and maturity of
analysis that are almost startling in comparison with its
predecessors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 530w.
“One of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day
in America.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“This story marks a decided advance in Miss Johnston’s power and art.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 340w.
“Some of the customs of the time, notably the method of viva voce
voting, are well described.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 70w.
“Will add to her reputation as a serious novelist both by the interest
of the plot and by the excellence of the character-drawing.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Johnston, Reginald Fleming.= From Peking to Mandalay: a journey
from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan.
*$5. Dutton.
8–34209.
“Mr. Johnston is a district officer and magistrate at Wei-hai-wei. The
journey he describes was a result of a long-felt desire to see the
various tribes subject to China which inhabit the wild regions of
Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. He went neither as a sportsman
nor a political agent, but as a scholar—an adventurous scholar, which,
we may add, is a very admirable character. Boldness is generally
rewarded and Mr. Johnston met with no ill-treatment or even
discourtesy in districts supposed to be the most ‘anti-foreign’ in the
Empire.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, his work is the most important of its kind that has
come under our notice for some years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 721. Je. 13. 1750w.
“There is a great deal of matter in his book that will interest
geographers, ethnologists, and religionists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
“We cannot profess always to agree with his conclusions, but there is
not a page on which he does not earn our respect. Such a work may
safely be included among the small number of books of travel which are
important.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1350w.
=Joly, Henri L.= Legend in Japanese art. il. *$25. Lane.
8–15873.
A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore,
myths, religious symbols and of historical and fabulous personages and
incidents illustrated in the arts of old Japan. The book contains over
seven hundred half-tone illustrations and sixteen full-page color
prints.
* * * * *
“We commend with confidence this sumptuous treasury of research, not
only to British collectors, who are sometimes reproached with
appraising their ‘curios’ at a purely commercial value, but also to
more disinterested lovers of art and legend, who will find in it many
golden keys to the genius and spiritual wealth of Japan.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 261. D. 21, ’07. 2500w.
“The work is indispensable to collectors, who will find in it ample,
and on the whole accurate, explanations of the subjects of Japanese
art, without which no real comprehension of the merits of an example
is possible.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 168. F. 8. 450w.
“Far transcends anything heretofore available for reference. In the
main it is accurate, the errors being few and of minor importance.” F:
W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 211. Ap. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“The enormous amount of matter collected together in the volume bears
testimony to the indefatigable zeal with which the author has attacked
his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 200w.
“This handsome and interesting book will no doubt be as welcome to
collectors of various forms of Japanese art as to the general reader,
who will find it excellent entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Jones, Francis Arthur.= Thomas Alva Edison: sixty years of an
inventor’s life. il. **$2. Crowell.
8–4377.
A book for every library. It is not alone valuable for its history of
the great inventor’s achievements in electricity but for its
illustration of the fact that inventing may be learned, if only the
creative germ is fostered that lies hidden in most brains. We have
Edison at fourteen a shock-headed “news butcher,” newspaper editor and
chemical experimenter—all on train-board; at eighteen, “tramp”
telegraph operator; at two and twenty an inventor, selling his
stock-ticker for forty thousand dollars. Then follow one after another
inventions that have astonished the world. Besides his scientific
successes, Edison, the man, is portrayed as intensely human.
* * * * *
“A really fascinating biography which makes no pretence to distinctive
literary style but tells the story of the man and the inventor with
simplicity, enthusiasm, and sincerity.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08. ✠
“One of the most valuable biographical sketches of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 730. Je. ’08. 470w.
“With young men possessed of some love of science, fondness for
machinery, a taste for experimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive
genius, the book is sure to be a favorite; as a finger-post pointing
the way to success for brains and energy, it ought to exert a good
influence; and its attractiveness to the lover of biography is beyond
dispute.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 126. Mr. 1, ’08. 1750w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 315. Mr. ’08. 40w.
“Is written quite agreeably and sympathetically.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 514. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“It is regrettable that the many interesting passages should be so
promiscuously peppered with inaccurate and misleading technical
matter.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 450w.
“The value of the book is limited by the fact that his attitude is
entirely uncritical.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 868. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The literary critic and the scientific man, however, will not regard
it as a finished piece of work, since it reads too much like a series
of newspaper articles, or contributions to ten-cent magazines. But the
results detailed in Mr. Jones’s biography are immensely impressive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“It would be a capital book to place in the hands of schoolboys.” G.
H. Bryan.
+ =Nature.= 78: 122. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“They who care to watch the wheels of progress go around will like
this record of the wizard and his spells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A most human picture of the man himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“We should say that this was in every way an attractive and very
likely an inspiring book to put in a boy’s hands, while in its
literary character it is perfectly well suited for older readers
also.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Jones has made the most of his materials, and the result is a
volume of captivating and unusual interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“It is a very human and vivid picture of an energetic boyhood, and a
very stimulating one too; for if he had ideal parents, and especially
that type of mother which all great men must have, his boyhood
reflects credit on the man himself. We should like to have heard more
about them; it is our only disappointment on putting down this
fascinating book, which will please both the scientific enthusiast and
the student of character.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
=Jones, H. Stuart.= Roman empire. (Story of the nations, v. 75.)
$1.50. Putnam.
8–22316.
For the professional student as well as the lay reader of Roman
history. The author aims “to present in a graphic narrative the
picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes of Roman history in
their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal
history.”
* * * * *
“He seems to us wanting in boldness of omission, if we may use such a
phrase.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 260. S. 5. 920w.
“A work of great value in itself, and of rare promise for the future.”
W. A. Goligher.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 541. Jl. ’08. 740w.
“Probably no more competent writer could be found to tell the story of
the Roman empire than Stuart Jones.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Stuart Jones has done a very great feat.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 950w.
“A very warm commendation of his book to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 640w.
=Jones, Rev. John Peter.= India, its life and thought. **$2.50.
Macmillan. 8–30291.
Observations and experiences recorded out of thirty years of
missionary life in India. Themes which the author discusses are
India’s growing unrest, due to the dawning consciousness of strength,
India’s many faiths, the Hindu caste system, the gita, popular
Hinduism, pessimism, modern religious movement and the progress of
Christianity in India.
=Jones, Llewellyn A. A., and Bellot, Hugh H. L.= Commerce in war.
*$6. Appleton.
8–8473.
A book providing a full exposition of the rules of international law
which govern the commercial relations of neutral and belligerent
states. Its value is enhanced by its full quotation from treaties,
ordinances, and judgments bearing on subjects of contraband, blockade,
continuous voyage, carriage of property at sea, right and formality of
search, capture and condemnation, recapture and rescue.
* * * * *
“The treatment of the subject is extremely practical.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 1000w.
“Mr. Atherley-Jones has given his views on certain well-known
decisions and executive orders with trenchant vigour.” T. Raleigh.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 389. Ap. ’07. 150w.
“It is the fruit of great industry. Some parts of the subject, notably
contraband, have been examined with much care. The exposition is
generally clear and accurate. There are copious citations from
judgments and treaties which make the book useful to those whose
library of international law is small. It is the critical side of the
volume which is the weakest.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 19. Ja. 18, ’07. 800w.
“Such an exposition cannot fail to prove useful—as the author hopes—to
the lawyer, the shipowner and shipper; to diplomatists and consuls:
but it will also contribute to the advancement of the freedom of
commerce in war.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“On all the rules of international law under these headings, governing
the commercial relations of the subjects of neutral and belligerent
states, Mr. Atherley-Jones’s book is a treasure-house of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have examined the digest it seems carefully and lucidly
framed, and the book should fulfil the authors’ desires and make an
excellent manual of practice.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
* =Jones, Plummer Flippen.= Shamrock-land: a ramble through Ireland.
**$2. Moffat.
8–33798.
“A good general description in a running, happy-go-lucky way, of
Ireland as it is at the present time, with a lot of good pictures.”
(R. of Rs.) “In seeking places of interest and scenes of beauty, of
course the author visited Lissoy (now better known as Auburn,
Goldsmith’s Deserted village), the Lakes of Killarney, Blarney castle,
the Giant’s causeway, the Golden vale of Tipperary, and other inviting
districts.... There is much more of the sunshine of the Celtic
temperament than of its occasional gloom in this study of Pat and his
Emerald Isle.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Has just enough of historical and statistical information to be
useful without being tiresome, and a wealth of personal observation
and experience that make excellent reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“The photographs illustrating the book are excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Jones not only knows Ireland, but loves it, and writes with
enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 758. D. ’08. 90w.
=Jones, Thomas S.= From quiet valleys; poems. $1.25. G. W. Browning,
Clinton, N. Y.
7–38615.
A book of graceful verse, which borrows its peace-loving themes from
nature.
* * * * *
“Mr. Jones is a poet of nature, and has felt the soothing ministries
of woods and fields and skies. His verse, moreover, is freighted with
enough of imagination to be truly significant of the life of the
spirit.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Aspects and seasons of nature most inspire his volume and fill it
with a kind of transparent violet shadow.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
=Jonson, Ben.= New inn; or, The light heart; ed. with introd.,
notes, and glossary by George Bremner Tennant. (Yale studies in
English, 34.) *$2.50. Holt.
8–12456.
“The justification for this edition is the text, which has been
carefully prepared from the earliest editions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The introduction is for the most part a perfunctory discussion of
previous discussion, and quite without edification. The notes on the
text, although they exhibit much industry, are needlessly copious.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 192. Ag. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Jordan, David Starr=, ed. California earthquake of 1906. *$3.50.
Robertson.
7–42337.
Contains eight separate articles each of which discusses the subject
from a different viewpoint. “The general scientific or, more properly,
geological matters, are treated by President Jordan, Prof. J. C.
Branner, G. K. Gilbert, and Dr. H. W. Fairbanks; the more strictly
seismological aspects by Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial earthquake
investigation committee of Japan; the engineering and architectural
lessons, by Prof. Charles Derleth, jr., certain local details by
Stephen Taber; and the human side of the sudden calamity, by Mrs. Mary
Austin.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“While written from the scientific point of view, they are invested
with a good degree of popular interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Both scientific and non-scientific readers will find much to interest
them in it.” H. H.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 584. S. ’08. 90w.
“They afford an interesting account of the catastrophe; but the
advantage of presentation from different points of view is offset in
part by the unavoidable repetitions incident to a compilation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“This is a collection of nine well-written essays, which, as might be
expected, more or less overlap in their subject-matter.” J. Milne.
+ =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Mrs. Austin’s contribution is the vivid, human picture of an
eye-witness of the catastrophe.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“These essays and descriptive papers give perhaps as well as writings
can give a clear, comprehensive, and accurate view of the great
earthquake and its associated phenomena.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Fishes. (American nature series.) il. **$6.
Holt.
7–42325.
Less for technical students of ichthyology than for nature lovers and
anglers this volume contains practically all of the non-technical
material included in Dr. Jordan’s “Guide to the study of fishes.” The
fishes used as food and those of special interest to anglers in
America receive full attention while both existing and extinct
families of fishes are treated in proportion to their importance. The
volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains approximately seven
hundred illustrations.
* * * * *
“As the contraction has been effected by means of the scissors and
practically no change has been made in the text the connections are
not always smooth.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“The author’s wide knowledge of this group of animals, his
comprehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, lucid, often
humorous presentation of his subject, and the superb selection of
illustrations, all combine to make this by far the most readable and
interesting popular natural history of fishes which has as yet been
published.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Presents contradictory and disappointing features.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a better book on the subject, for Mr.
Jordan possesses the exact knowledge and infinite patience of the
scientific mind with the sympathy and imagination of the great
teacher, so that he not only knows his subject, but he also knows how
to awaken keen interest and understanding in his readers. There is
thus a vital quality to his book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Jordan has aimed to make this volume interesting to nature-lovers
and anglers and instructive to all.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
* =Jordan, Edwin Oakes.= Text-book of general bacteriology. *$3.
Saunders.
“This book is intended to give a bird’s-eye view of the entire field
of bacteriology and, although necessarily largely medical in its
scope, it includes also references to the various applications of
bacteriology to the arts and industries. Although treating the subject
in this general way, it cannot be considered as an elementary book. It
is rather a sort of bacteriological Baedeker in which the reader will
find references to guide him in whatever direction his interest lies.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“The author’s style is clear and pleasing, and the arrangement of the
subject matter is excellent, the frequent side-headings and the very
complete index making reference easy. Engineers may find the work
somewhat limited on its sanitary side. Throughout the book the more
theoretical aspects of bacteriology are, if anything, treated better
than the practical applications.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
“Some of it is a little special for a general reader quite unfamiliar
with the subject, but much of the book is easy and pleasant reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 440w.
* =Jordon, Elizabeth Garver.= Many kingdoms. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30707.
Creatures of fancy as well as sturdy flesh and blood mortals of real
life people Miss Jordon’s world of stories. The elusive lady of dreams
and the invisible child playmate demand of the reader a subliminal
flight, while the Henry Smiths—middle aged newly-weds—detain this same
reader within the walls of a New York hotel where the two spend their
honeymoon too diverted to risk their lives among the crowds of
Broadway.
* * * * *
“There is no startling originality in these pleasant tales, indeed, at
times the note is definitely reminiscent, but there are wholesome
humor and pathos, and the felicity of description that one has come to
expect from Miss Jordon as a matter of course.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 140w.
“For the most part Miss Jordon’s literary workmanship is very clever
and of more artistic value than is to be found in a great portion of
prolific output of American short stories. She frequently spoils the
artistic effect of a scene or of an entire story by overelaborate
description of presentation and by unbridled indulgence in adjectives
and adverbs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 720. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Jost, Ludwig.= Lectures on plant physiology; authorized English tr.
by R. J. Harvey Gibson. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–3923.
The work of the professor of botany in the Strassburg university
translated by the professor of botany in the University of Liverpool.
“After an introduction, which states clearly the problems and methods
of physiology, the author divides the field into three parts: (1)
Metabolism, (2) Metamorphosis, (3) Transformation of energy.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Though it lacks the suggestiveness and comprehensiveness of Pfeffer,
and can by no means replace that indispensable work, its clear and
picturesque style adapts it better to the advanced student and
teacher. It is well to have it available in English even at the
exorbitant price.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 309. O. ’07. 770w.
“The translator has done his work conscientiously and on the whole
satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 1100w.
“The English rendering lacks accuracy. We express our high esteem for
Prof. Jost’s lectures. The exposition is extremely lucid, and just
what is needed for students taking up the advanced study of
physiology.” F. F. B.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 97. D. 5, ’07. 1150w.
=Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume
one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to
the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50.
Scribner.
7–23072.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“When one recalls the multiple and difficult aims of the work, the
result constitutes a notable achievement. Many will vote it the most
comprehensive introductory text that has recently appeared. The
chapters wide in scope, rich in learning, and intensely practical,—all
these produce an impression of fullness and adequacy to be desired in
a general introduction. The style is pedestrian, simple, and generally
clear.” E. H. Lindley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 713. D. 19, ’07. 600w.
“The most defective portion of this book is that on the formation of
the concept, a title which is forced into covering the judgment and
the process of reasoning as well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 1400w.
“Unquestionably the approach to the material is in several chapters
somewhat sophisticated, and the absence at many points of definite and
distinct lines of demarcation is likely to be felt by the beginner in
a disastrous manner.” J. R. Angell.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 432. Jl. ’08. 2500w.
“This volume, taken as a whole, impresses me as an exposition of the
author’s system of psychology which is calculated more to interest and
challenge the attention of his brother psychologists than that of his
students. The author’s style is expository and argumentative,
straightforward, but not easy and varied enough to hold the attention
of immature readers.” G. M. Whipple.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 114. Ap. 15, ’08. 2600w.
“Professor Judd’s contribution to the available facilities for the
teaching of psychology is a notable one. The plan is consistent, the
execution capable, the result distinctive.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 775. My. 15, ’08. 2700w.
=Judson, William Pierson.= Road preservation and dust prevention.
*$1.50. Eng. news.
8–24251.
Concerned with the problem of the preservation of the surface and the
prevention of dust on macadamized roads. “The author has compiled in
convenient form a history, taken from the principal engineering
journals and publications, of the experiments which have been
conducted in recent years attempting to solve the problems, and of the
manner, as well as the materials, in and with which they have been
carried out.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“We feel that Mr. Judson has rendered a valuable service in reducing
the subject to a condition that permits of comparisons being made and
that gives officials who are not experts, reliable information to
guide them in the selection of a suitable remedy for the cure of their
own local troubles.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 303. S. ’08. 740w.
“Mr. Judson has rendered the road engineers and roadmakers of the
whole country a very valuable service in collecting, collating and
discussing the great mass of data on the subject, scattered through
the periodicals and society transactions.” S. Whinery.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 427. O. 15, ’08. 650w.
“May be referred to with benefit by those who are taking up the
subject for the first time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His book should be in the hands of state and local road officials
throughout the country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 250w.
=Julie’s= diary: a personal record; tr. from the Danish by Julia Le
Gallienne. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
A personal record which serves as a “beware!” for girls chafing under
the monotony of a colorless life, who demand a little day of eventful
happenings. Julie is an austere professor’s daughter. She holds in
abeyance her lover who could do no more than transplant her from one
home at the mercy of the peace of dullness to another like it. Of her
own accord she comes under the hypnotic spell of an actor. Her day
once spent on the husks of life she returns to the shelter of Erik’s
love, scarred but wiser far.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
“Full of a charm, a delicacy, and an insight rarely met with and
refreshing in the extreme. A fine art is required to tell such a story
and keep it on its high level. This art the author possessed and the
translation retains much of it, though it is not quite first rate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 260w.
K
=Keane, Augustus Henry.= World’s peoples. *$2. Putnam.
8–10848.
“A. H. Keane has gathered into a volume of a little over 400 pages,
profusely illustrated from photographs of the originals, a synopsis of
the latest—or almost the latest—view of human genesis and a
description, often in some detail where the race is barbarous enough
to be interesting, of all the divers peoples of the globe, duly
subdivided and classified under the usual groups of black, red,
yellow, and white.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The formal descriptions, the enumeration of peoples, and the
geographical relations are well done, but social and mental questions
are not so well handled.” W. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 123. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“In spite of its defects, the book is readable, well illustrated, and
in some respects a convenient manual. Such a work is needed, and is
particularly difficult to produce.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 168. S. 16, ’08. 630w.
“It contains more information about the characteristics of different
races, their beliefs and customs, than any other book of its size, as
interestingly written as such condensed matter can be, and abundantly
illustrated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“Like Peschel and Ratzel, to name only the most prominent authors of
ethnographies, Mr. Keane has too little system and perspective, and
exhibits too little power of renunciation.”
− =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Fertile in curious interest and rather unusually up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“It is in the wealth of detail that its value lies.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Keatinge, Maurice Walter.= Suggestion in education. *$1.75.
Macmillan.
E 8–32.
A study in educational psychology, “We are shown the extreme forms of
suggestion and dissociation: then we pass to an examination of
suggestion in normal waking states. Next come the conditions,
preliminary and immediate, under which suggestion is affective. The
remaining four chapters, from the seventh to the twelfth deal with the
influence of suggestion in the formation of character.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Keatinge deals interestingly and simply with the psychology of
suggestion.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 70. Ja. 18. 450w.
“Very thorough and helpful. The writer has uncommon powers of
psychological description: his account of the subconscious, for
example, seems to us the best short description we have met (p. 143
ff). He has also in a high degree the art of making his exposition
vivid and interesting without being diffuse, by mingling just the
right proportions of the concrete and the didactic.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Keays, H. A. Mitchell.= I and my true love. †$1.50. Small.
8–28998.
A story dealing with marriage, divorce, a second marriage, regret, and
final reconciliation thru a child of the first marriage.
* * * * *
“A clever book with a perspective of real life.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
“A slight and rather clever novel. The pretty child might be
fascinating if the author had not made the fatal mistake of letting
her be vulgar.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“The characters in this book are not puppets, yet they are scarcely
real. They are ideas in human form. Her people are conceptions rather
than creations. With these conceptions the novelist seems at times to
flirt vivaciously. The story is deftly arranged, but savors of
impossibility.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of
new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
From the viewpoint of the economist and sociologist the whole history
of colonization is covered in this study which aims to meet the needs
of college students “both by presenting in English a mass of data not
readily accessible, and by arranging the same in such system and order
as to emphasize the salient aspects of the process of colonization.”
Emigration, colonial trade, race contact and like questions are
treated in preference to historical, administrative and legal detail.
=Keller, Helen Adams.= World I live in. **$1.20. Century.
8–30582.
A group of fourteen essays and the poem “The chant of darkness.” Miss
Keller shows how rich her deaf-blind world is with three senses—touch,
taste, and smell. Some of the chapters are: The seeing hand, The hand
of the race; The power of touch; Smell, the fallen angel; Relative
values of the senses; The five-sensed world; Inward visions; Before
the soul dawn; The dream world; Dreams and reality; and A waking
dream.
* * * * *
“Most interesting book, which, though it concludes with a metrical
‘Chant of darkness,’ will be found to emanate much sweetness and
light.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 346. N. 16, ’08. 550w.
“Thruout her small volume of essays a new world is opened up for our
consideration, a new standard of physical and spiritual values is
formulated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“This certainly is one of the wonderful books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“A unique and intensely interesting bit of autobiography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
“A valuable autobiographical contribution to the study of human
possibility.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 110w.
“These essays go farther than previous writings of Miss Keller in
revealing her psychic experiences.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 100w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= American insects; with many original
illustrations by Mary Wellman; 2d ed. (American nature ser., group
1.) **$5. Holt.
8–16424.
The revision substitutes a detailed analytical table of contents for
the simple list of chapter titles used in the first edition, and gives
an additional chapter (Chapter 19) on the subject of insect behavior
and psychology.
* * * * *
“An authoritative semi-popular work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08.
“Its high merit has been recognized, and that by a constituency not
easy to please. It well deserves this patronage.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 393. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“So written as to make it usable by any intelligent person who feels
an honest interest in natural history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Both because of the authority of the text and the accuracy and
general excellence of the original illustrations, this work has made a
place of its own in scientific literature. For the American naturalist
it is indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= Insect stories. (American nature ser.)
**$1.50. Holt.
8–21773.
Strange, true facts of insect life by an authority on insects in story
form for young readers. He records interesting observations about
wasps, spiders, red beetles, ants and their enemies, orange dwellers,
grass-hoppers, May-flies, bees and honey-ants.
* * * * *
“Though not many children will read it, those who are already
interested in the subject will thoroughly enjoy it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 248. O. ’08.
“Is not a child’s book, in the strict sense; it is written _with_ the
child rather than for him. But no intelligent youth can fail to read
it with delight and profit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A vast amount of information about wasps, bees, spiders, ants, and
other little creatures is charmingly presented by Prof. Kellogg.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 750w.
=Kelly, Edmond.= Elimination of the tramp. **$1. Putnam.
8–5259.
A sociological as well as economic study of vagrancy reinforced by
knowledge and experience gained during a long residence abroad. The
author states his problem, shows the advantage of classifying tramps,
and urges the introduction of labor colonies with a view to solving
the tramp problem. This latter topic—its success in Switzerland and
the arguments in favor of its adoption in America—occupies the main
portion of his discussion. He closes with a chapter on indiscriminate
almsgiving.
* * * * *
“This book is a notable addition to the discussion.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A brief, informing, highly interesting, practical work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08. ✠
“Aside from the question of the value of the method in America, the
book gives a very good account of the European colonies and deserves
careful consideration.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 100w.
“We think that ... Mr. Kelly’s plan would be an improvement on present
conditions, but we cannot think it would eliminate the tramp. The
tramp of to-day is the result of conditions of our civilization that
must change before their present results pass away.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“Develops what seems to be a very practicable plan adapted to American
conditions.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 532. Mr. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“He expounds his problem and suggested solution with energy and
intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 177. Mr. 28, ’08. 80w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Wards of liberty. †$1.50. McClure.
7–35624.
A new group of East Side stories. “Eva and Sadie and Morris still
adore Miss Bailey and converse in their ‘near-English’ with her. There
is more pathos, and more depth of revolt at some of the hard
conditions among the poor, in these stories than in those preceding.
‘Little Bo-Peep’ is a horrible picture of suffering, and some of the
others are heavy with sorrows.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“They are really humorous creations, both funny and pathetic; Miss
Kelly has, we think wisely emphasized the fun.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 480w.
“Humor in phrase and situation lightens all, while heterodoxy actually
rages in some of the tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 124. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Kemmerer, Edwin Walter.= Money and credit instruments in their
relation to general prices. (Cornell studies in history and
political science, v. 1.) *$1.25. Holt.
8–9034.
“A defense of the quantity theory of money from the metaphysical
school of economics.... It gives a clear and admirable statement of
the quantity theory, in its most modern form, also it aims to present
in full strength the theory underlying the value of token money, which
supports the recommendations of the ‘Report on the stability of
international exchange,’ prepared mainly for Professor Jenks.” J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“The volume has great value as special reference for students doing
advance work in economics. It would hardly be profitable, however, to
place the book in the hands of one not thoroughly familiar with the
elements of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 250w.
“The monograph is well balanced theoretically, and there has evidently
been a conscientious effort to take account of all of the principal
methods of investigation in this field, whatever may be thought of
certain applications made of them or of the ways in which the material
used is manipulated.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 139. Je. ’08. 840w.
“The study is of the kind which is a credit to American scholarship.
Its spirit is not that of a critic seeking to quibble: it makes clear
and definite issues which invite to thinking and research. It is a
pleasure to take up a volume which shows on every page a desire to
discuss the subject impersonally with a purpose of arriving at the
truth.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 565. N. ’07. 1050w.
“In many ways the best thing that has appeared in monetary
investigation for some years past, and quite puts to the blush several
rather pretentious works which have recently undertaken to read the
burial service over the so-called quantity theory of money.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“His statistics may be inadequate and his index figures hypothetical,
but he has given concrete expression to the real quantity theory, or
demand and supply theory, of money, and has indicated very clearly the
only method whereby its opponents can discredit it by an appeal to
facts.” J. F. Johnson.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 536. S. ’08. 1100w.
=Kemp, Oliver.= Wilderness homes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–19727.
Aims to “crystallize and bring into reality that vague longing which
the out-of-door lover has felt for a lodge in the wilderness.” Thruout
the chapters, which are as follows, runs a note of possibility for the
amateur: Making plans, The fireplace, The ax and the tree, Building
the cabin, The roof and the floor, The cabin and its environment,
Inside the cabin, What it will cost, Some hunting cabins, and A few
plans.
* * * * *
“A book for the amateur, practical in character, sound in advice and
restricted to cabins of the less elaborate type.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“The amateur builder will do well to consult the attractive little
book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 50w.
“It is practical in character and sound in its advice. The most
serious defect of the manual is its omission of all mention of
skylight windows. Mr. Kemp’s book contains no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
“The practical reader, to whom it is addressed, will get from it a
large number of valuable suggestions, gathered in the course of actual
experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 423. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
=Kempson, F. Claude.= Future life and modern difficulties. *$1.25.
Dutton.
“The most recent attempt to show that there need be no collision
between the postulates of science and the precepts of religion. Its
author is a Catholic priest.... The book is in two sections, the first
dealing with the difficulties which science is supposed to raise in
the path of religious belief, and especially against the hope of a
future life, while the second is devoted to a consideration of the
scientific and religious arguments for and against the Christian
conception of a life after death.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In a word, we rather like the argument of this book: we dislike its
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19. ’08. 270w.
=Kennard, Howard Percy.= Russian peasant. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13693.
“[The author] has gained his knowledge from personal contact, having
lived in the villages of all part of European Russia and studied his
subject in illness and health, in peace and war, in times of plenty
and of famine. The first portion of the book is devoted to a
presentation of village life in all its phases, the second to a study
of the outlines of Russian history with regard to the effect of
governmental policies upon the peasant masses, and the third to
consideration of what he calls ‘Russia’s poison’—the bureaucracy and
the church.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kennard approaches his subjects with the Englishman’s prejudices
against dirt, semioriental ways, religious, social, and political
ideas, and in consequence sometimes presents a slightly distorted
picture.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08.
“A powerful, though overdrawn picture of the interesting people among
whom he has done medical work. His general equipment for the difficult
task of writing about Russia is insufficient.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 800w.
“Dr. Kennard ... has certainly had opportunities of a rather
exceptional character for studying the Russian peasant; but we cannot
say that he appears to us at present to have made the best of them.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The temptation to indulge in fine writing has led the author to mar a
good many pages, and has made it necessary for the reader to forgive
him some absurdities of style for the sake of the genuineness and
interest of the information he gives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Whether this critic pays his vigorous respects to the political
oppression or to the religious superstition in which the Russian child
is bred, his comment is worth notice. We hope that a succeeding
edition will contain an index.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 489. Je. 27, ’08. 730w.
“The portion of the book which the author devotes to Russian
ethnological history is succinct and interesting, and the photographs
of village life which are interspersed throughout greatly enhance the
value of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Servant in the house. †$1.25. Harper.
8–14511.
The eternal struggle of the human soul between the forces of God and
Mammon is the idea which this little drama embodies. The scene is laid
in the home of an English clergyman who has lived his life the easiest
way by following the course of least resistance, and in consequence
has filled his days with profitless deeds. Thru the influence of a
brother he is moved to make restitution and to vindicate his manhood.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“It is doubtful, however, whether an English audience may not find the
ending grotesque rather than impressive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 619. N. 14. 730w.
Reviewed by Beverly Stark.
=Bookm.= 27: 408. Je. ’08. 3500w.
“It is a fine failure, as many other things worth reading have been.
There is much ingenious and striking use of the dramatic means
chosen—as in the excellent dramatic irony, for instance; in fact,
there is quite enough to render the reading of the play interesting
and amusing.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 1500w.
“It is one of the most notable of recent plays, not only on account of
its high moral and social purpose, but in its sustained interest, its
swift, compact, and logical action and its compliance with the classic
laws of dramatic construction. All the unities are faithfully
observed. The dialogue is of striking quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“In reading the play, even more than in watching it, the skill and
vigor of its construction come out. The individuality of each of the
characters, the complete consistency of each, their steady
development, the mutual efficiency with which they interact, these are
elements of remarkable gift on the part of the dramatist.” Edward
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The lofty theme is handled, for the most part, in a lofty way. The
play is scarcely less remarkable in manner than it is in matter. It is
constructed with an absolute compactness. Finally, the mere writing of
this play stands, in the main, upon a level with the masterly
structure and the momentous theme. Surely this play is literature, as
well as being drama. It deserves to be seen; it deserves also to be
read.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 770. My. ’08. 1400w.
“Those who cannot see the play should read the book: those who can
should do both.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Even a reading of the ‘book,’ gives one an impression of dramatic
power and literary finish almost as noteworthy as the reverent,
compelling vitality of the theme and action themselves. The suggestion
of Christ is carried out with reverence and good taste.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 757. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Kent, Percy Horace.= Railway enterprise in China: an account of its
origin and development. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5870.
The story of the struggle in the sixties to build a road in China.
“The book is full of information as to the cost of construction,
difficulties financial, political, and other, and many other matters.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Kent has been painstaking in his work, and has produced a book
that commands the confidence of the reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 82. Jl. 23, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Kent’s interesting work traces the history of the Chinese
railroads through the various stages of development up to the present
era of concessions and dominant foreign control.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’08. 210w.
=Kerr, John Graham.= Work of John Samuel Budgett. hf. lea. *$7.
Putnam.
In which a collection of Mr. Budgett’s zoological papers recording his
labors for science in Africa, are supplemented by a geographical
sketch by A. E. Shipley, and a number of papers based on Budgett’s
material which has been worked on by a group of embryologists.
* * * * *
“A volume which adds distinctly to our knowledge of embryology.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 260w.
“The memorial volume, which is a valuable contribution to embryology,
will surely not fail of its highest purpose, of perpetuating by its
stimulus the tradition which Budgett’s life and work expressed.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 313. Ag. 6, ’08. 2300w.
“The beautiful volume prepared by his friends and colleagues is a
fitting memorial of his life and work and one that stirs a keen sense
of the loss that science suffered by his untimely death.” W.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 452. O. 2, ’08. 1000w.
=Kerr, Winfield Scott.= John Sherman: his life and public services.
2v. *$4. Sherman, French & co.
A minute record of Sherman’s full political life the material for
which has been furnished by letters, documents, narratives and
recital. “The whole period of the civil war and the succeeding era of
reconstruction and the resumption of specie payments, in which Senator
Sherman played an increasingly important part, are considered in these
volumes with unusual minuteness.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is a biography of the old-fashioned type, written by a man who has
been active in politics but without much training in literary work.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 240w.
“His style is uninteresting. His volumes are not the contribution to
the history of our own times that they ought to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“On the whole, the book does not displace the briefer and more
discriminating volume by Theodore E. Burton.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 194. Ap. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Mr. Kerr’s work compares unfavorably with the more modest
biography ... by Mr. Burton.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 861. Ag. 15, ’08. 530w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Kilpatrick, Van Evrie.= Departmental teaching in elementary
schools. *60c. Macmillan.
8–14729.
An expository treatment advocating departmental teaching, based upon a
wide and varied experience in teaching. The author answers objections
to the method, and outlines the most effective plan for developing the
system.
* * * * *
“A concise, practical, interesting treatment of departmental
teaching.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“A thorogoing exposition of his principles and doctrine.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Few books on school organization are more timely than this one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
=King, Alfred Grant.= Practical steam and hot water heating and
ventilation. *$3. Henley.
8–7883.
“Describes all features of steam and hot-water heating installations,
ventilating plants, warming systems for swimming pools, the business
methods of conducting steam-fitting work and the care of heating
plants, and gives a large collection of rules, memoranda and
tables.... While the book is in no sense an engineering work, it is a
good explanation of the scope as well as details of the work done by a
contractor for heating and ventilating plants.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“This work is one of the most complete and exhaustive yet published on
this branch of domestic engineering.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“It will not appeal to engineers who have much better treatises on
heating and ventilation in their possession. The book contains very
little theoretical treatment of the subject and what little there is
should be revised by an expert.” W. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 593. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“The two common faults of such books, verbosity and inaccuracy, are
not present and the author explains his subject in a clear way that
can be understood by the steam-fitter and does not offend the
technically educated engineer.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=King, Charles.= To the front: a sequel to Cadet days. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–5578.
General King portrays vividly some events that mark the beginning of a
young West Point cadet’s career. Cheered to the echo as he receives
his diploma, he calls forth a prominent business man’s prophecy that
if he were pitted against a keen-witted, sharp, aggressive young
business man “he’d be skinned alive—skinned out of his last cent.” But
the “sheer grit” that had earned for George Graham deafening applause
at his graduation proves equally capable of results in quelling a mine
riot and in fighting Indians among the icy flats and snow-patched
ravines of the Bad lands.
* * * * *
“Not so well written as ‘Cadet days,’ of which it is a sequel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The story is graphically written and while a bit highly colored, at
least no harm will be done Gen. King’s young readers should they
endeavor to imitate young Graham.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Seeming unreality of the spiritual life.
**$1.50. Macmillan.