A scholarly and earnest defense of theism and Christianity, in which
are discussed at length the causes of the seeming unreality of the
spiritual life, those arising from misconceptions as to its nature and
those due to a failure to fulfill the conditions thru which alone a
way is opened into the “great values.” Other causes which are
irremovable, the limitations of our natures and the unobtrusiveness
inherent in the very nature of the moral are also considered. Finally
a way into reality is pointed out. It is shown how inextricably the
spiritual life is knit up with all else that we count most real and
also has its own distinct and valuable contribution to make to life.
* * * * *
“He is earnest, thoughtful and honest in his inquiry; and he leaves
the impression of a brave and sincere spirit neither rashly radical
nor timidly unprogressive.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse (Mrs. Charles R. Kingsley).= And so they
were married. †$1. Dodd.
8–23918.
Portrays “a conflict between common sense and foolishness which
results in victory for the former.... An inexperienced young woman
is influenced, for a time, by the extravagant pretension of an
older woman who worships society, and this influence bids fair to
ruin the young woman’s husband. The rescue is accomplished by the
combination of a sensible bringing up and an outspoken wise old
grandmother.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“This little volume is a sermon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 140w.
“A pretty little story, its appeal solely for the feminine heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
“The author delicately handles the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A simple little story.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Eversley gardens, and others. $1.75.
Macmillan.
7–42104.
“She describes ... the gardens of her acquaintance and her own. She
relates the making of the latter out of a barren field in a very
useful and agreeable manner, and in doing so expresses lucidly the
results of her experience on many technical points. Her remarks on
soil, deep trenching, pruning, growing bulbs indoors in fibre, and the
destruction of blight, are excellent guides, readily remembered
because they are written in a style not found in text-books.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Miss Rose Kingsley exceeds the promise of her title.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 719. Jl. 27, ’07. 240w.
“The world is overdone with ‘gardening books,’ but for such a volume
as Miss Kingsley’s ‘Eversley gardens and others’ we have not only room
and to spare, but the warmest of welcomes beside.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 158. Ag. 10. 650w.
“For practical purposes the book will have little value for Americans,
since the English climate is so much kinder to roses and other things.
But anyone who is enthusiastic about flowers will enjoy the
combination of good sense and artistic feeling with which Miss
Kingsley presents the whole process of gardening.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
“The author has a vein of pleasantry which brightens many of the pages
in a charming way.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“While it is probable that most gardners will find many hints and
references to species unknown to them, it is certain that all can
learn much from the artistic combinations described by the author,
some produced in her own gardens, others in her friends’ gardens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 240w.
“The illustrations are nearly as delightful as the text.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
=Kinkaid, Mary Holland (Mrs. John Kinkaid).= Man of yesterday: a
romance of a vanishing race. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–7595.
A story set among the Chickasaws and Choctaws of Indian territory at
the time of the division of tribal lands. A white man faithless to his
half-breed wife is brought to judgment by her Indian lover. “The
passionate race pride of the Indian, his fortitude, his scorn of
promise-breaking, are strongly pictured. In Pakali, with her Indian
blood and her white woman’s training, lives a heroine fair and tender
and brave as heart of romance reader could wish.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The style is rather journalistic but the narrative is interesting and
the picture convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“The author has achieved a distinct triumph in taking us actually into
the home life of the present-day Chickasaws, and in making us feel
their attitude, their impulses, their standards of right and wrong. It
is a noteworthy volume, not soon to be forgotten.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 450w.
“A book that owes nothing to ingenuity of plot or to its author’s
imagination, but is a page of passing American history, or, at least,
an important footnote.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“A close acquaintance with Indian character and customs is apparent
throughout, and with the acquaintance goes an intense sympathy for
their passing—a passing whose pathos is heightened in the story by the
melancholy acquiescence of the better element.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The descriptive parts are written with much poetic feeling, while
throughout the author’s manner is worthy of note for its dignity and
simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
“A contribution of much worth to the story of the relations between
the two races.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Courage of Blackburn Blair. †$1.50.
Moffat.
7–34180.
The second volume of Miss Kinkead’s trilogy whose purpose is the
presentation of “the three great fundamental relations of life.” It
deals with the relation of man toward humanity and makes use of a
“modern instance of moral heroism brought into close relations with
the Goebel campaign that convulsed Kentucky a few years ago. The hero
is a young lawyer and politician who realizes how false is that
conception of personal honor which in Kentucky, and in the south
generally, requires, a man who is insulted to commit a murder for the
vindication of his character.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The story is characterized by a fine idealism and the interest is
sustained throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The fine idealism of this book, to say nothing of its many other
admirable qualities, gives it a high place among novels of the year.”
W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 370w.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 70w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
A story whose action takes place in Russia, principally following the
last revolutionary outbreak. While the lover of an English girl is
absent in South Africa she saves her father from financial ruin by
marrying, supposedly, a French count. The lover returns, determines to
find her, accepts a newspaper commission to Russia and fights a
winning way thru danger and intrigue in the very strongholds that
protect her. It is an intimate account of conditions in Russia after
the war, and is unique for portraying a heroine who does not appear.
* * * * *
“The story is vigorous in its handling of plot, and the personal
adventures of its supposed narrator are told with real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
=Kintzing, Pearce.= Long life and how to attain it. **$1. Funk.
8–17729.
Simple, sane practical advice by which the every-day man or woman may
ward off disease, preserve health, and prolong life. A popular
treatise based upon scientific principles.
* * * * *
“The style is simple, the advice practical, the basis scientific.” R.
E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 250w.
“His chapters are not empirical, but are based on results derived from
the positive conclusions of scientific research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 229. Ag. 15, ’08. 340w.
=Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“There is nothing startling in his recommendations. Nothing that is
absolutely new in his philosophy; it is the directness, clearness, and
completeness of his treatment of the various matters that have to do
with longevity that makes his work remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 800w.
“Safe and sane are the remarks of Dr. Kintzing regarding the best
methods of preserving health.” Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 235. N. ’08. 200w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= In the open: intimate studies and
appreciations of nature. **$1.75. Elder.
8–24897.
It is the real Walt Whitman communion with nature that finds its way
into the chapters of this delightful book. The impressions made upon
poetic men by each new season from “the spring that is felt rather
than reasoned about” to the first snow-storm that “soothes and
beguiles into submission” are analyzed so closely that the reader is
able to recognize them as self-experienced sensations. Joy in nature
in all its forms and moods inspires the invitation into the open which
reaches the climax of persuasion in the chapters, The mountains, The
forest and The sea.
* * * * *
“His readers will often pay him the subtle compliment of exclaiming,
‘That is just what I have thought.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“A nature book of such unusual literary charm that it deserves to be
ranked well above most of the more homely out-of-doors studies of
recent years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Kirkland, Caroline.= Some African highways: a journey of two
American women to Uganda and the Transvaal; with an introd. by
Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell. $1.50. Estes.
8–19264.
A multitude of observations are set down here, many of them made from
steamer deck and car window. There are pictures “for instance, of
Asab, the Abyssinian port, where three hundred warriors from the
desert (Nubians, Somalis, and Sudanese) were taken on board the
author’s ship to fight a native uprising in German East Africa; of the
hand-run tram system of Mombasa, supplemented by the gharries, or
rickshaws, and the carriages and horses of the Hindu merchants; of the
customs of London’s West End found in an English colony in the heart
of darkest Africa; of the contrast between English and German colonies
in Africa; of the sleeping sickness; of the new conditions in the
Transvaal; of the Chinese on the Rand there, and of Lord Selborne’s
success in the administration of South Africa.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The points of interest in this journey she sketches with quick
perception, and accuracy of touch.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 660w.
“All through this book keenly pointed little pen-pictures are
scattered.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 340w.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= An inquiry into socialism. 3d ed., rev. and enl.
*$1.40. Longmans.
8–7382.
A third edition whose changes consist chiefly of “the insertion of
references to recent or contemporary events such as help to bear out
the views propounded.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Dispassionate but sympathetic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 120. Ap. ’08.
“An unpretending, sympathetic, eminently fair exposition.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 279. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“It sets forth with remarkable logic, force, and perspicuity the
genesis, aims, and claims of the form of socialism which is gaining
ground so fast at present.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 170w.
“A clear, simple, sympathetic interpretation of socialism.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“Nothing could be more opportune than the reissue in a substantially
unaltered form of this eminently catholic as well as eminently
reasonable statement of the socialist case.” Sidney Ball.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 397. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 70w.
“May not make a reader a convert, nor would every socialist be
satisfied with the unadventurous spirit of Mr. Kirkup’s views, but
after reading him we think no one could talk the nonsense with which
the topic has made us familiar.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Kirkup’s volume is an admirable example of the sentiment which
makes for socialism, and which fails to see that if Marx’s destructive
and constructive theories are rejected some other economic basis of
socialism must be put forward.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Klein, Felix.= An American student in France. **$2.50. McClurg.
8–13682.
“Presents the author’s conception of the way things French impress an
inquiring, observant, and serious-minded American student of about
twenty-one years of age. The student is a composite type, and,
naturally, somewhat idealized; hence not thoroughly real and
‘convincing’ to the reader. But that does not prevent one’s deriving a
good deal of entertainment and instruction from the Abbé’s frank and
comradelike talks on various subjects of historic, political,
religious, and literary interest, whosoever may serve as ostensible
mouth-piece from page to page.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The book is entertaining.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08.
“The value of his book lies in the fact that under the guise of
imaginary conversations he gives the opinions of those Frenchmen who
are at the same time sincere Catholics and sincere Republicans.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 35. Jl. 11. 420w.
“The abbé is lively, witty, and observant.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 265. N. ’08. 160w.
“Father Klein is a writer to command attention at all times, but he is
not in quite so happy a vein in impersonating the American visitor to
France as he was in playing the French visitor to America.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 312. My. 16, ’08. 550w.
“We unreservedly commend it to those who know France, and to those who
want to know France.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, Abbé Klein has turned out an agreeable book, which is
well printed, indexed, and illustrated. If you are visiting France
this summer you’ll find the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 250. My. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“Gives much interesting general information concerning France.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Seriously, the book is interesting as a campaign document on the
controversies over modernism and separation, a record of the personal
convictions of the author; most of the remainder, if it is anything,
is as you please, Baedeker, or Murray, or Joanne.” A. I. du P.
Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 560w.
“An entertaining book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. Humorous hits and how to hold an
audience: a collection of short selections, stories and sketches
for all occasions. **$1. Funk.
8–9509.
A book for the amateur, professional reader, speaker, elocutionist,
entertainer, after-dinner and impromptu speaker, the politician “who
wants to make a ‘hit,’” the business man looking for a good story, and
the teacher planning for rhetoricals. Following detailed instruction
on how to hold an audience there are more than a hundred and fifty
humorous selections and about thirty serious ones.
* * * * *
“It is an admirable volume of popular selections for the purpose for
which it is designed.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A useful handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
* =Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. World’s great sermons; introd. by Lewis O.
Brastow. 10v. Funk.
8–33883.
Ten volumes which aim to bring together the best examples of the
products of the pulpit since the beginning of Christianity and to
present them in handy-volume form. Preachers are represented from
Basil of the fourth century to present-day divines, and the sermons
have been selected in some cases for their literary and rhetorical
excellencies but in every case for the service they may render in
solving practical problems of Christian living.
=Knapp, Adeline.= Well in the desert. †$1.50. Century.
8–23557.
A story whose scenes are set on the edge of the Arizona desert. A
diseased-burdened man, betrayed and unjustly convicted of crime,
escapes from prison, evades falling a second time into the power of
his betrayer, and is lead by chance to a wooded and watered plateau
where for months he lived alone the life of elemental man. The health
and manhood which he builds up stand him in good stead when he again
faces civilization and establishes his right to citizenship and to the
love of a good woman.
* * * * *
“Not a remarkable story, but unobjectional and full of exciting
adventure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“It is a romance as wholesome as it is interesting.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 479. N. ’08. 620w.
“The book, viewed as a collection of exciting anecdotes of life in the
Southwest, is readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“It begins with distinction and originality, but it runs into the
ordinary and stereotyped story of the West.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The latter part of the romance is a trifle too melodramatic, but
taken as a whole the story is alive and worth while. The narrative of
the desert is particularly good.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= Over-sea Britain. *$2. Dutton.
War 8–30.
A descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological,
and political development, and the economic resources of the empire;
the nearer empire, the Mediterranean, British Africa, and British
America. (Explanatory title). It is “a careful description of the
British colonies in the Mediterranean region, Africa and America, to
be followed by a volume on the possessions in Asia and Oceania. The
author has adopted a semi-encyclopedic manner of discussion.” (Ann.
Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Of special use to prospective colonists and to business men engaged
in over-sea commerce.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on British
world politics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 505. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Knight’s volume is, on the whole, accurate in its statement of
facts; it has undoubtedly been produced with great industry and care,
and forms a valuable record in the nature of an imperial gazetteer.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 1300w.
“The years 1905 and 1906 are the dates taken for most of Mr. Knight’s
figures, and until these figures become too antiquated for the
ordinary needs of the reader or student, Mr. Knight’s volume will be
well worth a place among the books of ready reference which one likes
to keep on the most accessible shelf of the library.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 250w.
“There are minor blemishes, easily corrected in another edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 191. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
“A treasury of reference. But the excellent text would seem to merit
maps of greater number and detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“He has managed to write a not uninteresting and instructive work
without colour of any sort. Hence the work should be valuable as a
text-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“It is rather too large for school purposes, and scarcely detailed
enough to be of use to the specialist, but it should serve as a good
reference-book to the general reader who wishes to supplement his
newspaper knowledge of imperial history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the
wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“This is hardly a great book, but it deals with a great personality.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 575. N. 9. 1320w.
“These recollections of friends and disciples, with extracts from his
letters and other writings, combine to portray, roughly and by
suggestion, an inspiring and astonishingly versatile character; but a
complete and consistent account of the man, if such be possible, is
yet to be written.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His biographer narrates instead of presenting—an artistic fault which
is no less grave in biography than in fiction. He expects us to take
his hero on trust, with the result that, after we have read all that
he has to say, his hero remains a vague and cloudy figure.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 540w.
“A fitting memorial.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Dawn at Shanty Bay. **$1. Revell.
7–39193.
A story whose “scenes are laid in a Scotch settlement in western New
York. The hero is a crusty Scotchman. He inherits his creed and his
theory of life from his Covenanter father, who ‘got till his rest
wi’out hardly hearin’ tell o’ Christmas, or ony o’ thae new-fangled
schemes for worshipping Almichty God.’ But before the end of the story
Ronald Robertson Changed his mind about Christmas and several other
things.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A pretty story full of the deeper meaning of the Christmas season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, 07. 110w.
“A very readable Christmas story of the genre type.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Knowles’s simple little story is typically Scotch in its setting
and atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann
Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J.
R. Ainsworth Davis, v. 2. *$10.75. Oxford.
=v. 2.= Deals with “the various methods of pollination in fifty-six
families of dicotyledonous plants.... The author deals seriatim with
all the genera and species in the natural orders under consideration,
describes the structure of the flowers in so far as it affects
directly or indirectly the mode of pollination, and cites the various
direct observations on pollination made by himself or others.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“The value of a work of this kind depends mainly upon the accuracy of
its observations, and in the case of the present volume the names of
the recorders are sufficient testimony to their trustworthiness. The
work of translation has been carried out in a most satisfactory
manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 371. S. 26. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Such a book cannot be reviewed, for it is an encyclopedia. This
translation should greatly stimulate observation in a field too much
neglected by American botanists.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 63. Jl. ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is filled with facts indispensable to the student of biology and
helpful to every serious amateur. It cannot honestly be called
interesting to the general reader; nevertheless, the general reader
can make of it a great deal of use in examining plants from the new
point of view.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 890w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is even more directly a book of reference than the first volume. Will
be as welcome to English readers as the more general introductory
volume has proved itself to be.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 244. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is of great value to American workers.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 345. S. 11, ’08. 780w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Pianolist: a guide for pianola players. **$1.
Moffat.
7–40771.
A guide for pianola players suggested by the experience of one who,
undeveloped in musical culture, was briefly satisfied with trashy
things but who gradually trained himself to appreciate and to
understand classical selections from a wide range of composers. The
book recognizes the musical-education possibilities of automatic
players.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 44. F. ’08.
“Its author, Gustav Kobbé, has always been among the pioneers in
clearing new paths, and in this volume, as in his ‘How to appreciate
music,’ he is not afraid to express his opinions freely, even when
they clash violently with traditional views and prejudices.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 170w.
“His book is filled with advice to the pianolist as to how to get the
best effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Koester, Frank.= Steam-electric power plants: a practical treatise
on the design of central light and power stations and their
economical construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–11715.
The author, who is an experienced power plant designer, deals with
every phase in the design of light and power plants starting with the
preparation of plans, letting of contracts, efficiency, cost and site
for the location, and continuing to a descriptive discussion of five
typical American and European power plants.
* * * * *
“He here brings together into a coherent whole the very considerable
amount of information which he has accumulated during his professional
work in regard to the best approved modern practice in the design,
construction and operation of steam-electric power plants.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 320w.
“The book is, on the whole, disappointing. The author has treated
nearly everything in a most general way—general in the sense of being
vague and indefinite and not in the sense of being broad and
comprehensive. The author gives the impression of being a spectator
who sees results rather than being a designer of world-wide experience
who is elucidating his own work.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 78. Jl. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life of Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, 1798–1871,
of the first elective Supreme court of Pennsylvania. $3.50.
Campion & co.
7–10037.
“This is the third biography of eminent Pennsylvanians written by Mr.
Konkle. Ellis Lewis was one of the leaders of the Democratic party,
and the author’s main purpose in writing his biography is to present
the counterpart of the Whig and Republican movements which constitutes
the main theme of the author’s life of Thomas Williams.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“Had Chief Justice Lewis been a jurist only, we are told in the
preface, ‘the author would have felt no mission to present his
career.’ Nevertheless, this life of Lewis is almost wholly devoted to
his career as a jurist. Of his influence upon the tortuous course of
Pennsylvania politics we get only occasional and fleeting glimpses
which whet the appetite for more.” P. O. Ray.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 388. Ja. ’08. 560w.
“In the absence of any general political history of Pennsylvania,
biographies like these meet a distinct need, and Mr. Konkle’s legal
training, his knowledge of Pennsylvania leaders and characteristics
qualify him to supply this need. It is, therefore, to be regretted
that a work of much promise and great possibilities is marred by many
defects. Whenever the author passes from the analysis of complex
political situations to the narration of simple events his style is
clear.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 163. Jl. ’07. 380w.
=Kotzschmar, Mary Ann.= Half-hour lessons in music: class work for
beginners at the piano. $1. Ditson.
7–33585.
Twelve lessons for teachers of children; the aim being “to see from
the children’s point of view, and to explain and illustrate things
musical in a way that would appeal to their imagination as well as
reason.” The author makes much of the natural enthusiasm and optimism
of little people; she believes in class instruction in preference to
private lessons; she introduces into each lesson interesting details
about the lives of composers.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 86: 179. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Kramer, Harold Morton.= Castle of dawn. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10278.
Two Chicago young people, one a newspaper man and the other the
charming daughter of a certain “Graball” Gray are imprisoned under
puzzling circumstances in the Ozarks. After a week of hairbreadth
experiences, they find that the Castle of Dawn where they have become
prisoners in velvet rather than iron is the rendezvous of Nicaraguan
revolutionists whom the government is trying to run to cover. It is a
sprightly story with a romance that is kept apart from the few
melodramatic touches.
* * * * *
“The surprising thing about ‘The castle of dawn’ is, not that is is a
mediocre novel of its kind, but rather, that being so obviously built
according to formula, it should be anywhere nearly so good as it is.”
F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 230w.
“It is all very trifling, but it is also very diverting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book will certainly not fail to hold the attention, and it has
many good qualities, but it is too bewilderingly involved for the
brain of the average reader.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 310. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Kremer, Ida.= Struggle for a royal child, Anna Monica Pia, duchess
of Saxony. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–2755.
Here are narrated the experiences of a governess in the house of the
Countess Montignoso during 1906. She was sent by the Saxon court to
Villa Montauto, for the purpose of helping to return the royal child,
Anna Monica Pia, to her father. The book is in the form of a diary and
records minutely the daily life of the Countess and of the members of
her household.
* * * * *
“It is mainly taken up with a study of the Countess’s character, and
shows much penetration, clear insight, and the ability to philosophise
with discretion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Kubinyi, Victor von.= King of Rome; a biography. $1.50. Victor von
Kubinyi, box 33, South River, N. J.
7–40865.
In this historical sketch the author has endeavored with painstaking
care to evolve the truth concerning Napoleon’s son from all the mass
of fact and fiction which has been written concerning him. He
sympathetically treats the life of this unfortunate young prince from
its beginning in Paris thru his various changing fortunes in Austria
up to the day of his untimely death. The biography is supplemented by
several illuminating sketches which tend to enlarge and develop the
original theme.
* * * * *
“It is chatty, gossipy in tone; speaks of the Little Corporal with the
enthusiasm of a private of the Old Guard, and of the Duke de
Reichstadt with the undiscriminating tenderness of a devoted nurse.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 830. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Kuhns, Levi Oscar.= Sense of the infinite: a study of the
transcendental element in literature, life and religion. **$1.50.
Holt.
8–24253.
With the same method of literary investigation that the author
employed in “Dante and the English poets” he traces the evidence to
the transcendental element in the literature and religion of the
Western world from the time of Plato to the present. The book is
addressed to the general reader. Following an introduction which lays
out the lines along which the discussion moves there are chapters on
What is the infinite, The transcendental view of nature, Romantic lore
and the transcendental sense, Plato and Plotinus, Platonism past and
present, Mediaeval mysticism, Renaissance and reformation, The
Pietistic movement and its influence, The transcendental element and
modern life.
* * * * *
“In few popular works of the present time has the essential
spirituality of mystic exaltation been so consistently maintained.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is written with unusual simplicity, in every-day language, with
ease and dignity of style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Kunz, George Frederick, and Stevenson, Charles Hugh.= Book of the
pearl: the history, art, science and industry of the queen of
gems. **$12.50. Century.
8–29321.
The combined work of a gem expert and a member of the United States
fish commission. It is a handsomely made volume of five hundred and
thirty pages covering the entire field of the pearl. It illustrates
the use of pearls as objects of art and ornamentation; notes their
decorative value as shown in portraiture and in imaginative designs by
great artists; assembles theories and facts concerning their origin,
growth and structure; sets forth their values, artistically and
commercially; describes proper treatment and care; gives the history
of pearl fisheries; and emphasizes the importance of conserving the
resources and the possibilities of cultivating the pearl-oyster.
* * * * *
“Encyclopaedic in character, and representing an appalling amount of
the most laborious research, the book is nevertheless thoroughly
readable.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 440w.
“The book is a very great success in every way.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 300w.
“Must be pronounced as fascinating as it is learned and
authoritative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 674. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The work as a whole, however, is fairly readable. In quantity and
quality of information it should be accounted as one of the most
notable works yet produced on a topic connected with jewelry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 830w.
“Once in a while there is produced a book so comprehensive in its
treatment of the subject with which it deals, so manifestly the
product of infinite pains in an author eminent in his chosen field,
and artistically so beautiful in its finished form, that the reader
can hardly help but exclaim at the skill, patience, and labor involved
in its production. Such a work is ‘The book of the pearl.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 604. O. 24, ’08. 2350w.
“For those who own pearls, and for those who love pearls, and for
those who want to know all about pearls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 220w.
L
=L.= Dark ages and other poems. $1. Longmans.
Fifty-five religious and secular poems. “Of the sacred poems we should
put ‘Lethe’ first, and of the others ‘The English gipsies’ and the
charming ‘Cottage inscription.’ Not all of the lyrics are Arcadian.
Some are passionate outcries against contemporary follies.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A cultivated and reflective mind, dwelling upon themes of art,
religion, history, and the legendary past, finding for its thoughts
and fancies a striking form of individual expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 62. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Uniformly effective work. Many examples of two tempers—that of the
image maker and that of the meditative listener—mingled in a composite
strain of sensitiveness to aesthetic and spiritual impressions.” E. L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A serious and sensitive mind, with many deep affections, and his
composition is both skilful and painstaking.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 728. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“A little lacking in rhythmical finish, but has the merit of ideas,
and now and then of fine verse.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= The woman pays. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–18368.
A melodramatic story in which the principal characters are a young New
York newspaper writer, his wife and a clergyman. The latter,
egotistical, self-loving, casts a spell over the woman, wins her from
her husband and betrays her honor.
* * * * *
“It is a tale that is told with some power. Some of the descriptions
of a phase of metropolitan life are interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 320w.
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= In Korea with Marquis Ito. **$2.50.
Scribner.
8–7156.
A study including statements of fact based on personal observation;
expressions of opinion based upon the fullest obtainable knowledge of
the facts; and certain conjectures ventured after facts have been
studied and opinions weighed. Prof. Ladd went to the country to
lecture and staid to absorb matters pertaining to international
affairs and race psychology. His work is first a narrative of personal
experience, and, second, a critical and historical inquiry with many a
sidelight on Japan’s greatest statesman.
* * * * *
“Though he has an obvious pro-Japanese bias, it is impossible to doubt
that his story, in the main, is accurate.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 470w.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 60w.
“The volume is well illustrated, and is in every respect a valuable
work of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Because Professor Ladd clearly shows the vital relation of mission
work to its environment (and he is the only writer so far as we know
who has done this needed work with such ability), he has done a most
valuable and timely service to the growing science of missions. A well
written book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 500w.
“The work is timely, the information fresh and reliable, the style is
charming. The book is laid down with a feeling that the clouds have
been cleared away from a very interesting and hitherto very obscure
passage in contemporaneous history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“For the serious student Dr. Ladd’s book by no means supersedes the
works of Dallet, Hulbert, and others who have studied Korea in the
perspective of history, language and literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 850w.
“Can hardly be accepted as [an account] of a disinterested and
impartial student. Undoubtedly honest, sincere, and convinced, his
book is nevertheless an ex parte statement of a professed friend of
Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“From a competent observer and fair-minded critic and reporter, with
very unusual opportunities for correct information, we have the truth
about Korea, and Japan in Korea. So enlightening a volume should not
lack a good map.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“However much careful readers might disagree with the author in
several of his opinions on things Korean and Japanese, they will not
fail to appreciate the sincerity of his views, and wish that another
equally sincere and able work showing the other side of the question
might, if that is possible appear to enlighten them.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 350. N. ’08. 760w.
* =La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the
Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. McClure.
Six lectures which inaugurated the Scammon course at the Art institute
of Chicago, in 1903. They are as follows: The school; Delacroix;
Millet; Decamps and Diaz; Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny; Corot. Index.
* =Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Christ legends; tr. from the Swedish by Velma
Swanston Howard. **$1.25. Holt.
Mainly from the apocryphal New Testament writings are borrowed legends
of the early life of Christ which Miss Lagerlöf has made over and
expanded into stories near of kin to Swedish folk lore tales. The
miracle-working power of the child Jesus is revealed with spiritual
discernment from which the ardor of her imagination does not detract.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“All the stories, no matter what their claim may be to authenticity,
are eloquent of that spirit of joy and imaginative fervor which from
time immemorial has imparted its zest to the celebration of
Christmas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by Velma
S. Howard. il. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–33213.
A book which is the result of “years of study of animal and bird life
by the author, with legends and folk-lore, which are woven together in
the charming story of little Nils, turned into an elf, traveling on
the back of a goose with a flock of wild geese, understanding the
speech of birds and animals.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Will interest children who like George Macdonald’s fairy tales and
the like; will make a place for itself but not be popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“I should advise parents to give the book an examination, for its
foundation is built upon national characteristics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Said to be the best book of Sweden’s great fiction writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Lair, Jules.= Louise de la Vallière and the early life of Louis
XIV. (Memoir ser., no. 39.) *$3.50. Putnam.
The story of Louise de la Vallière who “was a favorite of Louis XIV.,
who bore him four children, was discarded for another favorite, and
ended her days as a Carmelite nun. The narrative woven around this
tale is a revoltingly minute description of the doings of court
libertines and intriguers.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 300w.
“The book has all the appeal of the romantic novel. To such M. Lair’s
careful and accurate work cannot be too strongly recommended.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 1800w.
“If there were any scheme of social regeneration that would put to
hard labor the people who write and read such unnecessary, and to say
the least, unesthetic rubbish, it ought to be welcomed by those who
have a kindly interest in humanity.”
− − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have nothing but praise for a charming work charmingly printed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
“The translator of this interesting volume seems to have done her work
faithfully, though her style is occasionally marred by unfortunate
solecisms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 640w.
“The story of her life is neither instructive nor inspiring, and as
told by M. Lair it is so burdened with unsavory detail and false
sentiment as to make thoroughly unpleasant reading.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“M. Lair treats his subject with good taste and delicacy, fairness and
candour.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 480w.
=Lake, Rev. Kirsopp.= Historical evidence for the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–5811.
“An examination of the evidence from the critical point of view, with
a result unfavorable to the material view of the resurrection.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 20w.
“Even those who are unable to follow the author in all his criticisms
and exegesis must admit the force of his reasoning, and the reverence
with which it is presented.” G. E. French.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 6: 691. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The work as a whole is an able piece of historical criticism,
conducted in a reverential spirit, and recognizing to the full the
limits of historical investigation and the privileges of religious
faith.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Has a fair claim to be reckoned as one of the really important works
upon its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w.
=La Monte, Robert Rives.= Socialism: positive and negative. 50c.
Kerr.
7–21308.
A group of essays dealing with such subjects as Science and socialism,
Marxism and ethics, and The nihilism of socialism.
* * * * *
“There is no connection between the essays and, on the whole, they do
not present as satisfactory a statement of the socialistic doctrines
as does Mr. Spargo’s book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 280. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“He has studied his books, and he writes with dash and cleverness. But
his tolerance of persons who do not see with him is by no means
gentle.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 6, ’07. 200w.
=La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich H. K.= Undine; tr. from the German by G:
P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23095.
“He takes the reader through enchanted forests and among mysterious
gnomes and spirits. The malicious Kühleborn, the quaint old fisherman
and his dame, good father Heilmann, the worldly Bertalda, the gallant
but fickle Huldbrand, are characters full of interest; but most
beautiful and lovely in her form of water sprite, and afterwards in
the suffering wife when she had found a soul, is Undine.”
* =Lancaster, G. B.= Altar stairs. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A novel which tells a tale of the South seas, in which a dominating
man suddenly finds himself in love with a woman who is bound to
another. The hero holds for months in his power the man to whom the
woman he loves is bound, but ultimate happiness comes out of it
all.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The grip of the story can in no way be conveyed by an outline of the
plot, each incident being so firmly built into the general structure
that the whole must be envisaged in detail to be appreciated. It would
seem as if there might be less wading in gore without sacrificing the
sweep and vigor of the story.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Lancaster’s style is not good, and in his endeavor to be
characteristic he occasionally becomes unintelligible. But there is a
fresh wind blowing through the book that sets the blood dancing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Tracks we tread. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–28459.
A story which “leads us into the sheep-country of New Zealand, among a
class superficially more like our Western ranchers than the official
Englishman. Yet it is the Briton bearing the sacred torch to the
farthest ends of the earth whom we are once again called upon, not
unwillingly, to admire; the type of those ‘who go away many times to
endings unchronicled; men who love, who conquer, and serve, on the
downs, the harsh mountains, the unhandled plains.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book of uncommon calibre, rugged, sincere, tremendously virile—a
book that pictures the rough, hard men of a rough, hard country
frankly, without illusion or euphemism, but with a deep understanding
of human nature that makes it a book to linger over.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 450w.
“Kipling’s hall-mark is upon it as a whole. Its salient traits are
terseness and vividness of phrase, a grim humor prone to deal with the
less savory aspects of the theme, and an unconquerable instinct for
the romantic aspects.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lanchester, F. W.= Aerodynamics; constituting the first volume of a
complete work on aerial flight. *$6. Van Nostrand.
8–26416.
“For the first time, as far as we know, this volume brings together in
one place all that theory and practice have to contribute to our
knowledge of the conditions which govern true flight. The final
chapters, dealing with the experimental work of Langley and other
investigators, is probably the most interesting to the ordinary
reader, who will realise from it how complex are the problems that the
aviator has yet to solve.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4:55. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Had the author extended the last chapter to include the work of
continental writers ... and excluded some of the more shaky
theoretical chapters, the work might without exaggeration be called a
complete treatise on aerodynamics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 337. Ag. 13, ’08. 780w.
“A sound and conscientious piece of work which should be invaluable to
the practical builder of aeroplanes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Landor, Arnold H. Savage.= Across widest Africa. 2v. *$10.50.
Scribner.
7–37937.
An account of the country and people of eastern, central, and western
Africa, as seen during a twelve months’ journey from Djibuti to Cape
Verde. Mr. Landor’s book is not devoted to adventure, “it is concerned
with the characteristic features of that country.... The rivers,
mountains, elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the various
complicated tribal divisions and names, the languages and the customs
of the tribes, and the host of details which of necessity must
constitute the study of the observing traveller, are the objects which
appeal to him.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“All due qualifications being made, there is a large amount of
interesting reading in these two handsome and well-illustrated
volumes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 430w.
“Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the subject of some very
interesting chapters of the book” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 415. D. 16, ’07. 1870w.
“Apparently ignorant of those sciences with which an explorer ought to
be thoroughly familiar, Mr. Landor states his observations, his
deductions, his impressions, and also those of other people, as if
they were infallible dogmas. The result of this, and of his inability
to sift evidence in a scientific way, is a tissue of absurdities,
enunciated with such a semblance of authority that an unwary reader
would assume them all to be well-ascertained facts. Notwithstanding
his many errors of fact and of inference ... it is only fair to admit
that Mr. Landor’s book makes interesting reading all through; that in
no single work is it possible to find so many details of the customs
of so many central African tribes; and that, if the author lacks many
of the qualities of an historian, he, at any rate, possesses those of
a traveller in a high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 330. N. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“Though much of the book is tedious, there is also much that is
entertaining, and it enables one to realize vividly how life in the
heart of Africa appears to the traveller.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 289. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Tales of Troy and Greece. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–34175.
The author has regrouped the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” into two
cycles, one called “Ulysses the sacker of cities,” and the other “The
wanderings of Ulysses.” “Three other sections recount the tales of the
Fleece of gold from traditional matter, being supplemented by
Apollonius Rhodius and the fight between Polydeuces and the giant from
Theocritus; and the stories of Theseus and Perseus, which depend
mainly on summaries contained in Plutarch and Apollodorus.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Delightfully told in the fairy-tale manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Lang, though as simple in style as Mr. Church, differs from the
latter in that he pauses to describe customs, arms, and mode of life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 340w.
“Mr. Lang ... puts into his text more substance than is found in the
ordinary adaptation or rewritten classic.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Will prove a sheer delight to any boy or girl of imagination and a
feeling for adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Lang has attempted a sort of Biblia innocentum version of the
Grecian Book of books. The result is an excellent narrative that often
vividly recalls the original. The rest of the book is made up of the
stories of Theseus, of Perseus, and of the Golden fleece, which are
equally interesting, though marred with one or two misplaced modern
touches.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Professor Church’s book is story pure and simple; Mr. Lang’s is story
embroidered upon, and given a moral, philosophical, and historical
complexion by turns. Yet Mr. Lang’s language is quite simple, and the
child could accept the narrative at its face value with perfect
comprehension.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1220w.
* =Lang, Leonora Blanche (Mrs. Andrew Lang).= Book of princes and
princesses; ed. by A. Lang. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–28404.
True stories “almost as interesting as fairy tales.” They are
concerned “with people, little people indeed, yet people of real flesh
and blood.... The subjects of the stories, taken from English and
French history, deal with the early lives of young persons, some of
whom died young, while others grew up to be famous personages.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Lang writes effectively, but has not altogether succeeded in
attaining simplicity of style. The volume is an attractive collection
of real stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 120w.
“Though the stories are strictly historical in the main, Mrs. Lang has
embellished the cold data with lively conversations, and parenthetical
comment to suit the story to juvenile taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“The young people who are bored by these stories, even though they are
true, must be very hard to please.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 880w.
* =Lanier, Sidney.= Poem outlines. **$1. Scribner.
8–27138.
“This slender volume is a poet’s note-book. It records ideas,
impressions, figures, pictures, which the poet proposes to use at some
future time in a more complete way. It is a collection of fragments,
of quick studies, such as a painter makes out of doors when the light
is rapidly changing, and which he works up at leisure in his
studio.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A little book of poetic outlines that lets [the world] into some of
the vagrant moods of one of the most sensitive and sweet-spirited
singers of our Southland.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 605. O. 24, ’08. 730w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Larard, C. E., and Golding, H. A.= Practical calculations for
engineers; for the use of engineering students, apprentices,
draughtsmen, mechanics, foremen, and others practically engaged in
engineering work. *$2. Lippincott.
W8–140.
“The general character of this work places it somewhere between the
engineering pocket-book and the college text-book. The methods,
formulæ, and appliances which a student encounters during a good
college course in mechanical engineering are here, not demonstrated,
but collected and described, systematically, and applied to such
practical examples as are likely to occur in an engineering
workshop.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“It can do best service to men who lack an education in engineering
theory, but even many of these, technical college graduates, may find
it a guide to improvement.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The authors give some most striking examples of the great value of
squared-paper work in the systematic plotting of variable quantities
in all branches of a manufacturing establishment, and the lessons to
be learnt therefrom. This section is extremely suggestive, and will
well repay the careful study of all practical engineers.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 555. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Lathrop, Elise L.= Sunny days in Italy. **$2.50. Pott.
7–29872.
“An unpretentious volume of agreeable, familiar gossip about a dozen
or more of the chief points of interest to which the average tourist
sooner or later finds his way. It is a sort of pot-pourri of
miscellaneous impressions and information, vivid little pen pictures
of a building, a landscape, a crowd at a railway station; useful
advice, gleaned from experience, regarding the hiring of apartments,
bargaining with cab drivers, traveling in third-class carriages; an
accumulated store of observations regarding Italian traits and social
customs.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Differs from other books on Italy in describing the little things
about the life and customs which other writers have not mentioned, and
yet are the things a traveler likes to know about.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Miss Lathrop has not any real gift of expression; her observation
does not seem to have been more than superficial; and apparently her
knowledge of Italy is merely that of a tourist.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Àp. 11. 300w.
“Flung together with a well-intentional sincerity, a pleasant and
quite feminine enthusiasm which makes agreeable reading.” F: P.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately, at least two-thirds of the book is a perfunctory
performance without ‘raison d’être.’ The worst defect of the book,
however, is found in the errors in style, with which its pages
bristle. Nor is the book free from errors in statement. Yet, in spite
of these defects, the book may be recommended for its practical,
sympathetic, and in many respects novel account of the Italian customs
of to-day.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’97. 430w.
“This is a pleasant book, giving intelligent descriptions of rural
Italy as well as of the Italian cities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 494. Ja. ’08. 450w.
=Lauck, William Jett.= Causes of the panic of 1893. (Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22103.
“Reviews the industrial and financial history of the decade preceding
1893, and then describes the panic itself. In the account which Mr.
Lauck gives of the conditions in Germany, France, and Great Britain
his work supplements usefully A. D. Noyes’s ‘Thirty years of American
finance’; but in his discussion of events in the United States he adds
substantially nothing to Mr. Noyes’s narrative.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 86: 90. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“It may seem left-handed praise to hint that it is more interesting
and useful as prophecy than history, when it purports to be purely and
merely history. Yet we doubt that any such treatise could serve a more
useful purpose than to light the way to avoidance of past errors and
sufferings by the lessons of experience.” E: A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 565. S. 21, ’07. 510w.
* =Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and
political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by
Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
A work which examines the problem of the future supply of gold from a
scientific standpoint and correlates the influence of this supply with
prices and the movement of capital from the financial standpoint. The
four divisions of the treatment are: The geology of gold; The
geographical distribution of gold in the past and present; The
extraction and dressing of gold; and The economy of gold.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Launspach ... devotes about a quarter of his book to the history
of the constitutional struggle; his account is not, as the accounts
given by lawyers frequently are, a mere string of facts and dates; he
has tried to make the story intelligible.... The legal chapters on
marriage, patria potestas, and succession, which follow the
constitutional sketch, aim at doing no more than summarizing the legal
aspect of the family.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Is one of those books, far too common in England and America, which
possess no particular value for scholars, yet do not serve the general
reader. The author’s mind is legal and schematic, rather than
historical, and he does not seem to realize that many of the
foundations upon which he builds ... have been seriously shaken by
anthropology and by historical criticism. The most substantial
chapters are those on family law.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 350w.
“There appears to be a singular lack of proportion in the space
devoted to the various controversial topics, and also great
arbitrariness in the distinction between those points which are
discussed and those others which are dealt with dogmatically.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 205. Ag. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“There is much of value in Mr. Launspach’s volume. We do not always
agree with him. He makes too little, we think, of legend and
tradition.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 140w.
=Laur, Francis.= Heart of Gambetta; authorized translation by
Violette M. Montagu; with an introd. by J. Macdonald. *$2.50.
Lane.
8–13688.
“The heart of this book is the love-letters of Gambetta written to
Madame Léonie Léon. Around them are grouped a certain amount of
history, a larger amount of inference or conjecture, and a still
larger amount of tearful sentiment by M. Laur.” (Nation.) “The new
historical fact in the letters here translated is the revelation of
the truth that Gambetta deliberately pretended to favour a schism such
as would detach the Gallican church from Rome, in order to bring the
pope to accept his proposals for the separation of church and state.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“The translation is hardly good enough for the letters, which when
they first appeared in Paris were praised, above all things, for their
style.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 1130w.
“M. Laur’s method is throughout too gushing to pass for that of sober
history. He reminds one of a lachrymose Victor Hugo: ‘I wept. All
France wept.’ The style is staccato drowned in emotion. But
disregarding most of M. Laur’s sentimental embroidering, these letters
of Gambetta must be taken as a real contribution to our knowledge of
the man.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 520w.
“The book is too good, too thoroughly an analysis of two human hearts,
too personal, too intimate not to arouse suspicion that the author has
frequently used his imagination in order to seek out dramatic causes
for known suggestive results.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 129. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“The letters in this volume ... constitute an important, but in parts
slightly hysteric, contribution to the history of an extremely
interesting period in the political development of France. It must be
confessed that, from the English point of view, and as a transcript of
human emotion presumably at its highest, they are rather
disappointing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 369. S. 12, ’08. 1450w.
* =Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the
story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson bay company; new
pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v.
*$5. Outing.
Tireless examination of records and documents, many of which are
unclassified and inaccessible, lies back of Miss Laut’s 800 page story
of the Hudson bay company. Beginning with the voyages of Henry Hudson,
the author omits none of the exploration that precedes the organizing
of the Hudson bay company, and then exploits the company “as
adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert’s land to
California—feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy,” pausing for
historical details where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer
and pioneer.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately there is no index. Both author and publisher are to be
congratulated on a most important and careful work, which is yet alive
with human sympathy and full of vivid character drawing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 700. N. 28, ’08. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Lawson, W. R.= American finance; part first—Domestic. $2.
Macmillan.
7–28928.
Mr. Lawson—not the author of “Frenzied finance”—is an Englishman who
has written a number of books of this nature including “British
economics.” This is a history and discussion of American financial
methods in four parts: Evolution, Organization, Creative powers, and
Destructive powers.
* * * * *
“The book seems to want a definite purpose. The writer betrays a lack
of economic training and judgment, and at the end one is in doubt as
to what Mr. Lawson really thinks about our monetary system and
financial methods. Its value as descriptive material is vitiated by
bad arrangement and incoherence.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 370w.
“In general the discussion of these questions as of our financial
experience as a whole is suggestive and stimulating. It is, however,
rather picturesque than analytic.” James Cummings.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 438. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“A very readable account.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 192. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“Though we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters
economic, we gladly recognise that ... he has selected an excellent
subject in which he seems to be much more at home.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 110w.
“The book is frankly popular and does not pretend to be a contribution
to our knowledge on the subject. The author’s style is breezy and his
treatment somewhat superficial, but the book is well written and
decidedly interesting. The author possesses a clear and sympathetic,
if not very profound, understanding of American financial
institutions, and his attitude is remarkably broad-minded and fair.”
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 444. F. ’08. 250w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= François-Auguste Rodin. *$1. Kennerley.
8–35518.
A sketch of the celebrated French sculptor, written from first hand
materials-from conversations with Rodin, from consultation with his
friends and from his correspondence. It is neither a copy nor an
abridgement of the larger “Life” but a fresh treatment thruout. The
forces which have operated in Rodin’s career, his peculiar genius, and
illustrations of his success are discussed with understanding.
* * * * *
“A good book for the library that cannot afford the larger life by the
same author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Lawton is keenly interested in the artist of whom he writes, but
is so close to his subject that it somewhat overawes him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 200w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
“This little book is written with sympathy and insight, and will be
appreciated by those who have not time to read the author’s longer
book treating of the greatest figure in European art of the present
age.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of Punch; his life, letters
and diaries. *$3.50. Holt.
8–6092.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“His life, though in no sense dramatic, was an interesting one; for
years he rubbed elbows intimately with all that was best and most
brilliant in the upper circles of London’s Bohemia.” Beverley Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 517. Ja. ’08. 970w.
“London of the sixties and early seventies and ‘Punch’s’ inner
editorial circle, besides many more intimate matters, live again in
its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“His letters are of the kind that must have filled the recipient with
joy, but that somehow in cold print, half a century later, sound
forced and schoolboyish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Layard, bound apparently to make a portly volume, has not
digested, selected, and rejected from among his material as carefully
as one might wish.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Layard is sometimes more expansive in this volume than the
occasion demands. But on the whole ‘Shirley Brooks of Punch’ is highly
entertaining, and a book for which we should be grateful.” H. S.
Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 752. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“We do not wish that it had been shorter or substantially other than
it is.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1056. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Suppressed plates: wood engravings, etc.;
together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account
of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector. *$4.
Macmillan.
8–18752.
In bringing out old books in new dress, plates have been discarded for
moral reasons, for lack of artistic merit, and for failure to
illustrate the text adequately. The author discusses these suppressed
plates, includes many of them in his illustrations, tho none whose
moral tone is questioned, and deals at length with palimpsest
plates—plates which have had objectionable portions burnished out and
which have been adapted to their new use by re-engraving the erased
sections.
* * * * *
“Mr. Layard writes with such extensive knowledge that it is not easy
to find holes in his armour. The facts are brought together with so
much skill that this volume will rank, both with those who sell and
those who buy books, as an acceptable work of reference, entertaining
as well as instructive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 750w.
“He treats in a most entertaining manner of a subject which cannot
fail to be of the greatest interest to every ardent book-hunter,
print-collector, and artist.” G: W. Cole.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 161. Ap. ’08. 1750w.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
=Forum.= 39: 529. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“People who care for the bypaths and curiosities of the pictorial side
of literature will be much interested in Mr. Layard’s new book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Lea, Frederick Charles.= Hydraulics. *$5. Longmans.
8–10845.
“In this work the author has endeavored to embody the results of the
large amount of experimental hydraulic work which has been
accomplished during the past decade—especially on the subject of the
flow of water—and to indicate the methods used in obtaining these
results.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 300w.
“The author writes as one having authority and altogether the book
appears to the reviewer as the most satisfactory treatment of its
subject for the English speaking student that has yet appeared.” G. S.
Williams.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“Altogether the work forms an excellent textbook, and is cordially to
be recommended to students of this most interesting and useful
science.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 530. Ap. 9, ’08. 700w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies,
Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New
Granada. **$2.50, Macmillan.
8–1774.
A volume which supplements the author’s series of histories on the
inquisition. It throws light on the workings of the inquisitorial
system as operated by the colonial tribunals in the new world, and the
retarding effects upon the development of the Spanish-American
colonies.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 689. Ap. ’08. 30w.
Reviewed by G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 847. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“The volume is marked by the characteristic excellences of its
predecessors: a style which is useful, without possessing much
literary charm, an inexhaustible knowledge of his subject, and an
organization of his materials so exact, and so natural that the reader
easily follows the narrative.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 311. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Throughout the work, a closer chronological arrangement at times
might have conduced to greater clearness.” J. A. Robertson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 455. S. ’08. 550w.
“Ranks easily with his strongest and best.” L. M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He has always the great advantage of looking at the subject as a
whole, and viewing it against the background of the parent
institution.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The ground to be gone over is so large and the records are so scanty
that the treatment is necessarily less detailed and vivid than in the
other volumes.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“To those who are interested in the theme it seems unfortunate that
Dr. Lea should have omitted the history of the Spanish inquisition in
the Netherlands, Chile and the La Plata provinces. An inclusion of
these areas would have rounded out the view most admirably.” W: R.
Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 328. Je. ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 563. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Lea, Homer.= Vermilion pencil: a romance of China. †$1.50. McClure.
8–9531.
A young Breton priest, detailed to instruct the wife of a wealthy
mandarin, falls in love with her and they elope. They are caught, the
husband subjects his wife to the terrible torture of the lyngchee,
while the lover identifies himself with the “Deluge family,” a secret
revolutionary society, whose symbol draws to him crowds who aid in
rescuing the condemned woman. “The book is more than a novel—it is a
human document.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A lurid and grotesque impression of China.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The most remarkable piece of fiction the year thus far has brought.
The story itself is not overpowering in its ingenuity, but in its
opening of glimpses into a world all but unknown to the west, it is of
very great interest, and in its undeniable penetration of character
and power of description it merits the wide attention which beyond
doubt it will receive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“A story full of exciting scenes and revelations about China and the
Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Lea’s story is rather too tragic and too horrible in its
descriptions of Chinese tortures to be agreeable but it is a sincere
picture of a beautiful character in the person of its heroine, and of
her influence over a great Chinese official through her loveliness and
brilliant mind in abolishing evil and injustice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“This appears to us the most valuable novel on the subject of China as
yet penned in the English language, none existing, besides, that so
well combines instruction with entertainment.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Lear, Edward.= Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord
Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave; ed. by Lady
Strachey of Sutton court. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–28968.
Edward Lear, the pioneer limerick maker, caricaturist, and landscape
painter, is self revealed in these letters in which “mingle
tenderness, a whimsical humor, and the power to see the visible world
as pictorial material.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Lady Strachey is to be congratulated on the publication of letters
which reveal a pleasant personality. We have no doubt that Lady
Strachey’s venture will come to a second edition, and offer some
corrections in view of that event.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 760. D. 14. 830w.
“A volume of characteristic and amusing letters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have read these letters with continuous delight. They fully
satisfy such expectations as may have been aroused by Lear’s
long-famous ‘Book of nonsense’; in other words, they justify Lear’s
reputation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 1250w.
“These are delightful letters and fully satisfy any expectations about
them which might have been aroused by Lear’s long famous ‘Book of
nonsense.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 90w.
“They reflect the temper and interests of his prime, and are so
personal in their tone that we gain from them a vivid picture of the
quaint personality that so continually suggests Thackeray’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 493. S. 12, ’08. 2050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The book is exactly of the kind which one can pick up from a shelf in
an odd minute of spare time and dip into here and there with
enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 230. S. 26, ’08. 240w.
* =Leaves= from a life. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
8–31145.
Supposedly from the pen of a daughter of William P. Frith, the English
painter, these sketches contain anecdotes of Browning, Tennyson, Du
Maurier, Leighton, Dickens, Trollope, and many other celebrities in
arts and letters.
* * * * *
“It is a good-natured, simple-minded, humorous presentation of a great
slice of mid-Victorian England, a canvas full of figures rendered with
practically no technique at all. The slipshod condition of the
author’s style is almost incredible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Laughter-loving pages. They are the record of a woman who has seen
much of life, who loved it in its full course and loves it now in
retrospect. Her book will amuse people from the first page to the
last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 1100w.
=Leavitt, Sheldon.= Paths to the heights. **$1. Crowell.
8–15159.
The record of the work of a physician who abandoned drugs and entered
the field of mental healing. His experience lies between orthodox
theology and Christian science and is full of practical suggestion.
* * * * *
“We read the book and find it rational and instructive in many
respects.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 387. O. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Le Blond, Elizabeth A. F. (Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond) (Mrs. Main).=
Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
A narration of the author’s experiences in climbing thirty-three
mountains. “It was delightful,” she writes, “to think that we could
start when we liked, return when we liked, and have the cheering rays
of the sun always visible. In the north, too, we found all the
picturesqueness of Lapp and reindeer, all the repose of a land where
no tourists are seen, all the magnificence of ice-clad mountains and
spires of rocks mingled with the softer beauty of lake and fjord.”
* * * * *
“There is much detail which can interest only the keen mountain
climber. The interest for other readers lies in the fact that the book
shows, as no other within our knowledge does, how delightfully a
summer can be passed in camp or in one of the little settlements in
this region. To the vivid word pictures are added 71 reproductions of
photographs, which show not only the wondrous scenery, but also many
of the stirring incidents of the ascents.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 260w.
“There are some very interesting passages in ‘Mountaineering in the
land of the midnight sun,’ for the author, besides being a good
climber, is a charming writer, who relates her experiences wonderfully
well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 220w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Inspired millionaires: a forecast. $1.25.
Mount Tom press.
8–17551.
Mr. Lee looks forward to the time when some millionaire will conduct a
factory that “will rank with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad, and
the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah.” He believes that the question of
human labor is one that belongs to the arts and humanities, and not
merely to the sciences; that the factory, if enough soul is poured in,
should be as spiritual as a church and as educational as a school.
“His fresh way of putting some old facts and truths is not unlike the
wholesome freshet that leaves behind it a fertilizing deposit.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“These essays are as light as gossamer in substance, and their
intellectual quality will not appeal to the common mind at all. The
spirit of the book is wholesome, the manner is pleasing, it is surely
harmless, and it may have more than an aesthetic influence.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
“The author puts much that has been said on social problems into a
breezy and original form which holds attention through all the
amplification and reiterations of his central idea.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is not a safe book for beginners.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“The ingenuity she displays in demonstrating her thesis is equaled
only by her success in draining the plays of red blood and humanly
vital signification.” Archibald Henderson.
− =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 360w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 209. S. ’08. 40w.
“Will be of value to many readers, especially elementary Ibsenites,
not because it tells what the symbols are and mean, but because it
tells how to track them.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 922. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, Mrs. Lee’s little treatise strikes one more as a series
of somewhat iterative talks, loosely strung together and considerably
too dilute for grown folks. Her ideals are sound and helpful for
earnest young people desirous of writing papers on Ibsen.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 670w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Limbo and other essays; with a
new drama, Ariadne in Mantua. *$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of Limbo and other essays which also includes the new
drama Ariadne in Mantua. “This is a little play in which the forces of
Tradition, Discipline, and Civilization ‘triumph over the mere forces
of =Nature.=’ It is a closet drama, and the action is improbable;
nevertheless it rises to a moving, even pathetic climax.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ seems to us an exceptionally charming closet
drama.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 82. Ag. 16, ’08. 860w.
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 70w.
“It is not always apparent what Miss Paget is talking about, and she
is frequently guilty of rhetorical indiscretions which mar an
otherwise pleasant style, but her essays contain much agreeable
suggestion of an aesthetic nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ is treated, we need hardly say, with ‘Vernon
Lee’s’ own peculiar distinction, and both in refined thought and
beautiful prose the drama is worthy of her.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 869. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Sentimental traveller: notes
on places. *$1.50. Lane.
8–3114.
Vernon Lee takes her readers into Italy, Germany, Switzerland and
France and thru her impressionistic word-painting helps them to catch
and retain “portraits set in frames of their own familiar scenery.”
“Many interesting and important personages are mentioned or met with,
and anecdotes are told of most of them. Churches and castles and
peasant abodes are entered and admired, and works of art receive words
of commendation or disapproval.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The descriptions are still admirably done; but there is a surfeit of
them. The reflections are still those of a highly cultivated mind, but
nothing new or moving.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
“It is all the work of a woman of wide and easy culture, possessing a
pleasing fancy and no imagination. The book is obvious, but kindly,
for all its condescension, a condescension none the less marked that
it is probably unconscious.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“The charm of her writing lies in its lightness of touch, a quality
particularly evident in her slight but sure comment upon now this, now
that place, as a butterfly might go from flower to flower.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“‘Vernon Lee’ has written many delightful things, but nothing perhaps
more keenly suggestive and charmingly convincing than the first
chapter of her new book. Full of human as well as artistic interest.
No one will question their originality and charm.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 550w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Studies of the eighteenth
century in Italy; new ed. *$6. McClurg.
A new edition for whose unchanged text the author offers some
apologies, yet refuses “to lay indifferent hands, and even skeptical
eyes upon it.” It was written out of the fulness of youthful fancies,
and is permitted to remain the log-book of the author’s exploration,
the inventory of her enchanted garret. A new thirty-five page preface
“expounds and glorifies” the phase of her study dealing with music.
See Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 250w.
“The illustrations are excellent and contribute their share to the
vividness that is perhaps the salient characteristic of the work.” F.
B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 401. D. 1, ’08. 2500w.
“Correctness, orthodoxy, can be had for the asking at any academic
counter; Miss Paget deals in something better.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 600w.
=Lees, Dorothy Nevile.= Tuscan feasts and Tuscan friends. *$1.75.
Dodd.
8–18700.
The author’s experiences while living as governess in Florentine
families who spent their summers among the hills of Tuscany have
furnished the material for this description of life in and about a
villa. “She draws a delightful picture of certain Tuscan children....
Among the particularly good chapters are those giving an account of a
Tuscan fair, of the funeral of a contadina’s baby, of the exquisite
Tuscan irises and the preparation of the orris-root perfume.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Two defects in the book are excessive sentimentality and the literal
translation of Italian remarks.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“Without any appreciable gift for writing, the author is yet able to
bring before us the well-known scenes she describes just because she
has felt their beauty and loved them.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 200w.
“The book has two irritating blemishes. Miss Lees is so stirred by
Italy’s fatal gift of beauty that she pauses continually to
soliloquize in platitudes with exuberant sentimentality. The other
defect is her habit of translating the remarks of her Italian
acquaintances literally from the Italian idiom and in the Italian
order, and by this libellous method making the most graceful appear
the most imbecile of tongues.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is richness of legend, story, and customs in [this book].”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The style becomes rather commonplace and monotonous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“An agreeable book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 100w.
“These bright vivacious sketches of hers call for no review, only for
commendation. They are instinct with the true everyday life of
Tuscany. The writer has a quick ear, a quick eye, the faculty of
appreciation, the gift of enthusiasm and a very agreeable humour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Little dinners with the Sphinx, and other
prose fancies. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–36411.
Mr. Le Gallienne resumes his conversation with the lady of the opals,
bridging a separation of four years since the last “little dinners.”
In addition to the title story there are other prose fancies as
follows: The death of the poet; The butterfly of dreams; My castle in
Spain; Once-upon-a-time; The little joys of Margaret; What’s in a
name; Revisiting the glimpses of the moon; Eva, the woodland and I;
and The dream documents.
* * * * *
“Mr. Le Gallienne’s hand has not lost its dexterity as long as he can
fashion tales like these, and if his gift of philandering has a little
failed it may be replaced by a more masculine and robust genius, and
both he and his readers may be the richer.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
“These stories, in fact, with their exquisite images and lovely
language, are like those creations of Norse mythology that appeared
beautiful women when they faced you, but should they turn their backs,
proved to be no other than empty shells. To be sure, if one kept the
right point of view they were fair to look upon—and that is something
to be thankful for.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 259. D. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Omar repentant. *75c. Kennerley.
A temperance sermon embodied in a poem. It serves as a warning to
youth losing itself on “the vine-trellised path to hell.” It is an
antidote to the Rubaiyat in setting forth the subtle harmfulness of
the vine instead of its glory.
* * * * *
“No matter the duration of the author’s mood, it is good sense and not
bad poetry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book in a different vein from the author’s other volumes,
perhaps, yet it possesses the distinct flavor of his art, and could
not have come from another’s hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors.
*$3. Neale.
7–25045.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Haiti, at last, has a champion who is entitled to be heard; for he
speaks from fullness of knowledge, and from a position of political
eminence sends forth no uncertain sound.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 450w.
“This book deserves to be widely read.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Pilgrim jester; a poem. **$1.25. Lane.
A poem whose subject is “contemporary society, the fermenting must of
modern circumstance.” “‘The pilgrim jester,’ a symbolic blend of
Socrates and ‘The beloved vagabond,’ walks through modernity wisely
smiling, contemplating all forms of creeds. To the sandspinning
multitude, the blind mouths of Law, Church and State, to the
philosopher, the demimondaine, the poet, the frustrate woman, the
laborer, he holds up in turn amid appropriate surroundings the mirror
of a gently sympathetic scepticism.... He shadows forth a philosophy
not unlike the clearer teachings of Stevenson, of Browning, of
Whitman: that living is worth life, and only fear is evil.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“Though his indictment of established modes of thought is not free
from little touches of self complacency ... and his philosophy, in one
of its aspects at least, recalls the unassailable optimism of Dr.
Pangloss, the book shows much observation and humour, and its
technique is admirable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 796. D. 21. 120w.
“For all its casual beauties his book remains a breathless body, his
idea a disincarnate ghost; great in conception, perhaps—but
unexpressed for want of artistry in the expression.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 525. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The characters, including the jester, would have lived more intensely
had the author been less hobby-haunted than he is. But there is
vivacity in it all which proves the thought sincere, and gives it a
value in spite of its being unoriginal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 650w.
“Mr. Arthur Legge is that rare thing among modern writers, a satirist
who is also a poet. His ‘Pilgrim jester’ has passages which are not
unworthy of the author of ‘Don Juan.’ Great skill in versification, a
keen sense of the ironies of life, and something of prophetic wrath
are joined with a delicacy of imagination and a capacity for sustained
melodious flights which make his little book worthy of note by all
lovers of good literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: sup. 119. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Leith, W. Compton.= Apologia diffidentis. *$2.50. Lane.
8–16412.
A pathological study of the disease of shyness written in an
autobiographical strain that carries conviction.
* * * * *
“The matter of the book, unfortunately, is not sufficient to carry all
its superstructure. There are passages of pathos, and here and there a
touch of insight; but on the whole the writer has scarcely enough to
say to justify the decorated way in which he says it.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 282. Mr. 7. 1550w.
“Distinguished on every page for beauty of style. The shy fraternity
will need no word of ours to lead them to this book. But we hope that
what has been said here will turn the lover of literature to the
volume also, knowing as we do that it holds for him a pleasure not
often vouchsafed in these days of universal scribbling.” J: J. Holden.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 101. F. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The style is so carefully elaborated, at times so precious, that it
suggests insincerity. Perhaps the book, if taken in small doses, would
seem a thing of firmer texture.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“This is a study in style as well as a study of shyness. It is a very
flower of culture. One hardly finds anywhere in English prose a
happier faculty of sympathetic description of nature, that nature
which the solitary finds his refuge from man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“The book has high literary merit; the style is full of melody and
colour, and the rich dreamy sentences rise into the air like wreaths
of fragrant incense-smoke.” A. C. Benson.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 368. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Leland, John.= Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years
1535–1543. ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 2v. ea. $4. Macmillan.
7–25493.
=v. 1.= Contains pts. 1 and 2. It “comprises the antiquary’s journeys
through twenty-three counties. Some of these are touched upon but
slightly. The western counties, however, of Somerset, Dorset, Devon,
and Cornwall are dealt with at considerable length.” (Ath.)
=v. 2.= Contains pts. 3 and 4, and an appendix consisting of the
detached part of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’ found in Cheltenham. “Notes,
chiefly concerned with men and lands, culled from rolls and pedigrees
or set down by Leland from hearsay, go to make up part 4; Part 5 is
narrative ‘Itinerary,’ but, the original being lost, Miss Toulmin
Smith has been obliged to rely here on Stow checked by Burton.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“Forms an indispensable book of reference to those interested in the
history and antiquities of the west of England. Deserves a place in
every well-furnished library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the editorial part of the work we have nothing but praise. The
notes are few, but to the point.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 540. My. 2. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The text of these two excellently printed volumes seems to be above
reproach, and all students of English history will be grateful to Miss
Toulmin Smith for the immense care she has devoted to the preparation
of it. It would be a great pity if Miss Toulmin Smith’s excellent work
were to suffer from the want of an adequate index.” A. G. Little.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 569. Jl. ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“We congratulate Miss Toulmin Smith upon the manner in which she has
edited this valuable work, which is admirably printed, with a
satisfactory index.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 246. Ag. 9, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His ‘Itinerary’ will always stand as a work indispensable to the
student of English topography and life of the sixteenth century. Its
value is chiefly for the scholar and the local antiquarian.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 980w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 175. Ag. 10, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing is well done, and though a proper name has here and there
been allowed to escape, the index is satisfactory.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 638. My. 16, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =Leland, Walter S.= Boiler accessories: a complete and authoritative
treatise on the various accessories of the boiler room and engine room
essential to economical operation, together with practical instruction
in their use. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30357.
A handbook prepared for self-instruction and home study. Its three
divisions are: Special constructions and mechanical aids, Control and
supply devices, and Boiler troubles and tests. “The subjects embrace
settings for boilers, types of furnace construction, forced and
induced draft, steam and water gauges, safety valves, feed and
blow-off apparatus and piping, including fittings and insulation.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“One usually expects something more pretentious, however, when the
words ‘complete and authoritative treatise’ are employed.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 180w.
“The book seems to well serve its purpose of a not-too-technical
manual of boiler appurtenances.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 190w.
=Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Jeanne Mairet,
Madame Charles Bigot. **$2.50. McClure.
7–39534.
M. Lemaître holds the view of the majority of critics “that Rousseau,
in the last analysis, was a madman, rendered insane by the cumulative
effect of prolonged disease and real and imaginary persecution; that
his ‘pathology’ was the foremost factor in determining his career and
ideas; and that it is impossible to acquit him of gross and
unpardonable inconsistencies between his theories and his manner of
life.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Has faithfully presented all facts which are necessary for a complete
picture of the man’s character and mind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
“They are written in a free-and-easy style, and are rather familiar
talks than formal addresses.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 240w.
“Interesting and very readable volume. Not a little of the decided
charm of the book lies in the fact that the author reveals himself
quite as much as he does his subject. The fatal defect of his argument
is his neglect of—or shall we say unfamiliarity with?—the progress of
thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 57. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“A rather awkward translation. In the light of the Macdonald
documents, M. Lemaitre would seem to be an unduly harsh commentator;
and, granting their invalidity, he still is certainly most
unsympathetic. It is unquestionably most readable and most
stimulating. It possesses many passages of high analytical value.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 320w.
“Well worth reproduction in English. On the whole they have been
adequately translated.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
“Treats the generally odious details of his countryman’s life with
more philosophical indulgence, dwelling more insistently on that
strain of madness which is the kindest explanation of some of
Rousseau’s extraordinary actions.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Lenk, Dr. Heinrich von.= Marie Antoinette’s youth; tr. from the
German of Dr. Heinrich von Lenk by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for
young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23568.
A story from childhood to the perilous days of the Reign of terror
gives a clear insight into the unfortunate queen’s character and the
circumstances which led up to her death.
=Lenôtre, Gosselin.= Daughter of Louis XVI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte
de France, duchess d’Angoulême. *$4. Lane.
8–33929.
The story of the daughter of Louis XVI, her tragic separation from her
father, mother, brother, and aunt who were sent to the guillotine, her
release and her exchange on the Swiss frontier for Austrian prisoners,
and her residence in Austria and marriage to the Duc d’Angoulême.
* * * * *
“M. Lenôtre’s latest revolutionary study, though not perhaps so
interesting as some of those that precede it, is marked by the same
excellent qualities of exhaustive research, calm judgment, and lucid
narrative. Mr. May’s translation has merit; but ‘sapiential work’ (p.
313) is scarcely happy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 1150w.
“Enough new material has been included to make the work interesting,
even to those who are already tolerably familiar with the general
facts of Marie Thérèse’s career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 980w.
“Those who are fascinated—may we not say as Shakespeare was?—with the
tragedies of royal houses are under obligation to M. Lenôtre, the
writer, and Mr. J. Lewis May, his translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 545. O. 10, ’08. 450w.
=Lenz, Max.= Napoleon: a biographical study; tr. from the German by
Frederic Whyte, il. *$4. Putnam.
8–3126.
A biography which aims to interpret phases of Napoleon’s character
rather than to present an exhaustive history of the man or his times.
Emphasis is placed upon the development of his mind, his literary
attempts, his dreams and early ideals, his philosophy that man exists
for the state, and the character of Napoleon as he reveals himself in
documentary material.
* * * * *
“Details are not the matters in which Professor Lenz was interested.
His eye is ever on the Titanic struggles of Napoleon’s genius amid the
maelstrom of historic forces. The translation is of uncertain merit.”
G. S. F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 868. Jl. ’08. 950w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08. ✠
“The fact is that Dr. Lenz has narrated in too great detail the early
part of his story.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 40. Jl. 11. 580w.
“Although it is not free from errors that one does not look for in the
writings of a distinguished Berlin professor, it delights the reader
from time to time by its felicitous summaries of complex situations.
The attitude of sympathetic observer, which Dr. Lenz assumes, often
results also in well-balanced interpretations of Napoleon’s motives
and plans, impossible to those who are always hunting for evidences of
Satanic intrigue.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One must on the whole conclude that, although the book is not
entirely without interest on the side of the character of Napoleon the
non-combatant, it was hardly worth the honor of translation.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A comprehensive study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The translation is rather indifferently executed by Mr. Frederick
Whyte. There are many ‘lives’ of Napoleon far more informing than this
latest one—Rose’s, Fournier’s, Sloane’s, to mention a few of the best.
Moreover, the value of Dr. Lenz’s work for the student is much
diminished by the absence of bibliography or references.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 500w.
“We do not recall any biographer of Napoleon who has recognized more
clearly the psychological change wrought in his character by the
process of events than has Max Lenz in this biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 530w.
“From the trail of the serpent of Anglophobia this volume is certainly
not free.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 642. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Le Queux, William.= Lady in the car. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of magazine stories. “This volume recounts a series of
episodes in the career of a person known as ‘the Prince’—a species of
Raffles on an international scale. Both in England and abroad he
masquerades as the Kaiser’s cousin with striking impunity, and,
fortified by a bewildering array of magnificent motor-cars, effects
divers sensational swindles and robberies, contriving incidentally to
deceive many confiding females in an apparently heartless manner,
despite the author’s tribute to him as one who ‘has never, to my
knowledge, played an honest woman a scurvy trick.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The first chapter shows some sense of comedy, but those which follow
are on conventional lines, and can hardly be considered up to the
standard of average sensational fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 160w.
“Most of the stories are tiresome, and none of them are convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Le Queux, William.= Pauper of Park lane; a mystery of east and
west. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8090.
A tale of mystery which centers about a Jewish financier’s methods of
trapping a murderer—a secret agent in the employ of the Servian
government.
* * * * *
“The threads of the narrative are many; and as some seem taken up only
to be dropped, we are soon reduced to a fitting state of
bewilderment.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 283. Mr. 7. 130w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Mystery of the yellow room: extraordinary
adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–19097.
“Here is a room with all its windows barred on the inside, no chimney,
no openings of any kind but one door, which is locked on the inside by
a young woman, whose father is in the next room and close to the
outside of the door, a servant with him. Suddenly from inside the
yellow room come shrieks and shots. When the door is broken down the
daughter is found wounded on the floor, the furniture thrown about,
and absolutely no one else is there. The girl could not and did not
make all the wounds on her. Query, who did it?”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“‘The mystery of the yellow room’ has all but one thing. It fails to
carry entire conviction.” Beverly Stark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 603. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“The interest lasts to the end of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“For sheer originality and ingenuity we reckon this the best detective
story published for some time.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“The publishers advertise it as suited to reading on a railway
journey. It is a correct appreciation, and places the book accurately
as a literary effort.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is elaborately worked out, and few can guess the answer
before the author chooses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 150w.
=Lescarbot, Marc.= History of New France; with an English
translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant, and an introd.
by H. P. Biggar. 3v. v. 1. Champlain society, Toronto.
A reprint of Lascarbot’s “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published
in 1609. “An introduction, by Mr. Biggar, gives briefly and clearly
the little that is known of Lescarbot’s life, of his personal
connection with New France and of the motif of his book. Then the
translator of the book, Mr. Grant, describes the method and the aim of
the translation, the various accessory materials and some further
details of consequence.... There follows the translation of the first
two books, made from the edition of 1618, immediately after which is
an exact reprint, in smaller type, of the corresponding French
original.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It seems ungracious to note flaws in a work so good, and indeed they
are few. We miss a bibliographical account of Lescarbot’s book, though
we naturally expect it, and the notes, especially upon Lescarbot’s
sources, are at times unsatisfyingly brief. And the system of
connecting the pagination of translation and French is not the most
convenient.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 602. Ap. ’08. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It must not be forgotten, however, that Lescarbot’s history possesses
an importance of its own as literature, and that in this respect it
has no rival in the early books of New France. Mr. Grant’s translation
as a whole is admirable, and worthy of a place beside Otis’s
‘Champlain’ and Shea’s ‘Charlevoix.’ The text, however, offers
opportunities for many more useful notes than Mr. Grant has seen fit
to give, and Mr. Biggar’s introduction might have been considerably
enlarged.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lesdain, Count de.= From Pekin to Sikkim, through the Ordos, the
Gobi desert, and Tibet; with a preface by John Murray; with maps
and illustrations. *$4. Dutton.
W8–118.
A remarkable wedding journey made by Count de Lesdain and his nineteen
year old bride, from Pekin across Northern China, the Ordos and the
Gobi desert, then south over the highlands of Tibet into India. It was
undertaken to gratify a wish to cross country hitherto unknown, and to
increase the geographical knowledge of the day.
* * * * *
“The interesting portion of his book seems to us to be that relating
to the fairly well-known Chinese province of Kansuh.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1200w.
“The narrative lacks color and action, and even the real geographical
contributions are not clearly set forth.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 180w.
“It gives a vivid picture of life and conditions in little known parts
of the empire.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“The blessed sense of humor was not absent, and the book is brightened
by many pages of reflected experience, which must have served to ease
the days and weeks of hardship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 320w.
“Adds a new chapter to geographical information.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 958. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Letters= from a workingman, by an American mechanic. **$1. Revell.
8–28322.
“Familiar talks in the most unconventional and occasionally even
slangy diction, directed to workingmen at large by a man who had
actually been a mechanic and worked side by side with the men whom he
was addressing.... Such titles as “Human nature in the shop,” “Spies
in the shop,” “Exploiting the working class,” “Tenement-house
neighbors,” “Settling the strike,” “Labor and the saloon,” and “The
workingman and the church,” give a fair idea of the field covered by
this book.”
* * * * *
“The writer is a man of intelligence who takes pride in his work and
has a sturdy independence of character. His point of view is always
interesting and instructive, although his comments on men and things
and conditions may not be always of much value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the views put forth
in this book to appreciate its earnestness and its sympathy with the
worker and the unemployed, and especially with the worker who belongs
to the skilled class, and whose intelligence is lively and active,
though not infrequently misdirected.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Lewes, Vivian Byam.= Liquid and gaseous fuels, and the part they
play in modern power production. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van
Nostrand.
8–13632.
“Treats the subject of liquid and gaseous fuels from a popular but
comprehensive point of view, and it is not intended to take the place
of the standard treatises on the several branches of the
subject.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 280w.
“The author is a master of his subject, writes in a clear and often
interesting style, and he has made a useful book which is worthy of a
place in any engineer’s library.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 432. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“There is one point which Prof. Lewes appears to have overlooked. He
considers that the alcohol will be either manufactured from potato
starch or saw-dust.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 98. D. 5, ’07. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= An American patrician; or,
The story of Aaron Burr. **$2. Appleton.
8–5600.
A biography of Aaron Burr which in the form of fiction includes also a
group of contemporaries. “Adopting the view that Burr’s scheme of
western conquest involved no traitorous designs, Mr. Lewis contrives
to arouse a good deal of sympathy for his hero.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is an ultra-lively galloping picture of the times. No modern
newsboy could call the day’s news on the highways with more disregard
of classic forms. That there is a vividness which puts the wars,
factions, and policies of the day in gay colors before us is not to be
gainsaid. The truth of the colors may well be questioned. As to the
method of putting on colors there can be no question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“Apart altogether from the truth or falsity of his portrait of Burr,
he draws a grossly distorted picture of the times and of the historic
personages with whom Burr had to do. For this reason Mr. Lewis’s
latest adventure in ‘fictional’ biography is far more deserving of
censure than of praise.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 882. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= Wolfville folks. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16469.
The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman,
who is the narrator of the “doings” of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts,
“the genteelest sharp, an’ the best eddicated, that ever dwells in
Arizona”; to Sam Enright, “the soul of fairness”; to Cherokee Hall,
“predestined kyard-sharp”; and other frequenters of the Red Light.
This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the
landlady’s husband, her willingness to install a successor and the
alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins.
* * * * *
“Rollicking sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“We like these gentlemen of imaginative, figurative speech, and
welcome ‘Wolfville folks.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Taking dialect and story together, the book more nearly than any
other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward
first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering
American humor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their
purely imaginary dialect were true to life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Genesis of Hamlet. **$1.25. Holt.
7–39507.
A discussion which brings into composite view the theories of
Coleridge and Werder in explaining the Hamlet of Belleforest, Kyd, and
Shakespeare. The author in his summary says: “Coleridge finds that
Hamlet’s delays are due to internal difficulties, for which he is to
blame. Werder finds that they are due to external difficulties for
which he is not to blame.... We will say with Coleridge that Hamlet’s
difficulties are internal, and with Werder that he is not to blame for
them; but we must add, in disagreement with both disputants that these
difficulties are not the causes of the delay. The causes of the delay
are those external difficulties which have vanished into the fourth
dimension.”
* * * * *
“An eminently sane and readable essay toward a rational appreciation
of Shakespeare.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
“The method employed in this book is suggestive of the process of
qualitative analysis in the chemical laboratory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 730w.
“The book has none of the dulness which so often characterizes the
discussion of pedantic problems and is as interesting to the layman as
to the Shakespearian scholar.” S. R. Cook.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=Lewis, George Randall.= Stannaries: a study of the English
tin-miner; awarded the David A. Wells prize for the year 1906–07,
and published from the income of the David A. Wells fund. (Harvard
economic studies, v. 3.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–5604.
“The tin mines of Britain appear at the very dawn of our historic
knowledge of the island as its special attractiveness to foreign
traders; accompany its whole story as an influential and picturesque
element; and are still today an essential part of the life of the
southwestern counties, and a factor in the national policy. Moreover
the tin mines and the tin miners have always stood in a peculiar and
far from easily understood position; in a certain sense monopolized
and exploited by the crown; in another sense privileged and favored
beyond other interests and other classes of inhabitants. It is this
interesting and obscure history that Mr. Lewis has elucidated in the
present volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“In this book, historians have at their service, for the first time, a
clear, adequate and interesting explanation of what has formerly been
a poorly comprehended institution, and the narrative of a previously
unwritten chapter of English history.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 841. Jl. ’08. 850w.
“Very scholarly study.” R. V. Phelan.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 400w.
“For some topics, Dr. Lewis has not given sufficient definitions,
assuming a knowledge of the terminology on the part of the reader. But
this is due to his own intimate knowledge of the whole subject, which
is apparent throughout the work.” D. C. Munro.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 120. Je. ’08. 640w.
“A piece of sterling work. It is true that the book lacks distinction
of other than a workmanlike order. His conception of his task is
scholarly rather than scientific; and while he sets forth minute
details upon certain matters of minor import, he does not make clear
what manner of man the Cornish tinner has been and is to-day, and how
he has developed into his present estate.” W. C. Mitchell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 387. Je. ’08. 800w.
“His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tinmining
counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of
England—in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole
must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of
reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for
its inclusiveness.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 220w.
“A subject well worth attention, and he has treated it in a manner
reflecting credit on himself and on the ‘Harvard economic studies.’”
C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 240. Ag. ’08. 430w.
=Lewisohn, Ludwig.= Broken snare. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–28063.
“More than most works of fiction, this is a story of a man and a
woman, to the exclusion of all other personalities; of their love and
its consequences, to the exclusion of all other interests. The woman
is an ardent creature, cramped by the conditions of a peculiarly mean
and sordid existence; the man has the artist’s temperament, and what
he imagines to be deep convictions concerning the futility of the
marriage-bond. The two agree to join their lives without the usual
legal proceedings, and set out for a honeymoon in the South.” (Dial.)
Then come a break, separation, suffering, reconciliation, and reunion
according to the demands of human society.
* * * * *
“This is a strong and well-written study of one phase of the marriage
problem.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 500w.
“It is not a book for the young person to read, but it is one from
which the mature mind can get nothing but good, and one which offers a
singular satisfaction to the artistic perceptions.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It is a novel of rather unusual quality in its serious intent, its
clearness of vision, and its workmanship. The author might sometimes
have developed his story, it is true, with more reticence and equal
power, and so have run less risk of offense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Lidgett, John Scott.= Christian religion: its meaning and proof.
*$2.50. Meth. bk.
7–37982.
“‘An attempt to explain and verify the Christian religion by means of
the fatherly-filial relationship.’... The author divides his work into
three books, of which the first deals with the history and task of the
Christian evidences.... [His second book on Christianity as the
absolute religion] outlines the content of the Christian religion;
for, as he says, we must know what a religion is before we can
vindicate its truth.... The third and last book is entitled The proof
of the Christian religion. The primary argument advanced for the truth
of Christianity is that it is indispensable to the full realization of
the noblest human life, and that its consciousness of filial
relationship to God gives abounding satisfaction and spiritual
power.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The author takes a comprehensive view of his subject, and his main
thesis is consistently, even though somewhat awkwardly, worked out.”
B: L: Hobson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 499. Jl. ’08. 1250w.