But while it may seem that its arrangement of topics might be recast
with advantage, our time requires a more radical betterment of it—a
clear and consistent distinction between the constant and the variable
elements with which it is concerned, the religion and its associated
theology.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 340w.
=Liebich, Louise (Mrs. Franz Liebich).= Claude-Achille Debussy.
(Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–8847.
A critical and biographical sketch of Debussy which emphasizes the
originality of his genius. The contents are as follows: Hand and soul,
in which his personality is described; Modus operandi; Choral,
orchestral and instrumental works; Songs and piano pieces; Pelleas and
Mélisande; As writer and critic. A chronological list of Debussy’s
works and several portraits makes the undertaking but more complete.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 134. Ag. 1. 280w.
=Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 223. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“We have on many occasions expressed our objection on general grounds
to the issue of biographies of living celebrities, musical or
otherwise, while they are still in mid-career. Subject to this
reservation, we can cordially commend Mrs. Liebich’s genial and
enthusiastic sketch of the most advanced living representative of
French music.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
=Lilley, Alfred Leslie.= Modernism: a record and a review. *$1.75.
Scribner.
8–13710.
Mainly a collection of newspaper and magazine articles on the present
problems of Roman Catholicism. “Although Mr. Lilley has confined
himself in this volume to comment on the Modernist movement in the
Roman Catholic church, and more specifically to the exponents of that
movement in France, he has made it clear that modernism is a movement
affecting the whole of Christendom.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lilley’s opinions—and we are far from
sharing them all—he has done extraordinarily good service in calling
attention to the present condition of thought and feeling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley understands and appreciates the ‘Modernists’ position far
better than anyone else outside their communion.” H. C. Corrance.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley is thoroly acquainted with his subject, and writes
agreeably and kindly.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 70w.
“It is remarkable for the lucidity of its exposition and for its
complete freedom from intellectual and religious frivolousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 376. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Lilley gives us the results of a careful and sympathetic study.
We do not agree with all that he says.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 581. Ap. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Dissolving circle. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–11084.
An impressionistic study of the life among a group of men and women in
the “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The principal
character is a struggling doctor who, tho not a member of the colony,
is working painfully to divorce himself spiritually from a girl who
had given up his love for that of an unregenerate man. The doctor’s
mission becomes that of compelling the unworthy suitor to be true to
the wronged girl.
* * * * *
“Aside from a tendency to indulge in fantastic flights of fancy, the
author on the whole keeps himself commendably in the background.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 270w.
“A want of unity in the plot and the heavy handling of a delicate
theme are the most conspicuous faults.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 190w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Quest eternal. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22346.
The story of a boy’s and later a man’s reserve, struggle and self
denial to see the playmate of his youth and finally the deity of his
dreams become a famous singer.
* * * * *
“A prologue, which, taken by itself, is one of the best things he ever
wrote. Taken as a whole it preaches a sane and wholesome optimism. And
this, in a measure, suggests the technical shortcoming of the
book—namely, that its mood is not sufficiently sustained.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 370w.
“The story has originality, both in conception and development, and
its pages carry something of that significance in which too much of
American fiction is lacking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 578. O. 17, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The situation may be strained at times, but the author never fails to
absorb the reader’s attention and command his respect for the
characters he draws.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Many mansions: being studies in ancient
religions and modern thought. *$3. Benziger.
8–21815.
“As a general introduction we find the sacred books of the East
briefly tabulated under Max Müller’s guidance, but with special
reference for Buddhism to Professor Rhys Davids, for the Avesta to M.
Darmesteter, for the Chinese religious classics to Dr. Legge, and for
the Koran (we prefer this accepted spelling) to H. E. Palmer.... Mr.
Lilly is concerned with metaphysics, not with popular religion ... and
quotation from experts overflows in his pages, which describe the old
Hindu creeds merely in passing, while they are copious on Buddhism and
Islam, and furnish monographs on Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer. The
concluding essay sums up and appraises ‘the newest view of Christ,’ as
set out in Professor Pfleiderer’s work, ‘Die entwickelung des
Christenthums.’”—Acad.
* * * * *
“A learned volume. He employs a somewhat academic, though very
readable style. Mr. Lilly’s authorities in every instance are the
best, and commonly the latest.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 135. N. 16, ’07. 900w.
“In riper quality, and with more mellow sympathy, Mr. Lilly presents
or re-presents in his latest volume a good deal of the material which,
nearly a quarter of a century ago, he published in his ‘Ancient
religion and modern thought.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 300w.
=Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= Cy Whittaker’s place. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27807.
Bayport, in the Cape Cod region, is the scene of this tale of village
doings. Cy Whittaker after years of absence comes back rich to
Bayport, effaces every bit of modern improvement in his old home, and
restores it to the old homely, quaint conditions of his boyhood days.
Cy’s village cronies, the child that walks into his home and heart,
and the school teacher are the principal characters in a tale full of
humor and human kindness.
* * * * *
“Here is a pleasant, homely, simple-minded story that gives the reader
much the same sort of enjoyment he would get from a performance of
‘Shore acres’ or ‘The old homestead.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“On the whole, if you haven’t been down Cape Cod way this summer—or
even if you have—you may do worse than take a trip some quiet evening
to Mr. Lincoln’s Bayport.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Humorous, human, and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 10w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Daniel Boone, backwoodsman. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
8–24465.
A preliminary chapter is devoted to a survey of the country in which
Boone’s life was passed and to a brief statement of the facts of his
early career. The narrative proper begins with Boone’s migration with
a band of forty neighbors to Kentucky, and continues with facts and
some fiction to illustrate the trials and achievements, the disasters
and triumphs of frontier life.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
“Would be commendable as a biography, if it were not partly fiction;
where there is a paucity of authentic data, the author feels compelled
to invent. But Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has a picturesque style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“To cast much of the story into conversational form ... has its
drawbacks, in the uncertainty of the reader who likes to be sure as to
just where fiction ends and fact begins. It all weaves in together to
make a vivid picture of the toils, perils, pleasures, and heroisms
that went into the conquering of the frontier.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
“Interesting historical tale for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Narcissus, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.
8–12552.
The volume “takes its title from the initial poem, which fills
two-thirds of the book’s sixty pages, a narrative in rhymed pentameter
of the life and death of the ill-fated youth. A dozen or more short
poems on varied themes fill out the book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The Greek story is told with grace and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Litchfield’s muse really sings, no matter what the measure, and
there is fire in the love poems, and in the descriptive lines there is
rich and beautiful color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Supreme gift. †$1.50. Little.
8–9529.
The portrayal of a ruined man’s daughter staggering under the burden
of her father’s debts. The scene is Washington, and poor people with
small savings are the ones most involved in the failure. Joan’s
supreme gift is honor which she preserves at the expense of happiness
and finally health. While it is not the custom now-a-days for a
heroine, glorious in her young strength and beauty, to lay down her
life for a cause, it seems the only logical way out of this sea of
difficulties.
* * * * *
“A well-intended book with a wrong-headed thesis.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 350w.
“One searching earnestly for the novel ‘as she is advertised to be,’
must be bitterly disappointed in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If the emotional values had been more carefully considered the result
would have been a novel of some intensity and strength.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Litta, Duke.= Soul of a priest. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–33161.
A polemical story whose attack is made against the Roman Catholic
church. It describes first the influences which induced a young
Italian nobleman to enter the priesthood, and then gives the progress
of his disillusionment, and the rejection of his vows.
* * * * *
“The bitterness of the author’s strictures is of a nature to awaken in
the fair-minded reader a considerable degree of sympathy with the
institution attacked.”
− =Acad.= 73: 953. S. 28, ’07. 80w.
“Occasional statements betray imperfect acquaintance with rules and
customs of the Roman church.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. S. 21. 300w.
“The interest of the story lies in the struggle and awakening of a
soul, not in an indictment of the Roman Catholic church. As it is, the
Duke Litta has succeeded in marring what is otherwise an unusually
forceful book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 305. My. ’08. 350w.
“Less a work of literary art than a pamphlet to promote deplorable and
un-Christian prejudice.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“The bitter and even petulant spirit in which the book is written
detracts from its value as a contribution to anti-clerical literature.
The narrative, however, in spite of some inconsistencies and its lack
of incident, has a certain unity of effect and holds the attention
throughout.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a
simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of
spiritual conflict.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
* =Little, George.= Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an
introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.
The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a
century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell
in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a
strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled
our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Lloyd, Francis Ernest.= Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie
inst.
8–9545.
“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in
two desert plants, _Fouquieria splendens_ and _Verbena ciliata_, made
at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He
addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of
transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence
that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in
the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust
the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to
the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.
=Science=, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.
=Lloyd, John.= Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–15725.
A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their
families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an
eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse
of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries
another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.
* * * * *
“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs
along at full speed.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is
well contrived.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Loane, M.= From their point of view. $2. Longmans.
8–35515.
Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from
first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and
the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s
problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the
daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness
and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the
district worker whether her activities are confined to East End,
London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are
almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less
well founded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.
“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality.
Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the
time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained
by a constant succession of good stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.
“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities
required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the
British people understand what should be their true attitude towards
poverty.”
+ + =Spec.= 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.
=Locke, James.= Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–3426.
“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the
first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn
dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of
strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American
girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead
his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the
story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans,
peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are
grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not
give time to think over improbabilities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold
one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The
stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing
well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Lockwood, George Browning.= New Harmony movement, by G. B.
Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the
preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.
5–16517.
“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had
their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was
the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which
after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen....
It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in
the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and
industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of
Rs.
* * * * *
“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books
together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century
life as has not been done before.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.
“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational
experiment.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.
=Locy, William Albert.= Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.
8–21045.
An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims
to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and
to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives
of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources
of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second
treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.
* * * * *
“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing
single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the
scope and development of the broad science of biology.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably
complete and interesting account of the development of biology
tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the
book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper
names occur with annoying frequency.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of
cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress
can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.
“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing
wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the
important subsidiary sciences.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title,
Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October,
1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the
bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second
with The permanence of personality.
* * * * *
“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name
is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book.
A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable
its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not
expert.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.
=Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No,
only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the
familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
=Lomas, John.= In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
8–26238.
A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It
aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide
and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what
the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at
San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of
the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza,
Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations
add to its value.
* * * * *
“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible,
and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most
writers on Spain seem prone.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.
“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the
antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.
“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark
is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or
glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=London, Jack.= Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–3084.
The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records
events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the
view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the
terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of
capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy
guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that
break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries,
usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its
own—the era of the brotherhood of man.
* * * * *
“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of
his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of
the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we
think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his
thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the
cause of social justice in our days.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced
minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly
tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a
nobler civilization.”
− =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited
to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three
hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has
little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly
unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.
=London, Jack.= The road. **$2. Macmillan.
7–39522.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a
tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and
high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will
help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler
civilization.”
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.
“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or
trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.
− + =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of
sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be
altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill
and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent
that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English
and powers of terse, vivid description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.
=London municipal society.= Case against socialism: a handbook for
speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour.
*$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21561.
“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the
campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact
statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote
references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation
contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and
should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but
to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of
the hour.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are
statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of
either side.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is
written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly
of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows
a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and
religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies
of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from
the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is
one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.
“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell
entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his
desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent
testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the
habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so
graphically.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has
not fallen off.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Longueville, Thomas.= Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of
Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general
Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.
8–10271.
A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn
mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and
enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of
the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid
picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from
Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which
should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the
lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.
“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It
is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and
illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe
as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense.
He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the
seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the
more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character
study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of
worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind
of literature which our young officers should read, and for this
reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a
military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult
period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and
political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out
plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily
confused and vague.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of
undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of
entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of
the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a
prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a
well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience
with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place;
and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of
the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Knack of it: some essays in optimism.
**75c. Revell.
8–23515.
A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self
mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr.
Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together.
Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”
* * * * *
“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often
observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit
the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never
discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a
jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this
vigorous age of ours.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other
tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.
7–29153.
The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story
which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being
hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that
poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced
the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed.
From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the
accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as
humorously conceived follow.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 53. F. ’08.
“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of
unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the
most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive
gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the
book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas.= Queer things about
Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–1464.
“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and
impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital
by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his
house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of
the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play,
‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.
“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of
books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the
well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as
faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an
Occidental can hope to achieve.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to
marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases
of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still
these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects,
cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete
accounts of Persian life ever written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.
“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey,
from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a
fascinating and most instructive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.
=Lorimer, George Horace.= Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
8–16951.
By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The
story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself,
the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive
steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy,
with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern
extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated
grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold,
he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Humorous extravaganza.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.
“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could
happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the
neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment,
when credulity threatens to grow tired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.
“A lively and well-told story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.
“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give
it critical attention.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first,
because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and
secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American
language.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.
=Loughnan, R. A.= New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22496.
A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr.
Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined
impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New
Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His
chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture,
mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of
woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be
read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to
know it.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the
subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical
chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the
absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the
reader absolutely nothing about it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the
characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the
country before the advent of the European.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New
Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the
things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a
humorous touch.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Lounsberry, Alice.= Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–12186.
Information about the making of a garden, about the names, habits, and
seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo
books.” The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style
is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more
practical if it contained less story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 226. Je. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Standard of usage in English.
*$1.50. Harper.
8–12736.
In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of
speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose
edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further
affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good
usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition
grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can
be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers.
Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor
and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent
reading as well as sound doctrine.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general
principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special
instances.” G: P. Krapp.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.
“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind
and some for readers of another.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.
“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of
essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against
‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the
writer has mastered his language.”
− =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.
“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor
on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be
ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of
newspaper usage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as
possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.
“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes
for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language
that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lovell, William H.= Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1.
McGraw.
8–22566.
“While not containing any additional information than the usual
chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying,
the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful
for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made
more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples
and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed
explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.
“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and
its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point
problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding
to the student approaching for the first time this most important
factor of plane-table surveying.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Lovett, James D’Wolf.= Old Boston boys and the games they played.
**$1.50. Little.
“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by
Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day
athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed
themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines,
rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and
otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good
deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those
days.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr.
Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of
mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly
entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so
unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of
boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops.
Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble
marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow
and mud?”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially
the Boston boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Low, A. Maurice.= America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–26412.
A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as
a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation
into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather
as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to
me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are:
The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American
girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and
Social customs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those
which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political
institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In
short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some
effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.
“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding
of conditions and ambitions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.
“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining
subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his
generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous
impression.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= Government of England. 2v. **$4.
Macmillan.
8–16501.
A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy
which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The
most important divisions of the work are The organization and
construction of the government, The working of the political parties
and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government,
Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.
* * * * *
“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason of its comprehensive
plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the
sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed
the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and
municipal institutions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.
“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and
evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important
historical work of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.
“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British
constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes
sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory
views.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.
“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr.
Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.
“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English
character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so
generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it
of the highest permanent value to students of political science the
world over.” E: Porritt.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.
“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can
be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply
repay re-reading.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this
really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and
boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the
scholarly simplicity of its style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to
date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a
fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell
does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of
constitutional rule and procedure.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.
“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof.
Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a
‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a
living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is
simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by
touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy
command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.
“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political
writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and
so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect
the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.
“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight
with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.
“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book
lies in its text-book nature.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.
* =Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place
in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers.
**$1.75. Putnam.
Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The
contents of this book have been developed with reference to two
principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing
corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument.
These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of
issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the
practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general
conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of
payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and
its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with
other important features.” (Preface)
=Lucas, Bernard.= Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of
the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–26838.
A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in
this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests
strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the
gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good
news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from
the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author
proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of
this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression
of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for
theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable
comprehension of difficulties.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.
“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious
experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.
“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in
view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in
well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which
finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C.
MacMillan.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense
of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of
Christianity.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development
is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its
vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was
to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.
“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the
attention and the thanks of theologians.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Anne’s terrible good nature, and other
stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.
A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children.
“Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and
spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of
Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings;
the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of
these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing.
Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children they always
keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative
thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the
description which appeals successfully to children.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.
“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a
subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are
inimitable.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced
by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding
woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her,
understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.
* * * * *
“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of
that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There is no index (a sad fault).”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28632.
“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who
after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a
modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but
fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop
or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five
with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books,
cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added
that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his
son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a
fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the
rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other
a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a
‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with
Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his
opportunities.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere
at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle
humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human
touches.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.
“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it
does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather
than from design.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E.
V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm
and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal
some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully
and entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times
somnolently reminiscent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Lucas, Reginald.= Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.
A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a
strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing
about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved
his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His
patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster,
Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.
“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in
close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events
in English history for the past forty years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to
the heart of the English people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.
“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal
partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his
subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a
discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.
“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of
literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend
might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and
straightforward.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.
=Lucas, St. John W. L.= Oxford book of French verse, XIIth
century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.
8–9513.
Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth
century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the
exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Excellent anthology of French verse.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.
=Lucy, Henry W.= Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50.
Putnam.
Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of
parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume
is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five
prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr.
John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph
Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama
at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A
new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and
Bulls in the Westminster china shop.
* * * * *
“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but
not invariably, kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.
“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal
miscellaneousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that
sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the
game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is
nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most
in earnest.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.
“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this
book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are
assured straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to
Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem.
il. **$1. Revell.
7–38030.
The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and
Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and
marginal decorations in color.
* * * * *
“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents
worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds
lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
− =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.
=Lungo, Isidoro del.= Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann.
**$2.25. Doubleday.
8–2186.
Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that
woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply
presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely
drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and
from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune
with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three
standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical
idealization.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.
“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs
at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated
sympathetically.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather
high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through
translation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn
themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the
dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical
sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written
literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H.
Harris.
− + =Ind.= 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.
=Luther, Martin.= Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by
Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–18069.
“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period
of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week
of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church
dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many
others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life,
both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and
experience.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made
by the present translator should be largely impaired by her
unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as
well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of
its shortcomings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.
“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a
great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully
prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an
expert German scholar.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.
“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work
with an altogether insufficient equipment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.
“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or
of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and
sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them
are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced
by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude
that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English,
simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work
unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.
“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a
most valuable companion-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.
=Lutz, Grace Livingston H.= Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–5229.
Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon
the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate
to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with
a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to
wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials
and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to
understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and
duplicity.
* * * * *
“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in
the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very
hot day and a hammock.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Lynn, Margaret=, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse.
*$1.10. Macmillan.
7–39508.
This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of
eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded
by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service
rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited
with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent
for reference work or supplementary reading.”
+ =School R.= 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard.= Examining
and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.
7–17674.
A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of
seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are
treated.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.
=El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of
agricultural science.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes=, ed. Family chronicle; derived from
notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5.
Dutton.
8–18702.
“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents
English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental
vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner,
unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of
accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary
matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey
served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station
he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.
“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm.
This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic
events.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.
“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and
pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem
to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of
readable items.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
M
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.
8–31020.
“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk
of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those
changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and
sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf
from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a
contemporary event.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Essays that every child should know.
(Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–7181.
Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas
Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these
essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the
kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them
have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of
comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to
those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at
all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most
of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, comp. Stories new and old: typical
American and English tales; selected with introductions by
Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18574.
A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of
presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of
short stories and for the study of leading short story types or
varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson,
Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry
Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and
women.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and
comparing one with another.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate=, eds. Heroines that
every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s
heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c.
Doubleday.
8–5881.
A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines
the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc,
Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame
Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and
Florence Nightingale.
* * * * *
“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in
our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Macaulay, George Campbell.= James Thomson. (English men of letters
ser.) **75c. Macmillan.
8–9515.
More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the
production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the
tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s
contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better
understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate
determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only
in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and
scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned
judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.
“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the
little volume deserves nothing but praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Though we have been compelled to say that Mr. Macaulay does not seem
to have done all that could and should be done with his brief, we are
also compelled to point out that his discussion of Thomson’s poetry
is, on the whole, competent, interesting, and suggestive.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 85. F. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Macaulay belongs to the scholastic school of critics. He is
always careful, laborious and accurate; but he is never very
illuminating, nor very profound.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 421. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Macaulay, Thomas B. M.= Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay; selected
and arranged by Sir George O. Trevelyan. **50c. Longmans.
7–36134.
“It was Macaulay’s habit to write notes upon the margins of books that
he read and especially of the astonishing number of books that he read
again and again. In this little book, Sir George has made an
entertaining discourse out of these notes, quoting many that are not
highly important, to be sure, but also reproducing many sound and
judicious observations. The historical reader will be particularly
interested in the series of comments relating to Cicero, whose
combination of the literary, oratorical and political life made him an
object of especial interest to Macaulay.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 140w.
“Make very pretty reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 786. Je. 27. 780w.
“No one who takes up this volume can fail to carry away from it
something of his industry, his honesty, his noble and lifelong
devotion to the great literature of the world.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 332. N. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“The habit is generally to be discouraged, but Macaulay has certainly
fallen into safe and very competent hands.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 743. N. 16, ’07. 830w.
* =McBeth, Kate C.= Nez Perces Indians since Lewis and Clark. **$1.50.
Revell.
8–12811.
“Barring some historical matter, this is a sketch of the life and work
of the author and her sister among these Indians for a period of a
quarter of a century, and a general account of missionary activities.
It contains practically nothing relative to the life of the Indians,
but really tells what the white man has done for them, particularly in
matters religious, and portrays the development of churches.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“While the scope of the book is not wide, the history is worth
preservation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 626. N. ’08. 80w.
“Her intimate knowledge of the customs and folklore will make her work
of value to all students of the Indian race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Short history of our own times: from the
accession of Queen Victoria to the accession of King Edward VII.;
a new ed., rev. and enl. **$1.50. Harper.
8–5814.
A new edition which extends the story to the beginning of King
Edward’s reign, and even beyond his accession in cases where issues,
opened in Victoria’s reign, came to a close in the first years of her
successor’s rule.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 121. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The best single volume history of modern England to be had.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“It is late in the day to say how entertainingly this history is
written; it is never too late to protest against the printing of such
a volume without maps or chronological tables.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“The rather small type and the narrow margins which have been
necessary in order to bring the entire book into the compass of one
volume do not add to its comeliness and for some readers may lessen
its usefulness.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 146. Mr. 14, ’08. 130w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Duke’s motto. †$1.50. Harper.
8–23545.
A stirring tale of love and intrigue set in the times of Louis XIII.
In the background are plenty of rascals ready with trained swords to
aid the villain in ridding his path of the Duke de Nevers, the one man
who stands in way of winning wife, rank and fortune. Henri de
Lagardere, the best swordsman of Europe, plunges into the game of
avenging the duke’s death. During twenty years he lays his plans and
brings them to a dramatic climax when the villain’s lifetime of
treachery is exposed and punished.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“The author does his part so ardently and zealously that the reader is
carried from episode to episode on a tide of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“It is patent ... that this ‘melodrama’ ... has been very hastily and
carelessly constructed.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 110w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Seraphica. †$1.50. Harper.
8–4440.
An adventure romance of the time of Louis XV., when a regent was ruler
of France. An alliance arranged to bring harmony to two rival duchies
could not be consummated because of the wilfulness of a little duchess
and the obstinacy of a young prince, whose heart had already been
given to a court favorite. When the little duchess learns that the
prince has refused even to look at her photograph and has fled to
Paris, she decides to follow him, win his affections, and then avenge
herself by spurning his love. The duchess escapes from home in male
attire which she soon discards. In the role of a tavern maid, who
aspires to be an actress, she makes friends with the prince,
extricates him from many difficult situations and has a golden
opportunity to take full and sweet revenge—but she doesn’t.
* * * * *
“Essentially stagy. Brisk and light of foot, careless and gay.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 170w.
“Mr. McCarthy makes, all things considered, the most of his
opportunities offered by a plot so inherently improbable.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is a gay little butterfly romance floating above the tangled
ambitions and the graver policies of the times.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 230w.
“An animated and effectively costumed story, ripe for a fall from the
bookshelf to the footlights.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“A thoroughly delightful tale. The book possesses far more coherence,
authority, and literary quality than the author has previously shown
himself capable of—more, in fact, than are usually apparent in our
current fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“An entertaining and ingenious plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not one which we would recommend ‘virginibus puerisque,’
but it is all through on the right side.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 140w.
=MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school.
*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A book designed for teachers’ use, but somewhat lacking in those
qualities that would make it of highest value—directness, definiteness
and capability of being translated into every-day use in the classroom.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“The chapters on the folk tale and the fairy story and on myth as
literature are especially good.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well
balanced, so scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely
adequate to the task proposed, that it ought to become a gospel.
Teachers ought to buy it as they buy dictionaries—and read it better.”
E. H. Lewis.
+ + =El. School T.= 8: 347. F. ’08. 780w.
=McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia.= Sowing seeds in Danny. †$1.
Doubleday.
8–9810.
A frontier Manitoba town furnishes the background for this tale in
which a delightful little Irish girl and her brother Danny teach
lessons of child wisdom and helpfulness.
* * * * *
“The style is very poor, the plot slight and far from original, but
there is much of the same kind of homely humor and sentiment that made
‘Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch’ unique and popular.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“There is an atmosphere of kind thinking about the loosely constructed
narrative which gives an otherwise unpretentious tale a sufficient
reason for existence.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 604. Ag. ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The humor and sentiment which the members of [a very interesting
Irish] family exhibit in their homely lives are what make the book
worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
“A wholesome, optimistic story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
=McCormick, Frederick.= Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. 2v. *$6.
Outing pub.
8–2962.
A serious, unimpassioned account of the Russo-Japanese struggle,
written by a special representative of the Associated press who went
thru the entire war. Mr. McCormick writes vividly of the principal
battles from the opening shot at Port Arthur to the triumph of the
“Japanese military” at Mukden. He further discusses the peace and
armistice, the Russian, the Japanese and the Chinese in the war, the
elimination of Korea, the rise of Japan, Eastern consolidation and the
elimination of the West, and the position of America.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“There is no other book on the war which combines so many elements of
excellence. The work of Mr. McCormick is a commentary on the values of
civilization as they revealed themselves in a great struggle.” P. S.
Reinsch.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 635. N. ’08. 450w.
“We are glad to possess the volumes for their many merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 450w.
“The value of Mr. McCormick’s work arises wholly from the intimacy
with which the author was acquainted with the conditions, the
personalities, and the events of the war. Mr. McCormick is very far
from being an historian. Yet, despite more or less serious
limitations, a perusal of his volumes is sufficient to give the
assurance that they contain much that is essential to a full knowledge
of the war, and a good deal that one may never be able to lay hold of
elsewhere.” F: A. Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 97. F. 16, ’08. 1700w.
=Ind.= 64: 750. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
“For accuracy and authenticity may rank perhaps with Kinglake’s
‘Crimean war.’ Mr. McCormick is not only a clever writer, but an
artist, and his own sketches are among the most interesting
illustrations of this brilliant work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The narrative is often obscure, ill-connected, largely speculative,
and carries in consequence no large sense of authority.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A more satisfyingly illustrated record of its kind would be hard to
find. The reader who followed the events of the war as closely as he
could from the material then available, will find here a far more
vivid view than he was able to get then.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 1850w.
“A clear and graphic account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 310. Je. 6, ’08. 900w.
“No doubt it is extremely interesting to be able to realise the
American view of affairs in the Far East, yet we cannot but reflect
that it would be far pleasanter to study it in a style less
irritating.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 612. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Reinforced concrete: a manual of practice. $1.
Cement era pub., Chicago.
“This book has been written for the purpose of supplying a working
manual, full of practical hints for men not technically educated and
with as little as possible of theoretical discussion.” (Engin. D.)
“The pages are full of useful hints as to methods, the kinds of tools
to use, the personnel of the force, the conduct of the work, form
design and construction, all quite clearly and correctly stated.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Much of the matter is original, and the work is in no sense a
compilation.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 150w.
“It is frankly a ‘manual of practice,’ and as such it is as complete
as its limited size admits. It is only when it leaves practice to take
up theory that its usefulness diminishes.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Ernest McCullough handles his subject in a sane way that is quite
refreshing. It is exceedingly easy to read and quite up to date in its
statements and warnings. A few lapses are usually to be found in the
best book, and in this case may be mentioned the defining of the
modulus of elasticity as a force, which is perhaps only a little lax.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 448. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Maccunn, John.= Six radical thinkers. *$1.70. Longmans.
W 7–109.
Six expository essays as follows: Bentham and his philosophy of
reform, The utilitarian optimism of J. S. Mill, The commercial
radicalism of Cobden, The anti-democratic radicalism of Carlyle, The
religious radicalism of Mazzini, and The political idealism of T. H.
Green.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 142. My. ’08.
“An interesting volume, subject, however, to the drawback that the
treatment of political philosophy in chapters devoted to and
distinguished by the names of individuals is never thoroughly
satisfactory. The treatment of the lives is pleasant, and any reader,
learned or ignorant, may peruse them with some advantage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 1000w.
“The style is forceful and clear, and the crisp, short sentences
enforce attention from beginning to end. Equally helpful to the reader
is the author’s manner of seizing upon certain sharply contrasted
features in each of the six radical systems, features which, because
antithetical, one would scarcely expect to find side by side in a
single political philosophy. Of the writers treated in this book T. H.
Green is the one with whom Professor Maccunn appears to be most
thoroughly in sympathy.” M. S. MacDonald.
+ + =Philos. R.= 17: 347. My. ’08. 350w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the technical skill with which
Professor Maccunn has used his six Radicals ... as stepping-stones for
traversing a difficult period in political and philosophical thought.
The argument has a perfect continuity. The essay on Cobden we find the
least satisfactory in the book, because it is so ‘judicial’ that it is
in fact rather nebulous.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 575. Ap. 13, ’07. 1600w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Husbands of Edith. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–13724.
Young Medcroft, a London architect, who has arranged with his wife to
visit cousins of hers in Vienna whom he has never seen, finds that it
would be vastly to his advantage to seem to be off on that trip and
yet remain in London to fight a coming bill. So he induces a New York
friend to play the rôle of husband to Edith. The humorous situations
growing out of the substitution reach their climax when the
masquerader falls in love with the wife’s sister and defies the
horrified relatives by openly making love to her. It is an uncommonly
good comedy in plot and execution.
* * * * *
“Mr. McCutcheon has never written a more entertaining tale.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“An unblushing piece of newstand literature which will doubtless
please the audience at which it is aimed.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“Described in the author’s most entertaining manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Man from Brodney’s. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–23920.
A South sea island is the scene of this tale into whose composition
Mr. McCutcheon works his favorite ingredients. Two Englishmen,
smarting from domestic irritation, go to the island of Japat, south of
the Arabian sea, amass a fortune equal to Monte Cristo’s, die and
leave it to two grandchildren who must marry in order to possess it;
otherwise it would go to the islanders. The fact that each heir had
already married complicates the settlement which involves heirs,
lawyers, islanders, and indirectly a beautiful princess with
copper-colored hair. The man from Brodney’s, counselor for the
islanders, is the hero of the all-conquering McCutcheon type.
* * * * *
“Mr. McCutcheon has his usual success in writing an interesting story,
and in making the impossible plausible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Macdonald, Mrs. Frederika.= Iliad of the East: a selection of
legends drawn from the Sanskrit poem, The Ramayana. *$1.50. Lane.
A reprint of a popular version of the mythological tales in which
Valmiki’s The Ramayana abounds. The purpose remains the same as it was
stated in 1870, “to bring home to English readers the proofs of the
resemblance between some special qualities characteristic of the
modern sentimental temper and the sentimental temper which penetrates
old Indian poetry.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Will serve to renew interest in a clever and popular abridgement of
the huge epic Ramayana.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 160w.
“A treat for a new generation. The book does not represent any
scholarly effort to reproduce the original Sanscrit, but is merely a
collection of stories delightfully told through the medium of a French
translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 720w.
“The editor, in her admiration of Buddhism, evinces a radical
misconception of Christianity, derived from its mediæval theology.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 814. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and Curdie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–23533.
A reprint of this child’s favorite with twelve illustrations in colors
by Maria L. Kirk.
* * * * *
“This is another of the books which are never outgrown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=MacDonald, Robert.= Mind, religion and health. **$1.30. Funk.
8–30268.
A discussion of the psychological principles underlying mental and
religious therapeutics; a call to the church to apply these principles
in ministering to those who are afflicted either in mind or body; and
an appreciation of the Emmanuel movement, with an account of the
practical good accomplished.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 140w.
“This is a timely and judicious book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Macdonald, William=, ed. Documentary source book of American
history, 1606–1898. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–23907.
“Gives satisfactory evidence that a wise principle of selection has
been followed in choosing documents to illustrate the history of the
United States from the time of the founding to the close of the
Spanish war. In all, nearly two hundred items are included, comprising
colonial charters, acts of Parliament and Congress, treaties,
resolutions, and executive papers.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The student who has this book as an adjunct to his narrative text may
easily double the efficiency of his work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 268. O. 16, ’08. 80w.
“In the aggregate the collection will meet the need of most students.
We can only regret that the editor has not extended the period of his
compilation, in order to include some of the commoner documents of the
last ten years.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is very little to criticise in Professor Macdonald’s
compilation, barring a conspicuous absence of documents illustrative
of the first steps in territorial expansion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=MacDougal, Daniel Trembly.= Mutations, variations, and
relationships of the oenotheras, by D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail,
and G. H. Shull, pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
7–37035.
A further account of evolutionary studies upon the oenotheras (evening
primroses). Seeds representing the species in cultivation in the
principal botanical gardens of the world have been received in America
and have been sown for cultural investigation. These with a number of
forms native to North America are included in the papers of the
present volume.
* * * * *
=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 61. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“An investigation which for minuteness and exhaustiveness is without
parallel. The part of this memoir which has interested us most is that
which deals with the origin of mutants from strains of Oenotheras
different from that which de Vries found at Hilversum and observed his
classical series of mutations in.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 78: 10. My. 7, ’08. 700w.
=McFadden, Elizabeth Apthorp, and Davis, Lilian E.=, comps. Selected
list of plays for amateurs and students of dramatic expression in
schools and colleges; with an introd. by Ludella L. Peck. *$2.
Miss E. A. McFadden, Box 328, Cincinnati, Ohio.
8–4425.
A wide range of plays is included in the list suitable for all
occasions. There are plays for children, out-of-door plays, Christmas
plays, etc., all systematically arranged for the amateur’s benefit.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“Promoters of school entertainments will be grateful for this
compilation.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 60w.
“The volume will prove serviceable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman.= Infinite affection. *$1. Pilgrim
press.
7–36403.
Here is outlined “the theology of a young man who has hospitably
submitted himself to what is termed ‘modern thought.’” He believes
that “we can no longer confine inspiration to the Bible, the
incarnation to Christ, or religion to a church” and that Christ “is
actually what man is prophetically,” and that man can reach the
perfection of the great Exemplar.
* * * * *
“This work, by one of the most brilliant and deeply thoughtful of the
younger ministers of the Congregational church, merits wide
circulation. It is instinct with lofty spirituality and the living
faith that makes religion most vital to those who thus believe.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 249. F. ’08. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
* =McFee, William.= Letters of an ocean tramp. *$1.50. Cassell.
“Under the thin disguise of letters from a dead friend Mr. McFee
presents us with impressions of life afloat, as seen from the point of
view of third engineer on board a small trading steamer. One is
puzzled at first to understand whether it is fact or fiction; it is
overwhelmingly literary, fastidious (and a little self-conscious) in
style, full of moralization and philosophy, and crammed with allusions
to eminent authors—Ruskin, Pater, Nietzsche, Heine, Boileau,
Beaumarchais, Borrow, Browning, and many others.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“He never forgets himself in his subject, as other sea-writers do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 260w.
“Whatever he sees in persons or things—the romantic, pathetic or the
fascinating—in foreign climes, he describes in virile English, which
is both descriptive and philosophic, and in which the reminiscent and
anecdotal are not absent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=MacGowan, Alice.= Judith of the Cumberlands. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28314.
Here the charm and spirit of life in a primitive mountain settlement
are brought vividly to view. Fires of old feuds yet smoulder; the
illicit still works in secret cover; and the new justice of the peace
finds himself on shifting ground. But light comes to the chaotic
region of the “Turkey Tracks,” when plots and counterplots with their
reign of doubt and pain and misunderstanding give way to the love of a
strong man for the maid of the Cumberlands.
* * * * *
“Her book is simply a rude, unvarnished picture of mountain folk drawn
with a cool literalness which brings into the foreground all their
coarseness, with little of the finer touches of intelligence to soften
it.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book
to be praised.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“There is no shadow of imitation in the author’s work, but it recalls
some of the best early writing of Miss Murfree, and has an especial
freshness of its own.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
=Macgowan, Rev. John.= Sidelights on Chinese life. *$3.75.
Lippincott.
8–3983.
“Dr. Macgowan’s volume professes to give no more than the general
views of the salient points of the Chinese character. In fact, it
consists of a series of essays in which the author descants on the
various phases of Chinese life from the cradle to the grave. He has
much that is interesting to say on these topics, and we derive from a
perusal of his pages an enhanced regard for the Chinese people.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“If we have a fault to find with Mr. Macgowan, it is that he deals too
often in the superlative degree in his paraphrases of facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 820w.
“A series of informing and interesting chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It is an authoritative and illuminating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
“It may be pointed out, not as a criticism but as a caution, that Dr.
Macgowan is writing of the Chinese of the South, who differ in many
material respects from their compatriots of the North. His chapter on
Chinese education is out of date, and it is a pity that so modern a
book should not have given more than a notice of a few lines to the
drastic changes that are taking place in the Chinese educational
world.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 49. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“One cannot read many pages without discovering the mark of the writer
who has firsthand information: and yet Mr. Macgowan detracts from what
might have been a much more illuminating book by careless writing,
which involves him in many seeming contradictions and repetitions, and
by such trite reflections as a satirist once called ‘Glimpses into the
obvious.’”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 151. Ja. 25, ’08. 1850w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Lure of the mask. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–17786.
A lilt from an Italian opera sung by a well-trained voice from out a
blurring New York fog begins for young Hillard, who from his bachelor
quarters hears the siren note, a romance all atingle with adventure.
It ends happily in an Italian villa after the trail of a titled
serpent has been obliterated.
* * * * *
“This novel is pervaded by a morally enervating atmosphere whose
subtlety and insinuating character render it all the more injurious,
and nullify any possible good of the vocal morality that from time to
time confronts the reader.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
* =McIlwaine, Richard.= Memories of three score years and ten. *$3.
Neale.
8–19140.
Nearly four hundred pages of “memories” from out a long useful life as
student, pastor, soldier, chaplain, and college president. The events
of his life are related to the development of Virginia’s political,
religious, and educational interests of the past half century.
* * * * *
“A notable contribution to the biographical literature of the
country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
=M’Intosh, John Geddes.= Industrial alcohol: the production and use
of alcohol for industrial purposes and for use as an illuminant
and as a source of motive power. *$3. Van Nostrand.
Agr 7–2204.
“The first of these books, after describing the properties of grain,
or ethyl, alcohol, and the general principles of fermentation, takes
up the manufacture of alcohol from [its many sources]. A long chapter
is given to the description of the various methods of distillation and
rectification of the alcohol obtained from the above sources. The
concluding chapter gives in more or less detail the uses of grain
alcohol in the arts, the principal part being devoted to its action as
a solvent.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“This book will certainly be of great use in pointing out the
successful processes in use abroad, and will, therefore, serve a
highly important role in the development of American industrial
alcohol.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 530w.
“The book on the whole is well written and is carefully indexed. The
diagrams are numerous and well chosen. The book serves a useful
purpose in bringing together under one head much interesting and
valuable information.” L. P. Kinnicutt.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 424. O. 17, ’07. 210w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= In the dead of night. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–12558.
The thrilling side of night life in New York city is portrayed in this
story of adventure which begins by kidnapping an innocent man, placing
him in another man’s shoes, and requiring him to work his way thru a
maze of mystery.
* * * * *
“Mr. McIntyre has been unusually successful in ravelling up his
mystery, but, as too commonly happens in these stories, the solution
is an anticlimax.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= With fighting Jack Barry. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
7–28972.
John Barry whose name is linked with many a naval achievement before
and during the revolution is the hero-in-general of this exciting
tale. Yet the young reader who is fast upon the heels of adventure
follows Bob Fairly in his struggle to keep possession of a mammoth
ruby presented by the French king to a Fairly for service. Once
stolen, its recovery furnishes as exciting a series of incidents as
ever a Sherlock Holmes attempted to untangle.
=McIntyre, Margaret A.= Cave boy of the age of stone. (Stories of
primitive life for primary grades.) *40c. Appleton.
7–15587.
Here the author has worked into story form the progress made by the
cavemen and moundmen. She tells how primitive people lived, how they
fared, how they fished, how they trapped and killed wild game, and how
they used the margin of time for development.
* * * * *
“An interesting and readable account. For children of the primary
grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss McIntyre must be commended for a happy thought. The story is
sufficiently interesting to attract [children].”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 578. My. 9. 130w.
“The matter is all excellent and her book, In scheme, most
acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Mater: an American study in comedy.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
8–29017.
A satirical comedy in which a mother resorts to what she deems
justifiable deception in aiding her son, opposed to bribery, to win a
political fight. “The play is remarkable for two reasons; first
because satire is applied poignantly to American conditions in the
guise of charming fancy and poetic allegory; second, because it
subjects American life, as portrayed on the stage, to a literary
treatment that adds to Mr. Mackaye’s poetic reputation—a sense of
humor that sinks below situation and touches character.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“After reading the play, we are still doubtful whether its democratic
ideas are quite clear, and whether or not its levity is sufficiently
under control. But the book is an achievement to the decided credit of
Mr. Mackaye.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Mackaye has done a sparkling piece of literary work, but with a
flavor of cynicism which is not altogether agreeable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 344. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
“It is a little too fine, perhaps, for the popular theatre, but will
surely appeal to the reader of taste and intelligence. Its satire is
keen, and the character of ‘Mater’ has unusual charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 559. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Scarecrow; or, The glass of truth: a
tragedy of the ludicrous. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–7173.
Mr. Mackaye, author of “Sappho and Phaon,” uses New England in the
days of witchcraft for a setting of this his first prose drama, and
acknowledges his indebtedness to Hawthorne for inspiration. “It is an
imaginative study of New England temperament, as a local phase of
broader human psychology.” The comic theme has for its underlying idea
“the sense of human sympathy which is, it would seem, a more searching
critic of human frailty than satire.”
* * * * *
“We find the piece to have these three excellent possibilities, of
significance, scenic capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We
think it lacks coherence.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is fairly well constructed, and has enough movement to keep the
reader steadily interested.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“It is a play of vigorous imaginative richness and often of colorful,
felicitous diction. The satire may be readily appreciated but is not
an essential to enjoyment. For the story and the manner of telling are
in themselves highly diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 930w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Master influence. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13277.
A story whose central figure is a girl who, indifferent to her “smart
set” surroundings, gropes for an influence that can lift her above
ennui. Hospital work is more alluring than doctors, men of dreams or
dukes. But one day a young politician, a leader of men, reveals his
power thru love and becomes her “master influence.”
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=McKenzie, Frederick Arthur.= Tragedy of Korea. *$2. Dutton.
8–32329.
An anti-Japanese narrative covering a period of thirty years during
which the history of Korea has been linked with international
developments. The author’s conclusions all emphasize his view that
Japanese rule in Korea has been unnecessarily harsh and cruel.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 840w.
“The statements of fact and the assertions of opinion which Mr.
McKenzie has set down in his little book are abundantly worth giving
to the world.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 289. N. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“Though obviously intended to be fair, scarcely makes as much
allowance for the difficulties of the conqueror as circumstances might
seem to warrant. He is a trained observer, and has a graphic,
picturesque style that gives life and color to the page.” Adolphe
Klauber.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 433. Ag. 8, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
* =Mackinder, Halford John.= The Rhine: its valley and history. *$3.50.
Dodd.
8–24297.
The history and geography of the Rhine valley take precedence in this
informing Rhine book over its natural beauty and romance. “The reader
is given a wonderful bird’s-eye view of that great valley which has
seen so much of the history of Europe. By presenting landscape in
bare, almost mathematical, lines he succeeds in forcing a novel aspect
upon the reader’s mind, much as in another sphere Mr. Hardy in his
‘Dynasts’ presents us with the bones of history, and therefore with a
fresh view of it.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A text which is, in a scholar’s eyes, worthy of its surroundings. The
fault of it is, perhaps, for the general reader, that in dealing with
a subject of such romantic interest, he has clung too closely to
topographical detail. He has not allowed the romance of the great
river to inspire him. In the spelling of names Mr. Mackinder is a
trifle inconsistent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 456. Ap. 11. 1100w.
“The work shows careful study and patient labor, and is good to read
by itself or to use as a supplement (even though a ‘colored
supplement’) to Murray or Baedeker.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
“One of the most beautiful travel books of the year.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“We commend this book as a unique guide to the essentials of both
European geography and history. Without abating one jot of his
scientific purpose, Mr. Mackinder has succeeded in making his
narrative as fascinating as a romance.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 500. Mr. 28, ’08. 1400w.
=M’Laren, R. S.= Mechanical engineering for beginners. *$1.75.
Lippincott.
8–32659.
“In this book the author has endeavored to give in broad outlines the
information it is necessary to possess concerning the ordinary
branches of mechanical engineering, and at the same time to go
sufficiently into detail to enable the beginner to make all the
calculations likely to be required during the earlier stages of his
study.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“For a young man who is thinking of taking up a mechanical engineering
course at a technical school, the book will serve as an admirable
introduction thereto. Young draftsmen and machinists desiring to know
something of mechanical science will have their interest whetted by
reading it, for the calculations included are extremely simple, and
invite, rather than repel a continuance of study.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“If the author had entirely left out his chapter on electrical things
he would have an admirable book, but that one section is grossly
misleading in important and elementary matters. Throughout the book
the student needs to bear in mind that British practice is dealt with
and that American ideas depart from this widely at times.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
=McLaws, (Emily) Lafayette.= The welding. †$1.50. Little.
7–34773.
The south before the war furnishes the background for this story which
follows the career of the ambitious son of a Georgia cracker.
Abolitionists and their opponents figure true to history, and there
appear such notable ones among them as Garrison, Lincoln, Greeley,
Clay, Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, President Buchanan and
Alexander H. Stephens.
* * * * *
“As a novelist Lafayette McLaws has many superiors in American
fiction; that is, many people who can make their characters more vital
and convincing, but we know of no historical romance that presents so
fine or true a picture of life in the South and in the national
capital from forty-nine to sixty-five as is given in ‘The welding.’”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 691. D. ’07. 540w.
“The more personal side of the narrative is constantly interesting,
and we heartily congratulate Miss McLaws on her work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 695. F. ’08. 400w.
“She has the national rather than the sectional consciousness and
hates slavery both from the humanitarian and patriotic standpoint. She
offers really valuable information concerning social conditions in the
South prior to the war.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 270w.
=McMillan, Archibald Harold.= Telephone law: the organization and
operation of telephone companies. *$3. McGraw.
8–22088.
A compact and concise handbook of legal information designed to serve
the practical telephone man rather than the practicing lawyer. All of
the matters pertaining to the organization of telephone companies are
discussed in relation to the laws governing them, including a thoro
examination of the statutes of different states.
* * * * *
“This excellent work will be found of use by others than telephonists
and may be heartily recommended.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 259. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. McMillan’s book gives valuable information for men in a certain
line of enterprise; it is compiled from authoritative sources and put
together in a style that is consecutive, concise and understandable.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 370w.
=Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 50w.
=Macmillan, Rev. Donald.= Life of George Matheson. *$2. Armstrong.
8–9534.
A biography of Scotland’s celebrated blind preacher. “Blind at his
entrance to Glasgow university, but winning its highest honors,
minister to a city parish with nearly two thousand communicants and a
multitude of poor, assiduously visiting them, but never preaching the
same sermon twice, while continually addressing the public through the
press, he was one of the few heroic souls whose energy has wrung
triumph out of seemingly hopeless disaster.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A sympathetic and appreciative biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 950w.
“Is a most stimulating book. While it is full of lessons for every
one, it appeals especially to young men or women who, laboring under
some great physical infirmity, feel that for them an actively useful
life is an impossibility.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 320w.
“The note of eulogy that recurs throughout this record of an
extraordinary career is justified by the facts.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Macmillan has given us a touching record of a great life, which
was singularly fruitful of good in adverse conditions.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Macnaughton, Miss S.= The expensive Miss Du Cane. †$1.50. Dutton.
A novel abounding in types. “The story is one of the slightest, just
the awakening and growth of love between two very likeable young
people at a house party.... Nobody is made to say or do anything for
the purpose of carrying the story along. The talk, of which there is a
great deal, and the action, of which there is very little, all of it
merely makes the reader acquainted with the people, and whatever
happens is the natural development of the characters and the
situations as they react upon one another.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Miss Macnaughton is too clever, has too much of the novelist’s
instinct, not to manage her people with skill, and not to make many
shrewd comments on women and life; but we are forced to admit that she
has not escaped the sin of monotony.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 740w.
“The story is not convulsed by storms of elemental passion—the setting
precludes high tragedy—but it has affecting as well as shining
moments.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 1400w.
* =McNeil, Everett.= Boy forty-niners; or, Across the plains and
mountains to the gold-mines of California in a prairie-schooner. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–27102.
The first of three volumes intended to picture to the eyes of the
younger generation something of the perils and hardships endured
across country in 1849, to the gold field of California. This story
deals with the experiences of two boys who travel down the Ohio river,
up the Mississippi and Missouri and on across the mountains,
encountering the hardships of thousands of emigrants to whom the lure
of gold was irresistible.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 100w.
“Its chief virtue is of the unrefined diamond sort, its atmosphere
suspensive.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Any newsboy would enjoy this narrative, however clumsy the writing.
The book is not to be recommended for children who can get better, but
some librarians may welcome this story as a stepping-stone to higher
things.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Macrosty, Henry William.= Trust movement in British industry.
*$2.50. Longmans.
W7–120.
“In this volume the author shows not only that the combination
movement has made substantial progress in Great Britain, but that it
presents similarities to the movement in protectionist countries at so
many points as to necessitate the conclusion that there are behind it
world causes more fundamental than tariff vagaries. The book is
divided into an introductory chapter, twelve chapters describing
combinations in different industries and a chapter presenting a
‘Survey and conclusions.’ In the introduction a convenient
classification of combinations is suggested which forms the skeleton
for the descriptive chapters which follow.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
* * * * *
“The volume is a bit disappointing because it represents nothing more
than results which might be obtained by an ordinary legislative
commission. The book is hard to read. The paragraphs are long and
tiresome. The style is clumsy. We need thought—but that thought must
be transmitted by means of good English.”
− − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“A comprehensive and fairly detailed narrative. We can only regret
that in his summary and conclusions as to the mass of material
presented the author has not ventured into more detail.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 42. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“An admirable survey.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 181. F. 20, ’08. 500w.
“[The chapters] give every evidence of exhaustive research and
accurate scholarship.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 558. S. ’07. 320w.
“For this scholarly and impartial treatise we have nothing but praise.
Our readers will find in his pages a very full and detailed account of
the most important instances of trust combination in this country.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 263. Ag. 24, ’07. 2220w.
Reviewed by G. H. Montague.
=Yale R.= 17: 109. My. ’08. 750w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker=, comp. Handy book of synonyms. (Handy
information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–22888.
A practical desk guide to words in daily use, giving their definition
and parallel meaning.
=Macvane, Edith.= Duchess of dreams. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–14334.
The story tells how a social climber of Newport reaches an enviable
height of popularity as the prospective hostess of a Romanoff
princess, how at the last moment the princess on account of illness
fails to arrive, and how the undaunted hostess substitutes a girl from
the coast of Maine who had a French mother and a gift for
play-acting—a duchess of dreams.
* * * * *
“In places she is a little unconvincing and her characters lack
personality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 93. Jl. 25. 100w.