interest and here are both to the reader’s hand.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“People who like this sort of story will be apt to recommend this
literary sweetmeat to their friends as ‘perfectly dandy’ or ‘just
charming.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Macy, John Albert.= Edgar Allan Poe. (Beacon biographies.) **75c.
Small.
8–7372.
Without extenuating or accusing, this sketch seeks to treat the
biographical facts of Poe’s life with fairness to the poet and to give
the reader a right view of the man as seen from modern days and
interests.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“It contains everything that the busy man or woman wants to know about
the author of ‘The raven’ and ‘The bells.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 106. O. ’08. 800w.
“His little book sustains the general excellence of the series to
which it belongs.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We are glad it was Mr. Macy and not some one else who did it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“His critical comment, interspersed throughout the narration, runs for
the most part in the common groove, although occasionally we can not
follow him.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 488. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Many new things are told of his life that have been unknown and
unheard of until now.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“He has followed the generally accepted facts, but his interpretation
of them is eminently sane and cool, free from prejudice, and unmuddled
by any unnecessary mixing up of moral and intellectual judgments. A
vein of grim, dignified, and restrained humor runs through the work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“The brief ‘Life’ is not in any sense a finality; its style is too
journalistic; but it is an interesting account of a perplexing
career.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 110w.
“His critical dicta we cannot always accept.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
=Madden, Eva Annie.= Two royal foes. il. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33904.
“The story has a historical background, its scenes being in Prussia at
the time of the invasion by Napoleon. The story opens with the Battle
of Jena, through which the heroine, a peasant girl, is left an orphan.
She then goes to live with her grandfather, and the two have many
adventures. Queen Louisa of Prussia also figures in the novel.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Quaint, pretty, unpretentious story. History seems well founded and
characters are life-like.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 23. Ja. ’08. ✠
“There is a certain very charming German atmosphere thruout ‘Two royal
foes’ and yet we are baffled. For without condemning it, we needs must
criticise it for its diffuse story, for its over-exact narration of
Napoleon’s ravages in Prussia, and for the very slight juvenile strain
in its pages.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1481. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A charming historical story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Madison, James.= Journal of the debates in the convention which
framed the constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787;
as recorded by James Madison; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. 2v. **$4.50.
Putnam.
8–20180.
Madison’s journal is the only complete record of the constitutional
convention extant. It is a continuous chronicle of the proceedings of
the convention and has been reproduced in these two volumes with notes
which include a comparison of the journal with the records kept
respectively by Robert Yates, Rufus King and William Pierce.
* * * * *
“A number of errors have been left uncorrected. The debates have been
edited in a careful and scholarly manner.” W. F. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 915. Jl. ’08. 410w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“This whole admirable edition of Madison’s ‘Journal’ will be a boon
both to scholars and to less ambitious students of the constitution
and its history.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 101. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No further edition of the Madison notes will be needed for many
years.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“This work will bring into the hands of teachers, scholars, and
students of national politics a historical document of the first
importance, edited and printed in the best style and at an exceedingly
moderate price.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 180w.
“Does not give a definitive edition of the debates, and much remains
yet to be done in the study of available material. The convenient form
of this reprint is hardly sufficient to justify its existence, and
there are not a few misprints which could have been avoided.”
− =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 230w.
“An exhaustive index makes the work thoroughly usable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It shows textual differences from the earlier editions over which it
is a vast improvement, if only from the standpoint of convenience for
reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Of the several editions of this invaluable journal which have
appeared since Madison’s death by far the most satisfactory is the new
two-volume edition edited by Mr. Gaillard Hunt. The special value of
Mr. Hunt’s work lies in the fact that he has compared the statements
made by contemporary writers with the corresponding entries in
Madison’s journal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Intelligence of the flowers; tr. by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–36869.
An essay on the signs of reasoning in flowers which “is a complement
to his essay on bees ... [The author] wishes ‘merely to recall a few
facts known to every botanist,’ and has ‘no intention of reviewing all
the proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.’ He confines
himself almost entirely to the delicate arrangements for
cross-fertilization, describing them with as great scientific accuracy
as if he were not a poet.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A charming companion piece to the ‘Life of the bee.’” Florence
Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 710. My. ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a
poet.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 280w.
“It is a unique combination of fact and fancy, scientific in its
statements, humanistic in its interpretation of them, mystical in its
philosophy, poetical in its expression.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 158. Ja. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good example of the decorated giftbook.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“The translation preserves most of the original’s charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
“A translation of extraordinary refinement.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“Is ostensibly a nature book, but the delicate imagination and
exquisite literary style of the author are so persuasive and charming
throughout the book that it is really a work of literature.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 50w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Pélléas and Mélisande; tr. by Erving
Winslow; with an introd. by Montrose J. Moses. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–22493.
An edition of Maeterlinck’s play for which Mr. Montrose J. Moses has
written an introduction revealing Maeterlinck’s mastery of delicate
and strange intuitions, enumerating the fragments of his philosophy
and calling attention to his spectral background and dramatic theory.
The volume is a fitting holiday offering with its marginal decoration
and excellent illustrations.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translation is ... prosaic and discordant: poorer even than the
Alma Tadema version.”
− =Ind.= 65: 843. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Winslow’s translation is adequate. Mr. Moses contributes a
readable, painstaking introductory essay. As a Mary Garden picture
book the Crowell edition of ‘Pélléas and Mélisande’ deserves cordial
praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 603. O. 24, ’08. 400w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad-gita; or, The message of the master;
compiled and adapted from numerous old and new translations of the
original Sanscrit text by Yogi Ramacharaka. 2d ed. 75c. Yogi pub.
7–15127.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of
Vedantic philosophy. The translation is accompanied by a general
introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books
of the Gita.
* * * * *
“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad
Gita’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good
many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has
not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit
or has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of
Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its
admirable expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory
little volume.” J. H. Coates.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general
principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
A collection of papers including “a few large, plain, simple ideas”
concerning naval matters which the general reader ought to know.
Captain Mahan discusses The principles of naval administration, The
United States navy department, Principles involved in the war between
Japan and Russia, Objects of the United States naval war college, The
practical character of the United States naval war college,
Subordination in historical treatment, The strength of Nelson, The
value of the Pacific cruise of the United States fleet, and The Monroe
doctrine.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Ought to be in the hands of every intelligent man.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable
way. The socialism of this book is of the ‘Fabian’ school, educative
and opportunist; its weapons are not carnal but spiritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 520w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with
The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The
capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50.
Little.
7–41543.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“Books like the present volume do, in our judgment, incalculable
injury by catering to the military spirit.” B. O. Flower.
− =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 410w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 286. Mr. 7. 60w.
“There is nothing new in it excepting the preface, which is a summing
up of the argument. Yet it is very well worth having and reading, or
re-reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It would certainly be well if the apostles of peace at any price—and
we have many in our midst—would study Captain Mahan’s admirable and
dispassionate essays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 210. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
=Spec.= 100: 461. Mr. 21, ’08. 1700w.
* =Maire, Frederick.= Modern pigments and their vehicles: their
properties and uses considered mainly from the practical side, and how
to make tints from them. $2. Wiley.
8–1476.
“The manual is written for the men who use or sell pigments, and who
mainly want to know what they can expect of them. It is especially
designed to be of value to the young man who is starting out to learn
the painter’s trade. The various pigments which are used in
compounding colors and tints are taken up in order, beginning with the
yellow pigments, and dealing with the reds, greens, blues, browns and
blacks, respectively. Their history, early use, methods of mining and
preparing for market, and adulterations, are described.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“For the purpose for which it was written this book should be of
value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 170w.
“A most excellent book written by one who evidently knows the
practical side thoroughly. There are several books which are more
scientific and chemical, but there is none which will be of greater
value to the chemist, the practical man or the young apprentice at the
painter’s trade.” A. H. Gill.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Constitutional history of England: a
course of lectures. **$3.50. Putnam.
“These lectures discuss the public law of Great Britain at five
periods. The first period runs from 1066 to 1307, the second period
extends to 1509, the third to 1625, the fourth to 1702, and the fifth
to the closing years of the nineteenth century. Much of the ground
covered by the lectures was later traversed by Prof. Maitland in his
carefully written ‘History of English law,’ ‘Domesday book and
beyond,’ ‘Township and borough,’ and other publications, to the
preparation of which he devoted a great deal of time and study.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The publication of these lectures in their original form, under the
care of such a competent and sympathetic editor as Mr. Herbert Fisher,
is a matter for congratulation on behalf of a large body of teachers
and students alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 394. O. 3. 820w.
“The plan of the work is unique. The editorial supervision is done
with that discrimination and good judgment which characterizes all the
work of Mr. Fisher.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 662. S. 17, ’08. 680w.
“What he has written is in the main indisputable, and needs no
revision. By contenting himself with established facts he has rendered
his work of almost as much value to-day as it was twenty years ago.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 339. O. 8, ’08. 1250w.
“Persons familiar with the works of Prof. Maitland that were published
in his lifetime will have little use for this posthumous volume; but
we believe Mr. Fisher is quite right in saying that the study of the
Cambridge lectures will serve as an excellent introduction to an
exhaustive inquiry into English constitutional history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 450w.
“Is distinguished by profound erudition and clearness of exposition. A
good many popular misconceptions, perhaps more prevalent here than in
England, are cleared away, and a better understanding had of the
factors making for England’s continued strength and stability.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
=Major, Charles.= Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian
treasure. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28633.
A book of lively, wholesome stories of adventure which Uncle Tom Andy
Bill, seventy and reminiscent, selects from his boyhood experiences.
* * * * *
“A new juvenile which will receive a ready welcome.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 40w.
“Even if the older reader may not care so much for the treasure and
the bears as the boy, he will admit that the story is a true and
lively picture of life half a century ago in what is now the middle
west, but was then the frontier.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Makower, Stanley V.= Perdita: a romance in biography. *$4.
Appleton.
8–34595.
A sketch of Mary Darby Robinson whose beauty was passed down to
posterity by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and other artists, who was
a favorite pupil of Garrick and as Perdita captured the affections of
George, Prince of Wales. “As here told, the story is a veritable
microcosm of eighteenth-century life, not only the relation of the
first important intrigue of a royal debauchee; so the mere lover of
scandal will be compelled, whether he will or no, to see things in
their right perspective.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The faults are few and far between, and the merits considerable. The
latter far exceed those of the ordinary popular biography, and the
impression left is that of literature rather than book-making.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 315. Mr. 14. 1700w.
“The present book tells her capricious career with an admixture of
fiction which does not jar with the known facts, and which certainly
makes sprightly reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
“The book that lies before us will certainly appeal to all
novel-readers as well as to the smaller public which prefers its
history and biography unspiced by imagination.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 504. Mr. 28, ’08. 420w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
A study of girlhood at the point of its emergence from the school room
into the world where coquettishness, seriousness, ingeniousness and
young philosophy struggle with one another for the upper hand. The
problem of double personality appears and with it two lovers, a
clergyman and a scientist, who claim to be respectively interested in
the heroine’s soul health and the psychological problem which she
embodies.
* * * * *
“A fine piece of irony, though the simple will devour it for its
sensation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 240w.
“The descriptions of English rural life are true and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Mallock. William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2.
Harper. 7–39227.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book is, on the whole, one of the best attacks on socialism
although purely theoretical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
“Mr. Mallock’s analysis appears to us radically unsound.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 447. S. ’08. 550w.
“[In the second part of the work] the Socialists and their opponent,
Mr. Mallock, are equally academic—their illustrations are equally in
the clouds, except where examples quoted by Mr. Mallock err in the
opposite direction of an over-practical crudity.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 191. F. 15. 800w.
“On the purely intellectual side, his criticisms, valid or otherwise,
will arouse fruitful thought and discussion; but though we must admit
that he justly accuses many socialists of improperly prejudicing the
subject, we cannot acquit him of this same fault.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 39. Ja. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“This volume, on account of its compactness of argument, felicity of
illustration and dialectical cleverness, cannot be ignored or scorned
by the socialist editors and pamphleteers who are preaching a new
evangel.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“On its positive or non-controversial side the book before us merits
no particular comment. Where it is not positively erroneous it is
merely commonplace.” R. F. Hoxie.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 540. O. ’08. 430w.
“With all his cleverness Mallock is unconvincing. To deal effectively
with socialism, one must have some genuine capacity for appreciating
the need and the possibility of social betterment, and Mallock’s work
makes the impression of one whose social sympathies are atrophied.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Mallock’s book will be read with interest by all who heard his
lectures in sundry American cities, and it might well attract an even
larger number in its elaborate form. The topic is worth it, and the
treatment is at least easier reading than Marx’s.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 1030w.
“He is both clear and clever; but he is not always conclusive.” Lyman
Abbott.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 539. Mr. 7, ’08. 530w.
“His analytic and literary powers as shown so brilliantly in his
former well-known work, ‘The reconstruction of religious belief,’
characterize also this little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 120w.
“What the situation requires is a successful apology for the system of
liberty and free exchange which, with many lets and hindrances, has
during historical times been becoming the progressive basis of
existing society. Mr. Mallock’s book, though it is not specifically
addressed to this aspect of the controversy, makes its definite
contribution thereto, and it is more valuable in this respect than as
a hostile criticism of the nebulous aspirations of socialism.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 940. Je. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. $1.50. McClure.
8–13767.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“This book owes a charm to its nondescript character. There is a
quality very warm and human and engaging in this casual narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 592. D. 26, ’07. 610w.
“A series of first-hand views of London life on its pathetic side,
with much of the sociological interest, is brought out under the title
of ‘The soul market.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 30w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals
of voice production. (Music students lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
Deals with the fundamentals of tone production. The purpose is to
present simply and in easily understood terms the essentials of good
tone production in such order, and the accompanying instruction and
exercises with such definiteness that the difficulties which
discourage students may be at least minimized.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles
and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces including
also Foix, Roussillon and Bearn, il. $3. Page.
7–38519.
Uniform with “Castles and chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire
country.” Geographically the rambles cover the French slopes of the
Pyrenees from the Atlantic Gulf of Gascony to the Mediterranean Gulf
of Lyons and on to the Rhône. The feudal chateaux and fortified bourgs
of this region furnish the author abundant material for his
appreciation of their architecture, comments on the manner of living
in far-away times, and for his chatty presentation of men and manners
of to-day.
* * * * *
“The title of this handsomely bound and illustrated volume scarcely
does justice to its contents.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 681. Ag. ’08. 450w.
“The text combines descriptive and historical material with personal
impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 90w.
“A work which summarizes his knowledge in good pedestrian prose and,
being carefully indexed, should be valuable for purposes of
reference.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 180w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F.= In the land of mosques and minarets. $3.
Page.
8–15291.
Another Mansfield-McManus collaboration which takes the reader to the
less frequented places of Tunisia and Algeria. It is full of
information “both ordinary and unusual, about the lives, manners, and
customs of the natives, the country itself, and the line of contact
between the natives and the many-nationed crowd of aliens.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 50w.
“He has set before us a glowing panorama of Algerian life and
scenery.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
“The text is written entertainingly and gives no end of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“It contains much information interesting alike to the traveler and to
the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 44. S. 5, ’08. 60w.
“This is a very pleasantly written and readable volume, well set off
with illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of
patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.
7–39037.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The result of her labors, however, displays neither the extent of
learning—except in matters of somewhat gossipy detail—the grasp of her
subject, nor the command of style needful to justify three hundred
pages and more about matter of which scholars as well as general
readers may contentedly remain ignorant.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 662. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“An extensive bibliography, carefully classified, a full index, and
careful annotation will commend the book to students. Mrs. Marble
writes fully and entertainingly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“An entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
“Mrs. Marble, whose method is largely descriptive and biographic, has
put the knowledge about this group of writers into very convenient
form.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= My lost self; il. by Alex. O. Levy.
75c. Cupples & L.
8–8096.
Cuthbert Dalrymple, a young New Yorker of the exclusive, law-abiding
set loses consciousness through a mysterious blow. When a second blow
restores him he finds that he has been ruled for a season by a lower
personality—that he is in Sicily and the most feared of a band of
desperadoes. His chief business in his restored state is that of
fighting to protect the Sicilian heroine against intrigue and danger
in wild surroundings.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 130w.
“Whatever may be said as to the credibility of such events as depicted
it cannot be denied that they follow one another with a rather
fascinating rapidity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= He can who thinks he can, and other papers
on success in life. **$1. Crowell.
8–30895.
A group of forcible editorials reprinted from Success magazine
including the following: He can who thinks he can; Getting around;
Education by absorption; Freedom at any cost; What the world owes to
dreamers; The spirit in which you work; Responsibility of power; An
overmastering purpose; Has your vocation your unqualified approval?
Stand for something; Happy, if not why not? Originality; Had money but
lost it; Sizing up people; Does the world owe you a living? What has
luck done for you? Success with a flaw; and Getting away from poverty.
* * * * *
“Undoubtedly it will be helpful in many ways to many men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3.
Houghton.
7–36985.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Recommended because it is as good as, or better than, any other
general book on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, we think it will amuse, but hardly instruct, the
reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 39. Ja. 11. 480w.
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“An altogether delightful book. We sincerely wish that it might be
generally read to or by secondary schools and colleges in Greek or in
ancient history.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 312. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“It is, however, odious to weigh mint and anise and cumin in the
presence of a really fine work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1567. D. 26, ’07. 970w.
“The illustrations are admirable, and would make a book of much value
and interest worth possessing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 300w.
“There is a ground which this volume covers as no other has yet done.
With this volume in hand any intelligent traveler should find the
rough places made smooth, with the direction and information that the
stranger craves.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“It will also prove useful to the intending traveler in those regions,
for the writer gives an accurate and not exaggerated picture of the
incidents inevitable to such an expedition. As a guide the author is
only moderately well informed. He clearly knows nothing of the
mediæval history of Greece.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“A very pleasant and useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus. *$3.50.
Dodd.
7–38520.
“Professor Margoliouth tells his readers some interesting facts about
these three famed Eastern cities. The buildings of the Fatimide and
Ayyubid eras are described. The sovereigns who ruled over Cairo are
treated at length, and nothing essential is missed in the historical
sketches given of Jerusalem and Damascus.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It bears throughout the stamp of an individual mind, well stored with
the original sources familiar to the learned author, but able to take
independent views and here and there to draw a luminous
generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 152. F. 8. 1600w.
“Is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its
description of these three great cities. Is certainly one of the most
beautiful of the series.” Justin McCarthy.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1421. D. 12, ’07. 210w.
“The text has the rare merit of being trustworthy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Very superior to the greater number of the colour books that have
recently been issued, for it would be of permanent value even without
the illustrations.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 1460w.
“It must frankly be said that the history of Cairo here given is
dreary reading. The illustrations are beautifully executed with
carefully worked-out detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The text of Mr. Margoliouth’s book differs from that of most volumes
which describe the history of Cairo or Jerusalem or Damascus because
it has been written by one long immersed in the atmosphere of the
Orient and of the Arabic language.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“The artist gives us only the picturesque or artistic scenes in the
Oriental cities he delineates, and wisely passes by the dirt or the
dull ugliness amidst which they are set; and the historian would do
well to follow his example where literary interest and not historical
completeness is his object.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 52. Ja. 11, ’08. 800w.
“This attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and
students of history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= King Edward VI, an appreciation,
attempted by Sir Clements R. Markham. *$3. Dutton.
8–10272.
A eulogistic treatment of a “period of anarchy in which a Tammany ring
of titled ruffians ... left England the legacy of a pauper class.”
(Sat. R.) The precocious Edward VI of this book “was a statesman who
understood the self-seeking, unprincipled character of the politicians
about him; a princely boy who had more sense in his little finger than
both his uncles put together had in their whole bodies.” (Nation.) The
author exploits the young king’s learning, his interest in geography,
his fondness for games; and above all argues that he was neither a
tool nor a figurehead.
* * * * *
“Unluckily, Sir Clement’s passion for historical paradox does much to
spoil the effect of his nervous and sympathetic narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 380w.
“Sir Clements’s knowledge of the period is not profound, and it is
only his own idiosyncrasies which make his book remarkable.” A. F. P.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 199. Ja. ’08. 380w.
“It is not, we think, possible to say that Sir Clements Markham has
added anything to our knowledge of the reign, or that his
confidently-expressed judgments enable us to understand better the men
and women who played their part in it. The chief interest of the book
lies in the details of Edward’s interest in such subjects as geography
and exploration, a much more healthy occupation for him than his
boyish attempts at theology.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 630w.
“The book contains many excellent portraits and much useful
biographical and genealogical information, but its conclusions will
hardly find acceptance at the hands of fair-minded historians.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 471. Ag. 29, ’08. 840w.
“While we dissent entirely from Sir Clements’ estimate of the reign,
we must say that his pages make pleasant reading. Pageantry and
heraldry he understands, and he gives a brilliant description of his
young hero’s coronation. Interesting and original also are the pages
in the book that tell of the Tudor navy and the ‘first Arctic
expedition.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 206. F. 15, ’08. 1000w.
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 704. N. 7, ’08. 1100w.
=Marks, William Dennis.= Finances of gas and electric light and
power enterprises: electric railways, electric light stations, gas
works, oil motor cars. 4th ed. $4. William D. Marks, 623 Park Row
bldg., N. Y.
7–27171.
“Five chapters have been added to the present edition. Included in the
new matter is a digest of some of the evidence in the recent lawsuit
(not yet settled) over the reduction of the price of gas in New York
city to 80 cts. per 1,000 cu. ft. There is also included a paper on
‘Railway rates for electric railways.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole contains a large amount of information,
statistical and descriptive, on various phases of the subject
indicated by the title.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 140w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 49. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Marriott, H. Crittenden.= Uncle Sam’s business; told for young
Americans. $1.25. Harper.
8–28399.
An informing story which shows Uncle Sam as ruler, captain of industry
and public servant. In the first instance Uncle Sam is shown as
law-maker, judge, ambassador, society man, trader, soldier, sailor,
peace-maker, and immigrant; in the second, as builder, house-cleaner,
store-keeper, builder of war ships, manager of public lands, maker and
distributer of money; in the third, as farmer, chemist, forester,
weatherman, and patron of science and art.
* * * * *
“The information is rather disconnected and the style wordy and
careless, but the book has value in connection with the study of
civics.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should meet the present demand for instruction without drudgery.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Older people may obtain clear ideas of governmental matters upon
which they have not been well informed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Mars, Gerhardt Cornell.= Interpretation of life; in which is shown
the relation of modern culture to Christian science. **$3.
Appleton.
8–18359.
A work written from the Christian science standpoint which makes a
stirring appeal to every thinker. Dr. Mars “discusses successively the
natural world-order in its evolution, inorganic and organic; then the
supranatural or rational world-order; next the threefold unity of
reason, in science, art, and ethics; then the threefold interpretation
of reason, theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical; then ‘the pedagogy of
pain,’ involving the problems of evil, sin, and atonement, or
reconciliation.” (Outlook.) He closes with a defense of Mrs. Eddy.
* * * * *
“It is as suggestive as it is lucid, as logical and closely reasoned
as it is profoundly thoughtful and convincing to the reason.” B. O.
Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 258. S. ’08. 8000w.
“The work will not be of much value in proselyting, but it ought to
exert a good influence inside the church in checking the disposition
to scoff at scientific methods and defy common sense.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 700w.
“Christian science ... has at last found an expositor and defender who
really knows something, who has read widely and intelligently, who can
compare and reason, and who does write English that means something.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 349. Je. 20, ’08. 880w.
“Fundamentally as we disagree with many of Dr. Mars’s conclusions, we
believe that so long as these problems exist such earnest attempts to
solve them cannot be useless. He at least brings to consciousness many
of the contradictions of our social order and he thinks nobly of man.”
Christian Gauss.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 771. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Dr. Mars’s surprising conclusion should not in sober judgment impugn
the solid merits of the work to which it is, in strict logic, no more
than an appendix.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 480w.
=Marsh, Charles Fleming, and Dunn, William.= Manual of reinforced
concrete and concrete block construction. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“Presents in compact handbook form the necessary information required
in the design, construction and supervision of reinforced concrete
work. The text is based upon that of the third edition of their
favorably-known quarto treatise, ‘Reinforced concrete.’ the
demonstrations or reasoning, however, upon which the formulas are
based, being omitted in order to keep the work within handbook
limits.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 340w.
“Its main faults for American sale are its rather unwieldly size ...
and its use of British standards of measurement and practice. A very
good designing hand-book, a trifle obscure, perhaps, in some of the
theory, but still quite valuable to the office-man in concrete work.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 539. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Some of the methods of design employed in the book will be questioned
by some engineers, but the book as a whole is excellent.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= Exton Manor. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3427.
English country life is depicted here in a manner to create atmosphere
and with it the feeling of knowing the characters intimately. In this
Exton Manor community a social war is waged which has for its cause
the question of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The episode is
used to test the Christianity, apart from Churchmanship, of a group of
people prominent among whom are a clergyman’s busy-body wife and an
adherent of the Woman’s reformation league.
* * * * *
“The book is a long one.... It moves with all the slowness of the old
three-volume novel; and it moves with that slowness just because the
author is not an analyst ... but shows you life itself.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“A tale of much more than ordinary excellence, which moves slowly and
is not strong in plot, but which introduces real people who live out
very real lives and command interest to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Marshall succeeds in keeping our interest to the end, for his
people are living people, and never once do they descend to
caricature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 300w.
“There is enough that is good in this book, and enough that shows
possibilities for later work from the author, to justify serious
criticism.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 178. Ap. ’08. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 560w.
“The details are painted in with so much fidelity and with such loving
care that it has with good reason recalled to most reviewers the works
of Anthony Trollope.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The story that he unfolds in his successive chapters is an
interesting one, while as a study of contemporaneous life it is
strong, keen and humorous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Is one of the most carefully written and thoroughly worked out pieces
of fiction that has appeared in England for a long time past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 611. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“There is very little art in it; but the fact that such a chronicle
should only occasionally be boring proves a skill in the chronicler
which is sure to commend him to the many readers to whom gossip makes
a more direct appeal than art.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Marshall has written nothing better than this, and we might say
nothing nearly so good. We heartily recommend this calming book to a
bustling age.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 462. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Marston, Edward (“Amateur Angler,” pseud.).= Thomas Ken and Izaak
Walton: a sketch of their lives and family connection. *$2. Longmans.
An octogenarian has brought together late material which further
illuminates the history of the famous angler, Izaak Walton, and has
presented it with the quiet enthusiasm of fellow sympathy.
* * * * *
“A book of somewhat disjointed notes on the two worthies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 360w.
“The story of how Ken became bishop alone makes the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 450w.
* =Martin, Edward Sandford.= In a new century. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–27778.
Twenty-two essays telling “of the consequences of too much success, of
some advantages of the common lot, of the remuneration found in
reading and writing, of the prospects of ‘Society’ in America, of
riches, character, and money, of the profound need in our leaders of
what he calls the spiritual quality, of the seashore and the inland
countryside, of the purpose and use of deafness, and many another
subject handled with skill and distinct literary ability.” (Outlook.)
See Cumulative book index for contents.
* * * * *
“Mr. Martin is a genial philosopher, but his teaching is none the less
timely and vigorous.” E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 500w.
“What he says is always worth reading, and he always says it
felicitously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Very much up to date and very typically American is this collection
of essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 540w.
“His sturdy, uncompromising stand for truth, and civic and personal
righteousness, is clothed in a form of grace, and sparkles with the
irony admissible to a thoroughly refined mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Letitia: nursery corps, U. S. A. il.
†$1.50. McClure.
7–37709.
Stories of army life with a little girl in the foreground whose
happiness is less in the hands of a heartless mother and a
self-centered father than in the keeping of her “striker” guardians.
“In one of the stories the canteen question is viewed from a familiar
standpoint—that with the abolishment of the army saloon the soldiers
seek amusement in worse places. Another shows how the social
distinctions of army life extend even to the children of the
commissioned and non-commissioned officers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Humorous setting-forth of some of the unromantic features of army
life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 19. Ja. ’08.
“This forlorn little waif, remaining unspotted by her very wordly
world, the reprehensible morals and manners from which she springs,
and the problems of post life as seen here, are compounded of paper
and printer’s ink.”
− =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 80w.
“Six commonplace short stories of life at an army post are all one
finds in this book by the creator of the winsome Emmy Lou.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“The stories are amusing and give a good insight into wandering
military life. But the language is sometimes marred by obscurity owing
to an obvious effort to imitate Kipling’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
=Martin, Helen Riemensnyder.= Revolt of Anne Royle. †$1.50. Century.
8–25996.
This story follows the development of a lonely child from the age of
eight thru years of struggle against the authority of a stern guardian
and the snobbishness of his relatives, thru years of growing self
assertion and revolt against imperious control, on to maturity and
happiness. There is also a portrayal without exaggeration of a worldly
minded clergyman, whose shallowness is strongly contrasted with the
results of service achieved by a young curate of determination and
power.
* * * * *
“The story is forced and unnatural and many of the characters are
exaggerated, but as a clever love tale it will be acceptable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08.
“Whether considered as a love romance or as a sectional view of
American life, the story is one of the best American novels of the
season.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 220w.
“If the reader can conceive of a story that combines the old-fashioned
charm of the ‘Wide, wide world’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ with the fresher
interest of a modern romance, he will have some idea of the
fascination of this remarkable book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The dénouement is not unforeseen, but the bits of artifice relied
upon to sustain the plot interest and attain a fit ending are
forgivable in view of the real interest in the people of the book,
which is never wanting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 480w.
“The story is overweighted, and the effect is neither agreeable nor
artistic.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico of the twentieth century. 2v. *$8.50.
Dodd.
8–4360.
“An authoritative and exhaustive account of present-day conditions in
our neighbor republic, written in the hope of remedying popular
ignorance and prejudice in regard to a country whose geography, social
and economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a sealed book
to Europeans and even to other Americans.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A valuable compendium. Readable, letter press excellent,
illustrations admirable, binding only fairly durable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“The book contains much that is of value, and almost everything that
will be sought for in such a work. But it is padded with a great deal
of gossip, here slightly out of place, as having often little or no
connexion with the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 730w.
“He knows his subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different
aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece of information
will be likely to find just what he wants somewhere in these two
volumes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Although more pretentious is in reality less valuable than Mr.
Starr’s book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“He has piled up a mountain of facts, has amassed what should be most
useful to both the Englishman and the American.” G. R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 421. Ag. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“As an aid to promoters, industrialists, and investors generally, Mr.
Martin’s volumes have special value.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Verbose and chaotic volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 360w.
“The fault we find is that Mr. Martin gives us information which is
quite unnecessary, and has really little or nothing to do with Mexico,
and yet declares that he has been forced to omit things obviously more
pertinent for want of room.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 990. D. 14, ’07. 1700w.
=Martin, William Frank.= Sir Harry Vane: a drama in five acts.
$1.25. Roxburgh pub.
8–5897.
A drama based upon historical facts selected from the period of Vane’s
occupancy of the governorship of the Massachusetts Bay colony,
1636–1637. Political and theological controversies form the background
of the drama, conspicuous among whose characters are Sir Harry Vane,
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley.
=Mary Stuart, queen of Scots.= Queen Mary’s book: a collection of
poems and essays; ed. by Mrs. P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot.
*$3.50. Macmillan.
8–16438.
“A translation of a collection of poems and essays written at
intervals during her life, beginning with her Latin exercises at the
age of twelve, and ending with the essay on adversity written in
prison. Its best features are the five excellent reproductions of
works in her handwriting, and an appendix containing the original
texts in a generally accurate form.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The editor is, in fact, not qualified to do good editorial work.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 819. D. 28. 1150w.
“It cannot be denied that there is a strange pathetic interest in
‘Queen Mary’s book.’ The pathos of the book lies in the poems and
prose compositions of the queen herself, which are here for the first
time brought together in a single volume. Our only quarrel with the
book is that all the originals are not added.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot does not pretend to be an historian
or a critic of eminence. Her part, we may say, is to show her
convictions by laying a flower on Mary’s grave, by adding a stone to
the wall of defence against her enemies. And her work is done in a
candid spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=Marzo, Eduardo=, comp, and ed. Art of vocalization. 3 bks. pa. ea.
75c. Ditson.
Shows to Americans with their beautiful singing voices the necessity
of a “hurry never” creed if they would reach the goal of excellence
attained by Europeans. Exercises for voice culture are selected from
the works of Lablache, Panofka, Randegger, Marchesi, and others.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
* =Masefield, John.= Captain Margaret: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a perilous journey to the Spanish Main whither Captain
Margaret, dreamer no less than swordsman, goes from England to help
the Indians against the oppression of Spain. The story tells how the
renegade husband of Captain Margaret’s former sweetheart comes, with
his wife, aboard the captain’s ship as it was putting out to sea, how
he pretended to his wife to be nobly bent upon fighting for the
Indians when in truth he is fleeing from justice, how the captain’s
quiet, restrained power is a foil for the husband’s perfidy, how the
wife finally recognizes it, how the colony fails but how love
triumphs.
* * * * *
“It is a good yarn, full of colour and movement.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 92. Jl. 25. 230w.
“The psychology, and occasionally the dialogue, are strangely modern.
But the story is finely conceived.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 455. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
“We must say that the last chapter atones for some of the
incredibilities, as it contains passages which are noble and moving,
and will, we think, be very grateful to every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 99. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Masefield, John.= Tarpaulin muster. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–10282.
Twenty-four stories, chiefly sea-tales with the tang of the salt in
them, the changing lights that draw colors from old ocean, and sounds
that range from alluring siren refrains to the creaking of cordage and
the booming of breakers. A veritable classic is “Being ashore” which,
contrary to the title, is a magnificent description of a run off River
Plate, with the writer possessed of the spirit of the wind and the
ecstasy of the spray.
* * * * *
“Mr. Masefield is a genuine sailor author, and his work merits
support.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 150w.
“Writes vividly of his themes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“To approach it in the same spirit that one opens an artist’s
sketch-book is to guard against disappointment in not finding sea
yarns of a stirring sort, and to insure appreciation of the author’s
pleasant style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Masefield is a master of strange effects. Writing of the sea or
of Irish fairies, of whom he possesses an intimate knowledge, he
leaves a feeling that haunts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Masefield challenges notice on a higher plane as a sea-folklorist
(if we may be allowed the barbarous expression) and an interpreter of
sea-magic; and, though the quality of his work is unequal, at its best
it is very fine indeed.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 801. My. 18, ’07. 1300w.
=Mason, Caroline Atwater.= Binding of the strong. †$1.50. Revell.
8–23544.
A story based upon historical facts concerning the hasty courtship and
marriage of John Milton and Mary Powell. Into the background are woven
facts of political strife and upheaval, while well to the fore are the
desertion of the wife and the reconciliation effected by Delmé Davies,
whom in the wife’s absence Milton had learned to trust and to love.
* * * * *
“It is a pleasing and happy story, in spite of the fact that ‘they’
did not marry in the end. It will make the great poet more real to
some readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Pleasantly told tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 90w.
=Massey, Gerald.= Ancient Egypt: the light of the world: a work of
reclamation and restitution. 2v. *$12. Dutton.
8–13676.
“The volumes are divided into twelve books, in which Mr. Massey has
treated ... the various forms of sign language and Egyptian wisdom as
the source from which was derived most of the knowledge of the ancient
world and the religion of the modern.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In any case his book would be of no value except as a compilation.
But, further, he had little idea of what is and what is not
permissible in logical argument; very few of his syllogisms are
without a flaw; he has no perception of what is possible or impossible
in respect of philological comparisons, and he was dominated by a
fanatical belief with regard to the origin of Christianity which at
once takes his book out of the realm of science.”
− − + =Nature.= 77: 291. Ja. 30, ’08. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“Very interesting work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 490. Je. 27, ’08. 500w.
=Massey, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical farming. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–40013.
A book for farmers and agricultural students which treats of the care
of the soil and crop production.
* * * * *
“Is well written, in an easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“In every way this book is of decided value.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 612. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Massie, Walter Wentworth and Underhill, Charles R.= Wireless
telegraphy and telephony popularly explained; with a special
article by Nikola Tesla. **$1. Van Nostrand.
8–22565.
Aims to give in simple untechnical language a clear idea of the
reception and development of wireless communication. The author
describes the substance thru which signals are sent, the theory of the
propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves,
the apparatus used, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of
wireless telegraphy—both commercially and financially.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 120w.
“The authors of this little work have succeeded better than one might
expect in the task of giving the lay reader simple ideas of wireless
telegraphy and telephony.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book cannot fail to be helpful to one wishing to obtain a fair
idea of the principal features of wireless communication, for the
authors have handled the subject in an instructive manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 503. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“The explanations are simple and clear and the descriptions are not
overloaded with technical details.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Deals fairly well with the first part of the title, giving the theory
of electro-magnetic wave motion in an especially clear manner.
Wireless telephony is but slightly touched upon.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Masson, John.= Lucretius, epicurean and poet. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–15762.
A work which represents the painstaking study of a lifetime. “Dr.
Masson’s scheme includes a survey of Roman history in the time of
Lucretius, a study of the influences working in the man, and an
exhaustive exposition of the qualities of his work” (N. Y. Times.)
including chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from
Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised by Gassendi.
* * * * *
“A careful perusal of Mr. Masson’s work has impressed us so favorably
that we think that his book, rightly understood, cannot fail to extend
and increase the knowledge and appreciation of one of the greatest of
Roman poets.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 329. S. 19. 800w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“A good piece of work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Masson could not well treat the subject without giving much
valuable material. But as a whole, the work is irritating and
unsatisfactory. Dr. Masson’s work suffers fundamentally from lack of
reflection.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 381. Ap. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The whole hook provides rare entertainment for the mind fitted to
receive it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 152. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“For a faithful exposition of this noble poem this volume is
unrivaled.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 126. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A reading of Mr. Masson’s substantial book and a fresh reading of the
poet suggest that a wholesale appreciation of Lucretius comes natural
nowadays either to persons who shut their ears to the music of words,
or whose interest—and this is perhaps the case with Mr. Masson—lies
really in the history of science.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 535. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“The relation of Lucretius’s scientific reasoning to modern thought
has been discussed by Dr. Masson in the present volume with a
knowledge and insight which leave little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 299. F. 22, ’08. 2100w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= New Plato; or, Socrates redivivus. **75c.
Moffat.
8–10888.
Socrates steps out of the pages of Plato into Mr. Masson’s humorous
colloquies as easily as he quits the steerage of the Lusitania and
takes up his headquarters at the Mills hotel. He acquaints himself
with New Yorkers, visits their homes, and discusses with true modern
insight such subjects as The married life, The gambler, The bridge
player, Socialism, Learning, Surgeons, Philosophy, The missionary, and
The nature of happiness.
* * * * *
“Probably no parodist has so struck the modern note as he has done in
his ten brief colloquies. His English imitates successfully, and often
amusingly, the Jowett style. He would have done well to submit his
proofsheets to a Greek scholar before publication.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Masson’s wit is subtle and his humor is elusive. But both pervade
his writings and give them appreciable value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 260w.
=Mastin. J. B.= Immortal light. $1.50. Cassell.
A romance with a scientific accompaniment which steers the reader to
the South Pole. “Mr. Mastin pictures races of mankind far higher in
development than ourselves as dwelling near the South Pole.... We see
his travellers pass through solids, on ether, by a natural law applied
by human intelligence to the art of locomotion. Instead of Eskimos,
they meet radiant persons who can talk in all languages, but
understand thought without speech. Instead of icefields, they find a
pretty country where the panther grazes like a sheep. But the Pole
itself is in a prohibited, region guarded by electricity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The story is wildly improbable, but confronts incredulity with a
considerable display of scientific detail. A strong religious feeling
animates the last part of the book, but we think the author errs in
linking his deism with the conception of a polar Eden.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The details are worked out in a fairly interesting manner, and the
novel deserves notice, as it points to the way in which further
developments in scientific attainment may serve as the foundation for
a higher spiritual evolution in human beings.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 68. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.= Andrew Ellicott: his life and
letters. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–13374.
Sets forth the work and character of “a foundation-builder,” a man who
laid out the city of Washington, completed the survey of Mason and
Dixon’s line, negotiated with the Indians and helped to settle
numerous boundary disputes for the government.
* * * * *
“This revival ... of an old, honest, capable and useful member of a
half-forgotten world, is a refreshing event. If the new ‘prosperity
associations’ would encourage such revivals, American libraries would
be the better for it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Flame dancer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24467.
Mystery, oriental mysticism and romance mingle in this story which
deals mainly with the disappearance of some jewels acquired by a
millionaire from the treasure of the flame dancers and sought by the
chief of the ravished shrine—a Chinaman who wields the art of
See-foo-tee, or double hypnotism.
* * * * *
“No doubt this story will delight people who like to have their heads
spin as they take their literary pabulum.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 240w.
=Mattapoisett, Mass.= Mattapoisett and old Rochester, Massachusetts;
being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a
portion of Wareham. (Grafton historical ser.) **$2. Grafton press.
7–26622.
Early history of Rochester prepared under the direction of a committee
of the town of Mattapoisett. “As dealing with one of the oldest
settlements in Plymouth colony, it contains a good deal which is of
more than local moment.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“It would have been more satisfactory if the author had supplied
references, in foot-notes, to original authorities, though in some
cases the information is given in the body of the text.” M. W.
Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 660. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“Though full of detail, is successful in avoiding the drone of the
village chronicler.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 513. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Is a new instance of good historical work resulting from a town or
church celebration.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Is an admirable example of local history intelligently compiled by
the co-operative method and written with a view to a larger than
purely local interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–29534.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 340w. (Review of chapter on “Ibsen
the playwright.”)
“Essays of varying merit. Some of them might better have been left to
the temporary honor of the popular magazine, to be read and enjoyed
and forgotten; others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day by
publication in book form.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 137. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“I have had no hesitation in expressing divergent views from those set
forth in this volume, not only because the book is in the main so
fine, but because its author enjoys honest dissent fully as much as
praise. For the benefit of the next edition, one or two minute slips
may be mentioned.” W. L. Phelps.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 377. Ja. ’08. 1900w.
“It actually looks in some cases as though Professor Matthews had made
too violent a wrench to get away from the academicism natural to his
profession and were in danger of overleaping the saddle altogether.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 220w.
“It is in the chapter devoted to ‘Ibsen the playwright’ that he most
commands attention.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Short-story: specimens illustrating its
development; ed. with introd. and notes by Brander Matthews. *$1.
Am. bk.
8–1920.
The specimens illustrating the development of the short story are
preceded by an introduction which traces the growth of the form thru
the history of literature and seeks to set forth its slow attainment
of the essential type.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 222. Je. ’08.
“The editor contributes some fifty pages of critical matter, which are
highly interesting, both because they exhibit a man riding a hobby,
and because they provide a sympathetic and penetrating study of the
subject.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
=Matthews, Frank Herbert.= Principles of intellectual education.
*75c. Putnam.
8–3283.
A short, compact discussion which passes for a good illustration of
the English method of treating educational theory. “What are the
general qualities of mind which education is able to develop, if any?
followed later by the natural sequel: What is the best means of doing
so? The answer to the first question is ‘flexibility and exactness’;
the second answer the reader must deduce from the investigation and
statement of the ‘principles of intellectual education—the subject of
the volume.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“For the matter of the book we have only praise, but the manner leaves
much to be desired. In spite of blemishes, however, the book is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 260. S. 7. 1100w.
“The very fact that one could not well say that the author leans
distinctly to either side [the outgoing activity emphasized by
Froebel, and the inworking of the world upon the growing mind which is
the foundation of Herbart’s doctrine] shows that he is not a slavish
follower but a self-respecting thinker.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“The book can be strongly commended to teachers as, on the whole, an
orderly exposition of contemporary educational ideals.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =School R.= 16: 207. Mr. ’08. 700w.
=Matthews, Franklin.= With the battle fleet. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–30928.
The cruise of the fleet of sixteen American battle ships from the
leaving of Hampton Roads on December 16, to dropping anchors in San
Francisco harbor on May 6. The stops, receptions tendered, routine and
social life on an American man-o’-war, and lessons of the cruise make
reading as interesting as it is informing.
* * * * *
“His active participation and his fresh descriptive instinct are far
above the ordinary.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A book that offers not a little information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“Informative and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 150w.
“One of the best recent examples of intelligent and graphic narrative
and description in the form of newspaper correspondence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 120w.
=Maude, E.= Oriental campaigns and European furloughs: the
autobiography of a veteran of the Indian mutiny. *$2.50. Wessels.
The experiences of a fighting man, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, who
tells the story of his life from the time that he went out with a
cadet ship in 1843 until 1887 when he retired.
* * * * *
“Possessing a certain old-time simplicity which somehow reminds one of
Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’ and those marches of twelve parasangs to an
inhabited city, this is somehow a decidedly refreshing sort of book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 468. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
“This is a pleasant and unaffected record of experiences in war and
peace.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 260w.
=Maunder, Edward Walter.= Astronomy of the Bible: an elementary
commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. *$2.
Kennerley.
An astronomical commentary on the Bible, quite free from
technicalities. The general divisions of the treatment are as follows:
Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times
and seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day,
The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural
reference and an index complete the volume.
* * * * *
“In Biblical astronomy, indeed, the present work may be considered
almost an exhaustive treatise; and if some of the author’s conclusions
are not universally accepted, all are well worthy of thoughtful
discussion.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 216. Ag. 22. 1100w.
“The standpoint of the author is that of a believer in Holy Writ, who
is free from those notions of inspiration that modern science has
rendered untenable, and is to be classed as a devout man well
acquainted with the latest teachings of science and eager to use them
in classifying obscurities in the Scriptures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“There is much in the book that is interesting and valuable; when the
author gets outside the supposed necessities of his apologetic he is
well worth attention.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Hill Rise. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–271.
“In this story there is a certain moral hidden, which we take to be
the recuperative and redemptive power of hard work. In reality the
hero of the novel is an old builder, in whom the snobbish treatment of
his neighbors on the Hill of Medford, with its 18,000 inhabitants, has
engendered a passionate hatred. He buys the estate of Hill Rise with
the intention of rooting out the snobs, and he all but fails. The
story holds us by the interest of this battle.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“His touch is pleasant, light, and humorous at times; at others
sufficiently earnest. Mr. Maxwell is one of the few writers who are
always interesting, and the main reason is that he keeps in close
touch with human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 230w.
“Is quietly successful in its quality and interest as a clever satire
upon self-sufficient uselessness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of
his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
=Mayer, Clarence.= Telephone construction: methods and cost. *$3.
Clark, M. C.
8–23074.
“Presents a simple and comprehensive system for collecting, analyzing
and recording the various costs involved in telephone line
construction, giving examples of the forms and blanks used for the
different divisions of the work, and explaining clearly the methods
employed in computing, proportioning and prorating the costs.”—Engin.
D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The book recommends itself as being a volume of exact records of
experience and not of theories and opinions.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Maynard, Samuel Taylor.= Small country place. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–17270.
“The book covers not only the treatment of buildings and grounds, but
offers definite suggestions regarding the planting of gardens and
orchards, poultry-keeping, dairying, and many other interests
connected with the small rural or suburban place. The author has
passed more than thirty years of his life in teaching botany and
horticulture and has endeavored to make his book thoroughly practical.
The book is fully illustrated.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The principles of the practices outlined might be more thoroughly
discussed to advantage. The arrangement and style are good, and the
facts accurate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08. ✠
“The text and illustrations combined promise to prove profitable to a
large number of the class of readers for whom the book is intended.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“His book would be admirable if it were not in reality three or four
books squeezed and contracted into one.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 390. Jl. 11, ’08. 280w.
“No one who owns a country house or has the plan of one burgeoning in
his imagination will care to ignore a book that contains so much
valuable information and so few waste words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Mayow, John.= Medico-physical works; being a translation of
Tractatus quinque medico-physici. (Alembic club reprints, no. 17.)
*$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–3602.
“A larger volume than most of its predecessors, and contains the
‘Medico-physical works’ of John Mayow, who as early as 1668 in
chemical matters relating to combustion, respiration, and other vital
activities, anticipated opinions which were not established for
another hundred years. The text is a translation of the five essays of
the Oxford edition of 1674. The editors have noted the main facts of
Mayow’s life and a few explanations in a rather brief preface.”
(Nation.) “The basis of Mayow’s work was his recognition of the
existence in the air and in common nitre of extremely subtle particles
to which he gave the name ‘nitro-aërial spirit.’” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Judged by a few random comparisons with the original text, the
translation is exact and good, but we are not quite in accord with the
limitations as to explanations which the translators have set
themselves. Nor is the comment as to the neglect of Mayow altogether
just.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 339. F. 13, ’08. 600w.
=Meehan, Michael.= Mrs. Eddy and the late suit in equity. $2.25.
Michael Meehan, Concord, N. H.
8–8275.
Records with justice to Mrs. Eddy the out-of-court events and
utterances that led up to, grew out of or resulted from the late suit
brought against her.
* * * * *
“It is well that a reliable and exhaustive history of the famous suit
in equity ... should appear in substantial form for preservation.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 591. My. ’08. 600w.
* =Megargel, Percy Freeman, and Mason, Grace Sartwell.= Car and the
lady. †$1.50. Baker.
8–22795.
This is a story, based upon actual happenings, of a transcontinental
motor race, which tested both the respective merits of rival cars and
the manhood and hardihood of two lovers, an Italian and an American,
who were rivals for the hand of a spirited New York girl.
* * * * *
“One of the best of the numerous motor stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08. ✠
“There are exciting events in plenty, and the story moves with
appropriate swiftness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 491. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
* =Meier-Graefe, Julius A.= Modern art; tr. from the German by Florence
Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. 2v. *$10.50. Putnam.
“A comparative study of the formative arts, being a contribution to a
new system of aesthetics.” “In his exhaustive work he traces the
source of modern art to Rubens, following its development through the
careers of the great men and movements that have come since his day
down to the present time. He brilliantly analyzes such great
protagonists and varied characters as Delacroix, Daumier, Constable,
Ingrès, Manet, Millet, Gaughin, William Morris, Van Gogh, Renier,
Renoir, etc., and shows in an intellectual manner how they influenced
the events of their respective periods.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“These plates call for more than casual attention, not only because
they contribute much to the attractiveness of the volumes, but because
they form an unusually representative collection covering the entire
period dealt with in the book. As reflected in what is apparently an
excellent translation, this style is sometimes lucid and at other
times a mixture of clever epigram and verbosity in which the leading
thought is not readily disentangled from a wealth of illustrative
imagery that obscures it. But always there is entertainment and mental
stimulus.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 400. D. 1, ’08. 900w.
“Now and then in the chaos of words one seems to catch an idea by the
tail, but one can never hold it long.”
− =Nation.= 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 260w.
“For the first time we have presented such a full study of modern
international activities, causes, and effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“A series of discursive, thoughtful, suggestive essays, which seem
quite as effective in English as in their original German. The volumes
are lavishly illustrated as to quantity and poorly as to quality. Our
critic, in truth, seems not so remarkable for his review of English or
German or any other painting as in his account of French art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 670w.
“With most of Herr Meier-Graefe’s views, though he has a good deal to
say that is of interest and incites to argument, I more or less
acutely disagree.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 635. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
“His passionate bias for anything and everything French colours the
whole book. Herr Meier-Graefe has great ability; he has at command a
vast amount of information and a ceaseless store of sometimes striking
and suggestive aphorisms. If he kept to generalities, and did not
illustrate by tangible examples, we should find him a great deal more
persuasive than he is.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 662. N. 28, ’08. 1850w.
=Mencken, Henry L.= Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. *$2. Luce, J.
W.
8–4452.
Nietzsche is here translated into terms familiar to all readers. He is
considered the “high priest of the actual,” divine mysteries are
lunacies to him, he believes with Schopenhauer that philosophy is
comfortless because it is the truth. The will to live is the only
thing that must concern us, moral codes are simply expedients found
helpful in successful endeavors to live. The book sets forth how his
philosophy rejects Christianity and democracy; how it points out the
evolution of the human race thru the immoralist to the superman; how
it combats ideas held holy and impeccable by mankind to-day.
* * * * *
“A very able elucidation of a distinctive field of modern thought.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Though we dissent profoundly from the appreciation of Nietzsche
expressed in this volume, we have to thank the author for his keen
analysis and clear statement of the ideas and principles that
characterize the philosophy of the Superman.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 398. Je. ’08. 750w.
“Mr. Mencken has produced a very readable book and a better
presentation of Nietzsche to the English reader than is elsewhere
available. Critically speaking, it has one serious fault,—that the
reader is often left in doubt as to where the author is speaking his
own views and where he is merely presenting those of Nietzsche.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 330w.
“One of the most interesting and instructive books that has come from
the American press in many a long day. The presentation of Nietzsche’s
philosophical teachings is both intelligent, intelligible, and highly
amusing.”
+ + − =Educ. R.= 35: 508. My. ’08. 550w.
“His exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy is clear, simple, and
orderly, quite free from the cobwebs of metaphysics; if he shows bad
taste in the details of writing, this may be passed over as a mark of
zeal in imitating his master. We can commend the exegesis, though we
repudiate the conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 600w.
“It is evident that Mr. Mencken possesses the requisite sympathy, and
withal a certain clear, forceful, even ardent style, a keen and
thorough-going intellect, knowledge of men, and a sense of humor. He
is not hampered by prejudice nor dismayed by traditions, and he is
able to leave out inessentials without destroying the harmony of what
remains. He has made a good book and gives us a pretty fair conception
of just what Nietzsche was and what he stood for.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 420w.
“Whatever may be thought of Nietzsche’s philosophy, there is here a
clear exposition of it in vigorous, straightforward language, together
with a really interesting and thoughtful biographical memoir.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Meriwether, Colyer.= Our colonial curriculum, 1607–1706. $2.
Central pub. co., Washington, D. C.
8–13757.
“The author covers a wide field and gives excessive space to a
consideration of the curriculum of schools and universities in England
and other European countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. The book has eight chapters as follows: Elementary course,
The general college course, Ancient languages, Theology and
philosophy, Geography, history and modern language, Mathematics,
Science, Disputation.”
* * * * *
“In spite of its incompleteness the book represents much study and
should be in the library of all persons interested in this field.”
Marcus W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 910. Jl. ’08. 480w.
“What the book lacks is the ability to interpret the lessons which the
facts brought together teach.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 80w.
“An excessive modernity, including a style not infrequently verging
upon the flippant, characterizes the book.”
− =Nation.= 86: 552. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
* =Merriam, Charles Edward.= Primary elections: a study of the history
and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago
press.
8–33814.
Traces the development of the legal regulation of party primaries from
1866 down to 1908, sums up the general tendencies evident in this
movement, discusses some of the disputed points in the primary
problem, and states certain conclusions concerning our nominating
machinery.
=Merrick, Leonard.= Lynch’s daughter. †$1.50. McClure.
8–29737.
A story of tainted millions. Lynch’s daughter, an American girl, weds
a poor English artist who gains her consent to refuse one cent from a
father who is known as “the devastating trust magnate, the debaucher
of politics, the infamous multi-millionaire.” Her trials under the
strain of poverty lead her to a period of estrangement from her
husband during which she returns to her father, is solaced for a time,
then suffers remorse, renounces her wealth, and, finally finds full
compensation in her husband’s love and genius.
* * * * *
“May be read without dread and with pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 580. D. 10, ’08. 270w.
“As a whole, we have found ‘Lynch’s daughter’ superior alike in charm
and verity to ‘The worldlings.’ Take it as a fantasy, if you can, make
allowances for its appeal to the commoner kind of readers if you will,
and you will find much in it to repay perusal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“It is not a great work of art, but Mr. Merrick may be congratulated
on having produced a book which is thoroughly entertaining, while at
the same time depicting every-day life with homely fidelity.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Merrill, Lilburn.= Winning the boy; with an introd. by Judge Ben B.
Lindsey. **75c. Revell.
8–11441.
“The author has brought together, in an entertaining and instructive
manner, some stories and essays on boy life that every parent,
teacher, and other individual interested in children should read. No
man is better equipped, and in my judgment, more capable of speaking
and writing helpfully and wisely upon the subject than Dr.
Merrill.”—Introd.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Is in very truth a book, as the publishers declare on the cover, ‘for
every parent, teacher or person interested in children.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Merrill, Selah.= Ancient Jerusalem. **$6. Revell.
8–10618.
Dr. Merrill thru the years of his exploration and later consulship
devoted himself to his study of the ancient topography of Jerusalem.
“The gist of Dr. Merrill’s thesis is that ... the original city of
Jerusalem lay not on the eastern, or Temple, hill, but northward of
the present Zion, or westerly hill, in the neighborhood of the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre; and that the Acra, which play so prominent a
part in the story of the Maccabean contests, was located at this
spot.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His view’s on many points are striking, and his presentation is
original and interesting.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Few scholars probably will accept Dr. Merrill’s general conclusions,
and in details he contributes little to our knowledge of Jerusalem not
already available in other volumes.”
− =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“Dr. Merrill is quite out of sympathy with modern views, and
especially with modern views of the date and composition of Old
Testament books, and on that account he fails to use the Bible
effectively in his topographical studies. Moreover, his whole
presentation is one-sided; he cites only that which tends to support
his positions.”
− =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The author has viewed the subject from all sides, and given his
conclusions in a scholarly form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“Dr. Merrill’s noble work has a value that can hardly be
overestimated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1.
Houghton.
7–37945.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It should be in large libraries or in any library whose patrons have
special interest in the subject, because of its compact summary of
arguments.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 716. My. ’08. 250w.
“A careful and dispassionate piece of work.” J: J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 950w.
“A clear and concise presentation of the problem.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 160w.
“A better brief than this in defense of the Inter-state commerce
commission has hardly been produced. Dr. Merritt’s book is scholarly
and useful.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 860. D. 28, ’07. 510w.
“A useful review of the chief decisions of the Interstate commerce
commission. Not only is the book out of date, but some of its
statements are questionable.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Metcalfe, Richard Lee.= “Of such is the kingdom,” and other stories
from life. 3d ed. $1. Richard L. Metcalfe, Lincoln, Neb.
7–37252.
An optimistic tone pervades this book which draws the mind of man from
selfishness and brutality, hypocrisy and insincerity, double dealing
and lack of candor to the temple of childhood where there is sincerity
and truth, to the “Kingdom of never grow old” where there is relief
from the meanness and the malice of the world.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Prolongation of life: optimistic studies.
*$2.50. Putnam.
8–12571.
Pasteur’s successor here continues his warfare against disease, old
age and death. “Although Metchnikoff in this new book does not claim
to have made the ultimate discovery in biology that will at once
conquer the evils of disease and death, nevertheless he does reach
certain definite conclusions as to the causes for the relatively short
duration of human life, and having found what he believes to be these
causes he makes what are at least tentative suggestions looking to
their modification.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“The work is suggestive.” Scott Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 456. S. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Chalmers Mitchell has performed his task as a translator in a
most satisfactory manner, for the book reads as though it had been
written in English.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 624. N. 16. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“Although Professor Metchnikoff’s book is important on account of its
topic, and interesting and suggestive in its treatment of it, it is
impossible to praise it very highly from a literary standpoint.” T. D.
A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 270. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“The book deserves a wide and careful study.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 314. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The book is one that will be widely read by the general public on
account of its frank and simple style, altho he makes no effort to
dodge the use of scientific terms or to palliate his conclusions to
meet popular taste.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 864. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“While an ultra-materialist, Metchnikoff is enthusiastically
optimistic as to the future of the race, and his work is a help toward
ideal living.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 371. D. 6, ’07. 1030w.
“He writes with the spirit of a seeker after truth. His book, while
highly suggestive, is intended to be neither exhaustive nor
conclusive. Its purpose is rather to point out the problems of somatic
limitations, and the principles involved in attempting their ultimate
solution.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 710w.
“A remarkable book in many ways. The whole range of literature is
ransacked by the author, and the facts and opinions collected are
discussed with an originality, a width of view, and knowledge that
give the book an especial fascination and constantly arrest the
attention.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 289. Ja. 30, ’08. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 25. Ja. 18, ’08. 2900w.
“When he comes finally to discourse upon morality, he illustrates
afresh the unwisdom of specialists who disregard the maxim ‘Let the
shoemaker stick to his last.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag: 1, ’08. 440w.
Reviewed by Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 233. N. ’08. 1550w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 244. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
“It is to be regretted that Professor Metchnikoff has not more clearly
defined his use of such purely relative terms as ‘pessimism’ and
‘optimism;’ but whatever meaning he attaches to the word ‘pessimism,’
whether he regards it as an attitude of the mind or as a matured
judgment arrived at only after study of life’s problems, we absolutely
dispute the assumption that the intellectual world is at present
pessimist.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 1250w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The work of a partizan who is unable to write disinterestedly, but
the only available book on an exceedingly interesting and important
subject. The facts are fairly accurate, but twisted out of their
natural meaning and import.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 15. Ja. ’08.
“It is highly probable that if the evidence has been given its proper
weight the dark picture here presented might prove less sombre.” S: E.
Sparling.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 300w.
“His conclusions are in the main directly contrary to those of the
recent commission appointed to investigate public ownership in Great
Britain.”
− =Arena.= 39: 122. Ja. ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by J. W. Garner.
=Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Is worthy of the most serious consideration by every student of
municipal affairs.” F. L. McVey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 128. Je. ’08. 360w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 450w.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“It is, in fact, giving more credit to Mr. Meyer than is his
due—perhaps more than he himself would claim—to describe his book as a
study of the working of state ownership of telegraphs. It is an
examination of some of the weaknesses of the system, with an
overemphasis on each of the defects exposed.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 256. Ja. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“He is a prosecuting attorney rather than a judge, and it must be
admitted that his indictment is thorough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 360w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 341. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great
Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Brings together an important mass of material which is combined and
treated in such a way as to produce a distinctly partizan and
prejudiced piece of work. Useful for debate because the preponderance
of published matter on the subject takes the other side of the
question.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Will prove of great help to those who wish to marshall on one side
all that can be said against public management. Room is left for a
more rounded and judicial treatment of the subject.” E: W. Bemis.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 527. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“An ably written, extremely partisan brief.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 530w.
“As pictured by Mr. Meyer, there is no redeeming feature in the long
chronicle of stupidity, ignorance, incapacity, mismanagement, and
political intrigue which make up the state operation of these
industries. As may be imagined, such a black case against government
management of industry is not secured without some distortion of
facts; statistics abound and give a ‘vraisemblance’ of finality to the
discussion, but a careful selection of only those favorable to his
case absolutely vitiates the conclusion.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“Mr. Meyer pays little heed to this attitude of English people toward
expenditure, and attributes the lack of progress in telephone
development to the muddle-headedness of the government.”
− =Ind.= 64: 257. Ja. 30, ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book is rather a curious sample of social psychology than
a useful contribution to a solution of the telephone problem.” J. R.
Commons.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 631. N. ’08. 900w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 670w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29. ’08. 1300w.
=Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Servia and the Servians. *$3. Page.
“The volume consists of chapters on the history, religion, and
national characteristics of the people, including special chapters on
the peasant, the music, the literature, and the economic possibilities
of Servia. An appendix contains a specimen of the Servian national
poems and of Servian folklore, and gives some interesting statistical
information of the most recent data upon the country of King Peter.
There are sixteen full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs
taken by the author, landscape views and peasant type.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 569. My. 9. 880w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
“He has written of them sympathetically, of course, but at the same
time with discrimination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 250w.
=Miles, George Henry.= Review of Hamlet. **$1. Longmans.
7–39206.
A new edition of a work which appeared in 1870. “Miles sees in Hamlet
superb intellectual strength and a strong and tender conscience which
guides the whole course of the prince’s conduct. And, he argues, the
secret of the tragedy’s hold on men is that it mirrors forth the
struggle between passion and conscience, and the sharp antithesis
between fate and Providence; and throws across the action of life the
deep shadow of the world to come.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“There is more education in this book than is to be found in many
specimens of what are called, through courtesy or bland presumption,
courses of English literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 693. F. ’08. 880w.
“It throws light upon aspects of the play which the great army of
Shakespearian critics have left exceedingly dark.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4. ’08. 640w.
=Millais, John Guille.= Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. il.
*$6. Longmans.
8–3111.
“Primarily for hunters and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the
country and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But Mr. Millais
has also much to tell of the daily life of the islanders and the
customs of the Micmac Indians, of whom he has made a special study....
There are a dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and
nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either by Mr. Millais
or photographed.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Makes the reader interested in his adventures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 70w.
=Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“To all who wish to know about Newfoundland and her attractions for
the tourist, the man of business, or the sportsman, we can strongly
recommend Millais’s book. It is the best work that has ever been
written on the natural history of the island.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“In works of the present nature, Mr. Millais is at his best; and his
best, alike with pen and pencil, is, it is almost unnecessary to say,
very good indeed.” R. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 223. Ja. 9, ’08. 400w.
“It is a breath-taking experience to pass with Mr. Millais into the
virgin forest, to see with his eyes, and, without the dangers and
discomforts, to enjoy with him the fascination of the big game hunt.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“We like the book above all else for a quality which goes very near to
mysticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 950w.
“If it is the mark of a good travel book to make the reader earnestly
desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful
work, Mr. Millais’s vivid narrative, and a wealth of beautiful
illustrations, convey a most attractive picture of the island and its
sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 673. Ap. 25, ’08. 1400w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= City of delight: a love drama of the siege
and fall of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–9528.
Against the historical background of the fall of Jerusalem, Miss
Miller has sketched a romance of compelling charm. The hero,
Philadelphus, a Judean prince, great grandson of Judas Maccabeus, was
wedded at the age of ten to a child of four. After fourteen years of
separation they are to be reunited in Jerusalem whither Laodice is
conducted by a treacherous servant who plays into the hands of Salome
bent upon usurping Laodice’s place. At the same time a jealous cousin
leaves Philadelphus for dead, hastens to Jerusalem and also becomes a
usurper. For the rest of the tale it is a battle royal, attended by
confusion, between the revived Philadelphus and Laodice and their
enemies Salome and the pretender.
* * * * *
“The story is far inferior to ‘The yoke.’ though we think it is almost
as good as ... ‘Saul of Tarsus.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“The plan is a good one, the story interesting, the setting admirably
chosen. If the execution were only as good as the design! Even as it
is, the glint of historic interest gives the book a welcome dignity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
“In descriptive detail and collocation of events it holds its own with
many similar novels which are called classics. The author has observed
consistency throughout. There is a simple but dramatic plot, few
characters, and every evidence of sincerity. It is to be hoped that
the book will find the appreciation it deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The book is the strongest and best written Miss Miller has so far
done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Miller, Elmer Isaiah.= Legislature of the province of Virginia: its
internal development. (Columbia univ. Studies in history,
economics and public law.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–1371.
An historical account of the subject from the beginning of the
government of Virginia to the revolution of 1776.
* * * * *
“A methodical and useful study, though the author makes dull reading
of the development of our chief colonial legislature, whose history
might easily be made interesting.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 90w.
“There is one slip in the very learned and valuable monograph.” H. E.
E.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 617. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A very interesting and readable contribution.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Miller, Frank Justus.= Two dramatizations from Vergil: 1, Dido—the
Phoenician queen; 2, The fall of Troy; arranged and translated
into English verse. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29879.
Includes “Dido: an epic tragedy” which appeared in 1900, and also a
new dramatization, The fall of Troy. It is a helpful supplement to the
text for classes in Vergil, and affords a play which has been staged
with satisfactory results.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= The
bird our brother. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–14948.
Information which goes to reveal the bird’s kinship with the human
family is treated here in a popular sense for the general reader.
Chapters treat of the bird’s individuality, intelligence, language,
altruism, education, affections, courtship, home, amusements, means of
defense and attack, odd ways, equipment, and usefulness to us.
* * * * *
“A unique addition to bird literature, which will be interesting to
the adult bird-lover, but will not appeal to readers in general as do
the author’s earlier and more individual writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“It will be a valuable defense for those who uphold the same theories,
though for pure delight in the reading one cannot help grudging the
pages that are thus taken from the writer’s record of her own
discoveries.” M. E. Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The modern psychologist will undoubtedly question the author’s point
of view in reading so much human life into bird life; but aside from
this possible quibble about interpretations, the book is certainly
interesting reading, and forms a good climax to the series of books
which this author has contributed.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1295. Je. 4, ’08. 180w.
“It seems invidious to criticise such an excellent book, but it must
be confessed that the author is somewhat handicapped in her efforts to
preserve a dispassionate attitude by her ardent affection for the
world of birds.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Will surely add to her reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
* =Miller, Kelly.= Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2.
Neale.
8–24845.
Nineteen essays which discuss the various phases of the negro problem,
and the questions that enter into a full solution. Some of the
chapters are as follows: Radicals and conservatives; As to the
leopard’s spots; An appeal to reason on the race problem; The negro’s
part in the negro problem; Social equality; Religion as a solvent of
the race problem; Rise of the professional class; Eminent negroes;
What Walt Whitman means to the negro; The artistic gifts of the negro;
A brief for the higher education of the negro; Roosevelt and the
negro.
=Milligan, Rev. George.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Thessalonians:
the Greek text; with introd. and notes. *$2.60. Macmillan.
A commentary and exegesis. “Two purposes are apparent in the present
commentary on Thessalonians, one to follow Swete, Mayor, and Robinson
in filling up what was lacking in the task which Lightfoot, Westcott,
and Hort had set before themselves; the other, to bring to bear upon
the language and grammar of the Thessalonian letters the results of
the author’s investigations in papyri, inscriptions, and ostraca.”
(Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“Thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject, catholicity
of outlook, caution in the expression of opinion, and a distinct
winsomeness in the personal equation are in evidence throughout the
book.” J. E. Frame.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 487. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“Is especially welcome, since the need of it was great.” G. E. French.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 942. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“This is a most careful contribution to the exegesis of the New
Testament.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 268. F. 15, ’08. 360w.
=Milligan, Robert H.= Jungle folk of Africa. **$1.50. Revell.
8–25385.
Impressions gained during seven years of missionary work in West
Africa. “He dissents from the view he has found presented in recently
published books about the Dark Continent, that its people are
physically ugly, mentally stupid, morally repulsive, and everlastingly
uninteresting ... and pictures the Africans he met as a very
interesting people, constituted, like the rest of us, with brain and
soul and capacity of one sort and another not essentially different
from his own. He rates these people as human beings, and finds many of
them distinctly lovable.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is as readable and interesting a book of travel as one can wish for.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor,
and literary quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The book is entertaining and far more illuminating than many of the
travelers’ accounts that have appeared in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 90w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Mills, John.= Short university course
in electricity, sound and light. *$2. Ginn.
8–31127.
A course built up around laboratory outline which represents one
semester’s work. The method is analytical rather than descriptive, and
the book contains sixteen chapters on electricity, five on sound and
seven on light.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Avesta eschatology compared with the
books of Daniel and Revelations; being supplementary to
Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenids and Israel. 50c. Open ct.
8–5564.
“In this thin octavo the aged Zend scholar gives his conclusion that
the doctrines of angels, devils, the resurrection and the eternal life
were adopted by the Jews at the time of the exile from the religion of
Media and Persia.” (Ind.) “This work ... ought to be a reliable source
of information regarding Zoroastrian conceptions of the future.” (Bib.
World.)
* * * * *
“The work is valuable as a compendious statement of the more important
teachings of Zoroastrianism.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 524. Jl. ’08. 130w.
“The biblical side of the treatment is too largely fanciful.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 30w.
“The author often sees parallelisms that are not convincing, and his
arguments are at times inconclusive. The book is not easy reading, but
deserves critical study, for Mills was one of the best Zend scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“This essay ... presents a peculiarly interesting chapter in the study
of comparative religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Van Rensselaers of old Manhattan. **$1.50.
Stokes.
7–38597.
A novel set in “the days of New York when brocades, powder and patches
were worn.... The heroine rejoices in the name of India, and is a
hoyden, as her starched old Tory relative appropriately but impolitely
informs her. Still, she is so attractive that her path is literally
besieged by the gallants of the day.... The other characters include
the hero, a young Tory of fallen fortunes, a desperate and most
repulsive villain, and an actress; while George Washington appears
upon the scene, though very cursorily.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The whole is in the style of an acute Christmas card many times
multiplied. Incidentally there is some text.”
− =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. ’07. 50w.
“There is very little plot, too much declamation, and a constant
striving to produce atmosphere that is too apparent and therefore
fails of its effect.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 180w.
* =Milman, Lena. Sir Christopher Wren.= (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
A life of Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect of St. Paul’s
cathedral, for which the material has been carefully sifted, and which
benefits by the present day view-point and triumph of photography.
* * * * *
“Miss Milman has written a most interesting life of a fascinating
personality.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 340w.
“Upon the whole, the biography justifies itself. It was well worth
doing, and it is done well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 900w.
=Milne, John Stewart.= Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman
times. *$4.75. Oxford.
8–9768.
A first venture into an untried region. “From all available ancient
authors who touched on medical matters Milne has collected the
references which throw light on the description or use of an
appliance. This material he supplements by illustrations from the more
important museums and collections of Europe. In the text the
instruments are grouped under suitable divisions, but no account is
taken of devices for the reduction of deformities, or of splints and
related appliances.” (Nation.) The volume is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“A useful and interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Milne had virtually a virgin soil, and he has worked it in a
thoroughly scientific manner until it has yielded a rich harvest.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 1000w.
“Learned and interesting treatise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1100w.
“An attractive study of the subject. Although the book itself is well
indexed, the plates are not indexed, so that to find any figure is a
matter of some difficulty. The bibliography, which appears to have
been put together somewhat hurriedly, pays too little attention to
journalistic literature.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Milne has done his work so well and so accurately that as this
monograph is the first dealing with the subject it must remain for a
long time the standard authority until further finds prove or disprove
some of the disputable conclusions drawn by the author. The monograph
presupposes a considerable amount of knowledge on the part of the
reader. He must in the first place be skilled in the practice of his
profession, he must be interested in its antiquities, and he must be a
fair classic. These qualifications being granted, the book is most
excellent reading, and throws abundant light, not only on the subject
of which it treats, but also on many collateral points.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Mincoff, Mrs. Elizabeth, and Marriage, Margaret S.= Pillow lace: a
practical handbook. *$5. Dutton.
8–5855.
Not a book for connoisseurs, but a guide to amateurs in the actual
making of lace. “The first chapters contain a short historical survey
of the art of lace-making from its earliest known period, that is to
say about the year 1520; also brief accounts of its manufacture in
different countries and towns. The rest of the book, from the third
chapter to the last, is entirely practical, describing tools and
methods of lace-making, and giving a large number of patterns with
full explanations, and working diagrams, and directions for tracing
and rubbing.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The book is the first in English treating the subject especially from
the viewpoint of the maker.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“The authors have very sensibly made their explanations as short as
possible, relying much on the excellent diagrams.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 199. F. 15. 1270w.
“The book has practical interest for those who wish to teach art
industries to women who need to become self-supporting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 170w.
“Those who desire to know and apply the principles underlying a large
class of laces, will find it an almost inexhaustible treasure house.
Though a little bulky, it is a practical manual.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Mincoff’s book is somewhat expensive in proportion to the cost
of the tools, but it is well and fully illustrated, and we hope that
it will have the effect of persuading women to be industrious in a
useful artistic way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 85. J. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The lessons are carefully graduated and clearly expressed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=Ming, Rev. John Joseph.= Characteristics and the religion of modern
socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–16212.
A book whose aim is that of stimulating inquiry to the end of reaching
reliable conclusions concerning the moral and religious attitude of
contemporary socialists. The discussion falls under two heads, The
characteristics of modern socialism and The religion of socialism.
* * * * *
“Father Ming has drawn up a powerful arraignment, amply sustained with
testimony, against atheistic socialism; and it will serve the purpose
of warning Catholics against it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 544. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“The author’s own religious belief appears to have biased his
treatment of the subject.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 80w.
=Minot, Charles Sedgwick.= Problem of age, growth, and death: a
study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell institute,
March, 1907. (Science ser., no. 21.) **$2.50. Putnam.
8–24260.
Presents arguments and evidence to support the following laws and
corollary: “First, rejuvenation depends on the increase of the nuclei.
Second, senescence depends on the increase of the protoplasm and on
the differentiation of the cells. Third, the rate of growth depends on
the degree of senescence. Fourth, senescence is at its maximum in the
very young stages, and the rate of senescence diminishes with age. As
the corollary from these, we have this—natural death is the
consequence of cellular differentiation.”
* * * * *
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Possesses a more or less general and popular interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
“With his usual skill and lucidity the author develops his views
concerning these questions which he has studied carefully for many
years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 320w.
=Mistral, Frederic.= Memoirs of Mistral, 1830–1877; rendered into
English by Constance E. Maud, with Lyrics from the Provençal by
Alma Strettell. *$3.50. Baker.
8–8543.
“The memoirs of Mistral not only recount the steps which were taken by
him and his confrères in the Felibres movement, but they are filled
also with charming details of Provençal farm life, the legends and
primitive customs of the Provençal peasantry; there are many little
personal anecdotes that give a picturesque view of some of the poet’s
experiences at school and on the paternal farm, and his amusing
contact with some of his peasant neighbors. The whole leaves the
reader with the belief that there may still be room for the romantic
troubadour, the follower of the ‘Gay science’ in our modern
civilization.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A book of quite unusual charm, but not essential to the economical
library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 105. Ap. ’08.
“Admirably translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 577. N. 9. 1300w.
“The book has (to give it the highest of all praise) charm: it
captivates the reader and holds his attention to the end. Miss Maud’s
translation is smooth, but ... not always grammatical.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 36. Ja. 16, ’08. 2440w.
“A delightful volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“Throughout full of interest and charm.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 751. Mr. ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“Miss Maud adds some footnotes. For the duplicate note on the ‘trees
of liberty’ and the somewhat vague note on ‘les Aliscamps,’ it might
have been well to substitute a note on the meaning of that puzzling
word ‘Félibrige.’ But good service has been done. To read about the
man who knows so much about his country and feels so truly about it is
a fine antidote to an English winter; refreshing too to get new
knowledge about a literary revival so spontaneous, so free from the
squalor of politics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 700. D. 7, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck.= Mosquito life: the habits and life
cycles of known mosquitoes of the United States. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–39002.