Dupree, surgeon-general of Louisiana and upon original observations by
the author. “The book is replete with information concerning the
mosquitoes of the United States, especially those of New York, New
Jersey, and Louisiana. The anatomy of the adults, larvæ, and pupæ is
described, and an illuminating account of their habits, flight, and
breeding-places is given in detail. The relation of mosquitoes to
malaria, yellow fever, elephantiasis, and other diseases, is treated
in a popular way, and a description of the means of control of these
pests is supplemented with an account of their principal enemies.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The drawings would have been more useful if magnifications had been
given, and more acceptable from a technical point of view if more
contrast had been employed, and if the direction of lighting had been
consistently used, at least in contiguous drawings.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 214. Ap. 1, ’08. 380w.
“An entertaining (although loosely written) book about the subject in
general.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“One may learn from this book a great deal about the lives of
mosquitoes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“For health inspectors, for those interested in sanitation generally
and for physicians this book will be especially useful. On the whole
this is a very useful book; with plenty of faults and an abundance of
points that might be criticised if criticism is fault-finding; but
altogether considered it is commendable.” J: B. Smith.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 22. Jl. 3, ’08. 780w.
=Mitchell, Henry Bedinger.= Talks on religion: a collective enquiry,
recorded by H: Bedinger Mitchell. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–14747.
“A group of fifteen friends in council meet monthly for a comparison
of views on fundamental questions about religion. The group includes
men in scientific, literary, church, and business life, some of them
university professors and men of international reputation.” (Outlook.)
These “talks” show the manner in which they grapple with religious and
philosophical questions of the day. “They exhibit both skeptical and
constructive thinking at their best, they tend to clear the air of
religious thought.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This book is of exceptional interest because of the place of its
origin, the personnel of its speakers, and the subject-matter of its
discussions.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 488. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“It is a highly stimulating book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by G: A. Coe.
=J. Philos.= 5: 661. N. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“It would be impossible to indicate adequately in the course of a
single review the rich variety of theme, felicity of expression, and
breadth of spirit which characterize ‘Talks on religion.’” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 614. O. ’08. 2200w.
“For those who lack the opportunities of mental sharpening in the
private discussions of cultured minds this volume is a most attractive
substitute.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Red city: a novel of the second
administration of President Washington. †$1.50. Century.
8–30709.
Philadelphia is the scene of this story of Washington’s second
administration in which Hugh Wynne and Aunt Gainor reappear. The hero
is a Huguenot émigré who with his mother is grief-stricken over the
wanton murder of his father at Avignon by the revolutionists. His life
in a Quaker home and love for a Quaker maiden, his work in Hugh
Wynne’s employ, his relation to affairs of state, and his methods of
avenging his father’s death suggest the outline of the tale steeped in
the atmosphere of the times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08. ✠
“In French matters, he slips occasionally. It is a real story of real
human interest, and its action is often exciting beyond the limits of
Quaker sobriety.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 456. D. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“A book full of charm and feeling, a novel which is less a novel than
a panorama of a brick-built town.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 699. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
=Mitchell, Wesley Clair.= Gold, prices and wages under the greenback
standard. (Univ. of Cal. publications in economics, v. 1.) *$5.
Univ. of Cal.
8–14358.
“Contains five chapters of text covering a total of 283 pages (with
the included statistics), the remainder of the book being given over
to elaborate statistical tables showing rates of wages, relative
prices, etc.... Dr. Mitchell describes his volume as ‘the statistical
apparatus of a book still to be written,’ the chapters of the text
being intended merely to expound the nature of the figures and the
modes of getting the results.” (Econ Bull.)
* * * * *
“Such a pace as is here set for the academic monograph will be hard to
follow.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 60w.
“It is not too much to say that, taking the present volume with his
earlier contribution, he has done the most satisfactory piece of work
on the history of the greenbacks and their effects that has yet
appeared, and in the course of so doing has contributed something to
the process of putting American price statistics upon a rather better
basis.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 137. Je. ’08. 660w.
“In fact, the book is beyond praise.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 629. N. ’08. 950w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker. 7–28500.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Dr. Miyakawa’s object in writing the book is clearly one of which all
progressive men of both nationalities must approve, that of bringing
the two peoples to a clear understanding of each other, and the work
is well calculated to fulfil this object.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja, ’08. 150w.
“In structure, style and dress, shows just what a book ought not to
be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 44. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
“Though the text does not impress one as having as great originality
and influence as some other books on Japan, there is in it a certain
forcefulness and even fascination, for in it we learn the better to
appreciate the peculiar Japanese way of looking at men and things.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people; Congress,
President, and courts (according to the evolution of
constitutional construction). 2d ed., rev. **$2.50. Baker.
8–24433.
Constitutional government of the United States as viewed by a Japanese
attorney. The edition has been carefully revised thruout. All
criticisms, objections and controverted points have been thoroly
considered; all sections and some chapters have been abridged and
additions made; and changes from technical to popular form have been
made to suit the better a wide range of readers.
=Moffett, Cleveland.= King in rags. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–36249.
A sociological story whose three leading characters maintain
respectively the following attitudes toward the question of poverty:
Poverty is an ugly beast ... created by the greedy and luxurious rich
for their own undoing; poverty is the lot of the weak and unworthy,
the survival of the unfittest; poverty would disappear if there were a
fair division of the products of toil.
* * * * *
“The main defect of the book is its sentimentalism—a pit into which
reformers are apt to fall. But, despite its inconsistencies and
improbabilities, it is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 253. F. 29. 150w.
“It is assuredly not a commanding exposition of its theme or in any
large way sensational. But while obviously, even naïvely, a vehicle
for a moral, the story slips along so easily that it affords no chance
to escape the appalling facts it marshals relating to the conditions
of labor and living in our city.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“One derives the impression that the author grew a bit tired of ‘A
king in rags’ before he put the cap to his climax. Nevertheless, a
novel the interest of which does not flag through nine-tenths of its
unfolding is worthy of serious consideration. Let it be said that Mr.
Moffett’s first novel, though not, perhaps a great achievement, is, at
the very least, a most brilliant promise.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the
earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; translated from
the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. pt. 3, 2v. *$5. McClurg.
Two volumes constituting the third and last instalment of Molmenti’s
history. It treats fully of Venice and its decadence.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“They are probably the most elaborate and instructive volumes on
Venetian manners and customs yet attempted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo, and Ludwig, Gustav.= Life and works of
Vittorio Carpaccio: tr. by Robert H. H. Cust. *$15. Dutton.
8–14763.
A volume “of archaeological and artistic interest” which has appeared
with the revival of Carpaccio. Its keynote is the faithful manner in
which the painter mirrored in his pictures the Venetian life of the
fifteenth century.
* * * * *
“The one quality lacking in this otherwise admirable book [is] that of
a convincing system of critical argument in support of the authors’
often plausible views.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 134. F. 1. 1270w.
“Pictorially as well as from the point of view of scholarship the work
is exhaustive.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“English readers are fortunate in having put before them Mr. Cust’s
skilful and admirable translation of this excellent work.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 620w.
“It is sure to take rank as the standard work on the long-neglected
master of whom it treats.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 335. F. ’08. 400w.
“The book is a notable addition to the body of historical art
criticism, and the translator, Robert H. Hobart Cust is to be highly
commended for having placed this volume within the reach of the
English reading public in a version that is at once readable and
authoritative.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 800w.
“It is just as important to unearth an old friendship as it is to
unearth an old picture. Professor Molmenti’s sumptuous volume does
both. The most important-looking of the season’s books on art.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“It is exhaustive, laborious, and learned. But though we leave the
book satiated with facts relating to the externals of the work of
Carpaccio, we feel that we are unsatisfied.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 643. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
=Molnár, Ferencz.= Devil; adapted by Oliver Herford. *$1. Kennerley.
8–26860.
A three act play adapted from the Hungarian by Oliver Herford. The
devil in the guise of a modern society man takes a hand in overcoming
whatever of resolution and honorable purpose remain in the minds of a
man and woman who are wrestling with the temptation of forbidden love.
* * * * *
“Oliver Herford’s adaption of Ferencz Molnar’s play ... is on the
whole rather a clumsy effort. Points which probably gave value to the
original have been considerably blunted in translation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
“It bears the same marks of haste as the stage production. Grammatical
and typographical errors abound, speeches are assigned to the wrong
persons, and even the leading characters are misnamed.”
− =Outlook.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
* =Monckton, C. C. F.= Radio-telegraphy. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“Contains a general exposition of the principles underlying the
subject, together with a description of a large amount of the
apparatus and methods used by the various companies.” (Nature.)
“Although not so complete as Prof. J. A. Fleming’s work, it gives the
general reader a good account of the rapid progress in the new art of
wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Monckton is successful in making his exposition of the various
systems of transmission and reception, now in use, intelligible to the
non-scientific reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on having written a very
interesting and valuable book.” C. C. G.
+ =Nature.= 78: 505. S. 24, ’08. 1050w.
=Montgomery, Harry Earl.= Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
The trust problem, freight-rate problem, government ownership, labor
problem, and the negro problem are five vital problems discussed with
calm, sane and deliberate judgment.
* * * * *
“The reader will find the proposed remedies set forth with more
reasonableness than the rather assertive confidence of the author’s
language might suggest; while the array of statistical and other data
gives the book a value for popular reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Rev. Henry Hutchinson=, ed. Mankind and the church;
being an attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to
the fulness of the church of God, by seven bishops. *$2.25.
Longmans.
“Two Indian bishops, the archbishop of the West Indies, a bishop in
Japan, another who was for some years in China, and the bishop of New
Guinea speak of the Anglican communion as they have seen it in their
dioceses, its strength, its weakness, its successes, and its failures.
They speak for the Mohammedans and the Hindus of India, for the
Japanese and the Chinese, for the negroes, and for the population,
other than Malay, of the largest island of the Pacific.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is written in a manner which will give enjoyment to every
cultivated reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 260. My. ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“Highly interesting and valuable introduction furnished by Bishop
Montgomery.”
+ =Spec.= 89: 994. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.= Anne of Green Gables. $1.50. Page.
8–18572.
“A farmer in Prince Edward’s island ordered a boy from a Nova Scotia
asylum, but the order got twisted and the result was that a girl was
sent the farmer instead of a boy. That girl is the heroine of this
story.” (N. Y. Times.) “Anne is a sort of Canadian ‘Rebecca of
Sunnybrook farm’ in her imaginativeness, love of high-flown language,
and propensity to get into scrapes. But the book is by no means an
imitation; it has plenty of originality and character.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A story that all girls from 12 to 15, and many grown-ups, will
enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“The author’s probable intention was to exhibit a unique development
in this little asylum waif, but there is no real difference between
the girl at the end of the story and the one at the beginning of it.
All the other characters in the book are human enough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
“It will please grown-up people quite or nearly as well as the
school-girls for whom it is primarily designed. It ought to have a
wide reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Moody, Walter.= Men who sell things; observations and experiences
of over twenty years as travelling salesman, European buyer, sales
manager, employer. **$1. McClurg.
7–41593.
A book of sound advice which is the outcome of knowing every round of
the ladder. Alertness and poise are the salesman’s essentials acquired
“thru the natural law of infinite patience, constant study of new
conditions, clear adaptation of means to ends, infinite devotion to
instant duty, and absolute fidelity to his house as it is and yet may
be.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“While the book is not of a technical nature, nevertheless the fact
that so many engineers are connected with the selling departments of
their firms ... will make it one of value to many technical men.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Trial marriage. 75c. Empire book co.
8–19570.
“The author’s aim in this novel seems to be to demonstrate how
inevitable are the fetters of law and custom which, forged at the dawn
of civilization, have now linked themselves into the life and thought
of the twentieth century; we are, he maintains, so strongly bound in
many ways that a return to more primitive usage would be
impossible.... With regard to the scientific care and education of the
young, Mr. Moore puts forth theories not yet advocated by the most
advanced socialist, only to demonstrate their futility.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“We think that he has thus fallen between two stools, and has written
neither interesting fiction nor a useful political tract.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 170w.
“We are told that in England Mr. Moore is considered witty but this
does not appear in [this book], although [it] is full of dialogue into
which much glitter has been introduced. It is not the glitter of a
naturally brilliant man, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 1170w.
=Spec.= 99: 267. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Passing of Morocco. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–21029.
An account of the recent outbreak in Morocco and the resulting French
expeditions, interspersed with descriptions of Moroccan life.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“One point only is made which we have not seen sharply brought out
elsewhere, and that is the ruthlessness with which the French have
been carrying on the campaign against the Shawia tribesmen.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 40w.
“Here is an eyewitness worth hearing. Mr. Moore, we think, has a more
pliant and engaging style than before.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 748. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
=Moore, James Hall.= Defence of the Mecklenburg declaration of
independence. *$1.50. Stone & Barringer co.
8–17535.
An attempt to prove the authenticity of the documents which
Carolinians hold to have been drawn up by the citizens of the county
of Mecklenburg, May 20, 1775, in which they declared their
independence of England. The author storms the Hoyt strongholds of
opposition and incidentally throws light on some of the obscure phases
of the revolution.
* * * * *
“Mr. Moore adds almost no new facts to the controversy, and his
literary skill is not large.”
− =Ind.= 65: 98. Jl. 9, ’08. 320w.
“He possesses neither the historical sense nor the critical acumen of
Mr. Hoyt. As a complete expression of what can be said in favor of the
declaration his book has value.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It is difficult to see where he has made any impression on Mr. Hoyt’s
position, which is practically that taken by Adams and Jefferson.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 411. Jl. 25, ’08. 1550w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Moore’s book is to the pro-Mecklenburg
literature what Mr. Hoyt’s is to the anti-Mecklenburg—the best that
has yet been published.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Delftware, Dutch and English. **$1. Stokes.
8–26011.
The initial volume in “The collector’s handbooks” series. It is a
guide to many styles of Delftware, explains its nature and tells the
story of its production from 1672 to the present time, including
Oriental influence and the origin of designs for decoration.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Moore’s book has been judiciously and interestingly compiled.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“Follows the plan of her earlier books in its chief features and is
quite up to her standard.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Moore, Norman.= History of the study of medicine in the British
Isles. *$3.40. Oxford.
The Fitz-Patrick lectures before the Royal college of physicians of
London, for 1905–6. “The inner title, ‘History of the study of
medicine in the British Isles,’ is somewhat misleading, since Dr.
Moore does not attempt to show precisely how practitioners were
trained. What he has done is to pick out various medical men of
different periods, and to sketch partly their training and partly
their methods as indicative of the general state of medical study in
Great Britain at the time.” (Nation.) “The whole is a curious
combination of science, tradition, and what we may, perhaps, call
white magic.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Moore’s volume is rather episodic and biographical than
historical in any broad sense; but what he writes is of extreme
interest, and may well form a basis for further work since he has gone
to original sources for the facts.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 650w.
“It is very creditable to Dr. Norman Moore that he has made time to
consult original authorities, and that he has cast his results into
four such interesting chapters.” D’Arcy Power.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 550. Jl. 08. 1150w.
“An exceedingly entertaining and instructive book, despite the
somewhat rambling and unsystematic treatment.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Moore’s book is a most interesting and scholarly contribution to
the history of medicine.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 25. My. 14, ’08. 1900w.
“All this deserves, and, so excellent is Dr. Moore’s method, will
easily secure, careful attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Moral= training in the public schools. $1.50. Ginn.
7–28175.
Two essays that received respectively first and second prizes offered
by an anonymous California citizen for the best essays written on the
subject.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“This collection of views is well deserving of study for much valuable
pedagogical instruction that it contains. It is, too, a pregnant,
ready-made text for a powerful article in defense of our parochial
schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 824. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“No teacher can afford to neglect a careful reading of the book.” E:
O. Sisson.
+ =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Is distinctly worth reading and reading again.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 103. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, sound, sane, suggestive, instructive, inspiring, seem
to the reviewer the adjectives that most fitly describe this little
book. It is worthy the attention of teachers.” C. T. Lane.
+ =El. School T.= 8: 463. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The volume is a notable contribution to the discussion of moral
education and allied problems, and the simplicity of treatment makes
it easy reading. The absence of an index is to be regretted.” W. S.
Monroe.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 51. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The book deserves attention from parents as well as teachers.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays, 5th. ser. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–14376.
=ser. 5=. A fifth volume of “Shelburne essays.” There are eleven in
number, and they deal with such subjects as The Greek anthology, The
centenary of Longfellow, Dickens, Chesterfield, Gissing, and Donald G.
Mitchell.
* * * * *
“Their literary merit warrants their purchase in book form by larger
libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“In the pages of so accomplished a literary artist as Mr. More one
looks for, and finds, many an apt phrase that lingers in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 15, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The book is a valuable outcome of much knowledge and wise
deliberation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Whatever Mr. More writes, however, has the value of thorough and
competent workmanship; but a little salt of wit, an occasional
lightness of touch, would cheer his readers without weakening the
fiber of his very scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 811. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“One omission it seems to the reviewer has been made: the sectional
conflict in Virginia which paralleled and followed the Stamp act
controversy.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 500w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The writer’s imagination occasionally runs riot when he attempts to
reconstruct the scenes through which the orator of Virginia moved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 823. D. 28. 190w.
“The author also brings in many details of persons and events that
distract attention from the main current of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 240w.
“It is the chief defect of Mr. Morgan’s book that he claims too much,
in too many directions.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 1920w.
“This is a biography which, if somewhat colored by the zeal of
hero-worship, is profitable as well as pleasurable reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morgan, George Campbell.= Analysed Bible. 3v. ea. **$1. Revell.
7–33562.
A commentary to be complete in about thirty volumes which attempts to
preserve a unity by analysing the books of the Bible into large
logical sections. Volumes one to three are as follows: Genesis to
Esther; Job to Malachi; Matthew to Revelation.
* * * * *
“These analyses are always clever, but sometimes at least not
sufficiently supported by the text.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The analyses and titles are generally striking and rhetorical rather
than simply faithful to the works discussed.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 480, Je. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While these three volumes, containing brief introductions to all the
books of scripture, might be useful for a Sunday school Bible class,
yet they are vitiated by an utter lack of criticism, and by a failure
to put the reader at all in touch with the way of regarding the Bible
that should be inevitable to every modern man.” E. S. Drown.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 21, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Morgan, James.= Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28434.
Mr. Morgan aims not to form a history of the civil war, nor to give an
analysis of Lincoln’s character but to write a simple straightforward
story of his life in its true sequence. This plain story of essentials
is a “series of dramatic pictures of the struggles and achievements of
a common man in whom a race of common men is exalted. In the
preparation of his book Mr. Morgan has made use of the various
accessible authorities, presenting those incidents in his hero’s life
which are most significant and essential.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“He tells a story, simple and straightforward—one that will interest
and inspire the young American reader.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Morgan is much more than a faithful compiler. He has points of
view of his own, and seizes with individual judgment upon the facts
worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Morgan tells his story pleasingly, and presents in it a very good
sketch of Lincoln’s remarkable career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 170w.
“We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln. A book
about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and
sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Morley, John.= Critical miscellanies, v. 4. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A group of “fugitive pieces, yet perhaps not altogether without a
clue.” (Preface.) The subjects are as follows: Machiavelli;
Guicciardini; A new calendar of great men; John Stuart Mill, an
anniversary; Lecky on democracy; A historical romance; and Democracy
and reaction. The appendix furnishes explanatory and bibliographical
notes.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08.
“The volume is commended to those who enjoy a literary style of the
highest excellence, allusive yet never obscure, deep reflection
enriched by wide literary knowledge and rendered precise by personal
experience in governmental affairs, fair-minded treatment of opposing
views, and a vindication of political idealism.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 176. O. ’08. 330w.
“A work of real value to serious persons and merits a place in all
well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 330w.
“Lord Morley reflects in every page he writes the influence of the
best culture of the day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 61. Jl. 18. 2000w.
“With his clear style, wide reading and ever present note-book, he is
one of the most delightful of transmitters that we have.” C. M.
Francis.
+ =Bookm=, 28: 146. O. ’08. 2000w.
“The book is good reading and wholesome for us Americans. It will help
us to think straight about some of our own immediate problems,
although it does not deal with any one of them directly.” Brander
Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 213. S. ’08. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 130w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 564. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The charm and value of these essays depend largely on the fact that
they are the product of a rich mind, which has thoroughly digested its
knowledge, and has tested books by experience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 234. S. 10, ’08. 1650w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 360w.
“The great merit of these ‘Miscellanies’—the fine flower of
essay-writing—is that they ‘set men on thinking’ about politics.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 48. Jl. 11, ’08. 2150w.
“We have no other writer with quite the same outlook,—the sane and
broad-minded liberalism, the candour, the earnest desire for the
truth, the tolerance for human imperfections.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 18. Jl. 4, ’08. 1650w.
=Morris, Gouverneur.= Footprint, and other stories. †$1.50.
Scribner.
8–6985.
Eleven stories, creepy and gruesome for the most part, which smack
more of the fatalist’s fancy than of the imagination which
characterizes wholesome adventure. The stories are The footprint,
Paradise ranch, Captain England, The execution, Simon L’Ouvrier, A
Carolina night’s dream, The stowing away of Mr. Bill Ballad, The
explorers, The little heiress, The best man, and The crocodile.
* * * * *
“Gruesome short stories varying in merit. Some of them are decidedly
clever, some grotesque or horrible, and all are more or less
disagreeable, and incline to the morbid.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“Mr. Morris ought to change his course. Nevertheless, I am glad that
before mending his ways he has given us this volume. If these stories
are not great, they are at least different, and their rather highly
spiced originality is welcome to a jaded appetite.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 283. My. ’08. 500w.
“One might discuss at some length Mr. Morris’s methods of fiction, for
they are good methods, and might be studied with profit by many better
known and far more prolific writers of to-day.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“They show Mr. Morris to excel most of the short-story writers of the
day in his use of the Stevenson manner, which he combines with Edgar
Allan Poe matter. The knack of descriptive narration he has in an
uncommon degree, whether his pictures be first hand or not. The sense
of futility is the chief defect of what are otherwise capital tales.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Nine stories of a very depressing aspect. It seems as though the
choicest bits of horror had been suggested by Poe, and the cynicism by
Maupassant.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“Very clever but sometimes intensely disagreeable studies of the
horrible and grotesque.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Morris, Harrison Smith.= Lyrics and landscapes. **$1. Century.
8–12818.
A collection of poems by the author of “Madonna and other poems” and
“Tales from ten poets.” “Mr. Morris strikes his deepest note in
Destiny, a Phi beta kappa poem, although we regret to find in these
dignified verses a veiled apology for our latter-day American
imperialism.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Neat and decorous compositions, not exactly inspired, but mildly
pleasing.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 130w.
“His poems have no great philosophical content, perhaps; but in his
ode to ‘Night’ he succeeds unusually well in a kind of eye and ear
impressionism quite legitimate after its own fashion.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Morrow, William C.= Lentala of the South seas: the romantic tale of
a lost colony. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24468.
A tale of the hardships of a band of colonists cast away on an island
in the South seas. “The book is nothing more than an account of the
savages’ attempts to hoodwink and destroy the white invaders, and the
white men’s final conquest, thanks to the timely aid of a volcano, an
earthquake and a thunder-storm. There is also an adopted daughter of a
cannibal king, who figures somewhat largely in the book.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Somewhat uninspired, and much too long.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 146. O. ’08. 340w.
“Is more or less exciting, but is written in a style whose affectation
of simplicity results in being decidedly irritating.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Morse, Hosea Ballou.= Trade and administration of the Chinese
empire. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–18747.
“Portrays the present state of the Chinese empire, with such record of
the past as will enable the reader better to comprehend the present.”
(Sat. R.) “The two opening chapters, written by the Rev. F. L. Hawks
Potts, President of St. John’s College, at Shanghai, present a
condensed but readable sketch of the history of China from the
earliest times to the present. Mr. Ballou then in a dozen chapters
elucidates the system of government.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A much needed book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“A useful compendium.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 850w.
“Is the first to put into succinct form a fairly complete account of
those practical matters concerning which the man of affairs, whether
of business or of state, most wishes information. The book lacks an
analytical table of contents, which would have greatly enhanced its
value for just those readers for whom it is particularly designed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My 23, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Morse is impartial—as impartial, at any rate, as a man who knows
his subject can be. An eminently informative book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1650w.
=Mosby, John Singleton.= Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg
campaign. **$2. Moffat.
8–8120.
Col. Mosby’s aim is that of clearing the name of Gen. Stuart from
aspersions cast upon it in records made by Gen. Lee’s staff-officers.
It gives a sketch of the battle of Chancellorsville and the cavalry
combat which opened the Gettysburg campaign and justifies Gen.
Stuart’s movements.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“It cannot be said that Col. Mosby proves all his points; but he does
prove some of them, and throws new light on others.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Col. Mosby goes against all the accepted authorities; he takes to
task all of Lee’s biographers and staff officers; he makes raids in
all directions upon historical positions, and he fires volleys here
and there, some of which are effective and some of which go off
harmless into the air.”
− =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 215. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
“Col. Mosby is, of course, a partisan. But his account is interesting,
it brings out neglected aspects of the famous battle.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 1100w.
=Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann, ritter von.= Stories of Jewish home
life. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–40796.
Five stories as follows: Aunt Guttraud, Schlemihlchen, Rav’s Mine,
Jephthah’s daughter, and Rascholchen. In them the great heart of
humanity throbs and goodness triumphs. The settings and colorings are
distinctively Jewish.
* * * * *
“Should be as fascinating to the Gentile reader as many stories of
Gentile hearth and fireside experience have been to the Jews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
=Moses, Bernard.= South America on the eve of emancipation: the
southern Spanish colonies in the last half-century of their
dependence. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15885.
“A sketch of social conditions in South America during the period
immediately preceding the severance of relations with the mother
country. The most interesting chapters are those dealing with the
characteristics of the colonial city and the developments of social
classes under Spanish rule.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Without making any attempt to exhaust the subject, Professor Moses
has succeeded in giving excellent pictures of life and institutions in
the pre-revolutionary era.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 164. O. ’08. 660w.
“This work errs in details, sometimes in essential details. For the
purpose in view, this must be pronounced a very useful and
entertaining little work.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Should be carefully read as an introduction to the study of
Latin-American institutions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 50w.
=Moses, Edith.= Unofficial letters of an official’s wife. **$1.50.
Appleton.
8–29360.
A group of chatty informing letters which the wife of Professor Moses
wrote while residing in Manila during the governorship of Mr. Taft.
One finds all the bits of Philippine “hearsay” most entertainingly set
down, including the appearance and characteristics of the natives,
housekeeping problems, incompetency of servants, discomforts of
climate, social life in Manila, amusements, holiday revelry and
excursions out from Manila.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50.
Kennerley.
7–38221.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It would be too much to expect that all should agree with the
selection of recommended books, but the choices are sane, on the
whole, and if not carefully balanced, and satisfactory in all
particulars, are suggestive. Bibliographical information concerning
title is frequently inaccurate, incomplete, and faulty in form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 106. Ap. ’08.
“While there is much in it that is sound, practical, and useful, we
cannot give it unqualified praise; it is, as the author himself
admits, an incomplete and unfinished sketch. There are many slips,
errors, and omissions, sadly needing correction.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is especially valuable to librarians, with whose needs the author
is familiar.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“May be trusted as a safe guide in a problem that becomes yearly more
difficult.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 260w.
=Mosso, Angelo.= Palaces of Crete and their builders. *$5.25.
Putnam. 8–12966.
“An account of certain excavations and investigations in the famed
land of the Minotaur, which carry the history of the Cretans back
authentically to the neolithic period and furnish much interesting
material for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and
antiquaries generally.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The translation is excellent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 833. D. 28. 1550w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“The personal element often becomes obtrusive. Moreover, there are
many mistakes in the text. With all its faults, however, the volume
has a pleasing freshness and spontaneity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 357. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Dr. Mosso’s is no dry-as-dust narrative. He knows how to be
entertaining, and he is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
“The book is a rambling and often rather absurd work, written about
things archæological by one who is no archæologist, but knows a good
deal about skulls and something about divers natural sciences. The
author ... has a strong bent towards rhapsodical and even dithyrambic
meditation, and indulges it to the full. The book is worth
examination, however, and even purchase, for its illustrations.”
− − + =Sat. R.= 105: 207. F. 15, ’08. 1050w.
“Whatever we may think of Signor Mosso’s ethnology, his book will be
found full of interesting detail, which we may or may not connect with
his anthropology.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Motley, James Marvin.= Apprenticeship in American trade unions.
(Johns Hopkins univ. studies in historical and political science.
Series 25, nos. 11–12.) 50c. Johns Hopkins.
8–7186.
A monograph whose chief emphasis is placed upon the historical
development of apprenticeship and upon the critical analysis of union
regulations. There are chapters on apprenticeship as regulated by
government, custom, trade-unions and trade agreement.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 696. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an admirable scholarly piece of research, of the highest
credit to its author and the economic seminary of Johns Hopkins
university. There is but one place where I would raise a question, and
that is in the difficult attempt to classify the unions according to
the extent to which they enforce apprenticeship as a prerequisite to
membership.” J: R. Commons.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 49. Ap. ’08. 530w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.= Motley’s Dutch nation; being the Rise of the
Dutch republic (1555–1584); condensed, with introd., notes, and a
brief history of the Dutch people to 1908, by W: Elliot Griffis.
$1.75. Harper.
8–12133.
An abridgement of Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch republic” and an
independent sketch of Dutch history, from A. D. 1584 to 1907
constitute respectively the two broad divisions of this volume. The
latter brings the history down to date, showing the social, political,
and economic situation and problems of the Dutch nation.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 229. Je. ’08.
“A more useful single-volume treatment of Dutch history is hardly to
be found.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
“We confess to a feeling of sorrow and affront on seeing Motley
abridged. But the work has been as well done as was possible.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Contains only a single map, and that is inadequate. Such an omission
is unpardonable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 93. Je. 30, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a
popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of
philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The difficulty of the attempt [to collect the moral lessons in
Shakespeare into a system] is increased with the rigidness of the
system and the formality of the treatment, and Prof. Moulton’s
treatment is formal even to pedantry.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 91. F. 15, ’08. 290w.
=Muir, M. M. Pattison.= History of chemical theories and laws. *$4.
Wiley.
6–45162.
“Mr. Pattison Muir does not claim to write a history of chemistry; he
traces the growth of knowledge and opinion on such matters as the
nature of the elements from the crude conceptions of the alchemists
through the strict atomic theory down to the current ideas about ions
and electrons. Similarly he deals with the nature of chemical change,
which with the conception of element and compound form the two special
ideas marking off chemistry from the other sciences.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Certainly the author has given the information in a most readable and
fascinating manner, which will render his book useful and attractive
to a wider circle than merely chemists and physicists.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 600w.
“Mr. Muir has displayed great learning and much literary ability.” W.
R.
+ =Nature.= 75: 601. Ap. 25, ’07. 900w.
“We can recommend Mr. Pattison Muir’s treatise to any serious student
of chemistry; it is just the book for a clever boy who has learnt all
the routine, and now should begin to think more abstractly and
generally.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The feeling of growth and organic interrelation is kept admirably
before the reader. The style is attractive and the mode of
presentation lucid and interesting. The book is not only suggestive,
but highly readable—there is not a dry page in it.” Alexander Smith.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 304. F. 21, ’08. 800w.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Orphan. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–6662.
With the plains as a habitat, clumps of chaparral to hide in, cowboys
to hunt him down, and Apache bands to match his deadly aim, the
Orphan, outlaw and terror of Ford’s Station is the fascinating hero of
this tale. In the development of the story, it is revealed that his
vengeance is directed only towards cowardly, irritating, petty
specimens of cowboy humanity; that underneath his rough exterior are
splendid manhood and courage; and that he is as chivalrous as a knight
of old when called upon to defend women. There is plenty of wild west
adventure with which mingle the dust and heat of the plains.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as virile as the life it describes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
An intimate sketch of “a very unusual, very vital human being” who,
born and educated in Germany, became a wanderer, living in six
countries and having a variety of bread-winning experiences, and
finally finding her place as professor at Wellesley where she remained
until her death. The invincible spirit of hard work characterized her
life which is portrayed by her friend and successor.
* * * * *
“The account of this remarkable woman’s life is very interesting. One
would scarcely suspect, but for Professor Müller’s prefatory
confession, that English was not the author’s mother tongue.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 582. D. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Mullins, Rev. Edgar Y.= Axioms of religion. **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–14676.
Beginning with the new test of denominationalism and other themes
leading to the truth of the soul’s competency in religion, Doctor
Mullins proceeds to show that religion has its axioms no less than
other realms of knowledge and experience. He gives the theological,
the religious, the ecclesiastical, the moral, the religio-civic and
the social axiom.
* * * * *
“His conclusions are those of a sincere and cultivated man, and merit
a respectful attention from the reader, be he or not a Baptist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Munro, Neil.= The Clyde; river and firth. *$6. Macmillan.
8–18705.
“The river ‘from a mossy cup in a nook of barren hill,’ and the
estuary down to Ailsa Craig, are shown under many phases of wind and
weather, with castles, mountains, hillsides, waterfalls, villages,
orchards, and fishing pools; the harbour and shipping: and the
yacht-flecked lower waters and mountain-girt lochs, with endless glens
and islands and landmarks of history since the Norsemen’s time.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The fidelity of the sketches is as marked a characteristic as their
winsomeness. Some press errors ... are venial blemishes in a beautiful
book, which is an excellent memorial of the Clyde, viewed through
three happy temperaments.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 95. Ja. 25. 1120w.
“A beautiful and a readable volume.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The colored illustrations ... are of the character to which we have
become so well accustomed in these picture books—at times clear and
almost beautiful, at times a mere daub of crude colors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Munro writes with his enthusiasm well in hand, and the
illustrations are more pleasing than is always the case in this class
of book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Munroe, Kirk.= Under the Great Bear. †$1.25. Harper.
A book for boys which narrates the adventures of a young mechanical
engineer who goes to Newfoundland and Labrador in the interests of a
copper company. There are encounters with icebergs, blizzards, wrecks,
smuggling enterprises, to whet a healthy imagination, and underneath
all there is a mind single to duty and definite accomplishment.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.= On the witness stand: essays on psychology and
crime. **$1.50. McClure.
8–13667.
A book for judges and lawyers which presents a deeply psychological
study of crime and its various methods of detection and prevention.
The author discusses at length the many illusions which often affect
the minds of witnesses, the errors which are due to the defective
memory of witnesses, and the influence often exerted upon testimony by
suggestion in court and by hypnotic influence. The book leaves no
point untouched which has to do with modern ideas and methods in
dealing with crime.
* * * * *
“The last chapter, concerning the prevention of crime and use of
modern psychological knowledge in this connection is the most valuable
and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 198. Je. ’08.
“An extremely important little volume, which should be read by
everyone who has to do with criminal courts or who is interested in
problems of crime.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 130w.
“The unsatisfactory initial chapters are, however, largely redeemed by
the remaining portion of the book.” F: T. Hill.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 406. Je. ’08. 600w.
“How little or how much one may sympathise with Professor
Munsterberg’s methods and conclusions, one may unhesitatingly approve
his emphasis of attention to the problem as a psychological one.”
Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 38. Jl. 16, ’08. 1750w.
=Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 330w.
“The main contention of the book is open to serious question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Münsterberg talks fact and common sense; he defines what can,
and especially what can not, be done with hypnotism. Thus he performs
a great and much-needed service—a service that ought to put many a
pseudo-mystic out of business and rescue numberless dupes from the
swindlers who are robbing and killing them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 237. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“His book is most suggestive, interesting and valuable, although
marred here and thereby a tendency to dogmatism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is a good deal of interesting and perhaps profitable
information in what the professor tells in his chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 160w.
* =Murdoch, W. G. Burn-.= From Edinburgh to India and Burmah. *$3.50.
Dutton.
A pictorial journey with text to amplify it. The author’s impressions
“were gathered at the time of the visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and are mingled with many digressions and reflections. The
author saw southern India first, and was charmed with it, but found it
eclipsed in every respect by Burmah. Thence he returned to Calcutta,
and made his way back to Bombay viâ Benares, Agra, and Delhi.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book itself is pleasantly written, and even on the wellworn
themes of P. and O. voyages and Indian travel fresh impressions from a
capable observer are welcome. There are too many misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 303. S. 12. 380w.
“His notes on his journey are in the nature of a diary, and run
smoothly and fluently, carrying the reader easily along through scenes
which a heavier literary cicerone would render tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Murdock, Harold.= Earl Percy’s dinner table. Special ed. *$5.
Houghton.
7–39216.
“The author does not attempt to set forth in fictional form the Boston
of 1774–5, but pictures it in vivid, dramatic narrative, in which
figure constantly the chief actors of the time, both British and
colonial. Earl Percy’s hospitable board is the scene of the greater
part of the narrative, and the reader gets from the conversation of
his guests picturesque accounts of the state of public feeling in the
town, but toward the end there are stirring descriptions of the
fighting at Lexington and at Bunker Hill. The final pages recount the
later histories of Earl Percy’s guests. Copious notes in the back of
the book explain historical references and quote authorities.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The notes are, perhaps, more interesting than the text.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 416. Ap. 4. 400w.
“The atmosphere of the period has been remarkably suggested throughout
the story, which holds the interest of the reader to the end.”
Laurence Burnam.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 310. My. ’08. 220w.
“An unusual book—an historical monograph possessing both
unquestionable authenticity and rare distinction of style.” E. K.
Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 1230w.
“A unique bit of historical recreation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 350w.
=Murphy, Thomas Dowler.= British highways and byways, from a motor
car: being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales
and Scotland; with 16 il. in color, and 32 duogravures from
photographs. 2 maps. $3. Page.
8–5245.
Good maps, and excellent illustrations increase the value of Mr.
Murphy’s well arranged information concerning British cities, and
rural Britain.
* * * * *
“An excellent guide. The incidental information about hotels and
garages will save many moments of worry.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 240w.
“He has succeeded in giving us something more readable and more
literary in character than the ordinary compendiums. The author’s love
of historic places and of beautiful scenery makes the book of
considerable value as a vade mecum.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1294. Je. 4, ’08. 260w.
“An agreeably written and attractively illustrated book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Murray, John, and Miller, Marion Mills.= Round up: a romance of
Arizona; novelized from Edmund Day’s melodrama, il. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
8–11703.
Prospectors, ranchmen, outlaws, and Apaches, with a western heroine or
two furnish the characters for this novelized melodrama set in Arizona
and Mexico. “It is decidedly a stirring tale, abounding in
thrills—fights and famine, torture and deceit, love and vengeance.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The ‘novelizers’ have done their work well, but those portions which
form the cement holding the dialogue together seem sometimes a bit
labored.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
N
=Nash, Henry Sylvester.= Atoning life. **$1. Macmillan.
8–12601.
A book instinct with the spirit that reforms, with the atoning life
that lies at the root of good society, at the foundation of human
fellowship. Dr. Nash says: “One of the pressing needs of ministers and
laymen alike is a vital theology that springs from life and, returning
quickly to the life out of which it sprang, gives form and clarity to
experience.” It is with this vital theology that the book deals.
* * * * *
“Those who know Dr. Nash’s previous works will expect to find here
deep scholarship and spiritual power and striking forms of speech.
They may not expect to find such complete simplicity of style as will
add clearness to depth. But just such a combination is to be found
here.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
“Here is a small book but a great one, in which deep and patient study
issues in such terse expression that one should willingly give it two
or three readings to absorb its fullness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13. ’08. 400w.
=National civic federation.= Municipal and private operation of
public utilities; report. 3v. $10. National civic federation.
8–2952.
A report representing two years of exhaustive investigation which
comprises three volumes—one containing the conclusions arrived at and
the other two the statistics of plants examined, upon which these
conclusions are based.
* * * * *
“These three volumes as a whole present the most valuable compilation
of statistics concerning municipal affairs yet published in the United
States. Whatever limitations are present are in large degree
unavoidable, for the complexity of the subjects to be treated makes it
unusually difficult, if not impossible, to draw from the facts a
conclusion that will be convincing to all.” C. L. Jones.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 600w.
“Far superior to anything of the kind heretofore published. It is to
be regretted that the general review of the whole investigation
contains so little in the way of judicial weighing and balancing.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 291. Mr. 12, ’08. 6000w.
“This is probably the first time that such a complete discussion of
the subject has been presented under conditions so favorable for
clearing away the unessential assumptions and disputed facts that make
the usual article on the subject hardly worth reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 693. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The volumes are supplied with very minute indexes, which will enable
a student to secure information on almost any point involved in the
discussion of municipal operation.” D. R. Dewey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 337. Je. ’08. 850w.
=Neff, Elizabeth.= Altars to Mammon. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–5884.
The story of a young Methodist minister’s struggle against the
over-powering money-methods by which a millionaire would gain entrance
to the kingdom of heaven. “The pastor is fresh from a theological
seminary, and the scene of the story is a sordid little town where the
pull is toward the open saloons away from the churches.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The wealthy capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor and salves
his conscience by building churches has been worked to death of late,
and ought to be allowed a season of decent retirement.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written after the manner of E. P. Roe, and should have a
wide circulation among those who admire the commonplace, even in
heresies. It is realistic in situations, literal in details, and
indicates that the author has good principles, excellent convictions,
shrewd insight, everything except genius.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and
spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by
too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its
characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute
truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.
8–1681.
“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a
collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the
riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing
of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little
impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the
expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.
“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work
besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions
nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line
of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is
good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It
is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that
nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent
and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than
clothed upon by the imagination.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.
=Neilson, Robert M.= Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20.
Longmans.
A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific
knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with
the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of
engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an
introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too
voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.
− =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.
=Neumann, Angelo.= Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the
fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.
8–29008.
Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great
master of music “behind the scenes”—both figuratively and literally.
The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided
by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various
European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such
musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and
above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction
which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.
* * * * *
“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of
biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become
exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L.
M. Isaacs.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.
“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving
and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and
incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us
in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people
and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable
chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of
his music.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic,
but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm
of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German
edition, adds to its value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= Principles of psychic philosophy.
**$1.40. Lothrop.
8–10430.
Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the
power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power,
unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief
chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man,
psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power,
freedom, healing, and fulfillment.
=Newman, Ernest.= Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred
Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–30389.
“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there
is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative
composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of
programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in
detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including
‘Salome.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.
“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and
stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far
in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has
done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the
admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what
they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will
resent as over-censure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series,
and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss
that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable
contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing,
saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from
Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.
=Newman, Richard Brinsley.= Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10613.
In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the
family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a
son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the
people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against
the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts
from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed.
by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.
To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six
chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans.
They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality
and Criticism.
* * * * *
“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from
certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered
as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being
played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more
interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.
“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only
who do not need them?”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.
“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the
latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written
for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions
which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which
is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.
“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical
practitioner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.
“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members
of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of
preventive medicine.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.
=Nicholas, Francis Child.= Power supreme: a novel of church and
state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.
8–20675.
“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest
part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her
dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor,
bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a
revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader;
such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who
has been personally familiar with the country in which the scene is
cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.
“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does
not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of
graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary
feeling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.
“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order
of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–25998.
“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of
North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both
governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young
daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a
young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and
counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates
a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the
farce-comedy is to the drama.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.
“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or
any other form of the blues.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he
takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar
source.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–38599.
Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a
degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which
she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at
St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan
who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the
varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or
two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story.
There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted
tragedy.
* * * * *
“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to
originality.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.
“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the
author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of
reputation through this latest novel.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.
“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element
proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will
realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the
delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.
=Nicolay, Fernand.= Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous
hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50.
Lane.
8–3124.
“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the
flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle
along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value
and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly
idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness,
abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present
it in English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.
“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more
credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to
the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers
preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”
− =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining,
or vital, or even plausible.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of
a personal nature about Napoleon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the
Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this
multitude of details.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.
=Nicoll, Michael John.= Three voyages of a naturalist: being an
account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by
the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl
of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–14717.
A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied
Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the
“Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first
voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the
third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the
new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.
* * * * *
“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most
satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the
home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.
“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the
author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them
more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and
new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.
“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to
describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing
little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written
narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote
islands.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on
account of the many new species described.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas.= History of
English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.
7–37996.
Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more
technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than
for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of
literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary
origins and movements.
* * * * *
“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly
intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent
opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned,
but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would
have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with
matter for superficial conversation.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.
“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but
would be selected after the library owned old standards.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 227. Je. ’08.
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only
valuable, it is really readable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.
“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large
perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of
Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than
read the books themselves.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.
“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are,
but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50.
Jacobs.
8–17253.
The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his
yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie
and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her
adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color
which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its
islands.
* * * * *
“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine
coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident
and originality of plot.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable
little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative
by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s
island life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Niecks, Frederick.= Programme music in the last four centuries: a
contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.
7–27022.
“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is
programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates
sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that
‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds
the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the
present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of
programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on
programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.
“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation
with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and
valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Beyond good and evil: prelude to a
philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern
European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to
explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and
somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand
it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making
the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true
aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such
subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious
mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is
noble?
* * * * *
“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude
it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost
without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it
emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.
“This version should form a quite successful book and should have
considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided
sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain
undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious
contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life,
it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction
claims for it.” F. Thilly.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.
“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into
fluent and easy English.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.
“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with
Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on
the natural history of morals and other subjects.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned
morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made
‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.
“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N.
Dolson.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Human, all too human: a book for
free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the
workers.) 50c. Kerr.
8–7591.
Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to
those who are not afraid to read them.”
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita).= Cradle tales of Hinduism.
*$1.60. Longmans.
8–13677.
The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the
school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the
two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought
to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the
villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination
can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers
of the magic and the human.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.
“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some
reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too
much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and
coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and
especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been
rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the
first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and
purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with
the originals.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.
“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin
at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the
Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.
=Nojine, E. K.= Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B.
Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.
W 8–120.
The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war
correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of
Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General
Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority
and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat.
R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the
siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of
authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.
“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others
that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather
than as a narrative.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines
easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or
picturesque.”
+ =Nation.= 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.
“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous
siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is
beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets
from it the impression that it proves too much.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.
“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and
picturesqueness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.
“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege
of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de.= Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by
John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.
8–838.
“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and
upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes
the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the
least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph
is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character
as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.
“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.
“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to
the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to
the beginnings of modern classical culture.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable
setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.
“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain
aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Noorden, Karl Harko von=, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine;
tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.
Agr 7–2016.
A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der
pathologie des stoffwechsels.”
=v. 1.= The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of
normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable
mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the
original literature.” (Science.)
=v. 2.= The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others,
deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of
the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the
kidneys.
=v. 3.= Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl
Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.
* * * * *
“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the
utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the
enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many
of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the
validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and
often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen
comparisons quite at random.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who
wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is
to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work
should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have
evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English
style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the
original.” Otto Folin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.
(Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Norris, Henry Hutchinson.= Introduction to the study of electrical
engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–348.
(2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)
“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day
experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of
electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical
and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and
magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station,
transformers and motors, and their applications, electric lighting and
heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of
intelligence.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation
more than compensates for this deficiency.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy
of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is
often surprising.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by
instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their
courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful
intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the
subject which he has selected.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.
8–444.
A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by
the cult.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.
=North, Arthur Walbridge.= Mother of California; with an introd. by
Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.
An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from
the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions
therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social
and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive
bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully
illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the
opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California
history.”
* * * * *
“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from
the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.
“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but
blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is
timely and useful.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for
geographical and historical research and also all those who take
delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and
interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a
too florid rhetoric.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.
=Norton, Grace=, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal
relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary
relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments
on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his
writings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Norton, Grace=, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and
expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–16222.
“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of
Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand
foremost.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
* =Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2.
Century.
8–33815.
A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the
much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The
author shows what the original document contained, shows why the
charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short,
covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem
and clears up the mystery.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–5889.
This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft
that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over
golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such
exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles
Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.
* * * * *
“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he
surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of
utterance.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.
“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a
fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of
the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank
verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the
mere splendor of vision.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it
should not detract from it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually
misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which
is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger
English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of
personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.
=Nuelsen, John L.= Some recent phases of German theology. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.
8–7161.
Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast
theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical
criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus
Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author,
while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians,
laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an
ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective
basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.
* * * * *
“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a
report of the varying phases of German theology at present and less
recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and
dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and
between these some mediating varieties.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L.= History of nursing,
the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the
foundation of the first English and American training schools for
nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
7–41533.
Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the
sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria,
Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian
church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the
crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work;
and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.
* * * * *
“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more
clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life
more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and
exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages
to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and
may do to alleviate human suffering.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.
“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.
“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such
duties—and who is not?—should read it.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
O
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. *$2.25.
Dodd.
8–7374.
A guide, including illustrations and maps, to every island in the West
Indian archipelago. It gives descriptions of each one, its
attractions, resources, climate, history, hotels, as well as routes
thither from the Atlantic ports of the United States, Canada, England
and Europe.
* * * * *
“Indispensable to the traveler, as there is no other complete guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 100w.
“An excellent book ... on an untouched subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“A thorough and reliable guide.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“Tells us all that can be wanted.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= John and Sebastian Cabot. (Heroes of
American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–11834.
Mr. Ober clears up some of the doubts that have obscured the claim of
these discoverers to the mainland of North America. He narrates their
voyages, portrays vividly the thrill of enthusiasm that stirred
England, Venice and Spain when new world riches were the talk and
dream of king and peasant, and discusses the sturdy elements that
formed the character of the Cabots.
* * * * *
“Offers information but is not scholarly in treatment, nor distinctive
in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“He has taken great pains to make his sketch as nearly accurate as
possible, and he writes with judgment and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Juan Ponce de Leon. (Heroes of American
history.) **$1. Harper.
8–9496.
Aside from the quest for the fountain of perennial youth which has
always lent romance to the name of Ponce de Leon, here are recorded
many daring adventures of the explorer among the islands of the new
world where he is revealed as a hardy soldier, an honorable cavalier,
and a noble man.
* * * * *
“The book is an entertaining one, and a contribution, in its way, to
historical literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Told in succinct and interesting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=O’Connor, Vincent C. S.= Mandalay, and other cities of the past in
Burma. *$5. Appleton.
8–20523.
“A resuscitation of the past of Burma as it finds expression in its
cities, the centers of a by-gone day.” “The spirit of the East
possesses him, and amid the deserted pagodas, the ruin-strewed
jungles, the mouldering scenes of vanished glories, he knows how to
discern and interpret the subtle charm that appeals to every traveller
whose footsteps have wandered among the relics of departed greatness
in Asia.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Much that is both valuable and beautiful in Burma possesses also the
characteristic of impermanence, and the fact is of itself good
justification for this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 733. D. 7. 720w.
“His book ought surely to be read with delight even by those to whom
the wonders of the Orient are but a vague vision.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 770w.
“His book is not easy reading, except to those familiar with the
country and its history.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 630w.
“Of hardly less interest than his story of Mandalay are the stories
Mr. O’Connor tells of the older cities of Burma.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
“The author knows his Burma from end to end; he writes with equal
sympathy of its past history and its wealth of natural and artistic
beauty.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 550w.
=Oesterley, William Oscar Emil.= Evolution of the Messianic idea: a
study in comparative religion. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26835.
“The elemental emotions of fear, the sense of dependence on a higher
power, and the desire for happiness, accordingly give rise to three
primordial myths found among widely diverse peoples.... The spiritual
truths enveloped in these misty conceptions it was the mission of
Israelite teachers to clarify, and this process of development is Dr.
Oesterley’s theme.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We must confine our remarks to criticism of a few leading ideas. We
must also remark that the apologetic parts of the book are by no means
happy all through. Dr. Oesterley’s work is, however, on the whole,
likely to prove very useful to a wide circle of readers. It is
stimulating, earnest, frank, and full of interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 662. My. 30. 1100w.
“It is an illuminative piece of scholarship in comparative religion.
It hardly needs saying that readers of the Testament will find profit
in this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 280w.
=Oesterley, Rev. W. O. E., and Box, G. H.= Religion and worship of
the synagogue. *$3. Scribner.
8–11732.
“The authors, both of them clergymen of the Church of England, write
with equal knowledge and fairness, in the belief that Judaism and
Christianity are complementary and belong together, and that the
advocates of each can only be true to their respective faiths by
mutual fellowship and respect for one another’s convictions. A survey
of Judaism from the New Testament to the present day necessarily
covers a great variety of subjects, the classic literature or sources,
the theology, the current practice; on all of these Mr. Oesterley and
Mr. Box give adequate information.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The authors have approached the theme in a proper spirit of sympathy
and discrimination; they have made good use of the best authorities at
their command; and they have also done whatever was possible to gain
personal impressions of several of the customs they describe.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 325. F. 8, ’08. 510w.
“This excellent work supplies what has long been wanted, a clear and
dispassionate account of Judaism such as the ordinary reader can
understand.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w.
“Very instructive volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 650. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Grand army man. †$1.50. Century.
8–24451.
Mr. O’Higgins in novelizing David Belasco’s play has aimed to
translate into the form of fiction the flavor of Warfield’s acting,
and the charm of Belasco’s stage. Here as in the play the effort is
spent on the development of the simple, tender hearted Wes’ Bigelow
whose only shadow across a serene sky is due to the misdeeds of the
wayward foster-son.
* * * * *
“The book contains the essentials of the play, with enough fine
material replete in imaginative power and human interest to make an
absorbingly fascinating novel of human life.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 480. N. ’08. 200w.
“He has accomplished his task in as agreeable a manner as the process
will allow. He has poured his own originality into the work, rounding
out in word pictures that which Mr. Warfield so adequately brought out
in his acting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. O’Higgins has succeeded in turning out a little volume which will
be welcome to those who want an enduring record of a fleeting
playhouse impression, and which has some interest as fiction on its
own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 511. S. 19, ’08. 570w.
“The book will not disappoint the many friends of Wes’ Bigelow among
his Grand army comrades and others.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 70w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. *$6.
Dutton.
W7–195.
A volume which grew, says the author, “from a pilgrimage about
Venetian streets and canals ‘for the purpose of identifying and
precisely indicating the position’ of the palaces referred to by
Ruskin, Fergusson, Street, and other students of Venetian
architecture. The chief examples are described in the order of their
erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or Renaissance. From the
writings of the three great Venetian diarists has been drawn an
accompanying picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice’s
greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations in color, and
others, possibly more valuable to the student, in black and white, by
Mr. Trevor Haddon, besides several reproductions from Ruskin’s studies
of Venetian architecture.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book that will delight all lovers of Venice.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Is the most important and the most valuable of all these new volumes
on Italian themes. This is a scholarly and a thoroughly workmanlike
book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 200w.
“This book is not only much better intrinsically than his historical
sketch of Venice, but it also is free from the pot-boiler aroma that
pervaded that effort.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Okey knows his Venice well. He has ransacked history and legend
for illustrative comment, using both with judgment, and indeed with
restraint.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 50. Ja. 11, ’08. 930w.
=Olcott, William Tyler.= Field book of the stars. **$1. Putnam.
7–26464.
This guide “is gotten up in very compact form, presenting in fifty
diagrams the appearance of the skies at different seasons and the
location of all the important constellations. Accompanying each
diagram is a brief explanation. There is nothing of either a technical
or a theoretical nature, and nothing has been included which cannot be
studied with either the naked eye or an opera glass.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“Of this sort the book is a model of simplicity and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 130w.
“For assistance in the geography of the heavens, and for choosing
particular objects that are suitable for naked-eye or opera-glass
study this little book is the most complete and the most practicable
that has thus far appeared. The diagrams are simple, clear, and
admirably adapted to class or individual use. The author’s work is
excellently done. The book is timely and teachable, and there is
little of moment in it to criticize. Every high-school teacher of
astronomy ought to have it and to use it in his classes.” G. W.
Meyers.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 346. My. ’08. 1100w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Aunt Maud. +$1.50. McClure.
8–20135.
Tells how a niece is so clever regarding her aunt’s announced
match-making schemes that she takes matters into her own hands and
swears the young man to secrecy over a compact to play a part for a
month during which time they are to seem engaged while in reality they
are only “taking each other’s measure.” “The result is a series of
emotional incidents, described with much vivacity and minuteness, and
leading to an event which amiably and not quite unexpectedly
vindicates the tactics of Aunt Maud.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book worth bringing to the attention of readers who like incursions
into the domain of sentiment that is not sentimentality.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 380w.
“It is a sensible book for young girls.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“The central love-story is treated with so much originality and
discretion that we are at a loss to understand the author’s fiasco
over his more ambitious portrait.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Virginie. †$1.50. McClure.
8–4038.
This story is really the continuation of a deus ex machina’s task to
bring happiness to the daughter of the woman whom he had loved and
lost. The protector is a chemist and he administers to Virginie, on
the eve of an odious marriage with a dissolute count, a Monte Cristo
potion which causes temporary suspension of life. He chooses a British
lover for her, an amateur archaeologist, to whom he delivers a wax
statue packed in ice with a silver trumpet in its hand. The statue
comes to life and is beautiful. As Virginie comes out of the trance of
body, the Englishman emerges from his trance of soul. The guardian
sees to it that there are plenty of adventures to test the lover’s
sincerity and heroism before he confesses the truth to him.
* * * * *
“The author writes with attractive lightness, and we have been amused
by the feats of the special maker of providence for the young people.
It is a pleasant story, except that too much is made, we think, of
eating and drinking.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 110w.
“The author has developed an absurd situation with a gravity that is
almost obtuse.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written with much cleverness and skill, and is plausible
enough to be entertaining, even if the reader does not find the
evasive and resourceful Italian, who is really a famous French
scientist, entirely convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 370w.
“A more improbable tale than ‘Virginie’ would be hard to find.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Is all wrong from beginning to end. It is not merely the wild
extravagance of the conception, unworthy though that be of a writer of
Mr. Oldmeadow’s powers, but it is the whole atmosphere of false
sentiment in which the story is steeped that offends.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Oliver, Thomas.= Diseases of occupation from the legislative,
social and medical points of view. *$3. Dutton.
8–27120.
“Treats of the diseases incidental to a great variety of occupations
in factories, workshops, mines, potteries, and other employments where
many persons labor together.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“In every case the information supplied is ample, and the best-known
methods for abolishing or lessening the evils attendant on each
occupation are given with commendable brevity. Several statements and
facts are repeated at short intervals in almost identical words—a
blemish which can be easily removed in the next edition of what must
prove a highly useful book of reference. There is an excellent index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 420w.
“It is an excellent, simple, and untechnical description of the
diseases due to gases, poisons, dust, etc.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 543. O. ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 540w.
“In a comparatively small book Dr. Oliver has succeeded in bringing
together a vast amount of useful information on all sorts of subjects.
The facts with which he has dealt are not drawn up in any very orderly
array, and throughout one finds a certain vagueness which may well
tend to make the reader feel that he is treading on ground too
uncertain to bear definite action. In some places where definite
directions are given they are contradictory.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 627. O. 22, ’08. 1050w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= The gentleman. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28993.
A continuous series of adventures both on land and sea that result in
thwarting the plot of Napoleon to kidnap Nelson just before the battle
of Trafalgar. Napoleon’s agent is an Irish rebel—the Gentleman—whose
charming personality and bravery won the admiration and respect of his
enemies. The rescuing party consists of a few sailors and fighting men
of whom a fifteen-year old midshipman is the first in valor and
resourcefulness.
* * * * *
“An ingenious, breathless story, of decided literary merit, that men
and older boys will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“The last fight of the ‘Tremendous’ is one of the best naval battles
in fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 676. N. 28. 330w.
“A distinctly bigger achievement than either of its author’s earlier
books; and, one is tempted to add, the book best entitled of any story
written in English since the days of Robert Louis Stevenson to trace
its ancestry straight back to the purest strain of the romantic
novel.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 510. N. ’08. 2000w.
“Take three parts of Stevenson to one of Charles Kingsley, flavor with
reminiscences of Blackmore, beat violently, and serve in paragraphs à
la Charles Reade—such seems to have been the formula for this rather
extraordinary book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“One can only call it melodrama; but it hurries the reader along
without a halt on a single page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 796. D. 19, ’08. 720w.
“The book is marred a little by hints of torture and by some passages
which may try the nerves of haters of bloodshed and cruelty, and
sometimes the author’s style, purposely made sharp and concise,
becomes a little too Victor Hugoish in abruptness. But, criticism
aside, the romance is one of the best of its class; it holds the
imagination with intentness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck.= Western Asia in the days of Sargon of
Assyria, 722–705 B. C.: a study in oriental history. (Cornell
studies in history and political science.) **$1.25. Holt.
8–17886.
“Represents seven years of study during which the author was for a
year a Fellow at the American school for oriental studies, under
Professor Schmidt, and had the inestimable advantage of a careful
topographical study of a portion of the territory covered by Sargon’s
campaigns.... Among the points most valuable is his study of the
perplexing ‘Muzri’ question raised by Winckler. Also of much interest
is the account of Sargon’s campaigns to the north against the Mannai
and Khaldians (Chaldeans) until he was slain in battle with the
Cimmerians, as this brings him into relation with tribes whom our
author recognizes as Aryan.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“This book is a good example of the systematic work that must be done
on every period of Babylonian-Assyrian history before an adequate
history of those nations can be written.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 90w.
“An admirably careful, thoro and adequate study of Sargon’s campaigns,
and has close bearing on biblical accounts.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
* =Olmsted, E. Stanley.= Emotionalist: the romance of an awakening to
temperament. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–30250.
The story of an American girl’s struggle for temperament which if
added to her gift of a beautiful voice, to her ambition and energy
would insure a much coveted career. She pursues her study in Germany,
meets a man who takes a hand in developing her temperament with the
result that he loves her, and sacrifices his happiness for her art
only to see her turn aside from it and marry a Fifth avenue
oil-magnate.
* * * * *
“A clever piece of work.”