=Spec.= 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spec.= 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.
8–26830.
Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark
back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes,
with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which
one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.
* * * * *
“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from
the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic
values.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Stephens, Winifred.= French novelists of today; biographical,
descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies.
*$1.50. Lane.
Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre
de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard
Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a
study of French novels.
* * * * *
“A useful guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised
by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been
carefully revised in proof.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.
“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.
+ =Dial.= 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.
“A handy source of information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.
“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her
judgments are sound, her temper is even.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in
modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a
better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and
informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own
ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Stevens, Albert Clark.=, ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed.,
rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.
7–36716.
“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel
of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States,
together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In
addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting
organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and
most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later
date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section
on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless.
Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all
interested in secret societies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.
=Stevens, Isaac N.= Liberators: a story of future American politics.
$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–6664.
A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period
immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of
political questions which have an important bearing on the well
organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal
characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a
young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young
widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of
assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college
girls.
* * * * *
“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best
exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations
that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit,
it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.
“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it
freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes
that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our
people.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 485. N. ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but
offering attractions to many readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Stevens, William Chase.= Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the
development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of
micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.
7–36113.
“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant
tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that
there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the
physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and
exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes
of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with
the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and
processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable),
and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really
useful).”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been
prepared in large measure directly from the material under
observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the
modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply,
clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception,
embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of
‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea
dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.”
J. M. C. and C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.
“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it
must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary
facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by
clearness and coordination.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.
* =Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3.
Houghton.
8–33773.
A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and
interesting poems relating to the history of America from its
discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the
following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of
growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.
=Stevenson, Burton E.= Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.
7–24194.
The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the
hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of
office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without
honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his
quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies,
and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a
courageous lad would call splendid.
=Stevenson, William Barrow.= Crusaders in the East: a brief history
of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.
8–9075.
From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this
history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations
between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states.
The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the
Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the
consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by
implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power
upon history.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that
the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding
the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he
has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.
“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates
by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but
the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult
task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of
information.” G. Le Strange.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.
“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two
centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of
repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand.
The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially
welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is
essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.
=Stewart, Clinton Brown.= Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1,
a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a
six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no.
173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–3626.
Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal
pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic
engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in
tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory
of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a
descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from
1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
* =Stewart, Jane Agnes.= Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–33162.
A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides
giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various
methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and
home-made gifts.
* * * * *
“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.
“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Stewart, William Morris.= Reminiscences of Senator William M.
Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.
8–15703.
The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men,
Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a
great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and
executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one
of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His
reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience
gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated
with the men who made the history of the country.
* * * * *
“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity
more seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“A vigorous summing up of the life of a real man. It is an amazingly
entertaining record, and the editor ... has done his part of the work
admirably.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 2450w.
“There is a good deal that seems irresponsible and in questionable
taste. There is a good deal of fun and there is a good deal of
liveliness in the book.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= American constitution: the national
powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people.
(Lowell institute lectures, 1907.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–3494.
Eight lectures which aim to show that the constitution is not an
“Antiquarian curiosity”; not a mass of dry rules, but the very
substance of freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive. They
explain the human meaning of the constitution, the safeguards that it
offers every one and the live issues that it still embodies. Mr.
Stimson’s closing lectures are on Changes in the constitution now
proposed and Interstate commerce, the control of trusts, and the
regulation of corporations.
* * * * *
“This is a popular but satisfactory treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 150w.
“The subjects discussed are of deep interest to all thinking
Americans. Though we do not agree with all the positions taken by the
author, we regard the volume as an extremely important contribution to
our political literature, and much which it contains is of the highest
interest and value.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 499. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“The temper of the book is admirable, and we can only hope that it may
be widely and intelligently read.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 421. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The historical part—that is about one-half—of Professor Stimson’s
volume is utterly worthless.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 80w.
“One cannot detect in his remarks any factious purpose, only the
conscientious exercise of the judicial function of ascertaining the
law of the land, as declared and divided by the constitution, and
applying it to the several subjects under consideration. Thoughtful
citizens will find the discussion well worth while.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
“Our point of view of the constitution is not that of Professor
Stimson. But the book is valuable, first, because it will put before
the students of constitutional law with great clearness the theory of
strict construction, and, second, because it points out, on the one
hand, the historical origin of certain fundamental principles of
American constitutions, and, on the other hand, certain real perils
against which we need to be on our guard.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 640w.
“As a critique of contemporary government and administrative policies
by a lawyer of distinction in many fields of legal research and
practice, the volume is not without value: but since the whole
argument rests on a particular interpretation of history, it is the
philosophy, not the conclusions, which principally engage the interest
of the student.” C: A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 340. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“In general, Mr. Stimson’s views are conservative and his exposition
of the division of power between the states and the federal government
judicious and helpful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The reading public will find it spirited, intelligible and
suggestive: and if they trace errors here and there, there are none
that are vital.” S. E. Baldwin.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 235. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= Law of the federal and state
constitutions of the United States; with an historical study of
their principles, a chronological table of English social
legislation and a comparative digest of the constitutions of the
forty-six states. *$3.50. Boston bk.
8–15307.
A three-part study. The first is devoted to the origin and growth of
the American constitutions; the second to constitutional principles as
expressed in the English statutes of the realm and American
constitutions; the third, to the state constitutions, annotated and
compared with the federal constitution.
* * * * *
“This book is unlike the usual treatise on constitutional law, both in
arrangement and manner of treatment.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 639. N. ’08. 230w.
“In a broad sense Professor Stimson gives us a view of the political
or constitutional life of the country—an almost indispensable thing to
the investigator of today.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29, ’08. 640w.
“This grouping of constitutional law around common topics ... is a
comparative study never before worked out so completely. Our debt to
the compiler is accordingly large. There are occasional defects even
in the seriatim analysis of the growth of particular constitutional
usages.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 780w.
“The law student, the journalist, men professionally engaged in
political life, and others who have occasion to acquaint themselves
with the details of American constitutional law will find this book a
valuable aid in their study.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 120w.
“As a book of reference it is indispensable to every student of
American politics.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 110w.
“The politician, lawyer or student of American institutions should
have it as a supplement to Mr. Bryce’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 260w.
* =Stimson, Henry Albert.= New things of God: sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–28071.
“Not truth absolutely new, but old truth freshly put and in new
relations, is the substance of his message, illustrated from his large
acquaintance with literature and life. Dr. Stimson feels and joins in
the movement of modern thought, saying that ‘a new theology is the
demand and the inevitable product of every age,’ but that after all,
and in all change, religion is the same, ‘the response of the soul to
God,’ Christ as ever the pilot of the soul, and one’s attitude toward
him the test of character.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Characterized by several qualities most sermons lack: clearness,
sanity, and practicality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The sermons are thoughtful, practical, and inspiring to the reader.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 150w.
“These discourses are focused on the fundamental truths with a
frequently inspirational effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Stirling, Anna Maria W.= Coke of Norfolk and his friends: the life
of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, etc.,
including many unpublished letters of noted men of his day,
English and American, il. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–13695.
Containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services,
and private friendships, and including many unpublished letters from
noted men of his day. (Explanatory title.)
* * * * *
“This life is so thoroughly well done, so carefully ordered, so
reasonable in its judgments, and so well written, that the reviewers
all complimented their sex by supposing the biographer to be a man,
and the present writer, if he had not been better informed by
accident, would indeed have done the same.” G. S. S.
+ + =Acad.= 73: 207. D. 7, ’07. 2000w.
“Half, or two-thirds, of these fat volumes would have been better than
the whole. But having passed this criticism, we hasten to say that the
book is of distinct social and historical value, confirming, and
sometimes supplementing, such works as the Greville, Creevey, and
Albemarle papers. It is also remarkably entertaining, and should prove
a profitable quarry for the anecdotist.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 681. N. 30. 1300w.
“We thank Mrs. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of
recent years.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 361. N. 29, ’07. 2700w.
“Altogether, the book may well engage the attention of him who wants
to see English life of a century ago; and he will not fail to enjoy
the character here revealed of what we, with a certain touch of
fondness, are wont to style ‘a gentleman of the old school.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 500w.
“Her whole-hearted admiration for her distinguished ancestor has made
it impossible for her to conceive that he was not in every way great,
and so deep is her own interest in him that she imagines everything
connected with him, no matter how remotely, must be of general
interest.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
“Mrs. Stirling has done her work handsomely, and has plainly been
helped by the good will of the Coke family and all its ramifications.
If the biography is unnecessarily long, it contains much new material
that is well worth unrolling from its wrappers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 869. N. 30, ’07. 1400w.
* =Stoddard, William Osborn.= In the open. †60c. Harper.
8–32332.
Wholesome adventure and excitement commend these tales of the exploits
and frolics of a group of breezy, healthy children who hunt, camp,
fish, encounter Indians, fight prairie fires, and roam about for
worlds to conquer.
=Stoker, Bram.= Gates of life. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14957.
Miss Stephen Norman tries the working value of a theory that the
wrecking of many lives can be avoided by a woman’s taking the
initiative in the momentous question of marriage proposals. She offers
herself and her estate to young Everhard, a dissolute man who makes
light of the whole affair. Wounded pride takes its unlawful revenge on
her real lover, but justly metes out punishment to Everhard who
attempted to follow up his advantage from motives of graft.
* * * * *
“Surely Mr. Stoker is still capable of better things.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 150w.
“A blatant melodrama, all the trashier for the grandiloquent
moralizings—in which the word ‘sex’ is unpleasantly frequent—which
punctuate the surprising actions of his characters.”
− =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“There are novelty and variety in Bram Stoker’s novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
=Story, Alfred Thomas.= American shrines in England. *$2. Macmillan.
“A convenient summary of the English antecedents of a number of
well-known Americans. Six chapters are devoted to a careful
presentation of the evidence in regard to the Washington family, the
last link in which was completed by the accidental discovery in the
State department at Washington, in 1902, of the will of Mrs. Martha
Hayward, née Washington. The ancestry and English home of Franklin, of
Standish, of Winthrop and Penn, of Yale and Harvard, of the Lees and
the Adamses, are discussed.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“For those who like this sort of thing the book is unquestionably
valuable, and it is probably just as well to have somebody do it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 60w.
=Stoughton, Bradley.= Metallurgy of iron and steel. $3. Hill pub.
8–5613.
A college text-book as well as a reference work which “fills a
distinct gap in English metallurgical literature, in that it provides
a clear, up-to-date, description of the apparatus, furnaces and
appliances used in the metallurgy of iron and steel.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Best single book on American practice for small libraries. Needed
also by large libraries, because of its closeness to present methods.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is altogether a most complete and valuable work, as it gives the
best methods of production and in addition records in a thorough and
practical manner the most recent advances in the subjects of
metallography, corrosion and the new alloys.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“It is a first-class illustrated description of the present state of
the iron and steel industry, entertainingly written, splendidly
illustrated, a little too detailed to be called superficial, yet not
minute enough to be tiresome to anyone wishing to learn something
about iron and steel. The book contains many minor errors in its
descriptions, such as ascribing views and explanations to the wrong
metallurgist. It also contains some major errors in questions of
theory and calculation.” J. W. Richards.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Stratileseo, Tereza.= From Carpathian to Pindus; pictures of
Roumanian country life. il. *$3.75. Luce, J: W.
7–28495.
“The author of this volume has set herself to put before her readers a
full account of the condition and character of the Roumanian
peasantry, the inhabitants of the lower basin of the Danube, as well
as of their natural surroundings.” (Ath.) “The book is more than a
mere record of historical, ethnological, and sociological facts in
regard to the Roumanian. It is a treasurehouse of folklore, legends,
ballads, and songs often with the music attached.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book will interest students of folk-lore and local customs as
well as those who have visited or propose to visit, this somewhat
neglected corner of Europe. The style, though lively, betrays in
places that the writer is a foreigner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 350. Mr. 23. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 170w.
“She does not claim to be a politician and contents herself with
descriptions of the Roumanian peasantry. These are very well done,
with a light touch and with enthusiasm tempered by humour. She has
made a careful study of folk-lore and tells some amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Stratton, Alfred William.= Letters from India; with a memoir by his
wife, Anna Booth Stratton. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–36147.
A volume which reflects the force of “American scholarship, tact, and
energy in touch with modern India.” (Outlook.) A Canadian, educated in
Canada and the United States, for a time connected with the faculty of
the Chicago university, the author eventually served in the combined
capacities of registrar of Punjab university and principal of the
Oriental college at Lahore, India. His letters are valuable “for what
they tell us of university life in northern India, of the class of
native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 400w.
“They not only give a clear impression of a singularly conservative,
lofty, and unselfish personality; they afford us a clear picture of an
American scholar’s life in India, and also many interesting
side-lights on social, educational, and political conditions in
northwest India.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 600w.
“The letters are always interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Opera: a sketch of the development
of opera with full descriptions of all works in the modern
repertory; with an introd. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 3d ed. rev.
and enl. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35265.
Brought to date by the inclusion of such operas as Puccini’s “Tosca”
and “Madame Butterfly”; Charpentier’s “Louise”; Strauss’s “Salome”:
Saint-Saëns’s “Hélène”; Giordano’s “Fédora” and “Siberia”; Debussy’s
“Pelléas and Mélisande”; and other new operas.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 123. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This very readable and trustworthy book may be commended to all
lovers of music who wish to know something about the great works of
the lyric stage.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The most laudable thing about this volume is the combination of
clearness and conciseness in the telling of operatic plots.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 290w.
“He is as little without bias as may be expected of one who traverses
so broad a field, and his view is clear as his style is entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Not remarkable for skill in character-drawing or probability of plot
and event, but will hold the interest, and compares favorably with
Mrs. Wister’s other translations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 20. Ja. ’08.
“It is done with Mrs. Wister’s trained skill, thorough knowledge of
German, and admirable taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Strindberg, August.= The father (a tragedy); tr. by N. Erichsen.
*$1. Luce, J: W.
8–13718.
The first appearance in English of a drama written by “the most
pessimistic of living pessimists.” “‘The father’ reveals an amazing
combat between mother and father for the control of their daughter’s
destiny, the mother ultimately gaining her point at the expense of her
husband’s reason. When it appears that he is to have the upper hand,
she drops a fatal seed of doubt as to who the child’s father actually
is. Presumably she has always been a faithful wife, but the poison of
suggestion has been implanted in the husband’s mind and he is
eventually driven mad by the thought. As a study of misogyny and
abysmal pessimism ‘The father’ probably has few equals in any
language.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“That it would exercise a powerful effect cannot be doubted, but it is
unpleasant beyond expression. The present translation by N. Erichsen
appears to preserve the general character of the original.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Stringer, Arthur J. A.= The under groove. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13274.
In a series of seven short stories an old offender against the law
tells in the first person his experiences in New York while assuming
the rather novel rôle of detective. With a facility born of long
experience in practical criminality he makes use of the usual methods
of perpetrating crime in order to ferret it out for his own private
ends. The mental processes of the scientific burglar are analyzed so
that the book is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a study of
criminology.
* * * * *
“Lively reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 268. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“In themselves the eight stories, with one or two exceptions, would
make good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“And if the whole thing moves with the lightness and spirit of the
true adventure story, it none the less retains the importance of a
sincere study in psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 190w.
“Would be far better if it had omitted the telepathic and hypnotic
basis on which it is constructed.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Outlines of systematic theology,
designed for the use of theological students. **$2.50. Am. Bapt.
8–30158.
An outline embracing the substance of Dr. Strong’s three-volume
“Systematic theology,” a work which after twenty years has been
revised and enlarged. The abbreviated work is at once a text-book for
recitation, a minister’s hand-book, and a convenient guide for the
busy layman.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Systematic theology: a compendium and
commonplace book, designed for the use of theological students;
new ed. rev. and enl. 3v. ea. $2.50. Am. Bapt.
7–37983.
Dr. Strong with his “open mind, broad sympathy and keen vision” has
kept pace with the progress of the times and now presents his
hand-book modernized. Volume 1 deals with The doctrine of God, volume
2, with The doctrine of man, and volume 3, The doctrine of salvation.
=v. 2.= Doctrine of man. Deals with anthropology or the doctrine of
man. The origin, the nature and the fall of man are treated and the
consequences of the fall—physical and spiritual death.
* * * * *
“It is the more to be regretted that the insight so clearly expressed
in the passages cited should not have been allowed to determine the
treatment in other parts of the volume.” W: A. Brown.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 150. Ja. ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume like the first, contains an amazing wealth of quotation
drawn from wide circles of thought; sometimes the passages are more
cogent and convincing than his refutation of them.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 502. Jl. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Stroup, Ner Wallace.= Fact of sin viewed historically and
doctrinally. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–29856.
A discussion of the vital relation of the fact of sin to the divine
plan of salvation.
=Stuart, Eleanor.= The postscript. †$1. McClure.
8–14333.
A slight story set in Italy in which an American girl, the widow of a
count; a scheming Italian, bent upon besmirching the good name of the
dead count; and a wronged woman are the principal characters. When all
misunderstanding is cleared away the postscript which the wife adds to
her former joy and trust in her husband is “I know in whom I have
believed.”
* * * * *
“A tale of rather delicate workmanship, in which the characters are
drawn with more than ordinary skill and charm and the plot is rather
painful and melodramatic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The heroine is a rather commonplace little person, and one feels that
the writer somewhat exaggerates the importance of her experience.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
“Talent and care have evidently been expended on this novelette.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Stuart, Gerald Villiers.= Soul of Croesus. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–17792.
The fantastic story of a modern Croesus, whose father had bequeathed
him an enormous fortune with the injunction to spend all. Warring
against the merciless debauchery is the better personality, which
thinks, philosophizes and exerts a strength that grows impotent when
the whole army of lower personality imps come trooping back. The story
from a subjective standpoint stimulates the reader’s thought and
interest.
* * * * *
“There is a lot of trimming to the story that is extremely
entertaining, and it is that which makes Mr. Villiers-Stuart’s book
worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 720w.
=Stuart, Henry Longan.= Weeping cross: an unworldy story. **$1.40.
Doubleday.
8–23103.
The adventures in New England, about the middle of the 17th century,
of an Irish bond servant “who had been first a Jesuit pupil, then a
royalist soldier. He is sent to the hard mercies of the Pilgrims by
Cromwell, indentured to a noble-minded master, but has the misfortune
of being loved by that master’s daughter. The conflict between
religion and passion that follows is analyzed with extreme keenness,
but is hardly edifying in its bold realism, and is agonizing in its
relation of mental and physical suffering.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is the matter rather than the manner we confess to finding
distasteful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 170w.
“The book is eminently worth reading.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 142. O. ’08. 770w.
“It makes a vivid and robust tale, but its effectiveness is dulled by
interminable passages of description and introspective analysis.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 550w.
“A book which, for the present day and hour at least, must be set down
as a novel of some importance. He has given fearlessly and honestly,
without fear of offense, a record of sinful love that nevertheless
does not lose its dignity nor its claim upon our sympathy and our
esteem.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 40: 224. S. ’08. 1100w.
“Is not the ambitious success its author has aimed at, but it is a
serious piece of work, creditably carried thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
“With more restraint of manner and maturity of thought, Mr. Stuart’s
vivid fancy gives promise of work of real value.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The story, although full of misery and tragedy, deserves
commendation. Its literary merit is of a high order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 200w.
“There is much that will offend the taste in the ultra-realism of the
narrative. This is all the greater pity because the author has an
imagination of unusual power, a style vivid and forceful, and an
honest intention to present the tragic struggle between a man’s better
nature and cruel temptation.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
“It is a fine tragedy, clothed in real eloquence and dignity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 260w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William.= Germany in the early middle ages,
476–1250; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2. Longmans.
8–19595.
“Contrary to one’s natural expectations, the volume is narrative
rather than constitutional, but there are to be found in its pages
several of those remarkable characterizations of medieval personages
in which Stubbs was an undoubted adept. The chapters are so arranged
as to form a tolerably complete account of Germany from the great
migrations to the death of Frederick II in 1250, and the style, less
severe and impersonal than the stately diction of the constitutional
history, will make the book more acceptable to the general
reader.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book offers little or nothing to the specialist, is not adapted
to use in the class room, and will hardly hold the attention of the
general reader, but it may be recommended as collateral reading to
college classes in medieval history.” O. J. Thatcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 167. O. ’08. 600w.
“Tho the lectures throughout impress one with the soundness and
breadth of the learned historian’s studies, there is a certain
ancientry in their doctrines and temper.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Nor can we feel that this volume goes far toward supplying any lack
that really exists.”
− =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 660w.
“It is difficult to see what purpose is served by the publication of
this volume. We regret that we must add that the editor has not made
it easier to approve of the publication by the way in which he has
performed his share.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 661. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= Lands of summer: sketches in Italy,
Sicily, and Greece. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13684.
Seven sketches which the author’s travel in the Mediterranean
countries has inspired. They are spring-time with Theocritus, From
Athens to Corfu, Midsummer in Tuscany, Bergamo and the Bergamasque
Alps, The centenary of Alfieri at Asti, The wraith of a ducal city and
Life on a Tuscan farm.
* * * * *
“It is slight and superficial, but is at least as good to read as, and
much less pretentious than, the majority of ‘travel books’ written on
these well-known lands.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 180w.
“An unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 470w.
“The classical student may read him at home, with pleasure and some
profit; the tourist will find him of some service on the spot.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The work lacks distinction. As a whole it is scarcely less monochrome
(but more attractive) than its sickly blue cover.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
“It is neither bad enough to infuriate nor important enough to
arrest.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 4: 746. S. ’08. 270w.
* =Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.= Origin and character of the Bible and its
place among sacred books; new ed. rev. and enl. *$1.20. Am. Unitar.
8–33168.
Embodies the results of the latest investigations along the lines of
origin, authorship, growth, real character, transitory elements and
permanent value of the Bible. It contains illustrative tables, lists
of best books for reading and study, and several entirely new
chapters.
* =Surette, Thomas Whitney, and Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Appreciation of
music. **$1.50. Baker.
A volume which “presents ‘in clear and untechnical language an account
of the evolution of musical art from the primitive folk-song up to the
symphony of Beethoven,’ illustrating the stages of this development by
musical examples, and providing detailed analyses of many typical
compositions. The volume has several portrait illustrations.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A useful book for students, for music clubs and for the individual
reader who has a fair knowledge of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Teachers will no doubt find not a few useful hints in it, and the
general reader also would do well not to ignore it. There are
excellent things, notably in the chapters on Bach and Beethoven. The
best thing in the book is the chapter on Beethoven’s humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 548. D. 12, ’07. 840w.
* =Swett, Sophia Miriam.= Princess Wisla. †$1.50. Little.
8–30702.
The story of a child that was rescued from drowning by an Indian
woman, dyed with pokeberry ink to resemble an Indian child, and made
into an Indian princess.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
=Swift, Edgar James.= Mind in the making: a study in mental
development. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–12179.
“As a sound-hearted and clear-minded social reformer, taking a common
sense view of social problems,” (N. Y. Times.) the author makes a plea
for a broader interpretation to education. “Mental plasticity,
capacity for understanding and controlling new situations and for
making them” should be the outcome of education. See Cumulative book
index for contents.
* * * * *
“As a whole the volume embodies a systematic knowledge of children and
sane ideas of their needs. The book is bound to have a wide and a
wholesome influence, and largely because of this the reviewer wishes
to call attention to what seems to be an unwise emphasis in the
chapter entitled, ‘Criminal tendencies in boys.’” K. E. Dopp.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 261. S. ’08. 570w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book’s chief defect is an evident lack of wide acquaintance on
the part of the author with sociological and anthropological
literature. This gives rise to many omissions and several slips.” C:
A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 640. N. ’08. 420w.
“One by one, the more concrete and the more comprehensive questions of
the applying psychologist are reviewed in this collection of essays;
and each brings a tangible addition to the insight that can assimilate
data while it yet directs their accumulation and dominates their
interpretation.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 40. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Some of his psychological studies are particularly shrewd and
practical, and the book as a whole deserves attention.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“We can scarcely conceive that any teacher or thoughtful parent would
not be interested in nearly all the essays, and no one engaged in
educational or social improvement can rise from its reading without
both stimulation and encouragement.” J. H. T.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 162. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 180w.
“A more significant book or a more attractive one has not lately been
published because it presents facts clearly and accurately, its
deductions are reasonable, its logic denotes a broad, well-cultured
mind, its historical perspective is suitable, its style is good. He
may go too far in some of his deductions, but the influence of his
book ought to be beneficial beyond the field of pedagogy.” E: A.
Dithmar.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w.
“As a plea for the personal element in education, and for the
extension of the experimental method ‘in the interest of a soundly
constructive pedagogy,’ this is an eminently luminous and influential
work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Is of real value to both investigators in educational psychology and
students of college grade. Concerning some of the conclusions which
Professor Swift does definitely accept, ... it must be noted that
other intelligent investigators possessed of the same facts as the
author would still not proceed to his conclusions.” E: L. Thorndike.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 212. Ag. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Swift, Ivan.= Fagots of cedar. $2. Ivan Swift, Harbor Springs,
Mich.
8–240.
A collection of verses of the Michigan woods and lumber camps.
* * * * *
“Mr. Swift’s poems have much of the strong, virile, thought-suggesting
quality of Whitman’s work.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 495. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“At its best Mr. Swift’s verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of
meaning, suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 138. My. ’08. 100w.
“The breath of the woods is in them and the perfume of the
cedar, though there is nothing to suggest that they have come
out of an ancient chest. On the contrary, they are what would be
called up-to-date poems. While there is at times a touch of
self-consciousness, there is throughout the evidence of genuine
feeling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Age of Shakespeare. **$2. Harper.
8–27774.
Nine critical papers which deal with Shakespeare and the writers of
his age. Marlowe, Webster, Dekker, Marston, Middleton, Rowley,
Heywood, Chapman and Tourneur are in turn compared with Shakespeare;
and the latter’s indebtedness to each is pointed out.
* * * * *
“Even those who have long been familiar with the greater number of
these essays will read them with the certainty of lighting on matter
well worth study, and will find fresh interest in tracing the few
changes time has brought about in his judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 674. N. 28. 1000w.
“The book is a good book, a serious and illuminating piece of
criticism.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 1800w.
“Full of wonderful little flashes of delicate perception, epigrammatic
summings-up that refuse to be forgotten, and then, at the turn of a
page, a blast of turbulent adulation, a whirlwind of redundant
hyperbole, full of sound and fury. Nevertheless, such as it is, it is
a book indispensable to any one who is making a study of Mr. Swinburne
the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 405. O. ’08. 1950w.
“As a critical work, it cannot be taken seriously.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 854. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“As a whole the book must impress any sane reader as the cry of an
enraged and baffled romanticism, of a romanticism that, like some wild
beast at bay, snaps and snarls at common-sense.”
− =Nation.= 87: 445. N. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“Swinburne guides us to a study and comprehension of a form of
literary art now extinct, and helps us to comprehend its beauty.” E:
A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 633. O. 31, ’08. 2000w.
“The essay on Dekker is perhaps the most delightful in the volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 422. O. 3, 08. 1550w.
“The defects of his book would certainly have been avoided by an
unsparing use of the comparative method. These essays are excellent
from many points of view; but their crowning excellence is the force
which is in them that compels whoever opens them to go back once more
for light and refreshment to the works of the great Elizabethans.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 502. O. 3, ’08. 1600w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Duke of Gandia. **$1.25. Harper.
8–11735.
Rome in the latter part of the 15th century is the scene of this
Borgia story told in poetry. It is a domestic drama, which depicts a
tragedy in the life of Pope Alexander VI. The jealousy of the younger
son which causes him to kill his elder brother, and the father’s
ultimate reconciliation with the wrong-doer form the main basis of the
plot. The characters of mother and daughter add lightness and human
interest to the story.
* * * * *
“Here in this briefest and most actual of his plays—an act, an
episode—he has concentrated much of this floating beauty, this
overflowing imagination, into a few stern and adequate words, and made
a new thing, as always, in his own image.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 469. Ap. 18. 1200w.
“Marvellous work, which no other poet now living could dream of
equalling.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 60. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
“Has one virtue that strikes the eyes. It is brief. Mr. Swinburne’s
excessive use of Catholic symbol and phrase in the mouths of these
inhuman creatures of blood and lust will be wantonly offensive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
“The book cannot hurt a poet of great renown, but the contemplation of
its hideous subject cannot help anybody. It is a mistake.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Swinburne’s hand has not entirely lost its power.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“‘The Duke of Gandia,’ which is perfect of its kind, proves once more
the surety of an artistic instinct which can not only choose, but
reject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 532. Ap. 25, ’08. 1600w.
“It is stamped with all his old mastery of craft.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 20. Jl. 4, ’08. 430w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities of Italy. **$2. Dutton.
7–38637.
In studying Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Pisa, Sienna,
Verona, Bologna, Bergamo and Brescia, Mr. Symons’s “intention has been
that they should tell him their story, that they should ‘give up their
own secrets,’ rather than that he should judge them according to his
own eyes, ears and artistic prejudices.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
“This is a beautiful and quiet book, full of delicate observation and
fine criticism expressed in the sensitive prose we expect from Mr.
Symons.... He has cared for [Italy] as it were by the way, as he might
do for any work of art with which he found himself in sympathy—not
more, but assuredly not less.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 185. F. 15. 1000w.
“It is a volume well worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers;
it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those who have basked
long enough in Italy’s smile and learned enough of her nature to
compare impressions and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent
controversies that add so much flavor to literature of this type.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book, as are most of the writings of this English poet and
critic, is decidedly worth reading.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“The amateur, or, if you will, the dilettante spirit, pervades Mr.
Symons.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 450w.
“The secrets he surprises are always the artist’s secrets—never
humanity’s. They are grown in the garden of culture, not in the
wilderness of life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book of sensitive English prose, full of unexpected rhythms
and words which rather evoke than describe the places of which they
speak. The best chapters of the book are devoted to that tragic
wilderness [the Campagna].”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
“If, as he desires, the personal note were absent, the book would be
really delightful reading, and its presence is only occasionally
irritating. Mr. Symons sees vividly and describes brilliantly. If his
cities have not given him their inmost soul, their outward aspect is
entirely his.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Symbolist movement in literature. *$2. Dutton.
A new and revised edition of a work appearing eleven years ago. “The
book presents studies, both biographical and critical, of the writers,
chiefly French, whom Mr. Symons regards as the leaders of the
Symbolist movement, and the value of the book lies chiefly in the
facts and impressions which it gives of this little group of writers,
the best known of whom by American readers are Verlaine, Mallarmé, and
Huysmans. There is a chapter on ‘Maeterlinck as a mystic.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A body of delicate criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 637. My. 23. 60w.
“One may quarrel with this frankly partisan historian at whatever turn
one will; but his book remains exceptionally attractive and
enlightening. We have before us not a searching philosophical
treatise, but a delightful bit of literary history and æsthetic
appreciation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 374. Je. 16, ’08. 3200w.
“It is the most sympathetic study and the most illuminating
interpretation that has yet appeared in English of that curiously
interesting group of French writers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 330. Ap. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Students of literature have much to be grateful to Mr. Symons for,
and this little collection of essays increases measurably their debt
to him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
“Whatever one may think of its doctrine, its charm of style and the
interest of its contents will certainly recommend it. His little
studies are relevant and illuminating. We think he is wrong, however,
when in his conclusions he attempts to fuse his pessimism and
mysticism.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 454. S. ’08. 400w.
“The book is valuable as an impressionistic study of one of the minor
currents of the literary movements of the last generation.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
T
=T., L. G.= Three years behind the guns: the true chronicles of a
“diddybox.” †$1.50. Century.
8–25121.
The chronicle of a San Francisco youth who ran away from home,
enlisted in the navy in time to cross the Pacific on the Olympia and
take part in the battle of Manila bay on the flagship with Dewey. Keen
observation and quick wit characterize the intimate record of
happenings on an American battleship, and the descriptions of people,
climate and scenery.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The book affords an entertaining and occasionally edifying,
confidential account of all that one particular man-o’-war’s man
thought and felt and did during three years’ service.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Taft, William Howard.= Present day problems: a collection of
addresses delivered on various occasions. **$1.50. Dodd.
8–19618.
Two of these addresses deal with the Philippines, two with the
relations of China and Japan to the United States, two with the
present administration, two with the judiciary, and others with
General Grant, the army, the panic of 1907, labor and capital, the
achievements of the Republican party, and southern democracy and
Republican principles.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 110w.
“Matters of public policy and public interest are discussed in Mr.
Taft’s informed and persuasive style, and whether one is for or ‘agin’
the administration and its policies, the collection provides valuable
and instructive reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“Characterized by the traits which have made Mr. Taft the power that
he is in America to-day—a warm and intelligent sympathy with his
fellow-men; ... a judicial spirit; ... a higher regard for substance
than form; ... a delight in achievement; and an almost ingenuous trust
in the intelligence and good sense of the people, whether they be
those whose government he is helping to administer or those whose
attention, as an audience, he is undertaking to engage.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 776. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Takahashi, Sakuyei.= International law applied to the
Russo-Japanese war, with the decisions of the Japanese prize
courts. (American ed.) *$8. Banks.
8–17983.
“The most recent addition to the extensive literature on the
international questions and legal relations raised by the
Russo-Japanese war.” (Nation.) “The book is not a defense of Japan in
any sense, although Japan’s conduct was bitterly criticised by her
adversary. Instead of an apologia the book is a legal history of the
memorable conflict, which has supplied a new set of precedents. Its
usefulness is enhanced by its liberal citation of the original
correspondence upon many disputed points.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Careless statements, English far from idiomatic and bearing
unmistakable marks of its foreign authorship, misprints in quotations
from foreign languages, and a general tone of extolling Japanese
observances in contrast to Russian breaches of international law mar
the value of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“It is hard to recall any war of which the legal phases have been
treated with similar fulness, and in a similar manner; that is, with
equal citation of original documents. It is this which gives the book
its value, apart from its logical and convenient arrangement.” E: A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 1500w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Chaucer story book. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–28994.
Twelve stories in the “Canterbury tales” retold in the prose of
to-day. The stories chosen are those that require fewest omissions in
adapting them to modern taste.
* * * * *
“We cannot say that she has successfully retained the ancient flavor,
and unless that is done, the task were hardly worth while doing at
all.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“The transcription is fairly and faithfully done.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
“Told in a readable fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= ed. Children’s hour, 10v. $17.50. Houghton.
7–31214–23.
A ten volume anthology of the best children’s literature in story,
poem and narrative.
* * * * *
“It cannot be recommended for the library with limited funds. It will
make, however, a valuable addition to any library that can afford it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 93. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1476. D. 19, ’07. 280w.
“Have much of interest in them. For the village library and for the
home there is offered a rich choice and variety for ‘the children’s
hour.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 625. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w.
“The selections suit all ages of children, and the work as a whole
forms an almost ideal story-book-present for the holidays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Letters from colonial children. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–23916.
This collection of chatty letters, with the intimate personal note,
introduces grown-ups and children of our early colonial days—the days
of privation and valorous deeds, the days of John Smith and
Pocahontas, of Roger Williams, William Penn and Peter Stuyvesant.
* * * * *
“These letters reflect admirably the child’s point of view on
conditions and life in colonial times, and are both good history and
delightful literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“She has kept the letters historical on the one hand, yet has not
deprived them of their youthful tone on the other.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“The letters form an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 30w.
=Tardieu, André.= France and the alliances: the struggle for the
balance of power. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–31144.
In substance eight lectures given under the auspices of the French
circle at Harvard. Mr. Tardieu’s aim is to show Americans the France
of to-day, in presence of Europe and the world, such as she has been
shaped, after painful experiences, by thirty-eight years of sustained
effort and diplomatic action. His chapters are as follows: France and
the Russian alliance; France and the English “entente”; France and the
Mediterranean understandings; France and the Triple alliance; Conflict
of the alliances; The new Asiatic and European understandings; and
France and the United States.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 200w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= Guest of Quesnay. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27810.
Thru an automobile accident in the streets of Paris a young American
loses the memory of his life that had gone before—a life which was
rapidly winning him one of the most unsavory reputations on the
continent. He becomes the charge of a scientific celebrity who
undertakes a unique psychological experiment of restoration. The
professor’s ends are all but defeated by the pursuit and vulture like
claims of a Spanish dancer to whom his ward had formerly been prey. By
rare strategy the dancer and her spies are baffled, and the “real man”
comes to his own and to the love of a strong and charming woman—the
guest of Quesnay.
* * * * *
“Not wholly convincing, but has much of the charm of Tarkington’s
earlier stories and some delightful minor characters.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“But if Mr. Tarkington never gets beneath the surface of his subject,
he at least displays all the merits of the method he seems
deliberately to have chosen. It is a charming surface that he
presents.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 278. N. ’08. 940w.
“We discover in his new novel—metaphysics, subjected to the alchemy of
a genius’s imagination, freshened with the immortality of hope,
sweetened with the phenomena of love.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1061. N. 5, ’08. 760w.
“A bright and interesting story for all the metaphysics we found in
it.” W: G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made a hit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is not quite convincing in its theme. But the book has movement and
some fun in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
“If Mr. Booth Tarkington had only kept his story out of ‘The guest of
Quesnay,’ he might have given us a delightful book.” Agnes Repplier.
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 700. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
* =Tarkington, Booth, and Wilson, Harry Leon.= Man from home. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–32634.
The play in which William Hodge has scored such a genial success. It
turns upon an international marriage, in the preliminary settlement
for which the Kokomo, Indiana guardian of the American girl marrying a
title, crosses the ocean and takes a hand in revealing to the
hoodwinked girl the precise character of a group of sharks bent upon
benefiting by the settlement. A good plot, shrewd interpretation of
human nature, and irresistible humor give merit to the play.
* =Taylor, David Clark.= Psychology of singing: a rational method of
voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and
modern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–34628.
After examining the numerous scientific treatises on voice culture and
testing their practical value, Mr. Taylor’s conclusion of the whole
matter is that mechanical vocal management is all wrong and that
instruction by imitation is the one scientifically sound method for
teachers to follow. The divisions of his discussion are as follows:
Modern methods of instruction in singing; A critical analysis of
modern methods; Basis of a real science of voice; and Vocal science
and practical voice culture.
=Taylor, Hannis.= Science of jurisprudence. **$3.50. Macmillan.
8–28859.
“A treatise in which the growth of positive law is unfolded by the
historical method and its elements classified and defined by the
analytical.” “It is a systematic, comparative study of Roman and
English law, revealing the fact that the ultimate outcome of the one
is a dominating code of private law, the ultimate outcome of the
other, a dominating code of public law.” Out of the fusion, the author
shows, is arising the typical state law system of the future.
* * * * *
“He does, indeed, make a useful contribution to the comparative study
of law. Dr. Taylor’s work in this respect is qualified to stand beside
the best, and the good faith of his title is redeemed. But it is hard
to resist the suspicion that his prime motive was to assert his belief
that an American had influenced the development of the public law of
the world fundamentally, in a manner, indeed, worthy to place the
United States beside Greece or England as a molder of destinies of
mankind.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 649. N. 7, ’08. 1400w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 90w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Lady Jane Grey and her times. *$4. Appleton.
8–34205.
Sound historically this biography outlines the brief life of Lady Jane
Grey, the “little saint of the iconoclasts,” against the background of
sordid ambitions, religious quarrels and political intrigue. There are
also sketches of Mary and Elizabeth, of Edward, Katharine Parr, Dudley
and Somerset, and the parts they played in the brief drama of Lady
Jane’s latter days.
* * * * *
“She has gone carefully over the ground for herself, made a judicious
use of authorities new and old, and embodied the results in a clear
and readable narrative. The book may be recommended as a sound piece
of work, likely to be of use to those who are mainly interested in the
personal history of the period.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 409. Ap. 4. 1600w.
“‘The times’ bear, necessarily, a disproportionate relation to the
heroine. It is the fault of all these popular biographies to avoid
anything that is not superficially interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“We have enjoyed the book, and would only venture to recommend to the
author a little more fearless certainty of touch and confidence in her
own intuitions. The spirit and the colour of the time break out too
seldom. When they are allowed to have their way, the effect is
convincing.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 623. Ap. 18, ’08. 540w.
=Taylor, John Metcalf.= Witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut.
(Grafton historical ser.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
8–17703.
The author shows from sources long hidden that Connecticut in no way
repudiated witchcraft practices but took an active part in the
persecution of its alleged demon-governed victims. In what manner the
delusion took root in the minds of the colonists, its growth and final
passing are set forth with due attention to an authentic colonial
setting.
* * * * *
“His book shows marks of haste, especially in the somewhat chaotic and
inaccurate opening chapters, and one may be permitted to suspect some
errors in his transcripts and even a possible incompleteness in his
roll of witches, but, such as it is, the little volume is most
welcome.” G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 179. O. ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Taylor has done a service to psychology as well as to history in
searching out and publishing the original documents in the most
important of the Connecticut witchcraft cases.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 208. Jl. 23, ’08. 700w.
“Despite his apology for the first four chapters they show that the
history of witchcraft is beyond the scope of his powers and the
bibliographical note at the end displays little familiarity with the
literature of his subject.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 500w.
“In an authoritative and concise manner, yet with all the charm of a
narrative, the author sets forth ... the story of the rise, spread,
and passage of the delusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 512. O. ’08. 80w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Reaping. il. †$1.50. Little.
8–1781.
A cross section of Washington’s social and political life. No special
lens is turned upon the slide; one sees with the naked eye a woman’s
misery resulting from an unhappy marriage and the devotion of a young
congressman, formerly her lover, who sacrifices political advancement
and the girl he loves to aid the sufferer to obtain her lost
happiness.
* * * * *
“It is not a pleasant story ... and it is not particularly convincing
in its treatment of social problems; but it is undeniably readable,
and the dialogue is excellent.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 407. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The general atmosphere of the social life of the capital is
interestingly and almost brilliantly reproduced.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Where credit for freshness is due is in the characterization.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Temple, Alfred George.= Modern Spanish painting. *$20. Lippincott.
8–13286.
“Pictures by modern Spanish painters being in great demand, it may be
concluded that Mr. Temple’s volume supplies a want. He offers a
copious list of the chief members of the school, the titles of their
principal works, and in some instances the owners of those
works—information which is not obtainable in any other work on the
subject, and which must have cost a good deal of trouble and
research.” (Ath.) There are 60 photogravure reproductions of the
recent Spanish paintings of note.
* * * * *
“We might allow for a certain degree of complaisance in an author
indebted for some of his store of information to the courtesy of
artists and owners, but either gratitude distorts beyond measure the
expression of his true opinion, or he takes a too lenient view of what
are only masterpieces of shallow frippery.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 570w.
“Mr. Temple’s book supplies the entertaining record that we needed for
English readers.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 57. D. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
“A very beautiful book and one of unique value to all who are
interested in contemporary European art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 782. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–13746.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Lady Tennant has exploded the frowning fortress of art criticism, and
shown us the real way to see pictures—to become as little children.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 213. D. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“One of the happiest books for children that we have seen.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 334. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
“A very pretty and readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Tenney, Alvan Alonzo.= Social democracy and population. (Columbia
univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *75c.
Macmillan.
7–36152.
“An attempt to answer the question whether it is possible for modern
society to realize the democratic ideal—that every man shall have a
chance and know that he has it. The author assumes that this ideal,
which he terms ‘social democracy,’ can exist only where the plane of
living is relatively high; and he investigates, from the
‘sociological’ standpoint, the effect of the growth of population upon
the ‘plane of living.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The sample given indicates the originality, foresightedness, and
statesmanlike breadth of an essay that no scholar or public man can
afford to overlook.” E: A. Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 571. Ja. ’08. 870w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 511. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“An able summary of the biological principles of population in their
relation to modern democratic civilization.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 154. Je. ’08. 330w.
“With its combination of things obvious and things past finding out
the monograph well illustrates certain tendencies in sociological
writings of the day.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Terhune, Albert Payson.= World’s great events. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–24298.
From “Marathon, the first struggle between democracy and despotism,”
“the half hundred chapters come on down through the ages, choosing
here a decisive event, there a political movement, or again the life
of a great man, but always aiming to present the crucial time or
happening, and end with “Chinese” Gordon and Egypt.’ Each narrative is
very brief, rarely exceeding five or six pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Each narrative ... is written in crisp, concise style, with the aim
of giving the reader the gist of events and presenting to him an
attractive birds-eye view of the progress of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
“They give the essential facts of each event in their proper
historical setting, and they do this in a way calculated to interest
the casual reader. The book makes excellent supplementary reading for
high-school classes in history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 100w.
* =Terry, Ellen Alice.= Story of my life: recollections and reflections.
**$3.50. McClure.
A frank autobiography, entirely tuned to the personal note, which in
its history, stage gossip, and stage criticism merges into the life of
the stage in England for the past fifty years. Actors, artists and men
of letters cross and recross the stage of her book, where all are seen
in the light of her emotional fervor. The illustrations cover the
entire period of her stage life and show the actress in her great
variety of characterizations.
* * * * *
“Candid often to the point of indiscretion, they have the piquancy of
good conversation—of a woman’s conversation, apt in its very
inconsequence, intimate in its reserves, strangely shrewd even in its
too expansive moments.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 411. O. 3. 1700w.
“The pages of her book are rich not only in anecdotes of the stage,
but they deal to a large extent as well with the personages who have
taken a leading part in the last half-century of England’s art,
literature, and politics.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is an agreeable but disappointing volume: agreeable because
characteristic in its butterfly style of one of the brightest
personalities known to the modern stage; and disappointing because,
abounding as it does in evidences of quick and shrewd observation, it
is so comparatively poor in those revelations of close personal
intimacies in which the memory of Miss Terry must be so rich. The
whole book would be the better for judicious editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 1100w.
“It makes an interesting book, and in some way a remarkable one, for a
large part of it is truly autobiographical, ingenuously
self-revelatory. The book is so well written that it holds the
reader’s attention for 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 753. D. 5, ’08. 2300w.
“Her writing is for the most part frankly the writing of an amateur.
But when an amateur happens, like Miss Terry, to be a born writer, the
result is always charming, and one may well be thankful for the lack
of professionalism.” Max Beerbohm.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 449. O. 10, ’08. 1400w.
“Here we have some criticism of actors by an actress, and a great
actress. That alone will give this book a permanent worth which
belongs to very few works of its kind. The criticisms of Irving are,
to our mind, the most interesting and instructive part.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 447. S. 26, ’08. 1900w.
=Terry, Hubert L.= India-rubber and its manufacture; with chapters
on guttapercha and balata. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–26204.
Not a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer but
rather a book of information for the general reader. It gives the
history of the rubber industry, treats of the production of raw
rubber, and rubber plantations, outlines the steps taken in preparing
it for commercial purposes, treats of the manufacture of various
mechanical goods, and discusses the subject of contracts for
india-rubber goods.
* * * * *
“Accurate yet popular. Not too technical for general use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08.
“Mr. Terry writes on these subjects with the authority of personal
knowledge, though perhaps without the lightness of touch desirable in
a work of this character.” C. Simmons.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 296. Ja. 30, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 270w.
“Though dealing with a distinctly technical field, the author has
succeeded in making a very readable book, and this is due not a little
to his pleasing style, occasional prolixity to the contrary
notwithstanding. One experiences a slight feeling of disappointment in
reading the first two chapters, those dealing with the history of the
matter and with the botanical origin of crude rubber. It would have
been justifiable to have dealt with these topics with greater
liberality.” F. E. Loyd.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 890. D. 18, ’08. 730w.
=Terry, Milton Spenser.= Biblical dogmatics: an exposition of the
principal doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. *$3.50. Meth. bk.
7–16991.
“An attempt, as the author says, to present ‘the old abiding truths’
in a manner somewhat new. In fact, he is careful not to exploit any
‘strange doctrines.’ His method of exposition is based on the
persuasion that the Bible is ‘a remarkably self-interpreting book,’
when its different portions are studied in their proper historical
connections and in the light of contemporary literature and
circumstances, so that a single system of theology may be constructed
out of it. The difference in view-point of the biblical writers is not
overlooked, but they are regarded as mutually complementary, never as
opposed.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The whole work exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the language of
the Scriptures and a reverent submission to their teachings, without
any of the bitterness toward opponent, which, unfortunately, so often
appears in works similarly conceived. On the contrary, there is a
frank acknowledgment of the value of critical studies. None the less
it seems to the reviewer that the harmonistic purpose interferes at
times with freedom of interpretation and a full recognition of
differences in the writers, while at times they appear to be made to
say more or less than they really do.” G: Cross.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 160. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Its tone and spirit are admirable—non-controversial, open-minded,
alive with warm religious feeling. Dogmatizing is avoided, and some
deep questions are left open with candid and cautious reserve.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
=Thayer, James Bradley.= Legal essays. *$3.50. Boston bk.
A collection of papers on a variety of subjects connected with legal
theory and practice. “There are a few of a distinctly general
interest, notably an essay on the origin and scope of the American
doctrine of constitutional law, a second on legal tender, a third on
Sir Frederick Pollock’s suggestion that the English House of Lords and
Privy council and the United States supreme court might reciprocally
consult for the settlement of difficult questions of common concern, a
fourth on the legal stateus of the Indian, and a fifth on ‘Our new
possessions.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Like all posthumous collections, these essays lack the freshness
given by the final touch of the author’s hand. The best of the
contributions of the book are the critical chapters on authorities and
decisions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 100w.
“While [the layman] cannot judge the learning of the author, he may at
least admire his lucidity, and will come to the conclusion that Prof.
Thayer is entitled to rank with such philosophical and literary
expositors of the principles of the law as Sir Frederick Pollock,
Prof. Maitland, and Prof. Dicey, a class of which the American
representatives are rather surprisingly few.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“All of the essays, and particularly those dealing with constitutional
topics, bear abundant testimony to the enthusiasm, insight and
thoroughness with which Professor Thayer attacked the many problems
that came before him as a student and exponent of law.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Italica: studies in Italian life and
letters. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13685.
With the freshness, vividness and bias which the land inspires, these
papers catch and hold passing aspects of Italian life and thought. The
following essays are included: Fogazzaro and his masterpiece, Venetian
legends and pageants, Mazzini’s centenary, Dante in America, Giordano
Bruno’s “Expulsion of the beast triumphant,” Countess Martinengo
Cesaresco, Leopardi’s home, Election of a pope, Thirty years of
Italian progress, Luigi Chiala, Dante as lyric poet, Cardinal
Hohenlohe—liberal, Italy in 1907, and Giosuè Carducci.
* * * * *
“Recommended because of the comparative scarcity of material in book
form on recent Italian literature and history. In the literary essays
there are some surprising lapses.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“Altogether this is not a very serious contribution to the growing
number of books on Italian subjects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 437. O. 10. 250w.
“The reflections and verdicts recorded in the volume are such as we
should expect from a student and critic of Mr. Thayer’s standing.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thayer has earned a right to claim our attention on matters
literary and historical relating to modern Italy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 450w.
“He writes with a zest often verging on passion, and at times,
perhaps, allows his feelings to permeate his facts, tingeing them with
strong colors of his own. Being interested himself, he interests the
reader, but his method will not gratify those historians who demand
documentary evidence at every step.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 540w.
“Mr. Thayer has a pleasing style, his knowledge is broad, his
scholarship unquestioned, and his critical acumen satisfying to
foreigners.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“No chapter of ‘Italica’ is uninteresting or unsuggestive, but the
most impressive seem those in which the critic makes all Dante
students his debtors.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 271. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
“Quite apart, however, from these fulminations of a fervent believer
in the Italy of progress and taxation to the starving-point, there is
much of great interest in the book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 747. S. ’08. 560w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Thibaudeau, Antoine Claire.= Bonaparte and the consulate; tr. and
ed. by G. K. Fortescue. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–23294.
“The present memoir covers the four years of the Consulate from 1799
to 1804, when Napoleon became emperor. Their special character
consists in their reporting the conversations and discourses of
Napoleon on important questions in the Council of state or in private
conversation and of conversations with Josephine on political events.
They are not speeches but talk as in a committee round a table.”—Sat.
R.
* * * * *
“This volume will give the general reader a good insight into the
administrative genius of Bonaparte, but the student will consult the
original edition.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 320w.
“Dr. Fortescue’s introduction here and there invites criticism.
Perhaps it is a desire for brevity which is accountable for
exaggerations at some points and omissions at others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 430w.
“The [memoirs] certainly rank with the memoirs of Miot or Mollien. and
the ‘Recollections’ of Chaptal. The volume has an unnecessary number
of misprints or slight errors.” H: E: Bourne.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“It is a pity that the printing of [the notes] was not seen to with
more care, as there are some annoying but not serious slips. The book
is to be warmly welcomed.” L. G. W. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 832. O. ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Fortescue has done his work with the utmost care. All has been
done that could be done to make the book useful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 560w.
“No one could have provided a more authoritative edition of the
valuable Thibaudeau memoirs. The translation is splendidly done, and
the introduction and notes provide admirable matter to supplement the
text as it appears in the original work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 88. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1350w.
=Thomalen, Adolf.= Text-book of electrical engineering; translated
from the German by George W. O. Howe. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–15869.
Covers “the whole range of electromagnetic phenomena usually taught to
students of electrical engineering in high-grade colleges. Starting
with the elementary principles of electrophysics and electrochemistry,
and stating Ohm’s law in its simplest terms, the author leads the
student into the involved electromagnetic relations in dynamos by way
of the most easily traveled routes.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“[An] excellent treatise ... that will be welcomed alike by the
student and the instructor in electrical engineering.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 310. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 299. Mr. 12, ’08. 950w.
“The treatment of the polyphase induction motor is unnecessarily
complicated, but that of the single-phase motor is better. It is not a
‘popular’ book, but a substantial, scholarly work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The translator has done his work with marked success; it is
sufficient to say that the book does not read like a translation from
the German, and all who have done such work will agree that this is
high praise.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 124. D. 12, ’07. 670w.
=Thomas, Augustus.= Witching hour. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30012.
Mr. Thomas has novelized his own play, so insuring no loss of the
drama’s compelling interest that was due to telepathy, mental
suggestion and hypnotism.
* * * * *
“A story of considerable interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“A lively and interesting narrative of romantic events brought about
under remarkable conditions, and whether you are disposed to grant the
facts or not, it can hardly be denied that the conclusions are
entirely in accordance with the promises the author has laid down.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 500w.
=Thomas, John M.= The Christian faith and the Old Testament. **$1.
Crowell.
8–14748.
The author discusses the contributions of the Old Testament to
Christianity in its moral, religious, and theological teaching and in
affording Christians a sense of continuity with the life of the past;
but he admits that in the allegorizing of the Old Testament, and in
the acceptance of all as of equal value, the true spiritual
significance of the Old and much of the New Testament was lost sight
of. Modern criticism is rediscovering, restoring our Bible and of the
process and results of this discovery the author gives a brief but
comprehensive account.
* * * * *
“Brief, reverent, logical; for the general reader not familiar with
the achievements and benefits of higher criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The author’s point of view is scholarly and he is thoroughly in
sympathy with modern thinking. To those who doubt whether anything of
usefulness is left to the Old Testament as interpreted by the modern
scholar, this volume may be warmly commended.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 50w.
“A serious and scholarly treatment of present-day religious problems
and difficulties.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 40w.
“It represents frank, free and devout study of current biblical
problems, by one who has the taste of study and the art of expression.
We commend it heartily to thinking people.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Thomas will succeed, in our judgment, in stirring up in his
readers the desire to study the Old Testament with intelligent
appreciation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
“He combines a full acceptance of the modern point of view with a deep
sense of the value of the Old Testament and shows clearly that these
two attitudes are not opposed.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“This little book is, for plain readers with scant leisure, an
admirable presentation of what all ought to know who care to
understand the essential facts and their significance.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
* =Thomas, William Jenkyn.= Welsh fairy book. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–26193.
“This is the first English collection ever made of an excellent source
of folk- and fairy-lore.... The stories are varied, derived from old
writers like Giraldus Cambrensis and the stores of accomplished modern
scholars like Sir John Rhys. ‘Nothing has been inserted which is not
genuinely traditionary,’ adds the author, and the book shows the
richness of the mine which he has opened for English readers.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“‘The Welsh fairy book’ is worth reading for several reasons. The
Welsh are spiritual and musical, and they have waited for their Grimm
till to-day.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 218. D. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“Adults as well as young people will rejoice in ‘The Welsh fairy
book.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 544. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“It will form a welcome and even necessary addition to any child’s
collection of fairy-tales.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
“On the whole, there is much novelty about the collection.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 905. D. 7, ’07. 110w.
=Thompson, Charles Miner.= Calico cat: a rural detective story minus
a detective. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–30016.
In attempting to rid his premises of a mocking calico cat, a
respectable Yankee shoots a tramp, slips away from the scene of
trouble, and allows an innocent boy to be sent to jail. He is chosen
juror on the very jury that is to try the case when his conscience
goads him to a confession. The clearing up of the tangle reveals that
the victim, entirely unhurt, was posing for money; that the boy
believed his father to have fired the shot and was shielding him; and
that a termagant wife really did have a heart.
* =Thompson, Francis.= Selected poems; with a biographical note by
Wilfrid Meynell. **$1.50. Lane.
Selections contained in this volume have been made from “Sister
songs,” “Poems” and “New poems,” which with a biographical note and a
number of “appreciations” are intended to bear witness to a fine
quality of genius.
* * * * *
“I feel much in him that is great. Even in this residue from which all
the dross of his work has supposedly been drawn off, there is still so
much to harass the ear and tease the mind.” P. E. M.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 486. N. 19, ’08. 3500w.
“Francis Thompson’s work is of such excellence in its own kind that no
selection can be satisfactory except to those who have not time for
more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 395. S. 26, ’08. 1250w.
=Thompson, Peter Anthony.= Lotus land; being an account of the
country and the people of southern Siam. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37975.
“Opening with a chapter on the history of Siam which suggests that
research might well be turned in that direction, Mr. Thompson gives an
account of the capital and then takes us right into the country.”
(Sat. R.) “The picture of country life among the people, the study of
their habits and beliefs—where the Buddhist faith is laid over
deep-seated superstitions, tree-worship, taboo, ghost-terrors, charms,
and curious rites and precautions—the descriptions of their sport,
fishing, elephant driving; these, to our mind, constitute the best
part of Mr. Thompson’s volume.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is not easy to hit the mean between a globe-trotter’s transient
impressions and a resident’s cumbrous statistics, but Mr. Thompson has
achieved this. [An] admirable account of a singularly attractive
people.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 506. O. 27. 1570w.
“The historical sketch of Siam will well repay a careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“No more intimate book on southern Siam has appeared than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A delightful picture of a people not overanxious to march in the van
of progress and of a country the wealth of which lies at present
almost dormant.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 230w.
* =Thomson, John Arthur.= Bible of nature: five lectures delivered
before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross.
(Bross lib. v. 4.) **$1. Scribner.
8–25139.
Five lectures which state “some of the lessons which man—minister and
interpreter—may learn from Nature.” They are: The wonder of the world;
The history of things; Organisms and their origin; The evolution of
organism; and Man’s place in nature.
* * * * *
“The book is a joy to read and is to be heartily commended to all
religious persons who feel the difficulties caused by the present
scientific situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 777. D. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Not only for its clarifying of many hazy ideas, but for its
correction alike of dogmatic scientists and dogmatic theologians, this
volume should be in every Sunday-school library.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Heredity. (Science ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
A thoroly practical exposition based upon conclusions reached thru
microscopic study of the germ-cells, thru the application of
statistical methods, and thru experiment. The aim is to expand the
facts of heredity and inheritance as known at present, to give the
securely established conclusions and the more important theories. The
handling is impartial altho the author adheres to what is called
Weismannism, or—to take a particular case—the conviction that we do
not know of any instance of the transmission of an acquired character.
* * * * *
“The best book on the subject for the general reader; comprehensive,
scholarly and popular in the best sense of the word.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The English student will welcome a volume which places within his
grasp an adequate summary of the work not only of leading English
authorities but also of continental writers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 47. Jl. 11. 1000w.
“This newest work, strikingly like the older ‘Evolution of sex’ in
method, may well attain the same high repute.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Is intelligible, pleasant to read, and distinguished by a broad
outlook.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 59. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“It is ‘easy’ reading; the clearness and force of the style hold the
reader’s attention so that he forgets for the moment that it is an
abstruse scientific matter which is under discussion. The chief
particular in which the book is open to criticism is in the matter of
construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 376. Ag. 13. ’08. 900w.
“In spite of its condensation, this is the only book in the language
which has methodically handled heredity from its origin in physical
reproduction to its further development in social phenomena.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 350w.
“In addition to a clear statement of current theories, there is much
instructive criticism and comment, often requiring very attentive
perusal, which the reader will find most stimulating and suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 650w.
“The outstanding feature of the book is its great, perhaps its
excessive, kindliness and toleration.” G. A. Reid.
+ =Nature.= 78: 361. Ag. 20, ’08. 2200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The volume, if not quite so readable and full of suggestion as
Metchnikoff’s, is yet of more immediate application to the problems
that confront them.” Charles De Kay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 236. N. ’08. 660w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 70w.
“It is in fact a vast encyclopaedia article, in which all the aspects
of the subject are presented in orderly fashion and from many points
of view, always with the historical development of each, and with its
varying controversies summed up with clearness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 791. Je. 20, ’08. 1450w.
“The few imperfections that might be noticed do not interfere
materially with the value of the book. It fulfils its purpose as an
‘introduction to the study of heredity’ excellently well, it is rich
in illustrative facts and judicious criticism, and is written in a
style which is clear, consecutive, forcible and at times, even
picturesque.” J. P. McM.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 210. Ag. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Thomson, William Chase.= Design of typical steel railway bridges:
an elementary course for engineering students and draftsmen. *$2.
Eng. news.
8–11716.
A sequel to “Bridge and structural design.” “The present volume is
devoted chiefly to the presentation of six examples in design of steel
superstructures. An introduction gives the necessary extracts from a
specification, with some annotations, tables and a moment diagram; and
there is a final chapter on latticing of compression members. The
examples are selected with good judgment and cover the range of
average railway bridge superstructures in a way that may be called
typical.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The thoroughly practical character of the work would seem to make it
well suited for use as a text-book in engineering schools and of
marked value to junior draftsmen in bridge shops and to those who
desire to fit themselves for such work.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Notwithstanding these shortcomings, which are mostly
non-essentials ... the book is a commendable effort to fill a
long-felt want. It should be in the possession of all the younger men
engaged in structural steel work, and many older ones will find it
useful.” A. W. Buel.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 73. Jl. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“Has the character of a set of rules for designing issued by a bridge
company to its draftsmen.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 476. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
* =Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with introd. and il. by Clifton
Johnson. **$2. Crowell.
8–22336.
A holiday edition of “Cape Cod” whose careful word pictures are aided
by a series of illustrations produced by Mr. Johnson’s camera during a
leisurely tramp over Thoreau’s own course.
* * * * *
“An unusually attractive reprint of the work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Thorndike, Ashley Horace.= Tragedy. (Types of English literature
ser.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–15303.
The third volume so far published in a literature series which
disregards the usual chronological divisions and proceeds on the basis
of a division according to types. This book traces the course of
English tragedy from its beginning in England in 1562, the year of the
production of “Gorboduc,” thru Marlowe and his contemporaries,
Shakespeare, the later Elizabethans, the Restoration, the eighteenth
century, and the romantic movement, to the middle of the nineteenth
century. It indicates the part tragedy has played in the history of
the theatre and of literature.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The interest of the book consists in its handling of familiar matter
from this unifying point of view, rather than in its contribution of
new facts to scholarship. On the whole he is to be congratulated on
the accomplishment of a piece of sound scholarly work.” C. M.
Hathaway, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1, ’08. 640w.
“Professor Thorndike’s book, taken as a whole, is mildly
disappointing. We find ourselves in constant agreement with him, but
with no enthusiasm. The latter part of the work is somewhat
breathless, as though the writer were acutely aware of the fact that
the volume must not exceed a certain length, and that everything must
somehow be mentioned.” W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 592. D. ’08. 1600w.
“We must insist then that a good deal of the present work is
necessarily unsatisfactory. It is not complete enough in detail to
serve the scholar; it is often too meagre to preserve human interest.
But, within the limitations, Prof. Thorndike has succeeded
commendably.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 830w.
“Comprehensive treatment of his large subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Able review of the tragic drama in England.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 266. Ag. 22, ’08. 480w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Fly on the wheel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–27495.
A determined young Irish councellor married five years to a placid,
unthinking woman whose personality he completely dominates, attempts
to break up the love affair of his youngest brother and a spirited
young girl. He yields to the spell of this girl’s power, finds himself
in love with her as she is with him, and in his madness confesses his
love. The reaction comes, he knows his duty; but the girl, young,
motherless, gives up to morbid despair and ends her life as did Oswald
in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
* * * * *
“It is a study of sexual passion rising at times to real power. It is
a conscientious and clever piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 120w.
“Best work she has done thus far.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“As a story is less sensational than some former stories by this
author, but it far exceeds any of them in perfection of development
and in real interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
“The end is startlingly tragic, in what seems to us a forced, unlikely
way. What she does well is the description of emotions, moods, and
behaviour, her sense of ordinary character is true and perceptive, and
is shown in one or two quite excellent sketches, notably that of
Father James.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The story is well told and interesting in its way, but singularly
lacking in elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 780w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold, and Kellogg, Louise Phelps=, eds. The
revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775–1777. $1.50. Wis. hist. soc.
Madison.
8–8546.
Compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin
historical society, the events chronicled in this volume “immediately
succeeded and in a considerable degree were the direct outgrowth of
Dunmore’s war.... The documents chosen for publication herein do not
afford a continuous history of any one campaign or group of men. They
do, however, shed light upon the principal incidents and the prominent
characters of the long frontier stretching from the Greenbrier region
in Southwestern Virginia to the post at Kittanning on the upper
Allegheny.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“Much credit is due the editors for the excellent compilation of these
documents.” V. A. Lewis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 183. O. ’08. 630w.
=Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid, pseud.).= Princess
Nadine. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–42008.
“A novel involving an heiress of American birth and her ambition for a
European title. Nadine is everything exquisite, aristocratic, and
fascinating. About to be betrothed by her American grandmother to a
lovely prince who hopes to be king of ‘Serabia,’ she meets a money
king from America, whose advent completely changes her future.... Of
the complications between an imprudent and revolutionary young
Russian, a daring American girl, and a diplomatic Slav, the reader
must learn for himself.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The character of Nadine is the artistic merit of the story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 150w.
“The game of intrigue, which brings about Nadine’s defiance of the
Czar’s government, is played light-heartedly enough, hero and heroine
holding the usual marked cards.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Upon the whole, the most fitting adjective for this novel is
‘elegant.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
=Tilden, Samuel Jones.= Letters and literary memorials of Samuel J.
Tilden; ed. by John Bigelow. 2v. **$6. Harper.
8–4918.
From a vast collection of papers the executors of Mr. Tilden have
selected speeches, public documents and letters which not only offer
sidelights on the latter half of the last century’s history but give
proper proportion to public services of this man whose party standards
were “too high for the multitude.” His battles and their victories are
traced thru these documents.
* * * * *
“If we find somewhat too much of the genial editor in the volumes, he
has good examples to quote, and we should be grateful for what he has
given.” F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 152. O. ’08. 1500w.
“Necessary for the historian because of details of politics,
especially in New York state, but not particularly valuable or
interesting to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The work as a whole is an important and historically valuable
supplement to Mr. Bigelow’s earlier publications in the same field.” P.
F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 205. Ap. 1, ’08. 1650w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“There is less material of first-rate political importance in these
volumes than one had hoped. Though these letters add but little to our
knowledge of the man, they fall in perfectly with that conception of
his character which those who have studied it most closely have slowly
formed.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 600w.
“Absorbingly interesting volumes. They are of the highest class of
‘memoires pour servir.’” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 109. F. 29, ’08. 2450w.
“It aids in the understanding both of Tilden’s conduct of life and of
the seemingly extravagant esteem in which he was held by his intimate
friends.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 862. Ag. 15, ’08. 540w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 300w.
* =Tileston, Mary Wilder=, ed. Children’s treasure trove of pearls.
†$1.50. Little.
Contains some forty stories rescued from oblivion for children from
five to nine years to enjoy. Among them are: Fiama; Bean Flower and
Pea Blossom; Tatterhood, Tom Tit Tot; Tom, nurse’s story, etc.
* * * * *
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Tipping, H. Avray=, ed. Gardens, old and new. 3d. series. *$12.
Scribner.
8–23521.
=ser. 3.= Country house and its garden environment.
“Contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all
more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield house,
Holland house, Lyme hall (Cheshire, belonging to Lord Newton), South
Wraxall manor, Wilton house, and Wotton house (near Aylesbury). An
introduction, itself fully illustrated, gives particulars of other
places.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Notable addition to garden literature.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 320w (Review of ser. 3.)
“The volume has an interest extending quite beyond that of a guide to
a house or garden building.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w. (Review of ser. 3.)
“This is a very handsome and interesting volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl, 18, ’08. 80w. (Review of ser. 3.)
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Lectures on the elementary psychology
of feeling and attention. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–21948.
“The book discusses analytically the ultimate mode of conceiving the
nature of the fundamental psychological processes. For current usage
as coins of the intellectual realm, the value of such terms as
feeling, sensation, attention, is sufficiently understood; but an
accurate essay is indispensable when technical definition and analysis
are to be reached. As an example of the clarification of concepts, as
a contribution to the mode of extracting the metal from the crude ore,
the work may be strongly recommended to the student analyst.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The treatment suitable to a general audience is equally suitable to
the general reader.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It cannot be said, however, that the writer is without his own bias.
This bias in our author’s case is in favor of sensationalism.
Collections of classroom lectures are not often inspiring, but this
work is a welcome exception to this rule. It must add much to its
author’s reputation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 630w.
“The entire treatment of attention as sensory clearness as set forth
by Professor Titchener, however, is the best which has appeared thus
far. His unbiased discussion of the leading authorities and his
interesting style render the book worth reading apart from its
psychological value, while the list of authorities which is given
makes the volume probably the best of its kind for the research
student.” Felix Arnold.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 367. N. 15, ’08. 730w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde New York; sketches of old times and
places in both the state and the city. (Grafton historical
series.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–36943.
A series of sketches brought forward from twenty years ago which
describe types and conditions, landmarks and structures, that no
longer exist.
* * * * *
“It cannot supersede or compete with definite historical treatises on
the state, but it offers interesting sketches and will prove of use
for certain phases of old New York life.” E. K. Alden.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 655. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“What with text and pictures, an amusing little book to look over.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
“It is well that this valuable and curious information, at first
prepared for more ephemeral publication, has been preserved and
collected in this tasteful volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Camp-fire of Mad Anthony. †$1.50.
Houghton.
7–29723.
Tells of a tea party which took place in Philadelphia, and involved
the heroes of this story; also relates the adventures of the
Pennsylvania troops under Anthony Wayne, from 1774 to 1776.
* * * * *
“A story used as a vehicle becomes stereotyped and Mr. Tomlinson’s
strength does not lie in his plots.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1482. D. 19, ’07. 150w.
“In his customary manner, Mr. Tomlinson bases his incident upon fact.
In this respect he is a seasoned writer, but he falls short in the
development of his plot, and his style is not irreproachable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Mad Anthony’s young scout: a story
of the winter of 1777–78. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–20024.
Philadelphia, Valley Forge and the outlying country furnish the
setting for this tale of exciting adventure based upon the happenings
of the hard winter of 1777–78. Noah Dare is the hero, and into the
story are introduced “Mad Anthony” Wayne, Washington, Lafayette and
other revolutionary generals. Also there is among the historical
sidelights a clear presentation of the division among the Quakers—one
portion swearing allegiance to the British government, the other, to
the cause of the colonists.
* * * * *
“No boy who once begins the book will want to lay it down until it is
finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12. ’08. 170w.
* =Tompkins, A. E.= Marine engineering: a text book. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Gives a very full history of the development of the steam engine from
Savery in 1688 to the turbine and gas producer of to-day. Much
information is given to the one wishing to practise the art of
designing the different structures, but the most to those desiring to
become skilled in the construction, operation and care of the marine
engine, as the designing of such machinery demands a line of study
outside of what can be given in a treatise of this kind.”—Science.
* * * * *
“It deserves and will secure a good reception from all who are
interested in the subjects of which it treats. The author has the
courage of his opinions, and, in not a few instances, exception may be
taken to his conclusions; but in all cases the materials for judging
independently are given, and readers can claim no more.” W. H. White.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 598. O. 15, ’08. 800w.
“This single criticism [about his view of the combustion chamber in
the cylindrical boiler] should not take from the value of the work as
it abounds in so much that is good and valuable to one seeking
information on the subject and desiring to be correctly informed as to
the marine engine practise of to-day and the lines on which it may be
extended in the future.” Horace See.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 686. N. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor.= Dr. Ellen. †$1.50. Baker.
8–2613.
The story of a stout-hearted struggle to care for a consumptive sister
and to establish a reputation as a medical practitioner in a little
town among the Sierras. “It is a love story, a character study and the
history of a brave woman’s struggle against ignorant prejudice, all
welded into a single narrative.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Has no particular strength nor depth but is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08.
“It is Dr. Ellen’s courageous and victorious struggle to retrieve her
losses that makes the real strength and interest of the book; although
the delicate and subtle love-story which is interwoven with it will
have no small share in assuring the book the popularity it deserves.”
F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 380w.
=Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“This new book is quite as sparkling as anything she has ever done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 320w.
“It is a privilege to meet a woman so noble in character, so well
equipped in mind, and so essentially feminine in heart and soul as Dr.
Ellen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Tonge, James.= Coal. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–17746.
“This book is a popular presentation of the latest facts regarding the
origin, position and extent of coal seams throughout the world,
together with particulars as to the economical utilization and
application of this indispensable mineral fuel. It treats of the
history and occurrence of coal, the mode of formation of coal seams
and the fossils and botany of the coal measures.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The book should be interesting and instructive to students of various
sciences, as well as to those who, though proud of the high commercial
position of their country, are unaware as to how greatly this is due
to an abundant supply of inexpensive fuel.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The work appears to have been hastily compiled, and the proofs
carelessly revised.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 389. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Torbett, D.= Schemers. 75c. Doscher.
8–10856.
“This volume is frankly designed to provide an hour’s light
entertainment. It tells of a quite preposterous cad, of a society
widow unwilling to part with her youth, of that widow’s attractive
daughter, and of the daughter’s loyal but impoverished suitor.”
(Bookm.) “Positively harmless ... unless the author could be persuaded
to give the name of the Paris doctor who produced such marvelous
results in Mrs. Van Agan’s face.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“[The incidents] are certainly new and certainly amusing.”
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 242. My. ’08. 140w.
“It is written with a certain smartness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Tourville, Henri de.= Growth of modern nations: a history of the
particularist form of society; tr. from the French of Henri de
Tourville, by M. G. Loch. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5819.
“Not in any sense a history of western Europe. Rather it tells how far
different our society is from the society of antiquity; how a certain
human race became emancipated from that society of the past and how
when settled in one corner of Europe its society received a special
form. The most powerful modern nations, it is declared, have gradually
evolved, not by public action, but by the free play of private
initiative. From germanic and gothic origins to the constitution of
the present great nations, the author carefully points out the
steps.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book is a mass of generalizations, of which many are based on
hypotheses rather than upon ascertained facts, while few, if any, are
supported by sufficient evidence. The book may be of some value in
suggesting new points of view: but the method is so superficial that
the conclusions carry slight weight.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 898. Jl. ’08. 520w.
“The volume is very suggestive and contains some especially
interesting chapters.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 230w.
“To the historical student (as opposed perhaps to the student of
social science), the detail and method of these essays will have more
interest than their generalizations.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 900w.
“Not the least of the author’s peculiarities is the ease with which he
bends each bit of evidence to conform to his theory. The chapter on
the United States is childish in its ignorance.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 900w.
“It is fair to add that Mr. Loch has done his work as translator
fairly well, quite as well as the original deserves.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Valuable, therefore, though it is a sort of dictionary of
sociological growth, and delightful to dip into at odd moments both
for entertainment and edification, this volume is lacking in
compactness, and in that lucidity and vividness which compactness
brings with it.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Red year: a story of the Indian mutiny. $1.50.
Clode, E. J.
8–979.
More of a history of the mutiny than a story. “The hero, who begins as
Lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, distinguished himself especially
by riding across the risen country for relief, first from Lucknow to
Allahabad, and again from Allahabad to Delhi. In the latter half of
the book he has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel
reader could wish.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 297. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
“Is really a very fair history of the Sepoy mutiny. But its value is
slight as a novel.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 400w.
“The power of ‘The red year’—for ‘The red year’ is a powerful
book—lies in the stern realism of its account of the never to be
forgotten events of 1857.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25370.
A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock
variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman
triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and
Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and
characterization.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.
“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much
to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a
blind trail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.