A
=Abbey, George.=^{[9]} Balance of nature and modern conditions of
cultivation; a practical manual of animal foes and friends for the
country gentleman, the farmer, the forester, the gardener and the
sportsman. *$2.50. Dutton.
Agr9–1626.
“Classifies and analyzes the common animals and birds with reference to
the harm or good they do to man. The classification into ‘Insectivorous
and harmless,’ ‘Partly useful and partly injurious,’ and ‘Destructive,’
is applied in successive chapters to wild animals, wild birds, water
birds, migratory birds, reptiles, and game. The author attempts neither
to defend nor condemn, but with scientific impartiality tells the story
of each creature’s habits and conduct from the standpoint of man’s
welfare.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“If any fault is to be found with the author’s sense of justice, it is
that, while the second part of his book gives directions for trapping or
otherwise destroying those creatures that sometimes do harm, no
corresponding space is given to directions for protecting and preserving
those that do good.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 103. Ag. 16, ’09. 320w.
“Mr. Abbey shows himself a close observer, and in food habits at least,
makes a real contribution to our knowledge of British fauna. The author
is moderate in his statements, but a book such as this should be used
with discretion.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 166. Ag. 19, ’09. 350w.
“If the text be bad the illustrations, which the author declares to be
diagrammatic, are ten times worse. As regards the economic portions of
the work, the author appears to know more of his subject, and we trust
his observations will be found of use to the country gentlemen and
farmers for whom the volume is especially intended.” R. L.
− + =Nature.= 81: 5. Jl. 1, ’09. 250w.
“A practical and useful account of animal foes and friends.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 538. Ap. 24, ’09. 20w.
=Abbott, Rev. Edwin Abbott.=^{[11]} Message of the Son of Man. *$1.75.
Macmillan.
“Sets forth an extended summary of the evidence for the meaning of the
term ‘Son of Man’ in the prophets, the later Jewish literature, and the
New Testament.... Dr. Abbott’s contention is that Jesus’ use of the term
is in line with that of the prophets, rather than with that of later
literature; and that he persistently used the term to fix attention upon
the divine image in which man had been made, and which he sought to
restore in all men, by the Spirit of God.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Throughout the book he shows not simply the ingenuity now generally
associated with his name, but also the clear vision of a keen critic,
and gives abundant evidence of accurate scholarship.”
+ =Ath.= 1909. 2: 458. O. 16. 650w.
“The learning and originality of the discussions are undeniable.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 142. Ag. ’09. 140w.
“Dr. Abbott’s book is rather difficult reading.”
− =Spec.= 103: 692. O. 30, ’09. 500w.
=Abbott, Frank Frost.=^{[10]} Society and politics. in ancient Rome;
essays and sketches. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–24279.
A dozen papers most of which are to some degree comparative studies of
certain phases of the life of ancient Rome and that of our own day. They
are: Municipal politics in Pompeii; The story of two oligarchies; Women
and public affairs under the Roman republic; Roman women in the trades
and professions; The theatre as a factor in Roman politics under the
republic; Petronius: a study in ancient realism; A Roman purclain;
Petrarch’s letter to Cicero; Literature and the common people of Rome;
The career of a Roman student; Some spurious inscriptions and their
authors; The evolution of the modern forms of the letters of our
alphabet.
* * * * *
“Not only delightful reading but brings the Romans within reach of our
human sympathies.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 490. O. 30, ’09. 1350w.
=Abbott, George Frederick.=^{[12]} Turkey in transition. *$4.25.
Longmans.
This volume “suddenly switches us away from the muddy roads, the bare
hillsides, the biting winds of the Balkans and the Anatolian plateau [of
Captain Townshend’s book], into the noisy streets of Pera and offices of
Stambul; we learn the people and come to the forces that move them.”
(Sat. R.) The volume “sets forth with apparent accuracy the events as
they happened, and their effect on the mind of a dispassionate
observer.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 554. N. 6. 570w.
“Those who have read Captain Townshend must then read Mr. Abbott. Mr.
Abbott in his even more difficult task has succeeded as completely and
as splendidly as Captain Townshend; he gives us what an enthusiast
sometimes calls ‘the whole thing’ when he is at a loss to describe a
very complicated situation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 599. N. 13, ’09. 670w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Home builder. **75c. Houghton.
8–30941.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 5. Ja. ’09.
“One of the most valuable points which Dr. Abbott does bring out,
however, is the preservation of the sense of humor through all of the
vicissitudes of the woman’s life. But it hardly possesses the philosophy
that the modern, active woman of the larger communities can find use
for.”
− + =Char.= 21: 640. Ja. 2, ’09. 180w.
=Ind.= 66: 152. Ja. 21, ’09. 50w.
=Outlook.= 90: 842. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Abbott, Lyman.=^{[12]} The temple. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–29207.
Dr. Abbott says: “This volume is one of three volumes which make one
book: ‘The great companion’; ‘The other room’; and ‘The temple.’ They
are not Theology; they are books of religion.” The temple is the temple
of the living body wherein dwells the spirit, concerning which the
author aims not to expand the philosophies of either psychologist or
physiologist, but to describe human experience as it is and as it ought
to be; to interpret the laws both of the body and the spirit; to
describe human nature. Contents: The body; The eye; The ear; The tongue;
The hand; The feet; The appetites; The passions; Imagination; The
conscience; The intuition; The reason; Love.
* * * * *
=Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
=Abd al-Baha ibn Baha Allah.= Some answered questions; collected and
translated from the Persian of Abdu’l-Baha. *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–4927.
“The volume expounds the ideas of the Bahais, or Babis—religious mystics
among Mohammedans—as given by their leader, Baha, to an English
learner.... The author avails himself impartially of the Koran and of
the Bible, regarding Moses, Mohammedans, and Christ as his forerunners.”
(Outlook.) Among the subjects discussed are Darwinism, immortality,
fate, and free-will, evil, reincarnation and pantheism.
* * * * *
“A great variety of subjects is discussed in the volume; all treated
shrewdly, though sometimes crudely.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 627. D. 24, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 90: 798. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Abrahams, Ethel Beatrice.=^{[5]} Greek dress. 9s. Murray, J:, London.
9–12608.
“Miss Abrahams begins with a consideration of the dress of men and women
as seen in the Mycenean remains, concluding that it argues strongly for
the non-Hellenic character of the race. This dress was tight-fitting,
and altogether different from the flowing robes and large outlines of
Greek garments generally. These she proceeds to examine, carefully
analysing both the passages in classical authors where it is described
or referred to, and the portrayals of it that we find in vase-paintings
or elsewhere. The text is amply illustrated.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“This book is to be recommended as the most practical and trustworthy
account of the subject to be found in any language, and should prove
useful not only to students, but also to artists and others who are
interested in Greek costume.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 49. Jl. 10. 450w.
“Scholarly and well-illustrated volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 200w.
“A careful work.” C: Ricketts.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 40. Ja. 9, ’09. 1400w.
“A very learned and, as far as we can judge, complete treatise.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1002. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Abrahams, Israel.=^{[11]} Judaism. 40c. Open ct.
8–8506.
“An authoritative and singularly impartial survey of a religion which is
at once ‘ancient and modern,’ and of which most people have strange
conceptions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Abrahams, who writes as a scholar and as a broad-minded Jew, aims
to set forth the chief traits of this new religion which arose, as it
were, out of the decay of the Jewish state, and to trace the more
important phenomena connected with Judaism in the course of its long and
eventful history. This he does succinctly, skilfully, and with
commendable courage.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 750w.
“We hesitate to criticise a Jewish rabbi’s definition of Judaism; but we
do not think that Mr. Israel Abrahams has shown as vital an apprehension
of the essential principles of Judaism as is shown by Emma Lazarus in
her too little known volume, ‘The spirit of Judaism.’ In three important
respects this volume appears to us defective.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 362. O. 16, ’09. 360w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.=^{[5]} Harper’s machinery book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.
9–10506.
Following the general plan of the author’s “Electricity book for boys”
this book is designed to show boys how to take part in the achievements
which are the mechanical expressions of man’s ability and ambition. The
author explains in a simple and practical way the tools and general
outfit necessary for inexpensive home shops, the elementary principles
of their use, and then shows what a boy can accomplish easily with
little outlay. There are many illustrations included, and a dictionary
of mechanical terms.
* * * * *
“Practical, comprehensive, well illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09. ✠
“The most prominent fault of the book is the inclusion of numerous
general statements, quite unnecessary to the purpose of the book, which
are not only in many cases misleading but often quite untrue.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 7. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13. ’09. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.
=Adams, Oscar Fay.= Motley jest: Shakesperean diversions. *$1.
Sherman, French & co.
9–5246.
Contains “A Shakesperean fantasy,” and an imaginary sixth act to the
“Merchant of Venice.” The first is supplementary to the “Tempest” “in
which Prospero with the aid of Ariel transports Ferdinand and Miranda,
long since happily married, back to the enchanted island, which he
peoples for them, temporarily, with the figures of Shakespeare’s stage
folk—Romeo and Juliet, the nurse, Mercutio, Falstaff, Lear, Richard II,
Henry VI, and others—who discourse briefly in a fashion more or less in
accordance with their theatrical moods and character.” (Nation.) In the
second Shylock “is Christianized, officially and publicly, and openly
proclaims his apostasy while secretly hugging his ancient faith and his
passion for revenge.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is a literary gem that will delight lovers of good things in
dramatic form.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 606. Ag. ’09. 270w.
“Two Shakespearean experiments, which are, perhaps, more entertaining
than valuable.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 231. Mr. 4, ’09. 180w.
“The Shakespearean spirit is well imitated [in ‘Motley jest’] and the
verse is smooth and rhythmic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 163. Mr. 20, ’09. 310w.
=Adamson, Robert.=^{[5]} Development of Greek philosophy. 10s. 6d.
Blackwood, W. & sons, London.
9–9955.
“In this volume we have reproduced the substance of various courses of
lectures upon Greek philosophy delivered some eight or ten years ago by
the late Prof. Adamson.... It is safe to say that no work of equal
importance, covering the same ground and dealing with the same aspect of
the subject, has appeared, in this country at least, for many years
past. The ground covered reaches from the beginnings of scientific
thinking down to, and including, the speculations of the Stoics; while
the point of view from which it is surveyed is that of the critic of
philosophy in the stricter sense of the term.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is abundantly evident throughout that modern and ancient
authorities, and added the quality of erudition to his singular gifts of
the author was well versed in the views of both mental acumen and
soundness of judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 311. Mr. 13. 1000w.
“This volume will supply a long-felt want. Singularly able, stimulating
and suggestive throughout, the book ought to secure a wide circle of
readers. In English there is certainly no other treatise on the subject
of like compass at all comparable with it in point of lucidity,
thoroughness, and sound scholarship.” G. D. Hicks.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 7: 919. Jl. ’09. 4600w.
“The advanced student will profit by the clear and fluent exposition;
the lecturer will see here a good example of the way in which the
subject can be treated; the young student will find it an excellent
companion to his Ritter and Preller. It would be easy to quarrel with
many things in the actual exposition.” G. S. Brett.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 233. Mr. ’09. 400w.
“He is never verbose or obscure or trite, and he has the gift of
developing an argument by natural stages, so that the reader follows
without a profitless straining of the attention.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 97. Ja. 16, ’09. 300w.
=Addams, Jane.=^{[11]} Spirit of youth and the city streets. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
9–29194.
Miss Addams makes some intensely vital observations and points straight
to a city’s obligations in relation to youth’s insatiable desire for
play. She shows that the almost frenzied zeal for recreation is only
natural, that the sin of permitting tawdry and even evil satisfaction to
come thru the dance hall and kindred places rests upon the cities
themselves: “It is as if our cities had not developed a sense of
responsibility in regard to the life of the streets, and continually
forget that recreation is stronger than vice, and that recreation alone
can stifle vice.” The spirit of play is related to the imagination and
to the high moments in even the factory girl or boy’s reflection. “What
do we do to encourage and to solidify those moments, to make them come
true in our dingy towns, to give them expression in forms of art?”
* * * * *
“These chapters are not merely a socio-economic argument: they sound the
note of direct human interest.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1147. N. 18, ’09. 160w.
“Her book is well worthy the study of all preachers and teachers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 661. O. 23, ’09. 50w.
“It is brimming full of the mother sentiment of love and yearning, and
also shows such sanity, such breadth and tolerance of mind, and such
philosophic penetration into the inner meanings of outward phenomena as
to make it a book which no one who cares seriously about its subject can
afford to miss.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 180w.
+ =Survey.= 23: 261. N. 20, ’09. 130w.
=Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a
description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments
of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in
the early renaissance. $3. Page.
8–19089.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A useful volume containing considerable information not easily found
elsewhere.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 5. Ja. ’09.
“If it were entirely recast and rewritten would be of great value to the
students it is intended to serve.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 21. Ja. 2. 80w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1459. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good book; but it will, probably, in many instances, prove too
advanced ‘to inform those who have no intention of practising such
arts.’ The chapters would be easier reading if the material in each were
arranged under definite propositions.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book is simply a delight crammed with information, with
descriptions of the masterpieces in each craft discussed, and of the
methods used in producing them, as well as instinct with that personal
element which a volume dealing with work so human should possess.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 786. D. 19, ’08. 2000w.
=Adeney, Walter Frederic.= Greek and Eastern churches. (International
theological lib.) **$2.50. Scribner.
9–4143.
A story of the Eastern churches from the time of the great
Christological and Trinitarian controversies and heresies down to the
present day. “The handbook covers a long period. It is divided into two
parts. The first deals with Eastern Christendom up to the fall of the
Byzantine empire.... The second part of the work deals with the separate
churches—the modern Greek, the Russian, the Syrian and Armenian, the
Coptic and Abyssinian churches.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“There has long been need of a volume on the Greek and Eastern churches.
Two considerations unite to give great interest and timeliness to this
book. Nearly all the churches dealt with are or have been under the
heavy yoke of the Turk. The work of American missionaries in European
and Asiatic Turkey, in Egypt and Persia, has been almost wholly among
adherents to these churches.” E: W. Miller.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 478. Jl. ’09. 720w.
“The carelessness and want of scholarship displayed are inexcusable. We
admit that anyone who reads the book through will obtain a general idea
of the history and movements of the Eastern churches: the ground is
covered, and the main movements are grasped. We also recognize that the
chapters on Arianism and the earlier controversies about the person of
Christ are meritorious, and seem to be the result of conscientious
study. But we cannot recommend the work as a trustworthy guide, or as
abreast of recent research.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 343. Mr. 20. 700w.
“One chapter there is which hardly seems to have any logical right to
its position here. That is the one entitled ‘Later Eastern
Christianity.’ Against this fault of over-inclusiveness, there is one of
omission; for the bodies of Eastern Christians that are still in
communion with the Roman See are scarcely recorded. These faults,
however, weigh slightly against the great utility of the book, which
presents the best account that we have of present-day Christianity in
the lands which once constituted the great Eastern Patriarchates.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 111. Ap. ’09. 650w.
“Mistakes of names, apparently due to careless manuscript and hasty
proof-reading, are uncomfortably frequent in his account of the Russian
church. But the book as a whole is a readable and serviceable
introduction to a division of ecclesiastical history little known to the
ordinary student.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 250w.
“Minor faults aside, the book remains a noteworthy achievement,
indispensable to theological and to all important public libraries.” W:
W. Rockwell.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 220. Ap. 10, ’09. 970w.
“While critical, Professor Adeney is also impartially appreciative, and
intent on noting all the worth and truth that appears amidst unworth and
error.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 865. Ap. 17, ’09. 300w.
=Adler, Elkan Nathan.= Auto de fé and Jew. *$2. Oxford.
9–8429.
“About one-third of the book is devoted to an extended review and
laudatory criticism of H. C. Lea’s ‘History of the inquisition in
Spain.’ The greater part of the remaining pages appeared in a series of
articles in the ‘Jewish quarterly review.’ They contain a greatly
condensed history of the Jews in Spain and Portugal and, what is by far
the most valuable portion of the book, lists covering fifty pages giving
statistics of nearly two thousand autos de fé celebrated in Spain and
Portugal and in the colonies of those countries. The date and the place
and in some cases the number of victims is given, with an estimate of
the proportion of Jews. Several miscellaneous but related matters are
treated. Fifteen pages are occupied by a bibliography.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The book shows extensive and careful research. It is not entirely free
from errors. While it is of large interest and value by itself its
principal use will be as a companion of Dr. Lea’s great work.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 605. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“Dr. Adler owes nothing to the literary graces. However, he is a sound
judge of evidence [and] has ample knowledge of his subject. Apart from
occasional lapses, Dr. Adler is eminently trustworthy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 194. F. 13. 200w.
“The chief merit of Mr. Adler’s volume is that his lists supplement Dr.
Lea’s.” H. F. Brown.
+ =Eng. Hist.= R. 24: 348. Ap. ’09. 180w.
=Adventures= in field and forest, by Frank H. Spearman, Harold Martin,
F. S. Palmer, William Drysdale, and others. (Harper’s adventure
ser.) †60c. Harper.
9–12276.
Fifteen wilderness adventures encountered in hunting wild beasts and
reptiles. Our own country, South America, the West Indies, Africa and
India furnish the forests and jungles in which the wild boar, grizzly,
lion, lynx, cobra, polar bear, tiger, and other animals are respectively
faced and overcome. Information concerning habitats and animal
characteristics abounds.
* * * * *
“The various writers have told some stirring tales of out-of-door
adventures.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 638. My. ’09. 50w.
=Ady, Julia (Cartwright).= Baldassare Castiglione, the perfect
courtier: his life and letters, 1478–1529. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
9–2753.
“Beginning with a description of the home life in the ancestral castle
of the Castiglione family, the author traces every step of her hero’s
chequered life, one noted man and woman after another flitting across
her canvas, a few words here, a significant anecdote there, bringing
their personalities into vivid relief, the interest culminating in the
chapters describing the courtship and brief married life of Baldassare.”
(Int. Studio.) “It is a history of the times, through which
Castiglione’s biography flows.... By showing the wild crimes, the
national and international brigandage, the mingling of moral depravity
with artistic sensitiveness, of the age in which he flourished, she
brings out all the more clearly his virtues, his honorable conduct, his
ideals of courtesy.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We should have nothing but praise for a work which, if tedious at times
and lifeless, is still full of industry and good courage, but that it is
often careless in what may seem small things.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 230. Ag. 28. 1050w.
“In handling her authorities she is too easily content to transcribe and
abridge: her instinct for ‘throwing out’ is not always alert, and in the
constructive use of her material she relies rather upon accumulation of
facts, when well-judged comparison and generalisation would better serve
her purpose.” W. H. Woodward.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 349. Ap. ’09. 950w.
“Hardly compares in effect with the author’s two recent biographical
studies in the same period.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 921. Ap. 29, ’09. 450w.
“Delightful and copiously illustrated volumes.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 250. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“She is a pleasant writer, a fair popularizer of more learned
investigators, and a wholesome judge of deeds and events.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 172. F. 18, ’09. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The bibliography that concerns itself directly with Castiglione
presents no volume more thorough, and certainly none written with more
sympathetic admiration for its subject, than this biography.” G: S.
Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 110. F. 27, ’09. 1250w.
“She adds to sound learning a rich imagination and a quick sensibility
to beauty and feeling; and beyond all this, the magic power of bringing
to life whatever she lays a finger on.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 776. My. ’09. 420w.
“Painstaking volumes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 80w.
“Mrs. Ady writes with her usual industry and agreeable style.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 794. D. 26, ’08. 1470w.
=Aflalo, Frederick George.= Sunset playgrounds: fishing days and
others in California and Canada. *$2.25. Scribner.
9–19169.
An English traveler’s impressions of various American scenes with the
main part of his descriptive strength spent in reproducing the joys of
sea fishing around Catalina island off the coast of California.
* * * * *
“The latter part of the book, where we come to British Columbia and
Canada, is more attractive than the beginning. The author, too, seems to
be on better terms with his work, and the good passages come more and
more frequently.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 495. Ap. 24. 850w.
“Like many Englishmen, he must needs pause now and then to criticise
American ways and things, and sometimes his criticisms seem none too
intelligent, perhaps even a bit childish.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 546. Jl. ’09. 150w.
+ =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 200w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 516. My. 20, ’09. 170w.
“His book has not only its intrinsic interest, but will serve as a
practical guide to any fisherman fortunate enough to follow him.” G. W.
L.
+ =Nature.= 80: 431. Je. 10, ’09. 600w.
“Perhaps the most entertaining of these unimportant observations are
those in which the author discloses his dislike of Americans. Naturally,
he says things that are just, as well as others that are quite unjust.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 344. My. 29, ’09. 600w.
“We may read, not without pleasure, about many subjects, from the negro
problem onwards, but the fishing is the best part.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 542. Ap. 3, ’09. 320w.
=Agar, Thomas Leyden.=^{[7]} Homerica, emendations and elucidations of
the Odyssey. *$4.75. Oxford.
9–5508.
“A portly volume of emendations and elucidations of the Odyssey—most of
them ingenious, many plausible, not a few convincing. Mr. Agar believes
that the language of the Homeric poems is not a medley, but fairly
represents the speech of the Achæan people.... His emendations are
especially directed to the restoration of the digamma, the elimination
of the late article, and the banishing of the ‘hiatus licitus,’ against
which he wages a war of epigrams.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Agar’s own style is racy and pleasant to read, not in the least
like the wooden style of the commentator. It must be admitted that the
cumulative impression of the book is strong. Mr. Agar has brought
together a body of evidence which must advance the knowledge of Homer,
and we should not be at all surprised to see opinion coming round to his
side.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 643. My. 29. 800w.
“The Homeric student will find entertainment or edification on nearly
every page of the book, which will doubtless receive from the
philological journals the detailed consideration which we cannot give to
it here.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 230w.
=Aitken, Robert.=^{[5]} Beyond the sky line. $1.50. Huebsch.
A group of short stories based upon real observation in Spanish South
America, the Orient, the Scottish highlands, the Isthmus of Panama, and
the Boer country. They are as follows: The passing of the little sister
Tula; Righinn; A second-class district; The price of victory; Paquita;
Cœurvaillant; The black sergeant; Peter; The assythment of Mr.
Archibald; Delilah; The brand of Cain; Gruagach; The unlighted shrine;
Meretrix; Falaise; and The curious case in which Ginger Handsyde came
home.
* * * * *
“It is full of excellent material and rich in promise. When the author
has attained more skill in the practice of his art he should seize and
occupy a higher place. What strikes one first about these tales is that
they have been inspired by Mr. Kipling; and the next reflection that
occurs is one of wonder at their variety and scope.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 223. F. 20. 260w.
“‘Beyond the skyline,’ makes any chance reader promptly register a vow
to make a further acquaintance of the writings of their author.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 524. Jl. ’09. 420w.
“The stories are much better than the ordinary run, but the impression
they make vanishes with the closing of the book.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 41. Jl. 1, ’09. 60w.
“There are many types, which are well analyzed; and the action of the
stories is brisk.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
“The stories are not especially skillful in the handling of the
material, and often the style is marred by an overwordiness of vivacity
when simplicity would have been more effective.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 297. My. 8, ’09. 110w.
“Here we have a collection of short stories, and being long rather than
short they are more than ordinarily excellent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 633. My. 15, ’09. 400w.
=Alden, Henry Mills.= Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2.
Harper.
8–28839.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Brief, very readable sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 281. D. ’08.
Reviewed by B. P.
+ =Atlan.= 103: 1. Ja. ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Alden’s style is so lumbering and confused that we with difficulty
make out the fact that he has strong opinions and is elephantinely
trying to convey them to us.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Bookm.= 28: 478. Ja. ’09. 830w.
“Turning to the second half of the book ... they take an attitude
unusually sane and stimulating toward the whole present-day movement in
literature, they present, on the other hand, certain views with which it
seems distinctly worth while to take issue.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 284. Mr. ’09. 1850w.
=Alden, Percy=, ed.^{[6]} Hungary of to-day. *$3. Brentano’s.
9–27604.
A work prepared by members of the Hungarian government. It treats
industries and finances, the political position of Croatia, Slavonia and
Dalmatia, the financial and commercial advance of Hungary, taxation
reform, factory and labor legislation, insurance against sickness and
incapacity, the condition of agriculture, co-operation, state aid to
agriculture, and elementary education.
* * * * *
“All the articles are valuable in themselves and testify, in the
aggregate, to an amount of solid information and skill in imparting it
such as few cabinets anywhere at the present day can boast of. The
accuracy of the volume in the matter of Hungarian accents and other
respects is not all that might be desired, and, as in so many books on
Hungarian subjects, the average foreign reader is puzzled by the Magyar
names of places which are much better known by other appellations.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 486. N. 18, ’09. 870w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 762. D. 4, ’09. 220w.
“Its object is the glorification of the Magyar race, and little or no
attention is paid to those problems which are becoming more and more
acute in Hungary with every attempt that is made by the Coalition
government to Magyarise the subject nationalities.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 211. F. 13, ’09. 850w.
“That this is an interesting volume we need hardly say,—let us imagine
what we should think of a book to which the members of the British
Cabinet should contribute. It is not less obvious that all the
contentions are not to be taken for granted. It is an ‘ex parte’
statement.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 310. F. 20, ’09. 220w.
=Alden, Raymond MacDonald.=^{[5]} Introduction to poetry for students
of English literature. *$1.25. Holt.
9–7034.
Differs from the author’s “English verse” in “three principal ways: it
is more frankly dogmatic, attempting to state principles with some
fullness instead of merely bringing together the materials for the
inductive study of the subject; it includes a discussion of the
imaginative and spiritual aspects of poetry, instead of limiting itself
to verse form; and it omits altogether the historical treatment of the
material, except where this is necessarily involved in clearness of
definition.” The chapters are: Definition and origins; The classes or
kinds; The basis of poetry (internal); The basis of poetry (external);
English metres; and Rime and stanza forms.
* * * * *
“Without doubt the best work for students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 153. Je. ’09.
“The book seems to us a sound and useful discussion of a subject of
which the teaching in our schools and colleges now leaves much to be
desired.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 53. Jl. 16, ’09. 70w.
“A careful and sound bit of literary exposition and criticism. Is
thoroly well arranged.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 314. O. ’09. 30w.
“Professor Alden has produced the best manual of its kind in print.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 208. S. 2, ’09. 200w.
“Will no doubt be welcomed by many English teachers for its very clear
summaries of great questions, long discussed, no less than for its wide
range of the literature of the subject of poetic theory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 760. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
=Alexander, DeAlva Stanwood.=^{[10]} Political history of the state of
New York. v. 3, 1861–1882. **$2.50. Holt.
6–21392.
=v. 3.= 1861–1882.
This instalment of Dr. Alexander’s exhaustive history begins with the
civil war period and ends with Cleveland’s first presidential campaign.
While the volume is a running narrative of the state’s history during
the period it also furnishes an outline of the political careers of the
large group of New Yorkers who figured so prominently in national
affairs during war times and immediately following.
* * * * *
“This book is interesting from the first page to the last. Mr. Alexander
has gone about it with an enjoyment that communicates itself to the
reader, and his vivid, direct, graphic presentation of his story makes
the book as interesting as a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 758. D. 4, ’09. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 170w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Allcroft, Arthur Hadrian.=^{[5]} Earthwork of England, prehistoric,
Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman and mediæval. 18s. Macmillan London.
9–7321.
“This classification [of remains] is eightfold, with a miscellaneous
section for works which fall under none of the eight heads. It begins
with promontory fortresses, which depend chiefly on natural situation
for their strength; next come contour forts, also on hilltops, but
rendered secure by artificial defences; then three classes of simple and
less interesting forts; then homestead motes, in some ways the most
interesting of all; and finally great defensive enclosures and fortified
villages.... While Mr. Allcroft does not profess, like the Antiquary of
Scott’s tale, to have discovered ‘an infallible touchstone of
antiquity,’ he shows by exposition and by illustration how some of these
problems have been solved; and his book is not less useful as a guide to
what has been done than as a help to those who wish to reconstruct the
history of their own neighbourhood.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“There are some curious blunders, but they are not sufficiently frequent
to detract materially from the high opinion we have formed of the work
as a whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 763. Je. 26. 1350w.
“It cannot be called scientific or authoritative. In its earlier
chapters, at least, its treatment is frequently confused and vague. The
different classes or types of earthworks are not kept sufficiently
clear, and when one is under discussion others are brought in too
freely, as if classification was not important. There occur also serious
mistakes, especially in the account of the Roman earthworks.” M. V. T.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 604. Jl. ’09. 430w.
“We are too grateful to the author for the well-sifted materials he has
supplied to judge the whole work by any defects, especially if those
defects concern matters which the author may have considered as lying
outside his proper scope of work. But there is one feature of the
author’s work which calls for special notice. Though he refers
respectfully enough to Sir Norman Lockyer’s work, he indulges in remarks
about the astronomical inquiry which are both unwarranted and
inconsiderate, without showing any appreciation of the points in
question.” John Griffith.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 69. Mr. 18, ’09. 2400w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 246. F. 20, ’09. 1250w.
“It is the plain man’s ‘vade mecum’ to earthworks. It pretends to no
immense erudition, and it lays claim to no great discovery, but it is
the work of a careful student, who knows all that has been said on this
subject in recent years, who is not afraid to make up his own mind when
authorities differ, and who has the power of expressing clearly and
pleasantly his own views and those of others.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 463. Mr. 20, ’09. 1600w.
=Allen, Francis Henry=, comp. Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau.
*$5. Houghton.
8–33764.
“Comprises Thoreau’s books, selections from his writings, articles, and
poems first issued in magazines, biographies, books, and periodicals
containing biographical or critical matter about Thoreau, and records of
sale at auction of the more important items.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The work is well done, and is an important addition to the series.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 13. Ja. 7, ’09. 220w.
“As complete a guide book as any author might wish an admiring posterity
to have for his works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 772. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Allen, Gardner Weld.=^{[5]} Our naval war with France. **$1.50.
Houghton.
9–10958.
A study of the spoliation of American commerce by the French, and the
resulting hostilities during the last years of the eighteenth century.
Manuscripts and contemporary newspapers have yielded the author material
heretofore unused. Contents: Early misunderstandings; Negotiations;
French spoliations; Naval preparation; The opening of hostilities;
Events of 1799; The last year of the war; Private armed vessels; The
convention of 1800; Reduction of the navy; Spoliations after 1801; The
spoliation claims. Appendix contains sources of information, treaties,
decrees, vessels in service, commanding officers, etc.
* * * * *
“Previous to the appearance of the book under review, no complete
history of our naval war with France had been published. The author
prints some valuable statistics for the war.” C: O. Paullin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 160. O. ’09. 750w.
“Full and admirably clear account.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 5. S. ’09.
“The book is written in a simple and direct style, and presents a clear
and readable account of the stirring events described.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 126. S. 1, ’09. 330w.
“Dr. Allen’s account of this curious chapter in our history is brief and
to the point. It abounds in references to authority; it contains a full
bibliography and a careful index; its frequent quotations from the
newspapers of that day give it a lively air of actuality; it is well
written and well printed.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 357. O. 14, ’09. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 419. Jl. 3, ’09. 350w.
=Allen, Grant.= Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.
8–37673.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 35. F. ’09.
“Sometimes Grant Allen’s acute intelligence throws new light on an old
subject. At other times the text is amateurish and commonplace.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 337. S. 18. 300w.
“It is certainly refreshing now and then to encounter clear and
systematic reasoning and a logically sustained premise in a field so
thickly dotted with the flowers of misapplied sentiment and misfit
knowledge.” Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 621. F. ’09. 260w.
=Allen, Horace.= Modern power gas producer, practice and applications:
a practical treatise dealing with the gasification of various
classes of fuels by the pressure and suction systems of producer.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.
9–10804.
“In this book the author defines the principles governing the
gasification of fuel, and describes the practical commercial types of
producers which have been developed. He also sets forth details of the
most recent inventions in this field, and the claims made by the
inventors, in this way presenting to the reader the various problems
encountered by designers.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is written in a rather slipshod manner,
which might have been excusable in the original articles, but should
have been corrected when they were published in book form. If there were
no other books on the subject this one would have value, but it is not
equal to several of its predecessors.”—A. E. Forstall.
− =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 18. F. 18, ’09. 700w.
=Allen, Horace Newton.= Things Korean. **$1.25. Revell.
8–33800.
“A collection of sketches and anecdotes, missionary, and diplomatic.”
“As American Minister during the troublous times when China, Russia and
Japan were struggling over the Land of the morning calm, the author had
opportunities for exceptional insight into the political and personal
forces of the conflict.... But Dr. Allen’s sketches deal more with the
life of the people of all ranks than with political questions. He
sympathizes with the Koreans in their loss of liberty, of a chance to
work out their own destinies, but he sees no advantage in intervention
now.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The book is attractive not only because of its contents, but also
because of the pleasing style which at times recalls Lafcadio Hearn.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 173. Jl. ’09. 160w.
“An interesting collection of miscellaneous notes of his observations
and experiences during twenty years of residence in Korea.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Many of the incidents are entertaining and instructive, but many are
trivial and hardly worthy of record.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 38. Ja. 14, ’09. 130w.
“What might have been an extremely valuable contribution to our
knowledge of the Hermit kingdom, therefore, becomes an amusing but
disjointed effort of a reporter.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 115. F. 27, ’09. 110w.
=Allen, J. W.=^{[11]} Wheel magic; or, Revolutions of an
impressionist. **$1.25. Lane.
A little volume of pleasant essays in which the author reveals himself
as the “Isaak Walton of cycling.”
* * * * *
“He includes a capital ghost story and some measure of incident, but is
chiefly concerned with esoteric thoughts and moods induced by the
country and the open air. Having protested more than once against the
common conclusion that the cyclist must be a Philistine, we congratulate
Mr. Allen on his pleasant proof to the contrary, in these pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 120w.
“He has sought to give his work an out-of-door air, but instead there is
a flavor of lubricating oil, sprockets, chains, and ball-bearings.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 675. O. 30, ’09. 250w.
=Allen, James.=^{[12]} Mastery of destiny. **$1. Putnam.
Reasoning from the fact that thought is not less orderly and progressive
than the material forms that embody thought, and that the “perfect law”
of causation being all-embracing in mind as in matter provides relief
from all anxiety concerning the ultimate destiny of humanity, the author
“sets down some words indicative of this Law and this Destiny, and the
manner of its working and its building.” The book is a companion to “The
life triumphant.”
=Allen, James Lane.=^{[7]} Bride of the mistletoe. $1.25. Macmillan.
9–16803.
The first part of a trilogy. It rends the veil that gives privacy to a
middle-aged couple’s interpretation of the mysteries of love, and
presents in atoningly artistic phrases the “beast and the angel”
leanings which characterize the man and woman respectively. “The theme
is the American home, its sanctity and its perils.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The reader once more falls under the spell of Mr. Allen as a
‘raconteur,’ though he may feel that such prolonged tension and detail
in the portrayal of defeated passion approaches dangerously near to
melodrama. He may resent as unnecessary the intrusion of certain minute
materialistic allusions in a study of human nature closely intertwined
with a poetic summary of the evolution of man and man’s religion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 91. Jl. 24. 180w.
“Mr. Allen has achieved a work of art more complete in expression, more
cohesive, than anything that has yet come from him. It is like a cry of
the soul, so intense one scarcely realizes whether it is put into words
or not.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 539. Jl. ’09. 1250w.
“The mature man or woman may, of course, read it with enjoyment and
profit. But it is not—and this is a point that cannot be too strongly
emphasised—a book for the ‘jeune fille.’”
− + =Bookm.= 29: 577. Ag. ’09. 100w.
“A crueller book for women has not been written before this time. About
the meanest thing any person could devise would be to give a copy of it
to a young bride, or a middle-aged married woman, or any kind of a
married woman.”
− =Ind.= 67: 250. Jl. 29, ’09. 1050w.
“A prose poem notwithstanding the somberness of its theme.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 150w.
“There is a touch of unwholesomeness in the particularity with which he
is wont to appeal to the lust of the fancy. No seriousness of intent can
greatly avail Mr. Allen as long as this taint remains.”
− =Nation.= 89: 16. Jl. 1, ’09. 550w.
“The author has vivisected to furnish forth a sentimental orgy—secondary
and literary merely, of course—one of the cruel tragedies which must
befall overcivilized folk in a natural world. The quarrel is not with
the material nor with the use of the scalpel but with the poisonous
purpose.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 414. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w.
“Delicately and at times eloquently written, the descriptions of
Kentucky, the land of the author’s birth and heart, are full of lovely
vision.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 267. Ag. ’09. 150w.
“Its beauty is not a matter of mere phrasing, it is evoked out of the
material, it is diffused like an atmosphere through the whole book. The
defect of the story lies in its failure entirely to explain itself and
justify the tragedy of married love which it suggests with delicate and
penetrating skill.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 771. Jl. 31, ’09. 470w.
“The style is exquisite; it is Mr. Allen at his best.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 120w.
“The method is pictorial, and the writer’s effort has been to make a
colossal pedestal and a colossal group. The effort is almost sublime,
the result ridiculous.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 232. Ag. 21, ’09. 700w.
=Allen, Lyman Whitney.= Abraham Lincoln: a poem. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–4278.
The spirit of the bards of old possessed the author thruout the
fashioning of this wreath of lyrics. First he sings of the dream of
freedom and empire, then of the threatening alarums of war and of the
rising of a great star upon the night of slavery. The people’s uprising,
Humiliation, Emancipation, Victory, The great translation, The pledge of
history and The land of promise are suggestive headings under which he
groups his verse all of which is tuned to the Lincoln struggle.
* * * * *
“Is a good poem or rather series of poems.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 490. Mr. 4, ’09. 40w.
“A series of lyrics, with higher flights but deeper falls [than ‘A man
of destiny’].”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 20w.
=Allen, Lyman Whitney.= Parable of the rose and other poems. **$1.25.
Putnam.
8–33770.
A group of poems written by a Presbyterian pastor. Many of them sing of
enduring love, the love “ever rife with deepening proofs of
immortality.”
* * * * *
“Over fifty shorter poems and sonnets that are written with grace, and
mostly with a personal flavor.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 102. Ja. 14, ’09. 100w.
=Allen, Mrs. Mary (Wood).=^{[12]} Making the best of our children. 2v.
ea. **$1. McClurg.
9–28173.
Brief narratives illustrating by twos the wrong then the right method of
handling situations by which parents are constantly confronted in the
rearing of children. These concrete cases, dealing with some childish
crises and first showing the wrong method then the right, are selected
from problems arising thruout the years from babyhood to adolescence.
The spirit of the right method in every case is family cooperation.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 110w.
=Allen, William Harvey.= Civics and health; with an introd. by William
T. Sedgwick. *$1.25. Ginn.
9–5261.
Physical perfection as a basis of effective citizenship is the keynote
of this practical handbook. How to detect and remove the elements in
school, home and street environment that induce physical and moral
weakness and defects is the serious business with which Dr. Allen is
concerned. Practical methods and suggestions are offered in chapters
under the following heads: Health rights; Reading the index to health
rights; Coöperation in meeting health obligation; Official machinery for
enforcing health rights; Alliance of hygiene, patriotism, and religion.
* * * * *
“Though particularly addressed to teachers and school boards, it is of
almost equal value to the parent and to social and civic workers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 129. My. ’09. ✠
“This is a most readable book, of great value to any public-spirited
citizen.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 195. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“His book should be widely read by teachers for whom it contains many
practical suggestions.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 315. O. ’09. 40w.
“Although nearly everything the author says is valuable and needs to be
brought home to some hundreds of thousands of people throughout the
country, yet we cannot but feel that his book would have gained in force
and usefulness if he had condensed it materially. We do not wish to
belittle the interest and value of the book, but merely to point out how
both might have been increased.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 700w.
“Most interesting reading, well calculated to draw attention to the
exceedingly varied efforts now making to bring about a general social
betterment by beginning at the bottom.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 579. Je. 10, ’09. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 386. Je. 19, ’09. 1300w.
“A reading of Dr. Allen’s book is likely to give every teacher a new
sense of proportion in dealing with matters of hygiene and sanitation.
It is full of suggestions to those communities that have not yet put
themselves in the right relations to questions of community health, and
it records the achievements of the most advanced among our American
cities.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 140w.
“I commend the volume in the most unreserved manner. There is no book
to-day in the English language which contains more useful, valuable and
reliable information on the subjects of which it treats.” G: M. Kober.
+ + =Survey.= 22: 536. Jl. 10, ’09. 1700w.
=Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.= Forest runners: a story of the great
war trail in early Kentucky. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27801.
The continuation of the adventures of the two boys who were the heroes
of “The young trailers.” They encounter wild animals and Indians, and
render their greatest service in saving a band of settlers from
massacre.
* * * * *
“A stirring story. Has a fine feeling for the forest and for the courage
of the men who braved its perils.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 307. D. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.=^{[10]} Free rangers: a story of early
days along the Mississippi. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–25641.
Continues the fortunes of the boys whose achievements were set down in
“The forest runner,” and tells of their journey down the Mississippi to
New Orleans whither they go to present to the Spanish Governor-General
the true state of affairs between the American settlers in Kentucky and
the emissaries of Spain. After numerous encounters with their old enemy,
Braxton Wyatt, and a traitorous Spanish agent, they accomplish their
object and help thru the safe voyage of a supply fleet from New Orleans
to Kentucky.
=Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.=^{[10]} Last of the chiefs. †$1.50.
Appleton.
9–25637.
The story of two boys who join a caravan crossing the western plains
under the guide of an Indian—the last of the chiefs. After perilous
adventures they establish themselves in a Montana valley living as
trappers and hunters. Upon their return to the East to dispose of their
pelts they are captured by the Indians and witness the destruction of
the tribe by Custer’s army.
=American= foreign policy, by a diplomatist.^{[12]} *$1.25. Houghton.
9–29540.
An anonymously written volume whose purpose is “to draw attention to the
duty of diplomacy to further our foreign policy in different regions of
the world, and to the conditions of national security upon which must
rest its assertion.” It covers the whole field of international
relations, dwelling especially upon our own inefficiency and the reasons
for it with the hope of awakening public opinion to the consciousness of
what it may rightly demand for diplomacy as an instrument for the
nation’s welfare.
* * * * *
“The measures he advocates so ably are all in the right direction.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1148. N. 18, ’09. 250w.
“Whoever is able to detect the occasional admixtures of wide speculation
and sheer nonsense in this vivacious book may use it safely and with
profit.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 900w.
“This is a meaty little book with internal evidence why the author is so
discreet regarding his identity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 740. N. 27, ’09. 1000w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 150w.
=American school of classical studies in Rome.= Supplementary papers
of. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= Includes a paper by G. H. Allen on “The advancement of officers
in the Roman army” which analyzes and tabulates the system of promotion
followed by the Romans during the first three centuries of the empire;
one by A. W. Van Buren which transcribes the palimpsest of Cicero’s “De
re publica”; one by J. C. Egbert on “Inscriptions of Rome and Central
Italy”; and a paper by C. D. Curtis on “Roman monumental arches” which
“is attractive in theme, and addressed to a wide audience, whom it takes
over a considerable part of the Roman world in a description of
monuments, both artistic and picturesque.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Van Buren’s article will interest a small circle of specialists,
and for them it will be of permanent value. George H. Allen’s article
also appeals to specialists, but in a wider sense, and it will be
consulted by historians as well as by classicists. Prof. J. C. Egbert’s
‘Inscriptions of Rome and Central Italy’ has a broader title than the
contents really warrant. C. D. Curtis’s ‘Roman monumental arches’
contains no new material and makes no contribution to knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 554. D. 3, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 2.)
“All four papers include valuable matter. The whole volume shows careful
work and editing, and has a serviceable index.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 84. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ames, Mrs. Mary (Lesley)=, ed.^{[12]} Life and letters of Peter and
Susan Lesley. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
9–24273.
A life of Professor Lesley “as he knew himself and as his friends knew
him.” He was a geologist of eminence and his wife did little more than
share his honors quietly and sympathetically. “The long unreserved
letters, covering the period from 1838 to 1893, concern not the writers
alone; they tell of men and women who have graven their names deeply in
science, literature and even in politics; they throw interesting
sidelights upon many obscure matters in our country’s history, for the
Lesleys were associated intimately with many who were leaders in great
movements.” (Science.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 564. S. 25, ’09. 240w.
“Any notice of this work, brought within reasonable compass, must be
only a patchwork of fragments, giving no proper conception of its
importance.” J: J. Stevenson.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 680. N. 12, ’09. 1400w.
=Anderson, A. J.=^{[10]} Romance of a friar and a nun: being the
romance of Fra Filippo Lippi. **$2.50. Dodd.
Once more a rehabilitation of the Carmelite friar and the nun of Santa
Margherita whose love story seems to lose no interest as the centuries
go by. The friar’s “personality is so interesting that many people have
written about him. Our author is very warm in his—or should we say
her?—championship of the lovers, and makes out a good case for them in
the appendices. The book is well illustrated by a number of
reproductions of Filippo’s pictures.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“An astonishing romance which may well be true even as he tells it, in
essence, though certainly not in detail.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 654. N. 27. 120w.
“Sentimental and amateurish romance with no particular psychological
insight and a merely superficial knowledge of the fifteenth century, the
atmosphere of which he is quite incapable of suggesting. The chief merit
of the book is that Mr. Anderson deals very reverently with the
religious aspect of the story, and shows a sympathetic appreciation of
the normal life of a Roman Catholic convent at the present day.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 300w.
“This story of the nun Lucrezia and the ‘glad friar’ is cleverly built
up on a framework of facts and traditions. It is a pleasantly written
book, full of merry talk and practical common-sense.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 384. S. 11, ’09. 1000w.
=Anderson, Ada Woodruff.=^{[6]} Strain of white. †$1.50. Little.
9–10650.
A story of frontier life in the Pacific northwest during the 50’s. The
heroine is the daughter of a Yakima chief’s sister and an army officer.
“As the story opens this girl is just starting out to find her uncle,
Kam-i-ah-kan, the chief of the Yakimas, in order to ask him who her
father is; for beyond knowing that he is an army man of considerable
rank, she has no information about him. Before she finds her father and
is acknowledged by him to be his daughter, a great many interesting and
exciting things take place, in which soldiers, settlers, and Indians are
concerned.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story is extremely well told and several of the characters are
charmingly and artistically drawn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 20, ’09. 270w.
“There ought to be a special news interest just now in this spirited
account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Anderson, Frank Maloy.= Constitutions and other select documents
illustrative of the history of France, 1789–1907. 2d ed., rev. and
enl. *$2.50. Wilson, H. W.
8–37330.
A revision and enlargement of Professor Anderson’s original collection
of French documentary material. It contains additional references and
new documents, most of them of recent date, concerning the separation of
church and state.
* * * * *
“No work of this kind could be beyond criticism; but this perhaps
approaches perfection as nearly as could be expected. All documents
included are important. Some fault might be found with the proportion of
the volume. A few periods of large importance are almost entirely
ignored. Few students of the period, however, would be willing to have
these faults, if indeed they be considered faults, corrected by omitting
any considerable number of documents given.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 640. Ap. ’09. 280w.
“A valuable work for the college or reference library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 118. Ap. ’09.
“The selection of documents has been very judiciously made and no
English or American teacher of recent French history can afford to
dispense with this book. The volume is particularly valuable for
collateral reading in college classes.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 449. Mr. ’09. 150w.
“Is one of the most thorough compilations of its class. This collection
leaves practically nothing to be desired by the ordinary student in this
most fascinating field of modern history.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 160w.
“A similar volume in French would have been most useful to teachers
here; until that has been supplied they may perforce use this book,
which is well planned and carefully executed on the lines set down by
the writer.” T. F. T.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 201. Ja. ’09. 140w.
“The new matter in this edition has been judiciously selected. It
includes important documents relating to the recent separation of church
and state in France.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 100w.
“The translation of the documents is not faultless, and the selection
has been governed somewhat too closely by purely political interests to
meet the needs of classes attempting to understand the real significance
of recent French history. But the book is already a large one, and along
the political line one has few suggestions to offer.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 176. Mr. ’09. 180w.
“In the selection, translation and editing of the documents Professor
Anderson has shown admirable judgment and care, and he has provided
teachers of recent political history with a most useful instrument for
class work.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 108. My. ’09. 100w.
=Anderson, Galusha.= Story of a border city during the civil war.
**$1.50. Little.
8–27164.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The two divisions of the book are of quite unequal value. This lack of
a period of reconstruction of judgments adds a charm to the really
important part of the book, the personal reminiscences, which at times
approach contemporary evidence in tone and vividness.” Jonas Viles.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 858. Jl. ’09. 340w.
“As a story of life in a border state city, the book is valuable. It is
easily the best and most comprehensive account we have of the peculiar
conditions in such a community, and much of it would apply to conditions
that existed in the other border states. The writer aims to be
impartial, and is certainly not bitter; but he never sees, probably
never saw, the other side of the case.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 23. Ja. 1, ’09. 400w.
“For the most part our author relates what he heard and saw himself, and
makes a good contribution to our knowledge of the time.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 632. D. 24, ’08. 570w.
“From first to last it is distinctly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Anderson, Lewis Flint.=^{[5]} History of common school education: an
outline sketch. *$1.25. Holt.
9–9285.
Aims to give clearly, concisely and concretely such information
regarding the history and development of the common or non-professional
school as will be of most aid to teachers and general readers in
understanding the nature and functions of the common school of to-day
and its relations to other institutions educational and otherwise. The
author begins with the Greek and Roman schools and carries his history
thru the middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, early colonial
period in America, on down to the present.
* * * * *
“We are not particularly imprest with its value.”
− =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 70w.
=Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 40w.
“Very complete and to be recommended to the quick-paced student.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 70w.
=Anderson, William.=^{[5]} Japanese wood engravings: their history,
technique and character. *75c. Dutton.
“A pocket edition of the well-known book by the late Dr. William
Anderson ... which Mr. Joly, in the preface ... characterizes as ‘an
inexhaustible mine of information, not only upon schools of painting and
their representatives in the collection, but also upon the subjects
treated by the artists.’ Most of the illustrations of the present work
are taken from examples in Dr. Anderson’s collection in the British
Museum.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It falls off decidedly in the reprint. The text on Japanese art as
contained in the present book is, however, very helpful.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 394. Ap. 15, ’09. 250w.
=Andràssy, Gyula.=^{[6]} Development of Hungarian constitutional
liberty; tr. from the Hungarian by C. Arthur and Ilona Ginever.
*7s.6d. Paul (Kegan), Trench, Trübner and co., London.
9–8762.
“Treats of the period from the entry of the Hungarians into what is now
known as Hungary to the end of the reign of Matthias II, in other words,
from 896 to 1619 A. D.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“An eloquent and statesmanlike panegyric rather than a history. It is
not a systematic exposition, supported by references and allusions to
sources. It is rather the work of a man who has consulted and digested
every treatise on the subject and expects something like the same sort
of knowledge from his reader. The translation is excellent.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 332. O. 7, ’09. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 762. D. 4, ’09. 330w.