constitutional development, but it suffers from diffuseness and
repetition. Moreover, it only considers one side of the Hungarian
question.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 212. F. 13, ’09. 570w.
=Spec.= 102: 97. Ja. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Andréadès, A.=^{[5]} History of the bank of England; tr. by C.
Meredith, with a preface by H. S. Foxwell. *10s. 6d. King, P. S.,
London.
9–12919.
A history written by a Greek in the French language for French readers.
The translator “has not attempted any revision, so that aside from
purely technical corrections the treatment is unchanged. The value of
this edition has been enhanced, however, by the addition of a critical
preface by Professor Foxwell in which he contrasts this work with the
others in the same field and makes note of a few points where he is
inclined to disagree with the author.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
“Andréadès is strongest, as might have been expected of a foreign
writer, on the historical side. There is wanting any inquiry into
certain major issues which are sharply drawn in connection with banking
reorganization in several of the countries of the world today and on
which the history of the bank of England should afford evidence, either
negatively or positively.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 242. S. ’09. 800w.
“The task of the translator has been well performed.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 310. My. ’09. 80w.
“The first complete history of the bank of England. Professor Foxwell’s
appreciative, yet discriminating, introduction adds materially to the
value of the volume.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 425. Ap. 22, ’09. 640w.
“Accurate and scholarly work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 114. Jl. 24, ’09. 150w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
“It did not supplant previous studies on special periods and special
aspects of the long career of the bank, but in offering a consecutive
history of the bank, informed by sound scholarship and sober judgment,
it furnished something for which there was and still is no substitute.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 105. My. ’09. 180w.
=Andreieff, Leonid.=^{[5]} Seven who were hanged: a story; authorized
translation from the Russian by Herman Bernstein. $1. Ogilvie.
9–11689.
A book of political and literary value in the form of fiction which is a
protest against the reign of terror in Russia and embodies a strong
indictment against capital punishment. It depicts with psychological
insight the tragedies of seven who were hanged, two of them being women
revolutionists.
* * * * *
“A beautiful and a terrible book, the result of a passion for humanity
and of simple, strong art—a swift, passionate picture of human life and
character. It is full of the wonderful psychology and emotional realism
of the great Russian writers.” Hutchins Hapgood.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 408. Je. ’09. 800w.
“There are paragraphs and sentences that are so real as to be a torture;
but there are long passages in which the pace is forced. The sense of
the inevitable is absent. It is the case of a highly gifted artist
drawing up a tentative list of psychological states, and then selecting
one as best suited to his purpose. With this proviso, we can not deny
Andreyev an exceptional talent for seeing the truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 582. Je. 10, ’09. 500w.
“Is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more
impressive than any other Russian fiction which has been translated in a
long time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 330w.
“It is a powerful study. The translation seems to be very well done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 120w.
=Andrews, Charles McLean.= British committees, commissions and
councils of trade and plantations, 1622–1675. (Johns Hopkins
university studies in historical and political science. Ser. 26,
nos. 1–3.) 75c. Johns Hopkins.
8–22803.
“From a first-hand study of material in the British archives, Professor
Andrews is able to trace with some detail the history of the various
bodies upon which was devolved, from time to time, the supervision of
plantation trade, and to point out the steady, though irregular,
development of a colonial policy.” (Nation.) “The work of the merchants,
Noell and Povey, is for the first time fully brought out.... In an
appendix dealing with ‘Heads of business; Councils of 1670 and 1672,’
Professor Andrews incorporates with the references from the Calendars
under the respective dates the notices of the proceedings given in
Evelyn’s ‘Diary.’” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“By far the most complete and satisfactory account of the English organs
of colonial administration during the period dealt with, which has
hitherto appeared.” H. E. E.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 618. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“A contribution of prime importance to our scanty knowledge of English
colonial administration in the seventeenth century.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 627. D. 24, ’08. 450w.
=Andrews, Charles McLean, and Davenport, Frances Gardiner.=^{[5]}
Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United
States to 1783. $2. Carnegie inst.
9–6049.
A guide to the manuscript material for the history of the United States
to 1783 found in the British museum, in minor London archives, and in
the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge.
* * * * *
“As a handbook for investigators it will be of the greatest value. With
it in his possession the student can proceed with certainty from the
first that he will not miss any important source of information. Thus a
large amount of useless searching will be avoided. Very few errors or
misprints have been noted, and in view of the care with which the volume
has been edited, it is not likely that its prolonged use will bring to
light any considerable number of such.” H. L. Osgood.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 829. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“Will be of the greatest value to English no less than to American
students of colonial history.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 624. Jl. ’09. 210w.
“A careful examination of titles shows remarkable freedom from errors in
date or name. The volume is an invaluable aid to the investigator, and
full proof of the utility of the series planned by Mr. Jameson and
entrusted to such capable experts.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 360. Ap. 8, ’09. 340w.
“A useful guide.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 98. F. 20, ’09. 70w.
=Andrews, Edward Lewis.= Napoleon and America: an outline of the
relations of the United States to the career and downfall of
Napoleon Bonaparte. *$2. Kennerley.
9–6269.
Here are reflections, largely conjectural, on Napoleon’s relations with
America and interest in her affairs, and on what might have been had he
come here after his downfall to restore his fortunes.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 60w.
“Is scarcely more than a series of reflections on what might have been,
if things had been different ... agreeably and cleverly written, but
remaining conjectures and reflections.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Andrews conducts us along an interesting bypath in history.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 240w.
=Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman.=^{[12]} Enchanted forest, and other
stories. †$1.50. Dutton.
9–26471.
Fairy stories told to a child with the usual appetite for wonder tales
have been collected and printed for other children with like appetites.
“Many a child, new to all the tricks of the trade, will revel in John
and Renard, the Fox, the whipped-cream plants, the chocolate-wells, and
other incongruously delightful imaginings.... While “The enchanted
forest,” different in its appeal, has no claim to very long existence,
we must applaud any author who is young enough at heart to like ‘high
jinks’ every night with a child.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The story is a mixture of already familiar books of the same kind.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
=Andrews, William.=^{[10]} Old English towns. **$2. Pott.
“The old towns selected for treatment are twenty-seven, beginning with
Winchester, Canterbury, and Bath, and ending with Carlisle, Monmouth,
and Chester. They are mostly chosen from well-known historic centres,
but a few are of minor note, though well worthy of inclusion, such as
Ledbury and Weobley in Herefordshire, and Chepstow on the Wye.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Its statements may be taken as trustworthy by the general reader, to
whom it will be a convenience to possess a book for general reference.
In writing about Derby, Mr. Andrews fell into a considerable blunder,
for which, however, he was scarcely to blame.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 265. S. 4. 470w.
“The author has ranged through legend, history, and literature, and
gathered up everything the traveler need wish to know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 150w.
“On the whole, this is a very interesting book and adequately
illustrated.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 130w.
=Andújar, Manuel.=^{[8]} Spain of to-day from within; with an
autobiography of the author. **$1.25. Revell.
9–9442.
“Travel and religion divide the pages of this easily read volume. The
author was born in Spain in the Catholic church but was later converted
and joined the Methodist branch of Protestantism. About one-fourth of
the book is taken up with the story of the change of belief.... The last
three-fourths tell of a journey through the Spanish peninsula, in which
interesting descriptions of men, events and places are presented.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Past training and temperament explain many highly prejudiced statements
made throughout the book, for no opportunity to have a fling at the
mother church is lost.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 173. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“The reader will find himself interested from the beginning to the end
of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1265. D. 2, ’09. 180w.
“We see modern Spain viewed critically and almost with prejudice.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 240w.
=Angela Da Foligno, St.= Book of the divine consolation of Saint
Angela Da Foligno. (New mediaeval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
“The book of the blest Angela treats of the severe and often impossible
ideals of sainthood as conceived in the thirteenth century. Originally
written in Latin, it appeared in ‘the vulgar tongue’ in 1536, and upon
this Italian version is based the present English translation.
Facsimiles of the early Italian illustrations are given. The chief value
of the book is, of course, historical.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 307. F. 20, ’09. 360w.
“Readers may differ from Mr. Thorold in the degree of their admiration
for the ‘pure and candid soul’ of the Blessed Angela, but no student of
mediæval culture can afford to neglect her religious testament.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 440. Ap. 29, ’09. 350w.
“A precious book, a rapt, ecstatic chronicle of the soul. While the
dogmatic side must of necessity be alien to modern thought, and the idea
of self-abasement still more alien one is never left unmoved by a
spiritual transport such as these pages reveal.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 113. F. 27, ’09. 160w.
=Angier, A. Gorton.=^{[8]} Far East revisited: essays on political,
commercial, social and general conditions in Malaya, China, Korea
and Japan; with a preface by Sir Robert Hart. *$4.20. Scribner.
9–5989.
“A travel book. The first third presents a favorable report of what has
been accomplished in the British Malaysian colonies and in Netherlands
India. The last part contains the author’s real contributions. He finds
the trade of Chinese ports growing and efficiently conducted. Praise is
especially given to the German activity in Tsing-Tao. The recent edicts
intended ultimately to bring the maritime customs back into Chinese
control the author thinks ill advised. The opium legislation also is
treated in a way which recalls the opium war and the present interest of
England in poppy culture in India, but at the last the author puts
himself on record in favor of helping China curb the use of the drug.
There are two excellent chapters on present railway development in
China.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Japan’s ambitions receive much more sympathetic treatment than is
accorded by most recent writers.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 195. Jl. ’09. 330w.
“His well-known knowledge of Far Eastern matters makes his comments
important and trustworthy.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 39. Ja. 9. 900w.
“The book was well worth writing, for Mr. Angier journeyed with a keen
eye to facts and future developments.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 242. Ag. 14, ’09. 150w.
=Anthony, William Arnold.= Lecture-notes on the theory of electrical
measurements; prepared for the third-year classes of the Cooper
union night-school of science; 3d ed., rev. by Albert Ball. $1.
Wiley.
8–26863.
“In the revision of the late W. A. Anthony’s notes for this third
edition Prof. Ball has added several problems in each chapter. There is
also some additional matter on condenser capacity and its determination.
Half the book takes up the bases of different systems and units of mass,
force, energy, etc., and the relations between electrical units. The
rest of the book is given over to the explanation of practical
measurements of potential, current and resistance, and to the laws of
the heating, chemical and magnetic effects of the electric
current.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 57. Ja. ’09. 140w.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 7. Ja. 14, ’09. 100w.
“Within this limited field it is a satisfactory little volume,
fulfilling its purpose well and not attempting to exceed the
requirements of the students for whom it has been prepared.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 140. Jl. 31, ’09. 80w.
=Arabian= nights, their best-known tales; ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin
and Nora A. Smith.^{[12]} †$2.50. Scribner.
9–28132.
Includes ten of the special favorites among the two hundred and
sixty-four stories of the “Arabian nights.” The edition is uniform in
appearance and make-up with Stevenson’s “Child’s garden of verses” which
Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated, and the “Queen’s museum and other
stories,” illustrated by Frederic Richardson. The twelve full-page
illustrations, title page, cover and lining paper are done in color by
Maxfield Parrish.
* * * * *
“They have retained—indeed, if recollection serves, even increased—the
humor of matter-of-fact phrase and understatement which makes Aladdin’s
mother, for instance, so delicious.” Algernon Tassin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 344. D. ’09. 310w.
“Maxfield Parrish’s illustrations ... have depth and height, and tho
they are decorative, they lose none of the rich imaginative quality that
distinguishes all his work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 89: 1025. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 50w.
“This book is by all odds the most beautiful child’s book of the season.
We could have wished that the English had been as impeccable as the
make-up and illustrations of the book.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 843. D. ’09. 110w.
“No one who knows anything of either the editors or the illustrator
needs to be told that their product is satisfying.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 787. D. 4, ’09. 90w.
=Archibald, Raymond Clare.=^{[11]} Carlyle’s first love: Margaret
Gordon, Lady Bannerman. **$3.50. Lane.
Following the most approved methods of scientific research, the author
explains the relations of Margaret Gordon with Thomas Carlyle, and
answers the question, “Was Margaret Gordon the sole original of the
Blumine of ‘Sartor Resartus?’”
* * * * *
“The volume before us tells us but little about Carlyle, and that little
by no means new.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 524. O. 30. 550w.
“Those only who are concerned in certain Scotch genealogies will find
the book valuable.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 517. N. 25, ’09. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 675. N. 6, ’09. 350w.
“That the book is worth the labour it must have cost is more than we
should care to vouch.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 355. S. 18, ’09. 1000w.
+ − =Spec.= 103: 559. O. 9, ’09. 1500w.
=Arctander, John W.=^{[7]} Apostle of Alaska: the story of William
Duncan of Metlakahtla. **$1.50. Revell.
9–14199.
A story, partly told from Mr. Duncan’s diary, which follows “the half
century spent by this apostle among the Indians of Alaska and British
Columbia, and how he acted as teacher, preacher, pastor, being at the
same time instructor and overseer in the enterprises he started,
including sawmilling, shipbuilding, salmon canning, and other
industries.... The story of his experiences among these people reads
like a romance of adventure in forty-two chapters, illustrated from
drawings and photographs. There are also several maps and facsimile
reproductions of interesting documents.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 67. N. ’09.
=Ind.= 66: 1246. Je. 3, ’09. 20w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 683. O. 23, ’09. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“For the most part the story is practically Mr. Duncan’s autobiography,
the author having depended upon his missionary friend for all the facts
it contains, and having to a large extent made use of his anecdotal
accounts of his interesting experiences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 429. Jl. 10, ’09. 530w.
=Arms, Mary W.=^{[11]} Italian vignettes. *$1.25. Kennerley.
9–28478.
Eleven sketches that re-create for the reader “the atmosphere and charm
of Italy, with her color, her cloisters, her people, her art treasures
and relics of the past.” They are: In faery lands; To Marigliano; Into
the golden age; Impressions in Rome; The Campo dei Fiori; An audience at
the Vatican; Holy week and Easter in Rome; Old cloisters; Tivoli; Stones
of Florence; A Venetian monastery.
* * * * *
“Is just one more of those perfervidly sentimental little books which
paradoxically enough are inevitably provoked by that most sensible of
people, the Italians.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 577. D. 9, ’09. 80w.
“Sensibility to the beauties of nature, appreciation of historic
significance, and much grace of diction characterize Mary W. Arms’s
‘Italian vignettes.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.=^{[11]} Art in Great Britain and Ireland.
**$1.50. Scribner.
9–24666.
A compact, fully illustrated handbook of British and Irish art beginning
with Stonehenge and ending with Alfred Gilbert thru which has been
traced the development of national spirit and character. It deals
successively with architecture, stained glass, needlework, iron work,
illuminated manuscripts, engravings, etchings, painting and sculpture.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 391. N. 16, ’09. 70w.
“It is surprising how much the author contrives to say in a few words.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 83. N. ’09. 200w.
“An excellent elementary text book. The text is a model of condensation
and the copious extent of illustration in good small cuts is a worthy
achievement in publishing.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 40w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 535. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Arnaud, Raoul.=^{[5]} Louis-Philippe and his sister: the political
life & rôle of Adélaïde of Orleans (1777–1847); tr. by E. L.
Charlwood. *$4.20. Scribner.
9–12034.
“A lively composition from well-known sources, ranging from Madame de
Genelis and Madame Junot to Madame de Boigne.... The title is
misleading. There is much social and personal gossip, but very few pages
are devoted to the history of the July monarchy and to the part played
by Madame Adélaïde as her brother’s adviser, and after the death of the
duke of Orleans the only person to whom he would listen.”—Eng. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“If not very instructive it is at least readable and amusing.” P. F. W.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 204. Ja. ’09. 200w.
“Curious biography and a clever translation.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 637. Ap. 24, ’09. 1500w.
=Arner, George B. L.= Consanguineous marriages in the American
population. *75c. Longmans.
8–18391.
The author’s conclusions are as follows: “That consanguinity in the
parents ‘has no perceptible influence’ upon the number of children or
their sex ratio, and ‘little, if any, direct effect upon the physical or
mental condition of the offspring.’ That ‘the most important
physiological effect of consanguineous marriage is to intensify any or
all inheritable family characteristics or peculiarities by double
inheritance,’—wherefore, it is to the interest of society that the
physically and mentally defective should not be allowed to marry and
propagate their kind. But, on the other hand, the logical conclusion is
reached that ‘in the absence of degenerative tendencies the higher
qualities of mind and body are similarly intensified by marriage between
highly endowed members of the same family.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“An interesting statistical study of the effects of inbreeding, and the
author’s conclusions are hardly in line with popular belief on the
subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 616. N. ’08. 180w.
“A praiseworthy attempt to clear the ground of some errors which have
crept in, and to reach certain conclusions which may be accepted.” W: B.
Bailey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 326. D. ’08. 500w.
“Within the limits of its scope the book is interesting and
intelligently done.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 103. F. ’09. 320w.
=Arnold, Felix.= Text-book of school and class management, theory and
practice. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33788.
“This volume in many respects may well be contrasted with the one by
Bagley. In the latter book practice leads and theory explains and
justifies, while in Arnold’s theory leads and is related to practice
chiefly by formal classifications.... The formal, systematic character
of the book will be indicated by the chapter headings of Part 1,
‘Principal and teacher: the principal’; ‘Coöperation between principal
and teacher: instruction’; ‘Coöperation between principal and teacher:
discipline’: ‘Coöperation between principal and teacher: supervision.’
Topics are usually introduced by a general definition, e.g., the chapter
on ‘Coöperation between principal and teacher’ has a formal definition
and a half page quotation from Giddings’s ‘Sociology on the nature of
coöperation.’”—Psychol. Bull.
* * * * *
“We cannot after a careful perusal of the work, recommend it at all
warmly to the notice of English specialists, whether theoretical or
practical, and we doubt its acceptability to American readers. The
reader of the later chapters of the work will find many hints which, if
he be a schoolmaster, may be serviceable to him.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 68. Ja. 16. 620w.
“It is doubtful if the beginner could extract any inspiration from Dr.
Felix Arnold’s elaborately wrought ‘Textbook of school management.’”
− =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“A subject on which much has been written is here discussed by Dr.
Arnold with such insight, common sense, and thoroughness that it must
command close and interested attention and convey a clearer conception
of some of the important phases of a teacher’s conduct and duty.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 200w.
“Comprehensiveness and conciseness are happily blended.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 381. F. 20, ’09. 210w.
“There are many good things said by the author and in quotations, but it
seems to the reviewer that there are in the book many things that are
obvious or inappropriate.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 118. Mr. 15, ’09. 210w.
=Arnold, Gertrude Weld=, comp. Mother’s list of books for
children.^{[12]} **$1. McClurg.
9–35844.
A reliable list of children’s books for the mother, teacher and
librarian. There are 515 titles classified according to the ages and not
the school grade of the child, and grouped under headings that indicate
the character of the book—poetry, stories, travel, etc.
* * * * *
“There is little to criticize in the selection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 67. N. ’09.
“Some stories have crept into her list which should creep out, but,
altogether, the little volume is one deserving of consultation before
mothers do their Christmas shopping.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 200w.
“The selection is suggestive, provided one is content to pass over the
latest novelty.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 70w.
“A most welcome aid in the problem of deciding what to give the children
to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 110w.
=Aronson, Victor Rees.=^{[9]} Workingmen’s Compensation act, 1906.
*$6. Unwin, T. Fisher, London.
9–16857.
“An exhaustive examination of the Act. Provision has been made for
serving the purpose of the lay as well as of the professional reader;
there is a complete examination of the Act, a summary of cases,
&c.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“A careful view of the law and cases.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 253. F. 27. 670w.
“The student or legislator laboriously striving to work out an
adaptation of workmen’s accident insurance or compensation to American
conditions will surely welcome this book with gratitude and admiration.
It is a model of analysis and precision.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 144. Je. ’09. 470w.
“We can heartily commend the book to the notice of all lawyers or laymen
who may have occasion to read, study or administer the act.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 438. Ap. 3, ’09. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 102: 270. F. 13, ’09. 50w.
=Arpee, Leon.=^{[10]} Armenian awakening: a history of the Armenian
church, 1820–1860. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–26331.
A compact history in 235 pages of the real vanguard of Turkish
enlightenment and civil and religious liberty. The chapters are:
Introduction; The revival of learning; Political history of the period;
The Romanist emancipation; Paulicianism; The first reformers; The
protestant excision; Why a protestant Armenian church; The struggle for
democracy; Appendices—containing The Armenian confession and The Turkish
constitution restored; Chronological table; Bibliography; Index.
* * * * *
“A learned and minute history of the Armenian church.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 150w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.=^{[9]} Life of the universe, as conceived
by man from the earliest ages to the present time; tr. by Dr. H.
Borns. (Harper’s lib. of living thought.) 2v. ea. **75c. Harper.
9–35854.
Traces the historical development of cosmogonic ideas from ancient days
up to the time of Newton. The divisions of the study in the first volume
are: Cosmogonies of primitive races; Creation myths of ancient civilised
races; The most beautiful and profound creation myths; Cosmogonies of
the ancient philosophers; Dawn of modern ages: multiplicity of the
inhabited worlds. For volume two the chapters are as follows: From
Newton to Laplace: mechanics and cosmogony of the solar system: More
recent astronomical discoveries: the stellar universe; The energy
conception in cosmogony; The conception of infinity in cosmogony.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 67. N. ’09.
“There are a considerable number of mistakes, caused apparently by the
translator’s want of acquaintance with the practice of English authors.
These mistakes are not important, but when it is intended to give to the
public science in a ‘tabloid’ form, pains should be taken to see that it
is easy to assimilate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 100. Jl. 24. 2000w.
=Dial.= 47: 238. O. 1, ’09. 330w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1148. N. 18, ’09. 200w.
=Arthur, William.=^{[6]} New Building estimator: a practical guide to
estimating the cost of labor and material in building construction,
from excavation to finish. 5th ed. $2.50. Williams.
9–8823.
An enlarged and revised edition of a work of value to architects,
builders, contractors, appraisers, engineers, superintendents and
draftsmen. Various practical examples of work are presented in detail,
and with the labor figured chiefly in hours and quantities.
* * * * *
“It is a compact compilation of cost data that should be in the
possession of every person engaged in building construction.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 56. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Arthur is an experienced builder, so that the data on pure
buildings is much more complete and authoritative than that on bridges,
pavements, steel-work, etc., which the author evidently has taken from
other sources than his own information.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 49. Ap. 15, ’09. 110w.
“This little book will be found useful, a compendium of general
information covering a wide field.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 671. My. 22, ’09. 90w.
=Arundell, John Francis, baron Arundell of Wardour.=^{[10]} Some
papers of Lord Arundell of Wardour, 12th baron, count of the Holy
Roman empire, etc., with a preface by the dowager Lady Arundell of
Wardour. *$3. Longmans.
“The discussions in this volume of ‘social inequality and natural right’
are not just ‘crambe repetita,’ but contain a number of serviceable
quotations from French, English and American thinkers, and some good
reflections of the writer’s own. The incompatibility of equality with
liberty is pointed out, and also the circumstance that, while
subordination is a fundamental law of the universe, the lines of social
inequality are forever interlacing and intersecting.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“These papers were well worth collecting, for the late Lord Arundell of
Wardour was something more than a country squire in politics or a very
estimable, devout and conscientious man.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 292. S. 4, ’09. 770w.
=Spec.= 102: 1037. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.
=Ashcroft, Edgar A.=^{[7]} Study of electrothermal and electrolytic
industries; statistics by I. J. Moltkehansen. 3 pts. pt. 1,
Introductory. *$2. McGraw.
9–8949.
=v. 1.= “A general summary of the practical and theoretical development
of the rapidly growing electrochemical field for the application of
electric energy.... It is largely given up to a discussion of the
commercial value of electrolytic and electrothermal processes, in which
the author concludes that the future development of these industries
depends largely on the use of cheap water-power. A chapter is then
devoted to the location of plants with reference to such power
developments, and to costs of operation. The final chapter discusses the
broad features of plant design.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The introductory volume promises well, although it lacks condensation.
There is also a philosophising tendency which distracts from the main
purpose of the book.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 72. Je. 17, ’09. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is hardly to be taken as a technical guide to electrothermical
processes, being mostly a very readable and interesting essay on the
general factors entering into the progress and future of these
comparatively recent arts.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 726. Je. 5, ’09. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ashdown, Charles Henry.=^{[7]} British and foreign arms and armour.
*$4. Dodge.
Valuable not only as an introduction for the student but as a
trustworthy volume for the general reader this work begins with the rude
weapons of the wild man of the forest primeval and hurries on thru the
bronze and iron ages to dwell more at length upon the age of mail—when
knighthood was in flower. The author’s purpose is “serious, antiquarian
and historical.”
* * * * *
“The present magnificent volume has for the impressionable reader much
of the charm which belongs to the romances of Sir Walter Scott.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 416. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w.
“With [some] small exceptions, the book is a remarkably complete,
accurate, and unusually able treatise. It is pleasantly written, and
compounded of wide knowledge, enlightened observation, and a notable
comprehension and grasp of the facts. It is a volume for which there is
decidedly a vacant place, and we recommend it to fill that vacancy on
the shelves, not only of the student, but of any reading man who really
cares to understand the life of the past.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 615. Ap. 17, ’09. 1100w.
=Ashe, Samuel A’Court.=^{[3]} History of North Carolina. 2v. ea. 3/4
mor. $6. Charles L. Van Noppen, Greensboro, N. C.
8–30959.
=v. 1.= 1584–1783.
Treats the period in the following epochs: First epoch, 1584–91,
Raleigh’s explorations and colonies; Second epoch, 1629–63, permanent
settlement; Third epoch, 1663–1729, proprietary government; Fourth
epoch, 1729–65, North Carolina as a royal province; Fifth epoch,
1765–75, controversies with the mother country; Sixth epoch 1775–83, the
war for independence.
* * * * *
“It is a clear piece of narrative carefully constructed from the
original sources, rather strong in its accounts of personal incidents,
and weaker in discussions of social institutions. Generally speaking
this is our best history of North Carolina in the period covered, and it
is better than many other state histories, but it falls short of being a
satisfactory work and leaves the task still to be performed by a student
better trained in general history and with a better sense of historical
forces.” J: S. Bassett.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 833. Jl. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mr. Ashe has studied the early records of his state with great care,
and has written from them with admirable estimate of the importance of
the various movements and episodes of which he has seen fit to take
notice, and with an evident purpose to keep his narrative close to fact.
He has not allowed his state pride to warp his judgment and betray him
into erroneous conclusions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Askew, Mrs. Alice J. de C. (Leake), and Askew, Claude Arthur
Cary.=^{[11]} Testimony. †$1.50. Lane.
With the scene shifting from a quiet New England farm to London this
story tells of a quarrel between a mother and her daughter-in-law, of
the desertion of the daughter-in-law, of her flight to the home of a
millionaire uncle in England who uses her beauty and wit as a help in
working his way into London society, and of her final return and
reconciliation.
* * * * *
“This narrative is marked by the authors’ usual ingenuity and spirit;
but the plot is rather too obviously accommodated to the exhibition or
contrasts between antagonistic individualities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 261. S. 4. 150w.
“The first part of this book, the scene of which passes in New England,
is excellently written and most interesting to the reader. When,
however, the mother and the daughter-in-law quarrel and the
daughter-in-law deserts her home, the novel distinctly degenerates.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 466. S. 25, ’09. 150w.
=Association of American law schools.=^{[5]} Select essays in
Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 2. per set, *$12. Little.
7–26401.
=v. 2.= Contains twenty-five essays on the history of particular topics:
Pt. 1 is devoted to the sources of legal history; pt. 2 “contains essays
by Inderwick, Spence, Holdsworth and Mears on the history of the
courts—common law, equity, ecclesiastical and admiralty, their
organization and jurisdiction. Part 3, the largest of the four, traces
the history of procedure, and the ten essays range from the late
Professor Thayer’s ‘Older modes of trial’ and Sir Frederick Pollock’s
‘King’s peace in the middle ages’ to Professor Hepburn’s ‘Historical
development of code pleading in America and England.’... In part 4 are
six essays on equity.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“We do not mind the overlapping in subject-matter and the conflict of
views when the subject-matter is the origin of equity and the conflict
of views is between Mr. Justice Holmes and Professor James Barr Ames.”
H. D. Hazeltine.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 561. Ap. ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though primarily intended for lawyers, is at the same time brimful of
matter valuable for historians. Only in a very few cases do the editors
seem to have fallen below the high standard of excellence which they
have adopted.” F.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 822. O. ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This is one of the series of three volumes which the scholarly lawyer
cannot well do without.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 666. N. 14, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Atkinson, Eleanor.= Lincoln’s love story. **50c. Doubleday.
9–3343.
“The average person knows only that Ann Rutledge was Lincoln’s
sweetheart whom he lost by death. Of the character of Ann herself, the
circumstances of Lincoln’s associations with her, the qualities which
set her apart from the rustic maids of New Salem and drew Lincoln’s
regard, and of the inner heart of the tragedy which separated them by
death—the majority are ignorant. It is this which Mrs. Atkinson tells,
correlating all this tradition, supplementing it with direct testimony
from surviving friends of Lincoln, and projecting it against the
background where it was enacted.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Tradition and the testimony of Lincoln’s friends have been skillfully
utilized in this delicate story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09. ✠
“An exquisite little narrative of the tragic romance that mellowed,
softened and deepened Lincoln’s life.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 70w.
=Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 40w.
“While this story cannot take its place as literature with ‘He knew
Lincoln’ or ‘The perfect tribute,’ it is, nevertheless, delicately and
reverently told.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 470w.
=Atkinson, William Walker.= Mind-power: or, The law of dynamic
mentation. $2. Progress co.
9–3058.
“Mr. Atkinson premises that ‘there exists in nature a dynamic mental
principle—a mind-power—pervading all space—immanent in all
things—manifesting in an infinite variety of forms, degrees, and
phases.’ He identifies this force, or principle—his terminology is
rather loose—with ether, or concedes that it may dwell in ether. It is a
thing in itself and the way to use it is to say: ‘I am dynamic,’ with
all possible emphasis, which ranges this force on your side and makes
you irresistible in love, business, and all the affairs of life.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Can have no possible value to a student of scientific psychical
research, but it may prove attractive to others. The book seems to be a
sort of vade mecum for this class of spiritists, hypnotists,
clairvoyants, and mediums, and if the reading of it is confined to them
no harm will be done.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 50w.
=Atlay, J. B.=^{[5]} Lord Haliburton. 8s. 6d. Smith, Elder & co.,
London.
Not a biography but “the bare truths of a strenuous, and intelligent,
and highly conscientious official life.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Atlay has done his work well.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 128. Ja. 30. 640w.
“To Americans, this short memoir of the successful career of a British
colonist, born and bred in Nova Scotia, cannot but be interesting.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 257. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.
=Sat. R.= 107: 371. Mr. 20, ’09. 740w.
“Is assuredly a contribution to the literature of army problems which no
student of these can afford to neglect. It is also an inspiring and
stimulating record of the life of a great civil servant.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 530w.
=Audel’s= gas engine manual. $2. Audel.
8–8318.
“Begins with the earliest types of gas engines and attempts to have the
reader become familiar with the various engines in use up to three or
four years ago. There are descriptions of a number of engines, but there
is a noticeable absence of engines from about 100 to 500 h.-p. In
general, the scheme is to familiarize the reader with the various types
of engines, the principles upon which they operate, their construction,
operation, care and accessories which are always found in connection
with gas engine work.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“While deficient in the matter of theoretical, or thermodynamic,
information, and therefore not complete as a text-book on the subject,
this volume presents in a convenient form a large amount of practical
information.”
+ − =Engin.= N. 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 320w.
“The author succeeds well in covering the ground in a general manner,
and though more intended for the practical man, the book is worth the
attention of any one interested in the subject. It is safe to say that
the book gives more value for the money than any of its kind now
published.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 230w.
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.=^{[11]} Lost borders. $1.25. Harper.
9–28270.
Stories of a country “where the boundary of soul and sense is as faint
as a trail in a sand storm.” It is of the unrestrained life of the far
western plains that the author writes, of the obsessions that seize upon
men’s souls, of the moral irresponsibility, engendered by the desert,
that has no use for the formal side of man’s affairs.
* * * * *
“It is a wholesome book for city-dwellers in its largeness of
understanding.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 512. N. 25, ’09. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 50w.
“This woman has the eye to see, the heart to understand, the art of
words to convey.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 600w.
=Austin, Stanley Elston.=^{[6]} History of engraving from its
inception to the time of Thomas Bewick. *$1.50. Scribner.
9–4092.
A popular compendium giving in concise form the various methods of
engraving. The chapters are: Its fabled or romantic origin; More claims
considered; Block books; Early masters—“E. S.” and Albrecht Dürer; Hans
Holbein the younger; Progress of wood-engraving in England; Some masters
of the French and Italian schools; The birth of mezzotint; Early British
mezzotinters; More masters of mezzotint; A great exponent of stipple;
The revival of wood-engraving. Index.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 5. S. ’09.
“No ‘History’ can properly deal with the rise and progress of engraving
‘From its inception to the time of Bewick’ in this space.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 623. My. 22. 230w.
“A somewhat bumptious little book. Mr. Austin has knowledge of some of
the facts of his subject, although it is questionable if he possesses a
clear idea of just what constitutes engraving.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 178. F. 18, ’09. 270w.
“The author’s enthusiasms lead him to seemingly rather overcolored
statements.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 450w.
=Auvergne, Edmund B. d’.=^{[8]} Lola Montez. *$4. Lane.
This is the biography of a talented Irish woman whose distasteful early
marriage consummated by a scheming parent marked the beginning of a
checkered career of the sort known to adventuresses. “Maria Dolores
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert eloped at nineteen to escape a mercenary marriage.
By twenty-four she had quitted a husband and become the Spanish dancer
Lola Montez. In the eighteen years of life left her she passed from end
to end of Europe at the public expense, accumulating adorations ‘en
route’; fairly naturalized herself in the Paris of the greater Dumas and
Émile Girardin; episodically sojourned with the Abbé Liszt; became the
Egeria (blamelessly, it appears) of Louis I of Bavaria; lingered in a
California camp, and flashed through the mining fields of Australia;
became an author, and a devout Methodist at New York; a dull and
decorous lecturer in London; made an edifying end, and was buried under
her maiden name in Greenwood cemetery.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Reading the story of Lola Montez is like reading a vivid page from the
eighteenth century.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 146. O. ’09. 2650w.
“It is probably his rather forced flippancy, and the tiresome
reiteration with which he employs Lola as a flail for Philistia that
obscure the better qualities of his book. As it is we find his rather
jejune Gautierisms almost insurmountable.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 118. Ag. 5, ’09. 530w.
“It is a kindly, sympathetic, and appreciative view of the famous
adventuress that is presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 475. Ag. 7, ’09. 660w.
=Avebury, John Lubbock.= Peace and happiness. **$1.50. Macmillan.
9–2259.
At the heart of Lord Avebury’s entire presentation of the subject of
happiness lies the conviction that “happiness depends upon ourselves.”
His chapter headings are: The body, The mind, Aspiration, Contentment,
Adversity, Kindness, Education, On friends and enemies, On riches, The
dread of nature, The love of nature, Now, Wisdom, Religion, Theology,
Peace of mind, and The peace of nations. The author’s attitude towards
pain and evil is revealed in the statement, “Pain is not always, or even
generally, an evil. It is often a warning and safeguard.... But we do
not so readily acknowledge that the same is true of mental troubles.”
* * * * *
“Not original, but practical and helpful, with numerous pertinent
quotations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 71. Mr. ’09. ✠
+ =Dial.= 46: 142. Mr. 1, ’09. 450w.
“It is a temperate, healthy, beautiful book, one that every intelligent
man or woman will be the better and the happier for having read. There
are two chapters on religion and theology respectively in which one
meets with a few statements from which a Catholic would dissent.”
+ − =Ecclesiastical R.= 40: 500. Ap. ’09. 460w.
“Lord Avebury is, in a modest and reasonable but very candid and
courageous way, progressive and even radical.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 100. F. 20, ’09. 770w.
“There is a certain human kindness and philosophic depth about
everything that Lord Avebury writes, and he has given us some very
thought-provoking paragraphs in this volume of brief essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 70w.
“This volume has been pieced together out of Lord Avebury’s note-books,
for the benefit of the rate-provided libraries, whose frequenters have
an insatiable appetite for platitudes, and are not very familiar with
the best things that have been said.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 530. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
“Sometimes, we think, our author is somewhat too dogmatic. Sometimes,
again, he is a little trite. But, on the whole, his book is full of
truth, good counsel, and pertinent examples, well chosen and well
expressed.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 426. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.=^{[5]} History of the United States and its
people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. v. 5.
ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
4–32329.
=v. 5.= Covers the period from the French and Indian war to the time of
the declaration of independence.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 5.)
“From the purely literary point of view, this latest volume is his best;
the style has greater evenness and dignity, and less of trivial
digression and straining for popular effect than in any of his earlier
work.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 513. My. 20, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 5.)
“This interesting period is handled by Mr. Avery in an intelligent,
spirited, and entertaining fashion, due attention being paid to all of
the important movements and stirring events that enlivened it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 168. Mr. 20, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 5.)
“In some respects, particularly in the matter of typography and
illustrations, the best of the series that has thus far appeared. In all
this narrative Dr. Avery has made good use of contemporary sources of
information, both for text and illustrations.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 120w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We cannot on this occasion criticise the book in detail; but we must
say a word about the rich variety of the illustrations with which it is
furnished.”
=Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ayres, Leonard P.=^{[6]} Laggards in our schools: a study of
retardation and elimination in city school systems. $1.50. Charities
pub. com.
9–16218.
The Russell Sage foundation furnished the sum of money necessary for
conducting a preliminary survey that might (1) Put together useful
material bearing on these topics; (2) Develop a mode of attack on the
problem; (3) Analyze a sufficiently large number of cases to demonstrate
the utility of the method and answer questions. The results included in
this volume show that the most important causes of retardation can be
removed; that regularity of attendance and faithfulness are major
elements of success; that some cities are accomplishing results by
exemplary measures; that relatively few children are so defective as to
prevent success in school or in life.
* * * * *
“Presents valuable data.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 6. S. ’09.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 601. N. ’09. 210w.
“The book, although very clearly written, is not a merely popular
discussion of the subject as the wording of the title might lead one to
suspect, but gives evidence of careful research, of keen analysis of the
material presented, and of much insight into statistical procedure.” W.
F. Dearborn.
+ =El. School T.= 10: 94. O. ’09. 1100w.
“Such a book, at once readable and scholarly, scientific and popular,
critical and constructive, is typical of the best in educational
literature.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 200w.
“Every one interested in the welfare of our children ought to possess
this book. And with all its statistics and generalizations, it is
neither dry nor impersonal. For Mr. Ayres has given life to figures and
character to diagrams, out of the great love of his heart for
childhood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 466. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.
=Ayscough, John.=^{[5]} Dromina. †$1.50. Putnam.
9–8577.
“A book of unusual interest. The scene is laid in Ireland, and shifts to
Spain and South America. The people are of ancient Irish lineage, with a
group of Gypsies from Spain who surround their king, and consort with
the descendant of Irish kings. The central figure, though by no means
the strongest character, is the Gypsy King Ludovic—disclosed as the last
Dauphin, the ill-fated son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The
intricacies of the story are infinite, but the author holds the guiding
clue firmly, and leads us through many winding ways, to our
satisfaction.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A long, intricate story of considerable interest, fresh in its scenes,
good in character delineation and full of shrewd observation and clever
conversation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“One may be well content to condone the structural weaknesses of
‘Dromina’ for the sake of its individual beauties—its fresh scenes,
original characters, shrewd and delicate observations, and unforced wit.
Above all, one must recognize its special distinction—a power of
spiritual perception which enables the author to deal convincingly with
supernatural experience.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 555. My. 8. 170w.
“Each separate part is well executed; it is only the whole that is
unsatisfactory.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 549. Jl. ’09. 370w.
“There are enough desperate doings in the book to stir any grande dame’s
fine blood.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.
“It is in essence a fine and high-minded work.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 380w.
“Altogether the book is as delightful as it is surprising. One is the
better for associating with its men and women, who, under their
playfulness and fantasy, possess such high breeding, such courage, and
so pure a power for serving their highest aims.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 288. My. 8, ’09. 520w.
“Each character of the many which crowd the pages is individualized and
excites our interest, while the romance holds our attention to the end.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
“Variety of scene, sympathetic characters, and shrewd psychological
insight combine to make ‘Dromina’ a very entertaining tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 50w.
“It is magnificent, but it is not enough concentrated in interest to
move us much.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Ayscough’s writing is always interesting, but in the present book
he really has given us too many kings without kingdoms among his
characters. When all is said and done, there is a charm about ‘Dromina’
missed by many novels which are far more competently put together.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 586. Ap. ’09. 280w.
B
=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[5]} Hand-made gentleman: a tale of the
battles of peace. †$1.50. Harper.
9–10497.
James Henry McCarthy, son of an uneducated wash-woman, discovers early
in life that he is not a gentleman, and, with the aid of Lord
Chesterfield’s letters, sets to work to attain ideals of good breeding.
Having unusual ability for organizing business, he first achieves
success in a private commercial industry, and afterwards makes himself
necessary to the business of railroad consolidation, then in its
incipiency.
* * * * *
“As a novel less successful than ‘Eben Holden.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“In his last book he has returned to his earlier manner and has written
with the same sweet wizardry that made ‘Darrel of the Blessed Isles’ one
of the most delightful spells ever cast by an author in fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1343. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“It is written in his usual inimitable style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 250w.
“This story has something approaching the free panoramic effect of
‘Huckleberry Finn.’ His humor is as genuine, though with a leaning
toward sentiment, and the flavor of his people and his scenes is as
truly of the soil as Mr. Clemens’s or Mr. De Morgan’s. It is delightful
to find an American novelist now and then who can picture American types
without self-consciousness.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 562. Je. 3, ’09. 420w.
“Is according to brand, but not quite up to sample. More bluntly put,
his latest effort still retains the flavor of the workshop and shows its
joints a little more freely than workmen approve.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 339. My. 29, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Bacheller entertainingly describes rural New York in the period
immediately after the close of ‘the’ war. There is nothing depressing
throughout the book—everything is cheerful and warm hearted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“Its love story no one cares for, its literary form is odd, its plot is
negligible, but it is decidedly worth while.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The new story is quite as effective as anything that the author has
done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 80w.
=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[11]} The master. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–28042.
This is many stories in one; but first of all it shows the influence of
one Christlike soul over the dominant spirit of one styled “The Napoleon
of Discontent.” The latter is head of a chain of anarchy that encircles
the world, he has planned a campaign of blood and warfare, when this
friend publishes a book preaching peace and helpfulness and the world
supposes that the anarchist leader has written it. At once he is sought
by wealth and power, offers of help pour in upon him and he finds
himself more powerful as a leader of a peace movement than he had dared
hope to be as a bloody avenger. Interwoven with this great theme is a
tale of villainy and crime, an account of a school for novelists and
also a charming love story.
=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.=^{[10]} Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul
to the Galatians. (Bible for home and school.) *50c. Macmillan.
9–25114.
A commentary that, in keeping with the aim of the series, offers Bible
students the results of the best modern scholarship as brought to bear
on the study of Galatians.
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“The comment is sympathetic, intelligent, and stimulating.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 360. N. ’09. 50w.
=Bacon, Josephine Dodge (Daskam).= An idyll of All fool’s day. †$1.25.
Dodd.
8–23558.
A book of “busy nonsense” which records the adventures of a young man
and a maid during a day’s outing. “Of course, from the time Mrs. Bacon’s
youthful Benedick and Beatrice exchange hostilities at first glance, one
foresees that on the last page the moon will be throwing a needless
glory over youth and love and laughter, but the events of the day that
work the change are none the less piquantly unexpected for leading to a
foregone conclusion.” (Nation.)
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“Bright, light and as amusing as impossible.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09. ✠
“The action is continuous and amuses by its very impossibility.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 140w.
=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.=^{[11]} In the border country. **$1.
Doubleday.
9–27445.
Here are three visions seen long years apart by a woman who three times,
from different causes, hovers between life and death at the border land
of consciousness. They show to her, and through her they teach us, that
the work of woman is great in that it is a never ending service. The
first vision comes to her when she hopes to be a famous artist and says
to her: “Let men make pictures: do you make men!” The second, coming at
a time when she is overwrought with trying to live her own life as well
as her husband’s and her children’s, shows her that she need not make
great songs but only teach them to her children. When she is grown old
and willing to rest and ponder upon what life may be at a sunset window,
the third vision comes to teach her that “We are running streams that
muddy, if we settle. We have to live and find life out in living.” The
three, too charmingly fanciful to be mere preachment, teach a great
lesson to the restless, ambitious woman of today.
=Baddeley, John F.= Russian conquest of the Caucasus. *$5. Longmans.
9–2520.
“Not one man in a hundred knows or cares what happened in the Caucasus
during the first sixty years of the last century; it has been left to
Mr. Baddeley to tell us a story from which we can gather lessons that
would have saved us lives and money immeasurable in our fiascos during
our wars on the North-West frontier of India or even in our late contest
with the Boers. Every one of the difficulties we have encountered in our
wars with semi-civilised races, from Highlanders to Pathans, Zulus, and
Boers, was met by Russian generals in the Caucasus.... Mr. Baddeley has
saturated himself with a ‘genius loci’ before putting pen to paper....
And we have now for the first time in English a connected narrative from
first to last of the startling succession of incidents that forms the
history of one of the most magnificent mountain regions of the
globe.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“In its impartial estimate of the essential strength and weakness of the
Murid movement, its careful balancing of the case for the conquered with
the case for the conquerors, lies the chief value of Mr. Baddeley’s
sketch; and for this he has placed all students of modern Russia under
obligation. As a piece of historical writing the work proves to be of
very uneven character. Mr. Baddeley lacks the historian’s touch, and
this is nowhere more evident than in the first half of the book. Here
the narrative is labored and perfunctory in the extreme. Part 2, on the
contrary, offers some very good reading.” C. E. Fryer.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 583. Ap. ’09. 620w.
“Of limited use in the public library but an interesting addition to the
literature of frontier warfare and of considerable value for the study
of Russian history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 154. Je. ’09.
“No complete history of the conquest has ever been published, even in
Russian, and this work of Mr. Baddeley is therefore a most important and
useful contribution. A book that should appeal to a general reading
public and not merely to those interested in military affairs.” S: N.
Harper.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 197. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“[There are] one or two trifling inaccuracies in the text. He writes
well, he has a thorough knowledge of the Russian language, and he is an
enthusiast for the Caucasus.” Oliver Wardrop.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 599. Jl. ’09. 1100w.
“His main subject, the wars of the Russians with the tribesmen, has
never before been presented to English readers. Of them he gives a clear
and impartial, but not a particularly animated narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 53. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 270w.
“Travels and history have rarely been more aptly combined and set before
us in an appetising dish. It represents thoroughly good work from
beginning to end, and it deserves to find a place in every library. We
have praised highly but not more so than is deserved. If the book has a
fault it lies not so much with the author as with his subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 763. D. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“His is a very fine achievement, and he may well be proud of it. The
publication of this book is an event in the English study of Russian
history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 881. N. 28, ’08. 1800w.
=Bagot, Richard.=^{[7]} Anthony Cuthbert: a novel $1.50. Brentano’s.
9–19668.
A story set in Italy which deals with the tragedy that a beautiful girl
brings into an innocent man’s life. “When, two months after parting with
her lover of a day, Sonia becomes the wife of his uncle, Anthony
Cuthbert, unaware of the relationship between the two men, it is
apparent that we are faced with a situation as repellent as the
peculiarly heartless and sordid intrigue which brought it about. Mr.
Bagot solves the difficulty ingeniously enough, but the final picture of
Anthony complacently regarding his nephew’s son as his own, even if it
can be reconciled with what is known of human nature (which seems
doubtful), is one on which few, presumably, will care to dwell.” (Sat.
R.)
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“A garrulous style, a mass of unessential trivialities which retard the
action and try the reader’s patience, and dialogue generally stilted and
unnatural go far to discount the fatalistic impressiveness of the main
idea.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 150w.
“In spite of a few strong episodes, this book is distinctly below the
usual level of Mr. Bagot’s work, and in theme is needlessly and
painfully offensive.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 30: 67. S. ’09. 270w.
“Unfortunately, it is disagreeable without being impressive.”
− =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“In the present story it is impossible not to feel that he has
overstepped the bounds, not simply of conventionality, but of artistic
restraint and good taste.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 220w.
“There is no true pleasure to be got out of a story of this kind.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Bagot sets himself a thoroughly unpleasant task in the plot of his
new novel, and he does not succeed in carrying it out without offending
against many of the canons of good taste.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 1106. D. 26, ’08. 140w.
=Bagwell, Richard.=^{[6]} Ireland under the Stuarts and during the
interregnum. 2v. *$10.50. Longmans.
9–17184.
These volumes complete the history of Ireland to the restoration. They
describe the dealings of the English government with Ireland during the
transition from Tudor to Stuart rule which period includes the
effacement of the tribal system. The vital questions presented are the
Settlement of Ulster, the career of Strafford, the rebellion of 1641,
and the war and the confiscation that grew out of it.
* * * * *
“In one direction, and that unconnected with the narrative, the present
volumes may be open to criticism. That is in the scarcity of maps. In
short, Mr. Bagwell has not merely produced the best history of Ireland
during this period, but the only one in its class. And he has laid a
heavy debt of gratitude on reader and scholar alike for a contribution
of the highest value in a field at once one of the most difficult and
important in modern history.” W. C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 812. Jl. ’09. 950w.
“Occasionally there are signs of the easy writing which makes hard
reading, and we wish that Mr. Bagwell would in future put the exact date
of the occurrences he is describing in the margin, as a check to
discursiveness. We should like to congratulate Mr. Bagwell on a fine
piece of work. We are sure Mr. Bagwell will carry with him the judgment
of most students of Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 457. Ap. 17. 1450w.
“While each single paragraph is good, his book as a whole is
unsatisfactory. Added to this, and perhaps because of it, his horizon is
a limited one. ‘Ireland under the Stuarts’ is worthy to be placed
alongside ‘Ireland under the Tudors,’ and this is high praise.” R.
Dunlop.
+ − =Eng. Hist.= R. 24: 797. O. ’09. 1550w.
“One may regret the absence of certain maps which would be useful to the
reader, and the inadequacies of the indexes; one may note certain
obscurities or omissions in the text; one may wonder at the lack of
reference to the work of continental scholars; yet, when all is said,
Mr. Bagwell has enriched the history of Ireland and historical
literature generally.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 487. My. 13, ’09. 1050w.
“Our author is diligent and judicious, tells his story clearly, and has
produced a work which ought to be (though it will not be) carefully
studied by everyone who intends to allude to the events of the
seventeenth century in Ireland. He is, perhaps, a little too
contemptuous of certain legends which have obtained wide currency.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 443. O. 9, ’09. 1500w.
“The two volumes before us are characterised by the thorough and
workmanlike treatment which gained their author his reputation some
twenty years ago.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 938. Je. 12, ’09. 1300w.
=Bailey, John Cann.=^{[7]} Claims of French poetry: nine studies in
the greater French poets. $2.50. Kennerley.