A book of pleasant recollections and stories of famous men of letters,
actors and artists whom the author knew during the latter half of the
nineteenth century. Among them are Tennyson, Browning, Irving, Rossetti,
Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt and Leighton.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09.
“Is not only pleasantly and intimately reminiscent of many celebrated
men of the last century, but also receives something of added weight and
value from the interspersed expressions of a ripe judgment on divers
questions of art, literature, and the drama.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 46: 134. Mr. 1, ’09. 1500w.
“The pages on his life as a newspaper man in the old Bohemian days are
the most entertaining in the book.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 330w.
“Among the many books of personal recollections that have come to our
notice, none contains a more varied lot of interesting information about
artistic and literary men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 680w.
=Carr, Kent.= Rivals and chums. †$1.25. Lippincott.
A story of public school life in England, with side lights on athletics.
* * * * *
“English school stories are seldom anything but good reading, and this
is no exception.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
“A first-rate story. The football in the school is quite peculiar. Has
the author got his notions of sport from Ouida?”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Carr, Sarah Pratt.=^{[10]} Billy To-morrow. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–24957.
Billy is a little California boy whose spirit of procrastination earned
for him the nickname of the title. In the weeks following the earthquake
all his courage and manliness are called into action, and he wins for
himself the new name, Billy To-day.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 70w.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H.
Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
8–37615.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“At last we have a rational and well-written work on psychic research by
an author who knows his business and keeps his feet on solid scientific
ground. This is the highest possible praise and I am glad to give it.”
R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 41: 510. Jl. ’09. 280w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.
“We discover in Mr. Carrington’s work nothing new which is of special
value, and small justification for proclaiming the birth of ‘the coming
science.’”
− =Nation.= 88: 70. Ja. 21, ’09. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 400w.
“It lays too much stress on the alleged necessity for proving life after
death as the main motive of psychical investigation. And it betrays a
too obvious tendency to regard such proof as having been already
obtained. It should be added that, regarding the book not as an appeal
to the incredulous scientist but as a brief exposition of the nature,
problems, and theories of psychical research, it affords a helpful
introduction to the reading of more elaborate works, such as those of
Myers and Podmore, dealing with the subject in detail.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 572. Ap. ’09. 480w.
=Carruth, William Herbert.= Each in his own tongue and other poems.
**$1. Putnam.
8–37720.
“Mr. Carruth, who is the head of the department of Germanic language and
literature in the University of Kansas, is widely known by his short
poem, ‘Each in his own tongue,’ which is the initial number in this
collection.” (N. Y. Times.) “We must think of Mr. Carruth as more than a
man of a single poem, for he has just given us a collection of some
fourscore pieces, many of which approach in seriousness of thought and
felicity of expression the one widely-known example which provides his
book with its title.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A fine sense of the essential realities pervades Mr. Carruth’s verse.
He is an academic poet, but one whose sensibilities the academic
environment has not deadened.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w.
“All of the poems are filled with the deep religious feeling and moral
earnestness characteristic of the author.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.
“One finds the central interest in these verses to be their intense
moral earnestness and their concern with the serious questions of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 10. Ja. 2, ’09. 270w.
=Carson, Blanche Mabury.=^{[6]} From Cairo to the cataract. $2.50.
Page.
9–10281.
“The book is in the form of original letters, and gives a very good
account of many of the things that one sees and experiences on the boat
journey up the Nile and back again.... As a lively narrative of the
doings and sight-seeing of a wide-awake American girl, the book is a
success.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A readable account of a familiar trip.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 380w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 220w.
“Her condensations will be found extremely useful to those who have not
the leisure nor the inclination to make exhaustive studies of Egyptian
history on their own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 170w.
=Carson, William English.=^{[11]} Mexico, the wonderland of the South.
*$2.25. Macmillan.
9–29345.
A volume of nearly four-hundred and fifty pages which pictures and
describes very nearly all that is worth seeing and knowing in Mexico.
Its picturesqueness, its romance, its contrasts; its rapid development
into a modern country; its cities, its haciendas, gold and silver mines,
health resorts; and its human interest to the modern economist—all claim
a share of the author’s attention in his fresh, accurate, inclusive pen
picture of Mexico of to-day.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 140w.
“The sure touch of the man who knows his subject intimately is evident
throughout. A book of real human interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 140w.
=Carter, Ada.=^{[12]} Seamless robe: a twentieth century imprint of
the ideal. †$1.50. Wessels.
9–28693.
An American edition of a Christian science novel written by an English
woman. It is a strong, serious argument for the faith of Christian
scientists, made concrete by the psychological development and evolution
of a young clergyman who rises, thru struggle, from his plane of
traditional, orthodox belief to the heights of religion as a
demonstrable science.
=Carter, Charles Frederick.= When railroads were new; with introd.
note by Logan G. McPherson. **$2. Holt.
9–9511.
An attempt “to gather the floating fragments of railroad history having
a human interest into a coherent narrative of the work-a-day trials and
triumphs of the pioneers in the planning and building of the railroad
that would be neither a dry historical treatise nor a collection of
anecdotes.” The suggestive chapter headings are: The dawn of the
railroad era; America’s pioneer railroad; Early days on the Erie;
Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania railroad; Genesis of the Vanderbilt
system; Incubator railroads; The first transcontinental railroad;
Through tribulation by rail; and Romance of a great railroad. Index.
* * * * *
“The absence of better books on the subject gives to this a real value.
Its contents are not accessible elsewhere in any single volume.” F: L.
Paxson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 191. O. ’09. 320w.
“A decided tendency to realism and a wealth of local color will make it
attractive reading for boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠
“A little more attention to literary finish would not have hurt the
book.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 200w.
“A few slips were noticed, but they were surprisingly few. All in all,
the book may be commended to those who desire to read the romance of the
railroads.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 128. Je. ’09. 250w.
=Engin. D.= 5: 667. Je. ’09. 100w.
“Much of the intimate and popular information (and the conversations)
must be taken on trust or with some shadow of doubt.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 550w.
“A vast amount of curious information, hitherto left uncollected and in
peril of being lost. And, in addition to all this, the book is good
desultory reading for the layman.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1086. My. 20, ’09. 140w.
“It can scarcely fail to excite interest, and while many of the details
are fictitious, or at the best used with considerable freedom, the main
body of facts is essentially correct.” L. C. M.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 481. Jl. ’09. 260w.
“The story is told in a clear, accurate, and interesting manner in the
present volume, which is enriched with many illustrations and should
find a place in every popular library.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“That he has cultivated his field assiduously is clear from the abundant
harvest of new and fugitive material which he has garnered. Amid such an
array of matter one expects to find occasional errors in dates and
points of fact, but these could be more readily forgiven if the finality
of statement so prevalent throughout the book, were supported by the
evidence.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Carter’s very entertaining book is brim full of interesting records
of the early days of railroading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.
“This book is not a history of the development of railroad finance or
railroad exploitation, but the fascinating story of the struggles, the
fantastic failures and the final triumphs of the pioneer railroad
builders.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.
“It appeals to the general reader and will be to him a highly
interesting narrative.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 333. N. ’09. 160w.
=Carus, Paul.=^{[12]} Pleroma: an essay on the origin of Christianity.
$1. Open ct.
9–29363.
The editor of “The monist” conducts a scientific investigation of the
causes of Christianity with the result that he finds Christianity to be
not the result of accident, but of necessity. “There are definite causes
and definite effects. Its doctrines, its ceremonies, its ethics are the
product of given conditions and the result could not be different.” The
divisions of the treatment are: Christianity predetermined by the needs
of the age; Pre-Christian gnosticism; The bloom preceding the fruitage
of Christianity; How the gentile Savior changed into the Christ; The
origin of Judaism and its significance for Christianity; Conclusion.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.=^{[12]} Artists past and present: random
studies. **$2.50. Moffat.
9–25959.
Contains a dozen “random studies” of artists as follows: “Rembrandt, Jan
Steen, Carlo Crivelli, Callot, Fantin-Latour and Louis Barye represent
the past: Mary Cassatt, Max Klinger, Alfred Stevens, Carl Larsson and
the recent exhibitions in New York of modern German paintings and of
Zuloaga and Sorolla, the present.” (Ind.) “All are keen, penetrating,
appreciative, and sensible.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“As attractive in appearance as it is stimulating in content.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 210w.
“The note is mostly that of the fugitive magazine article, which is
often of considerable immediate helpfulness in giving first aid to the
benighted, but generally of little permanent significance.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 120w.
“There is little critical literature in English dealing with certain of
these artists, and the group has been chosen in an unusual and
interesting way.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“To each of the studies, although they differ so widely in their appeal
to both intellect and temperament, she brings the critical qualities of
personal detachment, penetrating vision, breadth of view, and a keenly
intellectual but at the same time warmly human appreciation of
intention, content, and method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 300w.
=Cary, Rev. Otis.=^{[12]} History of Christianity in Japan. 2v. ea.
**$2.50. Revell.
9–22916.
Tells the story of “how Catholic missions flourished in the sixteenth
century, were cruelly extirpated in the seventeenth, and revived in the
nineteenth, then the rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protestant
missions since 1859.” (R. of Rs.) “Official documents, narratives of
events, and relations of personal experience are skilfully woven
together by the scholarly historian, now more than thirty years an actor
on the scene.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Standard work of reference.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1316. D. 9, ’09. 820w.
“Throughout the 800 pages his statements are invariably unimpassioned,
rational, and free from partisan spirit. At the same time it must be
admitted that the book is somewhat ponderous in style and the manner it
deals with the subject.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 1400w.
“There is no other work on the subject which compares in interest or in
value with this.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 260w.
“The official documents and personal memoranda in these two volumes make
them valuable for reference.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.=^{[11]} Cyrus Hall McCormick: his life and
work. **$1.50. McClurg.
9–28139.
A life of the master builder of the modern business of manufacturing
farm machinery. His life, coincident with the pioneer era of replacing
muscle with machinery, has been devoted to inventions that have
revolutionized farm labor, and it is one of those “rare life-histories
that blazon out the peculiar genius of the nation under the stress of a
new experience.”
* * * * *
“He has diligently collected and very attractively presented much
historical and statistical matter concerning the development of
agricultural implements and the recent rapid increase in the world’s
wheat production. The life and personality of the great inventor are
adequately set forth. The author makes an occasional error of fact.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 160w.
=Castaigne, André.=^{[9]} Bill-toppers. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–21870.
A story which pictures the life of the “artistes” of the vaudeville
circuit and which tells more particularly of Lily and the process by
which her father P. T. Clifton, manager, endeavors to make her a star.
The career has its beginning in the South seas, and runs its course in
various parts of the world, from India to San Francisco, from Mexico to
New York. The final height is at length reached in London where thru the
efforts of her humble lover, Lily achieves the triumph which crowns her
ambition—that of seeing her name at the top of the bill.
* * * * *
“The story is wholesome in tone and catches that decency and simple
morality which, more often than the public believes, characterize these
people of the vaudeville. Mr. Castaigne’s style of writing is
deplorable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 450w.
“The story is quite entertaining, and, in a sense, instructive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. S. 25, ’09. 160w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.=^{[11]} Diamonds
cut paste. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24954.
“Sir Reginald Esdale returns from India, after several years’ absence
from his family, with a splendid record behind him, a distinguished
career ahead of him, and a mild and sentimental attachment to a pretty
and clinging widow. The attachment is mild, but Sir Reginald is
peculiar, and the widow is very clinging.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Judged as a comedy of manners, it should be a success: but from the
point of view of fiction it has many shortcomings. Mr. and Mrs. Castle
never leave the impression of discounting their own work; they are
invariably conscientious and careful, and take a pride in their craft.
We hope to see a dramatic version of this story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 421. O. 9. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.
“The reader ... will just get from the book what it was meant to give—an
hour or two of perfectly sinless enjoyment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 180w.
“Their latest venture may be considered to prove not only the wisdom in
their selection of bygone periods but also how easily, when dressed in
costume, the most moderate of talents may pass for something more
considerable.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 820w.
=Catholic= church in the United States of America: an illustrative
history published in honor of the golden jubilee of His Holiness,
Pope Pius X. 6v. $90. Catholic editing co., 1 W. 34th st., N. Y.
9–7144.
“This initial volume of the series is devoted to the religious orders.
The five succeeding volumes will deal with the secular clergy, v. 2
treating of the provinces of Baltimore and New York; v. 3 of Boston,
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati; v. 4 of Chicago, St. Paul, and Oregon, and
v. 5 of New Orleans, St. Louis, Dubuque, Santa Fé, and San Francisco.
The sixth and concluding volume will be of general character, and will
follow in broad lines the history of the Catholic church in this
country. It will take up movements of the American church as a whole,
and will be especially rich in statistics. Separate sections will deal
with Catholic charities, education, literature, journalism, eminent men,
societies, clubs, sports, and other subjects.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Offered as a history, it must be judged by modern critical standards,
and by these this first volume may be set down as a remarkable
collection of pictures, valuable and novel in their extent, rather than
a record comprehensive in detail, exact in statement, and complete in
scope. In going over this list of communities several serious omissions
must be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Catholic= encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the
constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic
church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton,
Robert.
7–11606.
=v. 4.= Cland-Diocesan. Especially noteworthy in this fourth volume are
the articles on the book of Daniel, The deluge, Constantinople, Congo
Free State, Collectivism, Communism, and Cross and Crucifix in which
archaeologically the Catholic attitude toward the use of images in
worship is clearly stated and defended.
=v. 5.= Continues the scholarly excellence of the foregoing volumes.
“Among the more notable contributions are those relating to evolution,
excommunication, ecclesiastical art, dispensation, editions of the
Bible, eschatology, extreme unction, dynamism, Ethiopia, England, and
divorce.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The fourth volume fairly merits the praise of maintaining the high
standard embodied in the preceding numbers.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 88: 546. Ja. ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“While microscopic criticism might find some opportunities for
stricture, this volume fulfils the promise of the encyclopedia to be a
work that will meet the reasonable standards of the learned without
neglecting the claims of the uncritical.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 538. Jl. ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 5.)
“While splendid scholarship exists in the Catholic church, and appears
to admirable advantage in the discussion of what we may call neutral
matters, still as soon as it approaches the more delicate topics of
modern criticism, it is either clouded by prejudice or paralyzed with
fear.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 51. Ja. 7, ’09. 780w. (Review of v. 4.)
“What can a candid critic do but despair when important articles like
‘Esther,’ ‘Elijah,’ ‘Elisha,’ ‘Ecclesiastes,’ ‘Divination,’ and
‘Eucharist,’ are assigned to writers whose incompetence fairly takes
one’s breath away?”
− =Ind.= 67: 657. S. 16, ’09. 730w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Contains a number of important articles, more or less popular, which
exhibit in general the same spirit of fairness that characterizes the
earlier volumes.”
+ + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The standard set by the earlier volumes is fully maintained in the
present volume.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 399. Je. 26, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“On the whole, the bibliographies are by no means a strong point in this
instalment of ‘The catholic encyclopedia.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 532. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Catlin, George.=^{[11]} Boy’s Catlin: my life among the Indians; ed.
with biographical sketch by Mary Gay Humphreys. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–25173.
Contains the most interesting parts of Catlin’s book about the North
American Indians, and their habits and customs, in war, peace and
hunting. The writer gained his wide knowledge of Crows, Blackfeet,
Assiniboines, Ojibbeways and other tribes first hand while painting
among them; and he produces for the reader pictorial impressions that
are very closely related to his work with the brush. Sixteen of his own
drawings are used for illustration.
* * * * *
“From the cover design, with its dashing ‘brave,’ to the index, there
are ‘real’ incidents more picturesque than, and equally as unbelievable
as, incidents of fiction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
“It is a book which boys will welcome heartily as being stranger than
fiction, however careful the fact.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 50w.
“It should be a welcome addition to any boy’s library.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.
=Caw, James Lewis.=^{[5]} Scottish painting, past and present,
1620–1908. *$8. Stokes.
“Mr. Caw, the director of the Scottish national galleries, has in this
volume covered the entire field from the time of Jamesone to the present
day. Encyclopædic in extent, and indicative of wide and accurate
knowledge and much painstaking study and research, Mr. Caw’s history is
a valuable and timely contribution to the literature of art.”—Int.
Studio.
* * * * *
“If the informed reader may not at all times be inclined to accept Mr.
Caw’s conclusions, he cannot but be impressed by their general accuracy,
and above all by the fearlessness with which they are stated. One cannot
read the book without admiring the keen perception, accurate
information, critical acumen, ripe judgment, and well reasoned
conclusions of the author.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 332. F. ’09. 700w.
“A comprehensive and copiously illustrated volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 120w.
“An inspection conveys the impression that while it deals with some
works and some artists of real distinction, it is over-weighted with
mediocrities.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 70w.
“As a history the book is excellent and worthy of its author’s position:
as a book to read it is a little handicapped as all such complete
accounts must be, by the necessity of covering so much ground and
treating of so many minor men.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 490. Ap. 17, ’09. 1500w.
=Cayley, George John.=^{[5]} Bridle-roads of Spain; or, Las Alforjas.
*$2. Estes.
A reprint of a book published in 1853. In the form of letters it records
the author’s experiences while traveling in Spain, 1851–1852. “As he met
with no exciting adventures, he drew largely on his imagination,
represented himself as having killed a rogue in Seville, and eked out a
volume with similar inventions, to which he confessed good-humouredly
enough later. These flights of fancy seem to have irritated some of his
critics, but irritation is out of place. Cayley as a traveler in Spain
is not to be taken seriously. He was barely eight months in the country,
knew little of the language, and was therefore not in a position to
understand the national characteristics.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Some of the misprints in the text might have been corrected.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 280w.
“The chief blemish of the book is the introduction of imaginary
adventures into the account of his travels. Still we forgive him, if
only because few writers have described so well as he does the life,
manners, and customs of the Spanish peasantry as they were when he saw
them in 1851 and as they happily still are when once the traveler breaks
away from railways and tourists’ routes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 350w.
“For all its faults it is in many ways an original and entertaining
work, based as much upon romantic imaginings and thoughts suggested on
the road as upon actual fact.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1104. D. 26, ’08. 580w.
=Cecil, Algernon.=^{[9]} Six Oxford thinkers. *7s. 6d. Murray, John,
London.
9–22567.
Holds up for critical inspection the careers of six typical Oxford men:
Edward Gibbon, John Henry Newman, R. W. Church, James Anthony Froude,
Walter Pater, Lord Morley of Blackburn.
* * * * *
“Although there is not much which is new in this volume, and in some
cases the author betrays a rather inadequate acquaintance with
well-known authorities, the essays contained in it are well worth
reproduction. In the first place, the writing is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 235. Ag. 28. 600w.
“Mr. Cecil has given us a book full of interest and suggestion. In many
places he carries us with him and in points where we differ from him we
can still appreciate his point of view.” Wilfred Wilberforce.
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 758. S. ’09. 6800w.
“A remarkable book, full of that subtle criticism and fine seriousness
which are marks of his distinguished family. His standpoint is
conservative, and, in the most liberal sense of the word, catholic; or
rather, in his philosophy of history the two stand identified.”
+ Spec. 102: 940. Je. 12, ’09. 900w.
=Cesare, Raffaele de.=^{[10]} Last days of papal Rome, 1850–1870;
abridged with the assistance of the author and tr. by Helen Zimmern;
with an introd. by G. M. Trevelyan. **$3.50. Houghton.
9–25989.
A history of the papal states less for the amateur than for the student
of modern Italian history and for the specialist in international
politics of the past century. The narrative begins with the Pope’s
return to Rome from Gaeta in 1850, and continues down to the entry of
the Italian troops into the city on September 20, 1870.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“It is in a tone of impartiality that the whole of this splendid chapter
in history is written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 210w.
=Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 260w.
“A monograph scientifically valuable but artistically of small
consequence. He has, it is true, produced a work that can only be
appreciated by collating it with other works written upon the same
lines; but, at the same time, he has written a book that no student of
papal history can afford to neglect.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 1300w.
=Cesaresco, Evelyn Martinengo.=^{[10]} Place of animals in human
thought. *$3. Scribner.
A volume of absorbing interest to students of animal psychology and
those interested in man’s treatment of the inferior animals. “Mixed up
with a large amount of perhaps somewhat irrelevant matter relating to
the history of religions, the author has collected a vast store of
information relating to the estimation or otherwise in which animals
have been held by the ancient nations from Egyptian, Bhuddistic, and
Græco-Roman times to the middle ages; while the concluding chapter deals
with modern ideas on the subject. The objects, origin, and conception of
sacrifice are each treated at considerable length, while folk-lore has
been largely drawn upon to illustrate the subject from all points of
view.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Though it is full of curious facts, they are not sifted with care, or
co-ordinated with any consistency. But withal the book is both learned
and entertaining—a very creditable combination.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 450w.
“The work sadly wanted revision by a well-educated proof-reader. If such
blemishes occurred in many books, we could mention, we should pass them
over without notice; the pity of it is that they mar the pages of such a
thoroughly interesting volume as the one of which we now take leave.” R.
L.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 276. S. 2, ’09. 600w.
“The huge mass of material which she has collected has anthropological
value as well as human interest. As a source of accurate information as
to the habits and capacities of animals, however, the old mythologies,
and, indeed, all the so-called zoology produced more than a few score
years ago, are, of course, quite useless. This obvious and
unquestionable fact has escaped the attention of the Countess Martinengo
Cesaresco, and if anybody ever told her of it she did not believe him.
The book has the interest of very unintentional and consequently frank
self-revelation. It is uninteresting, too, in another way. It rehearses
dozens and dozens of the best of the old animal stories—stories that
nowadays are grouped with the biographies of fairies, though they were
once told with as much faith—and about as much accuracy—as the exploits
of dawn-historic kings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 669. O. 30, ’09. 1050w.
“The recital of this history by so well-informed and skilful a writer as
the author is makes pleasant reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 300w.
“A fascinating book. It is a book full of miscellaneous information and
entertainment, the sort of book which makes the reader idly long for
Macaulay’s memory in which to store all the delightful things which the
author has told and shown him. Stories, quotations, comments, and
pictures are all alike good. The writer of this book has with
extraordinary self-control avoided every temptation to put in foolish or
sentimental or improbable stories.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 770. My. 15, ’09. 1550w.
=Chaimovitsch, Isaac.= Tables for calculating sizes of steam pipes for
low pressure heating. $2. Domestic engineering.
8–32657.
“Prepared for those who have not had enough experience to judge of the
limitations of mere ‘rules of thumb’ in the design of steam pipes. These
tables are calculated to show the loss of pressure per linear foot of
pipe, in diameters of 3/4 to 24 ins., for various deliveries of steam
under 1, 3, and 5 lbs. boiler pressure. The use of the tables is
explained and illustrated.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 176. F. ’09. 100w.
=Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“Part of the book lacks clearness.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Standards in education, with some
consideration of their relation to industrial training. *$1. Am. bk.
co.
8–37723.
A discussion of the factors in modern elementary education including
aims of education, special elements of good character, the curriculum in
the elementary school, the method of its presentation, the method of
training teachers, and the duties of parents toward school work.
* * * * *
“It is to be regretted that the book is published without an index.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“A useful and stimulating book. Mr. Chamberlain has combined wide
reading with his unusually valuable practical experience and his book
bears the mark of both. It may be used in a normal school or as material
for study and discussion at teachers’ meetings and associations.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 70w.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“Though there is nothing new in point of view or treatment it has some
merits as a textbook.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.
“On the whole the contents are representative of what one would say to a
class rather than organized material for publication in a book.” F. A.
Manny.
+ − =School R.= 17: 729. D. ’09. 210w.
=Chamberlain, James Franklin.= How we travel: a geographical reader.
(Home and world ser.) *40c. Macmillan.
8–19617.
A book for young readers that “provides a simple, entertaining, and
attractively illustrated account of means of travel and communication in
various parts of the world. Previous volumes have dealt with man’s
activities connected with securing food, clothing, and shelter.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 308. D. ’08. ✠
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 209. F. ’09. 30w.
“The little book should be popular in the lower classes of secondary
schools.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 569. O. 8. ’08. 90w.
=Chamberlain, John Aldrich.=^{[6]} Principles of business law. $2.50.
Anderson.
8–28323.
“This volume undertakes to state clearly and with as few technical
expressions as possible those rules and accepted principles of legal
procedure which a business man should know when, for instance, he
makes contracts, handles commercial paper, sells or buys real estate,
enters into a partnership, or sustains one of the relations of
landlord or tenant. The book is carefully arranged in sections, each
with its particular head, and is indexed with completeness and
clearness.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A useful compendium for the commercial man.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“The prime usefulness of the volume is as a book of reference. Its value
in this respect, however, is somewhat impaired because of the meager
information given on very important topics.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 882. O. 14, ’09. 190w.
“It will not save the ordinary business man from employing a lawyer, but
it will often save him getting into such a situation that it needs a
lawyer to extricate him.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 180w.
=Chamberlain, Lucia.=^{[5]} Other side of the door. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–14827.
A story built up about a murder which the heroine chances to be eye
witness to and concerning which she furnishes the evidence that convicts
the hero of the crime. He is not the real criminal and why he is loath
to clear himself is revealed in a closing chapter in which the
confession of a Spanish woman sets matters straight.
* * * * *
“It is not a very skillfully managed narrative.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 280w.
=Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.=^{[11]} Child
religion in song and story: walks with Jesus in his home country.
(Constructive Bible studies. Elementary ser.) *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.
9–29793.
A second volume of songs, prayers, song texts and story to be
supplemented and enforced by the manual work. The first volume, “The
child in his world,” should precede this, if possible, in Sunday school
work. The purpose of the lessons is to emphasize ethical truth and to
give to the child a sense of the reality of Jesus and an attitude toward
him.
* * * * *
“Here is a wide range of well-chosen, helpful material, sympathetically
selected in view of a child’s religious life and arranged helpfully for
the teacher.” H: F. Cope.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 348. My. ’09. 1000w.
=Chambers, Robert William.=^{[10]} Danger mark. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–24255.
Idle and overrich New York society folk fill the pages of this novel.
The heroine, one of the orphaned Seagrave twins, who has inherited
dangerous wealth and more dangerous appetites, is thrust at her début
into a world of pleasure seekers where ennui is often banished at the
expense of home ties, and where physical and financial gratification are
the sole ambitions. The girl has ideals and bravely fights the
degenerating tendencies within her to make herself worthy of the man she
loves, a man who is fighting also against social weakness. But such as
they are, tempted, back-sliding, struggling, but winning in the end,
they are the best of their luxurious, naughty world “whose sole
intellectual relaxation is in pirouetting along the danger mark without
overstepping, and in concealing it when they do.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Chambers is deservedly a popular writer, for never does he fail to
hold the attention of his readers to the end. It is thus with his latest
story, even though its first hundred pages or so are decidedly slow
reading, and the interest goes in the end to minor characters rather
than to the heroine, least of all to her brother.” A. S. van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 264. N. ’09. 930w.
“Mr. Chambers has been clever and deft as usual in many scenes, but he
has spun the thing out too thin, spread on too much society marmalade
for his bread and butter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 632. O. 23, ’09. 580w.
“Mr. Chambers’s books are probably read as widely as any American novels
now appearing, but their faults of taste are not light.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 120w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Special messenger. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–8578.
“A novelet of the civil war, the special messenger being a woman who
rendered great service to the Union armies in the field as a gatherer
and conveyor of intelligence. The book reads as if it were based upon
facts, but Mr. Chambers expressly denies this in a very brief
preface.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Of no literary merit and inclined to sensationalism, but there is
otherwise no objection to it.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 147. My. ’09.
“It is a vivid, stirring piece of work, well put together.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 120w.
“She is not the civil war heroine we have known; she is merely the
protagonist of Mr. Chambers’s society novels set to ‘The star spangled
banner.’ The stories—for the book is a small sheaf of short stories, not
a novel—are built in the regular style of such things, and from the
usual materials.” Ward Clark.
− =Bookm.= 29: 310. My. ’09. 850w.
=Ind.= 66: 765. Ap. 8, ’09. 120w.
“With his usual skill, Mr. Chambers holds the reader’s attention from
start to finish.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Chambers tells the tale of her deeds so entertainingly and makes
her always so womanly that the reader does not care the least bit
whether or not they are plausible, or even possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“A stirring tale maintaining the author’s high level of narrative
power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 70w.
=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.=^{[5]} Private palaces of London, past
and present. *$5. Lippincott.
A rehabilitation of the characteristics of the more important of the
famous London houses and an account of the annals of those that still
remain.
* * * * *
“Containing much useful information respecting most of the lordly houses
of London, which will interest a large number of readers. Mr. Chancellor
writes in a verbose style which wastes a good deal of space and does not
tend to pleasant reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 494. Ap. 24. 400w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 280. F. 27, ’09. 220w.
“The book is worthy of its great subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 156. Ja. 30, ’09. 370w.
=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.=^{[5]} Wanderings in London: Piccadilly,
Mayfair and Pall Mall. **75c. Pott.
“Dr. Johnson thought that Charing Cross was the centre of the universe;
Mr. Chancellor puts it somewhat more to the northwest. But the region
that he suggests is too large. It reaches from Buckingham palace to
Oxford street, from Bond street to Park lane.” (Spec.) “These notes on
the heart of the West End are made to gyrate round Stewart’s Tea-rooms
at the corner of Bond street, called ‘Stewart’s Corner.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In this pretty little book the illustrations are of more value than the
letterpress, which is merely an epitome of other books on the same
subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 495. Ap. 24. 200w.
“The traveller who likes to realize the dead-and-gone past of the scenes
he visits will find Mr. Chancellor’s little book a help and an
entertainment for his journeys about London.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 140w.
“This little volume, which is judiciously illustrated, makes good
reading, the better the more the reader knows of the English literature
of the last two centuries. We venture to correct one quotation of Mr.
Chancellor’s.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Chancellor, Louise Beecher.=^{[11]} Players of London: a tale of an
Elizabethan smart set. *$1.75. Dodge, B. W.
9–28110.
An interesting tale of the players of Elizabeth’s times in which
Shakespeare, the veritable Jack-of-all-stage-trades, is intimately
portrayed. His personal charm and his lovable characteristics that won
him friends everywhere are apparent in the pretty romance that grows up
between himself and the charming Phyllis who plays Juliet to his Romeo.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook.= Our city schools: their direction and
management. *1.25. Heath.
8–21610.
“Written with direct reference to the problems that are peculiar to
cities of more than 40,000 population, and is intended to complement the
author’s earlier work, which dealt with conditions prevailing in
communities of from 5000 to 40,000 population.” (R. of Rs.) “The
author’s point of departure is his belief that a correct system is
absolutely essential to good schools; that those charged with the
supervision of schools have too long contented themselves with seeking
the best results possible under conditions far from perfect; and that
they should have the courage to demand the best-known methods both of
legislation and administration. Many ideas which he presents seem
radical, and yet nearly all may be found exemplified in practice.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“This is one of a group of books now appearing which, by giving details
of methods, records, forms, etc., aim to aid in unifying educational
processes throughout the nation.” J. S. Hiatt.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 200. Jl. ’09. 330w.
“Is of unusually practical value.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 207. F. ’09. 50w.
“Seldom is the administration of public schools treated so
philosophically and courageously. However revolutionary some of his
proposals appear, he compels us to think and to ask whether we are
basing our procedure upon rational principles or merely upon tradition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 120w.
=Chandler, Walter Marion.= Trial of Jesus from a lawyer’s standpoint.
2v. ea. 3/4 mor. $5. Empire pub. co.
8–28970.
Two volumes, the one dealing with the Hebrew trial, and the other with
the Roman trial, which set forth from a lawyer’s standpoint “the legal
rights of the man Jesus at the bar of human justice under Jewish and
Roman laws.”
* * * * *
“The work is on the plane of the popular lecture platform, where the
speaker appeals to his audience with picturesque description,
commonplace allusion, and a matter-of-fact handling of topics that are
usually treated only in the solemn language of the pulpit. The subject
is spun out by numerous digressions.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 545. Ja. ’09. 380w.
“He has given us the completest study of the whole matter yet presented
to English readers.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 813. Ap. 15, ’09. 650w.
“It would seem probable that nothing more exhaustive upon this topic
will ever be produced, since it evidently covers all the material
available. The amount of erudition disclosed in this treatment is
surprising, and the capacity to reduce it all to an argument so clear
that the ordinary reader can grasp it easily should give the book a very
wide general reading.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 250w.
“To his legal discussion Mr. Chandler has prefixed a defence of the
authenticity and credibility of the gospel narratives, but the work
would be improved by the omission of this part.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 350w.
“A production closely and clearly reasoned, which those readers who are
in sympathy with his belief will hold to be an unanswerable argument,
but which those who are not will doubtless feel could be demolished by a
lawyer holding a brief for the opposite side.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 680w.
“There have been several recently published monographs on ‘The trial of
Jesus.’ This is the fullest and most comprehensive with which we are
acquainted. The learning is ample and is well digested; the style is
lucid, the temper judicial, the whole work that of a judge, not of an
advocate, strong by reason of its self-restraint.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 976. D. 26, ’08. 600w.
“Noteworthy for [its] firm, courageous, and dispassionate, but delicate
and reverential handling.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 756. D. ’08. 1000w.
=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
5–11649.
=v. 2.= A century of colonial history, 1660–1760.
“Professor Channing’s second volume opens with the English restoration
of 1660, and the return of king and courtiers, ‘poorer in purse even
than they were in morals,’ and carries the story to the eve of the
revolution when the colonists, ‘in all that constitutes nationality,’
were quite a separate nation from ‘that empire from which they had
sprung.’ It not only covers the hundred years between 1660 and 1760, but
it shows as no other history from a single hand has done how the great
transformation came about which split the course of imperial development
and started the portentous deviation.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Professor Channing has set so high a standard of accuracy in his work
that it is surprising to find a few errors of rather an unexpected
character. We may not agree with all that Professor Channing has said or
be entirely satisfied with his way of treating the history of this
period, but we do acknowledge that he has produced a book of first
importance for the study of the neglected period and in so doing has
removed a reproach hitherto cast upon historical scholarship in
America.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 364. Ja. ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 36. F. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
“The manner in which source material is used in weaving the fabric of
history must command the admiration of all historians. The most obvious
shortcoming of the book is in the treatment of social and economic
questions.” E. R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 469. Mr. ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“If any unfavorable criticism be deserved, it is to be grounded upon the
absence of a complete and unified survey of colonial and imperial
politics in the first half of the eighteenth century. A few errors,
usually in the case of dates, have escaped the proof-reader.” St. G: L.
Sioussat.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 327. My. 16, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The main impression made is one of wide reading and of studied
moderation. Professor Channing is as incapable of being elevated as of
being obscure. This is more than a mere fault of style.” W. L. Grant.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 145. Ja. ’09. 880w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His style is always clear and precise. The same conscious authority
which marked his first volume is here too. The hand of the master is
imprest on every page. We have still what promises to be the most
important history of the United States since George Bancroft’s. But no
other scholar has had at once the attainment with which to carry thru a
complete history, and the courage to attempt it.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1122. N. 12, ’08. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We believe that Professor Channing has some very good theories about
[history], and only regret that he has concealed the best part of them.
That, however, is a small matter. We commend Professor Channing’s book
to scholar and reader alike: a better one is not likely to appear soon.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 440. N. 5, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is a thoroughly scholarly book, serviceable to the general reader as
well as to the student, and noteworthy as containing the best account
yet written of the constitutional growth of the country during the
century.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 91: 753. Mr. 27, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It can no longer be said that the period has been neglected, since
Professor Channing has explored it with all the zest and thoroughness
that have characterized his work in other periods of our history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 251. F. ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Channing, Edward, and Lansing, Marion Florence.= Story of the Great
lakes. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–7929.
A chronicle of the important events, with the customs and life of each
period of the history of the Great lakes. The chapters are arranged
under the following divisions: Discovery and exploration; The struggle
for possession; and Occupation and development. There is a brief
bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“The book is less the story of the Great lakes than chapters from the
history of the regions contiguous to the lakes. Much is omitted; too
much, sometimes, to make what is told an adequate presentation of the
subject. In nothing is the present work more eccentric than in it’s
illustrations.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 189. O. ’09. 450w.
“The varied and interesting, often romantic, history of our great inland
seas is well told and admirably mapped and illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠
“It is perhaps a little to be regretted that they did not see fit to
round out the story by telling us something of the exploration and
development of the Canadian side of the lakes. These are but trifling
omissions in what is in other respects a fair-minded, well-balanced, and
decidedly readable history of the Great lakes.” L. J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 45. Jl. 16, ’09. 320w.
=Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 50w.
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 36. Jl. 8, ’09. 250w.
“They have presented very fully and satisfyingly the letter of the
story, but have sometimes missed its spirit.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 290. My. 8, ’09. 850w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 30w.
=Chapin, Robert Coit.= Standard of living among workingmen’s families
in New York city. $2. Charities pub. com.
9–8817.
A study of the actual standards of living of several hundred
workingmen’s families of normal size, who, with annual incomes varying
from $600 to $1,100 and more, have been able to maintain themselves
independently. A carefully planned and conducted investigation yielded
material which has been used for extensive tabulations showing sources
of income, objects of expenditure, and relation of income to
expenditure. Appendices contain studies relating to the causes of
poverty and working budgets, reports of investigations in other towns
and cities of the state, and a partial bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“The reviewer desires to express his appreciation of the high grade of
work done by Dr. Chapin and his colaborers who have done well, using a
method that has in itself many serious difficulties and some positive
limitations.” T. J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 268. S. ’09. 2800w.
“The value of the work as a basis of comparison is large, though
inaccuracies in estimates vitiate the results of the reports on
nutrition.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“Had the four hundred schedules been collected by the same person in the
same spirit, with the same point of view, there would have been more
reason for the publication of a book based upon them.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 370w.
“As a provisional general statement of conditions now prevailing in this
city, the conclusions of the present volume are of very considerable
value.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 401. Je. ’09. 570w.
“Professor Chapin has done a most thoro piece of work, and he deserves
the commendation of students of the subject for the very careful
workmanship he has shown in putting together in readable, compact,
accessible shape the mass of data gathered by his investigators.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 983. My. 6, ’09. 440w.
Reviewed by Marion Talbot.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 541. O. ’09. 1600w.
“All social workers will recognize in Professor Chapin’s exhaustive
treatise a very valuable presentation of the subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 370. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“The conclusions now published are worthy of full credence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“The book represents an important piece of work admirably done. It
deserves the careful attention of social workers, economists and
employers alike.” H: R. Mussey.
+ =Survey.= 22: 147. Ap. 24, ’09. 1150w.
“The book shows the effects of the painstaking labor which was bestowed
upon it. It has increased our knowledge of living conditions among the
working class, and offers a mass of information which may be used for
the determination of the standard of living.” W: B. Bailey.
+ =Yale R.= 18: 325. N. ’09. 1150w.
=Chapman, Abel.= On safari: big game hunting in British East Africa,
with studies in bird life. *$4.50. Longmans.
9–53.
A book of interest to readers who wish to familiarize themselves with
hunting grounds and big game which will occupy Roosevelt’s attention
after the coming inauguration. The book is in the main a record of two
expeditions made by Mr. Chapman into the African wilds. “He describes in
entertaining fashion his experiences in killing elephants and
rhinoceroses, hippopotami, leopards, giraffes, zebras, and a wide range
of other animals of strange names and strange appearance: a veritable
Noah’s ark of them.” (N. Y. Times.) “The nearest English equivalent to
‘safari’ as used in Africa is probably ‘camp,’ a very comprehensive
expression.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In an appendix notes on bird-life in British East Africa should be
useful to students. The illustrations deserve praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 817. D. 26. 1000w.
“Mr. Chapman’s book contains very much that is interesting upon the
habits of African animals. In this particular he has brought to bear a
degree of ornithology and natural history not possessed by the average
hunter of big game.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 39. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
Reviewed by F. C. Selous.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 41. Ja. 9, ’09. 1600w.
“His latest work will be read with the greatest pleasure, for though his
style is without pretension, he is such a keen observer of animal life
and so competent an ornithologist that every detail which he records is
worth recording. A delightful book for naturalists and sportsmen.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 345. F. 27, ’09. 530w.
=Chapman, Frank Michler.= Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3.
Appleton.
8–34816.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Contains a great deal of useful information, often about birds of which
our knowledge is meager.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.
“A notable contribution to bird lore.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The work done in ‘Camps and cruises of an ornithologist’ is of the best
in quality and in general interest, being most enticing to the general
reader and most suggestive to the special student of birds.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1033. My. 13, ’09. 500w.
“No one can read this book without feeling a closer touch of friendship
with the forms of bird life about him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 19. Ja. 9, ’09. 1200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 170w.
“Though popular in style, it is not lacking in seriousness, for it
contains many fresh or new observations on the habits of birds which
will be of permanent value to ornithologists. Typographical errors and a
few other slight evidences of haste while the book was in press are
rather too frequent to be overlooked.” W. H. Osgood.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 549. Ap. 2, ’09. 630w.
“No praise is too great for Mr. Chapman’s admirable photographs, and he
writes exceedingly well.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 816. N. 20, ’09. 380w.
=Chapman, John H.=^{[5]} Notes on the early history of the Vulgate
gospels. *$5.25. Oxford.
“Accepting the results of recent scholars Dom Chapman inquires what
lines are to be followed for the restoration of Jerome’s text of the
Gospels. The first step, he thinks, will be to recover the readings of
the codex possessed by Eugipius.... Other points discussed are the
relation of the Eugipian text to that of Codex Fuldensis and to the
Gallican liturgy, the Capuan mass-books, the Irish text, the ‘Gospels of
St. Augustine,’ and the Vulgate text of Gregory the Great.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“He shows himself acquainted with the recent literature which deals with
the subjects he discusses, and his own scholarship is equal to the task
he has undertaken.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 123. Ja. 30. 2800w.
“Much excellent material has been gathered by Dom John Chapman. Such a
contribution is particularly welcome now that Pope Pius X, as has been
announced, has ordered a new edition of the Vulgate.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 253. Mr. 11, ’09. 340w.
=Chapman, John Jay.= Maid’s forgiveness: a play. **75c. Moffat.
8–33412.
A play set in mediaeval times. “It is written in blank verse and prose,
and tells a somewhat fanciful, but interesting, story of a royal
bigamist, his remorse, confession, and abdication, and the enthronement
of his newly discovered heir in the place of the really illegitimate
son, who had been accepted for twenty years as the crown prince. Both
the plot and the construction are old-fashioned, but the characters of
the two half-brothers—the one a gallant man of action and the other a
fervent idealist, oppressed by the conviction of a wrong to be
righted—are well and vigorously drawn.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Possesses much literary merit and some effective theatrical qualities.
The dialogue is not only excellent in form—the blank verse especially
showing careful study of the Elizabethans—but vigorous, picturesque, and
imaginative in matter.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 585. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 40w.
=Chatelaine= of Vergi: a romance of the XIIIth century: tr. by Alice
Kemp-Welch; introd. by L. Brandin. (New medieval lib.) *$2.
Duffield.
This is the tragic story of the Chatelaine of Vergi which excited the
tears and admiration of court lords and ladies of six centuries ago.
“The absence of the conventional and the traditional, the depth and
Variety of the psychological analysis, the naïveté of the moral, the
unexpectedness of the philosophical ideas—these are the causes of its
eternal youth.”
* * * * *
“Miss Kemp-Welch has revised and altered her translation, not always to
the improvement of its rhythm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 170w.
“It appears in a form which will appeal to bibliophiles.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C.=^{[5]} Fame’s pathway: a romance of a
genius; il. by “JoB.” †$1.50. Duffield.
9–8576.
A story built up about the life of the French dramatist, Molière. It “is
a romanticised and popularized account of the playwright’s amorous
adventures as well as of his fight.... The crux of the story is
Molière’s determination to be a devotee of tragedy, and his loving
Madeleine’s sincere conviction that comedy is his real mistress. Many
and hard are his lessons before he realizes that his actress-love is
right and he wrong.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Considering the obstacles he has had to contend with, Mr.
Chatfield-Taylor has achieved a more than creditable measure of success
in picturing the life and fortunes of the young Molière, and reproducing
the atmosphere of the period in which he struggled.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 300w.
“An interesting picture of the life of a strolling player in the France
of Mazarin and Louis XIV.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 868. Ap. 22, ’09. 220w.
“The author’s chief aim was obviously to present Molière in the flesh,
and it must be recorded that he has merely succeeded in exhibiting a
rather awkwardly stuffed effigy of him.”
− =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 300w.
“Events follow one another with considerable swiftness, but there is
nothing of real character drawing; the figures are lay, and their talk
is manufactured talk, while the straining after wit and attempts at
repartee are only painful.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 450w.
“There are many words to be passed before the heart of the tale is
reached, and then it shows but a feeble pulse, and we are not deeply
impressed by the sorrows and struggles of the genius of the seventeenth
century.”
− =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 50w.
=Cheetham, F. H.= Louis Napoleon and the genesis of the Second Empire;
being the life of the Emperor Napoleon III to the time of his
election to the presidency of the French republic. **$5. Lane.
8–37055.
A careful account of the life of Napoleon III and his times. “Mr.
Cheetham has treated events in France briefly but with intelligence, so
that the resurrection of the Napoleonic legend in the person of the
un-Napoleonic nephew of the great Emperor is made comprehensible.” (Sat.
R.) The author agrees with Bagehot that Napoleon became Emperor because
France wanted a savior of society. “So long as he retained his mental
and physical vigour he was by no means a bad ruler. He had ideals, and
there was considerable nobility in many of his conceptions. Mr. Cheetham
shows that these ideas existed in his mind long before he became the
ruler of France, and that there was much practical sense behind his
dreams.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Though written in the tone of apology, this book deserves attention
because it represents under an attractive literary form a detailed, if
not a complete and thorough, account of the early career of a great
French ruler.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 144. Ag. 12, ’09. 650w.
“Mr. Cheetham is, perhaps, too amiably biased in his attitude toward
Louis Napoleon, and some of the conclusions at which he arrives cannot
be considered wholly warranted. The book commends itself not only to
students of Napoleonic literature, but to the general reader as well,
furnishing a unique and detailed view of the rise of a little-understood
personality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 14. Ja. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Cheetham gives the English reader what he has not possessed
hitherto, a readable and accurate account of the life of Napoleon III
before he became President. Mr. Cheetham has shown some capacity for
historical research and criticism; this is not mere book-making.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 310. Mr. 6, ’09. 230w.
=Cheramy, Paul Arthur.=^{[5]} Favourite of Napoleon: memoirs of
Mademoiselle George; ed. from the original manuscript. *$2.50.
McBride, J:
A document which throws light on a little known side of Napoleon’s
character. It contains the artless chatter of a “great child,” an
actress whose liaison with Napoleon extended thru a period of eight
years. People of the period and events of the day are commented upon
with ingenuous and unsophisticated reserve.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 60w.
=Nation.= 89: 39. Jl. 8, ’09. 280w.
=Chester, George Randolph.=^{[11]} Cash intrigue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–27745.
A money extravaganza set in New York in which a money-mad broker who has
stored away a billion and a half dollars in vaults under his house, a
young American, mad with the thirst for power, a socialistic leader, mad
for notoriety, a young woman mad of passion and of lust, an older woman,
mad for social position—all craving success—fight a wild battle and
lose. Insanity, ignominy, and death follow in the wake of their money
debaucheries.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 230w.
=Chester, George Randolph.=^{[7]} Making of Bobby Burnit. $1.50.
Bobbs.
9–16442.
By the author of “The letters of a self-made merchant” this story
outlines the struggles of a rich man’s son which begin at the death of
his father and are directed by the provisions of a curious will. The
father’s aim had been that of making a real man out of his son, and the
son had the grit to follow the father’s well-planned course. At
intervals marked by special business crises a long gray envelop was
delivered to him by his father’s old clerk in which each time was found
sound, homely business philosophy of just the sort to spur him on. The
love interest is of a character quite in keeping with the main idea of
the story.
* * * * *
“Despite serious defects, a story that will attract many readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09.
“May be summed up as modern, American, spirited, entertaining, and
ephemeral.” Beverly Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 642. Ag. ’09. 380w.
“There is a slender thread of love-story running through this
entertaining yarn, but it adds practically nothing to the interest,
which is wholly centered upon Bobby’s successive eyeopenings and their
salutary contribution to his development.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 49. Jl. 16, ’09. 550w.
“The appositeness of his father’s letters, always ready for him at the
proper moment, their keen prevision and homely practical wisdom are very
amusing.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.=^{[10]} George Bernard Shaw; portrait
sketches of George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert K. Chesterton by Mrs.
Barney. **$1.50. Lane.
9–23024.
A sketch of the man and criticism of his works written for the “English
men of letters” series by one “who is kindly disposed toward Mr. Shaw
personally but who does not take his ideas altogether seriously.” “Mr.
Chesterton starts with remarking on the absurdity of writing a book
about Mr. Bernard Shaw at all, and the indefensible foolishness of
attempting to explain a man whose sole object through life has been to
explain himself. If the reader reminds him, he says, that this is a book
about Shaw, ‘I can only assure him that I will reasonably and at proper
intervals remember the fact.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Will entertain those readers familiar with Shaw’s dramas who are inured
to Chesterton’s running fire of chaff and paradox.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“He has written a pretty sharp criticism, tempered with eulogy, of what
he professes to understand. His book is a clever, ill-written, but
readable performance. The book is nothing more than a piece of good
journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 291. S. 11. 1200w.
“G. K. Chesterton has written a most interesting book about G. B. Shaw,
and also, by the way, about many other things.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 244. N. ’09. 850w.
“The reviewer’s tone is in general cordial, and there is little of
captious criticism. The book as it stands is well worth while.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 280. O. 16, ’09. 1700w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 375. O. 21, ’09. 1400w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s analysis of Shaw’s literary work is of unusual
interest but he makes it clear that he does not consider Shaw primarily
a writer, but a public figure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 624. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.
“There is a great deal of good sense in this analysis of the elusive
Irishman.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 130w.
“A most entertaining book, full of illuminating phrases on many
subjects.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 574. N. 13, ’09. 1650w.
“A racy and sparkling volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 80w.
“Chaff is always intended to bring out the chaffer’s cleverness, and
this is evidently Mr. Chesterton’s primary purpose, the revelation of
Mr. Shaw being only secondary. It would be absurd to take the book
seriously as being anything but this. In Mr. Chesterton’s book there is
a considerable amount of the fun-at-a-fair sort of amusement. Mr.
Chesterton alone of all possible writers of a Shaw book, biography or
whatever we are to call it, could have set opinions out so cleverly,
humorously, frankly, and yet so inoffensively.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 290. S. 4, ’09. 1100w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A curious ‘apologia,’ unconventional and original to a degree, it would
be interesting to a large number of people were it not written in
Chesterton’s most difficult and paradoxical style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 36. F. ’09.
“Many a weighty philosophic or historical argument is couched in witty
metaphor or whimsical illustration: and its richness of thought, if
diluted with a sufficient infusion of syllogism, would furnish forth
more than one respectable volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 538. Ja. ’09. 1200w.
“The volume is evidently written ‘currente calamo,’ and with little
attention to the best order and the most concise form of statement; but
it is, on the whole, one of the best pieces of work Mr. Chesterton has
given us.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 52. Ja. 16, ’09. 400w.
“It is interesting just because Mr. Chesterton really is clever, and
knows it and delights in it. I rather fancy that ‘Orthodoxy’ is one of
Mr. Chesterton’s failures. Mr. Chesterton has attempted in ‘Orthodoxy’
exactly that for which he was not born—a piece of consistent thinking.”
H. W. Garrod.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 448. Ja. ’09. 1750w.
“‘Orthodoxy’ is at once more serious and less irritating than its
predecessors.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1620. D. 31, ’09. 450w.
“But in manner as in style, the book pays the penalty of its merit. In
the first place, it does not cover its own ground; for it expounds the
author’s theology only in part. Is the most important religious work
that has appeared since Emerson.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 135. Ja. ’09. 2350w.
=Chesterton=, Gilbert Keith: a criticism. [Anonymous.] *$1.50. Lane.