“This new edition is in three moderately priced volumes, amply
illustrated in far more satisfactory fashion than was mechanically
possible forty-four years ago. The editor is Mr. Edward Hutton, whose
notes, enclosed in brackets, voice such newly discovered facts or modern
theories as seriously confute or worthily supplement the text, which is
kept absolutely intact.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 46: 333. My. 16, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The whole book bears the impress of true scholarship, and when complete
will be a very valuable contribution to art literature.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 336. Je. ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Well maintains the high level of excellence of its predecessor, and,
with its numerous notes from the able pen of Mr. Edward Hutton, forms a
very up-to-date history of the development of the Siennese and
Florentine schools of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It may be said that while Mr. Douglas has edited like a schoolmaster,
Mr. Hutton has edited like an inspired student—one professional and the
other an amateur—one anxious to impart knowledge, the other zealous to
convey impressions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 149. Mr. 13, ’09. 220w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 599. N. 13, ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cruttwell, C. T.=^{[8]} Anglo-Saxon church and the Norman conquest.
2s. 6d. Methuen, London.
Thru inference rather than by direct statement, says the Spectator, are
answered the questions, Did the conquest raise the tone of clerical
life? Did it promote good government in the church? Did it increase the
Papal power?
* * * * *
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 340w.
“The volume, as a whole, is an excellent piece of work, and will be most
useful to the student.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1009. Je. 26, ’09. 160w.
=Culbreth, David M. R.= University of Virginia: memories of her
student-life and professors. *$5. Neale.
8–31641.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“An interesting account of his life as a student at the university, with
sympathetic personal sketches of the members of the faculty during the
period of his attendance.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 193. Mr. 16, ’09. 270w.
“The present rambling volume is of singular interest to a large body of
persons of Southern nativity—a sort of family memoir—while it should
have no small value to a body at least equally large, not of Southern
origin, as a witness of the power which touched the formative period of
so many often misunderstood countrymen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 44. Ja. 23, ’09. 770w.
=Cullen, Rev. John.= Hundred best hymns in the English language.
(Golden anthologies ser.) 50c. Dutton.
A selection of one hundred hymns with an extra thirty-three for an
appendix all of which have been chosen for the “devotion, teaching,
religion and poetry” found in them as essentials of good hymns.
* * * * *
+ − =Ind.= 67: 145. Jl. 15, ’09. 130w.
“That a majority of the hymns are wisely selected there can be no doubt;
but Dr. Cullen has a decided leaning toward the sweetly sentimental.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 165. F. 18, ’09. 200w.
“A useful and companionable little volume, but it is not ideal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 218. Ap. 10, ’09. 550w.
“Though the editor’s choice is on the whole admirable, he has probably
been guided, as most of us would be, rather by an unreasoning preference
than by regard for any rule.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 837. N. 21, ’08. 2150w.
=Cullum, Ridgwell.=^{[9]} The compact: the story of an unrecorded
conspiracy in South Africa. *$1.20. Doran.
“The scene of this vigorous story is laid in South Africa in the days
following the Majuba incident, and the desperate doings of the
free-booters of Bechuanaland form the background to the romantic events
of the tale. The two Englishmen who figure prominently in the
book—Ferman Elwood, undemonstrative, determined, and loyal, and Guy
Chalmer, fascinating, shallow, and unscrupulous—are vividly and
carefully drawn: but the central incident of the story—the compact by
which each undertakes to destroy his own life on an appointed day if he
fails to secure the love of Elwood’s wife—is conventional and
unconvincing.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The real merit of the book lies in its picturesqueness, its
spaciousness, its atmosphere. The air of the veldt pervades it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 460. Ap. 17. 210w.
“The fact that it is something considerably better than a dime novel is
due to its careful workmanship, and especially to the clear and accurate
brushstrokes of the Transvaal background.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 282. N. ’09. 240w.
“A melodramatic tale of conspiracy and free-booting, of plot and
counterplot.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 280w.
“His plots, though lurid, are sketchy; his conspirators become
exclamation points; his details, ejaculations. A more serious fault is
the cheaply melodramatic quality of the love-story.”
− =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 160w.
“A somewhat unusually stirring story of love and adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 524. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
“In this exceedingly clever book Ridgwell Cullum has created striking
and dramatic situations which he has handled splendidly. His is
fascinating, wholesome romance that makes the blood tingle, yet keeps
the heart pure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 653. O. 23, ’09. 30w.
“The book is well worth reading because of the pictures of early days in
South Africa. The book may be recommended, but not because of its
qualities as fiction.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 620. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
=Cundall, Herbert Minton.= History of British water-colour painting;
with a chronological list of painters with dates of birth and death
and brief accounts of their lives, etc. *$6. Dutton.
9–5219.
“Shows in the pictures as well as in the text the different phases
through which water color painting has passed from the time of Holbein
to the present day in England. The volume opens with a miniature
painting which was brought from Europe by the Irish monks and then
carried over to England. The chapters following take up the work of
Girtin, Turner, Constable, Cotman, Cox, and their contemporaries, the
influence of pre-Raphaelitism, and the artists who formed the Royal
society of painters in water colors and other such institutions” (N. Y.
Times.) It contains fifty illustrations and a biographical list of
painters.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 160. Je. ’09.
“A capable compilation of many names and dates in a relatively small
space, and valuable as a book of reference.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 130w.
“At once comprehensive, authoritative and readable. Sane and balanced
judgment, and careful economy of space by judicious selection from a
wide field are the best points about Mr. Cundall’s method.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The illustrations have been carefully selected and constitute an
exceedingly attractive feature of the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1459. D. 17, ’08. 120w.
“The book contains a vast amount of carefully collected information that
will be of great use to the future historian.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 169. Ap. ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Cundall has chronicled some previously unbroached small beer anent
the societies; for the rest, his book is a compilation that nowhere
reveals either unusual taste or intelligence. It is written in very
slovenly English, and abounds in minor but significant inaccuracies.”
− =Nation.= 87: 662. D. 31, ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“The present volume with its orderly arrangement and fullness of
biographical material, is an acceptable work of reference, the value of
which is notably increased by the reproductions in colour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
“It seems strange that any one should attempt to write a history of
water-color painting in unpicturesque style. Yet this is what Mr. H. M.
Cundall has done.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 335. F. 13, ’09. 160w.
“For sensitive spirits, mars an otherwise able and serviceable book by
quoting, at its close, a characteristically Philistine arraignment of
free technique from the heavy pen of Sir William B. Richmond.” Christian
Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 620. F. ’09. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 125. Ja. ’09. 40w.
“I wish Mr. Cundall had been a little less serenely impartial in the
short space he has allotted to artists of great interest and to painters
of no interest alike. The same unfortunate impartiality which prevails
in the text of the book is reflected in the choice of illustrations. Mr.
Cundall’s book fully carries out its author’s intentions; but it still
leaves the field open for a book of different aim, a critical rather
than merely historical account of the subject.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 753. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
=Curtin, Jeremiah.=^{[12]} Journey in southern Siberia: the Mongols,
their religion and their myths. **$3. Little.
9–29224.
Opening with a brief sketch of the physical features and the history of
Siberia, the author proceeds to describe a long journey in southern
Siberia, to set forth scenery, institutions, homes and the mode of life
of the people he met. He relates the customs of the Buriats; deals with
the origin of the Shamans or priests; records myths connected with the
Mongol religion; and completes the volume with a collection of
folk-tales. Illustrations, notes and an index make the book complete.
* * * * *
“A storehouse of information that makes rather hard reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1143. N. 18, ’09. 180w.
“President Eliot, in a prefatory note says rightly that the work is one
that only an extraordinary linguist and scholar could have written, and
that the varied kinds of knowledge necessary for such a book have rarely
been possessed by a single writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols in Russia. **$3. Little.
8–30035.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A scholarly work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 75. Mr. ’09.
“Perhaps, however great the enthusiasm of Mr. Curtin, he was hardly
competent in these days of advanced scholarship to treat of the
Mongolians and the old Russian chronicles. Although they treat of a dull
period, the pages of Mr. Curtin are not tedious.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 750. Je. 26. 770w.
“While the story of the Mongols is new to most readers, and is here
vividly told, the style of the narrative, for want of the author’s final
revision is somewhat too terse and abrupt for easy reading, suggestive
rather of annals than of a rounded history.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 466. My. 6, ’09. 700w.
“We wish that the volume were characterized by greater simplicity of
statement. It needs editing. Certain pages glow with vividness, it is
true; but the book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the mature
student.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 110w.
=Curtis, A. C.= Good sword Belgarde, or, How De Burgh held Dover.
†$1.50. Dodd.
8–31683.
A story set in the turbulent times of King John. “The great Hubert de
Burgh is worthily commemorated, and the climax of the warfare is the
defeat of Eustace the Monk in the Straits of Dover, an engagement full
of political consequences. The bulk of the story consists of the
military and other adventures of two gallant young squires, to whom, as
is the nearly universal practice in these cases, an ancient adviser
attaches himself.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 140w.
“A new book which will be welcomed by boys.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 90w.
“A stirring enough historical tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 791. D. 19, ’08. 220w.
“Many of the minor characters, including the old sea-dogs of the day,
are well drawn. The story is told in good nervous modern English.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.=^{[6]} One Irish summer. **$3.50. Duffield.
9–10946.
“A number of newspaper letters the author wrote while he was in Ireland
last summer. He went to the Emerald Isle chiefly for the purpose of
seeing what progress had been made in the uplifting of the Irish people
from their poverty and wretchedness.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Curtis
discourses pleasantly and informingly upon the well-known features of
Irish life and scenery, and relates many pleasant little instances of
personal experience.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It contains a larger amount of information of all kinds than Jones’
‘Shamrock land’ or Shoemaker’s ‘Wanderings in Ireland’ and will interest
a less well informed class of readers than will Paul-Dubois’
‘Contemporary Ireland.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 160. Je. ’09.
“No one who has ever visited the Green Isle will be disappointed in
reading this book, and no one who contemplates a visit there can find a
better introduction to it.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 235. O. 1, ’09. 250w.
“It is crowded with information, and written in the well-known, pleasant
style of this experienced traveler, whose ‘stuff’ (to use the vernacular
of the newspaper office) is invariably well worth republication in book
form.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1244. Je. 3, ’09. 50w.
“Mr. Curtis’s collection of newspaper articles constitutes fair
journalism but a poor book.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 330. O. 7, ’09. 350w.
“The story of his travels in Ireland is very agreeably told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 325. My. 22, ’09. 270w.
“Entertainingly written and capitally illustrated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 765. Je. ’09. 80w.
=Curwood, James Oliver.=^{[6]} Great lakes, the vessels that plough
them: their owners, their sailors, and their cargoes; together with
a brief history of our inland seas. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–11734.
A strong, handsomely-made and illustrated work on the Great lakes whose
greater portion deals with the commercial uses made of the lakes for
purposes of transport, while three chapters are devoted to their origin
and history. Altho the picturesque side has not been neglected the
principal service, authoritatively rendered, has been that of setting
before the readers and students actual facts about the cities, the
commerce and the future of the greatest fresh-water seas in the world.
* * * * *
“The inaccurate and perfunctory attempt to review in a few pages the
history of two centuries adds nothing to a work which otherwise well
accomplishes its purpose.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 188. O. ’09. 320w.
“As a whole the work is useful for reference though less valuable than
Channing’s ‘Story of the Great lakes.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 160. Je. ’09.
“It might have been wiser if Mr. Curwood had confined himself to the
modern story of the lakes; for here he leaves little to be desired. As
an industrial history of the Great lakes, his book stands by itself.” L.
J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 45. Jl. 16, ’09. 300w.
“His manner of telling has an enthusiasm that is contagious.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1239. Je. 3, ’09. 220w.
“The beautiful and the practical are combined in this sumptuous volume
in which we learn a great deal about the nautical and commercial
activities on the vastest fresh-water seas in the world.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1070. Je. 19, ’09. 250w.
“The more unconcerned reader may be pardoned for tiring a little of the
insistence with which the material magnitude of everything connected
with the Great lakes is thrust upon him by the author, who seems
deliberately to prefer the tone of the professional promoter.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 36. Jl. 8, ’09. 350w.
“A volume as entertaining as it is informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“Dr. Curwood’s ‘Great lakes’ is written with such sympathy and energy
that interest would be compelled if it were not felt spontaneously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 393. Je. 19, ’09. 370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
=Curwood, James Oliver.= Wolf hunters: a tale of adventure in the
wilderness. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–20578.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“From a literary viewpoint it is incomparably superior to most boys’
books, and while personally we question the wisdom of placing stories
dealing with the slaughter of men and animals before our youths, it is,
we think, the best tale of this kind that has appeared in years.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 90. Ja. ’09. 160w.
“The book shows intimate acquaintance with the Canadian wilderness,
enjoyment of its wintry wastes, and sympathy with the spirit of
adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 783. D. 19, ’08. 110w.
=Cushing, Mary Gertrude.=^{[5]} Pierre Le Tourneur. (Columbia univ.
studies in romance, philology and literature.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30946.
“A monograph of much interest and not a little erudition written around
the life and work of the man who first translated into French the
complete works of Shakespeare, Edward Young, and Ossian. That, a century
and a half after the poet’s death, Le Tourneur gave to his people the
works of Shakespeare in their entirety is perhaps sufficient reason why
he should not be forgotten.” (N. Y. Times.) “His versions ... were the
best fruit of a movement that stirred literary France to a consciousness
of her great lack.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Is one of the most readable contributions to literary history that have
appeared recently.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 191. Mr. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Within the limits of her subject, Dr. Cushing seems painstakingly to
have covered her ground.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 280. S. 23, ’09. 900w.
“To the author of the essay should be accorded a credit almost parallel
to that of Le Tourneur for rescuing his name from desuetude, if not
oblivion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 260. Ap. 24, ’09. 110w.
=Cust, Nina (Mrs. Henry Cust).=^{[6]} Gentlemen errant; being the
journeys and adventures of four noblemen in Europe during the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. *$4. Dutton.
9–22285.
A view of the renaissance, the reformation and the counter-reformation
from the standpoint of the rank and file. Four men “wander through
Europe in their various capacities, touching many lands, and meeting
many of the chief personages of the centuries in which they lived. The
fortunes of the road, the manners of camps and cities, the courtesies of
social life, the idiosyncrasies of nations, or sudden glimpses into the
near life of men whose names are in all the books and yet remain for us
little else but names to the end—all these things are to be found here.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“A volume on which she is much to be congratulated.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 458. Ap. 17. 1000w.
“There is, perhaps no book in English which gives so vivid an impression
of German life in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as this.” E.
Armstrong.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 789. O. ’09. 1000w.
“The book is to be commended to students and teachers of the renaissance
and reformation as a valuable aid in making the ordinary histories live
in the consciousness of our seemingly more prosaic days.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 119. Ag. 5, ’09. 380w.
“To these skeletons of the past, as it were, she has added flesh, sinew,
and red blood, until the Europe of the renaissance moves across the
pages in animated pageant with kingly exploits, pride, pomp, and piety,
its beggar ambassadors worshipping, wondering, tilting, dancing, loving,
fighting, and wandering—ever wandering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 388. Je. 19, ’09. 1100w.
“We are loth to part from these gentlemen. Mrs. Cust has given real life
to her scenes and characters. Occasionally however, we are tempted to
exclaim that ‘the butter’s spread too thick.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 598. My. 8, ’09. 2000w.
“She has expounded and annotated her originals with remarkable learning,
but the result is not history, but romance. We are inclined to call the
book the best historical novel which has appeared for many years.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 539. Ap. 3, ’09. 2200w.
=Cutten, George Barton.= Psychological phenomena of Christianity.
**$2.50. Scribner.
8–31997.
Seeks its audience among psychological and theological students. “The
whole range of the phenomena of Christianity has been included, abnormal
and normal, pathological and healthful. As far as possible the
supernatural aspect of religion has been avoided, and the discussion of
the human side as evidenced in the ‘behavior of the soul’ (as far as
this may be known at all) forms the basis of consideration.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It will be of high value to all students of religion, whether layman or
professional, and especially to all who are interested in religious
therapeutics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 75. Mr. ’09.
“The author means to serve the general reader as well as the
psychological and theological student; he has served him almost
exclusively; for his generalizations are frequently much wider than the
inductions on which they are built; his cases are gathered too much at
haphazard; he is too prone to put forward the abnormal for the type, to
permit him to be of much service to the serious student.”
− =Cath. World.= 89: 106. Ap. ’09. 530w.
“In the present volume Dr. Cutten has made a really valuable
contribution to the psychology of religion—a contribution that may be
welcomed all the more warmly in the present condition of the science
because it is a collection of data rather than a presentation of a
theory. The value of the book to students would have been much enhanced
had Dr. Cutten added a bibliography of the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1084. My. 20, ’09. 330w.
“It is strictly a summary rather than an original treatise, and it will
consequently interest the general reader rather than the psychologist.”
Irving King.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 389. Jl. 8, ’09. 550w.
“In one particular this book is especially timely at this moment: viz.,
in bringing before us in convincing form the close relation between
hysterical phenomena and religious ecstasies. He displays that
unfortunate tendency, which Professor James has done so much to
strengthen, to fall back upon mysticism when one finds one’s self balked
in the endeavor to attain clarity of conception.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 119. F. 4, ’09. 620w.
“The value of Dr. Cutten’s work is beyond dispute. In summarizing the
best theories and ideas of the writers who have preceded him, and in
advancing noteworthy ideas of his own, he has performed a service to
modern religious thought which can scarcely be overestimated. In its own
field no more important book has been published in this country for a
number of years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 117. F. 27, ’09. 950w.
“A notable contribution to the modern clergyman’s library. In the main
Dr. Cutten has done this work thoroughly and well. His attitude is
independent and fearless, and generally scholarly and scientific though
occasionally one feels that he allows the preacher to slip into the
place of the scientist, that he has turned from an impartial statement
of the facts to exhort the faithful and reassure the timid by brief
declarations of his personal beliefs.” S: P. Hayes.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 452. Jl. ’09. 1150w.
“The book will serve to popularize many sensible explanations of
religious experience, and the general reader will probably not be
particular about points which trouble the conscience of the
hypersensitive psychologist. The latter will not find in the book
anything that is new either in point of view, method or material.” I. K.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 199. Je. 15, ’09. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 170w
=Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.=^{[10]} Just for two. **$1. Doubleday.
9–25639.
A half dozen stories of the wooing or married state in which Mrs.
Cutting portrays an even finer quality of loyalty and constancy than one
finds in her former stories. For illustration, there is nothing better
than “The wife,” in which a divorced woman refuses to marry again
because she knows that, in spite of the fact that the husband has
remarried, she herself is the one link he has with goodness, purity and
the higher life; and rather than outrage that ideal, she denies herself
the companionship and protection, in marriage, of a man who is in every
way worthy of her.
* * * * *
“Upon the whole, the unambitious little volume makes pleasant diversion
for an empty hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 708. N. 13, ’09. 70w.
D
=Daffan, Katie.= Woman in history. *$2. Neale.
9–2.
Twenty-nine women famous for rulership, for qualities of heroism or for
beauty constitute this galaxy: Cleopatra; Vashti; Queen Esther; Queen of
Sheba; Aspasia; Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi; Mary, the mother of
Jesus; Hypatia; Heloise; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda of Flanders;
Beatrice Portinari; Joan of Arc; Elizabeth of England; Mary Stuart;
Nelle Gwynne; Madame de Maintenon; Madame Pompadour and Madame du Barry;
Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Charlotte Corday; Madame de Stael;
Madame Recamier; Empress Josephine; Maria Theresa; Catherine II; Queen
Victoria and Eugenie.
=Daggett, Mabel Potter.=^{[12]} In Lockerbie street: a little
appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley. *50c. Dodge, B. W.
9–28407.
A charming appreciation of Mr. Riley as he lives, laughs and sorrows
with Lockerbie street. “In Lockerbie street he is one of the folks,” he
visits the corner grocery, entertains troops of children, gives
generously of his pennies and likewise of his genial, sympathetic
personality. Why Mr. Riley has never married, the writer admits, is his
own secret; why he stays away from church is summed up in the following:
“I don’t go to church only when I have to. I can’t bear the awe and
gloom. I don’t like worship that way. It ought to be cheerful and
joyful.... It just sort o’ clabbers my mind to go to church.”
=Daggett, Stuart.= Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies,
v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the work appears to me to be excellent. It is one of the
few books which have appeared on railways during the past ten years that
is worth the serious study of a serious student.” H: C. Adams.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 838. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“Is the most important addition made in 1908 to the book literature upon
railroad transportation. The volume has several distinctive merits: It
deals with a relatively neglected phase of railroad history and
management; it approaches the subject by the scientific highway of
induction and careful analysis; and lastly the work has not been done
hastily, but is the result of years of study.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 470. Mr. ’09. 600w.
“So far as the work is expository little can be said except in praise.
But so far as the work is critical one gathers the impression that the
author’s thought has not been quite mature.” H. S. Smalley.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 341. D. ’08. 750w.
=Dahlke, Paul.= Buddhist essays; tr. from the German by Bhikkhu
Silacara. *$3. Macmillan.
9–15096.
“Dahlke’s ‘Essays’ are a fair presentation of the religion of his
Master; for the most part they give a presentation of the texts
themselves, taken from the Middle collection of the second book of the
Pali canon. They deal with Buddha’s life and with the teaching in regard
to life, sorrow, Nirvana, God, morality, asceticism, etc. To these the
author adds his own exegesis and conclusions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“As each essay is complete in itself and independent of the rest, the
plan of the volume involves a certain amount of reiteration and
restatement, but the result is undoubtedly a great gain in clearness and
precision.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 406. Ap. 3. 750w.
“So far as we have compared the translation with the original, the
English version is idiomatic and satisfactory. If only as an antidote to
the pernicious ‘mischmasch’ so often offered to the general public as
Buddhism this volume would be heartily welcome. Nevertheless, it is not
without grave defects; and if space permitted it would be worth while
enlarging on these, for they are the defects of the school to which
Dahlke belongs.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 950w.
“This is in two points of view a valuable book—first as a full and
reliable exposition of an exclusively Oriental system of thought by an
appreciative European convert, but chiefly as furnishing a fresh
incentive to rid Christianity of accretions which give a starting-point
for such religious nihilism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 260w.
=Dalhousie, Fox Maule.= Panmure papers: being a selection from the
correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, afterwards
eleventh earl of Dalhousie, K. T., G. C. B.; ed. by Sir G: Douglas
and Sir G: Dalhousie Ramsay. 2v. *$6. Clode, E. J.
9–3530.
“Letters written and received by Lord Panmure while he was at the head
of the British war department and a member of Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet,
have been the means of disseminating considerable interesting
information. The period covered by the correspondence is that during
which the British and their allies were fighting against Russia in
Crimea. Among those who contributed to the correspondence were
Palmerston, Lord Raglan, the Duke of Cambridge, Gen. Sir James Simpson,
Gen. Sir William Codrington, Queen Victoria herself, and her devoted
husband, the Prince Consort.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“What is new is the detailed statement of the practice of the rulers of
the nation as to the best mode in which to regulate the fortunes of a
most difficult undertaking.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 533. O. 31. 4300w.
“The military student will gain from a study of the letters knowledge
that heretofore has not been available of the operations of the British
forces in one of the world’s greatest wars. Another very important
feature of the correspondence is the light it throws upon the Queen as
she followed the course of events in the Crimean peninsula with deeply
concerned and intelligent interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 920w.
“A most valuable and interesting book; but the editors would have done
better if they had reduced its dimensions by omitting about half of the
letters, many of which are purely formal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 761. D. 19, ’08. 390w.
“No student of history can afford to neglect these two stout volumes,
which are excellently edited. The despatches tell their own story, and
little more than the editing was required.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 674. O. 31, ’08. 1800w.
=Dalliba, Gerda.= Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by Edwin
Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It is an amorphous composition, in which nuggets of poetic diction may
be found imbedded. We must call the book the work of a nature at present
utterly unregulated, from both the intellectual and the artistic points
of view.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 46: 51. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w.
“If vagueness of thought, obscureness of language, veiled meanings which
are but the echoes of meanings, constitute a poet, then Gerda Dalliba is
a poet. The author evidently has youth; she certainly has the courage of
invention; what is also important, she has a good ear for rhythm.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 880. O. 14, ’09. 370w.
“With such a subject, the wonder is, not that the poem is so long, but
that it is so good—by fits and starts.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 150w.
=Dallimore, W.= Holly, yew and box; with notes on other evergreens;
the descriptions of the varieties of the common holly are based on
the monograph by T: Moore. **$2.50. Lane.
9–616.
“The volume deals with these three elements of the garden, rather than
with the garden itself. The illustrations of English holly trees are
exceedingly effective, and indicate the high value of the plants in the
construction of picturesque combinations.... The volume contains much
besides a mere botanical review of the holly. The patient box, which has
borne so much mutilation from formal gardeners, and the sombre yew also,
find here congenial treatment, but they and a few other evergreen trees
are kept a little out of proportion by the greater space deservedly
assigned to the hollies.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The value of this book centres chiefly on the reproduction of a unique
series of illustrations of holly leaves published by the late Thomas
Moore in ‘The gardeners’ chronicle’ in the years 1874–6.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 411. Ap. 3. 330w.
“Lovers of trees and of the folk-lore of trees will find in this work
much of deep interest.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 470. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Full of practical, present day information on the different varieties
with helpful suggestions as to their planting and proper care.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 31. Ja. 16, ’09. 730w.
=Daly, Thomas Augustine.=^{[6]} Carmina. **$1. Lane.
9–9231.
Some eighty pieces reprinted from the Catholic standard and times. “Mr.
Daly is poet laureate of the peanut peddler. He can also handle Irish
dialect and plain English, but other people can do that, while in
Italo-American he has no rival. But it is no mere display of
‘dialectics.’ The ballads have point, pathos and human nature.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The sympathy of Mr. Daly’s Italian lyrics even—and they are the best of
his book—is not often wistful enough to be real. The occasional
exceptions, like ‘Leetla Joe’ and ‘The mourner,’ make one wish there
were more of them; and the dedicatory sonnet, ‘To a tenant,’ would
honour a richer offering.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 368. Je. ’09. 200w.
“It contains all the elements of his popularity, which are easily
described. He is always sane, he is eminently human and genial, and
takes a joyful attitude towards life. The brighter and happier qualities
of the Celtic character are revealed in his song. He writes without
obscurity and on themes of popular interest. He has something definite
to say in each separate piece and knows how to build up a poem. Over all
his work, according to his subject, presides a graceful fancy or a true
feeling, or a humor that is always natural and agreeable.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 399. Je. ’09. 650w.
“They are the sort of thing that you cut out of a newspaper and carry
around in your pocket to read to appreciative friends until the clipping
is worn out, and then you copy it, unless you know it by heart.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1084. My. 20, ’09. 230w.
“Because of the dialect, or in spite of it, and because of a pretty gift
of rhyme and line and a wholesome sentiment, because also of something
of romance, of tragedy in the exile’s lot, something oddly appealing in
the aspiration of the transplanted Italian especially to be a good
American—these little bits of occasional verse have made friends.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
=Dana, John Cotton.=^{[12]} Modern American library economy; as
illustrated by the Newark, N. J. Free public library. Pt. 1, *25c;
Pt. 5, *75c. Elm tree press; for sale by the H. W. Wilson co.
8–36693.
=Pt. 1.= The lending department.
This pamphlet includes the first section of Pt. 1 devoted to the
subject, “The work of the registration desk,” by Sara C. Van de Carr. It
discusses minutely the methods and routine of registration, giving
diagrams and alphabetical list of special furniture and equipment
required for registration work.
=Pt. 5.= The school department.
A pamphlet containing the second section of pt. 5, in which there is
discussed the “Course for Normal school pupils on the use of a library,”
by Marjory L. Gilson. It gives in outline a course of twelve lessons,
with suggestions for practice work and working materials.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 8. Ja. ’09. (Review of pt. 1, sec. 1.)
“Will be helpful to other libraries carrying on or wishing to take up
similar courses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09. ✠ (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)
“Better redundancy than defect, however, in a work of this kind.”’
+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 160w. (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)
=Daniels, John.= Outline of economics. *40c. Ginn.
8–30043.
“A very concise synopsis of the entire field of economic science.”—Educ.
R.
* * * * *
“Its greatest use will undoubtedly be found as a guide to lecture work
by the college instructor.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 453. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“As a guide, the book will help the student get his ideas in order and
keep them so.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 99. Ja. ’09. 70w.
“He writes lucidly, as he desired to do, and in those cases where a
terse statement is adequate his formulation is often excellent.
Interesting but hardly important.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 104. F. ’09. 200w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 558. S. ’09. 130w.
“To those who attended this course the book will doubtless be of value;
it is hard, however, to see how it can serve the other purposes (five in
number) which the author indicates for it.”
− + =Yale R.= 18: 106. My. ’09. 140w.
=Darwin, Charles Robert.=^{[12]} Foundations of the origin of species:
two essays written in 1842 and 1844; ed. by Francis Darwin. *$2.50.
Putnam.
“These two abstracts, one of 1842 and the other of 1844, ... are edited
and an introduction is furnished by Francis Darwin. The 1842 essay ...
is simply a worker’s outline notes, preliminary to a careful setting
forth of the subject.... It is interesting chiefly for two reasons: one,
because the outline is Darwin’s—we see how the master worked; the other,
because it, in connection with the 1844 essay, shows how his ideas
changed and developed in the twenty years from 1839 when he read Malthus
to 1859 when the ‘Origin’ appeared. The 1844 essay is much easier and
more satisfactory reading than the earlier outline. It is a far more
carefully prepared statement of the subject, which was originally
written as a sort of ‘insurance policy’ on Darwin’s ideas as to the
origin of species.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 450w.
“The volume forms an interesting addition to existing Darwiniana.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 350w.
“Almost nothing in his biography brings us into such intimate
appreciation of Darwin’s methods of work as this stray outline or
“Foundation,” cast aside and never intended for publication.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 413. O. 28, ’09. 470w.
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 24. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
=Darwin, Sir George Howard.=^{[9]} Scientific papers. v. 2, Tidal
friction and cosmogony. *$4.50. Putnam.
Nine papers whose underlying thesis is that, whatever the actual
constitution of the earth may be, it must be more or less plastic. “The
following papers are included in the volume:—(1) On the bodily tides of
viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a
yielding nucleus, (2) Note on Thomson’s theory of the tides of an
elastic sphere, (3) On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the
remote history of the earth, (4) Problems connected with the tides of a
viscous spheroid, (5) The determination of the secular effects of tidal
friction by a graphical method, (6) On the secular changes in the
elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted
planet, (7) On the analytical expressions which give the history of a
fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite, (8) On
the tidal friction of a planet attended by several satellites, and on
the evolution of the solar system, (9) On the stresses caused in the
interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“Each of the papers in the volume before us contains a summary which the
general reader will find perfectly intelligible, and which will give him
the opportunity of watching the growth of a vigorous theory and of
admiring the combination of poetic imagination and untiring industry
which marks its author.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Workers in mathematical physics will be grateful to the author for his
careful revision.” A. E. H. L.
+ =Nature.= 80: 421. Je. 10, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Some features of the author’s work and methods appear to the present
reviewer to be of high value in the study of applied mathematics. The
collection will thus be something more than a reprint.” E: W. Brown.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 212. Ag. 13, ’09. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
=Daulton, Mrs. Agnes McClelland.=^{[11]} From Sioux to Susan. †$1.50.
Century.
9–26139.
Girls of boarding school age and younger will delight in this story of
Sue, the minister’s daughter, the merry, unselfish tomboy who was the
main help of her mother in their big happy-go-lucky family but whose
slang was a constant distress to both parents. The story tells of her
life at home and at school, her troubles and escapades and her gradual
development from the “Sioux” whose madcap ways so shocked her elders to
Susan lovable and womanly. Her friends, teachers, and small brothers and
sisters fill out the tale.
=Davenport, Herbert Joseph.= Exercises in value theory, based upon
“Value and distribution.” pa. *25c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A companion volume to Professor Davenport’s ‘Value and distribution,’
reviewed elsewhere. It is intended for the use of the teacher in the
classroom, and consists of specific questions on the various chapters of
the larger book. The booklet is printed in such a manner as to make easy
the interpolation of other sheets, and for the purpose of annotation by
the teachers.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should serve a very useful purpose for all who make use in the
classroom of the larger work, or for advanced students, to whom it
should be valuable in testing mastery of what has been read.”
+ =Yale R.= 17: 460. F. ’09. 100w.
=Davenport, Homer Calvin.=^{[11]} My quest of the Arab horse. *$2.
Dodge, B. W.
9–27600.
The record of a search for pure blooded Arab horses whose pedigree could
be traced back to the Anezeh tribe of Bedouins. The purpose was a
serious one, for the author hoped that by a judicious use of the pure
Arabian blood, a breed of horse might be re-established as useful to
mankind as was the Morgan horse when it was at its greatest. The story
includes much of the romance of the desert and of the journey to it.
* * * * *
“Has the double merit of being a capital, cheerful, observant and
graphic narrative of travel in Turkey and Arabia, spiced with humor, and
a tribute to the noble beast he went to seek whose eloquence will appeal
to every lover of horses.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.
“The volume is in itself an interesting story of adventure, quite apart
from its relation to horses. Horsemen, however, will read the book with
peculiar interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
=Davidson, John.=^{[8]} Fleet street, and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
9–15396.
The last work of a morbid poet who ended his own life. “It contains no
new note, it includes most of the different kinds of verse for which
John Davidson was rightly famous. In ‘Fleet street,’ and ‘Snow flakes,’
and ‘Cain’ there is that strange mixture of science, imagination, and
rebellion (not to say blasphemy) which we have in the Testaments and
Mammon dramas. In ‘The crystal palace,’ ‘Rail and road,’ and others we
have that genial satiric description of which Davidson is a master. Some
of the songs once more display that birdlike note he had at his best;
and we have more of the Eclogues which established his reputation with
many.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“We do not think the volume as a whole will add to the writer’s fame;
but it will in no wise diminish it. There is nothing common or poor from
cover to cover, and a reader who knew nothing of Davidson’s previous
work might form from this small collection a not inadequate notion of
his quality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 36. Jl. 10. 1250w.
“Bitterness is the underlying note of his verse, and mordant irony its
characteristic method of expression. Himself out of tune of life, he
hears only discords and is powerless to effect their resolution.” W: M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 96. Ag. 16, ’09. 500w.
“In spite of much good, though curious, verse, without which we should
be the poorer by a thing unique, the appeal of his poetry draws very
much upon the humanity of its author.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 256. S. 16, ’09. 870w.
“These poems should be read with certain prejudices in leash. So read it
will appear that though the faults are great the merits are greater.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 700w.
“To those who neglected his development since his first three volumes
until the last one the notable points are the increase of minute
observation; the intent, strained attention to microscopic detail; the
unrelieved self-consciousness, the mind turning trebly upon itself and
over-intent to every step of its operations. The handling of words is
remarkable and the descriptions are exact to the point of eloquence; it
is truth hounded and tracked until it shrieks its name.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 705. N. ’09. 300w.
“Almost sounds like a burlesque of Whitman. Do you wonder that it was
not popular?”
− =Putnam’s.= 7: 247. N. ’09. 870w.
“In ‘Cain,’ John Davidson is at his best and worst. It is fine rhetoric
occasionally touched with a real emotion that brings it almost to the
level of good poetry.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 321. S. 11, ’09. 260w.
=Davidson, John, and Gray, Alexander.=^{[8]} Scottish staple at Veere:
a study in the economic history of Scotland. *$4.50. Longmans.
9–14959.
A work that falls readily into two main divisions: “the former,
corresponding to Part 1 and comprising the first 112 pages of the
volume, gives an admirable summary of the development of Scottish trade
up to the close of the sixteenth century; the second, corresponding to
Parts 2 and 3, and forming the bulk of the work, describes in detail the
history, organization, and development of the Scottish staple in the
Netherlands.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The brief bibliography would be better for some well-placed critical
comments. The presentation of the subject is clear and logical and the
method is scholarly.” W: E. Lingelbach.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 122. O. ’09. 750w.
“Does honor to the industry and intelligence of the late Professor John
Davidson and of Mr. Alexander Gray, who has completed the work from
Professor Davidson’s notes.” H. M. Stephens.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 617. N. ’09. 500w.
“The work is comprehensively planned, Mr. Gray having succeeded in
preserving uniformity of style. It is, however, too often overburdened
with unimportant, though not irrelevant, detail; and, having no table of
contents and only an imperfect index, is a mine of information not
easily tapped.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 620w.
“A most careful, thorough, and scholarly study of an important subject
in Scotch economic history.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 546. O. ’09. 130w.
“This is an able and scholarly book on an important phase of an
extremely thorny subject.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 78. Jl. 22, ’09. 1050w.
=Davidson, K. L.= Gardens past and present. *$1.50. Scribner.
Agr9–1576.
“A chatty account of the history and art of gardening in England. The
author goes back into the very beginnings of British history and with a
graceful pen follows the development of English gardens down to more
recent years and then discourses entertainingly and instructively about
various kinds of gardens—bulb, herb, rose, water, and others. She gives,
evidently out of long experience, much advice about the making of these
pleasant places, basing it upon general principles and now and then
describing details. But all this is plentifully diluted with interesting
information, historical and other, with literary allusions and with bits
of description such as nature lovers delight in.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Though of slight practical value in this country the graceful style and
often entertaining text will attract garden-lovers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book on gardens is more satisfactory than more
pretentious treatises; but its value would have been enhanced had it
been better produced. The matter of the book is excellent. The author
has studied her subject, and is full of garden lore, which she can use
so as to interest. She has also good taste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 230. F. 20. 380w.
“Admirable volume.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.
“The illustrations on the paper required for half-tones are really good,
and the text is above mediocrity.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 203. F. 25, ’09. 340w.
“Especially charming as to text.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 95. F. 20, ’09. 220w.
=Davies, Gerald Stanley.=^{[9]} Ghirlandaio. (Classics of art ser.)
*$4. Scribner.
9–18604.
The first volume in English devoted wholly to this member of the minor
Florentine artists who together prepared the way for Botticelli,
Perugino, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto and Michael
Angelo.
* * * * *
“As the only work on Ghirlandaio in English, this volume will be useful
in large libraries though in itself an indifferent production.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.
“This useful work is carried out in conscientious fashion and with
excellent taste.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 120w.
“Avoiding the too common fault of overlaudation, Mr. Davies traces the
gradual development of the master’s distinctive style, dispelling by the
way several long-accepted errors.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 338. F. ’09. 300w.
“We can recommend little in this slipshod monograph except the clear
type and the good cuts.”
− =Nation.= 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
=Davies, Henry Rodolph.=^{[6]} Yün-nan, the link between India and the
Yangtze. *$5. Putnam.
9–18957.
“While Major H. R. Davies, of the British Army, made his trips thru
Yün-nan for a purpose that is suggested in his subtitle, the advocacy,
namely, of thru communication between British India and China, he yet
furnishes a work of wider interest, in that a great part of the
territory he traversed had been previously untrodden, even by
missionaries, while much of the remainder had not previously been
described. His book is elaborately provided with appendixes dealing with
the various tribes of western China, the climate, products, and
prospects of the country, etc.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Major Davies has added to his clear and carefully written narrative a
set of brief chapters and tabular statements dealing with the
commercial, industrial, and ethnical aspects of the Yün-nan province.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 639. My. 29. 1350w.
“A work primarily for the geographer, in so far as it is not a
commercial survey for a railroad, but containing many pages of interest
to the general reader, even tho perilous adventure be lacking.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 140w.
“Theories about railway construction apart, Major Davies’ book is a most
valuable gazetteer of the province, a work which all interested in
South-western China should get.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 754. Je. 12, ’09. 1600w.
“The interest of Major Davies’s book for most readers will lie in his
very acute and lively observations of men and things.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 350w.
=Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil=, comps. Stories of the English
artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
9–8431.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A good collection for popular use; contains artists of whom the average
library would need no individual biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09.
“A book made up in this way can never rank as an authority.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 382. Mr. 27. 570w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 90w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36; 252. Ja. ’09. 100w.
=Daviess, Maria Thompson.=^{[9]} Miss Selina Lue and the soap-box
babies. †$1. Bobbs.
9–26670.
Miss Selina Lue is a glorified Mrs. Wiggs—glorified to the extent that
her philosophy, practical and livable in the extreme, is spiritualized
by her unconscious adaptation of the principles of very modern thought,
no longer called new thought. She runs a grocery store and incidentally
takes care of the neighborhood babies, keeps a sort of day nursery, so
to speak; helps along a charming romance; and achieves as a crowning
stroke the reconciliation between a lumber king and his son who would
paint pictures while the father roared and scolded and disowned him,
hoping thereby to compel him to repent and enter a partnership.
* * * * *
“A sweetly sentimental and very diverting little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 89. N. ’09. ✠
“The book makes a pleasant and amusing little character sketch, while
the loving kindness that radiates from the person of Miss Selina Lue
ought to be sufficient to warm and cheer the most disgruntled and
pessimistic reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 624. O. 23, ’09. 200w.
=Davis, Charles Belmont.=^{[5]} Lodger overhead and others. †$1.50.
Scribner.
9–10027.
These ten stories are like the earlier stories of the author’s elder
brother, Richard Harding Davis, and some of the same characters appear.
One meets a Van Bibber under another name; pathetic, hardworking
vaudeville artists; a butler whose invalid child needs medical attention
quite beyond the family resources; and various typical New York
characters.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09.
“There is good work in the ten stories.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 551. S. 2, ’09. 110w.
“After injecting quite a dose of abstract speculation into his first
story, our author seems to have had enough. At any rate, he settles down
to dispensing narrative of a mildly moralistic, mildly sentimental
flavor without particular character or distinction.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 230w.
“Although this deft handling sometimes runs a little too far into
idealism and the picture is often a little too dimly impressionistic,
the stories are altogether delightful.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 240w.
“Occasionally the proprieties get a jolt, but serious disaster is always
diverted.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Davis, John.=^{[10]} Travels of four years and a half in the United
States of America, 1798–1802; ed. by A. J. Morrison. **$2.50. Holt.
A reprint of a book of travel published in 1803 and dedicated to Thomas
Jefferson. The author, John Davis, “was a vagrant from his youth, and is
an interesting figure quite apart from the significance of his
activities as international author and observer of young America.” His
travels extended thru the “southern states of North America” and he was
prevailed upon to turn publisher when he observed how poor were the
contemporary accounts of travel.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 717. N. 20, ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Morrison’s preface and notes of comparison where other travelers’
accounts agree or disagree with Davis’s enhance the interest for the
ordinary reader, and for the historian are invaluable, for they hint at
wide vistas of fascinating inquiry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 789. D. 11, ’09. 730w.
=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn.= Moons of Balbanca. †$1. Houghton.
8–23106.
Mainly children under fourteen figure in this story of the French
quarter of New Orleans. Their chief amusement is that of acting out
Robin Hood tales, Indian stories, etc., of planning holiday festivities
after the southern fashion, and of devising emblems for the months of
the year. They skirt with child curiosity upon the edge of a romance
which concerns two grown-ups of the story.
* * * * *
“Will not attract many children because of the ‘patois’ and
superstitions, but will be enjoyed by a few, especially if read to
them.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09.
“A skilful blending of social custom and clever adventure.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Is as nice a children’s story as any boy or girl could wish to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=Davis, Michael Marks.=^{[10]} Psychological interpretations of
society. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and
public law. v. 33, no. 2.) *$2.50. Longmans.
9–11542.
“Some two years ago the author privately printed as his Ph. D. thesis
about one-third of the present volume, i.e., the second section whose
title is ‘Social function.’ This is an illuminating study of the
theories of Gabriel Tarde. To this have been added section one, ‘The
social mind,’ and the last section, ‘Applications.’ The volume is
essentially a survey of the theories of various writers.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.
“Dr. Davis has covered a wide range of reading and presents his matter
in interesting form.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 426. S. ’09. 100w.
“Students of social theory will welcome the evidence he musters as well
as the historical facts.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Survey.= 22: 539. Jl. 10, ’09. 600w.
=Davis, Norah.= Wallace Rhodes: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
9–9508.
A story whose scene is laid in the cotton delta of Louisiana, and which
deals with old southern families—American not French or Creole. The
principal characters sketched are Wallace Rhodes, a widower, his son,
and Veronica Bowdre, the last of the line of beautiful and alluring
Bowdre women. The son intends to marry Veronica who has been careless of
the code of her set and has committed social indiscretions. The father
sends the son away, and, turning to the young woman with the hope of
urging her to relinquish her claim upon the son, falls in love with her
himself, marries her, and then plans a course of restitution for his
seeming double-dealing.
* * * * *
“No technical merits could make such a plot convincing, or awaken much
sympathy for any of the persons concerned.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 46: 372. Je. 1, ’09. 250w.
“The actual story, entertainingly carried along is made on a foundation
quite too artificial to give the book a firm hold on acceptance.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w.
“Is unusual in both theme and quality. There are some readers doubtless
to whom the former will be repellent, and there are others to whom the
latter will not appeal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 240. Ap. 17, ’09. 230w.
“The struggle between parental and filial love and passion is the
powerful undercurrent upon which float and sparkle the bubbles of
provincial humor, gossip, and social effort. The book is well written,
and will be found entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 230w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.=^{[6]} White mice. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–13544.
The lion of the tale is General Don Miguel Rojas who has served
Venezuela as minister of foreign affairs and who at the moment of the
story’s beginning is deep in a dungeon cell underneath the fortress in
the harbor of Porto Cabello. The “White mice” are two Americans who set
about to nibble the net that had enmeshed the wronged official. Drawn
into the story that grows up about this situation are the family of the
imprisoned man, all of whom except one daughter distrust the intentions
of the liberators, a jealous American consul, a prison doctor, an
engineer, and servants. Elements found in Dumas and Anthony Hope mingle
in the strategy and the quick action required for successful execution
of plans.
* * * * *
“Light, lively tale of average interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Davis in his new book shows himself again a novelist of gift who
has set himself no high task.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 680. N. ’09. 180w.
“The book shows Mr. Davis dextrous in the handling of his tools, but the
old spirit of other years—the dash, the fire, and above all the buoyant
enthusiasm that marked even the most preposterous pages of ‘Soldiers of
fortune’—seems irrevocably gone.” A. B. Maurice.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 541. Jl. ’09. 1300w.
“The tale is breezy, ‘smart,’ topical, and enlivened by slangy humor. It
may be read at a gallop, and put aside without a pang.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 120w.
“A very interesting tale.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 423. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.
=Nation.= 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 380w.
“In short, it is a very good sample of its kind, and as summer fiction
will serve the purpose admirably.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“A breezy, alert story of love, adventure, and revolution.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 60w.
=Davis, William Stearns.=^{[10]} Outline history of the Roman empire.
(44 B. C. to 378 A. D.) *65c. Macmillan.
9–23012.
A brief outline narrative which aims to lead the student into mediæval
history by showing him the progress and fall of the Roman empire from
which feudal Europe issued.
* * * * *
“The work is brief, clear, and readable. The method, however, does not
escape the defects incidental to summarizing historical judgments in
brief space. The last chapter, especially, on ‘Christianity and the
empire,’ is open to criticism.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 396. D. ’09. 120w.
“The volume is notable for the skill with which a long and moving story
has been presented clearly and with precision in such brief space, and
for the care with which, in a few words here and there, the author
brings out the fact that the happiness and pursuits of the people of the
empire were little affected by imperial crimes and tragedies.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 140w.
=Dawson, Rev. Edwin Collas.= Heroines of missionary adventure. (Heroes
ser.) *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–593.
Brief biographies of a group of missionary workers whose courage, faith,
endurance, resourcefulness and devotion to service entitle them to be
classed among the greater heroines of dangerous adventure. Among them
are Mme. Coillard, Irene Petrie, Mary Louisa Whately, Mrs. Alexander
Duff, Isabella Bird Bishop, Fanny Butler, Mary Reed and Hansina Hinz.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
“This volume will be found most useful for preparing programmes, as its
records are true, and many instances recorded are thrilling.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 977. D. 26, ’08. 170w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 14. D. 12, ’08. 30w.
“Our readers should explore for themselves the treasures which we have
left untouched.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 807. N. 21, ’08. 950w.
=Dawson, George E.=^{[11]} Child and his religion. *75c. Univ. of
Chicago press.
9–28188.