single work yet which have a common aim: viz., that of bringing the
so-called natural processes of life and education into harmony with
religious processes. The contents are: Interest as a measure of values;
The natural religion of children; Children’s interest in the Bible; The
problem of religious education; Index.
* * * * *
“Mr. Dawson loves and understands children and we gladly give him credit
for the fresh, candid, and earnest way in which he handles a very
difficult problem.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 776. N. 6, ’09. 200w.
=Dawson, William Harbutt.= Evolution of modern Germany. *$4. Scribner.
9–4082.
“At first sight the reader will wonder whether the book is likely to be
in any sense parallel to Mr. Bodley’s book on France. He will soon
discover that it is not so. Mr. Dawson gives few pictures of German
life, dwells little on German politics, and hardly at all on German
history. His book is primarily economic, yet by no means exclusively so.
It is an elaborate and interesting study of Germany as a trading nation,
and it deals by the way with the education and social environment which
are the setting of the great trading spirit.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Scholarly and technical; not a book for the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Dawson has succeeded in putting in readable form a mass of
information which will prove valuable to every student of industrial
advance and international affairs.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 434. S. ’09. 430w.
“A very solid book by one who knows Germany thoroughly, in literature,
in statistics, in actual life. The author has wide knowledge, and his
opinions, though they are open in many points to attack, do not obtrude
themselves. He supplies a reasoned collection of facts, not a partisan
presentation of conclusions.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 36. Ja. 9. 1100w.
“His book is a valuable granary of fact for every student who would
understand political and economic Germany.” W. H. Carruth.
+ =Dial.= 46: 224. Ap. 1, ’09. 1100w.
“The legislator, the merchant, or the teacher, who is not trained [in
the use of statistics] and for whom figures have no fascination, cannot
find a more satisfactory and stimulating explanation of the increasing
severity of German competition in industry and commerce.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 550w.
“As may be presumed, the whole spirit of Mr. Dawson’s book is
conciliatory. Not clearly discerning the inevitable alternative, he
encourages foreign industrial nations to compete with Germany and rival
her on her own ground.” Walter Littlefield.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 87. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
“A thorough, comprehensive, and authoritative study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 227. Ap. 10, ’09. 10w.
“The most interesting part of the book, so it seems to us, lies, first,
in the author’s views as to German industrial competition, and, second,
as to the policy of nationalization and municipalization.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 246. Ja. 30, ’09. 440w.
“Set forth in a judicial, scholarly way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 251. F. ’09. 220w.
=Dawson, William James.=^{[11]} Masterman and son. **$1.20. Revell.
9–27031.
A story made up of the usual elements—life, love, business,
adventure—thru which runs an unusual relation between a father and son.
The son, a young man of honesty of purpose, is pitted against an
unprincipled father who treats the former’s fine ideals of right and
justice as so many bubbles to be burst by brutally lucid expositions of
what business meant from his unscrupulous view point.
* * * * *
“As a story the book has not much interest, but it is full of much wise
comment upon the modern ways of the world, the values of life, the
forces that go into the building of character, and the various attitudes
toward life of thinking men.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 230w.
=Dawson, William James.= Soldier of the future. †$1.50. Revell.
8–24464.
A novel built up about the shortcomings of the church as it exists
to-day and the second coming of Christ.
* * * * *
“Considered as a story, the book is a neat little doe-eyed failure, but
it abounds in startling visions and situations relating to life and
eternity that are likely to leave a lasting impression.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 148. Ja. 21, ’09. 300w.
“So far as the story is concerned, the author does not make it clear
what he is at, though there is evident sincerity and conviction on his
part. He is confused both in his psychology and in his philosophy.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 210w.
=Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W=:, eds.^{[12]} Great
English essayists; with introductory essays and notes. (Readers’
lib.) *$1. Harper.
9–28295.
A volume whose aim is to answer in the field of the essay a growing
taste for chosen examples of literature which have attained classical
value. Following an introductory chapter on The genesis of the essay are
six general divisions as follows under which are grouped representative
English essays; The classic essay; The letter essay; The short-story
essay; The biographical and critical essay; Impassioned prose; The
familiar essay. Among the authors whose essays have been drawn upon are:
Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Brown, Milton, Samuel Johnson, Cowley,
Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 50w.
“Will be found interesting and valuable, not only as an object for close
study as well as occasional reading, but also from the fact that it
brings together a lot of the literary material which heretofore has been
found in more or less remote places.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 761. D. 4, ’09. 250w.
=Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W=:, eds. Great English
letter writers; with introductory essays and notes. (Reader’s lib.)
2v. ea. *$1. Harper.
The first two volumes in a new series to be known as the “Reader’s
library.” The introductory essays furnish a general historic survey of
the art of letter-writing, and a critical estimate of the writers and of
their relation to the literature of their age, while the selections
themselves have been arranged with a view to the illustration of the
growth of the art of letter-writing.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.
“The greatest merit of the collection is its admirable catholicity.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 288. Mr. 6. 600w.
“This anthology of English letters, well chosen and well classified,
makes good reading. [The index] is almost as laughable as it is
slovenly.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 265. F. 4, ’09. 110w.
“The letters are well selected and presented to greatest advantage.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 881. O. 14, ’09. 230w.
“Both essays are rich with genial thought and human sympathy, both show
wide and thorough knowledge of literature and its makers, and both are
charming in manner. The work of selection has been admirably done and
with preliminary essays and the footnotes will enable the readers of a
busy age to gain a fairly complete and succinct view of the development
of the art of letter writing and of the characteristics and
personalities of its greatest English exponents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 450w.
=Day, Clarence Munro.=^{[6]} Accounting practice. **$6. Appleton.
8–27505.
“As suggested by the title, Mr. Day’s contribution is designed to serve
the purpose of a field book of accounting as distinguished from a
treatise on accounting theory. Part 1 is descriptive of the methods of
making an audit, adjusting the books, preparing the accountant’s report,
and planning a general system of accounting records. Part 2 deals with
planning and installing cash accounts. Part 3 is composed of drafts of
typical accounting forms and documents. Part 4 describes and illustrates
reporting forms. While the first few pages contain elementary
commonplaces, the contents generally reflect the experience of a
practitioner.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The full text, exhibits and statements of an accountant’s report
setting out in detail the methods of presenting the results of an audit
are excellent.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 715. My. ’09. 300w.
“Its place in an accountant’s library is more largely for the use of the
clerk or junior than for the senior and principal. The technique is well
worked out and the suggestions will be most helpful to those who have
not already developed a method or technique through which reliable
auditing and critical results may be obtained.” F. A. C.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 47. Ap. ’09. 210w.
“It fills a place in accounting literature not before occupied.” F: A.
Cleveland.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 6. Ja. 14, ’09. 220w.
=Day, Lewis Foreman.=^{[9]} Nature and ornament; being a new treatise
founded on the author’s “Nature in ornament,” which is now
incorporated in it. 2v. v. 1. *$2. Scribner.
9–35782.
“This is the first of the two volumes written to replace an earlier
work, ‘Nature in ornament,’ which the author explains, he has felt to be
deficient in the treatment of the ornamental aspect of nature. The
present volume is mainly concerned with illustrating the decorative
character of natural growth; the second will seek the evidences of
natural form in conventional ornament.” (Ath.) “The motto of this book
is ‘Ornament for its own sake’ and throughout the lesson he preaches is
the submission of natural form to ornament, not the subordination of
ornament to nature.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.
“It is written with all Mr. Day’s usual facility and knowledge.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 132. Jl. 31. 220w.
“Mr. Lewis Day goes to the very root of the matter.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 220w.
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 50w.
=Dealey, James Quayle.=^{[8]} Development of the state; its
governmental organization and its activities. *$1.50. Silver.
9–10159.
Deals with the essential principles of the state and its organization.
It traces political development from its beginnings in the hordetribe to
its modern attainment in the United States, England, Continental Europe
and New Zealand.
* * * * *
“In the first or historical part he has, from the point of view of the
adult reader, succeeded almost too well in making it elementary.” C. H.
McIlwain.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 169. O. ’09. 580w.
“A good elementary treatment for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.
“A very comprehensive and useful little volume, interesting and
unprejudiced.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 50w.
“Of special interest is his discussion of the electorate as
constituting, in a sense a fourth department of government. Many of the
footnotes and chapter references are cast in an unfamiliar form, and
some of them are slovenly.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 209. S. 2, ’09. 150w.
“Professor Dealey, by an excellent analysis of material culled from
writers in various fields, has given a broad survey and composite
picture.” T: R. Powell.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 526. S. ’09. 320w.
“Throughout the book there is a noteworthy tendency to tell how the
various departments of government actually do their work, rather than to
confine the attention to paper constitutions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 110w.
“One could wish that Professor Dealey had eschewed the outworn
classification of economic periods of development and not left the
impression that every state must needs pass through these historic
epochs, if it develops at all. In spite of a somewhat Latinized diction,
Professor Dealey has written a readable and suggestive text-book. He has
had constantly in mind not only the whence but the whither of organized
society; and the reader is bound to lay down the book with a clearer
realization of the responsibilities of citizenship in the modern state.”
+ − =Yale R.= 18: 222. Ag. ’09. 250w.
=Deans, Richard Storry.=^{[7]} Trials of five queens. *$3.50.
Brentano’s.
From the standpoint of the modern lawyer the author discusses in this
volume the fates of the five queens, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn,
Mary queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and Caroline of Brunswick. “To a
politician of the sixteenth century,” says Mr. Deans, “a false
accusation, whereby an opponent was caused to be legally condemned to
death, was no more a subject of shame than a lying placard is to a party
manager of the twentieth century. In those days the game of politics was
played with headsmen’s axes, assassins’ daggers, and poison, concocted
accusations and forged documents, where now it is played with party
cries, misleading statements, untruthful posters, and lying leaflets. In
short, the difference was between a murderer and a liar.”
* * * * *
“We have nothing but praise for the main conception and general
execution of Mr. Storry Deans’ work. On some subjects which he
incidentally treats, such as the French life of Mary Stuart, he is
unsatisfactory, and in matters of detail he is from time to time
inaccurate.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 1250w.
“It is no mere piece of book-making, but a scholarly and picturesque
study. Mr. Deans writes with a lawyer’s knowledge and considerable
historic imagination. He puts very clearly before the reader the points
at issue, and enables him to consider the verdict in the light of modern
practice. The author seems to us to overrate the merits of Brougham’s
speech, in which there was more bombast than eloquence. Denman’s was by
far the finer performance.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 578. Ap. 10, ’09. 320w.
=Spec.= 103: 837. N. 20, ’09. 500w.
=Dearle, Norman Burrell.=^{[9]} Problems of unemployment in the London
building trades; with an introduction by L. L. Price. *3s. 6d. Dent,
London.
9–18552.
“The building trade is obviously one in which there cannot be complete
continuity of employment, and Mr. Dearle has very appropriately chosen
this trade as the field of an inquiry into the problem of unemployment.
He lays the facts before us in great detail and with much clearness, and
discusses the remedies suggested. He appreciates the need of greater
fluidity and adaptability of labour, and takes the view that for the
organising of the labour market in London ‘it will be necessary to
reduce non-unionism to that feeble minority, chiefly of inferior men,
that it is in some other parts of the country.’”—Spec.
* * * * *
“A valuable supplement to Mr. Beveridge’s more general treatment of the
problem.” A. B. Wolfe.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 476. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Dearle’s monograph, though we do not entirely agree with it, is
most informing, and should be studied by every one interested in the
problem of the unemployed.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w.
=Dearmer, Percy.=^{[11]} Body and soul. *$1.50. Dutton.
9–17979.
“In the first place the author writes from the religious point of
view.... Secondly, he believes that the healing influence of soul over
body does not rule out the use of physical means of healing.... Thirdly,
all healing is in the deepest sense ‘natural.’... Fourthly, he rejects
the confusing distinction between ‘functional’ and ‘organic’ disease....
There is discussed at considerable length the relation between soul and
body through the nervous system. Then follows discussion as to the
possibilities of health being produced through the influence of mind,
and of the ‘undermind,’ a term substituted for the unconscious. The
author then treats of the New Testament miracles of healing, and gives a
sketch of the general relation between healing and religious belief.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In regard both to style and contents this study of the relation between
body and soul merits distinct attention.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 537. S. 11, ’09. 540w.
=Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 60w.
“There is much that is interesting, and indeed admirable, in Mr.
Dearmer’s book, but his ideals are not ours.”
− + =Spec.= 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 260w.
=De Bary, Richard.= Land of promise; an account of the material and
spiritual unity of America. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–7059.
“Mr. De Bary casts sweeping glances at our valleys and plains, wonders
at our newspapers, patronizes our schools and colleges, sniffs the faint
aroma of our religions, admires our restless and masterful energy,
apologizes for our political failings, and adores our women: in short,
does all the things that a well-bred and ready-to-wear tourist is
expected to do, and dresses it all up in catchy phrases and sententious
generalizations that sparkle like the tinsel armor of the stage
warrior.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His generalizations are much sounder than those usually found in books
of this type.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 201. S. ’09. 130w.
“Of all the recent writers who have committed to print their
‘impressions’ of the United States, none, certainly, has outdone Mr. De
Bary in high-sounding rhetoric, or rushed with more breathless
enthusiasm at the task, weakly imagined by some timid souls to be a
rather serious one, of determining our exact place in the social,
philosophical, and æsthetic universe.”
− =Nation.= 88: 304. Mr. 25, ’09. 280w.
“It is evident he studied the American people and their institutions
with rare intelligence and alertness, and his book, based upon that
study, is both generously appreciative and kindly critical. Mr. De
Bary’s serious, practical, and sympathetic view of America runs all
through his book, but it is only one of the admirable features of the
volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 1350w.
=DeBekker, Leander Jan.= Stokes’ encyclopedia of music and musicians.
**$3. Stokes.
8–33829.
“Covers practically the entire field of music; definition of musical
terms in several languages, brief but comprehensive articles on
theoretical matters, accounts of the musical instruments, biographies of
musicians, composers, performers, singers, conductors, writers, lists of
the works of the more important composers, and data concerning symphony
orchestras, opera houses, academies, and other musical institutions.
Some of this information is difficult of access elsewhere.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“While there is little more than half as much material as in Riemann’s
‘Encyclopaedic dictionary of music,’ this work has the advantage of
being thoroughly up to date and costing only half as much.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 38. F. ’09. ✠
“Apart from [small] details, the Stokes ‘encyclopedia’ calls for the
highest praise; as a modern supplement to other musical dictionaries it
is indispensable in every public or private library.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 585. D. 10, ’08. 520w.
“This is a remarkable work of completeness and industry in compilation,
conveying the maximum amount of information in the minimum of space.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 360w.
“No work of this kind can be without errors; and for the sake of the
next edition the following may be noted. In spite, however, of these
shortcomings, ‘Stokes’s encyclopedia’ is certainly a volume which ‘no
musician’s library should be without.’” D. G. Mason.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 112. Ap. ’09. 240w.
=DeBunsen, Victoria.=^{[12]} Soul of a Turk. *$3.50. Lane.
The outcome of five journeys in Turkey, both European and Asiatic. The
author “has a thesis to prove—that a countless number of religious
beliefs and practices all over the world are to be traced back to a
common origin—and, hardly ever letting this thesis slip from her grasp,
she has imparted a unity to this collection of highly varied sketches.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. de Bunsen, we think, is a little overconfident in her intuitions
and did not always, we think, see so far into the Turk’s soul as she
imagined; yet she saw a good deal further than most male observers, and
it is clear that her power of sympathy drew the people’s hearts to her,
and led them to reveal themselves as they would not have done to a mere
tourist, sheltered behind a bristling Cook’s dragoman and a stolid
English husband.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 583. N. 13. 1550w.
“It is told in a way that is intensely interesting.” C: R. Gillette.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
“Mrs. de Bunsen has the honour of adding something to the researches of
Dr. Frazer. We thoroughly commend this book to every one who enjoys
following the travels of a plucky, entertaining, and exceptionally
intelligent woman.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 646. O. 23, ’09. 2000w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Mad Barbara. †$1.50. Harper.
9–3879.
An exciting tale set in the reign of Charles II. The young heroine—a
feminine type of Hamlet—discovers her father’s murderer to be her
mother’s lover, one Lord Gore. She accuses him of the deed, attempts to
kill him, is adjudged insane and confined in a lonely castle tower,
exposed to cold and poor food until rescued by her lover. Something of
the strife between Catholics and Protestants of the time of Charles II
enters into the plot of the story.
* * * * *
“The whole is rather a disappointment after the author’s earlier work.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 100w.
“This is evidently the material for an exciting tale, and the author has
used it to excellent effect.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“The story is well worked out, although perhaps a little unnecessarily
prolonged toward the end, as if the author were loath to leave his
characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 310w.
=Deeping, Warwick.=^{[11]} Red saint. $1.50. Cassell.
A story of the struggle between the barons and King Henry. “The heroine
is a saint that all men reverence—one who works miracles; but the land
is overrun with Gascon hirelings. You shall see her head bowed in shame,
look upon her pelted of the mob, an outcast with none to do her charity
but the other outcasts that follow the camp.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The pictures of the time are vivid and conscientiously reproduced; and
the action is full of vigour. The plot is simple, but exceedingly well
devised: and the style is good and clean and strong.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 696. Je. 12. 130w.
“There is vividness of incident, picturesque, impressionistic narrative,
and the forest background is sketched with deep sense of its beauty. The
style, graphic, admirable often, in its power of significant omissions,
becomes at times a bit studied and overconscious. This story of a saint
makes far deeper appeal to sense than to soul.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 685. N. ’09. 300w.
“Taken in cold blood, the result is, of course, more or less
preposterous.”
− =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 380w.
“The thing is evil; but the author does it effectively. He masks the
evil, too, so far as he may with stained glass attitudes by the way and
a particularly virtuous ending.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 610. O. 16, ’09. 270w.
=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: a textbook.
*$1. Macmillan.
7–6800.
=v. 2.= Processes of instruction.
“The present volume deals with the acquisition of facts, and their
meaning, the educational status of the high school student, the
inductive and the deductive approach to knowledge, and processes of
application. Insight and efficiency are the supreme results to be
secured by our methods of instruction—insight leading to culture, and
efficiency to mental discipline. The aim of the book is to render so
clear the principles on which the acquisition of knowledge is based that
the teacher will instinctively employ the methods that lead to insight
and efficiency.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Doubtless will do much toward making high school teaching rational and
scientific.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book loses in value because it approaches its subject almost wholly
from the side of the concept; it presents clearly, completely, and
attractively the logical basis of the teaching process wherever that
process becomes in any degree scientific; but the living institution
with which the book is supposedly concerned, the American high school
(now so much the storm-center of educational conflict) is not constantly
and concretely present in its pages, and its mission remains, therefore,
partly unfulfilled.” H: W. Holmes.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 130. Mr. 4, ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is not true nor does the author assume that the principles which he
urges are not valid in all educational philosophy. His application of
these ideas to the work of the high school is, however, new.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Two rather polar faults appear to the present reviewer to occur to some
extent in his works. As a philosopher and former Herbartian, he has a
tendency even in a practical work to lean toward abstractions and
schemata; while, possibly as a result of habits long fixed by the
classroom, his efforts to touch student life and interest tend toward
the diffuse and irrelevant. On the whole, the book is well proportioned
and gets at the problems of secondary instruction more specifically than
any treatise yet published.” F. P. Graves.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 114. Mr. 15, ’09. 560w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Taken as a whole this volume, while contributing less to the student
than did its predecessor, yet brings together within small compass
material that teachers need acquaintance with, and it will help to bring
us more fully to consciousness as to the needs of training for secondary
school teachers.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 16: 691. D. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Deinhardt, Kurt, and Schlomann, Alfred=, eds. Illustrated technical
dictionary in six languages; English, German, French, Italian,
Spanish, Russian. v. 1, *$2; v. 2, *$7; v. 3, *$4; v. 4, *$3.
McGraw.
Four volumes as follows: v. 1, Machine details and tools; v. 2,
Electrical engineering, compiled by Charles Kinzbrunner; v. 3, Steam
boilers, steam engines, and steam turbines; v. 4, Gas engines.
* * * * *
“It seems necessary in using these dictionaries to best advantage first
to acquire a general familiarity with the scheme of arrangement. After
this is done they should be of no little service to engineers working in
these languages.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 36. Mr. 18, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
“Cannot fail to prove of enormous value in international relations. Is
undoubtedly the most accurate technical dictionary that has yet been
published.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 412. S. 3, ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The scheme of this dictionary and its execution are both excellent.”
+ =Phys. R.= 28: 231. Mr. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dejeans, Elizabeth.=^{[5]} Winning chance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–12617.
A refined, winsome American girl facing the problem of supporting
herself, a blind mother and a crippled brother, is bribed, out of
consideration of their restoration to health, to sell her honor to her
employer. The story deals with her rebellion, agony and final rescue
from the life she loathes. Her real honesty of heart disarms Nemesic
determination and one feels that her final happiness is just.
* * * * *
“As a study of social conditions her story has no value whatever; as a
story it is conventional.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 110w.
“In spite of some faults of construction, the book as a whole is so far
above the average of our usual immature fiction as to suggest that Miss
Dejeans is a writer whose future will be worth watching.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 404. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.
“It holds interest by its melodramatic plot and very obvious appeal to
those in search of sensation.” B. L. Israels.
− + =Survey.= 22: 622. Ag. 7, ’09. 160w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Miss Betty of New York. †$1.25. Harper.
8–31164.
A story for young readers full of innocent pranks and adventures.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“Is in many ways on the right level for boy and girl readers. What is
more than wearisome is the boy and girl nonsense that creeps in, how
sparingly soever. A story generally wholesome, barring unreproved
heedlessness and eavesdropping and a certain absence of spanking.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 300w.
“A charming little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Though old the subject matter is absorbing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
=Deland, Lorin Fuller.=^{[11]} Imagination in business. **50c. Harper.
9–28100.
A revised and enlarged treatment of one of the many cardinal qualities
that determine an individual’s capacity as a producer. The author
discusses mainly the place of imagination in relation to merchandising,
distinguishes carefully between imagination and sagacity and imagination
and invention, and offers a number of concrete examples of the remedial
and constructive work that can be accomplished by use of imagination in
any business.
=Deland, Margaret Wade (Campbell).=^{[12]} Where the laborers are few.
†$1.50. Harper.
9–27265.
Set among Dr. Lavendar’s people this slight story tells how a
preacher-acrobat, during a period of physical healing, drops into the
life of the Misses Jay; how the combination of the profane and the
religious startled them out of their narrow monotony; and how the youth,
eager for education and training, is advised by the good Dr. Lavendar to
continue his work in the taverns and on the streets—a work “which most
of God’s ministers are not capable of doing.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 130w.
=De La Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Catherine’s child. **$1.20.
Dutton.
8–23929.
““Catherine of Calais” was one of Mrs. De La Pasture’s most charming and
delicate studies of girlhood, and this story of the heroine’s early
middle age is chiefly interesting for the manner in which the
relationship of mother and daughter—in this case a difficult one—is
treated.” (Ath.) “The daughter sulks till the mother lets her go to town
with her cousin; when there she is kidnapped by a plot which would
stretch even the kindly credulity of the stage; she is discovered in a
garret near the Crystal palace at the point of death by the V. C. hero
and nursed back by her mother to a consciousness of his affection.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Not equal to the author’s best work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09.
“There are many characters in the book, and they are all human and
individual; but the skill with which they are handled is of infinitely
greater importance than the plot.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 503. O. 24. 230w.
“There is a delightful and touching fragment of a child’s diary, which,
like Lady Sarah’s tirades, reassures one that, however this novelist’s
humor may lapse in the conduct of her love-affairs, it undoubtedly
exists.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.
“She has entangled in a melodramatic plot a set of characters, some of
them excellently conceived and a few pretty well carried out, the total
effect, however, being such as to discourage the average cheerful
reader.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 360w.
“The book is composed of an intolerable deal of gossip.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
=DeLeon, Thomas Cooper.=^{[6]} Belles, beaux and brains of the 60’s.
**$3. Dillingham.
9–14950.
Chatty, informing chapters reproducing faces and facts of ante-bellum
Virginia with generous comment, statement and deductions. There are
nearly five hundred reproduced daguerreotypes and photographs. The
author’s picture of the southern woman corrects the notion that “the
Southern girl, from pinafore to orange blossoms, was educated for a
bride, but not for a wife.”
* * * * *
“The book will interest especially those older readers of Southern
antecedents who are fond of recalling good old times ‘before the war.’”
+ =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 441. S. 18, ’09. 70w.
“As a succession of flash-light views of the social life of Richmond
during the war, the book is not without value, and its reproductions of
contemporary pictures are interesting; but a work which is neither
history, nor biography, nor genealogy, nor reminiscence, but an
undiscriminating mixture of all four, is hard to classify.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 139. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 407. Je. 26, ’09. 130w.
=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the
second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming,
and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50.
Putnam.
8–30303.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The volume is an absorbing record of dangerous travel in unknown
country and of wonderful beauties of natural scenery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 287. D. ’08.
“Mr. Dellenbaugh has not the advantage of a graphic style, nor is he an
artist in writing. His narrative is plain, and often heavy; but it is
necessarily interesting on account of its subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 440w.
“A substantial and extremely interesting volume on the subject. No one
could well be more at home in his subject than Mr. Dellenbaugh.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 921. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w.
“The book is interesting as a record of brave personal daring; and as a
piece of scientific registry, powerful description by pen and
illustration, and genuine story-telling it is equally effective.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“It was decidedly worth writing, this detailed record; a more absorbing,
and at times, stirring, story of adventure has not seen the light in a
long time, and the author’s unadorned, yet vivid, style enables the
reader to share all the emotions of the explorers.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 515. My. 20, ’09. 700w.
“In these later years, when amateur travel in the west is frequent, a
detailed record of this kind will be of value to seekers after
adventure.” W. M. D.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 218. Ag. 13, ’09. 300w.
=Deming, Horace Edward.= Government of American cities. **$1.50.
Putnam.
9–8012.
A book on the theory and practice of municipal government which is
“chiefly valuable for its historical survey of the development of
intelligent municipal rule in modern Europe and its significant
comparison of the workings of intelligent foreign systems and our own
frequently clumsy local government machinery.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
author traces, through many a modern instance, the profound change which
is swiftly coming over popular conceptions of city government. He shows,
how, since 1880, the line between politics and administration has been
drawn more sharply. He devotes still more attention to the strengthening
of the conviction that municipalities must be freed from state control
and extraneous politics.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A good statement of the more progressive theories and ideals, and
useful in creating a public sentiment, but not so scholarly or valuable
as Goodnow and Fairlie or Rowe.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 135. My. ’09.
“The book offends even more in repeating its own ideas than in borrowing
those of others. But in spite of these most obvious defects, the
desirability of a wider acceptation of the principles set forth and
elaborated bids us welcome Mr. Deming’s coöperation in the task of
educating citizens for the more efficient administration of the public
business.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 280w.
“If one were disposed to criticise so splendid a piece of logical
reasoning as this, it would be on the ground that the author mars the
orderly procedure of his argument by a too frequent reiteration, and by
a too rigid exclusion of illustration and of that sort of comparative
comment which one finds so helpful in Munro’s book.” C. R. Woodruff.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 267. S. ’09. 670w.
“The book should appeal to a broad and various range of readers. It
deals with the very fundamentals of municipal government and is
presented in a manner which cannot fail to command the respect and
admiration of the deepest and most accomplished student of municipal
government, while at the same time arousing and holding the interest of
those who have before given only a general consideration to the subject
or are approaching it for the first time.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 60. My. 13, ’09. 1150w.
=Ind.= 66: 1400. Je. 24, ’09. 250w.
“One can find fault only with Mr. Deming’s attempt to turn his book into
a proof that cities can prosper solely through democracy—a rather vague
term at best.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 530w.
“The whole book is an able argument in favor of local self-government,
somewhat academic, perhaps, here and there, but sincere and useful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 181. Mr. 27, ’09. 1200w.
“All who are interested in American city government can hardly fail to
approve the concrete suggestions which Mr. Deming makes and which, it
may be said, are advocated in the main also by Dr. Rowe.” F. J. Goodnow.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 313. Je. ’09. 640w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 230w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.=^{[12]} It never can happen again. †$1.75.
Holt.
9–28954.
Mr. De Morgan’s readers know better than to hurry thru one of his
novels. Leisure is demanded for acquaintance with his many and varied
characters; who, the author wishes fully understood, do not express his
views—political, religious, or otherwise—but “just what the character he
was dreaming of seemed to say to him.” There are two distinct groups of
men and women in this new story. Lizarann—near of kin to
Alice-for-Short—is from the slums; she and her father who is a blind
beggar, her drunken uncle, and other “submerged-tenth” friends and
associates compose one group; in the other, we find a novelist, his
drab-colored wife, and a brilliant young woman who plays upon the
writer’s affections. From the first interview with this young woman,
which offers the stimulant of a “soul-brush,” to an elopement is a long
way and involves a “Deceased wife’s sister’s” argument that furnishes
the peg upon which hangs the whole tale. The two groups cross paths but
once, at the climax of the drama. But the reader will have to peruse
these 688 pages for himself. Brevity permits of no attempt at justice to
a De Morgan novel.
* * * * *
“These seven hundred pages of ingenious invention are stamped with the
truly creative mark as far as character is concerned, replete with the
humor that lights up the depths of life, and rich with the fruits of a
ripened intelligence brought to bear upon a wide range of human
concerns.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 384. N. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“In ‘It never can happen again’ he is embarrassed by two distinct
themes, or groups of characters, and hardly succeeds in getting them to
work together plausibly, though there is one supreme point of contact.”
H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Nation.= 89: 532. D. 2, ’09. 3000w.
“Whether it is a better book or a less good book than the others the
present reviewer finds himself unable to say. It is closer knit as a
story. It is a story—there’s no denying that—a story with a plot as well
defined as if it were a French farce.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 779. D. 11, ’09. 1300w.
“We must record our impression that Mr. De Morgan has put together too
many and too diverse things for one novel to hold in unison comfortably,
and that, while humor, character creation, and human sympathy are all
here, the total of enjoyment to be had is less than in ‘Joseph Vance’ or
‘Somehow good.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 829. D. 11, ’09. 440w.
=Denison, George Taylor.=^{[5]} Struggle for imperial unity. *$2.25.
Macmillan.
9–21021.
“An account of the work the author and other Canadians associated with
him have done to prevent dissolution of the political ties that bind
Canada to Great Britain and to promote British imperialism.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“From no point of view is Colonel Denison’s book one that can be helpful
to neighborly relations between Canada and the United States; but it is
one that will not find many more appreciative readers in Canada than it
will in this country, for Canadians have long declined to take Colonel
Denison as seriously as he takes himself.” E. P.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 192. O. ’09. 470w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.
“The personal animosities which appear throughout the work mar a story
otherwise well told.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 179. Jl. ’09. 170w.
“It is an unneighborly book both as regards Colonel Denison’s
fellow-Canadians and also as regards the United States.”
− =Ind.= 67: 827. O. 7, ’09. 700w.
“Some passages offend the American reader.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“The story of his campaigns he tells in his book in a very entertaining
fashion, and undoubtedly his story will find many appreciative readers
in the three countries with which it deals—that is to say, Canada,
England, and America.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 40w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 536. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“We cannot always approve his methods and manner; some of his immediate
objects seem to us to be undesirable; but we frankly recognize his zeal
and his patriotism, and are glad to have from him this description of
his work.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 702. My. 1, ’09. 1250w.
=Denney, James.=^{[6]} Jesus and the gospel: Christianity justified in
the mind of Christ. **$2. Armstrong.
9–4567.
“Dr. Denney seeks to answer two questions: ‘Is the prevalent conception
of Christianity sustained by the New Testament?’ and, ‘Can the Christian
religion, as the New Testament exhibits it, justify itself by appeal to
Jesus?’ By an elaborate and reasonably critical inquiry, Dr. Denney
satisfies himself that both questions must be answered in the
affirmative.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The real difficulty here in accepting the author’s conclusions seems to
be in supposing that we can have the sort of attitude demanded without
the presence of a certain philosophical position which is fundamentally
determinative for any further intellectual exposition of one’s thought
of Jesus’ person.” S. J. Case.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 462. Jl. ’09. 350w.
=Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 50w.
“His argument is well put, in clear and popular style, without ceasing
to be scholarly in character.” E. S. D.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 270w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is exceedingly interesting, though in
argument Dr. Denney is apt to offend his readers by so openly
marshalling his evidence in favour of a preconceived dogmatic
conviction. It is the more regrettable as he frequently accuses his
adversaries of a like error.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 743. My. 8, ’09. 320w.
=Depéret, Charles Jean J.=^{[9]} Transformations of the animal world;
being the authorised translation of “Les transformations du monde
animal.” (International scientific ser., v. 94.) *$1.75. Appleton.
W9–130.
“Broadly speaking, the aim of the present book may be said to be to
show, on the basis of the paleontological data now in hand, the phyletic
history of the larger groups of animals existing to-day. Doing this
furnishes the occasion for discussing the probable methods through which
the observed transformation of animals may be held to have occurred, and
also for outlining briefly the history of opinion on these
points.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Somewhat one-sided, but useful for its fresh presentation from a new
viewpoint.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 11. S. ’09.
“A book which marshals the data of paleontology and shows their bearing
on the problems of evolution is particularly timely in the year when all
over the world men are doing honor to the memory of Darwin. Occasionally
the translator slips up on a technical detail, but in general the style
is accurate and pleasing.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 76. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w.
“Undoubtedly a general work of this kind is a need of the times, but we
fail to see that this volume is an adequate rendering of the factors
that accompany evolution. The book suffers from an entire lack of
references and illustrations, and in its English dress it contains many
serious mistakes.”
− =Nature.= 80: 452. Je. 17, ’09. 650w.
=De Selincourt, Basil.=^{[7]} William Blake. *$2. Scribner. W9–185.
Less a biography than a fair minded work of criticism. Taking for
granted the biographical facts presented by Arthur Symons, the author
expands such subjects as Blake’s simplicity, force, mysticism,
application of symbolism, theories of art, and artistic development.
* * * * *
“Its author has produced on a very hackneyed subject a book full of
original suggestion that, with its numerous reproductions of typical
drawings, forms a notable contribution to the literature on Blake.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 130w.
“On the whole, we regard these general chapters as the soundest
criticism yet published of Blake, and as a desirable corrective to the
indiscreet panegyrics of Swinburne, Symons, Yeats, Ellis, and the others
who have, to a greater or less degree, lost their common-sense in
vaporous enthusiasm. Our main criticism of Mr. de Selincourt is that,
having analyzed the imagination so ably and having shown how the
grotesque failures of Blake are connected with his systematically false
theory of its office, he steps half way and does not apply his analysis
to the whole art of Blake.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 355. O. 14, ’09. 1250w.
“It seems likely that his contribution to the appraisal of this
extraordinary man will be useful as a check upon the buoyant chorus that
is exalting him in recent years.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 417. Jl. 3, ’09. 1100w.
“We now have an estimate of Blake’s life and work more thoroughgoing and
balanced than any yet published.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 400w.
“Blake’s great gifts are now much too well recognized to need flattery,
and we welcome Mr. De Selincourt’s just criticism as a wholesome
corrective. He does not hesitate to call nonsense and absurdity by their
right names, yet gives praise and admiration generously, where praise
and admiration are due.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 785. Je. 19, ’09. 880w.
=De Sélincourt, Hugh.=^{[12]} Way things happen. †$1.50. Lane.
W9–315.
The story of Miss Paul, a “gentle lady who has become a specialist in
joy despite loneliness and poverty,” (Nation.) one day “met a Stranger
in Gray, who made her very happy—until the catastrophe came. She kept
her bravery and courage, and after a while her love of life came back
and she made others happy, because she was ‘an apostle of joy.’ It is
very pleasant to be reminded that things do happen this way, sometimes.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is a pity that so charming a whole should be marred by a somewhat
affected style; Mr. de Sélincourt’s pen picks its way at times with a
mincing primness the example for which could never have been set by Miss
Paul’s feet.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 300w.
“We are not so much burdened with books of such graceful simplicity and
wholesome optimism that we can afford to miss one when it chances to
come our way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 593. O. 9, ’09. 400w.
=Devine, Edward Thomas.=^{[5]} Misery and its causes. (American
social progress ser.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–13279.
A sociological study based upon a twelve years’ survey of misery among
the New York poor. Contents: Poverty and maladjustment; Out of health;
Out of work; Out of friends; The adverse conditions in dependent
families; The justice and prosperity of the future.
* * * * *
“The most valuable portion of the book doubtless is the report of the
investigation of 5,000 dependent families of New York.” W: L. Chenery.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 120. Jl. ’09. 480w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09.
“Many valuable additions have recently been made to the literature of
the social worker, but none more valuable than this last work of Dr.
Devine’s.” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 435. S. ’09. 570w.
“Whatever he sets down in this book as the result of observation, or the
analysis of facts, goes to show that he is clear-headed, vigorous,
practical, and zealous for justice. Written with eloquent simplicity,
his book is adapted to teach and to inspire all those who care for the
serious things of life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 826. S. ’09. 500w.
“A volume for which all students of the social sciences should be
grateful. The work is sane, conservative, and scholarly, yet inspiring
in its optimism.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 254. S. ’09. 600w.
“Dr. Devine is the first American authority on this subject, and we
confidently commend his admirable book to those who wish to be good
intelligent citizens.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 203. S. ’09. 50w.
=Ind.= 67: 369. Ag. 12, ’09. 350w.
“Through this book Dr. Devine is likely once more to win earnest
followers for the cause of a true social betterment.” J. A. F.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 480. Jl. ’09. 220w.
“To one familiar with organized charity work the book may let in little
fresh light; but it certainly helps clear the air. Professor Devine’s
most convincing chapters analyze the disabilities of five thousand
families lately assisted by the New York charity organization society;
the instances are well selected, and are in themselves persuasive, but
they leave open one point of attack. In a few generalities he dismisses
the cost of reform; and yet this is precisely the crucial question just
now.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 420w.
“The charm of the author’s treatment is its hopefulness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 477. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 292. O. 9, ’09. 1000w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“Those unfamiliar with the theory and technique of present philanthropic
effort may well turn to the text of the lectures before us for a
reliable presentation of these aspects. The expert (and how far the most
studied of men are from knowing the last word on this subject!) will
read the book for the inspiration it affords.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 322. N. ’09. 1400w.
=Devine, Edward Thomas.=^{[12]} Report on the desirability of
establishing an employment bureau in the city of New York. (Russell
Sage foundation.) $1.25. Charities pub. com.
9–3309.
“This report considers the advisability of establishing an employment
bureau on a business basis, but by philanthropic men whose purpose it is
to make such a bureau a genuinely effective agency for the remedy of
unemployment.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “The first 34 pages embody the report
proper; the remainder of the volume consists of a series of appendices,
containing the views of many of the most competent American students, on
bad distribution of labor as a cause of unemployment, studies made by
the Bureau of social research on some phases of the employment bureau
question, and other matters of varying interest and value.” (Econ.
Bull.)
* * * * *
“The various appendices furnish very useful material for reference
purposes on the general subject of unemployment.” G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 618. N. ’09. 280w.
“While this unpretending report deals primarily with a local problem, it
has much interest for the economist because of its bearing on the
problem of mobility of labor, and for the social reformer because of its
many suggestions regarding unemployment. In the absence of any thorough
study in this field, Mr. Devine has performed a service in pointing out
so many of the problems that need investigation. His usual sound
judgment and power of clear statement are displayed throughout the
report.” H. R. Mussey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 241. S. ’09. 520w.
=De Voe, Walter.=^{[11]} Doors of life; or, Little studies in
self-healing. *$1. Funk.
9–28549.
A health-giving book whose key note is activity. Anything that will turn
the blood into new channels and arouse brain cells that have been
inactive will, the author maintains, restore health, be it a new diet, a
new opportunity to earn more, a new benevolence, new scenery, new
friends, physical culture, new science, or a new philosophy of life. If
the faculties are quickened there comes a new sense “of unlimited life
and of infinite progression of wisdom.”
=Dewar, Douglas.= Birds of the plains. **$4. Lane.
8–31848.
About forty sketches of various birds that are natives of the plains of
India. The author sets down some new observations as, for instance, the
tailor-bird’s method of building a nest; he takes exception to the
dogmatism of modern Darwinism, declaring that “the field naturalist
cannot but see that natural selection is turning out rather a failure”;
he also objects to the position of John Burroughs in regard to the
thinking ability of animals.
* * * * *
“For though not severely scientific, the descriptions are accurate, and,
at the same time, attractively written with abundant humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 202. F. 13. 900w.
“The style is excellent and there is a pervading sense of humor which is
all too rare a quality with writers on natural history. On some topics,
he occasionally becomes rather confused.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 391. O. 22, ’08. 650w.
“Birds’ habits and incidents of their lives are related with all the
freshness of the enthusiastic field naturalist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 420w.
“We do not find Mr. Dewar’s frequent changes from lively to severe—or
philosophical, as he would probably prefer to have it—wholly to our
taste. There is much to commend in the book, and if the author had not
been in too great a hurry to give it to the world it would doubtless
have been as good as his former work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 800. D. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Dewar, Douglas, and Finn, Frank.=^{[10]} Making of species. **$2.50.
Lane.
On the side of destructive criticism the authors take exception to
“Wallaceism,” “Lamarckism” and “De Vriesism,” “Constructively the
authors rediscuss, as the various factors of evolution, variation and
correlation, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection and
isolation, but without greatly advancing the solution of the mystery how
species not only survive but originate. They predict its solution rather
on the lines of experiment, especially in breeding, than from the
speculative interpretations so common during the past generation and the
present time.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The actual contribution to the sum of our knowledge made by their
volume is not great. Their most effective criticism is contained in the
chapter dealing with the coloration of animals, where they contend that
many naturalists have pushed the various theories of animal coloration
and mimicry to absurd lengths.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 570w.
“It has singularly few of the faults and many of the real virtues
peculiar to amateur science. For the general reader its lack of
proportion and self-assertive style place it far below such a book as
Jordan and Kellogg’s ‘Evolution and animal life.’ As reference books,
Plate’s ‘Selections-prinzip’ and Kellogg’s ‘Darwinism to-day’ remain
unsurpassed. The professional biologist will receive neither ‘a rude
shock’ nor ‘a fresh impetus’ from Messrs. Dewar and Finn; but he will
find in their field notes and in their quotations of breeders’ gossip an
occasional grain of wheat.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 363. O. 14, ’09. 500w.
“It is to be regretted that Messrs. Dewar and Finn have made this
aggressive incursion into the domain of biological theory. The work as a
whole will not add to their reputation; with the majority of readers it
will probably have the reverse effect.” R. Meldola.
− =Nature.= 81: 481. O. 21, ’09. 1600w.
“The authors are both Indian zoologists—ornithologists especially—and as
such bring up not a few fresh observations and arguments.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 110. Jl. 24, ’09. 650w.
=Dewar, George A. B.= Life and sport in Hampshire. **$3. Longmans.
A nature lover’s observations in Hampshire. The volume is “a collection
of articles, gathered mainly from contemporary journalism, and so it
possesses no more coherence than is possible to such collections....
Various chapters deal with the singing birds, the flight of birds, their
migrations, angling, insects, and shooting.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In the matter of acute and sympathetic observation Mr. Dewar is fully
equal, if not superior, to other writers on nature. This book is
characteristic of his faculties and gifts.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 822. D. 26. 600w.
“One almost feels, after reading the book, as though he had personally
experienced something of the charm and beauty of English country scenes
and partaken in a certain measure of the keenness of English sport.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 480w.
=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Most comprehensive of recent works on ethics. Probably no more
convincing effort to construct a system of moral philosophy by a
strictly scientific method has ever been carried out.” G. A. Tawney.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 687. Mr. ’09. 1250w.
“What gives the ‘Ethics’ of Professor Dewey and Professor Tufts a real
distinction amid the multitude of ethical textbooks is the fact that it
makes the study of ethics appear practical, vital, pertinent to affairs,
capable of contributing to the settlement of problems that contemporary
mankind is really in doubt about. This is not only a great virtue but
also a curiously rare one, in this class of books.” A. O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 140. Ja. ’09. 1700w.
“The best general introduction in English, representing a point of view
toward which the great majority of ethical writers are converging. Its
attitude is modern, yet conservative, and the treatment is interesting,
vital and practical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09.
=Dial.= 46: 146. Mr. 1, ’09. 100w.
“This book, even apart from its content, is of interest to students of
sociology and economics.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 335. D. ’08. 500w.
“Their treatment of this world-old subject has much originality and
power.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 210. F. ’09. 30w.
“In conclusion, we would state our conviction that this book promises to
be the foremost textbook of ethics for the next decade.” W. T. Marvin.
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 413. Ap. ’09. 950w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 170w.
“This relevancy to present fact and present tendencies is just the very
thing we would expect from the pragmatist attitude, and it does not
relieve the book after all from the charge of its comparative failure to
set up a definite picture of the attitude of the moral man, in our
present transitional or would-be constructive age. It would have been
even more edifying and more constructive if it had been less practical
and less sociological.” W. Caldwell.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 221. Mr. ’09. 3800w.
“I cannot close the review of such a book as this without expressing my
admiration of the way in which the authors have accomplished their
task.” E. B. McGilvary.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 14. Ja. 15, ’09. 3300w.
“It represents the most recent scholarship in psychology, sociology, and
ethics. It ought to have a wide reading among all classes of citizens
interested in the moral problems of our social, industrial, economic,
and political life.” I. E. Miller.
+ =School R.= 17: 204. Mr. ’09. 1150w.
“A credit to American scholarship.” Frank Thilly.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 89. Jl. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“An unusual amount of material of value to those who are in the thick of
social struggles.” F. A. Manny.
+ =Survey.= 22: 217. My. 1, ’09. 480w.
=Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol.=^{[11]} Other people’s houses. $1.50.
Macmillan.
9–28031.
“When the soul of man does battle with the forces of nature, it is the
forces of nature which are deathless,” this foreword is perhaps the key
note of the story of a girl who is all mind and spirit but is hampered
by a weak physique, the petering out of a race of scholars. She loves
her great splendid cousin who is good to see, and he, by mere physical
greatness, has the world at his feet and chooses for himself a girl of
equal physical attainments, while the hampered little cousin refuses
wealth at the hands of another man. There is much more in the book than
this, there is a minute delineation of various characters, the society
woman of a certain type stands before us as she is and it is all drawn
with the fearless certainty of one perfectly at home in other people’s
houses.
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“The scene shifts so rapidly that one’s mental vision is left with that
sense of blurred weariness produced in the physical by a cimematograph.
This, however, may be the result of literary immaturity, as there is an
underlying power in the book that definitely conveys a promise of better
things.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 200w.
“A striking and absorbing study of character, and is an effective
introduction to a writer whose ability will doubtless place her among
the very few American novelists of importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 400w.
“A remarkably clever novel in its happy and subtle touching-off to the
life of personal traits and social side-lights. One does not expect plot
in such a story, but ‘situation’ we should have, and it is here that the
story is unsatisfactory.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 110w.
=Dewitt, David Miller.= Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its
expiation. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–4104.
“Mr. Dewitt has studied the official records of the conspiracy trial, of
the trial of John H. Surratt and of the impeachment investigation of
1867, and has sought to sift the actual incidents of the plot from the
mass of myth and legend in which they have become involved.... Mr.
Dewitt throws doubt upon the shooting of Booth by Boston Corbett. He
draws a curious parallel between the death of the assassin and that of
Robespierre, and if he does not plainly state that Booth committed
suicide, at least leaves the reader to infer that his own judgment is in
favor of the theory of suicide. The theory is a crotchet, with nothing
to sustain it.”—Ind.
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“A thankless task, to which moreover our author is able to bring neither
a tolerable literary style nor a sense of humor.” E. S. Corwin.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 860. Jl. ’09. 230w.
“The most valuable part of Mr. Dewitt’s book has to do with the military
commission that tried the alleged conspirators. Altogether the manner of
this book is as objectionable as its material is valuable. One should
not write history in a series of rather tawdry purple patches and
thereby make it appear ridiculous.” H: T. Peck.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 192. Ap. ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Dewitt’s [volume] will appeal more to the student, while Miss
Laughlin’s will attract rather the general reader. The one approaches
the subject in the mood of the jurist who tests every point; the other
in the attitude of the witness who gives a narrative.” E. E. Sparks.
+ − =Dial= 46: 297. My. 1, ’09. 760w
“The care and patience with which the work has been prosecuted are
evident. Not so much can be said for its judicial temper; it is in parts
extremely passionate and violent in statement; and its account of the
conspiracy trial seems rather like an impassioned plea for the defense
than an historical account of what happened there.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 265. F. 4, ’09. 180w.
“The volume may be highly commended in particular, for its masterly
discussion of the trial.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 200w.
“His method is neither that of the scientific historian nor that of the
criminologist, whose right is as clear as De Quincey’s to horrify his
readers. Mr. Dewitt indulges in many inappropriate and grandiose
phrases, as well as in an unnecessary and rather tiresome use of the
historic present. And yet if English readers were unacquainted with one
of the most astonishing crimes, and one of the most astonishing trials,
in modern history, they cannot do much better than get to know them in
this book.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 580. Ap. 10, ’09. 1700w.
=Dey, Frederic Van Rensselaer.=^{[9]} Gentleman of quality. $1.50.
Page.
9–7950.
An ingenious tale of mistaken identity. “It concerns chiefly a young
American who, after some years of sorrowful vicissitudes, finds himself
claimed by the servant, wife and friends of an Englishman of wealth and
title as that gentleman himself who, unknown to any one except his wife
and servant, had disappeared years before on his wedding day and had
never been heard of since.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The dialogue is awkward and unnatural, and in consequence it is hard to
believe in the flesh-and-blood reality of the speakers. But the springs
of action are sound, and the incidents, however strange, have as much
plausibility as the nature of the affair demands.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 142. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w.
“A tale of mystery, full of curious events that follow crowding upon one
another’s heels and of situations that test the hero’s resourcefulness
and the reader’s credulity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Dickens scenes and characters: scenes and
characters from the works of Charles Dickens. *$3. Scribner.