Uniform with the “Little books on art,” this exposition “is divided into
two parts, the first treating of painting and sculpture in connection
with a general sketch of Japanese history, and the second devoted to the
so-called ‘minor’ arts, colored woodcuts, metal work, netsuke, lacquer
and ceramics, a short bibliography is added and the book is
illustrated.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“The author of this unpretending little book is well qualified to write
the volume on the arts of Japan in this series.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 662. N. 24. 410w.
“These ‘little books,’ within their acknowledged limitations, are
something of a triumph in the making of compact treatises.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 80w.
=Dillon, Mrs. Mary C.=^{[9]} Patience of John Morland. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
9–16802.
A story full of fascination and charm which has for is heroine the
beautiful, headstrong Peggy O’Neil of Jackson’s administration. The
author draws her Peggy, otherwise Kitty, true to history, yielding to
the full play of her imagination in dressing up friends and foes of this
wilful daughter of an Irish inn keeper. Her unhappy marriage, her
indiscretions, her ostracism at the hands of Washington women. President
Jackson’s championship of her integrity, and the patient friendship of
the heroic Secretary of state are the principal elements in Mrs.
Dillon’s story.
* * * * *
“Tale of mild interest and doubtful history.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09.
“It is certainly readable enough, at least for those who still care for
this much-abused type of historical romance, and the central figure of
the book is certainly very much alive and very charming and very
feminine in her perversity and her contradictions.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 69. S. ’09. 420w.
“The result is as to fiction a readable but rather commonplace showing
of girlish caprice and long suffering chivalry; as to history, a group
of names, a list of policies, a mirror of costumes, and a few scenes.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 256. S. 16, ’09. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 270w.
=Dimock, Anthony W., and Dimock, Julian A.= Florida enchantments. *$3.
Outing pub.
8–31146.
The sportsman’s Florida is pictured and described in this volume by two
authors who have come under the Utopian spell of “Florida the
fascinating.” “Accounts of crocodile-hunting, tarpon-fishing, canoeing
in the surf, searching for wild honey (and finding it), crossing the
everglades in a power boat, capturing a seacow, intercourse with the
Seminoles, and other more or less thrilling adventures, fill the volume
in a manner acceptable to the reader, adventurous or unadventurous.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09.
“The book would be an excellent one to read before going, or on the way,
or even after arriving [in Florida].”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1463. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“A most interesting volume.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 815. Ap. 15, ’09. 100w.
“An authentic record of sport.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 219. F. 6, ’09. 270w.
“A breezy and generally admirable account of the sport and fun to be had
in the home of the alligator and the manatee.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“In this book the pictures are the main feature, though the text is far
from being unreadable.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 149. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.
=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young
teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A helpful and practical book for everyday use on the rural school
teacher’s desk.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 210. F. ’09. 50w.
“Gives the kind of help needed by an untrained beginner.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“Mr. Dinsmore’s book is thoroughly sound and as stated before he has
arranged a most complete outline for the teacher and I feel sure that
the educational work of our country would be materially benefitted could
every teacher have access to this estimable little book. The author and
the publishers are to be congratulated on its general excellence.” W. H.
French.
+ =School R.= 17: 61. Ja. ’09. 800w.
=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter Hampson.=^{[8]} Old-time parson. 2d ed.
*$2.50. Dutton.
9–29970.
“The greater part of the book deals with the clergy in post-reformation
days, and such themes as ‘The parson and his people,’ ‘The parson
preaching,’ ‘The parson’s wife,’ ‘Parish clerks and choirs,’ ‘The
hunting parson,’ (with Jack Russell as the chief exemplar), and ‘The
parson’s dress.’ Other chapters discuss ‘The Elizabethan parson,’ ‘The
sufferings of the clergy of the commonwealth period,’ ‘The superior
parson,’ and ‘The parson in literature.’” (Ath.) The popular portion of
the book is taken up with setting down the eccentricities and the wit
and humor of certain clergy.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ditchfield is to be congratulated on having secured a good theme,
and treated it in a worthy and entertaining fashion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 468. O. 17. 1200w.
+ =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 250w.
“It seems to us a pity that Mr. Ditchfield in this book should have
given so much space to controversial matters of the reformation, and
especially to a rather bitter account of the sufferings of the clergy
under the commonwealth.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“A eulogy, a defense, and a collection of anecdotes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 497. Ag. 21, ’09. 1200w.
“He has done good service to posterity by this collection, and no one
can read the book without many a hearty laugh. The strong point of this
book is not its history; its charm lies in its jokes, its racy
anecdotes, and its songs.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 672. N. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A most agreeable book this; a second edition will give, we hope, the
opportunity to make a few corrections.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 591. O. 17, ’08. 1650w.
=Dixon, Clarissa.= Janet and her dear Phebe. †$1. Stokes.
9–3332.
The chronicle of the devotion of two little girls who are separated thru
family differences but who go on loving each other with an unalterable
affection. Their hopes, their sorrow, their young-wise philosophy, their
letters to each other, their stories and poetry—all reveal the heart of
the child.
* * * * *
“A sweeter, truer picture of childish philosophy and childish feeling
has not been made in a long time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Dixon, H. Claiborne.= Abbeys of Great Britain. (Cathedral ser. no.
11.) *$1.50. Scribner.
9–6981.
Abbeys built by early monks in England, Scotland and Wales pass in
review before the reader. “Mr. Dixon prefaces his accounts of the
historic buildings with a brief résumé of English monastic history. The
monks were the great civilizers of ancient days, and wheresoever they
settled agriculture, learning, and the arts began to make their
appearance. As they grew rich and powerful they became deteriorated, and
with the reformation were swept away. But the ruins of their great
houses make the British Isles lovely, and the simple, straightforward,
and, withal, loving descriptions of them contained in this little volume
cannot fail of attracting many.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A book of an agreeable and gentle charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 86. F. 13, ’09. 280w.
“The book was probably intended to be stronger on the religious than on
the æsthetic side. The index could be improved. The book as a whole,
however, is a singularly concise and valuable statement of interesting
facts.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 587. Mr. 13, ’09. 320w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.=^{[8]} Comrades: a story of social adventure in
California. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–2040.
A novel dealing with the establishment of a socialistic colony upon a
deserted island off the coast of California. The band is headed by the
son of a wealthy San Francisco business man who deplores his son’s
socialistic proclivities and foresees a cure for his folly in allowing
him full bent, secretly donating a million dollars to the cause. The way
of disillusionment is the course over which Mr. Dixon conducts his
reader.
* * * * *
“In his story of social adventure he conjures up an absurd situation,
builds a mighty man of straw, and then thrashes it with all the
enthusiasm of a Don Quixote charging a windmill, no man, not even an
irresponsible Dixon, has any right, just for the sake of creating a
sensation, to so falsify a great social movement as has this irrational
teller of tales.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 41: 509. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“Although there is a good deal of mere talk in the story, it sweeps
along with a nervous rush, starred with superlatives, and enjoying
constantly a high emotional temperature. Mr. Dixon makes his characters
do surprising stunts. They develop unexpected and illogical traits
without warning, turn summersaults of temperament, and do whatever is
necessary to keep the story moving according to the author’s plan. But
doubtless there are a great many readers who like the rather bewildering
breeziness of style which results from such an unrestrained method.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 470w.
“Especially interesting are the interrogations of one human
question-mark whose genius for putting awkward queries is something more
than diverting.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 109. My. ’09. 80w.
=Doctor= says: a book of advice for the household with practical hints
for the preservation of health and the prevention of disease. **$1.
Jacobs.
9–9256.
A book on medicine for the household which places before the reader in
an intelligent and interesting form the chief facts of medicine and
surgery, with which it is proper and useful for him to be acquainted. It
is an emergency book, a popular text-book of medicine as well as a
reference work. It is based upon sound principles of physiology,
pathology; treatments are outlined and rules are given for health
preservation.
=Dodd, Walter Fairleigh.=^{[12]} Government of the District of
Columbia; a study in federal and municipal administration. $1.50.
Byrne.
9–20125.
“While primarily a description of the federal and municipal
administration of the District, this volume also contains in its opening
chapters an historical review of the various governments to which the
District has been subjected from 1791 to the present time.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The historical portion of the book is confined to forty pages, but is
accurately and clearly written.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 190. O. ’09. 70w.
“Students of political science will welcome it while regretting that the
work should not have been shorn of some of its crudities. With some
exceptions, the task of research has been carefully and thoroughly done,
and the narrative, if dry and unadorned beyond that of most monographs,
is at least clear and orderly.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 184. Ag. 26, ’09. 250w.
=Dodd, Walter Fairleigh.= Modern constitutions: a collection of the
fundamental laws of twenty-two of the most important countries of
the world, with historical and bibliographical notes. 2v. *$5. Univ.
of Chicago press.
9–2008.
While of importance to lawyers and public men the aim of these volumes
primarily is to furnish constitutional texts for use in courses on the
subject of comparative constitutional law.
* * * * *
“The collection as a whole is excellent and will prove to be well-nigh
indispensable to that large and growing body of students who desire to
compare the governmental systems of states so as to gain thereby a
clearer knowledge of the underlying principles of political
development.” J. Q. Dealey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 828. Jl. ’09. 480w.
“These criticisms, or rather suggestions, are not meant in any way to
disparage the work of Mr. Dodd. The collection will prove of inestimable
benefit to teachers and students of constitutional law and they owe the
editor a debt of gratitude for making it. Especially is he to be
commended for giving the documents in translations. Not one scholar in a
hundred is acquainted with half the languages represented.” D: Y.
Thomas.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 845. My. ’09. 480w.
“This scholarly work is the first of its kind in English and will have a
large value in the study of comparative constitutional law.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 76. Mr. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 180. Jl. ’09. 160w.
“The book of Mr. Dodd is a little wooden.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 314. Mr. 13. 470w.
“The work is well done and it supplies conveniences for which students
of political institutions will be grateful.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 110w.
“It is a tool for a historian or a textbook for a student, rather than
the fruits of study in this department of comparative jurisprudence. In
its sphere the book is unique.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 430w.
“An examination of a few of the documents in connection with originals
bears out the contention of the translator, although it must be admitted
that faithfulness to the letter of the law has sometimes produced an
unnecessary awkwardness and an occasional obscurity. Unfortunately the
editor does not anywhere state the authoritative text on which he has
founded his translation—a serious omission in a scholarly work of this
character.” C: A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 524. S. ’09. 660w.
=Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 150w.
+ =Yale R.= 18: 109. My. ’09. 80w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.=^{[9]} Ethics of progress: or, The theory and
the practice by which civilization proceeds. **$1.50. Crowell.
9–24682.
A discussion whose aim is “to set forth a simple, philosophical, and
inspiring vital principle, which governs all ethical questions, and
ensures the development of noble, useful, happy character. The treatment
touches the great issues of human life, the significance of conscience,
the problem of evil, the supposed antagonism between freedom and
necessity. The effort is made to treat such questions without any
theological or metaphysical prepossessions, but simply from the study of
the facts of consciousness.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“Everything in it, beginning with part 3, would do good in the hands of
men of the college age or older, in or out of college, who were
intelligent enough to read it. Nevertheless I have somewhat against the
reasoning in parts 1 and 2.” A. W. Small.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 418. N. ’09. 580w.
“While exception might be taken to some of the author’s conclusions,
there is no doubt that the book, on the whole, is a helpful and
instructive one.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 230w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= What we know about Jesus. (Christianity of
to-day ser.) *75c. Open ct.
8–22964.
“Calls attention to the extreme scantiness, as he thinks, of our
trustworthy knowledge of Jesus, yet he finds sufficient evidence to
prove that Jesus should not be given any position of supreme uniqueness
among other good men of the past. Some of his deeds and words when
judged by a true standard seem to be thought actually immoral, the more
worthy side of his work was not new, and it was not he but Paul who was
principally responsible for the founding of Christianity. The synoptic
gospels, or at least so much of them as suit the author’s purpose, are
used to illustrate inconsistencies in Jesus’ life and teaching, which
are thought to bring him quite to the common level.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“Deficient in critical value. His conclusion is not based upon any
thorough examination of the sources.” S. J. Case.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 117. Ja. ’09. 210w.
“This book deals rather with what we think, than with what we know,
about Jesus, and that in a decidedly negative way. It is too meager a
sketch, however, to perform even this task adequately, and is further
largely absorbed in the destructive process.”
− =Bib. World.= 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 40w.
=Dial.= 46: 118. F. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The book is not worth mention except as a symptom.”
− =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 120w.
=Dolmage, Cecil G. J.= Astronomy of today. **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–5111.
A popular introduction to astronomy in nontechnical language. The most
important present day facts and theories are given without involving the
reader in mathematical forms and processes.
* * * * *
“Altogether the work contains an excellent summary of the leading facts
of present-day astronomy, set forth in a lucid and interesting way.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 101. Jl. 24. 1200w.
“By the arrangement of the various branches of the subject, the reader
is ever led from coordinated generalities to the more specific details,
and is always prepared for what he is reading by the knowledge acquired
from the previous chapters.” W: E. Rolston.
+ =Nature.= 80: 181. Ap. 15, ’09. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 50w.
“His book, we should say, contains the minimum of the history of
astronomical discovery and of present knowledge below which one cannot
allow oneself to fall.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 456. O. 10, ’08. 410w.
“If we regard the amount of space devoted to a subject as indicating to
a certain extent the importance of the subject, then this volume shows
some rather remarkable conceptions. Too much prominence is given to the
opinions of writers of scientific fiction; it is certainly an innovation
in a serious work to find H. G. Wells so freely quoted. It may serve the
purpose described by its subtitle as ‘a popular introduction in
non-technical language.’” C: L. Poor.
− + =Science=, n.s. 29: 349. F. 26, ’09. 660w.
“Mr. Dolmage has brought many aspects of a most fascinating subject
within easy reach.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1002. D. 12, ’08. 320w.
=Donahoe, Daniel Joseph.= Early Christian hymns: translations of the
verse of the most notable Latin writers of the early middle ages.
*$2. Grafton press.
8–26396.
Metrical renderings of one hundred and sixty Latin hymns ranging in date
from St. Hilary’s time to that of Pius VII.
* * * * *
“The biographical notes are interesting, though sometimes too brief; the
indexes are accurate; the appearance of the book attractive.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 250. My. ’09. 260w.
“This gives us a Christian anthology of great value, the versions being
both scholarly and melodious.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 234. Ap. 1, ’09. 70w.
+ − =Ind.= 66: 488. Mr. 4, ’09. 220w.
“Mr. Donahoe’s renderings of the really great hymns fall very decidedly
below the level attained by our best translators of the same verse, even
when he does not confine himself to a closely literal version of the
original. But in general Mr. Donahoe’s understanding is correct, his pen
facile, his spirit sweet and sympathetic, and his versions eminently
readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
“The book is distinctly creditable to its author. A little reflection
and some pains might weed out its redundancies and reduce its present
plethora to a simplicity more in accordance with the spirit of the
old-time hymnologists.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 218. Ap. 10, ’09. 570w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 60w.
=Dondlinger, Peter Tracy.= Book of wheat: an economic history and
practical manual of the wheat industry of the world. *$2. Judd.
8–23519.
“This work treats of the growing, cultivation, and harvesting of wheat,
as well as of the systems of crop rotation, irrigation, and fertilizing
employed, the diseases to which this grain is subject, its insect
enemies, and, finally the important questions of transportation,
storage, marketing, and milling. In short, the writer has attempted
nothing less than a complete practical manual of the wheat industry.”—R.
of Rs.
* * * * *
“The most complete and scientific work on the subject, covering every
phase of the industry.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 9. Ja. ’09.
“He started out to make a reference book to cover the whole field of the
wheat industry. In this he succeeds so well that it is not likely that
the work will be attempted by another for a considerable time. It
appears to be a thoroughly careful piece of work and written by a man
who appreciates the economic factors.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 192. Ja. ’09. 330w.
“An extensive and fairly exhaustive bibliography in so far as American
publications are considered shows that the data presented were derived
from the latest and most reliable sources.” J. I. Schulte.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 32. Ap. ’09. 380w.
“Fills a place for which there are no rivals, and it fills that place
well and satisfactorily.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 815. Ap. 15, ’09. 330w.
“The chief significance of the book will possibly be found by some
persons to consist in the aid it gives to a more inductive study of
economic science. For those who think that descriptive and statistical
accounts of our various industries should necessarily precede the
enunciation of definite economic laws with their proper modifications,
this will probably be a welcome volume.” E. K. Eyerly.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 306. My. ’09. 300w.
“The grain market would not be the worse off for the information which
Mr. Dondlinger’s book contains—information which is clearly and
accurately put and strikingly devoid of confusing technicalities. The
thirty-three pages devoted by Mr. Dondlinger to the bibliography of
wheat deserve special notice.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 343. Ap. 1, ’09. 600w.
“The book is very rich in material of importance to the student of
general economics, and its appearance should do much to reform the
agricultural views of the text-book writers, which are largely based
upon the facts of a bygone epoch.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 564. S. ’09. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 60w.
“It is a book that will be extremely useful not only to business men but
as a reference work in schools and colleges.” M. A. Carleton.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 1000. Je. 25, ’09. 900w.
=Donworth, Grace.= Letters of Jennie Allen to her friend, Miss
Musgrove. †$1.50. Small.
8–30936.
Jennie Allen sets down in letters to her friend, Miss Musgrove, the
affairs of her life in a brother’s family where she shoulders a good
share of the work and incidentally makes “rappars” and “aperns” for a
living. Homely, cheerful philosophy, practical common sense and an
abounding sense of humor characterize her observations.
* * * * *
“While from a humorous view-point it is far inferior to the Susan Clegg
books by Anne Warner, yet in some respects is more pleasing than are
those stories.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 613. D. ’08. 420w.
“The letters are delightful, altho the spelling is unnecessarily
grotesque.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 120w.
“At lamentable moments some deplorable punning and other lapses from
taste pull the book down below even its own moderate level. But with
those drawbacks there is diversion of a plain, amiable, rag-carpetty
sort between its covers.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 93. Ja. 28, ’09. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Jennie Allen is the best ever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 180w.
“In ‘Jennie Allen’ Miss Grace Donworth has created, we believe, a really
new character, as deliciously original as ‘Mrs. Wiggs.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 70w.
=D’Ooge, Martin Luther.= Acropolis of Athens. *$4. Macmillan.
9–5106.
“A sumptuous and elaborately illustrated volume is that which the
Professor of Greek in the University of Michigan devotes to the wondrous
hill of Athens, the works of its successive generations of builders and
artists, the spoilers who wasted them, the conservators who now repair
and guard.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The serious student will find the book packed with sifted facts which
hitherto he has had to gather for himself from a wide range of writers
in various tongues.” J. I. Manatt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 792. Jl. ’09. 350w.
“Valuable for large or special collections; Gardner’s ‘Ancient Athens’
is preferable for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09.
“The volume may be commended to the close reader of history, the
exceptionally serious traveller, and the lover of things Grecian in
general.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 150w.
“The careful work has left only the fewest of negligible errors.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 696. Ap. 1, ’09. 620w.
“A book of the kind has been much in request, not only by the
archæological student, but by every intelligent visitor to Athens. The
whole presents a readable, though perhaps rather matter-of-fact,
account.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 612. Je. 17, ’09. 650w.
“Prof. D’Ooge designed this book both for general readers and for those
wishing to make a minute study of the subject. In this point, and in
only this has he failed. Written with careful attention to detail, its
lucidity complemented by numerous maps, diagrams, and excellent
photographs, the book should be of the greatest value to the student of
Greek history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 480w.
“Enriched with the latest fruits of the exploration and study of the
ruins of the once most glorious spot in the world, this volume is both a
delight to the Hellenic scholar and a valuable souvenir for the cultured
traveler.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 587. Mr. 13, ’09. 150w.
“The production of a scholar and enthusiast on a subject which is deeply
interesting to all who have a tincture of Greek letters.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 504. Ap. 17, ’09. 80w.
Dorland, W. A. Newman. Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the
records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers.
**$1. Century.
8–26841.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 193. Ja. ’09. 160w.
“It is one of the most stimulating little works of the season.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 608. D. ’08. 260w.
“Most curious and stimulating study of old men.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 200. Ja. 28, ’09. 580w.
=Dougall, Lily.= Paths of the righteous. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–35332.
“Few have dealt more suggestively with the romance of religion than Miss
Dougall without deviating from a reverent sympathy with its highest
aims. From this point of view, ‘The paths of the righteous’ demands
attention as a powerful, and eloquent plea for comprehension and
toleration in regard to the question of religious education. But the
story is very far from being a mere theological pamphlet. It certainly
is a novel with a purpose, but it is singularly free from partisanship.
The case of the Nonconformists is at least as fully stated as that of
the Anglicans, and though the writer practices an artistic
self-effacement, there can be no doubt of her earnest desire to render
faithful justice to sincere extremists, while advocating the ‘via media’
as the true solution.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Too ‘solid’ and informing to be generally popular, but can be heartily
recommended to educated readers interested in English affairs.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09.
“Much discussion of religious problems is ... spread over a story of
considerable secular interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 80w.
“While her work in its essentials is an eirenicon, Miss Dougall does not
discard the use of wit and satire—satire none the less mordant for its
delicacy—to reinforce her argument. The book can be read with pleasure
even by those who may be indifferent to its guiding purpose. Miss
Dougall’s eloquence and distinction of style, have never been more
happily displayed than in these pages.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 679. O. 31, ’08. 1350w.
=Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander.=^{[10]} Dictionary of
American-Indian place and proper names in New England; with many
interpretations. $7. Salem press.
9–17202.
“Dr. Douglas-Lithgow has here collected into one volume the Indian place
and personal names of New England, defining and locating them whenever
possible. In the introductory chapter he gives a brief history of the
American Indians in New England, which will stimulate the reader’s
interest: curiosity is fully aroused by descriptions of these
aborigines. The dictionary has two main divisions, “place” and “proper”
or personal names. Of these the dictionary of place names occupies
three-fourths of the volume and is subdivided by states. The section
devoted to personal names is biographical in form.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“That part of the work devoted to the principal American tribes of New
England is etymological, as well as definitive, and will be frequently
consulted.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 310w.
“It may be said that the dictionary is a work of historical importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 498. Ag. 21, ’09. 330w.
=Douthit, Jasper L.=^{[6]} Jasper Douthit’s story: the autobiography
of a pioneer; with introd. by Jenkin Lloyd Jones. *$1.25. Am.
Unitar.
The story of a pioneer’s labors for anti-slavery, temperance, and
liberal religion.
* * * * *
“Tells his life-story with all the charm and moving power of simple
truth.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 200w.
“The book is not an important one, except as a human document. It tells
a very real story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
=Drage, Geoffrey.=^{[9]} Austria-Hungary. *$6. Dutton.
9–35858.
Sets forth the history and aims of the various nationalities of
Austria-Hungary and dwells at length upon the conditions of labor among
them. “In Mr. Drage’s opinion, whatever the solution of the southern
Slav problem and other problems may be, Austria-Hungary will survive.
She may become a federated monarchy; she may alter her form in many
ways; but she will not be absorbed into a German hegemony.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A thorough, comprehensive and unusually impartial study which will be
of use to diplomats, economists, newspaper men and statesmen.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.
“This book is useful for reference as it contains a good deal not
brought together elsewhere. His statement of the facts sometimes varies,
and his final chapters are wanting in clearness, though we can hardly
blame him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 67. Jl. 17. 1100w.
“An admirably clear, thoro and comprehensive work on the dual monarchy.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 708. S. 23, ’09. 860w.
“The author’s sources of information are, as a rule, well chosen, though
one is surprised to see among them the ‘Historian’s history of the
world,’ and to find too much space given to passing newspaper opinions.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 486. N. 18, ’09. 1050w.
“His volume promises to become of the three [Alden’s ‘Hungary of
to-day’; Andrassy’s ‘Development of Hungarian constitutional liberty’;
and Drage’s ‘Austria-Hungary’], the most valuable and authoritative
contribution on the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 762. D. 4, ’09. 920w.
“The statistical tables and other facts, collected as they have been at
different times, are not always up to date. It is superior in some
important respects to recent works, for it neither proceeds from a
solitary visit to Austria-Hungary nor does it suffer from any particular
party prejudice.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 231. Ag. 21, ’09. 1450w.
“What distinguishes Mr. Drage’s book from all the others we have read on
the subject is that he gives a very nearly impartial account of
everything.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 17. Jl. 3, ’09. 1700w.
=Driesch, Hans.= Science and philosophy of the organism: the Gifford
lectures delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the year
1907. *$3. Macmillan.
8–26199.
This first course of lectures delivered before the University of
Aberdeen will be followed by another for a concluding course. “The two
volumes, it is announced, will be divided into three ‘sections,’ on ‘The
chief results of analytical biology,’ ‘Die seele als elementarer
naturfaktor,’ and ‘The philosophy of the organism,’ respectively. The
first makes up the whole of the present volume, and is subdivided into
two ‘parts’: 1, on ‘The individual organism with regard to form and
metabolism,’ 2, on ‘Systematics and history.’” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“The book is a harassing one for the student, because even ordinary
scientific phrases seem to require special definition in order to
express the author’s meaning, and the reader is frequently lost in a
maze of terminology which appears to lead only to confusion.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 410w.
“It is very unfortunate that the table of contents gives absolutely no
clue to the arrangement of the work. The latter would gain much in
intelligibility if the table were made to indicate the general plan of
the lectures, as stated later.” M. L. Eastwood.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 383. Ap. ’09. 720w.
“That Driesch has written a fascinating exposition of his subject few
will deny. Whether we agree with Driesch or not concerning the nature of
the unknown factors of development, his attempt to hold our
interpretation to the more difficult epigenetic of thought is, we think,
deserving of the highest praise.” T. H. Morgan.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 101. F. 18, ’09. 2250w.
“It offers only an incomplete development of the author’s position. For
this reason, and because of disconnected presentation, of frequent
repetition, and of hesitating argumentation, the volume is somewhat
unsatisfactory. However, it contains much that is of value by way of
summarizing recent work, and much that is suggestive by way of
criticism.” E. G. Spaulding.
− + =Philos. R.= 18: 63. Ja. ’09. 2600w.
=Driesch, Hans.=^{[7]} Science and philosophy of the organism, v. 2.
*$3. Macmillan.
9–4111.
=v. 2.= The first part of this volume brings to a close the section on
“The chief results of analytic biology” which formed the subject matter
of volume one, and then concludes with a lengthy discussion of the
“Philosophy of the organism.”
* * * * *
“The attempt to carry through the philosophy of vitalism and of
Entelechy seems to reveal a great deal of loose thinking and of bad
confusion on the part of Professor Driesch. And yet it must be confessed
that the volume is suggestive in parts and, on the whole, worth
reading.” E. G. Spaulding.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 436. Jl. ’09. 3000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Driesch’s book, though an important and valuable contribution to the
discussion over vitalism, is not very successful as a work of
popularization. It is ill planned and awkwardly executed, diffuse,
involved, and written in a tongue far removed from idiomatic English.”
A. O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 761. N. 26, ’09. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
=Driver, Samuel Rolles.=^{[9]} Modern research as illustrating the
Bible. (Schweich lectures, 1908.) *3s. Oxford.
9–14445.
“The first half of the book summarizes the results of the travels,
explorations, and excavations carried on in Egypt, Babylonia, Arabia,
and the countries which were occupied by the more immediate neighbors of
ancient Israel, while the second half takes up more in detail the
excavations in Canaan itself.... In the second half of the book which
takes up the excavations at Tell el Hesy, the ancient Lachish, Gezer,
Taanach, Jericho, and other Palestinian mounds, especial attention is
given to the ‘religious antiquities’—highplaces, mazzebahs, figures of
the goddess Ashtoreth, human sacrifices, foundation sacrifices, lamp and
bowl deposits, and other objects which have to do with the cults of the
ancient inhabitants of Canaan.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“If one may venture a general criticism on such an excellent book, it is
to the effect that it furnishes the student no direct help on the
problems now so prominent in this field.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 643. O. ’09. 300w.
“A careful and brief summary.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 70. Jl. ’09. 40w.
“Although necessarily but a rapid survey of the results of these
excavations, etc., upon the interpretation of the Bible, this book is
especially welcome as the work of one who is primarily a biblical
scholar. It must be confessed that Professor Driver lays too little
rather than too much stress upon the influence of Babylonia upon
Israel.” D. D. Luckenbill.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 211. S. ’09. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 518. N. 25, ’09. 130w.
=Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 220w.
=Drummond, Andrew Lewis.=^{[8]} True detective stories. †$1.50
Dillingham.
9–18068.
Seventeen detective stories, relating principally to counterfeiting and
blackmailing. They range from the banks of the Red river, in the days
following the civil war, to Broadway as it is to-day. The biggest,
brainiest criminals of almost half a century, both men and women, are
introduced to the reader.
* * * * *
“Although these stories are ‘true,’ there is lacking the literary
craftsmanship.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 512. Ag. 28, ’09. 250w.
=Dryden, John.= Poetical works of John Dryden. (Cambridge ed.) $3.
Houghton.
9–7326.
Includes all of Dryden’s undoubted poetical works, both original and
translated, except his dramas, and a number of his critical essays. The
chronological arrangement insures a clear conception of the poet’s
literary development, and his relation to the politics of the time. The
full editorial matter includes in the “notes” a considerable portion of
Sir Walter Scott’s Commentary on Dryden.
* * * * *
“The most complete collection of Dryden in popular form.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 193. Je. ’09.
=Dial.= 46: 333. My. 16, ’09. 70w.
“Most of the notes are judicious as well as learned, and many are really
contributory.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 585. Je. 10, ’09. 400w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 50w.
=Du Bartas, Guillaume De Saluste.= Divine weeks of Josuah Sylvester;
mainly translated from the French of William de Saluste, lord of the
Bartas; ed. with introd., notes, emendations and excisions by Theron
Wilber Haight; collated with the quarto edition of 1608, 1611 and
1613, and the folios of 1621, 1633 and 1641. $2. H. M. Youmans,
Waukesha, Wis.
8–28426.
“The divine weeks” has been somewhat abridged, and modernized for this
edition, and is supplied with full editorial equipment for the “curious”
reader.
=Du Bois, Mary Constance.=^{[11]} Lass of the silver sword. †$1.50.
Century.
9–26142.
A group of girls at boarding school are organized into a band of girl
knights by a youthful leader who has, in a rudimentary state, all of the
qualities of a Joan of Arc. They pledge themselves to fight hard to
stand well in their lessons, to help each other, for love of Hazelhurst.
Their frolics at school and later their adventures in the Adirondacks
are full of wholesome fun and spirit; while their leader, impetuous and
clever, is a splendid type of young heroine.
* * * * *
“The book has a healthy tone sure to appeal to wide-awake young people.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 684. O. 23, ’09. 200w.
“The book in style is easily written, with an unfortunate tendency to
make use of oversweet adjectives, a fault which mars so much of our
fiction. Is wholesome, however.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 89: 1017. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
=Dubois, Paul.=^{[7]} Psychic treatment of nervous disorders (The
psychoneuroses and their moral treatment); tr. and ed. by Smith Ely
Jelliffe and W. A. White. 6th ed. rev. *$3. Funk.
9–14931.
This sixth revision brings the author’s work to date and elucidates such
points as his readers have misunderstood and criticized.
=Dubois, Paul.= Self-control and how to secure it; a translation of
the author’s L’education de soi-même by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.
**$1.50. Funk.
9–9244.
Supplements the author’s “Psychic treatment of nervous disorders” and
“Influence of the mind on the body.” It differs from these works in that
it is not devoted so largely to citations of interesting cases and
questions but provides a philosophical and direct discussion of what may
be accomplished by self-control and how it may be secured.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.
“Many of the opinions advanced appear at first thought rather startling,
but the author never neglects to give a rational foundation for his
ideas.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 763. My. 1, ’09. 480w.
“Those familiar with Prof. Dubois’s former work will find this
particularly interesting, because it illustrates a phase of his mind so
different from that which they already know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
=DuBois, William E. B.=,^{[5]} ed. Economic cooperation among
Negro-Americans. $1. Univ. press, Atlanta, Ga.
8–31624.
“In this volume Professor W. E. B. Du Bois, the editor, continues his
interesting and valuable studies of negro life. The present volume is
rather fragmentary in character, and covers a wide range of topics,
beginning with an introductory chapter on the economic development of
the negro in Africa and tracing his history through slavery and
emancipation to the present time. This is followed by extensive
quotations of the statistics of the material wealth and development of
the church, school, benefit, insurance and secret societies, banks, and
co-operative businesses conducted by negroes.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“This issue, therefore, presents to the student a multitude of facts
whose value of course depends largely upon their accuracy. We must
probably assume that the majority of them are correct but it so happens
that the only comparison made of statistics of church membership shows
that they are widely at variance with those given in an earlier
publication. This would appear to indicate that possibly not enough
attention and time had been spent in checking figures.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 453. Mr. ’09. 170w.
“The book contains a brief but well selected bibliography of the subject
which answers as a working bibliography of the economic aspects of the
negro problem in general.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 62. Ap. ’09. 500w.
=DuBois, William E. B.=^{[9]} John Brown. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
9–24274.
A biography constructed from a vast amount of new material which adopts
the viewpoint of the “little known but vastly important inner
development of the Negro American.” It portrays the work of John Brown
not for the negroes but with them.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 67: 1140. N. 18, ’09. 7Ow.
“Dr. DuBois’s work is disappointing in that it betrays no original
research and abounds in inaccuracies. His last chapter in the book
before us is a notable discussion of the race question as it stands
to-day in the light of John Brown’s sacrifice.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 405. O. 28, ’09. 1000w.
=Du Cane, Florence.= Flowers and gardens of Japan; painted by Ella Du
Cane, described by Florence Du Cane. *$6. Macmillan.
9–3089.
A book which describes and pictures characteristic Japanese gardens,
clever of design and precise in arrangement; which describes certain
flowers closely associated with Japan and interprets their meaning and
corresponding treatment in gardens; and which tells of the festival
associated with the blossoming time of different flowers.
* * * * *
“As a garden book or a book about Japan this one is full of interest.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 467. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“A readable and informing account.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 336. F. ’09. 180w.
“Since these pictures supplement in a satisfactory manner the most
exhaustive treatise in English that we have on Japanese gardens, namely,
that by Josiah Conder, the volume is a slight but real addition to our
garden literature. [There are] certain slight shortcomings in the work.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 25. Ja. 7, ’09. 650w.
“The book has the best account we have seen anywhere of the way in which
Japanese gardens, including the landscape garden, are planned, planted,
and made effective.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
“The book was wanted, although the subject has already been dealt with
more thoroughly, if only to show how totally unlike the real gardens of
Japan are so-called Japanese gardens made in England.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. D. 12, ’08. 330w.
“This book is attractive to look at, interesting to read, and useful as
a treasury of information.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 90w.
=Duchesne, Rt. Rev. Louis Marie Olivier.=^{[12]} Early history of the
Christian church, from its foundation to the end of the third
century; rendered into English from the 4th ed. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–25435.
“The author begins withthe imperial environment, including Judaism, and
passes from the apostolic ages to the growth of the first heresies, the
foundation of the monarchical episcopate, the formation of the earliest
Christian literature, and the early persecutions. He proceeds through
the movements and controversies of the second century to the time of the
persecutions by special edict in the third century; intervening with
attempts at fusion with the later paganism, the development of
Alexandrian Christianity, and the consolidation of the hierarchy. The
last struggle, beginning with Diocletian’s persecution, is not contained
in this volume.”—Eng. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“At length we possess an English version of his study on the early
church, a study which, besides augmenting and correcting our previous
knowledge of the first ages of Christianity, has helped incalculably
ecclesiastical history by setting a model of exact scientific method.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 540. Jl. ’09. 1250w.
“Perhaps, for non-specialists in theology, rather too many proper names
and too many details are given in the latter part of the book to
construct a life-like picture. The translation cannot be regarded as
successful. It may seem doubtful whether a translation was needed at
all, but it certainly should not have been undertaken by anyone who
could not imitate the terse and racy style of the author.” A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 820. O. ’09. 560w.
“We would have wished that so wise and interesting a book had been
worthily translated. Of classical antiquity and of Church history the
present translator is quite ignorant, and though this is not manifest
through many pages of flowing narrative it becomes discreditably
conspicuous wherever a knowledge greater than that of the general reader
is needed to interpret the author’s sense.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 667. N. 27, ’09. 1130w.
“The present book is admirably sound and fair. If it were not for its
frequent insistence on the claims of the church of Rome to supremacy, it
would be well-nigh impossible to discover anything distinctively Roman
in its tendency. And even here it is strictly honest. Monsignor
Duchesne’s style is clear and pure, with touches of tender and refined
eloquence here and there which have a rare and peculiar charm.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 713. N. 6, ’09. 1750w.
=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry Ernest.= Rachel Lorian. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–7038.
“Rachel Lorian’s husband was fearfully mutilated by a railway accident
on his weddingday. So, while acting as a conscientious nurse to the
cripple, she fell in love with his artist friend. But they determined
not to wrong the husband in act. Later on Rachel, through the defects of
her own temperament, threw away her hopes of happiness, but we leave her
on the last page rejoicing in the possession of her lover’s child by
another woman.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“We admire the shrewd, but seldom ill-natured touches of humour in the
delineation of subsidiary characters. The style suffers slightly from
the influence of Mr. Henry James, also from grammatical lapses.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 127. Ja. 30. 200w.
“What is difficult to understand is why such a good artist did not know
when to stop. It is this later part which mars the symmetry of the story
and consigns it to a much lower rank in the scale of fiction.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 187. Ap. ’09. 630w.
“It is to be hoped that the cleverness of the book—and it is decidedly
clever—will not avail to make either its style or its ideas contagious.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 300w.
“A noteworthy achievement, and in its creation and development of
character, artistic handling of material, and imaginative power it
deserves to be classed among the best of current fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 330w.
“An interesting if somewhat sad novel.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 268. Ag. ’09. 110w.
“The characters who pass before a Cornish background are successfully
presented. The book is disagreeable without impropriety.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 146. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
“The story is powerfully written, and the picture of Francis Lorian, the
cripple, is only too lifelike and realistic. But there appears no
particular reason why so very painful an incident should ever have been
expanded into a novel.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 310. F. 20, ’09. 310w.
=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.=^{[8]} Trespass (Eng. title: Orchard thief).
**$1.25. Small.
9–28117.
A close analysis of the hearts and characters of two men and a woman.
The young woman betrothed to an honest inn-keeper is lured away from him
by a fascinating author. The latter, an egoist, uses the woman’s charm
to feed his “twin streams of beauty—his expressed art and his dormant
religion.” He betrays her, and in the moment of her agony and despair
the faithful Stephen, with his love as big as ever, and quite
unquenchable whatever she did, weds her and so protects her and her
child. The story’s chief merit lies in the delineation of the selfless
Stephen’s character.
* * * * *
“The three persons have individuality, and the writing is effective and
germane to the matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 170w.
“It is pleasant to be able to record so marked an improvement in
literary art as is shown by Mrs. Henry Dudeney’s new novel, ‘Trespass.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 220w.
“Like ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles,’ it deals boldly with the problems of
passion, and may offend in this way, but, like that book also, it is
essentially dramatic, a searching exposition of human nature under the
stress of conflicting emotions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 110w.
“The whole novel is remarkable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 180w.
“The book may be warmly recommended to those readers who like an
interesting story, and if it is not ‘virginibus puerisque,’ it is at any
rate unmistakably on the side of the angels.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 993. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
=Dudley, Albertus True.= A full-back afloat. (Phillips Exeter ser.)
†$1.25. Lothrop.
8–17995.
“After his first year at college, where he has distinguished himself on
the gridiron, Dick Melvin is desirous of making a trip to Europe, and,
lacking the funds, is induced to earn his passage over. This he does on
board a cattle vessel, and his athletic training proves quite an asset
when he finds himself associated with a class of men who are rough and
lawless.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Lively, well told story. A boys’ book, but interesting to girls.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 100w.
=Dudley, Gertrude, and Kellor, Frances Alice.= Athletic games in the
education of women. **$1.25. Holt.
9–4473.
A discussion in which more emphasis is placed upon athletics as a
training for citizenship and a part of general education than upon their
physical value to the individual, the latter value not being
underestimated but subordinated for the reason that it has been covered
so generously in many treatments.
* * * * *
“This book fills a real need.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 136. My. ’09.
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 70w.
“The book is well written and constitutes a forcible argument in favor
of the subject in hand.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 724. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.
“A study which is unique not only with reference to the influence of
athletic sports and particularly team games upon women, but with
reference to the nature and meaning of athletic sports themselves.” L.
H. Gulick.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 92. Jl. 16, ’09. 500w.
=Spec.= 102: 942. Je. 12, ’09. 100w.
=Duff, John Wight.=^{[9]} Literary history of Rome, from the origins
to the close of the golden age. *$4. Scribner.
9–22725.
The tenth volume in Mr. Fisher Unwin’s “Library of literary history.”
“It begins with a long introduction, of 57 pages, on the descent of the
Romans, their language, character, and religion.... The history proper
is divided into two main periods: the earlier literature of the Republic
(from the origins to 70 B. C.) and the literature of the golden age, the
second period being subdivided into the Ciceronian age (70 B. C. to 43
B. C.) and the Augustan age (43 B. C. to 14 A. D.).” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We may frankly say that we have not read a better book of the kind, and
that he has fulfilled his task with great success. He does, we think, as
is natural with a specialist, overrate the importance of his subject.
Strange to say, Mr. Duff seems to underrate one of the Latin Masters,
the admirable Terence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 62. Jl. 19. 1150w.
“Professor Duff’s book fortunately contains also a wealth of the
essential, such as may be found in no other work on the subject; and
this fits it for the wider circle (who may omit the less significant
portions if they choose), as well as for the specialists. A sense of
monotony in style insists on rising into the reader’s consciousness as
often as momentary flagging of interest in the subject-matter gives it
opportunity, and is indeed never very far from the surface.” Grant
Showerman.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 332. N. 1, ’09. 1800w.
“We do not know any work of moderate dimensions which is more likely to
revive or whet an appetite for Latin literature than Professor Duff’s
manual. It is packed full of information, and its critical remarks are
sound and good.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 634. O. 16, ’09. 470w.
“A good scholarly piece of work. It is written professedly for the
general reader, but even the professional student of Latin may read it
with much pleasure and profit. His critical judgments are usually sound
and well expressed, and one gets the pleasant impression that they are
based on his own reading of all the authors concerned. His decisions on
disputed questions will, of course, not satisfy everybody, but he is
always scrupulously fair and courteous.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 185. Ag. 26, ’09. 120w.
“Some of Prof. Duff’s pages are mere catalogues of names and dates; he
has not, it would seem, the ability of writing interestingly of
uninteresting subjects. But when the subject appeals to him he produces
remarkably interesting criticism and comment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 700w.
“So much has been written on Latin authors, especially those of the
golden age, that it might appear a difficult and thankless task to take
up the tale anew, but Mr. Duff’s success is great enough to justify the
experiment.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 200. Ag. 14, ’09. 1550w.
=Dufour, Frank O.= Bridge engineering; roof trusses: a manual of
practical instruction in the calculation and design of steel truss
and girder bridges for railroads and highways, including also the
analysis and design of roof trusses and other details of mill
building construction. $3. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30724.
“Under each of the two parts—Bridge engineering and Roof trusses,
separately paged as taken from two different volumes of the
Cyclopedia—it takes up computation of stresses and the practice of
detailing. Stresses are treated entirely analytically, except in a few
instances, where graphic diagrams are printed with no other explanation
than a reference to a vaguely indicated companion volume. For such an
exposition for the theory of stresses as a new student requires—simple,
clear and consecutive—the book is satisfactory.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 76. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It suffers somewhat from its association to the Cyclopedia, in its
references to other parts of the larger work to which the reader may not
have access. For its intended use as an introduction to the study of
bridge design it surely has a place, though it can in no way replace the
more widely known standard books on the same subject.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 536. N. 12, ’08. 240w.
“Of bridge engineering, however, in its broader sense, there is little
in this volume, and the work does not justify its title.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’09. 180w.
=Dulles, Charles Winslow.=^{[5]} Accidents and emergencies: a manual
of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence
of a physician. *$1. Blakiston.
9–9255.
The seventh edition of a volume useful in the home and especially in the
camp of the engineer or contractor.
* * * * *
“The instructions given in the book are clearly and briefly put, and are
accompanied by helpful illustrations.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 48. Ap. 15, ’09. 120w.
“His well-known scepticism as to hydrophobia leads him to advise against
resort to Pasteur institutes, on account of bites by presumably rabid
animals; but in all other respects the well-indexed little volume may be
accepted as a trustworthy compendium of practical information.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 390. Ap. 15, ’09. 150w.
=Dumàs, Alexandre.=^{[12]} My pets; newly tr. by Alfred Allinson.
$1.75. Macmillan.
A translation of “Mes bêtes.” “The work is filled to overflowing with
good stories, chiefly animal stories, but there are others besides, and
all center around the strange household at Monte Cristo on the Marley
road.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“One of the few works of the novelist which may be starred ‘pour la
jeunesse.’ But where could one ever find for the country house bookshelf
(no matter how many feet to it) a better book than ‘My pets?’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 464. N. 11, ’09. 330w.
“The stories of Vatrian the keeper, with his cutty pipe, of the
experiences of a monkey with a soda-water bottle, and countless others
told by the garrulous Dumas make delightful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 685. N. 6, ’09. 210w.
“Ought to be cordially received by all lovers of the great French
dramatist, as well as by every man or woman who owns or loves a dog.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 778. D. 11, ’09. 700w.
=Du Maurier, Guy Louis Busson.=^{[8]} Englishman’s home: a play in
three acts. †$1.25. Harper.
9–10962.
A play centering in the home of a commonplace Englishman. The family and
their friends are seen in a moment of leisure, each endeavoring to amuse
himself. When an invading army enters and bullies these harmless
peace-lovers, they bustle and complain, sit and shudder, and resent the
indignity put upon them but are wholly incompetent to rise and terminate
it.
* * * * *
“There is an absolute lack of literary thought or expression.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.
“It may be that the spectator will think the realism of the first act
too strong, there is certainly no let-up in the dead-level of stupidity
exhibited by touch after touch. Yet not one touch is wrong, and it is
probable that each one is necessary to the contrast which is the life of
the piece.” E: E. Hale. jr.
+ =Dial.= 47: 68. Ag. 1, ’09. 660w.
“On the whole, ‘An Englishman’s home’ is very interesting; but it is at
many moments crude in dramaturgy and does not indicate conclusively that
its author will ever be important as a dramatist. It remains a timely
journalistic ‘jeu d’esprit’ rather than an earnest work of art. It is a
novel, but it is scarcely real.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 447. My. ’09. 820w.
=Ind.= 67: 931. O. 21, ’09. 170w.
=Dummelow, Rev. John Roberts=, ed. Commentary on the Holy Bible, by
various writers; complete in one volume, with general articles and
maps. *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–5247.
“A commentary especially written to meet the wants of the ordinary Bible
reader. The editor has had the assistance of forty-two scholars in the
preparation of the work, though no commentator’s name is attached to his
special work. Among these interpreters are the Americans E. L. Curtis,
Kent, McFadyen, Paton, G. L. Robinson, F. K. Sanders, and J. H. Ropes,
and such English scholars as Peake, W. T. Davison, W. J. Moulton, Wade,
Adeney, Plummer, and Colonel Conder. The point of view is that of the
historical school, but the application of the historical method is quite
conservative and restrained.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The volume will go far toward popularizing a more intelligent and
appreciative conception of the Bible.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 644. O. ’09. 220w.
“A much needed, valuable reference work that can be strongly recommended
to public libraries of any size.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 136. My. ’09. ✠
“This volume is likely to prove very useful to teachers and others who
wish, without much expenditure of time, to arrive at the meaning of
difficult texts, to appreciate the general sense of a passage, and also
to find a way to reconcile modern critical views with orthodox belief.
The desire for correctness of understanding will, as a rule, be fully
satisfied by the comments, and the general articles at the beginning of
the work will be found as acceptable as the commentary itself.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 250. F. 27. 450w.
=Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 100w.
“Should prove widely useful to clergymen, teachers, and the laity.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 193. Mr. 16, ’09. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 103. Jl. 29, ’09. 380w.
“It is a well-edited book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 195. Ap. 3, ’09. 300w.
“It is a real achievement in compression.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 110w.
“The particular value of Dr. Dummelow’s work lies in the fact that it is
complete in one volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 40w.
“Altogether it is an admirable book to recommend to a busy man who is
anxious not simply to read his Bible but to understand it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 574. N. 6, ’09. 330w.
“It will be seen, therefore, that this commentary, as a whole,
represents a school of thought which owns the influence of recent
criticism, but does not cease to hold in substance the accepted creed of
Christendom. There will be, of course, various opinions on this and that
point, but outside the daily diminishing circle of those who hold to
theories of verbal inspiration the work will be recognised as a very
valuable book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 187. Ja. 30, ’09. 350w.
=Dunbar, William Philipps.=^{[5]} Principles of sewage treatment; tr.
with the author’s sanction by H. T. Calvert. *$4.50. Lippincott.
Agr9–1512.
Sets forth the principles involved in sewage treatment. “The volume is
divided into two parts. The first of these is historical. The second
part deals with ‘The present position of sewage treatment.’ In the
historical portion, the author takes up successively the growth of river
pollution and efforts to restrain it by law, and the development of
methods of sewage treatment. In part 2 the characteristics of sewage and
the objects of purification works are briefly discussed. The author then
discusses in considerable detail methods for removing (1) suspended
matter and (2) putrescibility. Disinfection is next considered, and
after that there are chapters on supervision of disposal works and on
the utility and cost of different methods of treatment.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“More detailed and technical than Cosgrove.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.
“One of the best books, if not the best, on sewage treatment ever
written. There is scarcely a page of the volume that does not bristle
with interesting comment and valuable suggestion.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 41. Ap. 15, ’09. 3550w.
“Completely fulfills the expectations of those interested in this branch
of sanitary science. No small amount of credit is due the translator,
Mr. Calvert, for the important part he has played in placing the book
before English readers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 335. Mr. 20, ’09. 520w.
“It fills a place in the literature of the subject, the requirements of
which no existing work completely satisfies.” E: Ardern.
+ =Nature.= 80: 5. Mr. 4, ’09. 700w.
=Duncan, Frances.=^{[6]} When mother lets us garden. **75c. Moffat.
9–35522.
A child’s garden book dealing with the care of the simpler plants and
flowers. There are chapters on what plants eat, supplying the family
with salad, tub gardens, water gardens, garden play-houses, and growing
jack-o’-lanterns.
* * * * *
“More direct and more readily used as a handbook than the author’s
‘Mary’s garden and how it grew.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 150. My. ’09. ✠
“An excellent A B C of gardening for children of an older growth—within
its limitations.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1244. Je. 3, ’09. 220w.
“A book which is suited especially to the needs of the youngest
gardeners, although containing information of the practical kind for
their seniors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 50w.
=Duncan, John Garrow.= Exploration of Egypt and the Old Testament.
**$1.50. Revell.
9–12038.
“A beautifully illustrated and popular summary of the results of modern
explorations, excavation, and decipherment in Egypt, in so far as it
affects Old Testament interpretation. The author’s attitude toward Old
Testament criticism is very cautious, and he exhibits much dependence
upon his teacher, Professor Petrie, though he does not follow him
altogether blindly.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The book, although by no means unreadable, can hardly be depended on
from the Egyptological standpoint.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 753. Je. 26. 420w.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 50w.
“It contains interesting and readable accounts of experiences in the
field at Petrie’s camp, but is entirely without value in solving any of
those problems of the Old Testament which are involved in Egyptian
discovery. He is entirely innocent of any critical knowledge of the Old
Testament.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book contains more than the title implies. It is
eminently readable throughout, and it is well illustrated.” C: R.
Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 570w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 1062. D. 19, ’08. 240w.
=Duncan, Norman.=^{[11]} Going down from Jerusalem. **$1.50. Harper.
9–27602.
The author and illustrator of this delightful volume traversed together
that route once taken by Joseph and his family down into Egypt, and they
have given us the unchanging East, the glamour of its tradition, its
people, and its sacred hills. Pictures and narrative blend happily
together to give to the reader the illusion of seeing with his own eyes
the desert and the olive groves, of living among tents and camels, and
of talking and bartering with the incomparable Moslem and learning much
of his religion and philosophy.
* * * * *
“A book that has all the charm of a first visit paid by an observant,
highly impressionable traveler to an unknown country.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 100w.
“A notable book.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 100w.
“He has caught the spirit of the East far better than many more
pretentious writers.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 80w.
=Duncan, Norman.=^{[12]} Higgins, a man’s Christian. 50c. Harper.
9–29364.
Snap shots of daily scenes and daily experiences of a “pilot of souls”
among the northern Minnesota lumber-jacks. Higgins is a man among men,
and elicits such bar-room remarks as “Higgins’s job is keepin’ us boys
out o’ hell; an’ he’s the only man on the job.” “I want t’ tell ye,
friend, that he’s a damned good Christian, if ever there was one.” It is
of such a preacher and such men that Norman Duncan writes.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 180w.
=Duncan, Norman.=^{[11]} Suitable child. **60c. Revell.
9–28038.
A story of Christmas eve which tells how five passengers aboard the
Winnipeg west bound express discover a poor little orphan who is tagged
thru to an asylum in Winnipeg, and how they plan a happy Christmas for
him. It is a story that grips the heart, and every man, woman and child
who reads it will not be content until he has lightened some burdened
little heart of its load of loneliness.
* * * * *
“All classes of readers will welcome his story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 89: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 40w.
=Dunham, Curtis.=^{[6]} Gambolling with Galatea: a bucolic romance.
**$1.15. Houghton.
9–13921.
A diverting rural fantasy in which figure a professor, a poet, a
painter, a winsome maiden, a colt, a dog, a pig, a goat, a cow and a
bull calf. “With its fine irony for certain schools of contemporary
natural history, its real love of domestic animals and understanding of
their ways, its appealing love story, its general individuality and
charm the story is unique.”
* * * * *
“A diverting rural comedy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09.
“The tediousness of the performance is aggravated by the ‘literary’
affectation of its style.”
− =Nation.= 89: 164. Ag. 19, ’09. 140w.
“A most amusing little comedy. At times his fancy seems to gambol a
trifle heavily, but the humor of the book is enlivening and its quaint
conceit sufficiently diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 355. Je. 5, ’09. 240w.
“The gambols, though lively, are not coarse.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“Is full of wit and humor and quaint description.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 50w.
=Dunn-Pattison, R. P.=^{[8]} Napoleon’s marshals. *$3. Little.
The story of how and why Napoleon was led to select his marshals. The
story of their services is prefaced by a synopsis of the twenty-six
soldiers giving names, dates of birth, and various titles, and includes
a column showing how disposed of, and their ages when they died.
* * * * *
“The new book is a real acquisition to the literature of its class.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 330w.
“For the well-read in Napoleonic literature there is little new in this
book, yet we imagine that many readers will find some of the details
both interesting and instructive. The book is decidedly good, and would
be even better had the author refrained from repeating sundry French
accounts of the prodigies of valour of the one man against a hundred
type ascribed to some of the marshals, which are painfully suggestive of
some of Baron Marbot’s performances.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 51. Je. 10, ’09. 1200w.
“The volume is a useful contribution to political and military history.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 320w.
=Dunning, James Edmund.=^{[10]} Master builders. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–16801.
A story that represents the United States on the eve of war with a
foreign power. The incidents center about the building of a huge war
ship, the attempts of the enemy to steal it, and the outwitting of the
plotters by a youth of recognized inconsequence, who turns hero and wins
the victory for the Americans.
* * * * *
“Gives an excellent picture of New England shipyard interests but is
marred by some unpleasant incidents.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09.
“Any one thirsting for machinery and machination may here gulp freely.”
− =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 484. Ag. 7, ’09. 430w.
=Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer.=^{[8]} Nadir Shah. *$3. Dutton.
A historical novel having for the central figure “Nadir Kuli, the
Turcomen robber, soldier, and tyrant, who became Shah of Persia and
ruled that country with a rod of iron until an assassin got after him
and ended his life. Sir Mortimer has formed some pretty definite
conceptions of Nadir and Nadir’s times, and the purpose of his book is
to give us the benefit of his study, conjecture, and day dreams, so that
we may know approximately what the Near East was like when Nadir was
building up the Persian nation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A biographical romance which is at once too romantic to be real
biography, and too biographical to be a true romance. We cannot
recommend the book to novel-readers ‘pur sand.’ They will find it
tedious, in spite of some charming—and some rather realistic—harem
scenes.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 639. N. 21. 1250w.
“Except for the character of the heroine, which savors something too
much of the Occident, there is little to offend the sense of
verisimilitude.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w.
“It certainly would require a good deal of ignoring and a good deal of
forgetting to enable one to share with Sir Mortimer his admiring view of
Nadir.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 470w.
“While the book is worth attention both because of construction and
style, it is, as may be fancied, chiefly notable because of its
character drawing.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 870. Ag. 14, ’09. 400w.
“It is on its historical truth and the picture it presents of the times
that the value of the work must finally rest. However judged, it must be
pronounced a work of great interest and value. It bears evidence of much
research and knowledge gained not merely from written records but also
from rapidly perishing traditions which it saves from oblivion. No one
who wishes to understand the genesis of the Persian character and the
unhappy condition of the country to-day should fail to read it. Its
clear and forcible style makes this an easy and pleasant task.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 309. Mr. 6, ’09. 900w.
=Durand, William Fredrick.=^{[5]} Resistance and propulsion of ships.
2d ed., thoroughly rev. $5. Wiley.
9–4175.
“Professor Durand’s well-known work, which first appeared in 1898, has
been revised by the author. Much new matter has been added and somewhat
more cut out, with the net result of four pages of reduction. The work
represents substantially lectures given by the author to the students in
the school of Marine construction at Cornell university when he was in
charge of that school. Hence it naturally approaches its subject from
the point of view of the student rather than the working naval architect
or marine engineer.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“While the calculus and mechanics have been freely used by the author,
it is, nevertheless, possible, by omitting the parts involving higher
mathematics, to obtain a fairly connected idea of the subject from the
descriptive standpoint, and also to apply all methods given for purposes
of design.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 417. Ap. ’09. 240w.
“The typographical work is very good, there being but very few errors.
It follows that this book, while valuable and useful to any one
interested in its subject, will appeal most strongly to the student who
is mostly concerned with theory and principles rather than practical
applications.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 50. Ap. 15, ’09. 700w.
=Düring, Stella M.=^{[5]} Love’s privilege. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–12615.
Following a period of enmity between two rivals one of them is
mysteriously shot, and circumstantial evidence is strong against the
other rival. The baffling tangle is unraveled in due time, the while
misunderstanding and suffering run their full course.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book provides entertainment of a slightly higher
quality than the motive for its writing would lead us to anticipate.” W:
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 40w.
=Durley, Ella Hamilton.= My soldier lady. $1.25. Clark.
8–34813.
“Consists of a series of letters written by a lady and conveying ‘big,
satisfying slices of Kentucky life’ to a friend who has gone to
Japan.... Of course the all-necessary love-motif is interwoven with a
graceful lightness of touch which is charming. In a sense these letters
may be taken as the other half of the correspondence which make up ‘The
lady of the decoration,’ a highly successful book by another author
published about two years ago.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Will interest only readers who know the earlier book, to which it is
decidedly inferior.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“Clever, bright, and interesting as it is, no one can fail to be
refreshed by its sprightliness and clever description of life in the
South.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 110w.
“The letters are gossipy and vivacious and entertaining enough for any
young woman alone in a foreign country to have been enlivened and
heartened by their reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 110. F. 27, ’09. 230w.
=Duthie, Arthur Louis.= Decorative glass processes. (Westminster ser.)
*$2. Van Nostrand.
9–12266.
“The processes treated of by the author, who has had practical
experience of them as a designer and executant, are those involved in
leaded lights, stained glass, embossing or ‘etching,’ brilliant cutting
and bevelling, the sand-blast, gilding, silvering, and mosaic. Special
chapters are devoted to proprietary and patented processes, and at the
outset an account is given of the various kinds of glass employed in the
processes described.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 37: 171. Ap. ’09. 100w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 80w.
“In spite of a few criticisms, and some further defects from the
literary point of view, the book is to be welcomed as an addition to the
scanty literature of glass from the pen of a practical glass worker, and
it will no doubt find many appreciative readers among those interested
in decorative glass.” W. R.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 334. Ja. 21, ’09. 700w.
=Duthie, Rev. D. Wallace=, ed.^{[9]} Bishop in the rough. *$2. Dutton.
This journal, newly edited was prepared by John Sheepshanks a young
English clergyman nearly fifty years ago while working among the
pioneers of British Columbia. “British Columbia occupies about half the
book, and it is no disparagement to the author to say that it is the
most interesting part. The Sandwich Islands, China, Mongolia, Tibet, and
Siberia do not show such marvellous changes, nor is it in these regions
that we see ‘the Bishop in the rough.’”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Although it describes much that has passed away, Mr. Wallace Duthie is
fully justified in his opinion that it has lost little of its freshness
and interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 728. Je. 9. 1200w.
“Both the journalist and the editor have done their literary work well,
and the book makes capital reading.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 238. O. 1, ’09. 450w.
=Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 872. Ag. 14, ’09. 200w.
=Spec.= 103: 135. Jl. 24, ’09. 300w.
=Dutt, W. A.=^{[8]} Norfolk and Suffolk coast. 6s. Unwin, London.
An informing volume dealing with the Norfolk and Suffolk coast from
Landguard Fort to the border of Lincolnshire. The topographical history
of the coast, its time-wrought changes and striking natural features,
places and objects of archæological interest, the history and romance of
court life, rates of shipwrecks, life saving deeds, smuggling, and
numerous related topics are presented with emphasis on the picturesque
aspects.
* * * * *
“It is not easy to see what is the peculiar sphere of utility
contemplated by the new ‘Country coast series,’ in as much as the ground
covered has already been fully dealt with in the many county guidebooks,
of varying status, that recent years have brought forth, Mr. Dutt in the
opening volume, ‘The Norfolk and Suffolk coast,’ has set about his task
conscientiously, with a praisworthy ambition (not always realized) of
imparting freshness and novelty to an old-told tale.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 89. Jl. 24. 1200w.
“It contains an excellent treatise on one of the most famous and
interesting of the English counties and one of the foremost.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 450w.
“The subject which Mr. Dutt treats in this volume abounds in many kinds
of interest and it has fallen into most capable hands. He has the art of
setting off his knowledge to advantage.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 320w.
=Dutton, Samuel Train, and Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration of
public education in the United States; with an introd. by Nicholas
Murray Butler. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–29852.
“In the preface of this work President Butler distinguishes between the
activities of the state, the American people viewed as an organized
unit, and those of the government. ‘It is this governmental educational
activity with which the present volume deals.’ There are thirty-two
chapters treating such subjects as ‘Factors favoring the advance of
education’; ‘The national government and education’; Local units of
educational administration’; ‘The financing of public education’; ‘The
improvement of teachers in service’; ‘The elementary course of study’;
‘The administration of high and normal schools’; ‘Vocational, physical,
and correctional education’; ‘Educational statistics’; ‘The widening
sphere of public education,’ etc.... The introduction brings together
the names of important persons in American education, then follow the
significant industrial and social conditions upon which schools depend,
and the leading events in national, state, and local school development.
There is scarcely a topic from ventilation to pensions, child labor,
tuberculosis, festivals, and the school nurse which is not
included.”—School R.
* * * * *
“Though not a complete treatment, it is scholarly and valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09.
“Indispensable will it prove as a hand-book and work of reference for
the school expert, for the social worker or the non-professional student
of the child problem, and for the young teacher who would know the metes
and bounds of the field wherein he has chosen to do his lifework.” J. L.
Barnard.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 203. Jl. ’09. 650w.
“While the ‘Administration of public education in the United States’ has
its defects and limitations, these are, in the majority of cases, of the
sort necessarily imposed upon a bit of pioneer work treating of such a
rapidly changing field of human action.” E: C. Elliott.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 524. Je. ’09. 440w.
“Comprehensive and scholarly text-book.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
“Students and teachers of the problems of educational administration
looked forward with special interest to the publication of this book;
and in the main their high expectations are amply justified. Its
limitations are due largely to the nature of its subject-matters.” E. K.
Adams.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 473. Ag. 19, ’09. 670w.
“The scholarly and very comprehensive volume now before us is a distinct
contribution to the literature of education; and it should aid further
progress.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 304. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.
“The treatment is descriptive and accurate. To one accustomed to the
somewhat inspirational style of many works on school management this
encyclopedic book will prove hard reading. It is essentially a reference
book. Fortunately there is an excellent index.” F. A. Manny.
+ − =School R.= 17: 209. Mr. ’09. 320w.
=Dye, John T.=^{[5]} Ideals of democracy: conversations in a smoking
car. **90c. Bobbs.
9–10793.
A conversation on subjects relating to democracy and the brother-hood of
man engaged in by a professor of political economy and sociology, a
banker, a civil engineer, a Catholic bishop, and a professor of law.
Some of their ideals are embodied in the following: “The real enemies of
democracy are not beyond the sea. They are the false ideals which make
the government an instrument by which the few distribute wealth to
themselves, monopolize production, exploit labor, create caste, corrupt
public life, rob the living and lay burdens on the unborn. These false
ideals can not be overcome by the sword or destroyed by battleships, but
only by growing intelligence, enlightened self-interest, the coming of a
quickened sense of duty, of public service and of social helpfulness.”
=Dykes, James Oswald.=^{[6]} Christian minister and his duties.
*$2.25. Scribner.
8–26256.
The work of an English Presbyterian divine “which attests the demand for
closer adaptation of the Christian ministry to modern conditions.... E.
g., against the Anglican conception of the minister as a priest, Dr.
Dykes stands for the New Testament teaching that this can be only in so
far as the church itself is ‘a priestly brotherhood of spiritual
equals,’ officially represented in its minister. On the other hand, an
entire section of the volume is devoted to the subject of public
worship, so strongly emphasized by Anglicans, and to the minister’s part
therein.... Dr. Dykes’s elaborate treatment of his theme takes note of
all particulars that have to do with the minister’s success—even his
choice of a wife, his manner in sickrooms, and his precautions in cases
of infectious disease.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The work may be criticized, along with all practically similar
productions, for being oblivious of the social probation which the
church is now undergoing. The thought of leadership in social
regeneration is absent; only the individual is in evidence. In this
respect the book, although excellent in the ground that it does cover,
leaves much to be desired by those who are conscious of modern church
problems, at least in America.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 498. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“Although written from the standpoint of English social and
ecclesiastical conditions, and open to criticism for its lack of
emphasis on the work of social regeneration, it is a sane and forceful
work, more detailed and comprehensive than Hoyt’s ‘The minister’ which
is confined to various aspects of pulpit discourse.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 72. N. ’09.
“The counsels of Principal Dykes will be found well worth attention
especially on the subject of the conduct of Christian worship.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 60w.
“His lectures on the usual themes of that department of ministerial
education are distinguished by sanity of view and force of utterance.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 485. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
“He views his subject from the standpoint of social and ecclesiastical
conditions differing from ours. This naturally causes different emphasis
on some points of common concern.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
=Dyllington, Anthony.= Green domino: a comedy. †$1.50. Lane.
9–13041.
A slight plot, plenty of color and a good bit of humor mingle in this
whimsical story whose scene is laid in the Isle of Wight. “A gentleman
clad in a loosely flowing green domino with a peaked hood and carrying a
banjo, and his protesting friends, clothed similarly in black, a young,
pretty, and widowed ‘ladyship,’ and a matchmaking duchess are the
principal characters. The action takes place in a lovely little seaside
English town, and the beginning of the romance harks back to a Swiss
mountain hotel, where the green dominoed gentleman had seen the face of
‘her ladyship.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is long since we have chanced upon so delightful a story of its
kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“A pretty story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 160w.
E
=Earhart, Lida Belle.= Systematic study in the elementary schools.
(Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college
series, no. 18.) $1. Teachers college.
8–22123.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“We commend the book especially to teachers and principals of elementary
schools.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 210. F. ’09. 60w.
“Reading this monograph should be helpful to every teacher; but the
reader will find difficulty in following the text and the tables which
are not most conveniently arranged for ease of reference.” E: F.
Buchner.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 439. Ap. ’09. 300w.
=Ind.= 67: 309. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
=Earle, Franklin Sumner.= Southern agriculture. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–12779.
“This work has many points of merit to commend it to the schools of the
south and will no doubt be widely used as a text-book. It is divided
into two parts, the first dealing with general considerations, such as
climate, soil, soil management, soil improvement, the growth of plants,
insects and diseases, and closes with a chapter on farm policy and
management. The second part treats of the chief southern agricultural
crops, including grasses and forage crops, fiber crops, tobacco, coffee,
fruits, nut crops and forestry, and closes with a short chapter on
domestic animals.”—Science.
* * * * *
“The book will be useful to southern teachers and to farmers
especially.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“This volume treats agriculture far more broadly than the title would
indicate. The soil, its treatment and improvement is dealt with in a
full and comprehensive manner. The space given to individual discussions
of crops grown in the south ... is especially well handled.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 193. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“The book contains the best account available, within small compass, of
the agriculture of the warmer regions of North America and the West
Indies, and has in addition many features which will ensure it being of
use also in other parts of the world.” W. G. Freeman.
+ =Nature.= 79: 186. D. 17, ’08. 550w.
“There seems to be very little use for devoting twenty-four pages to
sugar cane and only sixteen to cotton. It seems that the author is more
at home in his studies of tropical agriculture, and though he has done
excellent work, many parts of the book read as if the information given
were not first hand.” R. J. H. DeLoach.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 32. Ja. 1, ’09. 880w.
=Eastland, Florence Martin.=^{[7]} Matt of the water-front. *60c.
West. Meth. bk.
9–12879.
The story of a bright, sturdy little Irish lad who lives in a poor
water-front shack, and supports himself out of school hours by gathering
and selling driftwood. His adoption into a lawyer’s family and the
subsequent discovery that he is the lost heir to an uncle’s fortune are
the important happenings in the young hero’s life. It is a story that
any parent or teacher would be glad to put into a boy’s hands.
=Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa, the Sioux Indian), and Eastman,
Elaine Goodale.=^{[11]} Wigwam evenings. †$1.25. Little.
9–26010.
Twenty-seven Indian myths into which enter the favorite ingredients of
all fairy lore—invincible heroes, beautiful princesses, wicked witches,
magic, etc. The author, a full-blooded Sioux, has produced the tales
from his childhood wigwam memories, and in the retelling nothing of the
early spell is lost.
=Eaton, Daniel Cady.=^{[8]} Hand book of modern French painting, with
250 illustrations. **$2. Dodd.
9–13980.
“Includes brief biographies of French artists of note as well as many
minor men, and criticisms of their work. It also includes a list of the
provincial museums of France and their principal possessions, not the
least valuable feature of the book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 11. S. ’09.
“His comments are not of the customary guide book character but have a
personal touch that makes them interesting, however brief.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 826. O. 7, ’09. 280w.
+ − =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 50w.
“We can find little to praise. It gives, indeed, a good deal of
information in a handy form, but the text is so carelessly printed as to
deprive this information of much of its value.”
− =Nation.= 89: 41. Jl. 8, ’09. 380w.
“A work of precisely this character is so much needed as a reference
book that it would be welcome were its merits fewer than they are. In
general it is a fair and candid statement of a personal point of view.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 426. Jl. 10, ’09. 450w.
“The volume is valuable for any one who intends to have a practical
knowledge of modern French art or even intends to ‘do’ intelligently the
Louvre, Luxembourg, or any picture gallery containing the works of
modern French painters.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 250w.
=Eaton, Isabel Graham.= By the shores of Arcady. $1.25. Outing pub.
9–2777.
The experiences of a bachelor girl artist one summer in the Arcady she
had chosen to “restore the wasted tissues of a tired brain.”
Surroundings and people reproduced for the reader are touched up in word
colors that rival any artist’s effects in oils. Atmosphere abounds, and
a varied group of characters pass in gentle procession, while the thread
of the story is attached deftly to the fortunes of a little lad who had
been kidnapped and who is finally restored to his guardian. Art, the
buoyancy of youth, and love mingle in idyllic unity.
* * * * *
“The lack of interest and vivacity dulls an otherwise good story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09.
“It is an entertaining, wayward, ingenious little tale, written with a
spontaneity of feeling that gives it a good deal of charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 170w.
=Eaton, Walter Prichard, and Underhill, Elise Morris.=^{[6]} Runaway
place. $1.25. Holt.
9–14514.
A May idyl of Manhattan written by a former dramatic critic of the New
York Sun. A man out of work and an unknown maid on a vacation meet in
Central Park. They waive the formality of an introduction. In this
Run-a-way place in the heart of town they meet day after day. Their
fairy fancies, whims and childhood spirit of play are tempered with wise
grown-up philosophy. They frolic, reason and make love, and chase the
bird of happiness to cover; while once possessing it they march away
touched by the spirit of Victory who with wings agleam leads General
Sherman triumphant down the avenue.
* * * * *
“A pretty, whimsical tale, for educated readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09. ✠
“Self-conscious, over-literary, and curiously inartistic medley.”
− =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 260w.
“Fresh little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
=Echoes= from the Oxford magazine. (Oxford lib. of prose and poetry.)
*90c. Oxford.
“Printed from the second (1890) edition. It is a book of academic humor
at its best, a worthy continuation of Calverley, a rich and fine growth
which has never taken root on this side of the Atlantic, though Dr.
Holmes sometimes came close to it. Some of the best pieces in this
collection are parodies of Tennyson and Swinburne and others by Q. (Mr.
Quiller-Couch), a clever skit on ‘The art of bowling’ written as a
Socratic dialogue by C. T.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“All the pieces are so good that there is little choice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 651. D. 31, ’08. 120w.
“The merit of their work lies almost entirely in its high spirits: it
would be impossible to find a book of verses more obviously and
delightfully youthful.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 305. F. 20, ’09. 270w.
=Eckard, —, and Naundorff, Charles-Louis.=^{[6]} King who never
reigned; being memoirs upon Louis XVII; with a preface by Jules
Lemaitre, together with introd. and notes by Maurice Vitrac and
Arnould Galopin, to which is added Joseph Turquan’s “New light upon
the fate of Louis XVII.” *$3.50. McBride, J:
The first part of these memoirs is the Royalist Eckard’s of the
Dauphin’s brief life, his captivity and death; the second contains the
“revelations” of the pretender, Charles-Louis Naundorff, who in the
early nineteenth century claimed to be the Dauphin and to have been
rescued from the Temple by certain royalists; the third, “New light upon
the fate of Louis XVII,” by Joseph Turquan, contains a new theory
concerning the mystery and death of the Dauphin.
* * * * *
“It would seem that M. Turquan’s evidences are somewhat scanty to cover
so considerable an extent of territory. The book, however, has interest
and value as an epitome of a famous historic controversy.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 102. Ag. 16, ’09. 200w.
“This work, like those that have gone before it, will simply have the
effect of proving that it is useless to expect any complete revelation
of the truth concerning, perhaps, the most poignant episode of the Reign
of Terror.”
− =Nation.= 89: 187. Ag. 26, ’09. 850w.
“These fragments have been arranged and annotated by the compilers in a
thoroughly scholarly and unprejudiced manner, and the translation is
particularly good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 349. Je. 5, ’09. 1250w.
+ =Spec.= 102: 135. Ja. 23, ’09. 150w.
=Edgar, Madalen G.= Treasury of verse for little children. $2.50.
Crowell.
An anthology of verse for children with sympathetic illustrations in
black and white. “Its range is wide, including on its serious side
Tennyson, Blake, Stevenson, and George MacDonald, and on its humorous,
Edward Lear and Judge Parry; while Dr. Watts and Miss Jane Taylor are
present, we presume for the due pointing of morals.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“An admirable selection, and should be of real value in suggesting early
to the infant mind a taste for what is good in verse.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 120w.
“The main fault we find is that too many pieces of inconspicuous merit
have been included, the places of which might well have been filled with
better things. A book that is on the whole well arranged and admirably
produced.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1470. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 253. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The inclusions are somewhat strange, showing the compiler more an
editor, with personal taste for poetry, than a born anthologist.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 80w.
“Containing a goodly number of remarkably well-chosen selections.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“An admirable gift-book for young children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 12. D. 12, ’08. 50w.
=Edgcumbe, Richard.=^{[12]} Byron: the last phase. *$3. Scribner.
A book that stirs up once more the muddy deeps of Byron’s nature. “The
book falls into two parts, the first of which describes his last days in
Italy and Greece, and the second discusses the eternal question of his
relations with his wife. Most readers will share our preference for the
former section, which, indeed, casts much new light upon the most heroic
part of an amazing career.... Mr. Edgcumbe traces every detail of these
last days, and his chapters are a worthy contribution to that true and
final Life of Byron which still remains to be written.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“We regard [the first part] of Mr. Edgcumbe’s work as a thoroughly
desirable addition to the Byronic literature. Of the second section of
his book, one must speak more cautiously.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 433. N. 4, ’09. 850w.
“We suggest that he republish his book with the second portion omitted.
The first portion—that dealing with Byron’s last days at Missolonghi—is
at any rate quite harmless, if it is not quite necessary.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 569. N. 6, ’09. 650w.
“Mr. Edgcumbe’s book, whether or not we accept all his conclusions, is
one of great interest for all students of Byron. It is the work of a
genuine expert who knows the period intimately, and who, further, has
the right discriminating admiration for his subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 645. O. 23, ’09. 1700w.
=Edwards, George Wharton.=^{[12]} Holland of to-day. **$6. Moffat.
9–25808.
“More like an ampler and glorified Baedeker reads ‘Holland of to-day,’
written and pictured by Mr. George Wharton Edwards. The tone is less
personal and intimate, and the material is largely a collection and
abstract from other books. There is more categorical information and
less of real knowledge; more facts for the intending traveller and far
less lure to take him thither. Yet though its method is mistaken—since
it is not a book which one can carry in his pocket or even in his
trunk—it does not love its subject less.” (Bookm.) “The plates are not
mere illustrations,—they are pictures, each a thing of beauty, and
altogether setting forth a view of Holland which is striking,
individual, inviting, and impressive.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Both text and illustrations show appreciation and an eye for the
picturesque, but are occasionally at fault in matters of detail.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 114. D. ’09.
“Nor, in the list of this season’s beautiful ones are the pictures
conspicuously successful. They seem a little dry and lacking in range
and grip. Like the book, they are full of information, but they do not
make you long to pack your traps.” Algernon Tassin.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 348. D. ’09. 450w.
“Considered as a picture book, this deserves to be one of the most
successful of the season’s output. The text is a confused and confusing
mass of detail, the interesting parts jostling the commonplace, the
arrangement illogical, a point of view fatally lacking, the effect
incoherent.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 460. D. 1, ’09. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
“The text consists of a substratum of Baedeker with a fairly plentiful
covering of sympathetic personal observation.”