“The author has endeavored to present such information as will enable
readers who have a knowledge of the elementary facts of electricity and
magnetism to follow intelligently the practical development of the
subject, and fit them for the study of more advanced works. Purely
historical matter has been omitted as far as possible, and the
mathematical reasoning introduced is limited to the use of simple
operations and expressions.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 58. Ja. ’09. 200w.
=Engin. N.= 61: sup. 27. Mr. 18, ’09. 500w.
“The majority of those who are engaged or who seek engagement in this
work are hardly to be expected to have any desire to pursue its study
into its more difficult theoretical parts; to such the present volume
will prove an adequate guide. To others it will serve as a useful
introduction to its more comprehensive predecessor.” Maurice Solomon.
+ =Nature.= 80: 65. Mr. 18, ’09. 380w.
“Besides its uses as a hand-book for operators and an introduction to
the more advanced treatises for students, the manual will serve as a
valuable supplement to the author’s ‘Principles of electric wave
telegraphy’ until a new edition of the larger work shall become
necessary.” G. W. Nasmyth.
+ =Phys. R.= 29: 88. Jl. ’09. 350w.
=Fletcher, Charles R. L.=^{[5]} Historical portraits: Richard II to
Henry Wriothesley, 1400–1600; The lives by C. R. L. Fletcher; The
portraits chosen by Emery Walker; with an introd. on the history of
portraiture in England. *$2.90. Oxford.
9–24668.
A collection of one hundred and three biographies. “This volume, like
all previous works of the kind, begins with Richard II, for the
sufficient reason that portrait-painting was practically unknown in
England before the opening of the fifteenth century. It is interesting
here to trace the development of the art, from faces that to our eyes
seem conventional and without much individuality, down to Holbein, who
is the dominant artist of the collection.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Of the arrangement of the portraits, however, some criticism can fairly
be made. The written accompaniment to the illustrations falls much below
the selection of portraits in scholarly characteristics.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 121. O. ’09. 600w.
“The lives are brief but sufficient.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 394. Ap. 15, ’09. 200w.
“It is in every way a most interesting book. We venture, however, to
differ from the statement which makes Queen Mary wholly responsible for
the persecutions of her reign.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Harvest moon. $1.50. McBride, J:
A story set in Yorkshire which deals with illicit love, the penalty, and
the development of the wronged woman amid tribulation.
* * * * *
“This is a well-written novel pitched in a minor key.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 90. Ja. ’09. 170w.
“The story is told with delicacy, but a false note is struck at the
reunion of the parents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 220w.
=Flete, John.=^{[11]} History of Westminster abbey; ed. by J. A.
Robinson. (Notes and documents relating to Westminster abbey, v. 2.)
*$2. Putnam.
9–22201.
“Flete, who was the only mediæval writer to attempt a history of the
Abbey, was a monk of the house from 1420 to 1465.... A trustworthy text
of the old monk’s history has now for the first time been put forth by
Dean Robinson. He makes no profession of annotating the text, but he
supplies some useful introductory remarks on the growth of the legend of
the consecration of the church by St. Peter (in the spirit); the
authenticity of certain of the royal charters and papal bulls; the
relics and indulgences; the effigies of the Norman abbots; and the
ancient tapestries of the choir. An attempt has also been made to
correct Flete’s obvious inaccuracies in the chronology of the
abbots.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“From an historical point of view the most valuable of the present
manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 432. O. 9. 250w.
“The task by which he has laid under obligation every student of the
history of the abbey is the edition of Flete’s history, which forms the
volume before us.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 112. Jl. 24, ’09. 280w.
=Flexner, Abraham.= American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 287. D. ’08.
“Mr. Flexner has done well to call attention to these problems in
college life, although there may be some justifiable doubt as to the
value of suggestions given by a man who has not been a college teacher
himself. These problems need discussion and this volume has the merit of
stating the issue in a manner both clear and interesting.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 456. Mr. ’09. 230w.
“We hope every one actively interested in American educational
institutions will read this book.” F. W. Collier.
+ =Arena.= 41: 86. Ja. ’09. 540w.
“If Mr. Flexner was aware of this [an error], then his reasoning is
decidedly disingenuous. If, on the other hand, he was not aware of it,
then why on earth had he the presumption to write a book on the subject
of the American college?” H. T. Peck.
− =Bookm.= 28: 592. F. ’09. 220w.
“The whole forms an admirable and timely criticism of an important
factor in the American problem, and one upon which a good deal more
remains to be said and to be thought and done.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 23. Ja. 1, ’09. 400w.
“The book before us is, so far as we recall, the most keen and searching
analysis of the actual present status of our educational system that has
anywhere appeared.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 760w.
“This book is a real contribution to the subject. Mr. Flexner is
iconoclastic, and yet at the same time constructive and his book will
find a response in the minds of many who have given careful thought to
the situation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 360w.
“Mr. Flexner’s over-coloring of the picture may be well excused if it
shall rouse college authorities out of a lazy satisfaction with
inadequate results.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 629. D. 24. ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 233. Ap. 10, ’09. 900w.
“This is a book whose significance is not grasped at a cursory reading;
it invites close analysis, and though the first impression is distinctly
pessimistic, there is disclosed in its pages an abundant idealism
despite the unsparing criticism of college shortcomings.” Julius Sachs.
+ =School R.= 17: 274. Ap. ’09. 840w.
=Floy, Henry.=^{[6]} High-tension underground electric cables; a
practical treatise for engineers. $2. Electrical pub. co.
9–9542.
“Mr. Floy has built up this book from a series of papers contributed to
the ‘Electric world’ in the fall of 1908. The book summarizes experience
and gives data based on the practice of many engineers who have been
responsible for the installation and maintenance of high-tension
underground, power-transmission lines. The argument of the book is that
service by cable is more reliable than by aerial conductors and that the
cost is often so low as to make the installation of cables economical in
many locations where they are not demanded.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 543. My. ’09. 200w.
“The book is clearly written and well arranged.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 440w.
=Fluegel, Maurice.=^{[7]} Humanity, benevolence and charity
legislation of the Pentateuch and the Talmud. *$2. H. Fluegel & co.,
Baltimore, Md.
8–21636.
Aims to prove the originality of the Mosaic laws and their superiority,
social and economic, over those of the Hammurabi code.
* * * * *
“The book would be more convincing if it were less declamatory, and if
the author had not attempted to strengthen his position by blaming and
accusing those who think differently. The book suffers, also, from
prolixity. In spite of these and other defects, those portions of the
book which treat of the purely economic teachings of the Hebrews are of
value and will be found useful to the student of economics. The reader
gets an impression of a book written in haste, to order and piece-meal,
and there are errors which cannot be explained by carelessness alone.”
F. F. Rosenblatt.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 145. Mr. ’09. 800w.
“We have taken a few points in which our author’s statements seem
doubtful, but we wish to give the heartiest welcome to his book.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 784. My. 15, ’09. 380w.
=Flynt, Joseph.= My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2.
Outing pub.
8–30135.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 457. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“Looked at as an extraordinarily interesting story of an extraordinary
man,—a born tramp and wanderer, the book is well worth while.” L. E.
Palmer.
+ =Char.= 21: 992. F. 20, ’09. 550w.
“The book answers many of the questions that his other works inevitably
raise, and it rounds out a unique character and a unique
accomplishment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 219. F. 6, ’09. 450w.
“The value of his work is in the clear, unrefracted light which it
sheds, not over civilization on a romantic truancy, but over
civilization going quietly, furtively to the dogs.” S. P. Sherman.
+ =Nation.= 88: 188. F. 25, ’09. 3300w.
“Nothing, seemingly, is exaggerated, and naught set down in malice—even
against himself.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 496. Ja. ’09. 530w.
=Foltz, El Bie Kean.= Federal civil service as a career: a manual for
applicants for positions and those in the civil service of the
nation. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–7065.
A manual on the workings of the governmental machinery for the use of
young men aspiring to Federal civil service appointments, for the holder
of such positions, for the educator and for the citizen. It deals with
government organization, government business methods, the merit system,
preparation, examination, appointment, salaries, opportunities, the
nation’s problems, government service as a career and as a stepping
stone, faults and ethics, women in government service, and the college
graduate in public life.
* * * * *
“A useful manual presenting the general subject in a practical, concise
manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 103. Ap. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 181. Jl. ’09. 170w.
“All through the volume on its ‘higher side,’ Mr. Foltz falls short. He
gives no adequate account of the newer fields of public service and how
to reach them as e.g., the consular service; and his conception of the
real meaning and duty of public life is vague. Yet the book is useful
and need not be despised.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 276. S. ’09. 650w.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 315. O. ’09. 50w.
“It contains a multitude of pertinent facts, concisely stated and
arranged with a view to practical use.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 542. My. ’09. 140w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 91. Jl. 8, ’09. 260w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 653. N. ’09. 70w.
“The style is marred by journalistic fustian.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 99. Jl. 29, ’09. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 274. My. 1, ’09. 240w.
“To all who are seeking admission to the federal service this book will
prove a useful manual. It states in a readable way the essential facts
an applicant for any kind of Washington clerkship most needs to know,
and even after the appointment is secured the appointee will find many
of the chapters helpful in beginning his work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 200w.
=Folwell, William Watts.= Minnesota the North star state. (American
commonwealths.) *$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The frequent use of slang phrases is not commendable, though they lend
a sort of raciness to the style that will doubtless be pleasing to many.
The conspicuous use of uncommon words and phrases is suggestive of a
certain staginess that is not a usual accompaniment of serious
scholarship. There is no bibliography. Anyone who reads this little book
with care will have a fairly good understanding of the history of
Minnesota. Although without confirmation elsewhere one cannot be quite
sure just how much is fact and how much fiction, yet, in the main, it
seems to be trustworthy.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 631. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“Not only the most concise, but the most complete history of Minnesota
that has yet been written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 11. Ja. ’09.
“The history and development of Minnesota may be taken as typical of the
Northwest, and the volume has for this reason a general interest that is
added to the intrinsic interest of the story. The book has been
carefully and skilfully written.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 115. F. 16, ’09. 350w.
“It is at best but a disconnected chronicle, made somewhat less
interesting than might have been the case by the author’s failure to
discover any organic unity in the state’s progress and by his inability
to clothe his facts in attractive and graceful style.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 214. S. 2, ’09. 430w.
“It is the best written book on the subject, and is the most
trustworthy. Through it all runs a stern and healthy morality,
characteristic of the man. His comments on public men and measures are
open and fearless. The book, within the limitations set by the series,
is satisfactory and entirely commendable.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 557. S. ’09. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 124. Ja. ’09. 80w.
=Folwell, William Watts.=^{[12]} University addresses. *$1. Wilson, H.
W.
A volume containing four important addresses delivered by Dr. Folwell,
the first president of Minnesota’s university. The first, “Inaugural
address,” was delivered in 1869 to commemorate the foundation of the
University in Minnesota; the second, “The Minnesota plan,” was the
principal address made before the National educational association held
in Minneapolis in 1875; the third, “The secularization of education,”
addressed to the National educational association in Saratoga in 1882,
is a counter argument to check the sentiment of those days that
institutions were “Godless” and “infidel”; the fourth, “The civic
education,” was delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1884.
=Forbes, George.=^{[12]} History of astronomy. (History of the
sciences.) **75c. Putnam.
9–29873.
A new volume in a series that aims to present for the information of the
general public a historic record of the great divisions of science. This
pocket history is not a treatise on practical or theoretical astronomy,
neither a complete descriptive astronomy nor a book on speculative
astronomy. It is “an attempt to trace the evolution of intellectual
thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising
the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit
even to the ancients.”
=Ford, Julia Ellsworth.=^{[12]} Simeon Solomon; an appreciation. F: F.
Sherman, 42 W. 39th st., N. Y.
9–29393.
An appreciation of Simeon Solomon, a contemporary of Rossetti, Swinburne
and Burne-Jones with twenty-three reproductions of his drawings and a
partial list of his works. “The wonderful promise of his early work was
never fulfilled; the same vivid imagination that marks his drawings
became, in his daily life, a restless fancy that led him into all sorts
of dissipation, wrecked his friendships, and brought his career to a
tragic close.... Except possibly in a dominant note of sadness, the
artist’s marred life does not in any way affect his work, which suggests
that of Burne-Jones, at the same time that it is strongly original.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“Both the drawings and the poem will well repay the attention which Mrs.
Ford asks for them, and which her competent criticism and
well-proportioned exposition do much to focus.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 300w.
=Ind.= 67: 984. O. 28, ’09. 210w.
=Ford, Sewell.=^{[5]} Cherub Devine. $1.50. Kennerley.
9–10791.
There is a strain of Shorty McCabe in Mr. Ford’s new hero. He has been
toned down to prove fit, questionably so at times, to mingle with
aristocrats. He finally wins a countess after various adventures that
reveal the sturdy qualities that had stood him in good stead thru the
many vicissitudes from errand boy to Wall Street magnate.
* * * * *
“A cheerful and extravagant tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09.
“Mr. Ford has made this unique situation quite plausible, and out of it
has woven a string of amusing developments. In the humor of caricature,
of both character and situation, he has a genuine gift, to which he
gives free play in this entertaining story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 275. My. 1, ’09. 170w.
“The story as a whole is clean, clever, and bubbling with humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
=Ford, Sewell.=^{[12]} Honk, Honk!! Shorty McCabe at the wheel. 50c.
Kennerley.
In which Shorty McCabe is heard to say to his wife after her remark that
it is a pity that he can’t run a car: “Yes, or play the zither, or walk
a slack wire. And think how handy I’d be around the house if I’d added
practical plumbin’ and shoe cobblin’ to my other accomplishments.” Then
unexpectedly he is persuaded to try his hand at being his own “shuffer”;
with what success, these brief chapters relate.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 760. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
=Forder, Archibald.=^{[11]} Ventures among the Arabs, in desert, tent,
and town. *$1. Gospel pub. house.
The narrative of the experiences of a missionary among the Ishmaelites
of Moab, Edom, and Arabia. “The purpose of his book, he says, is to
arouse interest in the Arabians that shall result in more vigorous
efforts to make them a Christian people. He holds that their greatest
need is to be freed from the bonds of Mohammedism, which, in his view,
contains nothing that is ennobling or helpful to social or domestic
life.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is a stirring narrative yet told with becoming modesty.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 604. S. 9, ’09. 250w.
“A readable story of his experiences in desert, town, and tent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 230w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.=^{[8]} Jason: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
9–13923.
A Paris setting is chosen for this tale of modern chivalry. The Jason in
question is a marquis descended from noted French ancestors, a man
admired of women and respected of men. For the love of a beautiful woman
he starts out upon the quest of finding her brother who had suddenly
dropped from the face of his Paris world and concerning whose welfare
grave fears possessed his family. Treachery and foul play attend his
quest—a medley of happenings in which the boy is rescued and at the end
of which Jason finds that the “one woman” is fickle and that one
superior to her makes the discovery less poignant.
* * * * *
“Without distinction either in plot or workmanship, but will interest
the average novel reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09.
“This pleasant novel, which, though it once or twice touches the fringe
of the demi-monde, is a clean and clever story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 101. O. ’09. 350w.
“It is an intensely Parisian story, written by one who knows intimately
and loves deeply the cheerful City of Light.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 200w.
“Very readable, an admirable bit for a hammock and a lazy day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 280w.
=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Essentials in civil government: a text-book
for use in schools. *60c. Am. bk.
9–14831.
A book valuable in starting pupils “at the top of the grammar school and
at the bottom of the high school” on the road to good citizenship. Its
aim is less to teach facts than “to establish political ideals and to
indoctrinate in notions of civic morality.”
* * * * *
“A very simple, straightforward introduction to the study of civil
government.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 99. Je. ’09. 20w.
=Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 40w.
=Forrest, George William.=^{[8]} Life of Field-Marshal Sir Neville
Chamberlain. *18s. Blackwood, London.
9–29613.
Aims not “to lay before the public a series of private correspondence
connected by a thin thread of narrative, but to write a biography in the
strictest sense of the word.” It seeks to present justly a man at the
fore in English frontier expeditions and Indian mutiny “in whom was
united to a remarkable degree the burning desire to fight individually
any number of our foes, coupled with such sincere pity and compassion
for the vanquished, as we find in all records and opinions of Neville
Chamberlain’s character.” (Sat. R.) In addition Mr. Forrest has “given
us an admirable history of the First Afghan war, of the Second Sikh war,
and has told the story which never palls, the story of Delhi and its
siege.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Forrest has written a model biography of a soldier whose services
to his country have hitherto received a good deal less than their due
recognition.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 5. Jl. 3. 160w.
“It contains the most readable account of the British disasters in
Afghanistan.” Sir Evelyn Wood.
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 74. Jl. 17, ’09. 2000w.
“The book should be read both by those who in these latter days wish to
learn the secret of British rule in India, and by those, all the world
over, who love to hear of ‘mighty men and dreadful derring dooers.’”
+ =Spec.= 102: 977. Je. 19, ’09. 2000w.
=Forsslund, Louise.= Old lady number 31. †$1. Century.
9–7140.
A story full of pathos and gentle humor is this of two old people who
mortgage their small property for mining stock, lose everything, sell
their few possessions at auction, and realize enough to send the wife to
the “old ladies’” home while the husband faces the poor house. How Abe
is adopted by the “old ladies,” how he becomes “old lady number 31,” how
he deports himself to miss the sting of humiliation, and ushers in a
reign of harmony and good will in the home, how eventually the mining
stock brings modest wealth, and how they stay on at the home—is all
delightfully set down.
* * * * *
“Short story, humorous and pathetic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠
“Miss Forsslund has sacrificed much in the narrative, but always the
right things. With all this there is imported an exquisite honesty finer
than mere realism.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 419. Ap. 22, ’09. 220w.
“A quaint and curious sentimental invention. Because the pathos of the
situation is redeemed with gentle humor, and in spite of the fact that
the dialogue is couched in the dialect appropriated in fiction to the
Long Island ’longshore folk, it is not nearly so maudlin an affair as
the circumstances seem to call for.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 199. Ap. 3, ’09. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 374. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“The book might be expected to have some features of social interest. It
hasn’t.” B. L. Israels.
− =Survey.= 22: 622. Ag. 7, ’09. 30w.
=Forster, Hugh Oakeley Arnold-.=^{[8]} Military needs and military
policy; with an introd. by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts. *3s. 6d.
Smith, Elder, London.
9–14812.
Deals with the army, “but contains some references to naval matters, and
many to the need for treating the two services in a common policy. An
appendix on volunteer crews for local torpedo-boat stations is of high
value, and its proposals are applicable to certain special cases (such
as that of Jersey) which have not received sufficient consideration. A
passage in which the writer contrasts ‘British methods—naval and
military,’ might be used as a text for statesmen.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“There is a tendency in the volume which we should not notice but for
the fact that it may militate against the eventual success of those
reforming views with regard to the army to which Arnold-Forster gave the
last years of his life. The main lines of reform, as well as the details
which were his own, are, all through the book, ‘my plan.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 337. Mr. 20. 1700w.
“Generally we consider this book of great value. It places before the
public the naked truth; and we trust that in the interest of the nation
it will be widely read.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 818. Je. 26, ’09. 900w.
=Forsyth, David.=^{[10]} Children in health and disease. *$3.
Blakiston.