“As the wife of a medical missionary, Mrs. Hume-Griffith saw much of
life ‘behind the veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia’ but her book deals
with other things than the position of woman there—with religion,
material conditions of life, its comforts and discomforts, the beauties
of the land of the Sun much more than of the Lion, with manners, customs
and superstitions, and the work of the medical missionary.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Gives a remarkable insight into the lives and natures of Persian and
Arabian women.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“A most informing book, readable withal.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 150w.
“Enthusiastically wrapped up in the work of her husband, Dr.
Hume-Griffith, his wife has done well to chronicle in so effective a
manner the various phases of work and travel which she shared with him,
and she has accomplished this in the plainest and most unaffected
manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 764. My. 1, ’09. 330w.
“The illustrations are more than usually striking, being evidently drawn
from other sources than the common stock from which the traveller
ordinarily obtains his supply.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 517. My. 20, ’09. 350w.
“Her story is not altogether a new one, but it is not unimportant, for
it is the result of a very close association with the people with whom
it is concerned, and presents life-pictures which are strong and
convincing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 184. Mr. 27, ’09. 1000w.
“Any reporter could have made a better job for them. All the reality has
dropped out between the sentences here; all that must have been alive
and human and pitiful and kindly or simply comic they have left unsaid.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 414. S. ’09. 330w.
“Too little credit is given to whatever of good there is—and it is
beyond question that there is much—in the Mohammedan creed. The
suggestion is inevitable that in other matters also the book may not be
entirely impartial.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. Jl. 17, ’09. 480w.
“It is written in a light colloquial style, and is inspired throughout
with a genuine sympathy and affection for the people among whom the
author worked.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 100w.
=Huneker, James Gibbons.=^{[5]} Egoist: a book of supermen. **$1.50.
Scribner.
9–8579.
A keenly critical and analytical study of the following modern poets,
philosophers and prose writers whose works embody the individualistic
idea as opposed to altruistic and socialistic sentiments: Stendahl,
Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barres, Nietzsche,
Blake, Ibsen, Stirner and Ernest Hello.
* * * * *
“Vivid, sympathetic sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09.
“It is information which he generally conveys, and not knowledge, or
even learning. Mr. Huneker has a fair amount of common sense, and
towards the end of each essay he often makes use of it. It would have
been very much better if he had used it at the beginning, and written
entirely from his own point of view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 95. Jl. 24. 580w.
“It is perhaps inevitable that he has not entirely escaped the contagion
of his theme, and so exhibits traits both of style and thought which are
not admirable. On the side of the thought, this verbal smartness
sometimes leads Mr. Huneker to prefer cynical epigram or the clever
half-truth to genuine seriousness of statement. Nevertheless, Mr.
Huneker has made a book that is not only entertaining but helpful.” R:
Burton.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 327. My. 16, ’09. 520w.
“He is always stimulating, provocative of thought, and by virtue of this
quality, not invariably possessed by critics, he is entitled to a
distinctive place in American letters.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Forum.= 41: 600. Je. ’09. 2600w.
“This new volume of literary biographical studies has all the
characteristics of Mr. Huneker’s earlier ones; the sympathetic yet not
uncritical exposition, the ingenious interweaving of dates, references,
and book titles so that they do not interrupt or impede the flow of the
theme, the quick-witted sentences, the hints of wide reading in
unconventional fields and the abundant quotations.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 920. Ap. 29, ’09. 210w.
“His criticism is a kind of fine spray; he atomizes, rather than
anatomizes, his author. His subject diffuses in the warmth of his hand
into an impalpable vapor, instead of condensing into its more stable
elements.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 492. My. 13, ’09. 600w.
“It is a full book, with an irresistible charm for those who know about
certain kinds of literature that seem odd to Anglo-Saxon minds, and
packed with sound information, somewhat flamboyantly, but very
coherently conveyed, for those who still need to know something of the
subjects and have neither the time nor the patience to go to the
fountain head.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 196. Ap. 3, ’09. 1050w.
“It is the work of a man who knows his subject thoroughly and who writes
frankly and unconventionally, as he ought. It must be added, however,
that at times the lawless spirit of some of the men he celebrates gets
into Mr. Huneker’s style; it confuses the vocabulary of all the arts; it
sins in excess and extravagance; it is needlessly elliptical and
paradoxical.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 418. Je. 19, ’09. 800w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 764. Je. ’09. 90w.
“Mr. Huneker is induced to take an attitude to literature which is
frightfully complicated—indeed grotesque—by the modern journalist’s
passion to be the first to ‘discover’ or rediscover a genius.”
− =Sat. R.= 108; 16. Jl. 3, ’09. 1200w.
=Hunt, Caroline Louisa.= Home problems from a new standpoint. *$1.
Whitcomb & B.
8–24278.
A discussion of the responsibilities, opportunities and privileges which
for every home are increasing as it becomes a recognized factor in the
present-day social problem. Urging upon men and women simplicity in home
life, the author discusses more life for woman, for man and for the
household employee; more physical vigor; joy in mere living and beauty
for all; more pleasure for the producer of household stuff; more
conscience for the consumer; and new work for the home.
* * * * *
“A book of high ideals yet practical and suggestive along definite
lines.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08. ✠
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 459. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“The book has the virtue of brevity, and has more thought-provoking
suggestions than many much larger volumes. Nowhere have we seen the
power for good or ill of the home in relation to the social problems of
the day better revealed than in this little book.” F. W. Collier.
+ =Arena.= 41: 601. Ag. ’09. 340w.
=Hunt, Enid Leigh.= Advent of Arthur. †$2. Lippincott.
“That Joyce, aged sixteen, with a brother aged twelve or thereabouts to
look after, should have fared so well when she determines to earn her
own living may surprise us a little. But there are some fortunate
people, and for Joyce friends grew, so to speak, on every bush.
Employment comes to her with marvellous rapidity, and when she is tired
of it, then a friendly shelter which enables her to do without it. And
when the proper time comes the very perfect knight is not wanting. If
this is not like life, so much the worse for life; anyhow, it is
pleasant to read about in this prettily told story.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The youthful maturity of the heroine has a certain charm; the feeling
in the text is somewhat personal and the whole is only a shade removed
from a regular novel.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Another English story—a long and interesting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Though this is a story of common life, no one can complain that it is
wanting in the romance which the title seems to suggest.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“What was most needed, Mr. Hunt has supplied—a description of Calhoun so
clear and a judgment of him so sane that there is no room for
disagreement as to the main features. And excepting a few slips, no
positive errors have been noticed.” F: Bancroft.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 368. Ja. ’09. 650w.
“The best biography for the public library, scholarly yet popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Mr. Hunt has given an interesting interpretation of the man and the
situation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 489. Mr. 4, ’09. 100w.
“Von Holst is vastly superior in his philosophical grasp, but Hunt is
unrivalled in description and literary flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 18. Ja. 7, ’09. 660w.
“He honors the man without advocating his doctrine, and depicts the
issues of his time without prejudice but not without intelligible
interpretation.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 660w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history
of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
* * * * *
“[If] it is not the function of a critic to set up his own standard but
to ascertain the purpose of an author and to judge the performance
accordingly, [the reviewer] must, on the whole, estimate the present
work favorably.” A. L. Cross.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 141. O. ’09. 1250w. (Review of 9.)
“The whole book affords a singularly compact, clear, and
well-proportioned account of a complicated period.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 668. Je. 5. 1350w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As might have been expected from Mr. Leadam, the book is noteworthy for
its general exactness in point of detail; but there are one or two small
matters which require correction or elucidation in future editions.” L.
G. W. Legg.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 804. O. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 9.)
“Mr. Leadam is at his best unfolding the conflicts of Whigs and Tories
in Parliament and drawing on the historical mss. for material. He is
quite insufficient when it comes to the atmosphere of his period and its
personalities.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 9.)
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 9.)
“A scholarly and entrancing volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 819. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)
“Mr. Leadam has found the common difficulty of keeping the proper
proportion between unlimited material and limited space. On the whole,
however, Mr. Leadam has given us an effective picture of the period
which he describes.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 1036. Je. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 9.)
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.=^{[11]} Cave of the bottomless pool. †$1.50.
Holt.
9–27035.
This is a sequel to “Wittier Whitehead’s own story” but even those boys
who have not made Wittier’s acquaintance before will enjoy this
detective story in which he plays a leading role. The scene is a summer
camp school, and how Wittier escapes the clutches of counterfeiters, the
revenge of an ex-convict and death in the cave of the bottomless pool
forms a story filled with adventure and mystery.
* * * * *
“The incidents and plot will hold any boy’s interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 662. O. 23, ’09. 20w.
“Here is a boy detective story told in such a genuine fashion by the boy
himself that it seems ‘really true.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 80w.
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.=^{[9]} Silver canoe: the story of the secret
that had to be kept. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–22945.
A story of an errand boy in a big metropolitan department store. His
honesty is pitted against the dishonesty of one of his co-workers in the
winning of a thousand-dollar rebus-prize. Truth triumphs and dishonesty
is punished.
* * * * *
“Though the tale is a highly moral one, there is plenty of adventure and
even ‘thrill’ enough to charm any normal boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.= Witter Whitehead’s own story about a lucky
splash of whitewash, some stolen silver, and a house that wasn’t
vacant. †$1.25. Holt.
9–6843.
A story for young readers whose youthful hero, a delivery boy in a large
department store, rounds up a band of robbers. He is a sturdy,
stout-hearted boy, coping with various trying situations, championing
unjustly accused fellow employees, and ferreting out the real
scoundrels.
* * * * *
“Is told with sufficient skill to make it seem quite possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 178. Mr. 27, ’09. 140w.
=Hurd, Marian Kent, and Wilson, Jean Bingham.=^{[11]} When she came
home from college. **$1.15. Houghton.
9–28147.
Here are set down the trials of a Vassar girl during the summer
following her graduation when, in the absence of her mother, the burden
of household management falls upon her shoulders, with the accompanying
problem of keeping four young brothers and sisters satisfied and happy.
Her dearly prized theories, and her authorship ambition, suffer serious
defeats while she struggles with knotty domestic problems that in the
end teach her humanity.
* * * * *
“Over-done in its naturalness and in the enormity of the heroine’s
ignorance, but nevertheless a bright, humorous story, that can be
recommended for girls of high school age and older.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 132. D. ’09. ✠
“The librarians complain that it is difficult to supply fiction to girls
of the ‘betwixt and between age.’ Here is one book we recommend, as it
happens, there is no romance to be followed, but in spite of this there
is no lack of interest from beginning to end.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“The book contains humor and distinctive character sketching.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
=Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman=, ed. Handy Bible encyclopaedia: prepared in
simple language. $1.50. Winston.
8–23274.
“There is provided under one alphabetical arrangement: A concordance to
the Scriptures, a subject dictionary, a Biblical biography dictionary, a
Biblical geographical dictionary, a dictionary of archaic and obsolete
words that are used in the English Bible, a dictionary of Biblical
antiquities, customs, musical terms, plants, animals, and precious
stones, and several other instructive features of importance to Bible
students. The book is printed from bold face type, and is profusely
illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The work is designed for popular use, but will be found convenient by
almost any Biblical student.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 222. Mr. 4, ’09. 150w.
“Sunday school teachers and others who are accustomed to the study of
the Bible will find [this] a useful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The difficulty is that the brevity required and perhaps the demands of
extreme conservatives combine to make the information inadequate and
sometimes misleading.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 230w.
=Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: his fortunes
and adversities; tr. from the ed. of 1554 by Sir Clements Markham.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
9–5519.
Besides the translation from the 1554 edition, the volume includes a
notice of the Mendoza family, a short life of the author, a notice of
the work and some remarks on the character of Lazarillo de Tormes.
* * * * *
“But though this translation leaves so much to be desired, the
introductory matter of which we have spoken is useful, and the footnotes
that Sir Clements has appended to the text here and there are helpful in
elucidating historical and other references. The same may be said of the
indexes, and the sketch-map of the route taken by Lazarillo from
Salamanca to Toledo.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 6. Ja. 2. 2400w.
“Obviously this new version is published irrespective of easily
accessible ‘apparatus criticus.’ In its rendition of the Burgos edition
of 1554, the present edition is relatively faithful.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 361. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1007. Je. 26, ’09. 200w.
=Hussey, Eyre.=^{[6]} Polly Winford. †$1.50. Longmans.
A young Australian girl left with a fortune looks formidably upon a
visit to two maiden aunts in England. She goes to the little town
incognita, and there under the name of Polly Winford finds favor with
her relatives. “Incidentally there are some capital spirited accounts of
hunting and other open-air doings and some clever bits of
character-sketching, from the mentally deficient squire to the more or
less colourless rector, his small boy Tommy, and his domineering wife.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“One follows the chapters with a steady if quiet interest. The book will
harm nobody, and there is no reason why it should not pleasantly
entertain a great many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 160w.
“The story is fresh and bright, so readers will perhaps be less inclined
to resent the many coincidences on which the author depends for the
working out of his romance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 310w.
=Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley (Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson).=^{[10]}
Motoring in the Balkans along the highways of Dalmatia, Montenegro,
The Herzegovina, and Bosnia. **$2.75. McClurg.
9–27939.
A volume of over three hundred pages which combines geographical
instruction and historical information with descriptions of people and
scenes along the route from Trieste to the western Balkans. The chapters
parallel the pictures snapped along the route over which the reader is
hurried from one point to another enjoying the vivacious guide’s
description and comment.
* * * * *
“The whole journey is sufficiently idealized and dramatized and
disencumbered of the commonplace to make it into a very inviting book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 514. D. 16, ’09. 220w.
“The book furnishes good reading, there is so cheerful a holiday
atmosphere in its pages.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1043. N. 4, ’09. 120w.
“The value of the book would have been much increased if some account
had been given of the methods employed by the Austrian rulers in the
development of the recently annexed provinces. The book’s chief value is
to be found in the information given as to journeys, whether by motor or
by rail and diligence, through a country whose wonderful scenery and
picturesque people make it a ‘continuous delight.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 545. D. 2, ’09. 480w.
“The journey seems to have been very enjoyable from beginning to end,
and the account we get of it is graceful, vivacious, and illuminating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 705. N. 13, ’09. 180w.
=Hutchinson, Woods.= Instinct and health. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–30538.
A book that seeks its audience not among invalids but ordinary normal
individuals. The author’s statement that “it isn’t so very dangerous to
be alive” suggests a healthy, fearless cheerful attitude. He discusses
the physical necessities of the body and describes methods of securing
the greatest efficiency from it. “His knife is out for fads and
superstitions, prejudices, and the over-zealous regimen. Diets are as
apt to make dyspeptics as to help them. Pleasant things are not
inherently noxious, as our Puritanic or proverbial misconceptions lay
down, but are in the main pleasant because they are in accord with
nature; pleasure is the stamp of approval that nature gives them as
their reward.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Invigorating, entertaining talks on the work and needs of the body.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 14. Ja. ’09. ✠
“Dr. Hutchinson’s prescriptions may be freely taken, though the prudent
will add their own dose of salt.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 24. Ja. 1, ’09. 260w.
“Vegetarians and patent-breakfast-food cranks should read this work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 220. F. 6, ’09. 250w.
“Dr. Hutchinson gives considerable advice, often rather indefinite and
vague, but on the whole sound. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to
overlook what care has done for the [human] machine and to disparage
serious investigation of the conditions under which the machine works
best.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 609. D. 17, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hutchinson is not always quite fair in his statement of other
people’s theories, but that foible, of course, has no effect upon the
value of his own. And he is always stimulating in his ideas and vigorous
and entertaining in their expression.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 664. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
“One of the most readable and entertaining, if not always convincing,
books on the philosophy of health we have ever had the pleasure of
reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 90w.
=Hutchinson, Woods.=^{[12]} Preventable diseases. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–30130.
Nineteen chapters dealing with such subjects as: The body-republic and
its defense; Our legacy of health: the power of heredity in the
prevention of disease; Colds and how to catch them; Adenoids, or
mouth-breathing; Tuberculosis, a scotched snake; The natural history of
typhoid fever; Diphtheria: the modern Moloch; The Herods of our day:
scarlet fever, measles, whooping-cough; Appendicitis, or Nature’s
remnant sale; Germ-foes that follow the knife, or Death under the
finger-nail; Cancer, or Treason in the body-state; Headache: the most
useful pain in the world; Nerves and nervousness: Mental influence in
disease, or How the mind affects the body.
=Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey (Riddle) freifrau von.=^{[12]} Beechy;
or, The lordship of love. †$1.50. Stokes.
9–25818.
“The setting of much of the story is Rome, the atmosphere typically and
delightfully Italian, and Beechy herself is in reality Bice, the
familiar short form for Beatrice. If Bettina von Hutten had any purpose,
beyond that of telling the story of an interesting human life, it must
have been much the same purpose as that of Frank Danby in writing ‘The
heart of a child’—namely, to answer the question whether a woman-child,
alone in the world and brought up in the slums, can choose a stage
career and, in the face of all its trials and temptations, keep herself
unsullied.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Aside from the insincerity of the ending, this is one of the most
pleasing books that the author of ‘Pam’ has produced.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 386. D. ’09. 230w.
“Mme. von Hutten avoids the absurdities of most of those who write
novels of stage life, and makes her Beechy’s success seem at least
possible. The girl herself, with her naturalness, her lack of ability to
pose is a fascinating study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 380w.
=Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 40w.
“The histrionic temperament is not merely so uncommon as some
people—particularly those who have it—imagine, but its development in
the character of the half-Italian girl who is the heroine of the story
is sketched in with unusual understanding, sometimes entirely
sympathetic, sometimes playfully ironical.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 538. O. 30, ’09. 620w.
=Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey (Riddle) freifrau von.=^{[5]}
Kingsmead. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–5216.
The fourth “Pam” book which “introduces Tommy as a grown-up hero, while
his sister, Brigid, who fell in love, most reprehensibly, with the
picaresque violinist, is a respectable married person with a blighted
heart. As for Pam herself, she has white hair.” (N. Y. Times.) “As a
friendly, bighearted, and modest aristocrat, Earl Tommy is a favorite,
and he is well contrasted with two equally warm-hearted ‘nouveaux
riches,’ who drop their h’s, but are sweetly unselfish.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 200w.
“It is a pity that this volume, which up to a particular point contains
the best work that the author has done in several years, should all of a
sudden weaken palpably.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 190. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“Without especial nimbleness, one may find incongruities and
contradictions in abundance within the bounds of the present story.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 186. Ag. 26, ’09. 350w.
“Mme. von Hutten writes well; she has the gifts of humor and charm, and
her stories are always interesting and clever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 340w.
“The ‘dénouement’ does not strike one as probable or pleasant, and
almost spoils an amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 110w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 6: 492. Jl. ’09. 330w.
=Hutton, Edward.=^{[9]} In unknown Tuscany: with notes by William
Heywood. **$2.50. Dutton.
9–23855.
“The record of a summer passed on Monte Amiata, apparently in the very
abbey where Pius II lodged, from which the various castelli, even in the
August heat, can readily be reached, and where even ‘a German company
mining for quicksilver’ has not been able entirely to destroy the
primitive life of rural Tuscany. Incidentally it supplies some new and
vivid details concerning the part played by feudalism in the history of
the republic of Siena, based upon the researches of Zdekauer, Lisini,
Fumi, Calisse, and other distinguished local scholars whose work is
still comparatively little known in this country.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Limited in its appeal to those who know the byways of Italy and seek a
renewal of impressions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 118. D. ’09.
“Of the ways of the people of the mountains, Mr. Hutton writes in a
manner that makes the reader for the time a traveller in unknown
realms.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 234. O. 1, ’09. 300w.
=Ind.= 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 80w.
“Naturally Mr. Hutton’s business is with his own impressions of the
people and scenery—on which topics he is characteristically lyrical—and
with the historical narrative, which enlists his more sober manner. The
blend if not quite harmonious, is agreeable enough.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 160. Ag. 19, ’09. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 240w.
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 564. O. ’09. 500w.
“There are but slight blemishes in a very charming and welcome book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 140. Jl. 31, ’09. 1400w.
=Hutton, Edward.=^{[11]} Rome. *$2. Macmillan.
Mr. Hutton fills a marvelously large self-given order by interpreting to
the reader Rome, “eternal and persistent as life, as strangely various,
as mysteriously secret.” Her hills, her structures, her art treasures
and her Campagna with mountains round about, bear messages into which
the author breaths the spirit of hero worship and of poetry.
* * * * *
“A handy and attractive pocket companion for the traveller, and also
offers pleasant reading to the armchair tourist at his own fireside.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 515. D. 16, ’09. 120w.
“Numerous omissions and inaccuracies bring the work below the author’s
standard. The book is far from up to date. In short, this book should
have begun with its second edition. However, it is enthusiastically
written, and will doubtless warm the hearts of those whose Roman days
are behind them.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 577. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“It will not be a disappointment to his readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 30w.
=Hutton, Frederic Remsen.= Mechanical engineering of steam power
plants. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–27795.
The work has been entirely rewritten for this edition. “Some of the
additions which call for special notice are the treatments accorded to
the analysis of the power plant and its diagram, and the separation
between the simple and complex phases of this problem; the treatment of
the steam pipe as an element of co-ordinate importance with the boiler
and engine; the chapters on auxiliaries, the steam turbine and engine
mechanism, and the establishment of the philosophy of the expansion of
the elastic medium as the basis for the valve gear, the governor, the
condensing and the compound engine.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“While avowedly a text for the enlightenment of technical students, it
contains such a wealth of up-to-date engineering detail, admirably
expressed, that there are few who have occasion to consider the subjects
it treats of, who will not find it of real service in facilitating their
work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 53. Ja. ’09. 470w.
“Is an exceptionally complete work on steam boilers and engines.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 707. D. 19, ’08. 250w.
“On the whole the book will prove useful to anyone engaged in the study
of the problem of supplying machinery for the production of power.” R.
C. Carpenter.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 544. Ap. 2, ’09. 850w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.=^{[9]} End of the road; (English title:
Marriage of Hilary Carden.): a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–21867.
“A story of the South Africa that was before the Boer war, of the
retreat of the transport rider before the mining engineer, of the
invasion of the veldt by the railway—of the lure of the open and the
tyranny of the town—and of the coming of the white woman to the frontier
which is the province of men, whom she tempts from freedom and lures
back to the bonds they had left behind them.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A rather ordinary love story, redeemed by its dramatic and picturesque
portrayal of South African mining and transportation in pioneer days
before the war and by its sympathy with the fascination of the ‘open
road.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 120w.
“A story that is distinctly worth while.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 187. O. ’09. 570w.
“The story is well worth reading; its simple plot is effective, and its
figures and scenes have reality.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
=Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 180w.
“As vivid a picture of life in a distant land as one often finds in a
novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 510. Ag. 28, ’09. 200w.
“This story, though rather higgledy-piggledy as a novel, gives a really
interesting picture of South African conditions before and since the
Boer war.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 306. S. 30, ’09. 180w.
“The book is obviously a direct description of actuality, and the story
is really a firsthand ‘human document’ having positive value as
information and some dramatic quality also.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 70w.
“This novel is interesting as long as it deals with life in South Africa
and with the making of the country as a white man’s dominion.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 386. S. 11, ’09. 160w.
=Hyde, William De Witt.= Self-measurement: a scale of human values,
with directions for personal application. (Art of life ser.) *50c.
Huebsch.
9–9245.
The ten fundamental relations in which man stands form a scale of
self-measurement applicable to every life. These fundamental relations
are physique, work, property, pleasure, science, art, family, society,
country and religion. Dr. Hyde shows on the one hand receptive,
productive and creative benefits resulting from fulfilment, and on the
other the defective, perversive and destructive effects of violation.
* * * * *
“Presents concisely and concretely the qualities that underlie right
living and good citizenship, largely in the form of direct personal
questions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 169. Je. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 14. Ja. 9, ’09. 170w.
=Hyrst, H. W. G., pseud. (Sidney Harry Wright).= Adventures among wild
beasts. (Adventure ser.) *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–5101.
“A bulky collection of anecdotes ranging the whole world over, from the
grizzly bears of our own west to the kangaroos of Australia, and from
the walrus of the northern ice-fields to the lions of Africa.... Nearly
all the tales in this book date back to some time during the first half
of the last century or a very little later.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
“A book that any boy would be lucky to possess. The ‘adventures’
recorded not only make fascinating reading, but they teach invaluable
lessons of courage and resource.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 808. N. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Hyrst, H. W. G., pseud. (Sidney Harry Wright).=^{[12]} Adventures in
the Arctic regions. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Deals with the less famous names of Arctic travel and exploration, ‘the
men who, like the obscure craftsmen that laboured on Westminster abbey,
left behind them, not a name, but a monument.’ Among these are Samuel
Hearne, in the employ of the Hudson bay company, who for four years
prosecuted the search for a northwest passage under the most difficult
conditions; Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross the Rocky
mountains; Ferdinand Baron von Wrangel, who made his way across Siberia;
Benjamin Morrell, one of the earliest of Antarctic explorers; and
Captain Robert Macguire, who had some exciting adventures among the
Eskimos about the middle of the last century. The volume winds up with
the discovery of the Franklin relics by McClintock and Hobson.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 750. N. 27, ’09. 130w.
“Altogether, this is a most readable volume, and it leaves a pleasant
flavour, which all Arctic stories certainly do not.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 719. N. 6, ’09. 150w.
I
=Ibañez, Vincent Blasco.=^{[11]} Shadow of the cathedral: a novel; tr.
from the Spnish by Mrs. W. A. Gillespie. **$1.35. Dutton.
“The present mental and social decadence of Spain is set forth with
startling force and vividness in the pages of this book. The hero, an
idealist educated for the priesthood, abjures his faith and becomes a
revolutionary. After a life of flight, imprisonment, and torture he
comes back to the cathedral in the old, proud decadent city of Toledo
and spends his last days under the shadow of this institution, which,
with its splendor, its pride, its love of tradition, and its narrowness,
so aptly typifies the condition of modern Spain.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“A serious book this, with a most serious patriotic purpose. A book
notable also, for its descriptions of the cathedrals, its splendid past,
its obscure present, for its frank review of Spanish history as the
world sees it. A picture and a sermon, but not a clarion call.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 548. S. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mrs. Gillespie’s work is deserving of praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 550. S. 18, ’09. 380w.
“Judging by the pages we have compared, Mrs. Gillespie’s translation is
reasonably adequate, though neither inspired nor free from blunders.
Considered as a story, it must all be voted tedious. Yet one sees a
marked and significant ‘tendenz’ running through the rather poor
imitation of a story.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 380. O. 21, ’09. 450w.
“It is not often that the English-speaking world is permitted a glimpse
into the soul life of another people which is so vivid and impressive as
that given by the Spanish novelist Ibañez.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 140w.
=In= American fields and forests, by H: D. Thoreau and others.
**$1.50. Houghton.
9–13942.
A collection of representative sketches by six eminent writers on
nature: Henry D. Thoreau; John Burroughs; John Muir; Bradford Torrey;
Dallas Lore Sharp; and Olive Thorne Miller. The subjects included are
birds, beasts, frogs, and fishes; ponds, wild apples, the cow; forests
and wild flowers; strawberries and trout-fishing; and the territory
covered extends from Massachusetts to California, from the coast of
Maine to North Carolina. “The book represents both the literary outcome
and the literary inspiration of an important movement in American life.”
* * * * *
“Useful for supplementary school work and also attractive for general
circulation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.
“A good representative selection. It would have been difficult to choose
more wisely.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 46: 362. Je. 1, ’09. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 220w.
=Ingram, Eleanor Barie.=^{[10]} Game and the candle. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–28032.
Although the plot of this novel centers about the court of a nameless
mid-European empire it is not of the swash-buckling order. The villain
is kept in the background and his works merely serve to bring out more
strongly the characters of the three who share heroic honors; the regent
who is building a strong state only that he may turn it loyally over to
his cousin, the heir, when he comes of age; the young emperor who keeps
his heart true to the regent although enemies beset him with false tales
of treachery; and a young Californian who serves them both at the risk
of his own life. There is a double love story delicately handled, and
there is much political intrigue cleverly worked out. The whole is
pleasing reading for an idle hour.
* * * * *
“To be interesting is all that can be demanded of a story frankly
impossible, and this demand is met by Eleanor M. Ingram’s novel.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 724. N. 20, ’09. 250w.
=Innes, Norman.=^{[10]} Lonely guard. **$1.20. Jacobs.
Austria in 1743 under Maria Theresa is the scene of this tale of pretty
sword play, wrongs righted, and love won. A young Scotch officer in the
Austrian army is sent to Rohn on the lonely frontier to protect her
majesty’s interests. Here he finds two beautiful young countesses in
possession. The way he wins them to himself and his cause, the price
paid and the risks run, form the plot of the story which involves
numerous characters, much villainy, and many brave and gallant deeds.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 180w.
=International bureau of American republics, Washington, D. C.=^{[8]}
Chile: a handbook. $1. International bureau of American republics.
A thorogoing handbook covering the following points: Geography, area and
population, boundaries, topography, orography, hydrography, climatology,
flora and fauna; Government and constitution, citizenship, rights of
foreigners, education, judiciary, army and navy; Political divisions,
the capital, its resources, means of communication, banks, public
buildings, etc.; Provinces and territory; Agriculture, government lands,
land laws; Mining and metallurgy, mining laws; Manufacturing industries,
immigration; Commerce, imports and exports, ports, etc.; Finance and
banking; Means of communication.
* * * * *
“Packed with information and statistics.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 830. O. 7, ’09. 110w.
“The text, brief but to the point, has been thoroughly edited, and
should prove of interest not alone to persons desiring a business
knowledge of the country but to those who care to learn the vital facts
about a most interesting land, and one whose development in recent years
has been surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 250w.
“A book to be commended.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 9. S. 4, ’09. 270w.
“The work cannot fail to be very useful as a reference work to students
and those who have a commercial interest in the Southern continent.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 50w.
=International conference on state and local taxation.=^{[5]} State
and local taxation: second international conference under the
auspices of the International tax association, held at Toronto,
Ontario, October 6–9, 1908: addresses and proceedings. International
tax assn., Columbus, O.
9–6973.
A volume which contains a discussion of methods of taxation and
assessment, by officials and educators from all parts of the United
States and Canada. Problems of administration and the economic effects
of legislation are considered from different viewpoints. This volume and
that published after the foregoing conference, represent the latest
conclusions of administrators in regard to practical problems and the
best modern thought.
* * * * *
“An examination of the volume ... impresses the reader with the variety
of subjects considered, the varying degrees of excellence in the papers
and the irrelevancy of a too considerable part of the discussion. The
International tax association has given us two excellent volumes well
edited well arranged and attractively printed.” F. L. McVey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 546. S. ’09. 1000w.
=International congress of applied chemistry, 7th.=^{[8]} Rise and
progress of the British explosive industry. *$5.25. Macmillan.
“The joint product of a number of authorities on the subject which on
account of this multiple authorship does not attempt to preserve unity
of treatment. It is a series of papers, fairly consecutive, in which the
hitherto hidden stories of the development of the explosives trade are
given. The titles of the chapters, as follows, will probably give the
best idea of the contents: History of gunpowder, Researches of
gunpowder, Nitrocellulose, Nitro-glycerine, Permitted explosives,
Percussion caps, Safety fuses, Fireworks, Legislation, Bibliography and
Chronology. In the latter part of the book there are given short
descriptions of all the public and private explosives factories on the
British Isles.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 430. N. ’09. 160w.
“The history of the early days of the industry will have much of
interest even to the laity.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w.
“It is one of the finest examples of what can be done by a committee of
scientists and engineers co-operating with intelligence. As a reference
book on the history of explosives, it has a unique and permanent value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 448. O. 16, ’09. 220w.
“It hardly fulfils the expectation that its appearance arouses, for more
than half the book is occupied with bibliographical and chronological
tables and statistics of the governmental and private factories now
existing in England, useful for reference, no doubt, but unreadable.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w.
“A valuable addition to the literature of explosives.” J. S. S. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 190. Ag. 12, ’09. 930w.
“A large part of the text could have been omitted without serious loss,
yet the research student must examine it in detail. The book is a
disappointing one and most so in the matter of statistics.” C: E.
Munroe.
− + =Science=, n.s. 30: 309. S. 3, ’09. 700w.
=Irwin, Louise Godfrey.=^{[11]} Secret of Old Thunder-head. †$1.50.
Holt.
9–26808.
A story of a summer spent by a city boy and girl with cousins on a
Vermont farm. To the joys of out-of-door life are added the interest of
hidden treasure and the excitement of finding it.
=Irwin, Wallace Admar.= Letters of a Japanese schoolboy. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
9–4915.
“I am a Japanese Schoolboy age 35 years & I come to this Free Country
for some following reasons: (1) To save up money for old age; (2) To
learn so much I can; (3) To wait on table 14 hours Daily at Boarding
house of Mrs. C. W. O’Brien, honorable lady.” So the first letter opens.
There pass under his scrutiny America’s practices, tolerated evils, fads
and foibles. In his series of observations, included in some forty
letters, he touches upon such subjects as The yellow peril. Lady
suffergetts and how they do it. Hon. Niggers, was they freed by Lincoln,
Hon. Simple life among ambassadors, Hon. Modesty: is it a disease. Hon.
Gasolene, My conception of the presidency, High tariff on princes, The
servant problem, The Hon. Bomb, The Alcoholic temperance movement, and
Fall hats and the ladies inside of them.
* * * * *
“Clever, humorous, sometimes enlightening.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09.
“Their humour stands the test of continuous reading and survives the
passing events that furnished the subjects. They belong to humorous
literature as distinct from humorous journalism.” John Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 311. My. ’09. 1050w.
“The book is wholesome in tone, as well as mirth-provoking.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 270w.
“In some of the later letters the Oriental point of view is quite lost
sight of. For rapid or intermittent reading, it is not a bad book; it
will add to the wholesome laughter of the passing hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 309. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.
“Assisted by an eminent author, poor Togo lost the characteristic
naïveté and charming simplicity of his own style, and these letters of
his are burdened with words and phrases that he never dreamed of using.
This, of course, is not to deny that the book is a fine example of what
clever verbal jugglery can produce. Droll, grotesque, humorous, the book
makes us merry as we turn its pages.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 180. Mr. 27, ’09. 680w.
“Mr. Irwin knows his Japs as well as Mr. Dunne knows his ‘Mr. Dooley,’
and that is saying a great deal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 100w.
=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[12]} Confessions of a con man: as told to
Will Irwin. *$1. Huebsch.
9–21868.
A “con” man’s confessions with the value of a human document; for Mr.
Irwin takes us into his confidence and tells us that they are real
experiences of a real dweller in the underworld. The confidence man
tells how he learned to cheat at cards; how the largest profits of a
circus came from the confidence outfits and gambling games that
accompany it, how new devices are unnecessary for catching the unwary,
that three-card monte and the gold brick game are still perpetrated with
success.
* * * * *
“The con man’s revelations of his life and the tricks of his trade are
of much curious—and human—interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 600w.
=Irwin, William Henry.= Pictures of old Chinatown, by Arnold Genthe;
with texts by Will Irwin. **$1. Moffat.
8–33429.
Dr. Genthe’s fifty-six reproduced photographs making a picture record of
Chinatown as it was before the great San Francisco disaster, are
supplemented by Mr. Irwin’s word pictures, impressions and recollections
of “this bit of the mystic, suggestive East, so modified by the West
that it was neither Oriental nor yet Occidental—but just Chinatown.”
* * * * *
“The pictures are remarkable for the artistic quality of their lights
and shades, and of their composition, although the reproductions are not
of the best. Mr. Irwin’s text is decidedly readable, but the mellow haze
of memory coupled with the gift of words seem to carry him off his feet
very frequently and set him floating in a roseate mist of things that
never were.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 260w.
=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[11]} Warrior, the untamed; the story of an
imaginative press agent. †50c. Doubleday.
9–24019.
Upon the pegs of a well-nigh impossible lion story Mr. Irwin hangs some
of the trials and tribulations of the publicity member of a circus
aggregation. Warrior, the untamed, is a decrepit old lion, and he is
used in a balloon ascension and a parachute drop to advertise the show
and amuse the crowds. The comedy ends merrily in spite of a few serious
moments that threaten catastrophe.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 120w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.=^{[8]} Half a chance. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–25179.
Deals with the regeneration of a debauched but unjustly convicted man,
who tho of good New England stock, had battled from pillar to post since
childhood. In the hard school of life he had learned one lesson,—“Fight
or be beaten.” His soul’s awakening came thru the compassion of a little
English girl. The confidence and innocent faith placed in him by this
child, caused the good in his nature to take root when by shipwreck he
was saved from a convict’s exile in Australia and made an inhabitant of
a solitary island. Rescued, he returned to London and became a criminal
lawyer sharing his happiness with the girl who had been his good angel.
* * * * *
“A story of interest for its plot rather than its psychology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Ivins, William Mills.= Control of public utilities; in the form of an
annotation of the public service commission’s law of the state of
New York. *$7. Baker, Voorhis.
8–33023.
“Gives the Public service commission law of New York, together with the
text of the Interstate commerce act and the Rapid transit act of New
York, all carefully annotated, with citations of leading American cases.
The whole is a bulky volume of nearly 1200 pages, which, with its full
indexes, cross-references and judicial precedents, is itself an obvious
public utility.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“To legislators as well as lawyers, this work is of timely interest.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 170w.
“It is possible to praise Mr. Ivins’s presentation of his thesis without
assenting to his conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 790. D. 19, ’08. 1650w.
J
=Jackson, Andrew.= Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson, as told in his
writings and speeches; ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe. $2.50.
Tandy-Thomas co.
9–13909.
A collection of the writings and speeches of Andrew Jackson selected to
show every aspect of his representative statesmanship, to which have
been added an introduction, notes, chronology, bibliography and complete
analytical index.
* * * * *
“The student wishing to make a special study of Jackson will find in
this volume a handy collection of his official papers, together with
occasional comments selected from Benton’s ‘Thirty years’ view.’”
+ =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 200w.
“The eminent author of this book has done his work well and faithfully,
and we have here the best portrait and the best justification of Jackson
as a statesman and a patriot which has yet appeared.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 447. S. 18, ’09. 300w.
“It is a question of whether Prof. Thorpe’s book has by itself a
sufficient ‘raison d’être.’”
− =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
“Particular attention is directed by the professor to seven letters on
nullification which are included in his collection; we feel sure these
letters are printed now for the first time. They constitute, of course,
the item of greatest interest in the Thorpe collection, and their
publication will be very gratifying to students of American history and
biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 350. Je. 5, ’09. 800w.
=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic, the Austrian
side: The Küstenlande, Istria and Dalmatia. *$6. Dutton.
9–35521.
“Beginning with an eloquent general description of the physical
characteristics of the Austrian sea-board and of its inhabitants, Mr.
Jackson, who has supplemented his own observations by close study of the
work of his predecessors in the same field, tells in succession the
chequered story of the various districts, noting the traditions and
superstitions, customs and costumes of each, deftly weaving his personal
experiences into a narrative of unflagging interest, every section of
his text being copiously illustrated with excellent reproductions of
good photographs of streets and churches, art treasures, groups of
natives, etc., and original drawings of architectural details, the
latter from his own hand.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The style is rather dull, but in the arrangement history is agreeably
commingled with description, and much attention is paid to architecture
and archeology.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09.
“This is one of those solid undertakings which once completed, stand for
years as the absolute authority on their subject, unlikely to be
superseded, rendering, indeed, further literary exploitation of it
unlikely, except for additional discoveries and finds.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1242. Je. 3, ’09. 140w.
“Will be welcomed with enthusiasm, not only by the ordinary tourist ...
but by all who are interested in the still unsolved ethnological and
archaeological problems connected with the Küstenlande, Istria and
Dalmatia, as well as by students of architecture and the pictorial arts,
folk-lore and costume. It is, perhaps, in the descriptions of notable
buildings that the writer’s expert knowledge is most clearly revealed,
so well is the significance of every peculiarity of structure brought
out.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 335. F. ’09. 320w.
“The thread of personal narrative is barely discernible in the mass of
tediously minute historical detail which alternates with the plans of
basilicas and the enumeration of the mosaics, embroideries, chalices,
croziers, monstrances, plate, and vestments enshrined within the
cathedrals. Pictorially, Mr. Jackson’s volume is rather attractive.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 563. Je. 3, ’09. 920w.
+ =Nature.= 80: 274. My. 6, ’09. 350w.
“A useful guide to the treasures of art contained in the little towns.”
W: A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 270w.
“So far as we know, there is no single volume which comprises so much
information as does this on so many subjects in connection with these
provinces.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 70. My. 8, ’09. 240w.
“Travelers and students who are interested in that marvelous, unfamiliar
region on the east shore of the Adriatic sea will find a great deal that
is new and fascinating in Mr. Jackson’s book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 100w.
“Handsome and interesting book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 662. My. 22, ’09. 800w.
=Jackson, Rev. George.= Fact of conversion; Cole lectures for 1908.
**$1.25. Revell.
8–24446.
“This is an attempt to restate the doctrine of conversion and to
interpret it to this generation.... Can a modern man believe in
conversion? Mr. Jackson thinks so and he makes it seem so in his book.
In none of the recent valuable studies of the psychology of conversion
and of religious experience has it been so conclusively shown that
spiritual facts are as much facts as those which occur in the natural
world.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A valuable feature of the book is the estimation of his predecessors in
this line of study, Coe, Starbuck and James. The book is worthy of its
predecessors in the Cole lectureship.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 590. Mr. 18, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Jackson’s book is well worth study.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 161. Ja. 30, ’09. 150w.
=Jackson, George Leroy.=^{[12]} Development of school support in
colonial Massachusetts. (Teachers college, Columbia univ.
Contributions to education, no. 25.) $1. Teachers college.
9–18945.
A study whose aim is, first, to trace the various methods thru which the
early schools of Massachusetts were supported; and second, after partial
support by general taxation had become customary, to point out the main
causes which made general taxation the sole method of school support and
hence gave rise to the “free school”—publicly controlled and publicly
supported.
=Jackson, Samuel Travena.= Lincoln’s use of the Bible. *25c. Meth. bk.
9–2241.
“The brochure on Lincoln’s use of the Bible shows how the backwoodsman
acquired prose style which touched the people and astonished scholars, a
point worth emphasizing now the Bible is not the daily food of the
masses.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 40w.
=Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 80w.
=Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough.=^{[12]} Trial by marriage. †$1.50.
Lane.
“The hero marries a chorus-girl, who deserts him, and, by a newspaper
report of her death, convinces him that he is free to marry again. His
second marriage reintroduces him to his legal wife as a blackmailer, and
to prevent exposure and the impoverishment of his family he fabricates
evidence of suicide and lives under an assumed name, while the mother of
his children, thinking herself a widow, idealizes him for their benefit,
without regretting his absence. Her engagement to an officer in the army
causes a new situation, in which the attitude of her daughter is of much
importance. The closing note is in harmony with the idea that parents
may find unlimited compensation in filial love for their indifference to
each other.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Jackson’s new novel, though provided with a plot of studious
improbability, is not so much a work of humour as of philosophy. It
lacks momentum and magnetism, and the reader has occasionally to infer
what might have been told with advantage. The character-drawing is
generally good; and here and there we note felicities of humorous
expression.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 457. O. 16. 180w.
“A too highly seasoned novel of English life. The novel is rather
commonplace and dull.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 707. N. 13, ’09. 340w.
=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Irresolute Catherine. †$1.
Doubleday.
“The background is Welsh, and the atmosphere has an element of primitive
fierceness not lacking in charm. The heroine, a simpleminded
farm-servant, lives, and appeals to our sympathy; but, owing perhaps to
the limitations imposed by the form of the ‘shorter novel,’ we have no
clear pictures of the shepherd and the cattle-dealer who contend for her
affections. The first scene of the book, representing an open-air
meeting for the purpose of adult baptism, is one of the most
impressive.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Jacob has contrived to invest the situation with a certain
freshness.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 100w.
“The work as a whole has a restraint, compactness, and finish which mark
it for a bit of literary art, as distinguished from the amusing
catchpenny fiction of the popular book-mart.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 583. Je. 10, ’09. 170w.
“The story has not the importance which a more detailed treatment and a
better construction would have given it.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 270w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Standard Bible dictionary,
designed as a comprehensive guide to the Scriptures, embracing their
languages, literature, history, biography, manners and customs, and
their theology; ed. by Melancthon W. Jacobus, E. E. Nourse, and
Andrew C. Zenos, in association with American, British and German
scholars. *$6. Funk.
9–2531.
Complete in one volume, this dictionary, the joint work of thirty-seven
Bible scholars in America, Great Britain and Germany, is a thesaurus of
Scriptural knowledge, and a dictionary of archaeology, ethnology and
natural history combined. The typographical arrangement, the pictorial
illustrations and the valuable new maps have all been determined upon
for their points of practical value.
* * * * *
“It is made for use. It will find a large clientage to whom it will soon
come to seem indispensable.” D. A. Hayes.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 275. Ap. ’09. 700w.
“A reference work that has long been needed for smaller public libraries
that cannot afford the expensive dictionaries in several volumes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09. ✠
“The weakest feature in the treatment of the Old Testament is probably
found in the theological articles. Here the historical and comparative
method and spirit do not find free play, nor is the amount of space
assigned to these themes adequate to their prime significance.” J: M. P.
Smith and S. J. Case.
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 283. Ap. ’09. 770w.
“The editors have been diligent in securing a generally trustworthy
discussion of the topics belonging to a Bible dictionary, and in a
compact form making it useful for the Bible scholar who has no access to
more pretentious works.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 377. F. 18, ’09. 530w.
“To say nothing of the excellence of this work as a pastor’s study
handbook, it should win for itself a place in every Sunday-school
library, for it is the Bible dictionary of all in existence best suited
to that purpose. The cross references are sometimes inexact and
obscure.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 730. Ap. 24, ’09. 830w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 160w.
“Even a cursory examination of the pages of this book by a layman would
seem to bear out the modest claims of the publishers and editors.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 210w.
=Jacomb, A. E.=^{[11]} Faith of his fathers: a story of some
idealists. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–35907.
“The story deals with life in a small English manufacturing town, and
the two families who furnish most of the characters are Methodists of
the strictest and narrowest sort. The elders in the Alexander family,
especially the father, exemplify the stern and literal faith of an
earlier day. But the children are not able to fit this faith upon life
as they see and long for it. In consequence come struggle, tragedy,
heartbreak.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It makes no appeal to the average fiction reader, but as a character
study is worth while.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09.
“An interesting, if rather laborious story. The story is carefully
written, and gives a realistic, but not too highly coloured picture of a
certain class of provincial society.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 200w.
“The skill with which the dignity of the Puritan character is
cumulatively impressed upon the reader marks this story, with all its
dreariness, as a sincere and fruitful piece of interpretation.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 380. O. 21. ’09. 420w.
“The plot is managed with much skill, the inherent tragedy slowly
culminating and reaching its climax in the final lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 612. O. 16, ’09. 280w.
“The book will leave a sensation of intense dreariness on the mind of
its readers. It is written with considerable power, but the atmosphere
is of well-nigh continuous gloom, and as a work of art it decidedly
lacks the saving gift of humour.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 269. F. 13, ’09. 90w.
=James, Alice L.=^{[12]} Housekeeping for two: a practical guide for
beginners. **$1.25. Putnam.
A little volume packed with information for beginners in housekeeping in
a small way. The author’s attention has been given largely to the minute
details concerning which the young housekeeper finds no information and
is too inexperienced to settle for herself. The effort has been made to
cover ground not usually included in books on housekeeping.
=James, George Wharton.= Through Ramona’s country. **$2. Little.
8–34801.
An attempt after painstaking investigation to answer authoritatively the
question as to how much of fact and how much of fiction entered into the
story, “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 78. Mr. ’09.
“All those who have read Helen Hunt Jackson’s ‘Ramona,’ and many who
have not will find Mr. James’ book a delightful complement of that
famous novel.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 545. Jl. ’09. 200w.
“Aside from its value as a contribution to a literary discussion,
furnishes a unique description, in text and picture, of the southwest as
it is to-day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“The most interesting pages in this book are those describing the
astonishing changes that have taken place in California since Ramona’s
day.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 140. F. 11, ’09. 270w.
“Mr. James’s effort has constantly been to get at the facts upon which
Mrs. Jackson based her story. He falls short of the truth, however, in
not admitting the exceedingly romantic and idealizing point of view from
which she considered her Indian hero.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 766. D. 12, ’08. 260w.
=James, Gertie De S. Wentworth-.= Wild widow. $1.50. Empire book co.
8–17250.
“The plot is ingenious though artificial; the lady described in the
title incurs a risk of penal servitude, but, by dint of bribery and
payment to a black-mailer, maintains a position among those whose visits
and dresses are chronicled in ‘society papers.’ She is vividly
presented. The stinginess of her friend Lady Chesham is mechanically
funny, and there are many passages of smart writing.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This novel is written in a mood of bountiful optimism and by no means
straightened morality.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 693. Je. 6. 80w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 60. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.
=James, Henry.=^{[12]} Italian hours. **$7.50. Houghton.
9–29605.
“Among the two or three hundred handsomest travel books of the season
must be placed Henry James’s ‘Italian hours.’... The chapters on the
various cities were for the most part written at earlier dates (those on
Venice, for instance, go back to 1872, 1882, 1892, and 1899), but they
are now first brought together so as to give a picture of Italy as a
whole.” (Nation.) “The novelty of the present volume consists in the
fact that ‘the notes on various visits to Italy are here for the first
time exclusively placed together,’ to quote once more the preface. ‘I
have not hesitated to amend my text, expressively,’ the traveller adds.
There has, however, been little attempt to bring the chapters ‘down to
date,’ unless it be in the addition of papers recording later
impressions.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Italy is at once too simple and too complex to yield her secret
readily. Disarmed by her open heart, Mr. James thinks he has found that
secret on the first railway platform, and, deceived once, he is blind to
it when it shines before his eyes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 689. D. 4. 850w.
“The pictures much more than justify themselves as glosses of the text
by Mr. James. When the time comes to evaluate these travel-sketches of a
subtler sort, one is prompted to quote, without consciousness of malice,
one of Mr. James’s own sentences, occurring in ‘Roman neighbourhoods.’
‘The great thing in art is charm, and the great thing in charm is
spontaneity.’” W. B. Blake.
+ =Dial.= 47: 450. D. 1, ’09. 900w.
“The combination of Henry James and Joseph Pennell in ‘Italian hours’
was exceedingly happy.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1352. D. 16, ’09. 100w.
“We feel glad that the publishers have reprinted the essays in this
attractive and permanent form. The illustrations by Joseph Pennell are
exactly suited to the vague suggestiveness of the text.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 100w.
“Free from the involved ambiguity of hesitation that makes of his later
writings, such as his recent impressions of America, a task rather than
a pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 240w.
=James, Henry.=^{[10]} Julia Bride. †$1.25. Harper.
9–24962.
A remarkably analyzed situation in which a beautiful girl wakens to the
fact that she deeply loves a conservative young man whose training and
family traditions are likely to render it impossible for him to overlook
her mother’s many divorces and her own several-times-broken engagements.
She implores one of her ex-fiances to go to the new lover and explain
away her apparent fickleness and to assert her worthiness. The man uses
the opportunity for selfish social aims with the result that the girl
suffers pitiful humiliation.
* * * * *
“If he had written none of the books that appear in his bibliography
since ‘The tragic muse,’ this would be accounted a slight but
sufficiently pleasant short story.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 322. D. ’09. 260w.
“The average busy man or woman of to-day will hardly read a novel of
this sort with enthusiasm. It is too much of a psychological puzzle to
prove either instructive or entertaining.”
− =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 220w.
“There are sordid features in the story—it is not quite pleasant
reading. One feels that Mr. James is a little unsympathetic, a little
sarcastic, perhaps. It is possibly a comedy by reason of its treatment.
And, be it added, a one act comedy—merely a curtain-raiser. It will
delight Mr. James’s admirers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 613. O. 16, ’09. 370w.
“It is a piece out of life, wonderfully done, with no single detail
slurred.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 836. D. ’09. 250w.
=Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 200w.
=James, William.=^{[11]} Meaning of truth: a sequel to Pragmatism.
**$1.25. Longmans.
9–27102.
This series of articles, comprising all the work of his pen that bears
directly on the truth question, Professor James has published as a
refutation of various arguments used against Pragmatism in so far as it
has to do with defining truth. “What our critics most persistently keep
saying,” he writes, “is that though workings go with truth, yet they do
not constitute it. It is numerically additional to them, prior to them,
explanatory of them and in no wise to be explained by them.... But once
establish the proper verbal custom, let the word ‘truth’ represent the
property of the idea, cease to make it something mysteriously connected
with the object known and the path opens fair and wide, as I believe, to
the discussion of radical empiricism on its merits.”
* * * * *
“This genuine logic, the counterpart and complement of a no less genuine
psychology, affords the only ground on which Dr. James, being thoroughly
at home, can expect to bring his fight with the Rationalist school to a
finish. As it is, he skirmishes about with incomparable ingenuity, but
little practical effect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 549. N. 6. 1350w.
“The development of pragmatism by William James reads like the plea of a
skillful attorney for a criminal with every ‘prima facie’ evidence of
guilt against him.” T: V. Moore.
− =Cath. World.= 90: 341. D. ’09. 4100w.
“Prof. James’s pragmatic explanation of truth grows clearer and clearer
through the successive essays, so that the last ones are the best. Prof.
James, with all his attractive personality and his charming style, in
lecture room and in book, has the bad habit of using words and phrases
that antagonize, of giving some objectional name to a perfectly innocent
state of mind, all because of his wit and strong feeling.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 691. N. 6, ’09. 700w.
=James, William.=^{[5]} Pluralistic universe: Hibbert lectures at
Manchester college on the present situation in philosophy. **$1.50.
Longmans.
9–9478.
Eight lectures as follows: The types of philosophic thinking; Monastic
idealism; Hegel and his method; Concerning Fechner; The compounding of
consciousness; Bergson and his critique of intellectualism; The
continuity of experience; and Conclusions.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.
“We are treated to what is substantially a disquisition, on the
shortcomings of Absolutism, as compared with Pragmatism, in all
respects, though notably in respect of its failure to provide Theism
with a satisfactory foundation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 577. My. 15. 1750w.
=Cath. World.= 89: 679. Ag. ’09. 850w.
“Into this type of philosophical nicety, as into matters of artistic
technique, only the professional will care or dare to follow; and the
discerning and interested amateur, as he follows the conversation or the
exhibition with appreciation and respect, is peculiarly grateful for the
illuminating and refreshing personal touches of the expositor. The
hearers of Professor James doubtless had this advantage to a greater
extent than his readers; but the latter will be repaid for the effort to
secure an intelligent insight into the Jamesian point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 22. Jl. 1, ’09. 270w.
“The negative or critical side of the Jamesian vision contains much that
is of value. The fault I have to find with it is, that it identifies
intellect with one form of intellectualism. Of the positive side of his
method it is not easy to speak.” W. R. Sorley.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 8: 204. O. ’09. 2600w.
“Much of it will be found difficult to follow by those who are not well
read in modern philosophy and familiar with the language of the various
schools. But Professor James’s unconventional manner and touches of
personal experience render anything he writes of interest to a wide
audience.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1031. My. 13, ’09. 680w.
Reviewed by P. E. M.
+ − =Nation.= 88: 457. My. 6, ’09. 3700w.
“Perhaps the most interesting portions of the present volume are those
in which Prof. James points out the theological implications of his
metaphysical doctrines. We are not called on in this place to discuss
the absolute merits of Prof. James’s sketch of his new philosophy and
theology; its mode of presentation is more directly our concern. The
subject matter has hindered Prof. James from displaying that lucidity
and lightness with which his name is associated among students of
philosophy. Not that the present volume is without flashes of insight or
brilliancy.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 419. Jl. 3, ’09. 1700w.
“More and more it becomes clear that our author has found his own
‘métier’ in the rôle of the popular essayist in philosophy, that his
writing is dominated by the essayist’s desire to interest and surprise,
by the essayist’s concern for picturesque effect, by the essayist’s ‘art
de bien dire.’ The result is a brilliant literary effort rather than a
substantial contribution to philosophical discussion.” James Seth.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 536. S. ’09. 3200w.
“We differ profoundly on many points from the author, but we welcome any
man who can so freshly and forcibly restate world-old problems, and who
strives so valiantly to make philosophy a true lamp to the human path.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 898. Je. 5, ’09. 1700w.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
=v. 8.= Narratives of New Netherland, 1609–1664.
9–24463.
“Contains, if not all, certainly the most important of the contemporary
representations of New Netherland, from Van Meteren’s and Juet’s
accounts of Hudson’s voyage to Peter Stuyvesant’s report of the
surrender of the province, fifty-six years later. De Laet, Wassenaer, De
Vries, Father Jogues, Megapolensis, Domine Selyns—all the early
authorities are here, the editor deserving special thanks for printing
in full the ‘Privileges and exemptions for patroons, masters and private
individuals who will settle any colonies and cattle in New Netherland’
(1630), and the historic ‘Representation’ of 1650.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 216. O. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Dial.= 47: 291. O. 16, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 8.)
“Apart from its service in placing within easy reach of the student
sources of early American history which would otherwise have grown
increasingly difficult of access, the series continues to be a growing
storehouse of true romance, as our historical novelists of a decade ago
well knew.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 751. S. 30, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 8.)
“There is no gainsaying the charm that lies in such intimate accounts as
these of the way the world looked to men who ventured forth upon its
unknown face three centuries ago.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 564. S. 25, ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 8.)
=R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 70w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.=^{[9]} Henry Hudson: a brief statement of
his aims and his achievements, to which is added a newly-discovered
partial record now first published of the trial of the mutineers by
whom he and others were abandoned to their death. **75c. Harper.
9–22208.
Gives first a life that is a condensation of what has been recorded by
Hudson’s authoritative biographers, and second some fresh material in
the form of documents, until recently undiscovered and of high value in
that they exhibit the sworn testimony of six eye-witnesses who confirm
Prickett’s narrative of the Hudson mutiny.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6:42. O. ’09. ✠
“Altogether, aside from its merit of timeliness, the little book has a
real and permanent value for all admirers of the brave explorer and
great discoverer.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 763. S. 30, ’09. 200w.
“The book makes charming reading, whether one be familiar with the facts
already, or whether he approaches the subject for the first time.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 180w.
“The contemporary documents are a valuable addition to Hudson
memorabilia.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 259. S. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Mr. Janvier is at some pains to make out a case for Hudson as deserving
of the monument which fate has given him in the City of New York. He is
at pains also to spin out his book—little as it is—by going over all the
ground twice and most of it thrice and by indulging in those arguments
and speculations which are the license of the reconstructors of
history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 540. S. 11, ’09. 400w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 150w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.=^{[12]} Christmas builders. **50c.
Crowell.
9–22920.
From a protest against the frenzy of Christmas, “when the world is
embarrassed and really injured by a desire of people to be loving, and
to manifest their love by giving gifts,” the bearer of this Christmas
message moves rapidly over the way that he trod hunting for architects
and builders competent to build a Christmas great enough to satisfy and
bless a world. He knocked at the doors of all universities, went to the
palaces of kings, turned to the parliaments of the world, stole into the
study of philosophers, sought help from the aged; and all in vain.
Finally he found the answer in the heart of a child, where standing
radiant were seven angels: Wonder, Humility, Trust, Simplicity, Purity,
Joy and Affection. Thru these builders Christmas may return to old-time
ideals and cover the whole year.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 40w.
“Dr. Jefferson’s striking little book ought to be in everybody’s hands
when the day of the Nativity comes.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 763. D. 4, ’09. 230w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.=^{[9]} My father’s business: a series of
sermons to children. **$1.25. Crowell.
9–25794.
Ten simply worded sermons preached to the children of the Broadway
tabernacle. They are as follows: Line upon line; How to grow; The duty
of asking questions; The beauty of obedience; My father’s business; The
silent years; Work; The will; Honesty; Being a Christian.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 808. D. 18, ’09. 80w.
=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Children and gardens. (Country life lib.) *$2.
Scribner.
9–4186.
“The twelve chapters that go to make up the book give much advice and
useful information regarding children’s gardens and the flowers they
should grow, and of the play-house that every child must covet for its
own, together with various dissertations as to weeds and seeds, and
botany. The chapter called ‘Cowsliptime,’ with its instructions on the
making of cowslip balls, is especially attractive; and the conversion of
a snapdragon pod into the semblance of an old woman is nothing less than
the solution of a puzzling problem.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Her advice is both practical and pleasant reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 29. S. ’09.
“Will be a welcome gift to children who are fortunate enough to have
gardens of their own, while even to those who have not it should present
many points of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 18. Ja. 2. 200w.
“No better book—none so good, indeed—could be placed in the hands of the
children to whom the gardens of the future must look for care and
preservation.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.
“A strange medley of odds and ends, put together in rather a whimsical
but attractive fashion. It has a good deal of sound elementary botany,
for the most part so completely sugar-coated as to make the disguise
perfect.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 71. Ja. 21, ’09. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“No one could write a pleasanter book on a more harmless subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 120w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Life questions of high school boys. 40c. Y.
M. C. A.
8–30285.
“Makes some suggestions to young men on how to meet liberally and
manfully the problems and temptations likely to assail them during the
first years of their high school life.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Is wholly admirable and would be found exceedingly useful by parents
and teachers.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 96. Ja. ’09. 30w.
“A helpful little brochure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“A reading of the book resulted in considerable disappointment. A
skilful teacher well acquainted with boys can make some good use of it,
but such a teacher has most of the material it furnishes already in
hand. We hope that the author will undertake the same task again with
less limitations as to size of the work, precedents of publishers, etc.”
F. A. Manny.
− + =School R.= 17: 576. O. ’09. 400w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.=^{[6]} Principles of politics from the
viewpoint of the American citizen. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–10657.
The George Blumenthal lectures for 1908. “They are marked, as were the
lectures of Dr. Shaw and of President Wilson, by intense practicality
and by a host of concrete illustrations and of applications of political
principles. This fact is itself worthy of notice, for it indicates how
wide of the truth is the crude generalization that asserts a lack of
practical knowledge on the part of academic students and teachers of
political subjects.” (Educ. R.)
* * * * *
“Too general to be of great value to the close student.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.
“This book of Professor Jenks deserves a place in every collection of
books on contemporary politics.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 96. Je. ’09. 200w.
=Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 110w.
“The book was written in haste, and the reader suffers who peruses it at
leisure.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 119. Ag. 5, ’09. 280w.
“This lucid and interesting volume both readable and instructive to the
man of fifty, gives a clear idea of the need of taxation and takes away
some of its bitter taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 108. My. 15, ’09. 150w.
“To the student of political science the lectures contain little that is
unfamiliar. For the popular audience for which they are intended they
are valuable as the contribution of a man of wide experience and sound
judgment in the matters with which he deals.” T: R. Powell.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 525. S. ’09. 420w.
“While the theoretical basis of his lectures is sound and
well-considered the real value of his conclusions comes from the fact
that they have been tested in actual life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 140w.
=Jenks, Tudor.=^{[9]} Book of famous sieges. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–23997.
Treats the following typical sieges and shows the various methods of
taking cities from the beginning of history to our times: Troy, Babylon,
Platæa, Tyre, Saguntum, Syracuse, Alesia, Jerusalem, Constantinople, 717
A. D., Paris, Antioch, Orleans, Fall of Constantinople, Rhodes,
Gibraltar, Antwerp, Vicksburg, Paris, and Port Arthur.
* * * * *
“The accounts are necessarily very sketchy, and the style is rather
perfunctory and spiritless, but the book will be useful for boys who are
interested in the development of modern welfare.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 137. D. ’09.
“It is a genuine pleasure to come upon such a clear, forceful style,
simple enough for a boy of twelve, yet highly interesting to mature
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 130w.
=Jenks, Tudor.=^{[9]} When America won liberty; Patriots and
Royalists. **$1.25. Crowell.
9–24275.
A companion volume to the author’s “When America was new.” It begins
with the establishing of the colonies and their main communities and
tells the story of how the nations of the old world came into conflict
on the new continent and how, when the struggle was reduced to a contest
between the French and English, the English gained the leadership and
took possession of the principal colonies along the Atlantic coast.
* * * * *
“This is a worthy departure from the stereotyped school history.” M. J.
Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1364. D. 16, ’09. 110w.
“When his series is completed, he will have executed a compact and
agreeably told account of the building of a nation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 180w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 60w.
=Jepson, Edgar.=^{[12]} Arsène Lupin; from the play by Maurice Leblanc
and Francis de Croisset. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–28119.
Novelized from the play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, this
story follows the daring adventures of Lupin, the brilliant, the
mysterious gentleman-burglar who hides his own identity under a title
and woos a wealthy American’s daughter in Paris only for the access it
affords to objects which he may steal with little chance of discovery.
Finally, when he is under suspicion and is at the point of being caught,
the curtain rings down upon his escape. Like Raffles, he possesses a
strange magic that foils apprehension.
* * * * *
“The translation is easy and dramatic, and the whole offers excellent
entertainment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 122. Jl. 31. 110w.
“Arsene is still the same brilliant, charming, uncannily clever person,
while the other characters, by reason of the more detailed treatment are
better rounded and more lifelike.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 260w.
“It is most entertaining, lively, and unexpected; a book of the moment,
but a very clever one.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 90w.
=Jerome, Jerome Klapka.= Passing of the third floor back. †$1. Dodd.
8–30014.
Six stories as follows: Passing of the third floor back; The
philosopher’s joke; The soul of Nicholas Snyders, or, The miser of
Zandam; Mrs. Korner sins her mercies; The cost of kindness; and The love
of Ulrich Nebendahl.
* * * * *
“Most of the stories have a sentiment and delicacy, also a seriousness
of thought, that place them in a different class from Mr. Jerome’s
humorous volumes. They will interest educated readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 24. Ja. ’09.
“Out of these half dozen short stories the one that gives its title to
the book is without doubt the best—in fact, is the one that is most
worthy of its author. Even in this the moral seems rather transitory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.
“The book as a whole strikes strangely. It seems the work of a man of
great cleverness, some fancy, and a shrewd humour; but one who has never
tried his hardest to find out what is in him, and who speaks too often
easily from the surface through ignorance or fear of what the depths may
contain. We believe that the depths are there.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 330w.
“The other stories of the book are of no especial distinction, but these
that we have cited will suffice to endear it to those who have wished to
go deeper than laughter with this modern master of fooling.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 300w.
=Jerome, Jerome Klapka.=^{[12]} They and I. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24947.
“Mr. Jerome makes plenty of amusement out of the adventures of a
middle-aged father and his family. His method is something like Mark
Twain’s, and he manages to hit off with skill some of the trials which
beset the ordinary man in the course of selecting a house, losing his
way in the dark, satisfying his wife’s demands, &c. The difficulties of
the literary man in search of truthful detail are also lightly touched
on.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This book is presented to us as a maturer ‘Three men in a boat,’ and
being in the same vein, it shows a distinct advance in taste and style.
All is easily told, and we merely object to the attribution of some of
Browning’s best-known lines to Swinburne. If an author is to rise early
to get a sunrise described properly, he might as well go to a book to
verify his quotations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
“Very amusing.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 750. N. 6, ’09. 30w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.=^{[12]} Highways and byways in Middlesex.
(Highways and byways ser.) *$2. Macmillan.
9–29191.
“Middlesex, the ‘homeliest of the home counties,’ as Mr. Jerrold aptly
calls it, never could lay claim to much natural beauty, and can do so
still less now when such orchards, pastures and other rural amenities as
it possesses, are fast being invaded by the speculative builder and
converted into suburbs. Still, for its shortcomings in this respect
ample compensation is afforded by its associations with notable
personages and great events, and herein, as the author justly points
out, the country can claim its strongest individuality. Into these old
associations Mr. Jerrold has delved with good effect.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“A volume abounding in interest. Of the sketches which Mr. Thomson has
contributed—one hundred and twenty odd in number—we may say that they
are among the best we have seen from his pencil; the point of view is
always selected with judgment, and actuality is achieved without any
superfluity of detail.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Jerrold has done his work with admirable industry and diligence.
Novelty in such a subject is almost impossible—the expert, indeed, is
wearied by the repetition of familiar matter—but the various points of
interest for which we have looked are generally well taken up. In church
architecture alone Mr. Jerrold disappoints us, omitting noteworthy
details, though he is particularly strong on mortuary inscriptions.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. N. 13, ’09. 1600w.
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 925. D. 4, ’09. 220w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.=^{[6]} Thomas Hood: his life and times.
*$5. Lane.
8–21534.
An entertaining and informing book on Hood the man, poet, and humorist.
It brings to light new material including hitherto unpublished letters
among which are several from Lamb. “Mr. Jerrold’s book is deserving of
high praise; it is conscientious as to facts, it contains a wealth of
material, and it presents a most human and satisfying portrait of the
lovable, witty Hood.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book is sufficiently entertaining for a popular biography, always
accurate and, though not complete in the fullest sense of the term,
contains enough material old and new to serve as the standard reference
life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.
“If Mr. Jerrold is not always impeccable in his handling of literary
matters, he does full justice to the human, domestic, and social sides
of his subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 441. Ap. 11. 2300w.
“Accuracy seems usually to have been attained. Completeness in the
fullest measure has not. This life of Hood will properly go to its place
upon many library shelves as the standard reference book for an author
whose fame, though small, is constant. It is trustworthy, and it
contains much not elsewhere to be found.” H: S. Canby.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 43. Jl. 16, ’09. 1250w.
“The biography is the result of honest painstaking, and has the solid
merit of correcting traditional errors and of offering a considerable
amount of new material.” P. E. M.
+ =Nation.= 89: 179. Ag. 26, ’09. 3200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 301. My. 15, ’09. 1900w.
“Mr. Jerrold has done his work in a thorough and conscientious way. He
has spared no pains to sift all the available material, and has probably
written the best account of Hood there is.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 750w.
=Jervey, Theodore Dehon.=^{[8]} Robert Y. Hayne and his times. *$3.
Macmillan.
9–12869.
“A misunderstood statesman—that is the burden of Theodore D. Jervey’s
book about Robert Y. Hayne, and his effort is toward the clearing away
of the misunderstanding and the creation of an understanding of the real
Hayne.” (N. Y. Times.) It is maintained that “from the very beginning of
his service in the Senate and throughout the nullification debates Hayne
was the undisputed leader of his faction, while Clay succeeded Webster
as the leader of the opposing faction, the Protectionists.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“An excellent piece of historical biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 76. N. ’09.
“The author has made good use of source material, some of which, such as
contemporary newspapers, is not readily accessible. But in the matter of
construction, his work is not above criticism. Perhaps a more serious
criticism is that he has attempted to delineate a national hero in a
setting almost entirely local.” D: Y. Thomas.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 94. Ag. 16, ’09. 1400w.
“Many new facts are brought to light, and a good deal of valuable
information regarding social and industrial conditions in South Carolina
is given. The occasional bitter and sweeping allusions to the
abolitionists, and in particular to John Quincy Adams, reveal a
sectional bias rather than a historical weighing of causes and
consequences, but these indulgences do not often obtrude. The work as a
whole is to be warmly commended.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1265. D. 2, ’09. 340w.
“Lack of perspective and proportion prevents Mr. Jervey’s work from
being a portrait and makes it rather a collection of materials, or a
guide to the study of Hayne.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 362. Je. 12, ’09. 1050w.
“It is doubtful whether new light has been thrown on the matter by Mr.
Jervey’s researches, but so far as the personal career of Hayne is
concerned Mr. Jervey has made use of manuscript sources and has
undoubtedly gathered some facts not heretofore generally known.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 200w.
=Jevons, Frank Byron.= An introduction to the study of comparative
religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the world.)
**$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“This volume shows a scientific and religious grasp of a wide subject,
and as a condensation of material is invaluable to students of religion
and missionary activity.” S. E. Rupp.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 474. Mr. ’09. 380w.
“Mr. Jevons’s work, though necessarily sketchy, is full of interest, and
admirable in tone and expression.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 248. F. 27. 900w.
“Every student of religion should read it.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 10w.
“In several cases he appears to lay undue stress on logical definitions,
and his statements are not always self-consistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 490. My. 13, ’09. 750w.
“It is an admirable introduction to the subject, clear in style, sound
in method, and with a comprehensive grasp of facts. The book may be
cordially commended, especially to those who are beginners or those who
wish a treatment that is free from technical difficulties.” E: S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 127. Mr. 6, ’09. 280w.
=Outlook.= 90: 978. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Johns, Claude Hermann W.= Ur-Engur, a bronze of the fourth
millennium: a brief treatise on canephorous statues, priv. ptd. F:
Fairchild Sherman, 42 W. 39th St., N. Y.
8–19726.
“C. H. W. Johns of Queen’s college, Cambridge, gives ‘a brief treatise
on canephorous statues,’ including an examination of the Morgan
statuette. After describing the Greek canephorous maidens, the
‘basket-bearers’ (who officiated in great festivals), and their artistic
representations, he enumerates the similar Babylonian and Assyrian
figures, and from a comparison of the two groups concludes that probably
the Greek custom is of Semitic origin.” (Nation.) “The interest of the
object is twofold. It is the only one of the kind bearing the name of
this ruler, and it is the oldest canephorous statuette known to us.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 66: 198. Ja. 28, ’09. 680w.
=Nation.= 87: 448. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Johnson, A. H.=^{[8]} Age of enlightened despots. 1660–1789. 2s. 6d.
Methuen, London.
Belongs to the series of “Six ages of European history.” “The author
divides the period into two parts. In the first (1660–1715) the
‘enlightened despots’ are represented by Louis XIV, Leopold of Austria,
the Orange princes, and Charles XII of Sweden. Of course each of these
rulers fell short in one respect of the ideal, but they represent
personal government as a genuine power. In the second we have Joseph II
and Frederick the Great. The reign of Peter the Great, to whom the
epithet ‘enlightened’ applies but dubiously, falls chiefly into the
first period. On the whole, the second part of the ‘Age’ shows the
characteristic principle in decay.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Johnson has written an admirable primer, in which none but the most
essential facts are stated; his discussions of vexed questions, though
simply worded, are extremely suggestive. The series must be swallowed as
a whole or not at all, and as a whole it is strong meat for babes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 270w.
“Mr. Johnson’s book is a considerable contribution to historical study,
valuable in itself, and suggestive of developments which the reader may
follow out for himself.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Johnson, Charles Frederick.=^{[5]} Shakespeare and his critics.
**$1.50. Houghton.
9–6493.
“Comprises a history of the criticism of Shakespeare as poet and
playwright, in England and the United States, with some notice of
foreign criticism, from the very beginning. It also serves to elucidate
much of that criticism, to set it in the proper historical light; it
classifies the textual criticism, the supposedly ‘common sense’
criticism of the order of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s, the romantic criticism
of Coleridge and his followers, including Swinburne, the philosophic and
mystical criticism of the German school, the scientific criticism of
Furnivall and Fleay, and shows the student how much has been done, in
the centuries, to promote comprehension of the poet.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The discussion of the canan, the schools of interpretation, and the
various editions is distinctly valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.
“A most useful book—a veritable literary Baedeker. In accuracy and in
some of the details of book-making, the work is faulty.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 74. Ag. 1, ’09. 240w.
“In some instances, like that of Hamlet in particular, the writer’s own
comments form something of an original contribution of themselves. The
volume is in reality a discussion and a very suggestive one.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 90. Jl. 8, ’09. 230w.
“It is not only as a comprehensive review of Shakespearian criticism in
English—a review rapid enough to show the configuration of the whole
country without being so cursory as to blur its features—that Prof.
Johnson’s book is interesting. It is interesting also as a kind of
review of English criticism and literary taste in general. The weakest
part of the volume is the treatment of eighteenth-century criticism, for
whose ideals Professor Johnson has so little sympathy that he misses
even the kernel of truth that was in it.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 587. Je. 10, ’09. 800w.
“This is a book packed with suggestion and information, and worthy of a
permanent place in the library of every Shakespearean student.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 158. Mr. 20, ’09. 840w.
“Professor Johnson covers a wide field, and collects and condenses great
varieties of opinions; but he has an excellent sense of perspective, a
vital interest in his work, and he has kept the successive phases of his
subject in a certain unity which makes his book a connected history as
well as a résumé of significant Shakespearean criticism.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 69. My. 8, ’09. 170w.
=Johnson, Charles Morris.=^{[8]} Rapid methods for the chemical
analysis of special steels, steel-making alloys and graphite. $3.
Wiley.
9–3105.
“Gives a detailed account of the author’s methods for the determination
of chromium, vanadium, copper, titanium, nickel, molybdenum, and
tungsten in steel and steel-making alloys, besides those for the
ordinarily occurring elements, viz. carbon, silicon, sulphur,
phosphorus, and manganese. No reference is made to tantalum and
uranium.”—Nature.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 418. Ap. ’09. 80w.
“Most of the methods described are to be found in the standard English
works on the subject, but there are several new features which deserve
to procure a place for the book in all steel-works’ laboratories.” F. I.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 272. My. 6, ’09. 430w.
=Johnson, Clifton.=^{[9]} Picturesque Hudson. (Picturesque river ser.)
*$1.25. Macmillan.
9–24935.
A guide book that presents the picturesque, historic, literary and
legendary features of the Hudson. The chapters traverse the whole course
of the river from the tiny rills of the Adirondacks to its end at the
southern point of Manhattan Island. Numerous clear illustrations
accompany the text.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 77. N. ’09. ✠
“Much as Mr. Johnson has that is interesting about the great river that,
historically at least, holds first place in American art and letters, it
seems to us that he has done little to present what he calls its chief
quality.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 287. O. 16, ’09. 430w.
“Is filled with pleasant and unpretending chat about the Hudson river.
It is easily written and it can be read without effort. It might well
have been provided with a map, containing only the specific places
mentioned in the text.” Brander Matthews.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 476. N. ’09. 170w.
“An informing, useful little volume, whose perusal will greatly enhance
one’s enjoyment of the Hudson trip.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 758. S. 30, ’09. 180w.
“More comprehensive than the average guidebook, it likewise shows
evidence of those personal touches that only an interested traveler in
thorough sympathy with his subject can impart to a work of this
character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 635. O. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Is really a notable contribution to the literature of the Hudson.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 80w.
“A pleasant and timely description of the river.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 308. S. 30, ’09. 150w.
“A pleasing little book, well written and lavishly illustrated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 570. S. 25, ’09. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 80w.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.= American railway transportation: 2d rev. ed.
(Appleton’s business ser.). *$1.50. Appleton.
8–29203.
Squares the subject with the latest statistics available in 1908, gives
a summary of the legislation by states from 1902 to 1908, includes
decisions of the United States courts since 1903 and the changes in
federal and state laws. “There are no essential changes in point of view
or in method of discussion.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 63. F. ’09.
“It may be added that the price of the book is exceedingly low for a
work containing such a large amount of valuable matter, and one which is
of such usefulness as a work of reference.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 35. Mr. 18, ’09. 400w.
“The book is a veritable storehouse of statistical information and is
well indexed.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 671. My. 22, ’09. 300w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 168. Mr. ’09. 30w.
“The book still continues to be the only available comprehensive
treatment of the railway question in the United States.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 425. Ap. 22, ’09. 110w.
“On the one hand it avoids excessive generalization in principle, not
raising theories which might be argued about indefinitely without
conclusion. And on the other hand it avoids minutiae which distract
attention without informing the judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 323. My. 22, ’09. 580w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 560. S. ’09. 50w.
=Yale R.= 18: 221. Ag. ’09. 110w.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.=^{[10]} Elements of transportation: a
discussion of steam railroad, electric railway, and ocean and inland
water transportation. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–26313.
A new edition of Dr. Johnson’s popular as well as technical treatment of
railway transportation that has been revised to contain the latest
official statistics available in 1908. The discussion of state and
national legislation includes an account of the Hepburn act of 1906 and
a summary of the legislation by states from 1902 to 1908.
* * * * *
“Of general interest from the nature of the subject, but arranged in
textbook style for the use of schools and colleges.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 119. D. ’09.
Reviewed by F. H. D.
=Econ. Bull.= 2: 360. D. ’09. 120w.
=Johnson, Hugh S.= Williams of West Point. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–28984.
A thoroly informing story of West Point life which follows the
development of a manly fellow who by dint of hard work and courage
becomes the leader of his class.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 30. Ja. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
=Johnson, Owen.= Eternal boy: being the story of the prodigious
Hickey. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–2772.
Hickey is the principal figure in a group of “young brutes, tigers for
cruelty, pigs for appetite, monkeys for mischief” known as Shrimp, the
Gutter Pup, the Turkey, Fire Crackers, Hungry and Old Ironsides. “These
are all young gentlemen of respectable families, supposedly preparing by
intellectual exercise for entrance to Princeton university. For the
scene is, frankly, the big preparatory school at Lawrenceville, N. J.,
renowned as a ‘feeder’ for that great university. It is set before us
vividly and picturesquely, with its various dormitories, its chapel and
‘Gym,’ its broad campus, its gridiron and its diamond.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Hardly a book for children, because of its deplorable attitude toward
teachers and study in general, but entertaining and even instructive for
adults.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09. ✠
“It is a story for boys, but for boys of from fourteen to seventy, and
for the mothers, sisters and wives of these boys.” A. B. Maurice.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 596. F. ’09. 1750w.
“Certainly since Mr. Kipling wrote ‘Stalky and company’ no book dealing
with school life has appeared of as much significance as Mr. Owen
Johnson’s ‘The eternal boy.’” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 41: 177. F. ’09. 1000w.
“To teachers and other discreet adults it may be commended as an
entertaining and perhaps even instructive interpretation of the
schoolboy spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 226. Mr. 4, ’09. 230w.
“Funny the stories may be, but he is a heedless father who can
contemplate them without anxiety if he has a son of the ‘prep’ age.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 70. F. 6, ’09. 1250w.
“It is hard to say which chapter is the most entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 410w.
=Johnson, Walter.= Folk-memory; or, The continuity of British
archaeology. *$4.15. Oxford.
9–8733.
Discusses the means by which archaeological remains of our country have
been preserved and the machinery by which a great mass of tradition has
been handed down during the ages. Contents: Continuity of the ages of
stone and bronze, “racial continuity, links between the prehistoric and
proto-historic ages, traces of the ages of stone and bronze in
ceremonies and superstitions, the later history of the megaliths,
fairies, mound-treasure and barrow superstitions, the reputed virtues of
iron, our oldest industry (stone implements), dene holes, linchets, dew
ponds, incised figures of our chalk downs, old roads and trackways.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“The present volume will obtain for him full recognition as a writer on
general archaeology. The book may be read with profit and satisfaction
by those who hold the catastrophic theories as well as those who are in
full agreement with Mr. Johnson.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 126. Ja. 30. 1150w.
“He is sound on most of the scientific problems he deals with, and does
not allow his theory to master him. Mr. Johnson is not always just to
his own theory.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 423. F. 11, ’09. 620w.
“He has succeeded in setting in array such a mass of evidence, and has
examined such a number of theories in regard to some of the most
difficult and most enticing problems of antiquity, that his book could
claim a place if only as supplying a list of references or an index. But
it is much more.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 226. F. 6, ’09. 1700w.
=Johnston, Reginald Fleming.= From Peking to Mandalay: a journey from
North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan. *$5.
Dutton.
8–34209.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“An important work of limited appeal, having special value for
geographers, ethnologists and philologists.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 15. Ja. ’09.
“A very human expression of interest in people and magnificent scenery.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 537. Mr. 11, ’09. 370w.
“The concluding chapter upon the present conditions in China is
suggestive and valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 21. Ja. 7, ’09. 730w.
“The want of new and more precise observation is the chief defect of the
book, and for a travel-book there is far too frequent a tendency to
theorise and inflate the text with discursive and speculative views on
the general tenets of Buddhism and on commonplace topics of that
religion taken from the well-known works of European writers.” L. A. W.
− + =Nature.= 79: 193. D. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Johnston, Robert Matteson.=^{[7]} French revolution: a short history.
**$1.25. Holt.
9–16816.
A short history which frees from the mass of details the shape, the
movement, and the significance of this “great historical cataclysm.”
Only the principal actors in the great national drama appear and the
important happenings.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09. ✠
“In the foregoing criticisms, and in those we are about to make, we wish
it to be understood that we are judging Mr. Johnston by the high
standard of his earlier work. If the book had borne the name of an
unknown writer we should have recommended it as an excellent and
accurate manual, comparing it favourably with any work on modern French
history which has been produced in recent years by Oxford or Cambridge,
and we might have suggested that its usefulness to students would be
increased by the marginal addition of dates to every page.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 204. Ag. 21. 950w.
“A simple, readable, and thoughtfully discussed narrative, that is not
so radically different from other succinct histories of the period as
the critical preface might lead one to expect.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 126. S. 1, ’09. 300w.
“As it stands, Professor Johnston’s volume forms a fitting prelude to
his ‘Napoleon,’ and the two together embody the history of France in the
momentous years which intervened between the reigns of Louis XV and
Louis XVIII.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 883. O. 14, ’09. 400w.
“It is not exactly a school-book and yet it should serve an excellent
purpose in school reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 100w.
“That he has disentangled anything that cannot be found already
disentangled in many other compendiums, is not apparent. There are many
evidences of carelessness in the construction of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 516. N. 25, ’09. 880w.
“It is the first successful attempt to indicate a history of that great
event on a hypothesis based on the present political situation not only
in France, but in all Europe, where vibrations of the great upheaval of
’89 are still visible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 521. S. 4, ’09. 1350w.
=Johnston, Robert Matteson.=^{[7]} Napoleon: a short biography, new
ed. **$1.25. Holt.
A compact volume of less than 250 pages whose purpose is that of
presenting to the reader in the most concise form possible, but yet with
historical accuracy, an outline of the history of Napoleon that will
convey an adequate first impression of his genius and policy. This new
edition is revised to date in the bibliographies and includes
corrections of typographical errors.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 61. O. ’09. ✠
=Johnstone, James.= Conditions of life in the sea: a short account of
quantitative marine biological research. *$3. Putnam.
Important because it opens a field that heretofore has not been readily
accessible and because of the noteworthy consistency with which the
quantitative standpoint is maintained. “The book is divided into three
parts. Part 1 designated introductory, contains in the first place a
general description of the apparatus and procedures used in the most
advanced marine biological researches.... The real essence of the volume
is in parts 2 and 3, designated respectively Quantitative marine biology
and Metabolism of the sea.” (Science.) Part 3 considers the three chief
explanations for the greater productivity of the ocean in high latitudes
than in the low.
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“It treats a fascinating subject in a readable way. It possesses the
distinction of being almost the only available text-book on the subject
in English.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 159. Ag. 7. 600w.
“Mr. Johnstone is to be congratulated on the masterful manner in which
he has carried out his task. A clear and concise account of all the more
important work is given in language devoid of unnecessary
technicalities, and in dealing with the more speculative problems the
author states ‘pro’ and ‘con.’ with an impartiality which is quite
refreshing.” E. W. Nelson.
+ =Nature.= 79: 332. Ja. 21, ’09. 870w.
“Had the author taken as his title ‘Conditions of life in the North sea’
or something of the sort, he would have saved himself from the grave
criticism that must now be passed upon him. Some of the chapters were
turned over to the printer while their English was yet sorely in need of
pruning and finishing. Despite these unsavory remarks brought upon
itself, the book’s merits far outweigh its defects.” W: E. Ritter.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 461. Mr. 19, ’09. 1900w.
=Joly, John.=^{[10]} Radioactivity and geology: an account of the
influence of radioactive energy on terrestrial history. *$3. Van
Nostrand.